We need you to go to the store and get two quarts of elbow grease… and, uh, pick up some… headlight fluid for the Puma too.

I love Joe. And even though its last update was a while ago, it’s still my preferred editor.

I read this in Maurice Moss’ voice

Yeah, a couple of them compensate, Arctic on iOS does too.

There’s a reason I didn’t type it with the markdown for clickable link.

See also tvtropes.org

Run Cera, there’s a Sharptooth right behind you!

According to Google, it’s called Deep Water, I can only presume it’s specifically relating to the Ark story.

The Simpsons did an episode where a monorail salesman tries to sell Springfield on installing a monorail, and there’s a song somewhat evoking the 76 Trombones scene from the musical The Music Man by Meredith Wilson. Mine and other comments are lyrics from that song.

I hear those things are awfully loud.

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I’m torn. While I highly support right to repair, I also support measures that make high-value theft targets like cellphones and catalytic converters worthless or extremely hard to convert to a payout.

I completely read past that and missed it in your essay. You truly covered all the bases.

I respectfully submit that beans are not a vegetable, they are a fruit. citation

If it’s replies to a post of mine I upvote virtually everything. If something is so incorrect is borderline misinformation or so off topic that there’s no connection to the thread, I downvote. If it’s really insightful that I think more people should read it, I upvote.

Something else just occurred to me, you might try the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman or This Quest is Broken series by J.P. Valentine too. They are a newer genre called LitRPG where the conventions of gaming (like things being “quests” or health/mana bars are directly apparent to the characters and it makes for some interesting moments.

I don’t read a bunch of strict Horror, but I have enjoyed the ones I’ve read by Grady Hendrix.

Otherwise, based on your answer, here are a few books I’ve read that line up for one reason or another. I’ve placed them in a specific order but they are all enjoyable:

Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi John Dies at the End by David Wong Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

What media do you watch? Favorite games? Movies? Tv?

That was my take too. Their overall point wasn’t bad but the start was a complete non sequitur that made me question if I wanted to finish because it’s a bad foundation for their actual argument.