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Sham bam bamina! posted:Having looked it up, I have to say that it looks much less entertaining than Uno. It's basically a solitaire game; It's only "multiplayer" in that the players are racing to meet the win condition first. It's a theme over function game where most of the enjoyment is derived from players excitedly pointing out what game each card is referencing.
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Tim Burns Effect posted:joss whedon should be locked in guantanamo for influencing an entire generation to write like this
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# ? May 7, 2019 21:39 |
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Hammer Bro. posted:Ehh? I think the audiobook version I listened to may've cut out at the 2/3 mark. Or maybe the actual ending was very abrupt. I was not motivated enough to look into it. Alt-historical fiction doesn’t exactly set a high bar and Strange & Norrell wasn’t profound or anything, but it was a decent “fun” read. Definitely better than “what if East Indies Trading Co, but angsty talking boats!”
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# ? May 7, 2019 21:52 |
Someone besides me read the priory of the orange tree.
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# ? May 8, 2019 02:32 |
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Someone besides me read the priory of the orange tree. Is it decent or just to throw it to the bonfire? Since only mediocre to bad fantasy books seem to be translated to spanish my chances of reading it are inversely proportional to its quality. I think WMF got a same-day release in spanish, just life Fire&Blood
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# ? May 8, 2019 02:50 |
I wrote a bonfire post. I think it's interesting and worth discussing at least.
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# ? May 8, 2019 04:01 |
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Pacho posted:Is it decent or just to throw it to the bonfire? Since only mediocre to bad fantasy books seem to be translated to spanish my chances of reading it are inversely proportional to its quality. I think WMF got a same-day release in spanish, just life Fire&Blood
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# ? May 8, 2019 05:29 |
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branedotorg posted:Patrick rated it it was amazing · (Review from the author)
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# ? May 8, 2019 07:13 |
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I can't get over how cardboard that rambling mess of hasty little sentences is, especially compared to Kingkiller's floridity. It reads like some clickbait piece farted out in ten minutes.
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# ? May 8, 2019 07:28 |
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it was from a goodreads auto recommendation, swords and lasers or something. i'm glad it resonated as deeply with you all as much as it did with me
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# ? May 8, 2019 11:13 |
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My favorite part is how he can't even single out anything for praise. "Yeah it's good I guess. Some parts are real good. You might not like it all, though." I just get the impression he didn't actually read the anthology. He didn't even name a single author or story in it.
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# ? May 8, 2019 22:26 |
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Yeah, there's a strong "writing about something you've never read and didn't even look up a synopsis for, so you're going off the vaguest scraps of osmosed knowledge" feeling there. Whoever said it would get an F as a book report was right on.
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# ? May 9, 2019 00:43 |
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quote:And because I've acted as editor-in-chief before, if only in a small way, I know that sometimes, after reading 40 bad stories, you throw up your hands and just say, "Fine. gently caress! We need to put *something* in this anthology. That story about the mutant in the woods is good enough." Really appreciate this insight into Rothfuss's editing process.
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# ? May 9, 2019 01:34 |
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The Mutant in the Woods: An Autobiography by Patrick Rothfuss
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# ? May 9, 2019 01:41 |
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Someone he felt obligated to or was trying to cozy up to wanted him to review it, but he could be arsed to read the book. So he made up this fake rant that gives no specifics to satisfy the requirement, probably just like he did for most of his term papers when he was an undergrad for 20 years.
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# ? May 9, 2019 04:40 |
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Pacho posted:Liveship Traders Trilogy and The Left Hand of Darkness. Liveship Traders Trilogy also doubles up as "ASoIaF with an ending" While liveship traders is decent overall, the first hundred or so pages has main characters competing for the title of World’s Biggest rear end in a top hat. There’s a clear winner early on and once that slow start is dealt with the series is better but be warned the series start is... not great.
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# ? May 9, 2019 05:09 |
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BananaNutkins posted:Someone he felt obligated to or was trying to cozy up to wanted him to review it,
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# ? May 9, 2019 12:13 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:A translation has apparently been set for release, but it isn't out yet. TheGreatEvilKing posted:I wrote a bonfire post. I think it's interesting and worth discussing at least. I'll give it a whirl then, when it arrives
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# ? May 9, 2019 18:07 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It's the introduction to the actual book. He was literally paid to write it. To be far, he also posted the introduction as a review, because he wasn't just lazy enough to write an introduction to an anthology he never read before... He also recycled the introduction as a review for the anthology that he never read.
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# ? May 11, 2019 01:33 |
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The artist for that Rick & Morty comic was at a local con. I asked him what it was like working with Patrick Rothfuss, hoping for some dirt. He said Rothfuss was great to work with and that he was a really busy guy and that obviously this was a major passion project for him since this his time was so precious. I think he picked up on the fact I wasn't going to buy anything and wasn't really interested in his answer so the conversation died off from there.
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# ? May 11, 2019 06:31 |
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Come And See posted:He said Rothfuss was great to work with and that he was a really busy guy and that obviously this was a major passion project for him since this his time was so precious.
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# ? May 11, 2019 06:36 |
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Come And See posted:The artist for that Rick & Morty comic was at a local con. I asked him what it He said Rothfuss was great to work with and that he was a really busy guy and that obviously this was a major passion project for him since this his time was so precious. I wonder what's keeping him so busy, not writing can only take up a couple hours a day I would think.
