Old Man Brendan
My theory is Masters came to America as an exchange student and spent four years he could have been getting laid on the best grass available just bitching about all these ungrateful Kent State coeds.
#8 Steele
My theory is Masters came to America as an exchange student and spent four years he could have been getting laid on the best grass available just bitching about all these ungrateful Kent State coeds.
I love how he's like "politics are stupid bullshit" in one of the most politically charged books I've ever read
Like we started low and sank
I got nothing
Weird
Lol now he’s just a Fox News commentator
He has like, strawman socialists but what's communism, haha it failed so hard.
“Communism hasn’t existed in 150 years but I hate it!”
Well, it got worse
Hawke was problematic, but at least this was his vision. This is like watching Sid break all the toys.
Oh no
If I was an owner of the property and milan handed me this, id fire him and eat the manuscript
In front of him
It was straight. I really am glad he highlighted that.
They have an AIR FORCE and nobody in the great 48 knows they're alive.
No wait, was her pubic hair glossy?
All the best novels spend time describing sixteen year olds bush
Let's skip past the attempted rape
Remember when the character had strong feelings about 1965 dimes, but now someone doesn't know about communism?
Better describe what Asian pubes look like before mentioning the gaping femoral wound.
A cigarette tip to the tip of a penis is something I've never read before.
Hahaha Cock Burn!
It's "ass-wipe," dipshit
Honestly, I appreciate the novelty.
First describe how fuckable she is and how her pubes are doing then if you time, describe any plot relevant details.
What you mean? This is good word in Americas, the ass-white, it is incredible my main man.
Also she’s 16
Literature 101 really
Said the man to his dominatrix, tipping her.
Make sure we know she’s underage
I like to imagine maybe, MAYBE this is what Orvus sees as his gaze travels from her face down.
They're gonna show it on the news!
Listen, it's a harsh world. If you can't make informed decisions by 13 maybe do Masters the courtesy of dying instead of obstructing his world.
What's the authors full name?
The people deserve to know whose cocks are being burnt.
Victor milan
aka
EL Hunter
Hahahaha
Ok I take it all back Victor is good now
...Galil?
Huh.
If only there had been events in Wyoming in previous books that Hunter could draw from
This fucker is messing with Jagged Steele, and I will not tolerate it
Sgt Tracy did not eat all that pussy just to be forgotten to the annals of time
I don’t think Galils had a bull pup variant
What
Hahaha
What the bananas hell
They gave him a 21-cunny salute.
Hahaha and a water slide in his honor
Buried in the Womb of the Unknown Soldier
I do not think milan knows what cunnilingus is
Galil didn’t have a bull pup but there’s another Israeli bull pup from that era
With a Sexual Congressional Medal of Honor.
I think he read that line and was like "what even is happening"
Look at this asshole getting Galil guns mixed up with Tavor
Please Victor, let me know if the Olive Garden is still open
You being a gun nerd us the weirdest thing I've learned about you
If it is, you know Victor's going to hail it as the last surviving remnant of real italian culture
A place that made alfredo bland.
I’m an army brat
That gun actually looks like a Scottish terrier.
So, i know the bullpup trend was at peak popular in the 90s, but I need to know if Hawke wrote about the other gun trend.
Has Steele ever featured “caseless” ammo?
“Miseri walked up to the counter. ‘Wha...what will you be having maam?’ She sliced open his guts and grabbed his cock. ‘Soup, salad, and dead-sticks’”
That was HUGE in late 80s sci fi
Before we realized caseless ammo kind of sucks.
I like bullpup aesthetically but I don't know enough about guns to know if it's any better
Like, Shadowrun explicitly has all guns caseless unless noted otherwise.
I've never read so many words that mean so little
Eh, it’s lighter and maneuvers in tight spaces better, but it’s a bit harder to reload.
It’s fine.
Looks cool as fuck
I’m not a gun snob, you won’t offend me with gun opinions other than the belief the Pancor Jackhammer exists.
You say this after how many Steele books?
The only gun I've wanted to buy was a historical reconstructed colt dragoon pistol, black powder muzzle loaded whole shebang
Matrix is a computer program Steele, why do you give a shit
Yeah these ones are particularly trash though
Matrix comin'!
The other ones were at least mildly interesting
I just skipped over a military ambush that had no fucking point
Jesus, Masters, just say it: Jilly's never going to fuck Epstein.
We got to learn about Steele's dick
The Milan Steeles have devolved into thinly veiled political straw man rants
It hasn't been mentioned so I'm assuming he's just got a smooth mound now
Like the flesh recoating just covered him
Hunter, sir. I wish this was masters
ACTUALLY, what you FAIL to rEalIiZE about Steele's world is that the liberties we have traded away....
