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CountFosco posted:Yeah, I didn't know any of this. Let's be clear, I take zero pride in possessing this knowledge. Once this whole GURM thing is over, I do a slow fade off the interwebz. Maybe I'll take up knitting.
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ShaqDiesel posted:Onnnnn the continent of westeros born and raised Oh my summer summer chiild, hey summerchild, Time to sit back and not write
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They should probably take the whole show on hiatus for a year so they can improve the quality of it. Season 4 was bad. I suppose that makes it a faithful adaptation though...
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ASOIAF is done for me at this point. Show and books. Since the show is done with all the good material, and the books are never coming out (or will be awful if they do), it's time to just bury the whole thing, move on, and be done with it.
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Sep 6, 2014 08:52
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You'll be baaaack... No one really leaves it behind.
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Sep 6, 2014 09:15
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It's like the war in that way.
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In my hazy half-awake state this morning I was scrolling through the newsfeed on Facebook and saw Mashable had the headline 'New Game of Thrones Book to Launch in October'. Turns out the fuckers just meant it's another book about Game of Thrones which GRRM has been working on instead.
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  http://giferator.easports.com/
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those are pretty excellent.   Octy posted:In my hazy half-awake state this morning I was scrolling through the newsfeed on Facebook and saw Mashable had the headline 'New Game of Thrones Book to Launch in October'. Turns out the fuckers just meant it's another book about Game of Thrones which GRRM has been working on instead. shill posted:Desperate for more? Martin's doing just one promotional event before he gets back to work on The Winds of Winter. For $125, you can snag a ticket to the launch event at New York's Kaufmann Concert Hall, along with a signed copy of The World of Ice and Fire. kcroy fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Sep 7, 2014 |
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One character off. I blame GRRM.
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 Playing around with house words doesn't really yield anything funny, but this one came out well, so I'll share it anyway: 
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Sep 7, 2014 14:34
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Yessssss, the rage and frustration will once again build to a boiling point like it did when we were waiting for ADwD, and the bad thread will be reborn in a glorious new age of darkness, pain and GURRM-fiction. My (glistening) body is ready.
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Mr.48 posted:Yessssss, the rage and frustration will once again build to a boiling point like it did when we were waiting for ADwD, and the bad thread will be reborn in a glorious new age of darkness, pain and GURRM-fiction. My (glistening) body is ready. This but unironically.
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mind the walrus posted:This but unironically. Who said I was being ironic? The numerous iterations of the bad thread provided me with more entertainment over the years than anything GRRM has actually written.
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I was being glib.
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Outstanding work, here.
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Damo posted:ASOIAF is done for me at this point. Show and books. Since the show is done with all the good material, and the books are never coming out (or will be awful if they do), it's time to just bury the whole thing, move on, and be done with it.
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The worst is just the frustration of constantly being reminded of a dead story that has been in standstill for 14 years. Since it's become a pop culture mainstay now it's even harder to escape. I feel like I've gotten all the enjoyment from the first 3 books that I could now that the show has caught up to that point, and now it's time to move on, but the drat world won't let me! As if there is still more to come, when we all know there isn't. It's one thing to spend time thinking about a story that is alive, but when it's dead like this it feels like a waste of thought. If only I could delete it from my brain, now that I'm done with it. Thanks a lot Jorge R R Martin. Damo fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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Sep 10, 2014 13:20
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I'm probably more likely to finish the show than the books. Watching cool people make faces at each other is more fun than reading GRRM's prose, even if both things are driven by equally terrible narratives.
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PupsOfWar posted:I'm probably more likely to finish the show than the books. I think this is a moot point. The show might finish, the books never will.
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The show's going to finish unless it suddenly has a massive drop in viewers that doesn't recover before the show comes up for renewal, or if they signed something that lets GRRM kill it, which he would because he seems like the Phil Fish type.
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Damo posted:The worst is just the frustration of constantly being reminded of a dead story that has been in standstill for 14 years. Since it's become a pop culture mainstay now it's even harder to escape. I feel like I've gotten all the enjoyment from the first 3 books that I could now that the show has caught up to that point, and now it's time to move on, but the drat world won't let me! As if there is still more to come, when we all know there isn't. It's one thing to spend time thinking about a story that is alive, but when it's dead like this it feels like a waste of thought. If only I could delete it from my brain, now that I'm done with it. We're supposed to be spiteful about the books never being finished in here, not morose 
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Damo posted:The worst is just the frustration of constantly being reminded of a dead story that has been in standstill for 14 years. Since it's become a pop culture mainstay now it's even harder to escape. I feel like I've gotten all the enjoyment from the first 3 books that I could now that the show has caught up to that point, and now it's time to move on, but the drat world won't let me! As if there is still more to come, when we all know there isn't. It's one thing to spend time thinking about a story that is alive, but when it's dead like this it feels like a waste of thought. If only I could delete it from my brain, now that I'm done with it. depression 81sidewinder posted:I think this is a moot point. The show might finish, the books never will. bargaining Intel&Sebastian posted:We're supposed to be spiteful about the books never being finished in here, not morose anger Obviously we're mostly past denial at this point. (kaworu, looking at you.) Acceptance means not posting in the thread so here we are, got them all covered.
