CRINGE AND WHINGE | A Book Review of Trigger Warning by William Johnstone 

It's like opposite end spectrum Onision.

In all seriousness, though, "Die Hard on a college campus" honestly isn't a terrible premise. This book just executed it poorly.

@@anostalgicmillennial606 Your right, it's not a bad premise. Just done poorly. Which is a description that can be applied to many movies, books, tv shows, and video games.

@@anostalgicmillennial606 that sounds really fun actually. It would be a very interesting environment

Does The Mister have a school shooting? Because that was way too boring to have one, from what I remember.

And not the Boomers that fought in a war or worked their way to the top, the kind of whiners who inherited their fortune and look for something to complain about because they're nostalgic for their youth.

@@feralchangeling97 And wish Tinder was invented when they were physically desirable and could still get hard

@@jorchdatorch842 I forgot how many boomers were on Tinder.

more like zoomer

But with more phones

The only way I could see him resisting the tasers in any circumstance with some degree of functionality afterwards is if he was an electrician. My dad was tazed once before I was born, he was mildly fit and had been working as an electrician for a vast majority of his life. As he'd been exposed to higher voltages before all the taser did was give him a few muscle twitches. Granted he would purposely shock himself sticking his finger in a power outlet in the morning to wake himself up. Claimed it was better than coffe. So yeah, unless Jake was an electrician he absolutely would not have been able to tank two tasers and still be able to move.

@@MyraZinshu I'm sorry. yourdaddidwat

@@dragonrage122 yeah, he would purposefully shock himself. I know that's not exactly normal for most people but I've come to just accept it.

FINALLY being fat is a plus

Another point is that tasers dont always make a good connection. If they one prong doesnt connect or if it hits on the wrong part of the body. It wont give the full ride. So it's not that Jake is super epic badass, the taser just didnt work like it does 9n 50% of the people in the world because tasers are unreliable. Lmao

I had to shout out "PHRASING!" like Archer at that one, lol!

😆😆

I get flashbacks to The Donut Song from Red vs Blue. “Let me blow you… away!”

This is my come, this is my come

giggity

Only nowhere near as charming

Lin C. Or funny.

Ranna the Ranger lol I mean no insult, merely drawing a connection 😂

except at some point this author also says "it's actually not quite poison"

Good lord, this book is the Republican equivalent of an Alex Maisonette film.

> Every other line talks about how he hates liberals and how he's better than them, he needs to teach others how to do things "right" It's funny because that's exactly how conservatives think that their mythical SJWs are.

As someone who lives in the same environment, can attest, the right way to deal with it is to complain privately to your friends, and be careful about what you say. I’m sorry if this seems rant-y, the internet is part of where I vent about my college. You gotta realize that you can’t change everyone’s mind, nor should you. And while yeah, it’s frustrating that you are basically in a constant state of skepticism, you can never really perfectly relax. It kinda sucks, if I didn’t constantly have to watch what I said, and regulate my emotions, and could actually ARGUE with them, (forgetting of course that I would have to do this with at least 5 or 6 people in each class, which is a ridiculous number of people to have to be constantly *on* for in order to argue) it might not be so bad. That being said, they do have a point to make, but it’s masked by way too much emotional argumentation, and fallacious arguments etc. so I don’t want to claim that I’m right and they’re wrong or whatever. My point is, it’s exhausting to constantly have to keep your mouth shut when people keep trying to emotionally manipulate you, and you just stew in your own mind for a few hours during the day.

