Comment preview: When Saitama's training regimen was revealed in the original web comic, it finally convinced me that this story is a brilliant work of comedy/parody. In typical action type stories, we often find our protagonist having to go through some type of special tr ....

Comment preview: >"What do we have, what do we know, not what do we think we know... All we're left with is, Jay knew where the car was. That's it. And that, all by itself, that is not a story. It's a beginning but it's not a story. It's not enough to me, to send anyone ....

Comment preview: Those are all excellent imo, and its a brave direction for the show. Its season *five* they could have just done *another* season of the same old stuff each week. ISIS hijinks, something about barry, filler episode, backstory, russian episode, exploration ....

Comment preview: Holy crap. I loved this. As a bit of a sucker for artful jump-scares and eerie-creepy moods, this was amazing. Maybe [r/creepy](http://www.reddit.com/r/creepy) would appreciate this? If whoever's reading this comment hasn't watched the video, go watch it f ....

Comment preview: Theres some quality stories that came out of Colditz (an officers camp in a castle during WW2 where high risk escapers and political prisoners were sent). One was a tunnel by the French that everyone knew about; the prisoners and Germans could hear them di ....

Comment preview: I'm less than 4 hours into EU4 and it's already brilliant fun. I'm playing as France, and the game starts in 1444 so I'm in middle of the 100 year war. As this was my first time in the game, at first i really didn't know what to do in terms of military mov ....

Comment preview: College roommate and I were out in Colorado for spring break and wanted to see if we could find his place. We got the same directions from several people who basically said, "I wouldn't go up there, he's bat shit crazy, no telling what he'll do." We were i ....

Comment preview: "Theo Roth is a St. Louis-born, Alabama-raised Stanford graduate who finagled his way into a National Institutes of Health internship in the summer of 2010, after his senior year of high school. Bored after graduation, he appealed to Dr. Dorian McGavern wi ....

Comment preview: Guardians of the Galaxy had a storyline that panders to ten year olds. Why the hell does everyone enjoy it so much the plot was atrocious... Edit: Christ, I just got around to reading the wall of replies. In general, some hated it more than me, some said i ....

Comment preview: Do not dismiss Poe so easily matts2[.](http://i.imgur.com/biHOm.gif) >just puzzle stories Go back and read those "puzzle stories" about C. Auguste Dupin, a master logician who is a rather strange and difficult to understand because he is so brilliant. T ....

Comment preview: The entire Aubrey-Maturin series is an excellent example of brilliant story-telling and historical accuracy. The series spawned a whole slew of related books that explain everything from the food they ate (you can make your own Spotted Dick using a time-pe ....

Comment preview: I'm not a parent, but I've told some pretty shitty lies as a kid. My elementary school was like a 10-15 minute walk away from home. I decided that I would sneak over to a friend's house after school (my parents never allowed me to go over to friend's house ....

Comment preview: Grat'uit'ous Glot'tal S't'op's are the H vy M t l ml ts of speculative fiction. Unless it's backed by a brilliant story and some strong reasons why you're not using translation convention for that concept, it often feels like an affectation. "Calling a Ra ....

Comment preview: 2030 : Season 20 series finale - The Wind is revealed as the final A. PLL Interviewer: "After 20 seasons of Pretty Little Liars I gotta ask you Marlene, how did you come up with this brilliant story of A?" Marlene King: "We always knew Mona was the origina ....

Comment preview: Off the top of my head, there was this brilliant story from when he was in church when he was around 10. Even then he was hilarious. He was walking up the aisle and tripped, smashing his face on the ground. He snuck some white Tic Tacs in his mouth and sta ....

Comment preview: Direct quotes: > Protagonist is a bad person. [We don't object to this in a story; we merely object to it being the main point of the plot.] ...followed by contextual examples of tired plots involving this device. > A "surprise" twist ending occurs. ....

Comment preview: You reminded me of a truly brilliant story from when I was an actor in a trick-or-treating event for little kids (6 years and under) in my neighborhood. The place it was held at was the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, which is basically this pretty ritzy man ....

Comment preview: *God*, dad, you're so *out of touch!* Why are you so unwilling to accept who I am?! Look, this stuff makes me happy, okay? Why can't you just lay off for a change and let me live my own life? *No it's not a sex thing!* Fine, I'll *try* to explain. There ar ....

Comment preview: Depends on your tolerance towards older FPS games. **Dark Forces** is the first instalment of the series and is old as fuck. Still very enjoyable and atmospheric with a rather brilliant story, but it's definitely quite rusty. The enemies, the Dark Troopers ....

Comment preview: >birds are a lot more intelligent than most people acknowledge. I think this can be said for many animals that people consider "dumb"; not to the extent of tool-making, but still. Even animals like rats, rabbits, lizards, etc, can act in ways that would ....

Comment preview: >There are so many amazing writers out there, yet they aren't allowed to do their job a lot of the time because people want to make choices in their games This is a strange statement, are you saying that the idea of providing a choice is hindering to wr ....

Comment preview: I have a friend named Mark (who loves [The Room](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4KzClb1C4) and MST3k) who does something like this, but not nearly as insane. He acts really strange in public, such as singing pop singles in a really high pitch/falsetto vo ....

Comment preview: Benny buys a building, let's his friends live in it for free, comes up with a buisiness plan that would allow them to build a studio that would let them work on their craft. They would*still* be living rent free by building condos over the studio and using ....

Comment preview: I had to watch the episode twice to be sure that I understood it. What south park did with this episode is really amazing. - Wendy is nice to a not so popular girl - Wendy tell butters he is an ansshole and you can agree with her. - But then our feelings ....

Comment preview: Whenever I hear about Rutgers, I think of this brilliant story: [A Tale of Two Jerseys](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/453/nemeses?act=2), told on the NPR, about a Rutgers student and his posse who decide to take a trip to Princeton ....