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Dec 31, 2021 03:49
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:was the replacement mat cauthon announced? yeah and he's apparently good at comedy, so we'll see. It was their 2nd choice for mat
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Dec 31, 2021 03:52
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:was the replacement mat cauthon announced? Yeah, it's Dónal Finn. No relation to the Ael or Eel, AFAIK.
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Dec 31, 2021 04:09
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Finished the 3rd season of the last kingdom and all I can say is we need more cast members of the last kingdom in WOT. Yes I know sihtric is going to be Masema but I need more. Uhtred, finan, king Alfred. Hild. Bring ‘em on.
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Dec 31, 2021 04:15
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https://twitter.com/iamdanielmalik/status/1476645744681664512 While this isn't an official announcement: 1) He was a popular fancast 2) He has worked with the network before (on The Expanse) 3) He isn't a high payroll actor 4) He is free right now 5) If nothing else, this post expresses strong interest in the roll 6) Its unlikely they have someone else for the roll unless Taim makes a season 2 appearance, and the roll is unlikely to be cut or merged Unless he has major conflicts with the show's crew this is basically as good as confirmed.
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Dec 31, 2021 04:51
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That dude looks like a loving Taim alright. I'm in.
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Dec 31, 2021 05:00
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What a smug looking rear end in a top hat. He's perfect.
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Dec 31, 2021 05:01
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My favorite part of Sword of Truth was that the final battle was a game of American Football… to the death! And the John Galt, author self insert character was the best football player ever. And the game lasted like 100+ pages and I skimmed the entire thing.
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Dec 31, 2021 05:05
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th3t00t posted:My favorite part of Sword of Truth was that the final battle was a game of American Football… to the death! And the John Galt, author self insert character was the best football player ever. And the game lasted like 100+ pages and I skimmed the entire thing. Lol are you serious? A football game? Everyone was always constantly getting kidnapped and being made to do weird poo poo.
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Dec 31, 2021 05:14
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He was always the best at everything, reminded me of that Sanderson trash way of kings. I read 2 of those, did they get any better?
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Dec 31, 2021 05:14
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How are u posted:That dude looks like a loving Taim alright. I'm in.
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Dec 31, 2021 05:37
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th3t00t posted:My favorite part of Sword of Truth was that the final battle was a game of American Football… to the death! And the John Galt, author self insert character was the best football player ever. And the game lasted like 100+ pages and I skimmed the entire thing. Yeah and their unbeatable super strategy was to form up in a line astern and act as a human battering ram.
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Dec 31, 2021 05:41
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th3t00t posted:My favorite part of Sword of Truth was that the final battle was a game of American Football… to the death! And the John Galt, author self insert character was the best football player ever. And the game lasted like 100+ pages and I skimmed the entire thing. Wait, I also stopped after magic statue brought peace to the world. Are you saying there was something Richard Rahl was not the best in the world at?
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Dec 31, 2021 05:54
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Pleads posted:What a smug looking rear end in a top hat.
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Dec 31, 2021 06:00
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Harton posted:He was always the best at everything, reminded me of that Sanderson trash way of kings. I'm not sure you read any of them if that's what you took from it.
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Dec 31, 2021 06:15
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Harton posted:He was always the best at everything, reminded me of that Sanderson trash way of kings. What character in Way of Kings is the best at everything?
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Dec 31, 2021 06:18
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Main dude is a total Gary Stu.
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Dec 31, 2021 06:21
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Sanderson isn’t great, Mistborn was ok but definitely young adult level. I feel like Sanderson writes kids books for the most part. HOT TAKE!
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Dec 31, 2021 06:22
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Harton posted:Main dude is a total Gary Stu. How, though? He's hyper-competent at like one thing because he's unconsciously using magic, but he's also chronically depressed, suffering from PTSD/survivor's guilt, and his coping mechanisms for both regularly gently caress his life up.
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Dec 31, 2021 06:26
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He’s just always doing the right thing and the most perfect moral person. At least from what I remember. Maybe I’ll read the whole thing over again when it’s actually finished but he was so loving boring as a character. I didn’t even read them that long ago and I can’t remember a single other character from either book. I bounced off the whole thing pretty hard. Sanderson is just too clean for me. Like a hospital room all white and sanitized.
