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fantasy artist makes bad art for cover of bad fantasy writer's bad book, film at 11
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Feb 25, 2018 19:07
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tetrapyloctomy posted:What an rear end in a top hat. I'm sure that the publisher just told the guy what they wanted on the cover and he delivered. If I were an artist trying to make a buck, I'm not going to tell a publisher, "No, I'm sorry, ~*~my art~*~ will not allow me to stoop to that." I'm going to say, "Sooooo ... for this slice of pizza that you want to be delivering the death-blow to a dragon made of Cheetos, should the battleaxe have blades made of pepperoni?" Unless Tor has changed practices, major authors like Goodkind definitely get a role in approving / disapproving artwork; publisher would probably be the one with final say but it's entirely possible, depending on Goodkind's contract, that he had some degree of approval over it. This is just incredibly unprofessional poo poo.
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Feb 25, 2018 20:15
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Isn't Terry Goodkind the guy who had the hero murder a bunch of peaceful protesters in cold blood because Iraq
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Feb 25, 2018 23:05
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Isn't Terry Goodkind the guy who had the hero murder a bunch of peaceful protesters in cold blood because Iraq Even better, because Ayn Rand
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Feb 25, 2018 23:46
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All criticism of Goodkind repeats the same few points. Evil chicken lol
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Feb 26, 2018 07:42
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:All criticism of Goodkind repeats the same few points. Evil chicken lol to be fair, its hard to focus on the problems with carburetor when the engine runs on farts
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Feb 26, 2018 12:59
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More like terry badunkind, imho.
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Feb 26, 2018 14:40
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I'd go as far as to say Terry Badmean.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:56
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challenge find a photo of terry goodkind where he doesn't look like a total tool
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Feb 26, 2018 17:05
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Terry's very sorry the illustrator took offense and grabbed at an opportunity for shameless self-promotion, something he, of course, would never do. Obviously he meant that his publisher is terrible, not the illustrator. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/26/terry-goodkind-book-cover-shroud-of-eternity
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Feb 26, 2018 17:11
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Mel Mudkiper posted:challenge I was curious so I tried challenge failed
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Mar 6, 2018 16:15
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I was curious so I tried second challenge find a non-embarrassing picture of Ernest Cline
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Mar 6, 2018 16:16
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Mel Mudkiper posted:second challenge This is the closest I could get: 
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Mar 6, 2018 16:37
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Franchescanado posted:This is the closest I could get: Ceci n'est pas une Cline
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Mar 6, 2018 16:38
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Mel Mudkiper posted:second challenge DO you mean a photo for which Cline *should* feel embarrassment or one for which he *would* trick question: rich white males never feel embarassment
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Mar 6, 2018 17:15
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:DO you mean a photo for which Cline *should* feel embarrassment or one for which he *would* one in which you as the subjective viewer feel embarrassment on his behalf
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Mar 6, 2018 17:28
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This one is my favorite Get in Marty, we're going 20 years in the future when Winds of Winter comes out
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Mar 6, 2018 17:44
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Mel Mudkiper posted:one in which you as the subjective viewer feel embarrassment on his behalf How about embarrassment at my own relative lack of success? It's not possible for me to look at a photo of this dude without thinking "this loving dude made zillions of dollars writing a litrpg"
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Mar 6, 2018 17:45
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How about embarrassment at my own relative lack of success? It's not possible for me to look at a photo of this dude without thinking "this loving dude made zillions of dollars writing a litrpg" Admit it, the discovery of LitRPG as a genre in general kind of broke your spirit a little
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Mar 6, 2018 17:50
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Admit it, the discovery of LitRPG as a genre in general kind of broke your spirit a little Why you gotta make me say it I try so hard! *Drinks* Need to get the new BotM thread up don't i
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Mar 6, 2018 19:29
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I just thought it was funny is that you had a long and firm rule of "don't poo poo on the genre threads" and then you found out about LitRPG and were like "No, no, feel free to poo poo all over this"
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Mar 6, 2018 19:31
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How about embarrassment at my own relative lack of success? It's not possible for me to look at a photo of this dude without thinking "this loving dude made zillions of dollars writing a litrpg" I feel your pain: if trash that's just fanfic with the names reskinned like 50 Shades of Gray and Twilight can sell and get movie deals, why... why do I even write....
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Mar 6, 2018 20:52
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I just thought it was funny is that you had a long and firm rule of "don't poo poo on the genre threads" and then you found out about LitRPG and were like "No, no, feel free to poo poo all over this" Here's the thing: *sways drunkenly* Normally, my attitude towards almost anything is "hell, at least they're reading a book" *gestures with margarita glass like a baton, the contents swirling dramatically* but *drinks, empties glass* those things aren't even books they're just video games but somehow even worse *throws glass dramatically against wall* *glorious smashing glass* *collapse to floor* *snore*
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Mar 6, 2018 21:22
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roll a D12. 0-3 turn to page 15, 4-8 turn to page 75, 9-12 turn to page 30
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Mar 6, 2018 21:35
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can't wait for the movie tie-in edition of Ready Player One to come out so i can buy this dweeb Rambo edition and and put in face-out on my bookshelf
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Mar 6, 2018 21:39
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Happy Birthday Gabriel García Márquez
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Mar 6, 2018 22:19
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Didn't he die several years ago?
