• SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    381 month ago

    He was a better writer when he was on massive amounts of drugs and alcohol.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      401 month ago

      Sometimes. Ever read the story the movie Lawnmower Man wasn’t actually based on even though it says it was?

      There was definitely such a thing as Stephen King doing too much cocaine.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        61 month ago

        Yes, there’s that but most his stuff since he’s gotten sober has been pretty mediocre.

      • @uid0gid0
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        21 month ago

        I’m over here wondering if someone is sitting on the movie right to The Mangler.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          21 month ago

          They did make a movie of The Mangler.

      • mad_asshatter
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        -401 month ago

        Hey!

        Congrats on that whole “worst user on lemmy.world” nomination!

        I’m honoured to stand in your shadow!

        cheers

        • Flying SquidOP
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          231 month ago

          I’m really not worth anyone’s energy.

            • Flying SquidOP
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              181 month ago

              Thanks, that’s very nice of you!

                • Flying SquidOP
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                  31 month ago

                  I just don’t want to be seafood, thank you.

          • @[email protected]
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            151 month ago

            Tbf, even the worst lemmy user pales in comparison to the worst users of other platforms like elon and spez.

            • Flying SquidOP
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              231 month ago

              Considering a couple of people in the thread being discussed reference a different thread where they decided I was a pedophile because I have a photo of my daughter naked when she was a newborn, I think some people here think I’m worse.

              • mad_asshatter
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                81 month ago

                a naked newborn!

                I’m spiralling, nauseous…you, you…nevermind.

              • AFK BRB Chocolate
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                41 month ago

                It’s such a weird slice of society that always equate nudity with sexuality, even in babies/kids. “Weird” being the kindest word I can find.

                • Flying SquidOP
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                  31 month ago

                  The funny thing was that none of them had kids.

                  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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                    41 month ago

                    Not coincidental, I’d guess. If you haven’t had kids, you likely haven’t realized that dealing with naked kids is just part of the job. It’s not like they’re self cleaning.

            • Stern
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              51 month ago

              Yeah, homey hasn’t founded any jailbait subs, a fatpeoplehate iteration, lolicon discussion, not even a single racial slur community modded. Downright lazy in comparison to the cream of the reddit degen crop.

          • mad_asshatter
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            -81 month ago

            I’d agree, but that would take energy.

        • @dohpaz42
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          171 month ago

          I don’t have any skin in this game, but why poke the bear?

          • Flying SquidOP
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            281 month ago

            I guess people think if they hate me enough, I’ll go away? Maybe it will work. We’ll see.

            • @dohpaz42
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              121 month ago

              Honestly, if they paid half attention, they’d know it’s just fuel for your fire that probably keeps you going. 🤣

            • AFK BRB Chocolate
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              41 month ago

              I hope you stick around - seem like a significant net positive in my opinion.

        • @[email protected]
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          131 month ago

          …what did he do exactly? I looked through his post and comment history out of curiosity and I didn’t see anything horrible as far as I could tell.

    • @Agent641
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      1 month ago

      Philip K Dick too. On drugs, whimsical, thought provoking, melancholy. Dick when sober? Unfathomably terrifying existential dread.

    • @rustyfish
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      131 month ago

      Do we have a timeline for that? I need to know if he was high while writing the Dark Tower novels.

      • @pete_the_cat
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        He was high as a kite/drunk as hell for at least the first two, the rest he was sober/recovering since they were written from 1991-2012. He got clean in the late 80s apparently.

        The Gunslinger was actually one of the first things he wrote, even before Carrie, it was a short story that he wrote in 1970, and then was submitted to and published in a Sci-Fi magazine in multiple parts in the late 70s, and then sat on it for a while. The Gunslinger as a whole wasn’t published until 1982, and then re-released in 1988. The Drawing of the Three was released in 1987.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          121 month ago

          I know he blamed the weird child orgy thing in It entirely on cocaine and alcohol.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 month ago

          Damn, that doesn’t explain why the series is getting more and more ridiculous towards the end.

      • @sramder
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        21 month ago

        90% sure one of introductions says something like “it was the 70’s and I smoked a lot of marijuana and read a lot of Tolken.” Maybe it just said drugs…