@@nyatrue401 you're probably making too much of it lol. I'm a leftie living in the mormon asshole of arizona and I've found that if you just speak calmly and open mindedly, let the other people know you're listening to them, most people arent gonna pop a blood vessel over your views. And if they do have a tantrum anyway then thats their fault and they probably got other problems deeper than your views.

dalton fordyce Yeah, I tend to agree with you. I’m a leftist-leaning feminist living in a very conservative rural area, and even the town I have to go into to shop is quite conservative. People tend to assume that you’re a conservative if you live here. I feel like most people here don’t try to disrespect me deliberately. No one is trying to manipulate me, they just have their opinions and they’re stuck in their own ways. Granted, I’ve been mocked and talked over a lot, but I have also had people try to find common ground with me. I cannot imagine relating to any of the bitterness in this book.

dalton fordyce granted, the worst of it is in my Women and gender studies class. Thinking about it, I don’t even think I’m necessarily conservative, but I hold generally negative views on the feminist movement(to be clear, I support equality between all people) because I believe their methods are Draconic, and nearly all of their arguments use fallacious reasoning, or simply appeal to emotion. I’ve been told repeatedly that I don’t understand certain things because I am white/a man/etc. I’ve never had a problem with debating people, but I will lose friends if I’m too open about my beliefs, this is a fact. I am very much alienated from my peers, but, thankfully, I do have friends outside of school, so I’m only a little bitter about it. Edit: Not disagreeing with you, I just need to vent about my wgs class

Sounds about right

Let's be real: Jake is the exact kind of person who ACTUALLY commits mass shootings in real life.

So sensitive

let's face it, anyone who calls others snowflakes is huffing copium to avoid having to acknowledge who's really the self centered safe space dweller that demands everyone conform to their delicate sensibilities and wild delusions.

@@bradymenting5120 both sides call each other snowflakes 🤣

If you say it three times in front of a mirror at midnight, a member of antifa appears and sucker punches you Spencer-styel.

Bro's spawned in like a random encounter

“Gotcha now, FASCIST-CHAN!”

As it should be honestly

Basically the same, except Johnstone is blatantly conservative, whereas onision is _100% liberal, totally not a transohobe, and an absolute advocate for women empowerment_

arrogant uncle he also gets laid. don’t forget he gets laid, because onision has sex, all the time. did i mention he gets laid?

aubrie testa Yep. He gets laid all the time, and even lesbians like Strange Aeons aren’t immune to his powerful sexual charisma.

Autumn K Johnstone is also pretty successful. He’s written a bunch of those crappy westerns you see in the book section at Walmart. Right next to Louis L’amour.

@@jimtreebob2096 but, this johnstone is a she and she hasn't ever written a western. william has been dead for quite sometime.

I completely agree the best way to counter act weird fringe ideas are to treat them as such.

Oh my god, finally someone understands. You cannot be on the wayyy other end of the spectrum for an opinion without being hypocritical because in almost every instance both sides look absolutely ridiculous. They are incredibly sensitive to each other.

@@No-hf5xb You know it is possible to be an independent or moderate nowadays despite the state of politics right?

@@No-hf5xb The entirety of the unaffiliated party:

@@No-hf5xb So you let other people dictate your own views rather than your own sense of right or wrong? That's just sad. Also how the hell is me stating neutrality is possible "stroking my ego"? You can't stroke your ego with just objective statements. But you can stroke your own ego criticizing others for non existent faults.

I said boy cheese sandwich unironically. When I was five.

So like a child throwing a temper tantrum?

It’s like the difference between feminism and egalitarianism.

@@camarokidbb4347 Which is? (That's not a loaded question or anything; I really wanna know).

@@greywalker505 One leans more on women’s rights (especially modern feminism), the other leans more towards equality between the sexes. To elaborate: feminism has always been about women’s rights moreso than equal rights period end of. It’s only more noticeable now because men and women nowadays (in the US and West Europe at least) more or less _do_ have equal rights, and what differences remain are purely a consequence of biology.

@@camarokidbb4347 Yes the pay gap is biology, doofus.

"I was in the military, so you should automatically thank me for my service." Kinda sounds like Onision, doesn't it?

@@KrimsonRogue very much so. It is counter intuitive to the whole purpose of doing a thankless job.

Also, when living in a 1st world country you're allowed to have 1st world problems

Not related to anything much, but I saw "vet" and couldn't think of why a veterinarian would respond so passionately. Lol, my bad.

It's the niece writing since according to the wiki the author is dead. Which makes sense since you can tell the author has never served. They have a massively warped perception of what the military actually teaches and the culture.

Lol, my bad. XD

Jake's gun is so big it eclipses the universe.

