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Mmmmm, lemony lemoncakes 🍋
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Feb 17, 2022 02:15
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The Book Bran > ASoIaF: ...I died a little inside. ● 8 yr. ago
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Feb 17, 2022 03:42
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The book is finally coming out! https://twitter.com/JamesHibberd/status/1494751444079108102?s=20&t=cHyc2HdZy0Ye8Y7uXjrPfQ
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Feb 18, 2022 20:29
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Lmao
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Feb 18, 2022 20:40
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Is is so loving weird that Dynamite Entertainment makes the GoT comics but Marvel is settling for Wild Cards
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Feb 19, 2022 00:00
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mind the walrus posted:Is is so loving weird that Dynamite Entertainment makes the GoT comics but Marvel is settling for Wild Cards presumably this is a case of Gurm licensing something out before the books really blew up like how Green Ronin of all people got the RPG rights
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Feb 19, 2022 07:39
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 quote:Not only would this explain what's taking so long, I think it would fit with how GRRM writes and illustrate one of the primary flaws with his style. This is how he's described it, as I'm sure everyone here has seen before:
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Feb 19, 2022 16:30
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He ain’t writing poo poo.
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Feb 19, 2022 16:32
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Invalid Validation posted:He ain’t writing poo poo. Wrong, he's writing Wild Cards
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Feb 19, 2022 18:40
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Is not impossible that he is "writing " 2 TWOW What we know is impossible is that he would finish either of them
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Feb 19, 2022 18:40
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why not 3 books? or 4? perhaps gurm has an infinite landscape of books within his mind
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Feb 19, 2022 19:22
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“GRRM’s problem is he’s working too hard to give us the best books ever and it’s cruel we torment the poor man. Also he isn’t working because he’s depressed that all of his friends are dying (of Old) have some sympathy.”
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Feb 19, 2022 19:27
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Schrodinger's GRRM: There is a potentially limitless amount of content that exists until it is published and the waveform collapses.
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Feb 20, 2022 00:38
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Invalid Validation posted:He ain’t writing poo poo.
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Feb 20, 2022 01:26
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Feb 20, 2022 16:04
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GRRM posted a new Blog https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/02/20/the-pens-behind-the-swords/ quote:(And me, you ask? No, I did not write a script for the first season of HOUSE… part of me would have loved to, but I have been kind of busy with WINDS OF WINTER, the other THRONES successor shows, various WILD CARDS books, the WILD CARDS tv pilot for Peacock and UCP, DARK WINDS for AMC, ROADMARKS for HBO, NIGHT OF THE COOTERS and a couple other really cool Howard Waldrop projects, and… well, yeah, okay, I bought a railroad, never mind. I did co-create the series with Ryan and help give it its shape, and he and I have been in constant contact ever since). Lmao how do fans still defend this man
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Feb 20, 2022 23:56
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:GRRM posted a new Blog If they support him hard enough that spilt milk from 20 years ago will turn to cheese. To be honest in a world with loving NFTs being a big deal, believing a morbidly obese extremely old lazy fantasy writer who is obviously well past his prime is going to pick up his wordstar and bang out 2 more books in a beloved series seems only mildly naive at this point.
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Feb 21, 2022 05:37
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Y'know it says a loving lot that in the 10 years or so where GoT was the hottest poo poo on the planet and the MCU became a Leviathan propping up an entire corner of the global film industry... GRRM still couldn't get any kind of real WILD CARDS adaptation going.
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Feb 22, 2022 00:21
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mind the walrus posted:Y'know it says a loving lot that in the 10 years or so where GoT was the hottest poo poo on the planet and the MCU became a Leviathan propping up an entire corner of the global film industry... GRRM still couldn't get any kind of real WILD CARDS adaptation going. That's because there's no easy port of access into it. There is no Iron Man to ease people into the universe. Trying to explain WILD CARDS to someone is like trying to explain the plot of Homestuck. No rational person would make it past the first minute.
