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anilEhilated posted:Let me guess - tits? Or boobies. There are options.
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Antivehicular posted:"Centerfold" at least has a punchline It'll also be remembered twenty years from now. I don't think King Killer will be around for much longer unless the last book comes out. Even my friends that are super into it have basically stopped talking about it or hoping for it.
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Aug 11, 2020 22:33
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pentyne posted:The thing that gets me about the post is he is so extremely specific about the "hypothetical" woman in question that it must be an actual person he knew that he had all his little fantasies of wooing her and making her see how he was The One for her and later in life she got married/was no longer pure and sent him into a rage spiral that she ruined herself and her angelic potential by not just becoming his tradwife. Or he just listened to the song "Centrefold" and thought. "Wow. This is just like the thing with the Hobbit. I better get to a computer, this is going to be an excellent blog post. Once I've drizzled a little of that golden Rothfuss prose over the metaphor."
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Aug 12, 2020 13:45
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Undead Hippo posted:Once I've drizzled a little of that golden Rothfuss No. Please don't
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Aug 12, 2020 13:59
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It was a drizzle in three parts.
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Aug 12, 2020 23:40
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:It was a drizzle in three parts. Anything more than three parts is just playing with yourself.
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Aug 12, 2020 23:55
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Almost a solid month since the editor spilled the tea and as far as I can tell not a peep from Rothfuss on Twitter or his blog. Maybe his cheerio room isn't in a fit state to film so he's waiting for it to be ready. Oh and yesterday was the listed release date on Amazon for Doors of Stone, and the listing has since been removed from the site. pentyne fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Aug 22, 2020 |
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Aug 22, 2020 00:16
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Ugh, guys I'm beginning to think this Rothfuss guy isn't writing the book.
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Aug 22, 2020 14:17
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Some podcasts I listen to team up every year for a charity drive called Vulgarity For Charity where they roast people for donations to a charity called Modest Needs. Somebody this year selected Rothfuss so I cut it out and uploaded it for y'all. Pretty basic "where's the book" stuff but not the worst take on it. https://youtu.be/X470rpddArA
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Aug 22, 2020 15:20
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Didn't Robert Jordan hire Brandon Sanderson to finish his final book? Maybe Rothfuss can be convinced of the same.
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Aug 23, 2020 04:02
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Hughmoris posted:Didn't Robert Jordan hire Brandon Sanderson to finish his final book? Maybe Rothfuss can be convinced of the same. He's gonna have to find the money first. Unless he cries and says he can't write anymore due to ~reasons~ and starts a gofundme to pay someone to ghostwrite it from his "notes"
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Aug 23, 2020 04:08
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Hughmoris posted:Didn't Robert Jordan hire Brandon Sanderson to finish his final book? Maybe Rothfuss can be convinced of the same. do you... actually want more of this?
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Aug 23, 2020 04:57
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Hughmoris posted:Didn't Robert Jordan hire Brandon Sanderson to finish his final book? Maybe Rothfuss can be convinced of the same. Jordan's widow, actually.
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Aug 23, 2020 05:24
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Hughmoris posted:Didn't Robert Jordan hire Brandon Sanderson to finish his final book? Maybe Rothfuss can be convinced of the same. Hire in the sense that he died and his widow/editor chose him. To be honest I despise Sanderson, but it would be pretty hilarious to watch him butcher Rothfuss' life work.
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Aug 23, 2020 05:27
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Sanderson isn’t even able to write most of his own books anymore. He’s using partner authors to write most of the non-cosmere books while he focuses on Stormlight.
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Aug 23, 2020 05:30
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Patware posted:do you... actually want more of this? What? I had a great time reading a summary of and brief passages from Wise Man's Fear. Why wouldn't I want to find out how the story actually starts going somewhere before disappointing more than you thought possible and wraps up?
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Aug 23, 2020 05:59
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Daric posted:Sanderson isn’t even able to write most of his own books anymore. He’s using partner authors to write most of the non-cosmere books while he focuses on Stormlight. That's not even remotely true. I get that Sanderson isn't popular around here, but don't just make poo poo up to fit your narrative.