Which is to be set up for another weapon, like Jake's knife

@@ahniandfriends123 damn, that's one big iron

"Jakes Gun" A new trope for TVTropes

It's almost like the kind of guy who would do that IS dangerous.

@@raptoid2518 I mean, given how much jake talks about hating/disliking the "special snowflake liberals" on campus, I'm suprised that he didn't at the very least threaten someone with a gun before, let alone become the villain of the story

@@penginlord9396 Exactly. Jake is just an absolutely horrible hero. It feels like he was meant to be an anti hero at best and more likely someone who ended up being even worse than the main villain. When you think about the way he's described outside of the context of the story, he sounds more like someone who's going to end up becoming a school shooter than he is a savior.

Sounds like everyone in your college is a special snowflake who identifies as attack helicopters and harass well-meaning Americans with SJW bullshit like "please don't keep something in your room that can kill someone with one movement and no counterplay". Such pussies. /s

Its like the guy who talked about how he had a gun in the mall while I was checking him out. I was terrified .

they do, but are brought back from their selfless sacrifice by the power of love and friendship

In the case of Rey from Star Wars, they have trouble getting more work.

Ironically the original Mary Sue died at the end of her story. Because she was too good for this sinful earth or something.

Cadenthecapybara *oh Jake is the BIGGEST BOI*

With a big iron on his hip-

Don't forget that Jakes needs an education.

@@riley8385 God he needs that education

Scrolling through the comments not even 5 minutes in. I hope there's context for this.

I mean it would have to be altered a lot to even work as a premise. I would say most college students are slightly left leaning but fairly close to center and/or don't even particularly care about politics at all; while this book generalizes the entire population of college students into the loud, aggressively liberal minority. Also, a single soldier to a probably 10,000 or so student campus isn't really that interesting of a dynamic as it's just a single somewhat outsider in a group of people that think exactly the same. I'd say one could make a book about a similar character as the protagonist (but more realistic and less annoying and dumb) having to work with a single or small group of people that match this description maybe mutually neutralising each other a bit. But we're getting farther from "just fixing the awkward flaws" rewrite and closer to simply a vaguely inspired one from the characters. What would have been interesting is if they played more with the dynamic of his age and how that affected interactions, especially with the jump in the preset life path where people go to college right after graduating high school and have a more social and developmental experience in mind as part of it, compared to our protagonist who was just trying to get his studies done and move on.

@@merrybright5732 I think I kind of like your version better :)

@@liliththesolarexalted2206 thanks!

@@merrybright5732 no way man. I have been to two universities myself and have visited and stayed with friends in their dorms in about 5 other universities and 90% of the students there are 100% left leaning. Not centerist at all. They are almost all socialist (which depends on a very big government and massive amounts of government control and regulations which is NOT centerist in any way) and a good number were full out communists. The walls in dorms and cafeterias and hallways and even the gym and bathrooms are PLASTERED with leftist clubs and announcements for leftist protests. Most university students are left leaning. Do a bit of googling and see what demographics are voting what way statistically and the numbers don't lie. People under the age of 30 are far and above more likely to be a leftist than anyone over that age.

@@WhitneyDahlin I did say left leaning. My point was the average student isn't as extreme as portrayed in this book. I meant to mention the average student will vote Democrat to clarify, sorry I missed that. The extremity will fully depend on the campus, location, and other factors. Also, if you're right leaning at all that's going to affect your perception of it and make whoever is left leaning seem more extreme. I say this as someone who was right leaning and has shifted left over time (not because of college). Also what are these clubs you mention? Is it explicitly political clubs, or are you qualifying groups such as LGBT groups as "leftist" groups? Anyway yes I'm aware that overall the leaning is left, absolutely. The only point I was trying to make was that the book's example is innacurate for the average campus.

This guy is gonna be the next Sherlock Holmes with those deductive reasoning skills

"Mmm yes the floor here is made of floor "

@@Syoubat Your statement is made funnier because he is literally looking at the floor (though I assume that was the joke)

@@abigailc8829 yes indeed

I thought Krimson was joking when I read that. But no. Literally in the book 😭 Hurts my brain

Which is ironic because the main character has PTSD ...is this art?

