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visceril posted:Edit 2: we aren't gonna see ToJ through Treevision because there are no wierwoods in the south and it's been that way long before Rhaegar was even born. There's that one island but I think since the trees don't have eyes carved into them bran can't see through them
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nooneofconsequence posted:He already saw a dragon flying over King's Landing. Show-Bran isn't limited to the tree internet. Isn't there a Godswood in King's Landing, though?
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May 15, 2014 06:15
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nooneofconsequence posted:Not in the sky. Kind of a They're gonna let Bran see whatever the show writers want him to see. They haven't even put the details of how the heart trees are supposed to work in the show yet so they've got free reign to use Bran's visions and Jojen's green dreams for exposition however they see fit.
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kcroy posted:+ necro since Jojen is dead. Didn't they eat him or something? GRRM just took vore to a whole new level.
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Well, I'm too lazy to look up wether or not the trees actually need the faces carved into them to work, but I do remember that Bloodraven can control birds as well--a whole flock at once. Maybe it's his unique power, maybe it's super sayian warging. We'll see in season 6 I guess.
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May 15, 2014 11:38
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I seem to remember Bran being able to tap into every living thing down to blades of grass because his power was so great.
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Wow. When you think about it that way, Jaime saved the seven kingdoms TWICE. if Bran's legs weren't broken and he woudlve never had crow visions. Jaime is TPtwP
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May 15, 2014 12:36
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It's funny that people are just now finding out that George uses a dosbox to write the series when the true vets have been laughing about it for years.
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May 15, 2014 12:56
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Normy posted:I seem to remember Bran being able to tap into every living thing down to blades of grass because his power was so great. Wasn't that Eragon? 
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The Walking Dad posted:It's funny that people are just now finding out that George uses a dosbox to write the series when the true vets have been laughing about it for years. I saw an article tonight on the BBC newsfeed, and it made me want to punch him all over again. loving.dos. why? because he can't turn off auto-correct? allmyrage.
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Jeffrey posted:Yeah I don't think Tywin was being coy about a secret whore island, it seemed obviously not an actual single place. Tyrion harping on it was more showing his mood than an actual thing he was looking for. yeah, he might be looking for his (ex) wife though ( in addition to him being traumatized / drunk / whatever )
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well yeah that is the implication, but I don't think he expects an answer from anyone. It is the author's way of showing his obsessive thoughts. I don't know how realistic he thinks actually finding her is, but I'm guessing he's not delusional in that sense.
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kcroy posted:I saw an article tonight on the BBC newsfeed, and it made me want to punch him all over again. loving.dos. why? because he can't turn off auto-correct? allmyrage. I figure it's more that he's been working with that program for years and years, why bother changing and learning something new when what you have works just fine? It was probably a pretty up-to-date program when he started writing.
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Dr. Platypus posted:I figure it's more that he's been working with that program for years and years, why bother changing and learning something new when what you have works just fine? It was probably a pretty up-to-date program when he started writing. It was probably up-to-date when he stopped writing too.
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Dr. Platypus posted:It was probably a pretty up-to-date program when he started writing. Can you imagine if he was just a little older, though? Le fouquer would be shuffling stacks of punchcards to feed his ENIAC in the house across the street.
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returnh posted:It was probably up-to-date when he stopped writing too. 
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Can you imagine if he was just a little older, though? Le fouquer would be shuffling stacks of punchcards to feed his ENIAC in the house across the street. Alan Turing was not prosecuted for homosexuality, but for theorising a machine that would help GRRM write his theoretical books.
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May 15, 2014 17:50
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Would it help GRRM if he released the next book in serial fashion? He has so many drat POVs and they have such disparate story lines he may as well release them separately now. Plus he's already given us ~1/5 of a book with his sample chapters.
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Dr. Platypus posted:I figure it's more that he's been working with that program for years and years, why bother changing and learning something new when what you have works just fine? It was probably a pretty up-to-date program when he started writing. yeah, still makes me want to punch him. I would somehow be more accepting if he was still writing on typewriter or something - but of all the things to cling to, loving WordStar. Look at this lovely defense of it: "But Martin's solution seems optimal, especially if you're sitting down to write thousands of pages." yes, young writers everywhere can take a page from his book on good writing habits...
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Mike N Eich posted:Would it help GRRM if he released the next book in serial fashion? He has so many drat POVs and they have such disparate story lines he may as well release them separately now. Plus he's already given us ~1/5 of a book with his sample chapters. If he just put a new chapter up on kindle or whatever whenever he finished one and compiled them after the fact for a full release, that would still require him to write new chapters. So no dice. When did they eat Jojen?
