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mind the walrus posted:Thankfully that Amazon production already looks like a truly massive financial sinkhole that even if it's a roaring success they probably won't want to expand it out. Yeah, the trailer came out. It looks fine. It might be good. It might not. Why does it seem like people get obsessed with people posting "incorrectly" in this thread? Some people like the material despite the background problems. Only being allowed to post "lol book no coming out GRRM sucks" is some Black Baby Goku "im gay"-era poo poo. This isn't directed at Walrus in particular. Pennsylvanian fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Oct 9, 2021 |
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Pennsylvanian posted:Yeah, the trailer came out. It looks fine. It might be good. It might not. We're not allowed to make fun of people for having different opinions on the somethingawful.com forum now? That's incorrect posting, in this thread, according to you? Do you see, possibly, maybe, a smidge of hypocrisy there?
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pseudanonymous posted:We're not allowed to make fun of people for having different opinions on the somethingawful.com forum now? That's incorrect posting, in this thread, according to you? No, I don't. I'm critical of that fact that the second anyone tries to post anything in this thread that's not "dead books lol" that there needs to be a run of posters who feel the need to save the thread by posting a row of "books actually dead and bad lol".
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Pennsylvanian posted:No, I don't. I'm critical of that fact that the second anyone tries to post anything in this thread that's not "dead books lol" that there needs to be a run of posters who feel the need to save the thread by posting a row of "books actually dead and bad lol". 
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Pennsylvanian posted:No, I don't. I'm critical of that fact that the second anyone tries to post anything in this thread that's not "dead books lol" that there needs to be a run of posters who feel the need to save the thread by posting a row of "books actually dead and bad lol". No, I get it, your criticism of other people's posting is right and correct. Other people's criticism of other people's posting is wrong. Are you too stupid to know what hypocrisy is?
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EDIT: Fine, whatever. Dead gay books lol.
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Pennsylvanian posted:EDIT: Fine, whatever. Dead gay books lol. Aw, don't be that way. It's just that most everything has been discussed to death and the only thing that still seems fun is busting on gurm and his terrible hat and his horrible work ethic and his pathetic excuses and poo poo now im doing it myself
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Pennsylvanian posted:EDIT: Fine, whatever. Dead gay books lol. the books never struck me as particularly gay, am i wrong though? just how gay is ASoIaF?
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Phenotype posted:Aw, don't be that way. It's just that most everything has been discussed to death and the only thing that still seems fun is busting on gurm and his terrible hat and his horrible work ethic and his pathetic excuses and poo poo now im doing it myself Yeah, I mean calling out posts is lame and I do feel dumb about it. It's just exhausting and I went too far with it.
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nurmie posted:the books never struck me as particularly gay, am i wrong though? just how gay is ASoIaF? 20% of the five kings are gay but he's the first one to die, sad
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Come hang out in the wheel of time thread, there's trailers! And all the books are written!
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Come hang out in the wheel of time thread, there's trailers! And all the books are written! How many of the posts are ranting about the series being bad?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Come hang out in the wheel of time thread, there's trailers! And all the books are written! But this thread, Bad as it is, is my forums home 
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...same. I paid my 10bux for The Bad Thread. I was born into it, I will die in it.
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I actually joined the forums because of how active the discussion of Dwarf Fortress was, and the emotes  and  which pair so well with that game. But my interest in that game faded over the years, and while my interest in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has also faded, my interest in posting in the thread theoretically dedicated to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has not.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Come hang out in the wheel of time thread, there's trailers! And all the books are written! Only if you consider those 3 books of absolute trash canon.
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pseudanonymous posted:Only if you consider those 3 books of absolute trash canon. See, plenty of hate there too
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Did Robert Jordan ever post "Current Mood: Horny" with a little devil smile emoji?
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Phenotype posted:Did Robert Jordan ever post "Current Mood: Horny" with a little devil smile emoji? that's what the five paragraphs about snug bodices every chapter are all about
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Jazerus posted:that's what the five paragraphs about snug bodices every chapter are all about Also all the spanking
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Phenotype posted:Did Robert Jordan ever post "Current Mood: Horny" with a little devil smile emoji? He wasn't that efficient with words, no.
