Do NOT upset Disqus. With its emotions bruised it may allow Kinja to attack and take its place and then we're all f'd.

Question on the foursome: what level/type of sobriety was involved?

Generally I think it happens mostly when the solo person is unusually attractive and the couple involved is super confident in their relationship and up for something fun and different. My girlfriend is way, way hotter than me (there are no leagues — always remember that), and she gets asked into threesomes probably…

Would that that were true, hombre.

Which is actually a really interesting point. That movie made me wonder how many "average" women around us every day would look J-Law hot if they just went low carb for a bit, worked out and got a makeover. There really aren't that many TRULY ugly people out there in this world. On this forum, sure, thousands of them.…

I'd say you're close but just not quite ready for Letterman. Maybe a couple more years of open mic, we'll see, just don't drop out of high school quiiite yet.

Thank you, Rob Payne, my new hero. For a while there I felt like I was playing that game where someone texts you just after you get a new phone and when you reply who is this they delight in not telling you for six hours. Straight answers are so damn wonderful sometimes.

Which may have been what they were going for — cast someone too hot and it might turn off all the tweenies who were into the books. Make the heroine average looking and the boyfriend super hot and you max out ticket sales in that demo.

Got it, though still nonsense as everyone around her all through the story, good and bad, is constantly evidencing the ability to show all five characteristics.

Okay, here I'm inferring that it means she's looking less than hot, but seen it in other contexts as well where that doesn't work. And unlike Urban Dictionary's suggestion, I don't think it always means appreciation of bears within the gay community either… hm.

I tried to follow what you just said, and I'm sorry because it's clear you're trying to help, but whatever's going on, it not only makes no sense, but it's just… really dumb.

Nonsense. For the book to be relatable in any way, they have to explain why she is the ONLY one who feels more than one trait at the same time. Are you really trying to say we should be able to just buy into the idea that no one else in her world wants to feel honest AND daring? Or helpful AND intelligent? That…

Do you mind letting me know what WOOF means in the context of online forums? I apparently missed that day in class and now can't ever find someone kind enough to explain.

Yuuuuup. The "dream serum" stuff had potential in a "matrix within the matrix" kind of way but never went anywhere (maybe it did in the last 20% of Book 3 but who gives a f), and the rest of the plot was so meandering and pointless I just could never care.

Being somewhat of a stubborn completist, I have never given up a book or series partway through once I started in my entire life. I'm the guy who has to collect every damn random quest to 100% every game I play. It's an annoying, OCD part of my personality whose only good is the feeling of joy and satisfaction I get…

Except that Boyhood was really, really good.

I completely understand all of that, including all the nuances of the creator's intent with the plot and design. That just doesn't make me like the plot, look — or especially make me think it was scary.

Pretty sure it could get most of that from observing the world, but even if not then to my next point, if an AI *is* talking to us then isn't it almost certainly just to provoke from us some additional resources it needs?

I'm not sure there even was a monster, or that one was needed to make the mother do evil things…

Now that is exactly the sneaky shit an AI would do. We're screwed.