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Aug 23, 2020 06:04
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Daric posted:Sanderson isn’t even able to write most of his own books anymore. He’s using partner authors to write most of the non-cosmere books while he focuses on Stormlight. Ornamented Death posted:That's not even remotely true. I get that Sanderson isn't popular around here, but don't just make poo poo up to fit your narrative. Yes. Also, that sentence is just dumb on a basic level. Even if Sanderson had contracted out his non-Cosmere books, he's still releasing one main Stormlight book every 3-4 years (each clocking in over 1000 pages!), and that alone would be more than many other authors are doing. But he's also releasing Stormlight novellas and Mistborn books in between, which makes it more like at least one book every two years. And the Cosmere books obviously constitute what any fan thinks of as "most of his books", and they of course make the most money. This is just stupid Sanderson bashing.
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Aug 23, 2020 08:10
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I think Sanderson is just one of those guys like Asimov who are just writing machines. There's a (possibly apocryphal) famous story about Isaac that when asked "What would he do if told he had 30 minutes left to live" replied "Type faster".
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Aug 23, 2020 10:40
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“PART NINE: BONUS SECTION, THE FUTURE OF THE COSMERE One thing you might have noticed in the secondary projects section is that I have a number of collaborations in the works. This is partially because I wanted the chance to work with some of my friends on books, which is a fun and different way to write. But it’s also because I’ve begun to realize that I need to keep more of my focus on the Cosmere.” https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2019/ Yeah let me tell you how I’m lying about things to fit my narrative... The argument here is that Sanderson wouldn’t sign on to write Rothfuss’s book because he doesn’t have time. I can assure you I’m not Sanderson bashing, he’s my favorite author. But if you think he’s going to drop everything he’s doing to write Pat’s dumb book you’re an idiot. And no one cares what you consider “most of” to mean, because the non-cosmere books outnumber the cosmere stuff up to this point. Going forward that will change but he won’t be focusing on Rithmatist, Alcatraz, Skyward, Reckoners, or Legion. Daric fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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Aug 23, 2020 10:49
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Daric posted:“PART NINE: BONUS SECTION, THE FUTURE OF THE COSMERE Probably because working on collaborations is a very different thing than turning over your IP to co-authors. Edit: To clarify, I read your initial post on this topic as Sanderson farming out his other series, which is not what he's doing, he's just not going to be focusing on them going forward. At the same time, he's doing a number of collaborations with other authors. These are two separate things happening in his career. Ornamented Death fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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Aug 23, 2020 18:31
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Then I apologize, in my drunken stupor I made the wrong word choice. Either way, it looks like outside of Cosmere stuff, Sanderson will only be doing collaborations with other authors. He's certainly not going to write a Doors of Stone or the rest of the Game of Thrones novels or anything else people keep throwing his name out there for. In that blog post he says if he continues writing Cosmere novels at the current speed he has been, he'll be 74 by the time they're finished. That's obviously not ideal, so my original point about him not even having time to write his own non-cosmere books still stands.
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Aug 23, 2020 19:46
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I can't wait for the lawsuit.
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Aug 23, 2020 19:50
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Daric posted:Then I apologize, in my drunken stupor I made the wrong word choice. Either way, it looks like outside of Cosmere stuff, Sanderson will only be doing collaborations with other authors. He's certainly not going to write a Doors of Stone or the rest of the Game of Thrones novels or anything else people keep throwing his name out there for. In that blog post he says if he continues writing Cosmere novels at the current speed he has been, he'll be 74 by the time they're finished. That's obviously not ideal, so my original point about him not even having time to write his own non-cosmere books still stands. I see, this makes more sense. I definitely misunderstood you then. We'll see whether he can pull off writing all his Cosmere books, rich people can live a pretty long life nowadays.
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Aug 23, 2020 19:58
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I've been dipping in and out of the Kvothe subreddit and its been nice to see people are finally waking up. The mods have straight up admitted to trying to get rid of "negative" posts but they can't stop the chatter and boy the fans are disappointed.