@@PointsofData Nah dude, Jake "Big Man" Rivers has "Manly flashbacks to the war" not PTSD. PTSD is for those limp wristed snowflakes who for SOME reason were upset that they were held at gunpoint under the threat of death for hours. SMH

@@Shadowlegendlover ah I see, his tears and sobs are those of pride, my bad

Not everything is about you, man

@@trequor Did they say it was? LMFAO don’t tell me you like this book-

Same here. Don't understand how but it happened.

Oh damn it, and here i thought i was special and the shirt really did love me

@@bimbowithadegree420 it's very slutty :/

Name the baby Hunter because you never saw him coming.

i think the worst part is that this book was written by a woman using a pen name

I probably laughed a bit too hard at that. XD

That's it, that's the book.

I'd actually read the book if it was just diary entries like that

ALL-STAR GAM3RPUNK Same

God is resurrected.

I want to believe Jake was a paranoid heroin addict who kept guns in his room in case the antifa came for his stash

I watched a guy high on MDMA resist tasers entirely so thats my theory

@@SaraH-jn5db If the book would have intentionally used Jake as an unreliable narrator and half of the nonsense was just hallucinations, looking into his deranged mind would be a lot more fun.

But have you considered Jake's *bigness*

Tasers actually don't always connect properly, there are videos of people resisting them just with thick clothing for example, that prevents the prongs from connecting.

I think Jenny mentions that they chose this school bc they know all the students come from super rich families. Not certain but I think that's the stated reason

@@everylaurenislemons Building off your thing: It wouldn't be terrorism at that point. I'm pretty sure terrorism antagonizes a government, while what the author describes is just a mass kidnapping. They don't want revolution or war, they want money from white-collar parents. God, cuneiform makes more sense than this damn book

@@sweatyskeleton7390 The definition can be a little iffy, but Terrorism doesn't have to be antagonising the government. Broadly speaking, terrorism is a politically motivated act of violence targetting civilians or symbols to convey a message or threat to a third party, carried out by a group that's not the government. While many terrorist organizations do work against an established system, there's a specific category for terrorism with the goal of reinforcing/supporting the current authority or rather their own interpretation of it: vigilante terrorism (at least I think that's the term in english, I just translated the german term). Examples would be something like attacking afro-americans back during the times of slavery to remind others of "their place". You're still right though, their just in it for the money. That's no terrorist attack.

Insert joke about leftist infighting here

@@sweatyskeleton7390 this book makes sense, it's not he authors fault that you can't understand it

I may not be a subscriber to r/conservative but I do share a bunch of conservative values. That being said, this book lacks common sense and it annoys me, it sounds like a wacky neo-con jizzing all over a page.

@@chrisstoltz3648 I wouldn't call this literature

@@chrisstoltz3648 you can drop "literature"

I mean. Women have an entire genre of books dedicated to men just coming in and sweeping them off their feet. Look at twilight.

@@Bourikii2992 twilight’s shit too. More than one thing can be bad.

Well actually his Niece. William has been dead for nearly two decades

@@GameTavern2224 If there ever is an event that causes the dead to rise, it would be this dudes corpse digging out of hell to sue his niece for defamation and copyright infringement

@@left-2-write28 this would be like if steven kings family started doing the same shit only they wrote half ass smut with his name on it instead of horror

@Psy Duck pretty much

@@GameTavern2224 WOAH PLOT TWIST

That actually sounds pretty cool. I'd read that book.

Just change it from a School to a School trip to a historic building and you may be on to something.

okey school shooting ina setting with dragons? what do the attackers use magical nukes? but sounds awesome either way.

@@CommissarMitch It'd be better than Trigger Warning. Much, much better.

Please let me see it. Please send me a link.

