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What’s so amazing to me about The Road, which I honestly consider to be one of the greatest works of literature in history, is that it feels like McCarthy had every single minute detail worked out and then pared the story down to only what matters for what he’s trying to tell us.
 
Starman John said:
And here it is.
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Don't know if I have the mental fortitude to watch him cry for four hours. The book itself has the usual issue of being genre defining so the plot setup has been done to death. It's definitely not the worst apocalypse, more on the depressing side with the world being dead, and even then it's not 100% guaranteed.

Doesn't help that post apocalypse genre is nowadays just a nihilistic screed that has everyone reverting to Niggers and any attempt of recreating civilized society is doomed to failure because, as we now, human groups never recover after a devastating event.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Doesn't help that post apocalypse genre is nowadays just a nihilistic screed that has everyone reverting to Niggers and any attempt of recreating civilized society is doomed to failure because, as we now, human groups never recover after a devastating event.
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Real fucked up how the whole Mediterranean has just been stuck as barbaric Stone Age tribes forever since the Bronze Age collapse of 1170BC.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
The book itself has the usual issue of being genre defining so the plot setup has been done to death.
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I'm about half an hour in. Does Wendi ever discover the term "pastoral apocalypse/pastoral science fiction?"

I understand that he choseThe Road because it hit him hard back in high school, and now he's a dad. Still wish Wendi had some elderly sci-fi nerds to nudge him in the direction of A Canticle for Leibowitz, etc. Earth Abides is kind of the "happy ending" of this story, albeit without the nuclear winter.

eta: seriously, it'd take him a day to make a half-hour video where he got misty over "There Will Come Soft Rains" and referenced Fallout or AI controversy or whatever.

There are books that are earlier and thus even more genre-defining--plus shorter and using conventional grammar and punctuation, so he could read one every time people start yelling about House of Leaves again.

I have no problem with Iceberg Boy Reads the Modern Nerd Classics as a series, and I can only think it's having a positive effect on The Youth. Wendi's an overly emotional guy, but it's better to have some sincerity in this dumb world than another second-channel pay-per-word potboiler.
 
Aunt Carol said:
I'm about half an hour in. Does Wendi ever discover the term "pastoral apocalypse/pastoral science fiction?"

I understand that he choseThe Road because it hit him hard back in high school, and now he's a dad. Still wish Wendi had some elderly sci-fi nerds to nudge him in the direction of A Canticle for Leibowitz, etc. Earth Abides is kind of the "happy ending" of this story, albeit without the nuclear winter.

eta: seriously, it'd take him a day to make a half-hour video where he got misty over "There Will Come Soft Rains" and referenced Fallout or AI controversy or whatever.

There are books that are earlier and thus even more genre-defining--plus shorter and using conventional grammar and punctuation, so he could read one every time people start yelling about House of Leaves again.

I have no problem with Iceberg Boy Reads the Modern Nerd Classics as a series, and I can only think it's having a positive effect on The Youth. Wendi's an overly emotional guy, but it's better to have some sincerity in this dumb world than another second-channel pay-per-word potboiler.
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I like some of his content but seriously censoring curse words? what a fucking moralefag. You made a review on ready or not and the OG modern warfare , do you even know what your core audience is??
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Doesn't help that post apocalypse genre is nowadays just a nihilistic screed that has everyone reverting to Niggers and any attempt of recreating civilized society is doomed to failure because, as we now, human groups never recover after a devastating event.
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Say what you will about it, but that's something I found refreshing about that Kevin Costner movie, The Postman. How at the end of the movie, they have regained civilization and they have regained technology.
 
Aunt Carol said:
Wendi's an overly emotional guy, but it's better to have some sincerity in this dumb world than another second-channel pay-per-word potboiler.
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I don't recall him being that emotional in the past, it just feels performative. Especially as most people gain tolerance over time from exposure to extreme content. You can't have weekly session on rape villages and rapist supernatural beings and then act like a pussy on way more basic plot elements.
Cactuar King said:
Say what you will about it, but that's something I found refreshing about that Kevin Costner movie, The Postman. How at the end of the movie, they have regained civilization and they have regained technology.
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Roadside Picnic also had a surprisingly uplifting ending. Basically:
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Roadside Picnic also had a surprisingly uplifting ending.
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Girls Last Tour is also an oddly uplifting story dispite human civilization killing itself over a series of world wars. Just two girls crusing through an abandoned megacity in a kettenkrad looking for supplies and speculating on what life was like before everything got destroyed.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I don't recall him being that emotional in the past, it just feels performative. Especially as most people gain tolerance over time from exposure to extreme content. You can't have weekly session on rape villages and rapist supernatural beings and then act like a pussy on way more basic plot elements.
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I think that holds true for amateur horror, but this was more the way he's teared up covering religious subjects. Easier to get inured to "and then the narrator got eaten by video game demons, same as last week" than to "the dad saw proof of God's love in his own feelings for his child."
 
