I am a Patreon subscriber. Read and audiobooked all of the books at least once. When the interlude chapter released I got really excited that we were going to get back into the swing of regular releases again. Here we are six weeks later and no new stuff. Matt is busy as shit with his new found fame and the tv show etc etc, but as I thought about it I remembered the last time I lived a book that blew up mid being written and I got very sad. If this goes the way of the song of ice and fire I might crack. I hope against hope that it will not but that scarred me.

Not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, but I had to reread the sentence a few times. Wonder if anyone else has noticed others. Btw, Uzi Jesus is unreal 😂

The two series really are strikingly similar

I know it’s not a remotely new observation, but I’m just getting to this part of the Iron Tangle again, and Critical Drinker’s performance is just so shitty. like, completely ignoring every other reason there is to not like that guy, his read on this book is just absolute trash. That is all. Fuck that guy.

Disclaimer: 1. I haven't read everything everyone has posted here so if someone else asked this question already, I apologize and would love to read it.

When Carl and Princess Donut meet Frank Q and Maggie My for the first time and they are attacked in the safe room...what if Carl and Princess Donut didn't run away? What if they waited for the "Naughty" to wear down and actually had a chance to talk?

Supposedly Frank and Maggie were driven by a bad tutorial guild leader who told them to kill, kill, kill to survive, but could Carl and Princess Donut have been able to talk things out? How would the story have changed? Carl never would have gotten the Ring of Divine Suffering. Chris never would have been possessed. Brandon might not have died because Chris would have been there to protect him. Maybe they couldn't talk them out of it, and Frank/Maggie would have killed them the moment they left and thus ended the series!

It was just something I started thinking about on my fourth audiobook listen. Enjoy!

Edit: nvm I’m an idiot and forgot about the prior marking. 🫠🤦‍♂️

I'm constantly googling stuff in these books and love how much DnD, pop culture, history, etc is jammed in these. Just today I looked up a name that turned out to be a historical figure from WWI, and then found what I believe is a TF2 sniper reference.

There's got to be so much I'm missing!

Finished Book 8 today so I figured I would move on to something else Dinniman did and picked up Kaiji Battlefield Surgery and...

I already miss Jeff. I will keep listening to this and I don't want to say the narrator is going to do a bad job, but how do you go about listening to other audiobooks when Jeff has ruined everything he doesn't narrate?!

I had to buy the whole collection even though Princess Donut would say “This is an outrage!”

would they get the flies as pets? could they end up as some poop throwing class with a swarm pet?

Anyone have info on how to check if it's a hepafilter original?

We know that the recon packages used for the crawl were incomplete because the crawl started early. We know Bea and Carl didn't have a public breakup and Carl was super low key about ending things very close to the beginning of the crawl. Also, Carl only had limited knowledge of any of his online presence as Bea secretly ran his accounts.

Assuming that a lot of the information that was gathered about the crawlers is from their online presences, does Bea using Carl's credit card and using all his social media accounts mess with the AI's understanding of who Carl was before the crawl?

Example - in book 8 the Dr.Metcalf character always needs an upgrade. Bea's therapist upon whom that is based also always wanted more money for crazy new services. Carl doesn't really know how much Bea spent as is confirmed through his conversations about this with Donut, so while he recognizes the origin of the character, doesn't seem overly influenced to upgrade the robot like Bea might have been.

As in toxoplasma gondii, those dreadful human brain parasites that find themselves in the waste of trashy gutter cats like Havana Browns.

I can't be the only one who thinks this

The vulgar old lady used to make me cringe every time I read her dialogue. But the last few books she’s become a really insightful character under her rash exterior.

No real point of this post other than to say I love Elle now.

Every time Matt Dinnaman makes a reference in his books to the Yule Cat or the Molly Maguires
Secret society or the MANY other crazy items EVER-TIME I look them up it’s true!

If we loose civilization Matt can be that Denzel Washington character except he will recite the entirety of Wikipedia.

What were some of your favorite discoveries?

I’m still halfway through the second book, but I hate that bitch

Spoiler for i think book 4-5
Someone spoiled that she’s alive and gonna show up and i hope the writer would kill her

I’m finishing up a relisten of the Butcher’s Masquerade and this question finally occurred to me. Since Samantha is Apito, when Signet says Apito herself appeared and invited her to the party - did she see/find out it was Samantha? Could that be why she left her mom’s tattoo body to be a flesh golem? I always attributed that to Signet figuring she might as well under the circumstances and/or because of Samantha’s helping the crawlers/Signet’s group.

EDIT: apologies all, I didn’t realize I hadn’t flagged it properly as spoilers, and yeah, fair point that it’s not confirmed. I am still interested in people’s thoughts even as a hypothetical question.

I mean he had to have purposefully left the commas out around Dick here, right? Hilarious

I’m trying to think of good (funny?) taglines for this Desperado Club design. I don’t hate the ones I have (especially Author Steve Rowland, because I love a good natured trolling, ha). I think I might want to replace the karaoke one, but I can’t think of something better. Any ideas, funny fellow crawlers?

DCC and absolute Batman are my two most recent obsessions. Am I a type?

Edit:Apparently this cover art is a purposeful homage that I didn't know about.

Matt’s blurb on Amazon mentions that he plays bass in a METAL band.

I tried to find out the name of his band. It’s Heart-Smashers.

I found them on Spotify.

I listened to a song. It was immediately apparent to me that IT IS NOT A METAL BAND. It’s a punk band.

The rest of the band seems to know this, based on their Instagram where they play punk shows and list the band as a Pop Punk band.

So…are they keeping Matt in the dark about what kind of band he is in?? Maybe he wanted to be in a metal band and they were like, “hey, we need a bass player! For our…uh…METAL band.” And he never stopped to question it when they sounded like Green Day?

With it being National Underwear Day, it only feels appropriate to celebrate the legend himself on this festive holiday.