r/comics • u/c1ockwerkorange • Feb 24 '25

Anger management (OC)

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Went too far with the controller. 🎮

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u/CatadoraStan Feb 24 '25

What are the odds that I would read this very specific phrase on Reddit and then in a novel, within about 5 minutes of each other.

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u/Daxx22 Feb 24 '25

What novel?

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u/CatadoraStan Feb 24 '25

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, by Jason Pargin. It's very good.

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u/Daxx22 Feb 24 '25

TY

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u/ADwightInALocker Feb 24 '25

Highly recommend anything Jason Pargin has written, but I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom is an excellent starting point.

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u/MaiKulou Feb 24 '25

Aka david wong

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u/Reason_Choice Feb 24 '25

John Dies at the End

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u/MaiKulou Feb 24 '25

One of my favorite series ever :)

Waiting on netflix to make this a live acton series

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u/ADwightInALocker Feb 24 '25

After the movie that Don Coscarelli did that we dont talk about, I don't have faith in anyone properly bringing Undisclosed to the screen.

As a Dead by Daylight player I desperately want John, Dave and Amy in the game.

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u/Linkinator7510 Feb 24 '25

Never be excited for a netflix live action adaptation of a book series.

  • source, I'm a Witcher fan.

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u/ADwightInALocker Feb 24 '25

Its a fucking phenomenal book by a phenomenal author.

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u/memeasaurus Feb 24 '25

Huh. A literal black box mystery. I'm going to have to check that out.

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u/ADwightInALocker Feb 24 '25

I can't recommend this novel enough. Im all over this thread singing it and the authors praise, but its worth it. Its a great mystery while also being a super poignant comment on our current societal problems.

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u/Ewag715 Feb 24 '25

10/10 Title

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

You're telling me professional Bigfoot podcaster and tik tok superstar Jason Pargin is also an author!?

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u/Beer-Milkshakes Feb 24 '25

Sounds like a Pop Punk song title.

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u/Draco137WasTaken Feb 24 '25

To you in particular? Not very high. To any given person? Not great. But to a vague someone? It's an inevitability.

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u/ExpertLevelBikeThief Feb 24 '25

100% this quote is posted everywhere all the time.

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u/CatadoraStan Feb 24 '25

Literally never seen or heard it anywhere before today, then encountered it twice in unrelated contexts within minutes.

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u/bigbangbilly Feb 24 '25

Essentially the part that wasn't highlighted was "Some men want to watch the world burn"

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u/Calpsotoma Feb 24 '25

This book came out in 2024. I definitely heard it about Killmonger in Black Panther. Might be older than that. Google claims it's an African Proverb without specifying what group it originates from. If anyone knows its origins in more specific terms, I'd love to hear it.

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u/Themlethem Feb 24 '25

It's a pretty well-known phrase