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Dec 31, 2021 06:38
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Harton posted:He’s just always doing the right thing and the most perfect moral person. At least from what I remember. Maybe I’ll read the whole thing over again when it’s actually finished but he was so loving boring as a character. I didn’t even read them that long ago and I can’t remember a single other character from either book. Yeah you must of really skimmed like 99% of it.
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Dec 31, 2021 06:49
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Harton posted:He’s just always doing the right thing and the most perfect moral person. At least from what I remember. Maybe I’ll read the whole thing over again when it’s actually finished but he was so loving boring as a character. I didn’t even read them that long ago and I can’t remember a single other character from either book. Uh, this really doesn't describe any of the characters in the books except for maybe a surface read of Dalinar? Because all the main characters do something horrible and immoral during book one or two and really gently caress up. I get bouncing off Sanderson for a lot of reasons but this one seems sort of nonsensical unless it was boring you and you were skimming most of the book.
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Dec 31, 2021 06:54
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Maybe it was just so bad I can’t remember but I deffo read the first 2 books. I’m not sure why anyone would “skim” a book, that seems real dumb and bad. What hosed up thing does kaladin do? I honestly don’t remember. Why did zero characters leave an impression on me after 2 books?
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Dec 31, 2021 06:59
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Harton posted:He’s just always doing the right thing and the most perfect moral person. At least from what I remember. Maybe I’ll read the whole thing over again when it’s actually finished but he was so loving boring as a character. I didn’t even read them that long ago and I can’t remember a single other character from either book. I mean, that doesn't make a character a Gary Stu or "the best at everything"...but that's beside the point since it doesn't describe any character in the series, including Kaladin. I'm not saying Sanderson is the greatest writer and yeah his stuff can be too clean (in multiple ways), but that's just such a wild reading of that character.
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Dec 31, 2021 07:01
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Let's not spoil a different series in this thread. I still haven't gotten around to Stormlight Archive, but many of my friends sing its praises. Here's a spoiler for Sword of Truth though: It suuuuucks. One of the only books I bought and just threw away once I realized how bad they were. I made the dumb decision to buy the first three books at once.
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Dec 31, 2021 07:05
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Devorum posted:I mean, that doesn't make a character a Gary Stu or "the best at everything"...but that's beside the point since it doesn't describe any character in the series, including Kaladin. Yeah maybe I just don’t remember the book but Sanderson is still pretty sterile. He finished WOT and I appreciate him for that but his only real engaging writing is when he’s describing weird magic fights in mistborn or Androl and his gates. And the gates thing didn’t really belong in wot but whatever it’s fine the books got finished. What stood out to me the most in AMOL is when the epilogue hits and you can tell it’s just straight Jordan after reading a giant tome of Sanderson. It’s like a warm blanket or writing right at the end that reminds me of the rest of the series. Still probably going to get around to audiobooks of storm light archive when it’s all wrapped up cause what the gently caress else is there to read am I right? After this show I’m debating going through Wot for a 4th time.
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Dec 31, 2021 07:11
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MegaZeroX posted:https://twitter.com/iamdanielmalik/status/1476645744681664512 I think they'll cut that scene
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Dec 31, 2021 07:17
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Rythian posted:Let's not spoil a different series in this thread. I still haven't gotten around to Stormlight Archive, but many of my friends sing its praises. I trudged through the 4th book. The series killed my "If I Start a Series, I Finish It" attitude. Book 1: The best one? Faint praise, for sure. Starts off fine but goes off the rails around the time the BDSM Jedi show up and Richard flip-kicks a teenage girl's jaw off (this is portrayed as a moral act). Book 2: Oops All Totally-Not-Whitecloaks Book 3: Richard hunts for the Stone of Tears & gets captured by the Sisters of the Light, a sect of magic-user women who hunt and capture men who can use magic. They keep him for a while, then he discovers a Secret Evil Sect-Within-The-Sect who call themselves the Sisters of The Dark. I wish I was making this Wheel of Time copypasta up, but I am not. I don't remember how this dumpster fire ends. Book 4: Richard's secret half-brother shows up and suddenly BDSM Jedi (they now work for Richard) start getting murdered mysteriously. Secret Brother is also a doctor and forensics expert and checks pulses by fingering women because that's totally normal. The Secret Brother is obviously the Jack the Ripper expy, but it takes everyone the entire book to figure it out. Other stuff happens, I don't remember what though. It took me six weeks to finish this book because it was such a slog. Book 5+: ??? And an Evil Chicken. I think Richard murders a few hundred workers because they discuss organizing at one point (this is portrayed as a moral act).