In the same way that almost everyone who pulls the old "my four-year-old heard about (recent political opinion) and said (something they definitely did not fucking say)" trick almost universally lack the empathy they attempt to appeal to, the people who lack masculinity and hate it compensate by creating fiction that tries to present their characters, and by proxy them, as powerful and competent, and in doing so betray their weakness

When I first read this book, I didn't know the context of it. For a good long while I legitimately believed it was a satire of right-wing political ideology. The fact that it's actually sincere just _blew_ my mind.

Well, there are "red neckbeards" that go REEEE and spit on anything that's "liberal." For example, a woman rejected him, then the manbaby ree and cry "wOkE."Even though the subject is NOT even close to liberal. Thank the neckbeard story videos as one of the sources.

@@TrackpadProductions Its basically impossible to satirise them at this point because they write it for themselves.

... or try hard...

Or “Liberal Weapon”

Or SJW(s): Soldier Just Whines (stupidly)

A Good Day to Cry Hard

Cry hard 2: cry harder

“Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Happy... Everybody! Happy Holidays. And if you have a problem with Happy Holidays then Happy Shut The Fuck Up.” - AVGN

@@SharkyMcSnarkface Tell me which video of the AVGN is that quote from please I need it so hard

@@MarioSantos-zx4bj It’s from the Winter Games episode.

@@SharkyMcSnarkface thanks

so basically my step dad

This is the same level 'I'm not like other white girls, I'm into ASTROLOGY.'

It's funny because with every other word than "training", military grade just means "the cheapest shit that barely works"

@@prancingpally4386 Because it's mass-produced?

​@@greywalker505no, you definitely can mass produce things while still maintaining quality. Unless, that is, you constantly give contracts out to companies that will overcharge and under deliver (that you also just so happen to hold stock in, totally a coincidence.)

Live in glory, my friend

😂🤣 same

I do believe we have found the meaning of life.

You'll get there! 😊

I want that on my tombstone.

ccbib well he was born in 1938 in Missouri , so yeah he did go to college. During a time when black people barley went to college and women mostly went to get married so he might be a little, behind on what they look like. LMAO.

@@Infinitydev-lh2bo William Johnstone is dead. The book is actually written by his daughter, and I have no idea if _she_ went to college.

@@Strannik01 Oh god, so it's like conservative Stephenie Meyer

@Strannik01 Actually his niece but same principle. I don’t think she’s ever seen a real college campus because if she has she would know that no one is like this.

@@plantain.1739 Even more conservative. She's a Mormon who doesn't believe in premarital sex, so she's at least a little conservative herself. :D

Good on you to put it that way. The time of civil politics just means that the oppressed and suffering haven't found their voices yet. Sharp politics means conflict in society

Oh boy, I remember when we learned about the fight between the Federalist Roger Griswold and the Democratic-Republican Matthew Lyon during our discussion in the Alien & Sedition Act of 1798. Someone looked at the cartoon and warily asked if that actually took place inside the actual building, and our teacher confirmed, “Yes, this was on the floor of the House.” Then there was a Democrat beating a Republican at his desk in 1856. Oh, and the two South Carolina senators beating the tar out of each other in the senate chamber in *1902*

There are times when politics can be more akin to war, but not always. For example, the Senate in the early days of American politics was very civil. Before the southern states anexxeed themselves during the Civil War, some of the senators from the southern states said their goodbyes to northern senators and hoped the war would end soon. I am not saying politics are always a civil and clean afair, but it’s not always hated and violence either.

Krimson is secretly Dog change my mind.

Grim The Ghastly Just* Dog

You misspelled "unforgivable abomination" at the end, there.

The word of the day is projection. Also, it's OK to make fun of trigger warnings if it doesn't involve armed conflicts and pro-war

Yeah, it's a bit fucked up. Especially as at the end, he makes fun of the other students needing counseling for their implied PTSD after being held hostage. So it's only allowed for Jake because he was into army. Nobody else is allowed to have it apparently.

@angel denson Pretty sure it was sarcasm.