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Mar 6, 2018 22:21
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cloudchamber posted:Didn't he die several years ago? I don't think that necessarily disqualifies him from having a birthday.
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Mar 6, 2018 22:36
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cloudchamber posted:Didn't he die several years ago? yes and he was born 91 years ago
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Mar 6, 2018 22:37
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cloudchamber posted:Didn't he die several years ago? Yeah but he still came to Macondo next summer
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Mar 6, 2018 23:23
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I made a thing for Firefox and Chrome if any of the rest of y'all are really loving tired of Ready Player One and want its existence to at least be more entertaining Ready Player One Remover for Firefox Ready Player One Remover for Chrome it's basically Millenials to Snake People or Cloud to Butt, but it changes "Ready Player One" to "poo poo Garbage for Idiot Babies" and has a few other related wordfilters
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Mar 8, 2018 05:41
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Wonder how many posters only know me as buttchamber.
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Mar 8, 2018 21:26
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I didn't see a thread for it, so can I ask here or is there a better place? I read a short work of fiction that was probably online and I can't find it anywhere and was hoping for help
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Mar 9, 2018 21:21
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Jazz Marimba posted:I didn't see a thread for it, so can I ask here or is there a better place? I read a short work of fiction that was probably online and I can't find it anywhere and was hoping for help There is an identify this book/story thread around these parts
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Mar 9, 2018 21:25
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Jazz Marimba posted:I didn't see a thread for it, so can I ask here or is there a better place? I read a short work of fiction that was probably online and I can't find it anywhere and was hoping for help https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2704537
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Mar 9, 2018 22:44
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Thank you!
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Mar 10, 2018 04:17
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I have a question about a point of trivia that's been nagging me lately; perhaps someone will have an idea. Philip José Farmer wrote Tarzan Alive! in 1972 and the premise of that book was that it was a non-fiction biography of the Earl of Greystoke, the real person on whom Edgar Rice Burroughs based his stories. Something I've persistently heard in relation to this is that some readers were so convinced by it that they actually believed there was a real Tarzan and Farmer had met and interviewed him, and that some bookshops even shelved the book in the non-fiction or biography section. Is that true? Did that ever actually happen?
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Mar 14, 2018 09:34
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I had a Boy Scout leader back in the Seventies who told us about that book and said it proved that Tarzan was real. This was the same Scout leader who taught us how to shoot Lugers he had 'picked up' during the Second World War.
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Mar 15, 2018 00:53
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How about embarrassment at my own relative lack of success? It's not possible for me to look at a photo of this dude without thinking "this loving dude made zillions of dollars writing a litrpg" to be fair, i think litrpg authors are more successful than cline in terms of sales. they say that RP1 is more properly termed 'gamelit', i think, along with all the other non-explicit-stats precursors like Killobyte. Wheat Loaf posted:I have a question about a point of trivia that's been nagging me lately; perhaps someone will have an idea. Philip José Farmer wrote Tarzan Alive! in 1972 and the premise of that book was that it was a non-fiction biography of the Earl of Greystoke, the real person on whom Edgar Rice Burroughs based his stories. I heard the same rumours, and although I don't know if they're true or not, this is the same guy who wrote a series of novels about richard burton and also made Kurt Vonnegut's fictional author Kilgore Trout publish a real book. So it would certainly be in character for him to encourage that sort of thing.. but it also sounds like the kind of thing that publishers used to like to dream up as PR stunts. He did do exhaustive research in order to write that book, so I can see how it might be taken seriously by some, but I can't find anything that suggests a lot of people weren't in on the joke. Orikaeshigitae fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Mar 17, 2018 22:21
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Right. With Tarzan Alive you pretend it's real because that's part of the fun. But I have a very hard time imaging anyone not being in on the joke, because of course everybody knows Tarzan is a fictional character. For what it's worth, I think Tarzan Alive is much better at it than Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, because you can't exactly pretend Doc Savage was renting an entire floor of the Empire State Building for decades and then drop in a reference like (paraphrase), "Regrettably, Doc was out of the country when the Empire State Building was scaled by King Kong in 1933, and the Man of Bronze would ultimately never encounter the Eighth Wonder of the World," and still maintain this painstaking aura of verisimilitude you've cultivated. I really enjoy that whole idea of shared universes like that; I like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Anno Dracula a lot. But the Wold Newton one is by far my least favourite of the three. I have a sort of nerdy appreciation for how the guys who have written on it have put a huge amount of work into these pseudo-academic articles explaining how Hannibal Smith from The A-Team is actually a distant relative of Sherlock Holmes, but at the same time, it ends up feeling even more contrived than a lot of that stuff usually is. Maybe it just ties everything together too neatly. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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Mar 18, 2018 00:47
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