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Can I be bargaining and say it's okay if the books never end if we can have one more Dunk and Egg? Because the show is going to end, for sure, no bargain. It'll be different than what was imagined, but it'll be some sadsack easily predictable poo poo and I have the feeling Glurm has one more total reversal of plot before it's actually over.
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dogs named Charlie posted:Can I be bargaining and say it's okay if the books never end if we can have one more Dunk and Egg? Because the show is going to end, for sure, no bargain. It'll be different than what was imagined, but it'll be some sadsack easily predictable poo poo and I have the feeling Glurm has one more total reversal of plot before it's actually over. truthfully im really hoping dany dies in the first chapter of wow of dysentery. the long troll
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this_is_hard posted:truthfully im really hoping dany dies in the first chapter of wow of dysentery. the long troll
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Yeah seriously even if the rest of the book is just a record of Sandor milling turnips on gently caress-off island I'd still rate the book 10/10 for that.
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this_is_hard posted:truthfully im really hoping dany dies in the first chapter of wow of dysentery. the long troll She dies and then there are three quick chapters of every character anywhere near meeereeeen spontaneously deciding "gently caress this place I'm going to westeros".
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Evil Fluffy posted:The show's going to finish unless it suddenly has a massive drop in viewers that doesn't recover before the show comes up for renewal, or if they signed something that lets GRRM kill it, which he would because he seems like the Phil Fish type.
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wukkar posted:I could see the GRRM getting arrested for the pictures on his DOS machine and then the entire IP becoming too politically toxic for HBO to continue. 
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I'm going on a roadtrip and want something to listen to. Do you guys know any good audio books of the series? Specifically AFFC, since that's my favorite.
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Militree posted:I'm going on a roadtrip and want something to listen to. Do you guys know any good audio books of the series? Specifically AFFC, since that's my favorite. the ones on audible by roy dotrice are pretty good
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Yeah, I enjoyed them a lot. Though Davos sounds like an actual pirate, Tyrion sounds like a leprechaun, female characters sound like extras in a Monty Python movie, and Dotrice can't figure out how to pronounce names like Brienne.
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mastajake posted:Yeah, I enjoyed them a lot. Though Davos sounds like an actual pirate, Tyrion sounds like a leprechaun, female characters sound like extras in a Monty Python movie, and Dotrice can't figure out how to pronounce names like Brienne. Brai-eeeeeeen
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mastajake posted:Yeah, I enjoyed them a lot. Though Davos sounds like an actual pirate, Tyrion sounds like a leprechaun, female characters sound like extras in a Monty Python movie, and Dotrice can't figure out how to pronounce names like Brienne. And Missandei sounds like a Japanese from a WWII era propaganda cartoon.
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mastajake posted:Yeah, I enjoyed them a lot. Though Davos sounds like an actual pirate, Tyrion sounds like a leprechaun, female characters sound like extras in a Monty Python movie, and Dotrice can't figure out how to pronounce names like Brienne. Peh-tire
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Mr.48 posted:Who said I was being ironic? The numerous iterations of the bad thread provided me with more entertainment over the years than anything GRRM has actually written. I want to echo this statement, but like a warehouse rave that goes till noon the next day, around 7-8am poo poo starts to get wierd. But yeah the bad threads were always awesome, or awesomely horrible.
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Militree posted:I'm going on a roadtrip and want something to listen to. Do you guys know any good audio books of the series? Specifically AFFC, since that's my favorite. Roy Dotrice narrated the first three books and did an awesome job on them. He's really old though and when it was time to do the audiobook for AFFC when it originally came out in 2005 he couldn't do it. He was brought back to do ADWD and they had him do a new version of AFFC right around the same time, but he just wasn't the same imo. John Lee did the first version of AFFC and it's the one I prefer even though I love Dotrice on the first three books. Lee has a mellower voice and delivery, but it fits AFFC well.
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