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Aug 23, 2020 20:08
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HIJK posted:I've been dipping in and out of the Kvothe subreddit and its been nice to see people are finally waking up. The mods have straight up admitted to trying to get rid of "negative" posts but they can't stop the chatter and boy the fans are disappointed. I think people were clinging to the GRRM comparison, and GRRM for all his delays is publicly talking about writing and trying. When Pat's editor said "nothing in 7 years" it broke the spell hanging over them that he was this genius writing handcrafting every word and working his heart out and revealed the reality being he's just not putting in any effort and is instead choosing to be living his best life as a famous nerd without a care in the world. The next step is either serious proof of book 3, or DAW just cuts ties with him.
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Aug 23, 2020 20:21
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there's a recent "what's going on with his charity" post in redditquote:In one of the recent locked posts, a commenter made the claim that Worldbuilders Inc. was a highly ineffective charity. I am not particularly knowledgable about judging charities, but I do know that all non-profits in the US have to file a publicly available document called a Form 990 every year. As an example, one local environmental charity I volunteer for posts PDFs of their 990s directly on their website every year. A lot of people attacking the post and claiming there's nothing wrong with it, but even assuming all the donations going to HI aren't reported on the 990 its over a half million dollars on running a charity that just encourages people to donate to other charities, much less the fate of the remaining $150k not being made clear. The rent being paid to a LLC Rothfuss owns is also weird in that it may be legal but clearly he benefits from it.
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Aug 23, 2020 20:28
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Maybe Rohtfuss' silence on social media means he is furiously trying to work on the next book like a student on the night before a 22 page paper is due.
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Aug 23, 2020 20:32
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TV Zombie posted:Maybe Rohtfuss' silence on social media means he is furiously trying to work on the next book like a student on the night before a 22 page paper is due.
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Aug 23, 2020 20:34
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lol nvm then.
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Aug 23, 2020 20:35
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pentyne posted:there's a recent "what's going on with his charity" post in reddit I work at a charitable organization. I am the controller. I prepare the 990. I communicate with our granters. I also communicate with our sub-grantees. Worldbuilders is a joke. They claim that they do not report the funds they raise that are passed on to HI. This is to avoid revealing how small those funds are. It's certainly possible that WI has been useful or raised significant funds in the past, but currently, it appears to be a vehicle for Rothfuss to profit off of, both personally in a financial sense, and also giving him prestige and a store to sell his friends products in, and thus enhance his career. Having an indirect rate of 78% is pretty high. The industry standard rate is between 10-15%. I.e. if I contacted a funder and told them I wanted them to give my organization a grant, and our expected indirect rate was 78%, they would laugh at me. Our indirect rate is around 13.5% (our NICRA with DoL is 13.% but I think that won't be accurate this year due to emergency Corona virus funding grants we've been asked to administer). It's not the Trump charity, but it's certainly not a charitable organization in the way that most charitable orgs are charitable at this point.
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pseudanonymous posted:I work at a charitable organization. I am the controller. I prepare the 990. I communicate with our granters. I also communicate with our sub-grantees. Worldbuilders is a joke. They claim that they do not report the funds they raise that are passed on to HI. This is to avoid revealing how small those funds are. quoting so I can find it again. Really wish someone would get traction with an effortpost over how duplicitous the charity is. Anything posted on the reddit just gets critiqued to death with all the hearsay excuses they've made in the past and how intangible the real benefits of the org are.
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Aug 23, 2020 21:45
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Daric posted:Then I apologize, in my drunken stupor I made the wrong word choice. Either way, it looks like outside of Cosmere stuff, Sanderson will only be doing collaborations with other authors. You're still wrong. Stupidly wrong. Skyward isn't Cosmere. Alcatraz isn't Cosmere. His future non-Cosmere space opera isn't a collab. Plus the Cosmere is going to be 30-40 books. "Sanderson isn’t even able to write most of his own books anymore" is just rubbish. Yeah, a small handful of books out of his next like 50 books might be collaborations. That's by no means, by any definition, "most".
