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I think it should stay open because often times talking about how bad Rothfuss is leads into conversations about more talented authors and how they do similar stories better. Thanks to this thread I've read books with similar premises that were super amazing.
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Reading so much into Rothfuss only knowing so many tired similes/metaphors for colors lol.
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Aug 5, 2022 17:19
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Keep it open. Society needs to see a head up on a spike every once in a while.
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Aug 5, 2022 17:22
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I suggested closing the thread, not for "slamming" Rothfuss or because there's anything "toxic" about that (speaking only for myself) . You weren't the only one no worries.
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Aug 5, 2022 17:32
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It was a thread of three posts, a post about how Rothfuss still wasn't writing, how no matter how he lied or what sad claims he made about words or pages or things sent to editors we knew better; a post about how Rothfuss was a creepy gross edgelord Wheedon weird, a freak famous incompetent writer without the chops or discipline to finish his masterpiece; and a post about how really the books aren't good, the prose isn't good, and it's just a sad wish-fulfillment fantasy about being able to pay for fantasy college in a fantasy land where the protagonist is the best most clever ever at everything with none of the mastery of language or intricate worldbuilding that was constantly attributed to the author by increasingly desperate, increasingly faithful, fans. It was the probed post sound of a thread waiting to die.
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Aug 5, 2022 18:41
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:A few different people ahve suggested I close this thread, under the theory that it's just toxic rothfuss-slamming and there's little point in keeping it going. It still serves a purpose as Rothfuss is doing things, just not writing. Sounds like they should unbookmark th thread or post what they like about him instead of wanting to stop others from talking about GRRM 2.lol I’m ways they dislike.
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Aug 6, 2022 15:44
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Big thread on reddit today about how Worldbuilders is a scam. BotL did a huge review of Name of the Wind and tore it to shreds, so there's not much more to say. I guess someone could do the Slow Regard of Silent Things if they were so inclined, seeing as that is the latest and greatest Rothfuss book, but honestly I don't know how much more there is to say about the actual prose that BotL didn't cover. The metaphors are all just shotgunning associations so you feel confusion and mistake it for depth and meaning. I guess I could take a stab at Slow Regard, but I'd have to figure out where the hell it got to.
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Aug 6, 2022 18:47
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It was a silence of three farts
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Big thread on reddit today about how Worldbuilders is a scam. I'll have you know that silence is a lot like autumn, which is totally broad. These are things that make sense, yes.
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Aug 6, 2022 20:16
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Big thread on reddit today about how Worldbuilders is a scam. Is there anything new? It's not like he's even trying to keep it a secret he runs it out of a building he owns and pays himself an insane rent amount.
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Aug 6, 2022 20:20
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Big thread on reddit today about how Worldbuilders is a scam. Honestly BoTL's review of NoTW was pretty weak. It mostly just talked about the books I'm pretty sure BoTL actually read as opposed to tearing NoTW apart on its own merits. NoTW is also the 'good' book, such as it is. The Wise Man's Fear is much worse in every way and definitely deserves its own scrutiny.
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Aug 7, 2022 00:52
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Even if nothing's really happening why close it? It's harmless venting against an average author who also happens to (appear to) be a massive tool and scammer. There's regular traffic in here so clearly some of us enjoy it.
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Aug 7, 2022 01:10
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Kchama posted:Honestly BoTL's review of NoTW was pretty weak. It mostly just talked about the books I'm pretty sure BoTL actually read as opposed to tearing NoTW apart on its own merits. You mean the review where he went through and dissected line by line why the prose didn't work?
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My theory about Slow Regard is that its a metaphor for convention sex. It starts with some hard negging and a fake apology-- only a real fan who really gets him will understand what's about to happen. Then the starstruck manic pixie girl with low self-esteem grabs some junk, looks at it sadly, puts it back down, and just keeps doing that over and over until it just...ends.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:You mean the review where he went through and dissected line by line why the prose didn't work? He did not do that. I mean, I certainly wouldn't ask anyone to do such madness, but he absolutely didn't do that. He would have never gotten a post finished if he tried. Like I said, my big issue is that he liked to use it as a launching pad to talk about other books, which is a "oh my god I don't care" when I want to hear about the dumb things in Rothfuss's book. Maybe I'll try a dissection (definitely not a line by line one) one day but that would involve reading it again. MartingaleJack posted:My theory about Slow Regard is that its a metaphor for convention sex. It starts with some hard negging and a fake apology-- only a real fan who really gets him will understand what's about to happen. Then the starstruck manic pixie girl with low self-esteem grabs some junk, looks at it sadly, puts it back down, and just keeps doing that over and over until it just...ends. I mean, from stories I've heard he absolutely goes to conventions looking for sex and little else.
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Aug 7, 2022 06:11
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Who is BoTL?
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Lot 49 posted:Who is BoTL? The OP of the thread.
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Lot 49 posted:Who is BoTL? That's BravestOfTheLamps.
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The Joss whedon t shirt is so pathetic.
