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Heh, yeah I guess it's different if you have to read it for some assignment. I sort of enjoyed it in a masochistic way, although I definitely skipped parts (especially the repeating crap) and like I said I wouldn't call it a good book by any stretch of the definition

if they needed to write a check they'd go down to the pub and the pub owner would vouch for their credit

Well that was an unexpectedly hilarious turn

Hah, huge surprise that this was their reaction. Garbage product made by a garbage company run by garbage people.

Oo I love Event Horizon. It's a bit of a scifi horror cult classic though isn't it? Not exactly Blade Runner, but not Battlefield Earth either.

One of my favorite trashy scifi movies is maybe Saturn 3 (Zardoz doesn't count!). It's a godawful piece of shit featuring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and a baby faced Harvey Keitel. It's astonishingly bad and great fun to watch, and there was some sort of fairly hilarious story behind how it got made too (I'll have to see if I can dig up the blog post I read about it)

edit: there's a whole website https://saturn3makingof.com/

But some fascists do manage to be pretty coherent. It's just that clearly Hitler wasn't one of them.

I read Battlefield Earth and actually enjoyed it, but in the same I enjoyed eg. watching Plan 9 from Outer Space (or the Battlefield Earth movie for that matter.)

It's an abject piece of shit as a book, written late enough in Hubbard's life that nobody dared edit him so there's whole chapters that just sort of repeat, and many of its premises are so stupid it hurts, but its old-timey pulp scifi schlock feel was often very fun.

So yeah, not a good book by any definition, but it was sorta fun and also interesting to read knowing that Hubbard tried to inject his world view into it too. For example the reason why the Psychlo were so eeeeeevil was that they were ruled by the Catrists who'd eg. use psychosurgery or electric shocks to make Psychlos more compliant – knowing that Hubbard absolutely loathed psychiatrists, it's not hard to see that Psychlo Catrist = psychiatrist.

It's such a terrible book, not just because of… you know, Nazis, but because it's atrociously badly written. Rambling and fueled by completely blind hate, and it sets out a vision that's completely detached from reality.

Really gave me similar vibes as listening to Trump talk, a sort of utter disbelief that people actually think he had something worthwhile to say

Saying Mein Kampf is borderline unreadable is bold?

maybe they could improve the search results in general

They have no incentive to do that. What they do have an incentive for is showing you a lot of bullshit results that also conveniently happen to use their ad network, so you have to click on multiple pages and see more ads before finding what you were looking for.

Oh look it's the short incel who is convinced that clubs ban short men.

Dude, your problem still isn't your height. Your problem is that you're a bitter and unpleasant husk of a person, who would rather blame everything and everyone else than actually do some self reflection, because that'd mean facing up to the fact that you're the problem – feeeeeeeeeeeemales don't avoid you because you're short, they avoid you because you're you.

May you have the life that you deserve