I can't ever keep it straight. Two Russiany names with three tough-guy pen names between them.
Steele's computer hole is non-allergenic
You know, I just noticed Steele always fights with his cyber parts and doesn’t really have a trademark gun for me to mock and criticize
Russiany = Victor but not Milan
Lazer canon and darts
His trademark gun should be a desert eagle
It’s a 1911
But it’s only mentioned in the first book I think
Steele IS a gun
Oh my god it would be
Or maybe the second. When he and Ice gear up, it comes up
It would have to be some kind of .45 right?
It’s the gun his dad killed his family with
"Dr. Singh had made Steele's new body 21, so there was nothing wrong with him having sex with Jilly, who had turned 18 the day before she found him."
Like it's the official caliber of small penis havers
I love the 1911 like any other American but do you know what it doesn’t have? A fucking second stack of bullets.
The two groups are literally just shelling each other, this is so tedious
It’s over 100 years old and holds like ten bullets because it was invented before magazines worked right.
How much ordinance is in Wyoming that they could take Albuquerque at any moment after all this?
He's really on how her breast size
I mean I like revolvers so I'm not about to throw stones on magazine size
They have fucking nukes in Wyoming
You can destroy a place with nukes, but you sure can't take it.
He has a literal cowboy era gun
You got the 10 shot clip right and at least Masters knew that
And a missile backpack
Ice gets the .44 magnum and Steele has his fathers 1911-A1
He said it again!
Hahahah
Maybe he collects hands from his fallen foes.
Oh god were only on page 58
this is the first I've heard of the "bandit Alliance"
If you can dodge a wrench
Soft, weak, womanish General of the apocalypse.
Oh, God. Fucking fuck you
God dammit
How did she get so good at killing?
I assume this is Miseri
indeedy
He made her to prove peak human can beat any machine, then used machines to age her to her peak.
Children tend to be rapey, Hunter postulates
"You guys don't understand, SHE seduced ME." --Matt Gaetz
If there's a single problem in this world that can't be solved by cowboyin' Id like to hear it
Justice league taught me that's the best way to go from the us to iceland?
Norway?
Where the fuck was aquaman?
Aw, the best sci fi trope "it's not technically pedophilia"
Kind of thought that was an anime move
“She’s actually a dragon, she’s 3000 years old”
But here's milan boldly pioneering
This has turned into a very boring war book
Milan: somehow hornier than Masters
Military sci fi written by a libertarian pervert, the best type of book
Appendix: well known as the thinking organ
the gut's gotta think SOMEWHERE>
Steele-seeking appendix
Jesus, dude
I gotta make sure I have my ass-gun
Oh man I feel so much better about my shitty war writing for my bootleg Steele chapter
I preferred the other lip moistening
Oh shit
Caseless and 10 mm
She's a pair of tits that exist as life support for weapons.
With the mind of a child
If they can clone Steele forever, and his core is almost indestructible...
So there was actually debate around the 80s on if the standard should be 9 or 10 mm
the smartest thing for Steele to do is learn cloning.
He could theoretically live forever that way
Aikido!
Westlake, you sonofabitch
Apparently the FBI was using 10mm and the cops used 9
Damn Aikido and lips in two consecutive pages
Ultimately 10mm fell out of favor because they “were starting to let women into the FBI and police”
And 10mm was thought to be too much for women
Is there an appreciable difference?
Really creepy stuff coming up
10mm is noticeably stronger.
9mm is infamous for not killing as often
An obvious flaw I'm sure
Kind of more a meme because it’s a fucking gun either way
69, but not nice
But yeah, because of the debate and the ditching of 10mm, a lot of more “macho” alt history and sci fi uses 10mm to show its a more dangerous timeline.
Like Fallout
Miseri gets shot
It would be fittingly Masters if they pointlessly kill off Miseri with no payoff whatsoever
As for caseless weapons, it was mostly an experiment in reducing the weight and cost of ammo.
I got my money on her dying here and then there being a clone or clones of her that pop up later
Just kidding, ninja shit
The caseless bullet was more or less a block of gunpowder with a bullet on one end
You can imagine it was really sexy for a little bit at the end of the Cold War as “future smol ammo”
Then it immediately fell out of favor because of obvious flaws.
Namely, a block of gunpowder is heat sensitive
And cracks easier than brass when you drop your magazine
I guess this coin laugh is going to be a thing
Oh and it doesn’t make a good seal so the bullets come out slow or off target
In short - caseless ammo is the biggest 80s and 90s sci fi gun meme
More coin similes!
Next to gyrojet ammo
And 10mm
I found it, I found the most poorly written sentence
Oh I’m sorry did I miss something gross?