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Aug 7, 2022 11:36
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Southpaugh posted:The Joss whedon t shirt is so pathetic. He's just advertising that he's a former nerd media darling who had one early breakout success, pretends to be a feminist but is absolutely not a feminist and in fact is a misogynist sexpest, injects his horniess into his wriitng, is now a washed-up has-been abandoned joke, couldn't be criticized for a long time due to his industry connections and rabid fanbase, and needs to take hedge clippers to his beard.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:BotL did a huge review of Name of the Wind and tore it to shreds, so there's not much more to say. No loving way that's true. I've searched this thread to see if the endless bitching ever cohered into anything meaningful, and was unable to locate anything like that (like 2-3 times, because people on these forums have a habit of linking this thread when Name of the Wind is mentioned).
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It's in the old thread. Can anybody view it or do you need super special archive access or whatever? Here's the link to the first post anyway. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3365216&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=122#post458895404
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I don't remember that passage. Probably from his time with the pirates that no one is interested in hearing about, instead we get 1/3 of a book about being a sex god.
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calandryll posted:I don't remember that passage. Probably from his time with the pirates that no one is interested in hearing about, instead we get 1/3 of a book about being a sex god. My favorite part is when True Feminist Patrick Rothfuss wrote about a matriarchal sex ninja society that didn't understand basic reproductive biology but thankfully his Gary Sue character was able to educate those silly women.
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I came here cause I heard about his whole charity fraud. I can't believe it's not brought up more. Thread should definitely stay, and the whole saga should be detailed.
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I'm just gonna say that I'll forgive all the sex god stuff if the reason he gets kicked out of school is that he won't stop making sympathy powered sex toys in the workshop
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Like gently caress this guy, seriously. 30 seconds in on a video from just 2 months ago is enough to see he's full of poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7Wsre9K0Y e: wait nm 1 minute in is the money shot lol e2: I never read his books, he reminded too much of grrm and welp Barreft fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Aug 9, 2022 |
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Scholtz posted:I'm just gonna say that I'll forgive all the sex god stuff if the reason he gets kicked out of school is that he won't stop making sympathy powered sex toys in the workshop No, they already did the 'he was kicked out of school younger than anyone else had been admitted' thing. It was when the Masters decided to punish him for using magic for evil reasons (which he totally did, by the way) with expulsion! And then immediately unexpelled him for being so drat clever about it. Rothfuss thought this was extremely brilliant. Kchama fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Aug 9, 2022 |
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Barreft posted:Like gently caress this guy, seriously. 30 seconds in on a video from just 2 months ago is enough to see he's full of poo poo. oh no what happened to his cereal collection
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Evil Fluffy posted:My favorite part is when True Feminist Patrick Rothfuss wrote about a matriarchal sex ninja society that didn't understand basic reproductive biology but thankfully his Gary Sue character was able to educate those silly women. He fails to educate them, they are too misguided for his words to teach
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Lottery of Babylon posted:He fails to educate them, they are too misguided for his words to teach But still, very fuckable.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:He fails to educate them, they are too misguided for his words to teach It’s pretty amazing how he mansplains pregnancy to a matriarchy of sex ninjas but they won’t listen to him, the correct one, the sex-haver.
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He also is inducted into their society because he is just so darn Of The Lethani that he is able to make every answer he makes Of The Lethani after like five seconds of hearing that it exists, and is given a named magical 5000 year old super sword from the magic sword tree that he promptly renames because the Ademre name of it sounds vaguely like this word he thinks is cool. And then he leaves and never thinks about them again besides to tell all of their nation's secrets. As a note, the entire reason he was there is that one of the mercenaries he fought the bandits with was an Adem who taught him a few kung fu moves, which meant he was going to be put to death if Kvothe didn't go home with him to prove he was worth teaching.
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By tricking us you have proven that you are of the Lethani, you see, all so simple and neat.
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M_Gargantua posted:By tricking us you have proven that you are of the Lethani, you see, all so simple and neat. Considering what all is of the Lethani, which appears to be anything Kvothe does, this is probably what's going to happen. If Rothfuss remembers they exist again.
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Kchama posted:Considering what all is of the Lethani, which appears to be anything Kvothe does, this is probably what's going to happen. Please. He thinks about magic sex ninjas every day of his life.
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The wonderful thing about Magic Sex Ninjas is they’ll gently caress you if you just casually ask them to, unlike those uptight chicks at the fantasy conventions. Jeez, even if you’re the second-most-successful living fantasy author, you have to work so *hard* to get laid in this unenlightened reality of ours.
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Chicken Butt posted:The wonderful thing about Magic Sex Ninjas is they’ll gently caress you if you just casually ask them to, unlike those uptight chicks at the fantasy conventions. Jeez, even if you’re the second-most-successful living fantasy author, you have to work so *hard* to get laid in this unenlightened reality of ours. And they're otherwise extremely uptight prudes who hate everything (except for music when Kvothe plays the lute so amazingly that it says 'sad' and they weep and decide that teaching him how to murder with a sword is of the Lethani).
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Chicken Butt posted:The wonderful thing about Magic Sex Ninjas is they’ll gently caress you if you just casually ask them to, unlike those uptight chicks at the fantasy conventions. Jeez, even if you’re the second-most-successful living fantasy author, you have to work so *hard* to get laid in this unenlightened reality of ours. https://youtu.be/uOVJ3zaQnYo
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