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  • Their “hay day” was 1996-1999 and were popular enough that nickelodeon tried making a terrible live action TV show that went 26 episodes before being canceled in 98,99. The books were way too violent and traumatizing to make a kids show out of it, but those dumb tv executives still figured they’d give it a shot.



  • Mid 90s they came out and were super popular. At all the school book fairs. There’s about 60 books in total and each one is about 200 pages. They were probably the most read book among kids and teens before Harry Potter, so chances are you weren’t born soon enough to know much of them

    As far as YA books go, they were brutal as hell. Lots of killing, enslavement, difficult moral choices, sacrifices, and fucked up situations. Without giving too much away, it’s about a group of teens that get powers given to them by a dying alien that’s part of a huge war with another alien race that’s wanting to enslave/control the galaxy. They are given the power to temporarily change into any creature that they have touched. No other humans on the planet who haven’t been enslaved and controlled by the bad alien species (that crawl into your ear and enslave you, taking over your mind) is aware of aliens existing, and the teens are left trying to hold off the bad aliens long enough for more of the “good” aliens to get to earth and help.

    If you sail the high seas you can find all the books in e reader format, or if you’d prefer, a few years ago they made audiobooks of the entire series.

    All the book covers look a bit cheesy and they made a tv show that was horrible due to cheap budget and having to make it rated G. I don’t know what nickelodeon was even thinking trying to make it into a kids show. No chance that was going to work out well.

    So you get those cheesy looking covers and then inside the books you get descriptions of a girl turning into a grizzly bear and ripping off heads while getting covered in blood while being shot at by alien slaves that are being ripped apart simply because they were enslaved and controlled by alien slugs that have taken over their minds.


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    1 month ago

    That’s not the actual animosity towards things like self checkout, most of the time. It’s a distaste for a large corporation to replace jobs with automation. Sure, it’s a menial job, but it was still an ability for someone to have a job if they needed one.

    Labor shortages go up and down with time and what a lot of younger people don’t really understand was that sometimes the country would go years with it being hard to find any job. Even a bad one. The last 15 years have been pretty easy to find work, so a lot of the younger people can’t really know what it was like when you could go a long time just trying to find a job.