I feel the "peak human" argument has lost all relevance now that she has a healing factor and a clone programming.
This sentence smells like burnt toast
Wut
Yeah now she’s just a second generation cyborg
OK. Weird to bring up in a fight
Hope I’m not derailing things with the sci fi gun blabbing, I’m just trying to distract myself from the weird sex stuff.
She was as much stronger than he as he was than a five-year-old girl-child.
On a technical level, it's correct.
So fucking weird. She's also turned into Dennis Miller
But if you have to get technical, it's incorrect.
“Quick, what bothers women?”
“Not havin babies!”
For those who aren't Macbeth fans, this is foreshadowing that Clone Steele will kill her.
Fuck you, traffic and shopping malls
...he's just cruising Route 66 now?
There's action, and Steele's not part of it because he is obeying traffic laws.
Jackoff motions are back
Maybe that's how their society waves goodbye, we don't know.
“Wait, hold on, don’t start the battle without me, the 101 is a nightmare right now at rush hour”
I don't care for this relationship
Steele will impregnate her in battle by bleeding in her vicinity.
This is repetitive and gross, what a combo
This seems like it would be impossible for the pilot to fly while this was happening
Why aren't they painted black, how am I supposed to get an er--OH, okay, murder.
I remember when I was on patrol and had to do a co ordinated laugh with my fellow officers while our boss stripped
A bodystocking of blood is a bodypainting, sir.
Hunter remembered the serial killer from the beginning of the last book, that's nice
buk-buk-BAGAW
This author is weird - the phrasing and author’s voice is less stilted than the first few Steeles, but the author feels skeezier
You can tell this was written by a native English speaker who’s a creep instead of a weird but enthusiastic Russian guy
The creepy bits feel less naively creepy if that makes any sense.
He's really getting comfortable with his creep.
Just know that someone ate dog shit off the sidewalk for no reason
This is why the TGIF spinoff That's CROWE! failed in one season.
Without any real explanation, Steele and Crowe have made their way to the General's quarters
And they led the general to the killing fields
This is my first time hearing about this, I don't know how they knew about it
does he tell people about his pistol hand every book
Donelson tried to invade the enclave without telling the general about it
Usually
Steele is Whiteman's Ghost of Christmas Present
So Donelson is going to do a coup during an invasion, which is a weird move
So I'm thinking Steele's human skin wasn't the best idea
wait
wait
wait
troopies?
troopies
"She had remarkably supple wrists" is an odd observation for a horrified mourner.
I'm the only sniper to draw blood on Steele, but i died in a cammie blouse.
It was all over in a minute, what a conflict
Donnie?
Donnie Steele.
Boy, these people from the 23rd century love them some 1990s pop culture references.
wait jilly is still alive? I have to admit I just showed up and assumed she was dead by now
Oh, he got away
None of our named characters have done much
thats got to be a new record for a love interest
Nevermind, Dameron got him
This book is thoroughly unpleasant
only asians get mad when you kill their children
Is Crowe the Slasher?
Oh man has no one called him Donnie yet?
Is this book the first time someone said Donnie?
I can’t believe I never made a Donnie joke.
Then she calls him Don
They always call him Steele. Even his ex-wife, who is also a Steele
So it's weird
Our Steele is Colt Blacke, and by this rule I've been turning every use of Colt into surname.
All that, and Miseri just visits the university
a deepthroat voice huh
Nevermind, they are holograms
Matrix has gone bad
And got a flesh body?
that was part ONE??
Ahuh
oh shit are we doing another two parter
does gellaho have the strength to soldier on
It's not that ironic when you consider Steele is in the best version of his body.
Or that Matrix never wanted to be physical again.
I vote we pick this up next Friday.
I suppose we can. There are 75 pages left
Nothing happened and somehow there's a LOT to process.
Classic Hawkesters
I don't think I can describe just how painful that book is to read
It changes perspective every 7-10 paragraphs
So it seems like there should be a lot more happening than there actually is
I actually have a headache
And I got to bitch about guns
So I’m happy.
You can really hear the change in authors now.
the chickweed special
It’s actually a little jarring
Yeah, ya done good, Gellaho.
The author feels more relaxed but is also acting more like a creep
Proud of everyone here. We got through a compound lift day, and only over the course of next week will we realize the many ways it strained us.
It's just remarkable how little happened in that first part that actually matters to the story. He just decided to have the air force invade rather than wrap up any of the stuff from the last book
Like the Jesus cult, or the serial killer, or Miseri
Haha I’m sorry boys, I checked out about halfway through. Need to get the strength to soldier on later
I missed the first part because I was driving
They rescheduled me so I could make sure the Mariners don’t cause a spontaneous riot