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Jeffrey posted:he can do what he likes and I'm going to continue making fun of him on these here internet forums, seems like a fair balance of power Agreed. I don't really hate the man for not writing (especially after ADWD), and it's not like the ending will be lost with him or anything. He's just a fucker and I'm just the guy who's going to laugh when this inevitably all goes wrong.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I can see it from both sides. The hate is pretty ugly and mostly unwarranted...but at the same time I really don't buy that he's making a real effort. all I can think of is 250 words per day PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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i mean it must kind of suck to realize that people only care if you live or die so that you can finish a book series
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I'd only accept the Lyanna is the Knight theorum if when Rhaegar unmasks her, You Sexy Thing begins playing as Lyanna's hair tumbles out, windswept, in slow-motion and the camera does a vertigo shot on Rhaegar as he instantly falls in love. Throw some glitter on her and a smear of Vaseline on the lens for her shot, too.
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CaptainPsyko posted:
At least use the animated one. 
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WhenInRome posted:i mean it must kind of suck to realize that people only care if you live or die so that you can finish a book series As opposed to the vast majority of the population who can count the number of people who care whether they live or die that much on their hands.
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What image better deserves being placed in the OP, than the newly revealed cover of The Winds of Winter?
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If he had a fried capon in his other hand, I'd probably just accept that as TWOW and whine about never getting ADOS instead.
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I'm less anxious that he's gonna die and more disappointed the show is going to wrap up the series because their invented material has been uneven at best, sometimes brilliant, other times extremely bad and bewildering. We're gonna get an ending but it'll be rushed and empty and weird
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Mike N Eich posted:We're gonna get an ending but it'll be rushed and empty and weird Whoa, spoilers dude.
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Hahaha, oh, that grrm. I actually look forward to HBO to finish the series because I no longer trust grrm to be able to write a satisfying and engaging story.
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we can look forward to more gripping scenes like.....yara's well intentioned rescue attempt on reek.
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GURM used to take this poo poo in stride, and now he's getting pretty salty about it. If the books were on their way, wouldn't you just blow this stuff off? I'd imagine him being defensive is not good news for the ETA on TWoW.
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I wouldn't read too much into it. That's not to say that the books aren't far away(ie never coming out), but that's true regardless of how grrm conducts himself.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:As opposed to the vast majority of the population who can count the number of people who care whether they live or die that much on their hands. Exactly. Why would I assume anyone but my friends and family care if I live or die?
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mkay0 posted:GURM used to take this poo poo in stride, and now he's getting pretty salty about it. If the books were on their way, wouldn't you just blow this stuff off? I'd imagine him being defensive is not good news for the ETA on TWoW. I assume that its due to it just being a small amount of people, but due to the show its a lot more.
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On what planet is he only 50lbs overweight?
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I don't want anyone to die.
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Angry stunted entitled nerds are hilarious but also terrible scum
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bobkatt013 posted:I assume that its due to it just being a small amount of people, but due to the show its a lot more. Even if it's not the fanbase being bigger and stupider from the show, it's definitely pressure being ratcheted up from the moneyed interests. When the stakes were "a reasonably popular series of fantasy books being sold to nerds who read books" he probably had enough...ahem...weight to throw around that he could do poo poo like dick around all day and insist he just plain cannot write when he's on the road, but now that it's "most popular show on TV and rabidly popular book series read by everyone and their mheesa" the people with the money are likely more important than him, and angry. He's a victim of his own success, but moreso a victim of his own terrible work ethic.
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kaujot posted:On what planet is he only 50lbs overweight? Compared to the American average. Or maybe he's really, really short. Like, sub-Dinklage levels.
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Jeffrey posted:we can look forward to more gripping scenes like.....yara's well intentioned rescue attempt on reek.
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I argee with George, the type of people saying to hurry up before you die are also the same type of people who don't give a poo poo about GRRM one bit. He owes them nothing.Lycus posted:Or like stuff people liked, like the Brienne/Hound encounter, or the Arya/Tywin scenes. Yeah, the TV show has added more badass scenes then poo poo ones to be honest. TV Robert is better then Book Robert, same with Roose, Tywin, Bronn, Ramsay and a few others.
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Jeffrey posted:we can look forward to more gripping scenes like.....yara's well intentioned rescue attempt on reek. That was an amazing scene. *Benny Hill theme plays* *Yara & Co. file into the Dreadfort* "Ohhhh youuuuuu!!!!!" -Ramsay *Yara & Co. file out of the Dreadfort*
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Skrill.exe posted:What image better deserves being placed in the OP, than the newly revealed cover of The Winds of Winter? which one is that
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Dead Man Posting posted:which one is that the one i quoted, boss
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Yara Greyjoy: Afraid of Dogs pretty great Kingsmoot campaign slogan
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PupsOfWar posted:Yara Greyjoy: Afraid of Dogs Afraid of enormous mastiffs. Those dogs frightened Romans in battle too.
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Shouldn't his publisher care if he gets TWOW out pre-season 6 or not? It'll be a massive run away best seller regardless, but it would be significantly less so if all the major plot points are "spoiled" before hand. If TWOW comes out in the next year, people that have never picked up a book before would line up to find out what's going to happen, while if it comes out later many would be satisfied with what they got in the TV show. His publishers are the only ones that have a real material interest in the time frame of the book release.
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I'm sure they care, but if he's meeting the stipulations of his contract, I think care is all they can do.
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To be honest, I'm sure the books will sell just fine regardless of when (if) they come out. The TV show has given GRRM and ASOIAF nothing but publicity (and the media narrative in regards to fans who complain about GRRM's impending fat-death has been established roundly as a giant 'gently caress you, nerds'), so of course the books will sell. Like, who are we kidding? Most of us in this thread would be the first ones to pre-order the book. 
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PupsOfWar posted:Yara Greyjoy: Afraid of Dogs Please, the campaign against her was far more realistic: Yara Greyjoy? A woman? No thanks.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Please, the campaign against her was far more realistic: Yara Greyjoy? A woman? No thanks. What bleeds for a week may never die? Gross, dude.
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I'm just glad they changed her name to keep me from confusing her with that character that hasn't been in the show for 2 seasons.
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Mike N Eich posted:I'm less anxious that he's gonna die and more disappointed the show is going to wrap up the series because their invented material has been uneven at best, sometimes brilliant, other times extremely bad and bewildering. Literally the same thing could be said about GRRM's writing, plus the show does a good job of trimming a lot of the fat. (lol) Solice Kirsk posted:I'm just glad they changed her name to keep me from confusing her with that character that hasn't been in the show for 2 seasons. Oh shut up. She's an uninteresting character and GRRM was a tard for making her name basically the same as another character's.
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Majorian posted:Oh shut up. She's an uninteresting character and GRRM was a tard for making her name basically the same as another character's. You didn't specify which one you don't like though? Assuming it's Osha she's like an intro to wildlings and also alive because Robb (?) showed some mercy like his daddy didn't.
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syscall girl posted:You didn't specify which one you don't like though? Nah, I meant Asha/Yara/whatever. I like Osha. Tender Bender posted:Yeah, it's a good change because Yara isn't similar to any other character's name, especially not any popular one who appears in every episode. Okay, at risk of utterly humiliating myself by showing that I don't remember a central character...who? e: Not Arya, I assume. "Osha" and "Asha" are way closer than "Yara" is to "Arya."
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Majorian posted:Okay, at risk of utterly humiliating myself by showing that I don't remember a central character...who? Ar ya kidding me?
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