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Who was the Sansa rapist? Or the Arya rapist? Also, I'm sad to hear GRRM will have to take time off from writing books to write another TV show.
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thornghost posted:In case there was some small, secret part of you that still had an inkling of hope that the absolute fucker might finish the series, here's some news that will crush that: Ugh, I remember the Pear Shaped Man. I transcribed parts of it in this thread for anyone who wants to read it. EDIT - Or I'll just link it here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3422738&userid=162852&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post401840047 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3422738&userid=162852&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post401870312 And my personal favourite http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3422738&userid=162852&perpage=40&pagenumber=3#post402338686 Octy fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Mar 21, 2013 |
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Mar 21, 2013 08:09
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Haha, that numb oval office talking head. Jesus. Entertainment news is the worst. Never in a million years would I think of Grum as being hollywoody newsworthy, yet here we are. This (grey, grotesque, aged) kid's got moxie and talent, he's gonna burn bright I tells ya!
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Azure_Horizon posted:Tuf Voyaging would make a fantastic miniseries. It would also cost a fuckton of money in SFX. Are you high? It must be done as cheaply as possible, like MST3k-style with puppets made quite obviously out of scraps. I don't care how inappropriate it would be, this would be how HBO justifies GoT's insane budgets.
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Urdnot Fire posted:The slaver Dany "trades" Drogo to in exchange for the Unsullied. Only this time, it's not one of her dragons he wants... Vaginas are not slaves.
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Mar 21, 2013 16:07
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IRQ posted:He said that. Could I get a source for this?
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Mar 21, 2013 17:41
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I assume GRRM is playing Wun Wun.
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Mar 21, 2013 21:55
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Contra Calculus posted:Could I get a source for this? I'm not sure if he's said it straightly, but I've read a few comments from him where people ask him his opinion on stuff like Prop 8 and he kind of evades in a "I am a good man and my church is funding this movement, but I have nothing to do with that" fashion. I've not read anything more firm than that, myself.
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^^^^ I want to say I've seen that sort of thing in an interview video or something too but this was closer to hand:Contra Calculus posted:Could I get a source for this? http://brandonsanderson.com/article/51/EUOLogy-Dumbledores-Homosexuality quote:3) I have changed my stance on gay marriage somewhat. After a great deal of soul searching, thought, and discussion, I now believe that the best way to approach this is to push for ALL state unions to be civil unions. I believe we should establish what the state grants a union�whether it be straight or gay�and apply those rights universally to all. I mean I guess you can spin it either way if you really want to, but he does take what I have to say is probably the best sort of position on it a practicing mormon is ever going to be able to have without getting into some kind of existential crisis. Yeah his tithe money probably went to some general Cult of Mormon slush fund that fought prop 8 but as far as talking about agreeing with hate campaigns the dude definitely seems to be more on the live and let live side of things. IRQ fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Mar 21, 2013 |
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Okay, thanks. I'd like to think that most mormons are like that deep down, but eh who knows? I stopped being a mormon at about 17 when I decided I'd rather read fantasy books about incest and pedos instead of fantasy books about American Exceptionalism.
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Mar 21, 2013 22:26
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Can I quote you on that, bra? Because like dang, that's good.
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Mar 22, 2013 06:36
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Thought I'd check Gurm's blog to see how TWOW is going.George RR Martin posted:I am never going to be one of those "I wrote three pages today" writers. Sorry, that's not how I roll
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Mar 22, 2013 10:26
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GRRM only rolls down hills, and even then only when there's a promise of food/football/Emilia Clarke. By the way, the third Google suggestion for Emilia Clarke is apparently "Emilia Clarke feet". You're welcome.
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Urdnot Fire posted:GRRM only rolls down hills, and even then only when there's a promise of food/football/Emilia Clarke. By the way, the third Google suggestion for Emilia Clarke is apparently "Emilia Clarke feet". You're welcome. That's not how GRRM rolls. This is how GRRM rolls: 
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Just finished ADWD 2 nights ago  When I was buying the book, the woman at the book store warned me "Dany's storyline is incredibly boring, but just keep pushing through, it does actually pay off" Glad she was right. edit: was just thinking about the one time when I did drop some spoilers, but didn't feel too bad, as the person I spoiled was a massive idiot. Last summer I went to Iceland to run the Reykjavik marathon, I had brought Storm of Swords to read on the plane. I was reading it at the departure gate in the airport while waiting for the flight back to New York. This young woman, I think she was like 20 or so, from upstate New York, but going to college in Florida, came up to me, "Oh, I love those books, I've read the first 3 so far." I replied "I'm just getting to the point where things area really getting interesting in this one. "I thought they were all interesting all the way through" so I tried to clarify, "well poo poo's just hitting the fan, just got to the point where Robb has died" "what?..." "Robb's death. The Red Wedding?" Turned out she had read books 1,2, and 4, but not actually read 3. How someone could make it through the 4th without reading the third sounds a bit odd. So we get on the plane, and just my loving luck, she's sitting next to me... I have the window seat and the guy sitting on the aisle seat she had met briefly, then proceeded to tell him about her adventures over the weekend claiming "I smoked weed with Bjork's brother" I didn't say anything because I'm thinking, if Bjork does have a brother, dude's probably like 40-50 years old. And it was most likely just some guy saying that to hook up with stupid American girls. The flight path has us going over Greenland and it was a clear day so I was just looking out the window at the scenery and she asks "How many people live in Greenland?" "I think like 50,000 or so" "Yeah, no one wants to be living up north, you dont see many people wanting to live up in Serbia" Serbia, she said, not Siberia. Serbia which is up north in the Balkans, or perhaps she did mean Siberia, which only has a tiny population of 40 million" neckbeard fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Mar 22, 2013 |
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Elman posted:Thought I'd check Gurm's blog to see how TWOW is going. Well yeah George, we know you aren't a "I'm going to write 3 pages a day" author. If that were the case it wouldn't take you like 7 years to write a 1,045 page novel.