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# ? May 11, 2019 06:38 |
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Is he still teaching? That could explain why he has so little time.
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# ? May 20, 2019 22:33 |
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Made it to "artisanal auditory delectation" before my eyes reflexively snapped shut.
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# ? May 20, 2019 22:46 |
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# ? May 20, 2019 22:50 |
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He's such an insufferable piece of poo poo. And he doesn't make a living writing, he makes a living off writing he did years and years ago. If he was some kind of word putter togetherer he might understand the difference.
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# ? May 20, 2019 22:56 |
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I read that whole thing and still don't know what adventure zone is. Is it like a Chucky Cheese?
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# ? May 20, 2019 23:46 |
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ElGroucho posted:I read that whole thing and still don't know what adventure zone is. Is it like a Chucky Cheese?
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# ? May 20, 2019 23:51 |
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this is not a well written introduction. its weirdly self congratulatory on Rothfuss for listening to the McElroys and he doesn’t actually get to explaining what the Adventure Zone is, who worked on it, why it is a good purchase and what makes it a fun product until the final two paragraphs. excuse me but shouldn’t an introduction be talking about what makes that book and its authors & artists special? it definitely shouldn’t have like five paragraphs where the intro writer talks about what a cool guy he is for doing something daring like...listening to podcasts.
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# ? May 21, 2019 00:13 |
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This is why I don't read stunt casting introductions. HIJK is spot on.
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# ? May 21, 2019 00:18 |
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HIJK posted:this is not a well written introduction. its weirdly self congratulatory on Rothfuss for listening to the McElroys and he doesn’t actually get to explaining what the Adventure Zone is, who worked on it, why it is a good purchase and what makes it a fun product until the final two paragraphs. excuse me but shouldn’t an introduction be talking about what makes that book and its authors & artists special? it definitely shouldn’t have like five paragraphs where the intro writer talks about what a cool guy he is for doing something daring like...listening to podcasts. It's kind of Trumpesque. Trump is basically famous for talking about how rich and famous Trump is. Rothfuss seems to have gotten onto the same grift train somehow.
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# ? May 21, 2019 00:18 |
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It’s weirdly self-congratulatory will be GRRM’s introduction to Rothfuss’s memoir
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# ? May 21, 2019 00:21 |
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pseudanonymous posted:It's kind of Trumpesque. Trump is basically famous for talking about how rich and famous Trump is. Rothfuss seems to have gotten onto the same grift train somehow. Probably the ego-is-bigger-than-your-actual-ability thing. They both got famous for one or a couple of things and they’re both riding that into positions they haven’t actually earned. This whole Rothfuss situation is remarkably frustrating. He does everything wrong but because he found a niche with fantasy readers he gets a blank check on everything. And he’s not even that offensive, he’s just kind of a douche who refuses to polish what talent he might actually have. Rothfuss is like the Eragon kid as an adult. Except the Eragon kid actually finished his series.
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# ? May 21, 2019 00:28 |
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the eragon kid was a hero of my generation and i respect him for his calm and composure under the strain of unimaginable public humiliation
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# ? May 21, 2019 00:43 |
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The Eragon guy also has a good sense of humor iirc
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# ? May 21, 2019 00:43 |
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gently caress i hated him when i was 16 though lmao "oh, you're so young to be writing a fantasy novel - like that little boy in america!" "i am nothing like that little boy in america my fantasy novel is literature"
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# ? May 21, 2019 00:45 |
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nankeen posted:gently caress i hated him when i was 16 though lmao "No, my writing isn't poo poo, mom"
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# ? May 21, 2019 02:28 |
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the old ceremony posted:all through high school i was working on a hundred thousand word pastoral travelling scene that i called a novel, all the adults in my life encouraged me because they were all certain i'd be published on the basis of my age alone and at least make a few novelty bucks out of it, and i hated christopher paolini with fierce, theatrical violence. i loathed that man. sometimes i would open my copy of eragon, which was given to me by my sweetest cousin who later committed suicide so i simultaneously despised the book and was driven to hold onto it like a talisman, and stare at paolini's author portrait in silent hatred. of course i never got published and now i'm almost thirty and my youthful promise has gurgled down the twin infested drains of university education and the global financial crisis. i am haunted by paolini. the toilet paper comes away from my rear end with his face smeared onto it like a jesus toast. i see him in the rainless clouds. when i catch the bus to my welfare appointments, where a tired-looking woman tries to convince me to get a certificate in aged care and spend the rest of my life scrubbing the elderly, the bus driver with his competitive hourly rate and his union membership and his loving long-service leave is christopher paolini. the welfare lady is paolini. the elderly are paolini. i look at myself in the mirror and all i see is the teenage paolini, proudly smirking. worst of all i think eragon survives as something like a perfect cultural object, a fantasy novel that was written by an actual adolescent rather than the psychosexually adolescent adults that populate the genre and this thread
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ElGroucho posted:I read that whole thing and still don't know what adventure zone is. Is it like a Chucky Cheese? It's a podcast where three brothers and their dad stumble through a lengthy D&D campaign. It's not perfect, but I was entertained (up until 'The Suffering Game' arc). It became successful enough to have a graphic novel made, retelling the mostly-improvised story from the beginning. It was cute. My friend gave me the book as a gift. I read the introduction aloud to him and told him both he and Rothfuss could go gently caress themselves.
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