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Saquan Barkley hosed up his ankle today. Winds delayed by a bunch.
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I JUST MIGHT, THANK YOU
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Speaking of pants-making GBS threads, redditors are both up in arms about b-b-b-b-b-black nobles in the HBO spin-off and there's a bleachers thread set-up to watch the garbage from: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/q5f4l9/game_of_thrones_spinoff_show_has_black_royals_in/ I'd be convinced this was some kind of viral marketing but being honest-- the only people earnestly into the Game of Thrones spin-off in 2021 being the same dudes who care way too much about race is... very plausible.
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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:I do like the idea that George is bringing that pseudo-Marxist 70s sci-fi vibe to a genre that likes to roll itself around in "good old days" feelings for awful political structures. I love nihilist 70s political books and movies from the US and USSR, and it's a shame that Reaganist nationalism pretty much killed it all off from the mainstream (here in the US, at least). Ice and Fire is kind of the closest we get to "elitist power structures all suck" messages in popular media these days. Plenty of great fantasy authors did this before him tho. Moorcock was thumbing his nose at this poo poo in the 70s. GRRM was hardly a trailblazer in that regard.
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mind the walrus posted:Speaking of pants-making GBS threads, redditors are both up in arms about b-b-b-b-b-black nobles in the HBO spin-off and there's a bleachers thread set-up to watch the garbage from: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/q5f4l9/game_of_thrones_spinoff_show_has_black_royals_in/ Black nobles? Clutch my pearls! I've never seen Merlin, but I heard Guinevere was BLACK. My knee-jerk reaction was, "That's neat."
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Shageletic posted:Plenty of great fantasy authors did this before him tho. Moorcock was thumbing his nose at this poo poo in the 70s. Yeah, I've only gotten into fantasy in recent years, despite having started to read Ice and Fire around 2003 or 2004. Moorcock, Le Guin, and Jemisin are next on my read/try list.
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Woodpile posted:Black nobles? Clutch my pearls! I've never seen Merlin, but I heard Guinevere was BLACK. My knee-jerk reaction was, "That's neat." Tbf the ethnic appearance and family resemblance of characters is a pretty big deal in asoiaf, but it really isn't in most Arthurian retellings. I personally don't care either way, but I can see why people would.
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The original GoT series also made a bunch of slave and "exotic" characters black that were non black in the original, e.g. Missandei, Sallador, Quarth in general, Unsullied in general, so the new version is certainly better than that.
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pidan posted:The original GoT series also made a bunch of slave and "exotic" characters black that were non black in the original, e.g. Missandei, Sallador, Quarth in general, Unsullied in general, so the new version is certainly better than that. Missandei is from the Summer Islands which is the Africa equivalent and is described as having dark skin, so that was in the books. Also, of course Missandei was apparently ten years old in the books. Goddamn it, Gurrm... bone emulator fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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I’m surprised that fucker is still alive just look at him.
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Invalid Validation posted:I’m surprised that fucker is still alive just look at him. And that was years ago.
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Invalid Validation posted:I’m surprised that fucker is still alive just look at him. Shoggoths are pretty durable.
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Whizzing Wizard posted:Missandei is from the Summer Islands which is the Africa equivalent and is described as having dark skin, so that was in the books. Also, apparently according to Roy Dotrice she's Mr. Yunioshi.
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Invalid Validation posted:I’m surprised that fucker is still alive just look at him. Even Absolute Fuckery of a diet and years of neglect can stand up pretty well to that level of insulation. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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He certainly has a lot of insulation.
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He told you words are wind
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mind the walrus posted:I'm willing to bet solid money that a huge chunk of his daily social life is some form of adoration/respect and a sense of belonging/purpose, however overripe, and has been for decades now. That kind of social reassurance can be huge to keeping the body from eating itself alive. Plus the ability to afford really comfortable shoes, mattresses, air conditioning, offload laundry/cooking/paperwork onto someone else, etc. Old people go to doctors all the time and rich old people (at least the ones with common sense or a competent team/handler around them) probably get seen weekly if not more so by doctors who can prescribe the best of everything, so even someone like GRRM can shamble on for a while regardless of how bad off he might appear to be.
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