@@multilad816 what a stupid thing to say. PTSD can be triggered by more than just guns and war, you absolute tosser

@@left-2-write28 that actually reminds me of the time me and two other girls were roleplaying (yeah yeah haha-) and one of them said a trigger word that I hadn't even realized was a trigger for my PTSD before then (because nobody had ever aimed it at me before) and I begged her to take it down or censor it bc it was triggering my PTSD... and she legit said to me "Yeah well I have PTSD too sp get over it." _If you have PTSD then you know EXACTLY HOW HARMFUL THIS IS TO ME AND GIVES YOU L E S S OF AN EXCUSE-_

I know right what the hell? 🤣

Funniest comment I've seen in a youtube comment section, bravo

BANG BANG BANG PULL MY DEVIL TRIGGER

@@Dalek59862GOTTA LET IT OUT GATTA LET IT OUT

Nah, trigger would imply he has some kind of actual condition being set off. This guy is just upset.

This confirms that Onision's characters and Jake exist in the same world

Are we including Strange Aeons in this multiverse since she came up several times in his Onision book reviews?

It also shows that there's so much wrong with this book that there are two reviews of similar length (1 1/2 hours ish) that cover mostly different points.

Bro my 8th grade creepypasta fanfiction had more though put into it tbh- and there was at LEAST a paragraph talking about the reader-insert character's brother's favourite mral.

Mood

I'm confused, what does Denny's have to do with this?

@@SnoFitzroy dennys is dennys

Fuck dude Now I want Denny's

Q MLP: episode about friendship

Technically followers (if you mean online or actual fans) aren’t friends because they don’t know you personally

@@Grim_Sister I'm pretty sure that was what the Starlight Glimmer cult 2-parter was about.

@@gracekim25 That's not the point

@@ALotOfCancerthen what is? 😅 a friendship lesson?🤷‍♀️ also where did you come from? You weren’t in the thread before

“Aw lord, he comin’”

Jake's bigness is the main selling point of the book.

Your Lord And Saviour and half skull face paint

COME ON, DUTCH!

Pissed off Turtle yeah,and probably about 20-30 years older.

@@sharonspears-mandeville2369 Jake is about 28 I would assume

He changed mods in the menu to put a burst trigger on 2nd pull

Ah yes, Hidden Bullet jiu-jitsu

Logically a gun either fires twice (semi auto), 4 times (burst fire with a 2 round mechanism, not common but could plausibly be a custom job or one of the rare guns with such a mechanism like the AN-94), or 6 times (burst mechanism for 3 round bursts). To get a gun to fire 3 bullets after pulling the trigger twice you would need to fire one shot semi-auto, then switch to burst fire on a gun with 2 round burst capacity and fire again. So it is technically possible, but in context seems a bit ridiculous.

Just like Moe's double barrel.

No he’s just using Warframe perks

If onision was a right winger

I thought this was going to be an onision book when I first clicked on the video

Does it though? Listening to Krimson describe this one didn't make me sick to my stomach like Onision's books did.

ShadowWolfRising that’s true

@@ShadowWolfRising yeah I guess it's because it's not as much in your face, and doesn't have such bad mistakes as Onion boy's

“El James....” Spanish for “The James”

They tended to be funnier.

And they were far more entertaining

and Rick and Morty did a better Diehard ripoff than this book

so, they teach boxing?

@@suezuccati304 more like self defense boxing, so nutkicks are ok and kicks are a thing

Jenny Nicholson is an international treasure

@@suezuccati304 Also mixes in some boxing, Jiu-Jutsu, weapon disarming, basically what you need to get the fuck outta there

@@helloyesiammillie but based on what you said, to "get the most out of a punch" that's basically the foundation of attacking in boxing. You dont want weak ass jabs, you want your opponnent afraid of letting his guard down.

@@Jimbo_Fett What on Earth does that mean?

@@aubreeyost6904 it means he think you're a As Jay Double You

@@guilhermeshiba3135 I'm pretty sure that burning books is more a quality of a controlling government than anything else. The only books I burn are these ones. The writing is trash.

@@aubreeyost6904 i do get what you mean. i'm not in favor of burning any book tho

@@guilhermeshiba3135 I used to feel that way as well, but there are just some things that should never be published. Those books were paid for, all the people involved got thier due for them and at that point it's my property and up to me to decide what to do with it. People male book art, use pages for wall paper and cut off spines for wall decoration and that's their choice.