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kcroy posted:yeah, still makes me want to punch him. I would somehow be more accepting if he was still writing on typewriter or something - but of all the things to cling to, loving WordStar. Look at this lovely defense of it: What's the issue? He's mastered the keyboard shortcuts, it's disconnected from the Internet to remove distractions. Both of those seem like decent suggestions to young writers. Iirc, lawyers still cling to wordperfect for the same reason.
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The issue is he will only write on his immobile computer. He doesn't write on anything else, so when he's off on convention duty 364 days a year, he doesn't get anything done.
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Ron Jeremy posted:What's the issue? He's mastered the keyboard shortcuts, it's disconnected from the Internet to remove distractions. Both of those seem like decent suggestions to young writers. Because he could buy a cheap Acer from Costco and just...not connect to the modem. Then he'd have a product someone could actually help him with if it breaks. He definitely deserves to be punched, for many reasons
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May 16, 2014 05:13
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The issue is he will only write on his immobile computer. He doesn't write on anything else, so when he's off on convention duty 364 days a year, he doesn't get anything done. He also has a cardiac monitor death switch that will slag his computer with thermite if he dies before finishing his magnum gropus. Okay, I kid. Made that up. There isn't anything to destroy.
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May 16, 2014 05:22
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Ron Jeremy posted:What's the issue? He's mastered the keyboard shortcuts, it's disconnected from the Internet to remove distractions. Both of those seem like decent suggestions to young writers.
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May 16, 2014 06:02
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Ron Jeremy posted:Iirc, lawyers still cling to wordperfect for the same reason. no, it's because all the court documents and templates are in WP, and converting/reformating is an ugly option. So that poo poo just self-propagates.
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nooneofconsequence posted:What the gently caress would Gurm know about removing distractions. Tofu Injection posted:When did they eat Jojen?
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May 16, 2014 06:22
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I seriously have trouble discerning in this thread whether you're all being tongue-in-cheek jokey, if if a lot of you genuinely loving hate the author of books you ostensibly enjoy.
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freebooter posted:I seriously have trouble discerning in this thread whether you're all being tongue-in-cheek jokey, if if a lot of you genuinely loving hate the author of books you ostensibly enjoy. People are mad. Real mad. Mad about books that will never be written.
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freebooter posted:I seriously have trouble discerning in this thread whether you're all being tongue-in-cheek jokey, if if a lot of you genuinely loving hate the author of books you ostensibly enjoy.
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freebooter posted:I seriously have trouble discerning in this thread whether you're all being tongue-in-cheek jokey, if if a lot of you genuinely loving hate the author of books you ostensibly enjoy. Its entirely possible to enjoy something and also recognize that the person who made the thing you enjoy is an rear end in a top hat with poop in his wiener.
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freebooter posted:I seriously have trouble discerning in this thread whether you're all being tongue-in-cheek jokey, if if a lot of you genuinely loving hate the author of books you ostensibly enjoy. What does stockholm syndrome count as?
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The last page of this thread is really, really funny. My favorites are the ENIAC in the house across the street, and poop in his weiner. Thanks.
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freebooter posted:I seriously have trouble discerning in this thread whether you're all being tongue-in-cheek jokey, if if a lot of you genuinely loving hate the author of books you ostensibly enjoy. “Oh, my sweet summer child," The Bad Thread said quietly, "what do you know of hate? Hate is for the winter, my little lord, when the football comments nest 100 deep and the new wildcard book announcements come howling out of the north. Hate is for the long night, when GRRM doesn't post about the books on his blog for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness without a Tyrion Chapter, and Meanwhile back at the Wall... all is frozen and no single plot progresses.” nooneofconsequence posted:What the gently caress would Gurm know about removing distractions. well he did stop writing, so he could focus on football, figurines and his theater.
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Hate is for the fact that he hasn't released a complete book, with an actually climax/ending in over 14 years.
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nooneofconsequence posted:Not in the sky. It's pretty obvious that Bran is gonna warg into a dragon at some point.
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I kinda wonder how the books of other clients of his editor look like. Right now the quality is on a level of late R Jordan WoT books.
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Ron Jeremy posted:What's the issue? He's mastered the keyboard shortcuts, it's disconnected from the Internet to remove distractions. Both of those seem like decent suggestions to young writers. WP51 has huge penetration (lol) mainly because of formatting and in the case of the people actually typing the poo poo from recordings, a very robust and easy to use keyboard macro system. Also probably like 100% of it is pirated copies.
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I've decided I am actually okay with HBO stopping production of the show to wait for GRRM. It occurs to me that the whining the show-only people would do would be far more entertaining than watching Dany tornado making GBS threads in a field.
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