<Barcode> Penguin asked for a book recommendation, RocketDude suggested a battletech novel (?????) that had Vietnam parallels, JBridge didn't understand one of the parallels, saladofstones started talking about it because that's his job~

<bogo_lode> unless your books are all super obscure and you attempt to use them to make epeen points about how smrt you are
<Nitya> well some are kind of obscure but i'm not the peen type. let alone epeen, which would be a weird thing to show off in the real world
<Barcode> "I'm not the peen type" nitya's dating profile

<+cts> Kill everybody~! Yay~!

<blamspam> Yeah, I actually wanted to have a look at the anime section in the CD store, but there was a creepy guy with some sort of ecchi Kawaii girl game in his hand there.
<atomsk> There always is.
<atomsk> It's like a rule.
<Tzetzuooooo> Don't worry, your existence should repel him
<blamspam> :(
<Tzetzuooooo> if not your existence, your taser
<atomsk> You're too old for him anyway.

Jaqueline_de_Maquerel: 8==D~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jaqueline_de_Maquerel: :D
ponicalica: ~ COMES

<Nitya> «Cannon looks and moves a bit like Shaggy from Scooby Doo» I like the writer
<RocketDude> "Hey, Scoob, I put magnets in my fingers!" "Ragnets rin rhe ringers? Rooo!"

<Zudak> blamspam: I literally didn't know it was Easter until Sunshine Werewolf said something about chocolate rabbits
<blamspam> You GODLESS HEATHEN!
* blamspam sends you a delicious chocolate Jesus
<Rotty> Take, eat. This is his body.

<Nitya> mechwarrior, shitbird
<JuanMorrison> so do you just take random words and shove shit into them or what
<Nitya> what? yes, duh
<Nitya> how the fuck do you think words get made? you don't just fucking, like, say them

<Zudak> @translate english: eat shit and die german:
<Omnipresence> Zudak: Google translation from German (auto-detected) to English: english: eat shit and the German:

[discussing China Mieville]
<bogo_lode> i'm thinking more about his books
<bogo_lode> they essentially all have the protags win
<bogo_lode> but in a way that is horrible and despair inducing
<Barcode> and lo, the protagonists won so hard they became the villains and lost to themselves
<bogo_lode> that kinda happens in the squid one