Silburific 17 It dies hard you can say

TravisBroski *badum tss !!*

I don't think we watched the same die hard...

@@everylaurenislemons We watched the same Die Hard, but we probably didn't read the same Die Hard fanfiction. You probably read the ones where the author's self insert nursed Hans back to health. It happens.

I... I didn't even know die hard fanfic existed 😳

As that he’s, apparently, a white guy that identifies as black???? Which, as a trans person.... I don’t even wanna dignify that by being annoyed by it. It’s the Apache Helicopter joke that’s been stale for more than a decade lol

@@samkuperman9035 It's Rachel Dolezal but a guy.

You did it! You broke it down to its bare essentials!

That’s usually the case.

I'll never understand how people can be so offended by other people being offended.

@@sharkyclawfang7837 Like at least the first person probably has a reason even if you think its silly. The second guy is offended over literally nothing.

Garethel Rev for some reason I like reviews of bad books that are, you know, bad, rather than good books that are enjoyable. I

Yeah true

Sweet Home Alabama I love the review of the bad books more, but sometimes he just needs a break. The most prominent good ones that I can think of were Tintin, Polar Express, John Carter, Harry Potter, V for Vendetta, and How to Train Your Dragon. Sometimes he just needs a break.

The Exact Moment that Drake goes Sicko Mode and he was able to save Gwen Stacy from falling off the bridge!

My Little Jakey

Dude, I knew it! Jake is such a Sony Pony! (which, by the way, this has to be the lamest gamer insult ever. I mean I don't like animals like horses, but someone out there, quite a few people actually, probably like ponies)

Unintentional hilarity ensues

Haha true. He does it everytime.

seems so, but in this case it was also a plot point...

@@Dragonspoetofdeath it's always a plot point on this channel.

@@feralchangeling97 I agree that it is as of late... not sure what to feel about that though.

yeah, that's true. also, the people who aren't as affected as much (i.e more fat than muscle) still, you know, FALL TO THE GROUND AND SCREAM IN PAIN. because it's meant. to be painful

I was rather hoping that the bad guys would have gotten a hold of jakes guns and start using them against him. It would be a great lesson of don’t leave your guns just lying around.

I scrolled down to the comments with the intention of writing this but I'm glad somebody else thought the same thing

@@nendymion More why you don't also just leave ammo out as well.

They're pointed out just to shore up Jake's real 'murrican credibility. I'm just surprised the author had the restraint not to have an eagle swoop down and land on them.

That principle is so dumb and totally ignores world building. Okay, maybe if you're writing a short story it makes sense because those should be short and concise. But I actually think unnecessary elements are important because they hide the important ones. Although then you could get into literary philosophy and ask if they are actually unnecessary if they fulfill the purpose of making it an actual surprise what will happen later. EDIT: Actually, let's take the example on the wiki page with the rifle. If you include a rifle, it has to go off. But what if the purpose actually was to illustrate that the character has a specific personality? To claim a tool MUST be used for its intended function totally ignores the human element. I have a scythe hanging on my wall. It's entirely decorative. So, if someone was to write me into a book, they'd HAVE to write a scene where I'm harvesting rye with that scythe, even though I'd NEVER do that. Wait, what?! I'm quite sure that's what the gun thing was about. It only ended up being really bad because the author forgot that Jake as an armory in his dorm...

Same, except I work from home and am also working while I listen.

@@mkx27e I'm working too. I get paid to draw stuff. Sometimes. Let's get that bread.

omg same i do my commissions while watching these type of book reviews

Same, I like to write while listening to these and it's nice, other reviewers I listen to tend to just put up the text as they talk

Honestly I feel like the annoying music is kinda the point. XD Like "Hey! Look at this irritating thing!"

If Justice Dog was in that film, it might have saved it.

Another movie that i know is bad but love it based just on the concept and universe. See also: Bright

@@Theaielman believe me league isn't the worst team-up movie I've seen. check out this russian movie called "the defenders/guardians". my god, it sucks

@@Theaielman I really did love Bright. Could’ve made a great show.