Foundinglaunderer said:
I like some of his content but seriously censoring curse words? what a fucking moralefag. You made a review on ready or not and the OG modern warfare , do you even know what your core audience is??
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YouTube, if it were rumble he could say whatever he wants to say. I don't understand why folks are so quick to go from, "My business is built off a platform that changes rules every second." To nah, I'm gonna moral fag and censor curse words to piss people off. Cater to my interest or be a fag Wendi. It's fucking annoying and I'm gonna call it out wherever I see it.
 
Oujia stuff never scared me, and the concept is so dumb that I don't even enjoy stories involving them.
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Roadside Picnic also had a surprisingly uplifting ending
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Did it? The ending is ambiguous so obviously you read what you want out of it, and I'm probably telling on myself, but I didn't get a very optimistic vibe from the ending at all. Not saying I doom and gloom over it, but it's definitely more bitter than sweet.
Foundinglaunderer said:
I like some of his content but seriously censoring curse words? what a fucking moralefag. You made a review on ready or not and the OG modern warfare , do you even know what your core audience is??
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It's the inconsistency. If he avoided cursing altogether, fine. But picking and choosing is dumb.
 
Rick The Stick said:
Did it? The ending is ambiguous so obviously you read what you want out of it, and I'm probably telling on myself, but I didn't get a very optimistic vibe from the ending at all. Not saying I doom and gloom over it, but it's definitely more bitter than sweet.
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The ending was:
The sun was baking, red spots were swimming in front of his eyes, the hot air rippled at the bottom of the quarry, and because of this, the Sphere seemed to dance in place, like a buoy in the waves. He walked past the excavator bucket, superstitiously raising his feet high and taking care not to step on the black splotches, and then, sinking into the crumbly rubble, he dragged himself across the quarry to the dancing and winking Sphere. He was covered in sweat and suffocating from the heat, but at the same time he was chilled to the bone, trembling hard all over, as if hungover, and the flavorless chalk dust was crunching between his teeth. And he was no longer trying to think. He just kept repeating to himself in despair, like a prayer, “I’m an animal, you can see that I’m an animal. I have no words, they haven’t taught me the words; I don’t know how to think, those bastards didn’t let me learn how to think. But if you really are—all powerful, all knowing, all understanding—figure it out! Look into my soul, I know—everything you need is in there. It has to be. Because I’ve never sold my soul to anyone! It’s mine, it’s human! Figure out yourself what I want—because I know it can’t be bad! The hell with itall, I just can’t think of a thing other than those words of his—HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!”
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You can interpret it in different ways but I saw it as more inspirational with how Red flips from his materialist view on life (tragically too late) and asks for a selfless wish.
 
Rick The Stick said:
Oujia stuff never scared me, and the concept is so dumb that I don't even enjoy stories involving them.
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The fun of Oujia boards is that they're a easy trick to use at a sleepover anyways, I never understood why any story that isn't found footage would use one as a device.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
The ending was:

You can interpret it in different ways but I saw it as more inspirational with how Red flips from his materialist view on life (tragically too late) and asks for a selfless wish.
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It has been a while since I read it but:
He just stands in front of it repeating the wish (presumably until the meat grinder resets) and we have no idea if it actually granted the wish. I don't see Red's change of heart as inspirational because it comes after intentionally leading an idealistic young man to his own brutal death and the sheer guilt of his actions. His last actions in the book is more of an act penance trying to fix his mistake while waiting to die than being a good person.

Anyway, Roadside Picnic is a great book.
 
Really enjoyed both of those stories, Ouija board one was short and sweet, Ronald McDonald House was short and lmao. I actually really appreciated the visuals of the ending. In a better story it would have been kinda compelling, given the story it was in service of it was so goddamn bizarre just like the rest of the story

I'll check out the new patreon story(ies) and report back
 
That's where I download them from, but looks like they're not even up on Patreon yet so I guess it'll be a while. The only video content that isn't up on either Kemono or YouTube is another livestreamed recording like My Sexy Neighbor, called Trapped in a Sitcom. The preview is Wendi looking very grumpy and then wandering offscreen while Meat does some literal catcalling
 
I finished the video at work finally. I havent touched the Road yet as I'm now listening to the audiobook first. The Oujia one was surprisingly good and comfy. The Ronald McDonald house was cute, I think I was more endeared by the young author than anyone else. I was surprised by how 'good' the characterisation was as well. Normally, boys write these power fantasies, while he went out of his way to make his character helpless, at the very least.
The energy of the video was much better. The past few videos have been either very weepy or has just been down compared to the energy of the earlier episodes, it's refreshing to see them banter together like a friends again.
 
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