nieceandtows

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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I think I could have shaved 50 letters if I named the function and variables differently, 😄

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And I love Stephen King. I haven’t read all his books, but he’s my top author. Contrary to what you think, his best books are his longest books. He excels in weaving the mundane background stuff that immerse you deeply into the world. My favorites are It, 11/22/63, the fist 2/3rds of The Stand. Doctor Strange, The Shining, Green Mile, Billy Summers, Pet Sematary, Carrie, Cell are also great. I didn’t like his Institute much, because it felt like that book was about 500 pages too short. Have you checked any of these books out? If not I’d strongly recommend you do.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah there’s like half a dozen books. I only read the first two though. The author Steve Alten has written a lot of off the wall concept books. He has a Loch series which is about the Loch Ness monster. I think there is even a crossover novel with the loch and the meg. There is even a novel about a human given shark genes. Most of the books have intriguing concepts but mediocre writing (I’ve read I think 5 books of his), but his Omega Project is a pure science fiction that was awesome. I can’t even give you a one line story. It’s very complex. That is his first book I listened by chance and all the others were to see if he wrote anything else comparable.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this the same thing that I kept hearing ads on radio about?

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t understand what he’s saying. What’s his speech got to do with the events on Jan 6? What would that speech have done during the events of the 6th? Somebody please help me understand.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

I don’t believe in God, although it’s very nice to have somebody to pray to when you are in a bad situation with no control. Like there is still a way for things to go right because even if you don’t have control, somebody has.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

If the blurb is intriguing and if there are not (m)any negative reviews that say the book is a waste of time, I’ll try. Intriguing to me is any concept that is a sort of what if scenario that is of interest to me. The more I’m intrigued by the concept, the more I’m likely to ignore bad reviews. That’s it. I’m a simple man, I guess.

Example: I read a couple of Meg books because of the premise. What if there is a layer at the bottom of the ocean that preserves extinct marine life there? The books ended up meh, but that was a neat concept that made you think.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now that I think about it, the on ramp could be the original Jess, but I think the body in the trunk is actually the kid. If you recall, in the beginning, when she is carrying him outside, she’s telling him she has cleaned up all the paint on the floor. I think what happened is that she couldn’t console him and in the anger she hits him and he dies. She puts him in the trunk and shows up dazed at the docks. Tells them he is at school. That’s when the time loop starts. That is why when she gets back to the house, she is so easy to kill her self. She kills her because she killed her son in her anger. She tries to save her son from death, but he dies anyway. So she enters the loop again to try saving him again.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why not? Some movies are timeless. You see a new terminator movie every few years. A new predator movie came just a couple of years ago. OP might not know him from his lesser known movies, or that he was an actual body builder who won awards, or that he was a governor with a scandal, but Arnold is a big name in action hero movies that still hold up these days.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Why downvote? Op might be too young to know Arnold being a governor. Where is that xkcd about the lucky 10000 or something?

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

God I hope not

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