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8:25 - This is also a Tourettes Guy joke. The one about Jolly Pirate Donuts.
amity did NOT fw naperville
My jaw actually dropped when you explained Kai threw the ordinaries into the desert because I immediately thought of the Armenian Genocide lol. Then you mentioned it and I was like THANK GOD someone also thought about that. actually gross how the author didn't think about how awful that still sounded 😭
51:30 damn how much more shocking and impactful would that be if we hadn’t already seen it from her pov (finally getting an explanation for what happened to her, showing why she killed that guy, etc)
my biggest question reading the book was why did kai have to torture that 1 guy to death for information when a few chapters before he told paedeighn the king had mind readers working for him .-.
"Secret Tunnel! Secret tunnel..
Not gonna lie, it took me a hot minute to remember which of the power fantasy stories Red Queen was - or rather, what were the characters named in this particular book series.
I almost completely agree with you but why do you keep practically begging to be on EFAP? Do you actually think this video is something they'd even care to debunk? What makes you think any of them have ever even read Drinker's books or would care enough to talk about them if they had? Seriously, as a former EFAP viewer who's knows they have no reason to want to weigh in on this conversation, it just comes off as cringey and as if you're begging for their attention. Just because they're friends, doesn't mean they're going to blindly white knight for Drinker over a book probably none of them even know the name of. By continuously joking about the EFAP crew responding to this video when they barely have an any relevance to the topic in the first place, you come off as an attention-hungry fanboy or a self-important prick (not unlike many of the members of EFAP) anticipating an inevitable response from them that's never coming. While I highly doubt you're either of those things, if EFAP were to actually react to this video they'd immediately and justifiably make fun of you for seemingly trying to will some kind of drama with them into existence. Anyway, you're almost definitely not going to read this comment and I'm probably the only non-Drinker/ EFAP fan to have this issue with your otherwise great video so I guess it doesn't matter and I typed this comment for no reason. Yippee.
In praise of shadows 2.0. You insult his appearance and take very long to discuss his book. I understand genuine criticism but this just comes across as petty jealous spite. You spoke about how much money he makes before you spoke about his book? You come across as a petty in praise of shadows clone. Cringe af.
Thanks for tearing apart this book. I despise The Critical Stinker (as I like to call him), as someone on the autism spectrum I was hurt by his ablest remark toward Gray in his Jurassic World "review". I'm glad to see more people calling him out every day. Also as an aspiring writer, this was helpful to for me.
Wow. Americans mainly write about America? Next thing you know, Japanese people will mainly write about Japanese people.
My brother in Odin's Glory do not review video games that are of a genre you dislike because it subtracts from your point especially when you can't disengage the general displeasure of playing that type of game with the other points of the game, Baldur's gate 3 is a game that has a fantastic story and an incredible amount of depth it is a game that you can quite literally sink hundreds of hours into and find new things every time and not just new items or new things but new quest lines and new ways to complete story beats that you didn't notice before, (I just realized after almost 560 hours that you could sneak into the goblin camp and never have to talk to anyone if you didn't want to.) It's also a game with a fantastic story it does what it's supposed to do for a game that is trying to be a dungeons and dragons game. You have romance you have intrigued you have monsters galore you have a world threatening plot that you either have to disassemble or integrate yourself into, it's a story that gives you the avenue to be who you want to be, The gameplay turn-based combat I'm going to be honest I typically hate turn-based combat because it generally annoys me, but I personally enjoyed it in baldur's gate 3 because of the idea that I went into the game with which was play on the lowest difficulty and learn how d&d works. Because generally when I'm playing a game that I don't have the base knowledge of I try to ease my way into the swing of things, I will do that one or two ways personally I either research or I go in completely blind and let myself humble until I need help figuring certain things out like I was playing sorcerer which is what is given to you if you select dark urge. That was my first run through the game and that was a fun run through because I like the idea of playing a character that was originally pure evil there was no hint of good in this person but because of their... Niece? Sticking a knife into your brain you come out of it better and I loved the romance with Shadowheart because of her just being so sweet, and then having this story beat of I am going insane having to fight against my instincts and then I have this sweet mooring point is that I'm anchored to and I have to try to make myself better for it gave me a story thread that made me enjoy the game more. But back to the gameplay I didn't have a lot of difficulty because I used the quick save system the way they kind of intended which is I saved a lot and it allowed me to go through the combat easier when I made a mistake, now my only issue is when I get really unlucky and then I just can't hit the broad side of a barn which I've already experienced in XCOM back in the day which is one reason I don't like turn-based combat lol, Generally I think it's a good game it does a lot of things well and with the attribute system the way it is the combat is not as bad as it could be especially as you progress through the game you see why they stopped at level 12 though because if you could get stronger than what you ended up being at the end of that game you would be God also because it would change the story because if I remember correctly level 13 gives clerics the ability to resurrect people.
