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[Flying Dice]

I... uh, well. Huh.
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:x
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I just, I can't understand why anyone would want to read it, from what I've heard, though.

Because Nabokov is a pretty darned good novelist and it definitely deserves its place on Time's list of the best modern English novels? Yes, the narrator is depraved, but that's not a point against it. IOW if we only read/watched things that didn't have any disturbing characters or themes, we wouldn't have much in the way of cultural/entertainment artifacts.

I mean, yeah, if you're only familiar with the term in the context of the chinese cartoon porn that co-opted it :V

Its forever controversial but in the original work (not the modern adoption of the phrase) the narrator was *supposed* to be unlikable.  Of course some people seem to think he has that Hannibal Lecter quality to him...

I dunno, I wouldn't judge most people for reading it but I would judge any pre-college teacher for assigning it as reading.  Its... niche, I suppose would be the word for it.  Its own little niche that nobody asked for and nobody has written anything else for.

Silence of the Lambs is actually the main equivalent I was thinking of. Same deal there, it's about an absolutely fucked up person and not appropriate for children, but it's also quality work that grapples with a taboo directly.

[Harry Baldman]

American Psycho did a depraved narrator pretty well also, though it's more a work of absurd black comedy much of the time, so the depravity is also comically over the top.

[Spehss _]

I've been working on generating portraits of dwarfs from in game raws and descriptions, and the results are equal parts hilarious and horrifying.

https://imgur.com/a/QR75k

One of your dwarfs are looking a bit green.

[Rose]

I've been working on generating portraits of dwarfs from in game raws and descriptions, and the results are equal parts hilarious and horrifying.

https://imgur.com/a/QR75k

One of your dwarfs are looking a bit green.

There's not one single dwarf in that list.

[TheBiggerFish]

I've been working on generating portraits of dwarfs from in game raws and descriptions, and the results are equal parts hilarious and horrifying.

https://imgur.com/a/QR75k

One of your dwarfs are looking a bit green.

There's not one single dwarf in that list.

Ach, yeah.

[scrdest]

I discovered the glory that is GoldVision's GTA Pacifist LP.

Largely what it sounds like - the guy narrates the struggles of Francisco, an upstanding citizen, as he tries to get through life in GTA V MP without harming anyone, and making deadpan observations and philosophical musings in a very sedate voice.

[Aklyon]

Roborosewater's response to being given the word Brexit.

[Flying Dice]

Roborosewater's response to being given the word Brexit.

So perfect it could have been planned.

[Furtuka]

http://www.animemaru.com/united-kingdom-gains-tsundere-status-from-european-union/

[KingofstarrySkies]

JUST AS PLANNED

[BlackHeartKabal]

All according to keikaku!

[Orange Wizard]

[Akura]

Spoiler: The little things in Batman: Arkham Asylum (click to show/hide)

If you can't read it due to shitty quality, it says:

Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing to inform you that your relative is loopy and
will be confined to an inhumane floating cage in some crazy
dungeon.

You have no legal recourse in this decision and maybe <- exactly as spelled in the letter
liable for all costs incurred for the treatment of your
psychotic family member.

Best regards from all of us at Arkham Asylum rehabilitation
services.

Have a nice day,

Joker & Pals

Signed,

Prof. J. Bowthgate

I also found another one that I should send to my sister, given what she and I do for a living.

[Tawa]

Buttstroking

[Yoink]

Spoiler: This thing is still good. (click to show/hide)

You're now watching two strangers discuss your question!
Question to discuss:
Stranger 1 just diagnosed Stranger 2 with cancer.
Stranger 1: And I am stranger 1 or 2?
Stranger 2: I'll be 2
Stranger 1: I have some bad news for you..
Stranger 2: I think you fucked up my diagnoses Doc. How do I have cervical cancer if I am a dude?
Stranger 1: Your mom just told me that she got a seeex change for you while you were a kid..
Stranger 1: You were born a girl but you became a dude..
Stranger 2: Oh, is that why I read all those Nicholas Sparks books?
Stranger 1: The doctor then was probably not a good one..
Stranger 2: Probably some chink
Stranger 1: Well probably.. But I am not a psychiatrist..
Stranger 1: This is a rare case..
Stranger 2: Rarer than Mewtwo?
Stranger 1: Yup..
Stranger 2: I want ALLLL the morphine
Stranger 2 has disconnected