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Aug 23, 2020 22:26
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let's all just relax and get back to what's really important: marvelling at how much of a piece of poo poo pat rothfuss is, and how it gets worse the further you go i shared the charity effortpost with a friend of mine who told me she once had to insert herself into a conversation between rothfuss and one of her mentees because rothfuss was inviting (the latter) her to, quote, 'a private conversation about important things'
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Patware posted:let's all just relax and get back to what's really important: marvelling at how much of a piece of poo poo pat rothfuss is, and how it gets worse the further you go Imagine that disgusting beard trying to invite you back to his room. Christ on a crutch how creepy
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Aug 24, 2020 00:03
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Ragnarak posted:You're still wrong. Stupidly wrong. God, you're so pedantic. Alcratraz 6 is done and he hasn't mentioned any other books continuing in that series. Skyward is 4 books, 3 will come out next year and then he has 1 more. His future non-Cosmere space opera he has this to say about : "No change from last year. This space opera series of novellas is in limbo until I find the right time to work on them. It will happen eventually." So it hasn't moved in 2 years, I'm sure he's going to jump right on that. I already amended my initial definition of "most" as describing the stuff he's already worked on. Most of his books currently are non-Cosmere. That will change as time goes on, obviously, but as it currently stands there's more non-Cosmere stuff. I get that my off-hand remark about how he's busy has enraged you but maybe take a step back and relax.
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Aug 24, 2020 00:37
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Seriously, take your Sanderson slapfight anywhere else.
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Aug 24, 2020 00:49
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pseudanonymous posted:I work at a charitable organization. I am the controller. I prepare the 990. I communicate with our granters. I also communicate with our sub-grantees. Worldbuilders is a joke. They claim that they do not report the funds they raise that are passed on to HI. This is to avoid revealing how small those funds are. If there was a local restaurant that gave 10% of their gross receipts to charity, people would say “wow, what a nice, altruistic thing to do. I want to support that company.” They wouldn’t be saying “you used 90% of your money to pay your employees and your bills, you capitalist pig.” Some people might be upset at the nonprofit form that Worldbuilders took. “They should be a S Corp or a partnership” for “reasons,” they might say. But why? It doesn’t have profits. It should be organized as a nonprofit, it’s the only corporate form that makes sense. Some people might be upset at the branding. “It’s not really a charity,” they might say. But you get to buy cool stuff and you get to do it in a way that some of your money goes to people that need it. Just because it’s not wholly altruistic doesn’t mean it’s evil. Not every nonprofit can be the Red Cross or UNICEF. And if you still don’t like it, then...don’t buy stuff. You have agency. I think people that pick battles with Worldbuilders need to pick different battles. Or better yet, don’t pick any battles. Just don’t battle. What would you prefer WB to do? Just sell the stuff for profit? Or not exist at all? Or something else? WB doesn’t try to pass itself off as anything else than what it is. So what do you want them to do differently? reddit is dumb
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pseudanonymous posted:I work at a charitable organization. I am the controller. I prepare the 990. I communicate with our granters. I also communicate with our sub-grantees. Worldbuilders is a joke. They claim that they do not report the funds they raise that are passed on to HI. This is to avoid revealing how small those funds are. It's hard to conclude anything from the 990. Their non-program expenses are a crazy high proportion, but it seems like Worldbuilders works as more of a marketing arm for other non-profits- saying "hey this charity exists, go donate to them." In that case, why would they report any of those donations as revenue, as you were suggesting in another post? The 'contract' with the donor doesn't involve WI. You're right that they don't seem explicitly charitable, but nonprofit and not-for-profit and charity are different things. Whoever's making these contributions/grants to WI probably shouldn't do that, given the lack of financial transparency, and they're probably paying above-market rent to that related party, but I don't think the 990 is as damning as you're making it out to be.
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I wish I could peek into a timeline where Rothfuss was chosen to finish the Wheel of Time after RJ passed. I doubt the series would be finished, but there’d be some fun drama to read about.
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