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Dec 31, 2021 07:21
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Lol
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Dec 31, 2021 07:24
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th3t00t posted:My favorite part of Sword of Truth was that the final battle was a game of American Football… to the death! And the John Galt, author self insert character was the best football player ever. And the game lasted like 100+ pages and I skimmed the entire thing. And his strategy was amazingly bad. Like, however bad you're thinking of, it's almost certainly worse. If I remember correctly, it was "Everybody stands in a straight line and puts their hands on the shoulders of the man in front of them, and they run forward like a giant battering ram, because nobody can stop that much momentum".
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Dec 31, 2021 07:38
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Khizan posted:And his strategy was amazingly bad. Like, however bad you're thinking of, it's almost certainly worse. Lol like that doesn’t even make sense physically, wouldn’t you be kicking each other’s legs like crazy?
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Dec 31, 2021 07:50
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Harton posted:Lol like that doesn’t even make sense physically, wouldn’t you be kicking each other’s legs like crazy? Not if you run in step. Haven't you ever gotten right behind someone, like within their stride, to gently caress with one of your friends?
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Dec 31, 2021 07:55
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Harton posted:Maybe it was just so bad I can’t remember but I deffo read the first 2 books. I’m not sure why anyone would “skim” a book, that seems real dumb and bad. In the second book he betrays his ideals, causing his best friend to die, and then he spends like half the book marinating in the depression of that. He then almost helps a murder happen, again a fundamental betrayal of his core ideal of "protect people."
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Dec 31, 2021 08:41
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Ponsonby Britt posted:In the second book he betrays his ideals, causing his best friend to die, and then he spends like half the book marinating in the depression of that. He then almost helps a murder happen, again a fundamental betrayal of his core ideal of "protect people." Stormlight Archive is mostly about deeply flawed people and how they became that way due to trauma. It's got it's issues, but yeah it doesn't sound like they're the books for that poster. socialsecurity posted:Screw those other recommendations, dive into Sanderson straight away, I suggest starting with "Emperor's Soul" it's real short, self contained and gives you a good idea of what he's about. As someone who does like Sanderson's style, but understands why other people don't... I can say with all seriousness that story is his best work and I'd recommend it to anyone. Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Dec 31, 2021 09:14
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Ponsonby Britt posted:In the second book he betrays his ideals, causing his best friend to die, and then he spends like half the book marinating in the depression of that. He then almost helps a murder happen, again a fundamental betrayal of his core ideal of "protect people." drat I don’t remember any of that, maybe I only read the first one.
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Dec 31, 2021 10:19
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Making sweeping judgements about a book series having half remembered parts of it, and getting most of those half memories wrong, is very *very* on-brand for this thread, and I mean that without rancor.
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Dec 31, 2021 13:27
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I also just finished my reread, and doing New Spring after the main series makes it incredibly sad to read about Alanna's optimism and ambitions 
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Dec 31, 2021 13:34
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I like this trend of Expanse actors auditioning for The Wheel of Time on twitter 
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Dec 31, 2021 15:57
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Dingleberry2 posted:Wait, I also stopped after magic statue brought peace to the world. Are you saying there was something Richard Rahl was not the best in the world at? Did Terry G even try to justify why people were willing to sacrifice themselves in the football game for Richard's benefit? Like the entire point of Objectivism is to be as selfish as possible right? There's no collective good for them to sacrifice themselves for, only their own personal benefit. My eyes glazed over and I skimmed so many pages of those books towards the end.
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Dec 31, 2021 16:28
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3/4 of the way done with "The Shadow Rising" Gotta say, I'm enjoying the Perrin and Faile shenanigans in the Two Rivers more than the A plot with Rand and Matt. The C plot with the girls looking for the black Ajah is easily the least interesting part of this book.
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