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"Smaug's ultimate fate is so freaking stupid. Even years after I first read this, I still think it's so freaking stupid." — Jan 23, 2026 11:15AM
"Smaug's ultimate fate is so freaking stupid. Even years after I first read this, I still think it's so freaking stupid." — Jan 23, 2026 11:15AM
The White Scars did not invent swift warfare, any more than the Iron Warriors invented siegecraft, or the World Eaters invented shock assaults, or the Luna Wolves invented striking down the enemy’s leadership. All these tactics for which
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“Your Mom.”
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
“Goddammit Donut!”
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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“Remember that everything is connected,” I finally settled on. “The water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat. Everything has some part of it that leads into each other. Disrupting one thing can disrupt many others. Fixing one thing can fix many others.”
― Beware of Chicken
― Beware of Chicken
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
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