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neckbeard posted:Just finished ADWD 2 nights ago I just finished a re-read of AFFC and thought it was good 
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Ross posted:I just finished a re-read of AFFC and thought it was good I definitely liked AFFC more the second time through, which is probably because I wasn't holding out for some major plot advancement.
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Mar 22, 2013 15:45
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Compared to most of ADWD (Dany/Tyrion), the Jaime chapters in AFFC are loving golden.
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p.crestmont posted:Well yeah George, we know you aren't a "I'm going to write 3 pages a day" author. If that were the case it wouldn't take you like 7 years to write a 1,045 page novel. He's a .4 page per day author.
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Mar 22, 2013 16:26
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hailthefish posted:That's not how GRRM rolls. Fixed: 
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SaviourX posted:Can I quote you on that, bra? Because like dang, that's good. Go for it. thornghost posted:Fixed: IRQ, I found your new avatar.
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Urdnot Fire posted:Compared to most of ADWD (Dany/Tyrion), the Jaime chapters in AFFC are loving golden.
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http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1045+pages+%2F+7+years+in+days I bet we could plot is his progress based on previous performance.
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I'm about to see gurm speak. And season 3 episode 1 advanced screening. Trip report after.
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Quick, print out the GRRM certificate and give it to him. Sign it "T.B. Thread"
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Gurm gave a speech about his modest upbringing, and how books have shaped his life. There was then a "moderated" Q and A session in which pre-selected questions were pitched to him. The sixth book did not come up. New episode was good. The end was kind of really cheesy--Barristan makes his return by saving Dany from a scorpion thing. It just felt really forced and the creepy assassin child involved was not at all convincing. Other than that, good.
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Mar 23, 2013 04:53
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Please tell me they said "I'm so sorry" first.
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Mar 23, 2013 04:55
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whowhatwhere posted:Please tell me they said "I'm so sorry" first. There's no need. We're all sorry.
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No, it was pretty terrible actually. Daeneyeyrys sees this little girl smiling at her, so she proceeds to sort of follow the little girl up to this dock, at which the little girl rolls this ball to Daenerysys. Right as she opens the sphere-box, Barristan knocks it out of her hands, but this sort of opens it and a crazy alien scorpion creature comes out. Which Barristan stabs with a knife. And then Barristan chases the creepy assassin girl, but then it looks like she jumps in the water but she really teleports like 100 yards onto a rooftop, and glares at them menacingly. And then she disappears (also she has black teeth or something).
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Mar 23, 2013 05:05
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"You only YOLO once" -bronn st. germaine, A Game of Theones
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Calef posted:Gurm gave a speech about his modest upbringing, and how books have shaped his life. Do they make any attempt to hide the fact it's Barristan? Doesn't he beat the poo poo into three dudes in the book? Killing a scorpion, WTF?
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Calef posted:No, it was pretty terrible actually. Daeneyeyrys sees this little girl smiling at her, so she proceeds to sort of follow the little girl up to this dock, at which the little girl rolls this ball to Daenerysys. Right as she opens the sphere-box, Barristan knocks it out of her hands, but this sort of opens it and a crazy alien scorpion creature comes out. Which Barristan stabs with a knife. And then Barristan chases the creepy assassin girl, but then it looks like she jumps in the water but she really teleports like 100 yards onto a rooftop, and glares at them menacingly. And then she disappears (also she has black teeth or something). drat, why do they insist on using iconic and really cool scenes from the books and getting rid of all the things which made those scenes so memorable in the first place?
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Junkenstein posted:Do they make any attempt to hide the fact it's Barristan? I was there too, and no... He's introduced pretty much right away. And there was no Belwas. Also a quote from his speech: "There's a horny 17-year old in me" -GRRM
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"There's a horny 17-year-old in me. She was marinaded in teriyaki and sriracha. Yummo! I love Craigslist."
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Elman posted:Thought I'd check Gurm's blog to see how TWOW is going. Can you be one of those writers who says they wrote 30 pages yesterday? Because that would be great
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Junkenstein posted:Doesn't he beat the poo poo into three dudes in the book? Killing a scorpion, WTF?
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Don't spoiler tag anything in this thread please. Ever. That goes against everything this thread is about.quote:There's a horny 17-year-old in me
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Dead Man Posting posted:Don't spoiler tag anything in this thread please. Ever. That goes against everything this thread is about. This. Please go back and edit your posts to remove all spoiler tags.
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Contra Calculus posted:Only problem with Sanderson is that he's not exactly great with characterization when it's not the main characters he's writing.
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