The Grand Line is NOT on the equator
Egghead Spoiler // They just revealed that the reason Devil Fruit users can't swim is because they are inherently unnatural, they break all laws of physics, thus they are an enemy to mother nature herself, the ocean This is how Luffy can still have a nervous system
I haven't read this book, but from the description, it just has dollar store Mistborn vibes.
You can always be recruited by the CIA no matter what nationality you are, what do you think they mean by "Useful Idiot"
I've subscribe just so the algorithm creeps stop recommending racist crap like nerd(sth) and his concubine-in-mediocrity the drinker. That you happen to be interesting is just a welcome bonus. God bless you😄
My guess was that he hid them somewhere obvious and they were found and killed and you were being hyperbolic about the genocide thing, but nope. Is he aware that being left in the desert without supplies is not a survivable state? Maybe he's more stupid than evil.
I immediately thought with the garbage truck "omg she's gonna have to escape with him in that..they're gonna have to stoop to literal trash and desperation just to get out". Oh..no..? Oh ok. Just seeing where it's going. Right on....
I'm gonna be thinking about "Congratulations. You didn't do the Armenian Genocide, you just did the Nakba. That means I can find you hot and not feel weird about it" a lot.
After having just completed the audiobook, I cannot tell you what the plot of this book is. Like I can't summarise it. It was just 2 generically hot, violent people fapping over each other for 16 hours
This book sound so bad I don’t think even 13 years old me could have put up with it and that is certainly something considering I absolutely loved Red Queen back then.
So. It’s my hero academia but more boring and also the hunger games
why does the nevermore cover look like sephiroth
Lol James, did reading Aeon Legion turn you into the book reviewer version of Bad Writing Advice? Love this format!
I love these vids cuz they give me insight in shit I never woulda looked twice on abt. Rock on!!
Wasnt the person who tested Tris at work, and isnt she also a tattoo artist? They have jobs
So...In my own world, the Pyroxene Drow would have a religion that: -Forbids mummification. Like, hard no. -Believes that being in pain is a gift to the gods, leading to self-harming contests including all social orders. -Their religious also strongly values things such as altruism, protecting the environment, teaching to the next generation, protecting those who are weaker, exetera. However, consent isn't a key factor, and they believe that their bodies should serve their clans (they practice a worship of the dead that's quite private), and that they should suffer. Meanwhile, they believe that it's not the place of mere mortals to enjoy the suffering of others, and find torturing others to be deeply traumatizing for all parties involved. It's a religion of sadness rather than devine wrath. -Their most important religious teaching is: "You, the Drow, fill the caverns with life and you shall never be hungry." -The Drows, as a society, secularly, tend to believe that taking into account the opinions of others is something very vulnerable, and worriying about one's reputation is a sign of weakness. This so prevalent that to a Drow, a teacher praising their students for good behavior would be seen as something deeply violating to all parties involved. However, for their society to function in any capacity, morals based on "the gods said so", religious guilt, empathy and corporal punishment become necessary alternatives to a sense of shame as social regulators. -The priests of the four gods provide essencial services to the public, such as education, medicine, maintaining civil order and even certain textiles. This is precisely what allows the priestly orders to stay in power. The priestesses of Héwwa, for example, play the vague role of policing and education on reading, botany and protection magic. The priests of Moortus become necromancers (well, more like psychics, communicating with the dead rather than controling them), historians and they also teach law, mathematics and rhetoric. The priests and priestesses of Helisa are required to learn healing and textile work and practice it. The priests of Putruus are often in charge of funeral practices, charity and of helping ex-slaves and ex-criminals re-enter normal society. Now, the Drow see individuals who refuse to constantly torture themselves as plain evil, and would see it as their devine duty to convince them otherwise, because