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YALBO t1_jd7jmw7 wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] They say the food at Long Pig's Diner is to die for, but frankly, you don't trust the place. Everyone else in town seems to be addicted to it, but something about the over-all air of the place leaves a bad taste in your mouth no matter how much people try to persuade you to try it. by xylophonesRus

It's a strange town and very much for local people, but you've got to admit the butcher has some special stuff.

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YALBO t1_jcszkqa wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] You are a politician tasked with taking a VR simulation before your presidency. The VR goggles dont work, and you assume power and become the president. You grow hungry with power and become a dictator. After a year of this, you wake infront of a crowd in disbelief, your REAL goggles removed. by [deleted]

> Oh, if I may say, there's one final question that would settle the curiosity of your many fans. Did you throw the muffin at Zim's head?

-- Invader Zim

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YALBO t1_jcoktba wrote

Reply to comment by Professional_Issue82 in [WP] Everyone knows the hero won't defuse the bomb until the are less than 10 seconds left. That's why I've set it to explode at 20 seconds. by Sh4d0w927

That's rule 15.

> I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.

I'm not really convinced of the wisdom here. It's important that you and your minions should receive an accurate measure of how long you have before the explosion. But there was also point 215:

> If I ever MUST put a digital timer on my doomsday device, I will buy one free from quantum mechanical anomalies. So many brands on the market keep perfectly good time while you're looking at them, but whenever you turn away for a couple minutes then turn back, you find that the countdown has progressed by only a few seconds.

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YALBO t1_j8666v6 wrote

Reply to comment by WritingPromptsRobot in [WP] You are a demon, one of the top ranked ones at that. One day you get a call from an angel you used to be friends with. "Look, i hate to ask this, but i trust you. Can you cover for me for a couple years?" The Guardian Angel asks. by EndorDerDragonKing

Sometimes in these threads I feel like I'm trapped in that old South Park episode, you know?

"Pratchett did it! Pratchett did it!"

If it wasn't him it was usually Neil Gaiman. Or in this particular case, both, and if you've not read it you're in for such a treat.

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YALBO t1_j4u9ipv wrote

Reply to We are living beings, yet every single atom that constitutes our bodies isn’t alive. by The-Elder-King

Animated clay golem Dorfl debates his nature with the city's leading priesthood.

>'We're not listening to you! You're not even really alive!' said a priest.

> Dorfl nodded. 'This Is Fundamentally True,' he said.

>'See? He admits it!'

>'I Suggest You Take Me And Smash Me And Grind The Bits Into Fragments And Pound The Fragments Into Powder And Mill Them Again To The Finest Dust There Can Be, And I Believe You Will Not Find A Single Atom of Life - '

>'True! Let's do it!'

>'However, In Order To Test This Fully, One Of You Must Volunteer To Undergo The Same Process.'

-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

(Much later in the series the elemental personification of the winter thought to make himself a human body by collecting and including a shopping list of chemical ingredients into a snowman. What Dorfl clearly understood, he missed completely. If only he'd got the idea, things might have gone differently with the witch he pined for. Too bad... frost to fire.)

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YALBO t1_j4nl80a wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] You are a supervillain who went undercover as a superhero for jokes, only to discover how corrupt the system is in the hero society. The system is so corrupt that you agree to lead a small group of superheroes to rebel against the unjust hero society. by RavenousOwlhead

Just felt I should mention that The Boys on TV is way better than the comic. It's much more sophisticated in how it handles the monstrousness of the superhero culture in general and the Seven in particular, and though it shares the same delight in gratuitously graphic atrocities it hasn't yet indulged in them to such an extent that they lose their impact.

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YALBO t1_j17eyf8 wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" by killznhealz

Ray Bradbury's The Silent Towns features the last man and last woman on Mars, who find each other in this way. The date that follows doesn't work out, and he leaves and ignores all ringing telephones he hears from then on.

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YALBO t1_iy8rgkn wrote

Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. by Informal_Ad_6157

As all gangsters in New Mexico understand: don't mess with Los Pollos Hermanos.

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Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] There is a place. A place between places. It's an actual place but it isn't here nor there. Lost travelers are the only ones who can find the place. Staying for a night, safe from other places and other things, and nothing more. Except you. You were born in the place. by Horror_Librarian_133

Towards the end of Sandman, we find the inn called the Worlds' End, where wandering travellers from many worlds take shelter from a storm across the realities, and swap strange stories to pass the time. And then they travel on afterwards to wherever it might be that they were going. And occasionally some stay on, between the worlds.

Six issues we pass there, and the whole thing hardly advances the plot at all, but they're some of the most wonderful tales of strange fantasy you'll ever find in comics.

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