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Feb 22, 2022 09:00
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nine-gear crow posted:That's because there's no easy port of access into it. There is no Iron Man to ease people into the universe. Trying to explain WILD CARDS to someone is like trying to explain the plot of Homestuck. No rational person would make it past the first minute. This is true. I knew a guy who was a big Wild Cards fan, who kept trying to get other people to read Wild Cards and who always wanted to run a Wild Cards campaign of the Official Wild Cards roleplaying game (originally GURPS and then latter Mutants and Masterminds). At the height of the Game Of Thrones fandom he finally convinced some people to sit down and make characters, so we cracked open the Official Wild Cards roleplaying game supplement and instantly bounced off it like a brick wall. It's not even bad, it's just forty years of the type of convoluted nonsense and in-jokes and huge tonal clashes that you'd get if a dozen friends tried to make all their weird loving RPG characters try to fit in the same universe. Like, one guy is a floating armored Volkswagon Beetle? And another guy is a magical pimp with sex magic powers? And those were apparently two of the most relatable, forward-facing characters the book wanted to feature.
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Feb 22, 2022 11:46
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Y’all are seriously selling me on Wildcards, I might need to check it out!
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Feb 22, 2022 13:01
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Like, one guy is a floating armored Volkswagon Beetle? And another guy is a magical pimp with sex magic powers? And those were apparently two of the most relatable, forward-facing characters the book wanted to feature. The VW beetle guy is one of the most interesting characters by leaps and bounds. He was written by GRRM, so of course he barely appears in the books I read. The magic pimp is incredibly off putting. Whatever you're imagining, it's worse. He's a sleazy tantric sex guru who pimps out his (all female) followers. This is always portrayed as being a good thing. It's weird. Once he's introduced he just becomes more and more prominent. He's involved in almost every major event eventually. I stopped reading the series after one character's teenage runaway niece was turned out by the guy. Of course that was portrayed 100% as a good thing and a happy ending. I can't imagine how the TV series is going to handle him if it ever gets off the ground.
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Feb 22, 2022 15:16
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mind the walrus posted:Is is so loving weird that Dynamite Entertainment makes the GoT comics but Marvel is settling for Wild Cards It's not that surprising. After the series finale finished, GoT went from cultural phenomenon to most people just walking away. Its most lasting impact will be the numerous girls whose idiot parents decided to name them after Lady Dragon Hitler. nine-gear crow posted:That's because there's no easy port of access into it. There is no Iron Man to ease people into the universe. Trying to explain WILD CARDS to someone is like trying to explain the plot of Homestuck. No rational person would make it past the first minute. Even before the MCU existed, many of those characters had been very widely known for decades. Event excluding the Sony Spiderman movies or Fox's X-Men movies you had various Marvel cartoons for decades. Gen X and Millennial kids had some idea of who those characters were and their parents knew either from being old fans themselves or from buying the toys and clothes for their kids in the 80s and 90s. Or the Hulk TV show from the 70s in addition to him showing up in some of the other animated shows occasionally. The wild thing is just how well Iron Man did and how effectively RDJ played the role at a time when nobody really expected much of him and IIRC he was in a real bad place at the time. When that movie was being made there was plenty of "RDJ, that trainwreck of a person is the movie's hero?" It wasn't like when Patrick Stewart was announced as Professor X and the world went "yes of course he is why would you use anyone else?" e: Samuel L. Jackson as Ultimate Nick Fury doesn't count as a perfect pick because the character's design was based on him. 
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Feb 22, 2022 22:02
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:The VW beetle guy is one of the most interesting characters by leaps and bounds. He was written by GRRM, so of course he barely appears in the books I read. The magic pimp is incredibly off putting. Whatever you're imagining, it's worse. He's a sleazy tantric sex guru who pimps out his (all female) followers. This is always portrayed as being a good thing. It's weird. Once he's introduced he just becomes more and more prominent. He's involved in almost every major event eventually. I stopped reading the series after one character's teenage runaway niece was turned out by the guy. Of course that was portrayed 100% as a good thing and a happy ending. I can't imagine how the TV series is going to handle him if it ever gets off the ground.  You have to be loving with me. Magic pimp sounds absolutely loving nightmarish, even by the extremely sleazy lows of US superhero books.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:32
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mind the walrus posted:
His magic comes from the fact that he never ejaculates. All his magic sperm is stored in his forehead
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Feb 23, 2022 02:33
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Evil Fluffy posted:The wild thing is just how well Iron Man did and how effectively RDJ played the role at a time when nobody really expected much of him and IIRC he was in a real bad place at the time. When that movie was being made there was plenty of "RDJ, that trainwreck of a person is the movie's hero?" It wasn't like when Patrick Stewart was announced as Professor X and the world went "yes of course he is why would you use anyone else?" yeah nobody gave a single gently caress about iron man or RDJ at the time, the movie was just a real next-gen spectacle. the only movie i've ever been to where people were actively saying "holy poo poo!!!" in the theater the way i imagine happened with star wars and some of the other late 70s blockbusters
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Feb 23, 2022 02:44
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whowhatwhere posted:His magic comes from the fact that he never ejaculates. All his magic sperm is stored in his forehead I’m sorry, again? (Get it?) I’m sure it’s magic, but how does semen get into his forehead?