their religion's most important commandment, as well as their very existance as an ethnic group, depends on maintaining the cave ecosystem they inhabit...Keeping the caverns oxyginated take most of their societal energy, so they aren't really interested in persecuting outsiders. They aren't that interested in expension either, unless it's to other caverns. Self-flagellation also take a huge chunk of their religious attention, leaving little of it to persecute outsiders. Their religion isn't that obsessed with modesty either. One of the most important philosopher of their religion was originally a forest elf, who upon living with the Drows, learned the "error of her ways" (basically, enjoying life in any capacity and not torturing herself all waking hours), lived afterwards a life of pain and religious penitence, and became the founding mother of a grand dynasty, who even married into the royal family. Her example is one many Drows seek to emulate. Despite that, she remained loyal to her own people, and begged them to accept this life of pain, so that maybe, maybe, their persecution at the hand of the expending human groups would stop, as the gods would ease their punishment as they are actually doing their part in the appeasement.
As a polish person Id say that naming the bad guy Zajac which was propably supposed to be zając is hilarious (it literally means rabbit)
15:30 This is exactly how I feel about Bernie Sanders lol
Same applies to the methrotic
the first book is pretty solid i wouldn't change much, the second one i would dial down mare's whole i am strong monologue every damn page and then mix book three and four into one book and just cut back all the filler stuff
The foreshadowing of Art being Arty was amazing too cause we see arty in one and know how he is and how art is violent and such is amazing
I just don't get why of all books that become "very popular" on that damn app are bad. There are horny fantasy stuff that are at least written by people with a functioning brain. It's a "there is more trash so it's more likely for some trash to get lots of attention online rather than the decent stuff" type of issue?
I really think there should have been more to Maven and felt like he was such a wasted potential.
Why does James always have a weapon?
At least your book isn't as bad as Brett Keanes lol.
After hearing about this book and the fact its basically bootleg Stormlight Archives, I have a lot more appreciation for the incredible writing of that series. When the perspective shifts between characters, it is impossiblento confuse one for another because their minds and internal dialogues are all so different
This level of aggression in this video towards people for reading and recommending what they enjoy is reaching a toxic level. I like your videos. I'm just writing this because this video seemed uniquely angry
I picked up the book, read a paragraph and put it back. It sounds so boring like pretty much a fanfiction to me. I love writing slow burns.
CDDA did this. better where insects got large thanks to the blob thing idk.
My main suspicion for the main character being a Brit - or whatever he likes to call himself - working for the CIA is that Drinker simply didn't want to put in the work to come up with main character dialogue in a foreign (in that case US) vernacular. Same reason there's so many self-inserts in fanfiction stories... "What would *I* do if I met [insert character] from [insert fandom]" is way, way easier on many aspiring authors (and also a great crutch for talentless hacks) than thinking of - and executing - any original character.
"Paedyn has no powers." Calling it right now - Yes she does.
Most of these "books" are just reskinned Kylo Ren/Rey fanfictions with the names changed. That's why they're all so similar.
Aspiring author here and thank you for showing me what not to do 📝📝📝📝
Weird asf family guy fanfic
The idea of the government releasing a chemical agent to kill all mosquitoes, but ended up destroying everything, that would make sense; first, I can picture Trump getting stung by a mosquito and getd mad at all insects, secound, we do take dtupid decisions quite often. Getting back to the mosquitos, most mosquitoes species dont actually feed on people but other animals, adding to it that male mosquitoes are very effective pollinators. So, yeah mosquitoes are annoying, but very important.
TikTok people consume books the way 4chan users consume chicken nuggets/macaroni and cheese. Mindlessly with an absolute fear of change.
The character names sound like a millennial white woman's baby names list 😭