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Finished DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL....um...I don't understand the praise.

This book is like listening in on your 9 year old brother and his friends giving a 13 hour play by play of their video games while also interjecting their 9 year old opinions on what is cool and funny.

Might be easier to keep track of all the dungeons, bugs, weapons, random players, coloured dots, boxes, potions, spells, goblins, training guilds, levels, staircases, floors, etc if they weren't noted every few paragraphs, on every page, FOREVER.

Like I'm a fan of LitRPG, THE CRADLE series is awesome...(as an example)

But this series is not for me.


Bonus annoyance: Also, finding out that for story reasons Carl stays in a pair of heart-adorned white boxer shorts for the entire series...will never not irk me as a reader. Just no. I got the initial deadpool-equse joke of him being in them when the world first ends and stuck in them for book 1....sure?...but the fact that he remains in them for multiple books is utterly insane.

What are you all smoking?

You know what really bothers me about all this? Trump takes out the Ayatollah, dusts his hands and says "Look, we took out their head!" as if that's accurate or realistic.

It's not. The IRGC is like the CIA, the FBI, and the mafia and the military were one organization. They are the military apparatus, they are the intelligence organization, they are the foundation of the police state, they also are this massive economic monopoly that essentially controls the oil and gas sector in Iran, they control concrete, rubber...you can't build anything in Iran without the IRGC involved. This group RUNS Iran...and they are more than happy to trot out one old man after another and call that person the supreme leader...and let that person be the ideological rhetorical figure head...and have them do all the things that maintain that this is some sort of holy islamic country. Netanyahu knows this, but Trump does not. And therefore Trump is Bibi's useful idiot. He 100% told Trump "If we cut off the head, everything else will collapse"...he KNEW he was signing the USA into a months long war that would engulf the region...and I could be wrong but every time Trump goes in front of people now I feel like he MAY be finally getting to understand that fact...This is reflected in what was supposedly a "WTF" message sent to Netanyahu from the WH about Israeli destroying something like 7million oil barrels the night before last?...like Trump is figuring out this shit in real time...like he's THAT stupid that he went to war without understanding what would happen, led there by a guy who knew EXACTLY what would happen.

Sadly, I no longer live in the big city with easy access to like 6 huge bookstores to see if it drops early in Canada like I used to....I have to wait till I'm out in the bigger city nearby the town I live in that has a bookstore...so the chances I'll get it early while still high, are not as high as they were before.

But make no mistake, if it drops early, and I get it...I'm gloating!

Primateus, on 08 March 2026 - 06:14 PM, said:

I need to know why this man is like this...I need to know if it's just because he's gay and can't stomach the idea of being out in the Republican Party and risking his position as his voters are majority bigots? Or is he such a war hawk to try to look big and tough and hyper masculine to the world, while in private we all know for a fact that he's a bottom (this is reported from the male escorts he's been with over the years)? Like I want to know....is he in the files? What does Israel have on him?

Like I just don't get it.

Yep, in Canada it was hovering between $1.20/litre and $1.34/litre...which while not great, was at least mildly manageable if we stretch, and it has jumped to $1.57/litre and I'm like "WTF, this isn't even our war but we get fucked"...

The US has such an outsized effect on the world...add this to the pile of reasons I won't forgive the USA..this is such an avoidable thing.