I was wondering when he would get to this book. Jenny's sense of humor was the only thing that kept me interested in that video.

i love jenny too !!

same here!

I think you're giving the writer too much credit

Just Dead?

@@TheBonkleFox Just Dead. 😎

Gia Monic nice icon

@brandon roberts True, and I think that's mainly because we're not subjected to whiny internal monologuing haha

@brandon roberts Saitama works because he's a relatable protagonist who just so happens to be a God. And he's not without flaws. His godlike powers make him senseless and disconnected with reality. Jake is a normal dude who has plot armor and no flaws so he's not fun

@@kreatona4219 he's not senseless, he's not even mad with power. His flaw is basically depression.

@@letsreadtextbook1687 ah, I didn't mean senseless, I meant to say apathetic

False equivalence? Non sequitor? Tbh I think there's so many fallacies that *could* be attributed to it.

Too expensive to pay an artist obviously. 🙄

@@AngelVocal Wouldn't even have to hire an artist. Just say Jake drew a crude map at some point, then scribble something in MS Paint with the crayon tool. Boom, serviceable map.

Oof I do love a good map

Illustrated map? Pssh, that's for cheaply made children's books

What does PIS/WIS mean?

Writer-induced stupidity

Probably Writing in Stupidity.

There are multiple ways this could have been better Jenny Nicholson suggested this in her video but the writer set up a scenario where Jake has enough weapons he could have gone building to building and fought multiple groups of bad guys like a giant video game. Then the author did not do that

“Wurrdurr burf’stifakit?”

They did see those college protest videos though.

​@@aaronkelly1762 Oh those darn kids caring about things.

I can only imagine him as Benjamin peirce

Lol, oh my god, that was terrible! XD

That's the "author reveal" that's in Jennys review :)

That's actually kinda freaky

Yeah that’s the story. William Johnstone has been dead for 15 years and his niece is writing under his name which is so weird. For the life of me I can’t figure out why she doesn’t debut under her pen name and lose her uncle’s name.

@@nootnewt9323 Seriously, as I said, that is absolutely freaky to me.

ccbib On a technical level she’s not that bad an author. I feel like she feels very stuck at writing the way her late uncle would’ve (to keep his fan base) and that’s why everything gets so generic.

double entendre warning

Jeeves Anthrozaur Nice.

True patriots go everywhere by car, the communism of walking to places is almost too much for him

Well, I call people absolute doorknobs sometimes, so I might start doing the same with absolute walnuts. It's a pretty good idea, isn't it?

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@@kikil3227 wow, talk about necro-ing comments. She as in the author. JA Johnstone is William Johnstone's niece. William died in 2004, she's been writing under his name since, including this book. I think this was covered in this video, but it has been a year since I watched it.

@@AngelMercury J.A. isn't even the real author either, all of the Johnstone books are currently being written by a group of unknown writers who have all signed NDAs, we'll never know who the actual authors are because they are not legally allowed to identify themselves. So, who knows? There could literally be dozens, if not even hundreds of different writers churning these books out now. Which leads to an incredibly inconsistent product with these novels. I used to enjoy WWJ's books, when he was actually writing them, but I haven't read one in quite some time now. Besides, there are plenty of other things for me to read, and I keep on finding plenty of old westerns for fifty cents a piece at the local thrift stores, so I will not be running out of reading material anytime soon.

I just love your username, Glory Hulle 😂🤣

You sunuvabitch, you take your like and you *GET OUTTA HERE*

@Social Dissidence I mean you unironically have the libertarian flag as your pfp. So yeah I would definitely say that too much is bad for your brain.

Social Dissidence 8th grade’s already treating you that bad, huh?

@Social Dissidence it's the internet. You're supposed to insult the other team and pretend your side is "better"

Dissidence what is an anti sjw anyway? Cause sjws usually try to enforce the civil rights of marginalized people. Idk about you, but I think "Hey maybe Black ppl should get civil rights" is an uncontroversial opinion.

@@stardoogalaxie9314 What rights don't they have?