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Feb 23, 2022 06:11
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chaosapiant posted:I’m sorry, again? (Get it?) I’m sure it’s magic, but how does semen get into his forehead? It's some kind of Tantric sex magic power. He stores the power that would be "lost" by cumming in his head. I don't think it's supposed to be a bunch of cum sloshing around in there but who the hell knows how the horny author/TTRPG player interpreted it
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RudeCat posted:It's some kind of Tantric sex magic power. He stores the power that would be "lost" by cumming in his head. I don't think it's supposed to be a bunch of cum sloshing around in there but who the hell knows how the horny author/TTRPG player interpreted it To be fair, Cum Vase was my favourite watchmen character
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chaosapiant posted:Y’all are seriously selling me on Wildcards, I might need to check it out! The wildcards thread is an awesome read https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3501532 e: It's too bad the images don't work anymore. TERFherder fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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whowhatwhere posted:His magic comes from the fact that he never ejaculates. All his magic sperm is stored in his forehead The superpower statblock on that character’s wiki contains the phrase “If he ejaculated into a dead body….” Which is everything you need to know about why Wild Cards never took off as an IP.
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Feb 23, 2022 14:49
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Wild Cards, you say?
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Evil Fluffy posted:It's not that surprising. After the series finale finished, GoT went from cultural phenomenon to most people just walking away. Its most lasting impact will be the numerous girls whose idiot parents decided to name them after Lady Dragon Hitler. I think the opposite is happening here. Dynamite started publishing the GoT comics the same year the first season came out, so there probably was a deal in place before it became a massive hit. It’s not like Marvel had the choice and chose the less famous book series (as opposed to, you know, neither) Marvel is publishing Wild Cards for the same reason a GoT prequel is in the works and a Wild Cards series is being attempted: all of these people are hoping lighting strikes twice. GoT may not have much cultural cachet after the disastrous last season, but Wild Cards has even less. In other words, if you thought GoT was a total joke, what would you say if someone was like: “okay, but what about a worse series that’s not even written entirely by the same author??”
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Guy A. Person posted:I think the opposite is happening here. Dynamite started publishing the GoT comics the same year the first season came out, so there probably was a deal in place before it became a massive hit. It’s not like Marvel had the choice and chose the less famous book series (as opposed to, you know, neither) So in 11 years the comics have gotten as far as mid-way through the second book.
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Feb 23, 2022 16:50
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Obviously George is waiting for them to catch up so he can publish the new book as a tie-in.
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Feb 23, 2022 22:05
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Lots of praise coming GRRM's way today as the Elden Ring reviews come out, so he'll have to knock out a couple sequels to that (not actually do anything but keep taking the credit) before he can get back to TWOW.
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Feb 23, 2022 22:07
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Allegedly GRRM’s involvement in Elden Ring consisted of a short world overview written in 2017. That’s about it.
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Feb 24, 2022 00:32
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Allegedly GRRM’s involvement in Elden Ring consisted of a short world overview written in 2017. That’s about it. Pretty sure we know he was involved due to some intrepid journalism: https://tinyurl.com/bdfzf4hb (Work safe) and that's the end of that.
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I mean other people won't just say it but I'm already a pariah so I can-- GRRM did jack and poo poo for Elden Ring and we all know it. Not gonna stop him from collecting the checks or credit though.
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