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81sidewinder posted:Yeah, and that could actually be good or actually happen. I guess I'm looking at this through the lens that GURM never really considered an endgame of this story, and if he did, it was not including all the new characters in Feast/Dance. Fake Aegon has not improved the story. .... but again at this point we're basically just rewriting the whole thing
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Much like Joel being Pascal, Tyrion was Dinklage so they couldn’t write him as the rear end he is. Instead they made him stupid. For all its flaws, HotD is a pro-watch if you haven’t imo. Not worth buying a subscription service just for it. But the good bits and some of the cast ratchet it to more like S4 GoT quality. Tbh I think HotD is the best of the infinity run-this-franchise-into-the-ground spin-offs we’ve gotten the past decade or so.
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Deptfordx posted:When I first read that Dragonpit scene in the books it struck me as wildly improbable, no morale as fragile as a mobs. First blast of Dragonflame and they'd have broken and run. If you believe old man Preston that's because the actual dragonkillers were religious fanatics specially trained to do it by Oldtown.
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We're quickly approaching 10 years since GRRM has released any new material on ASOAIF at all (Mercy was released in 2014)
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Mike N Eich posted:We're quickly approaching 10 years since GRRM has released any new material on ASOAIF at all (Mercy was released in 2014) Funny how as soon as GRRM ran out of the material he cut out of the last two books he stopped releasing preview chapters. Huh.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Funny how as soon as GRRM ran out of the material he cut out of the last two books he stopped releasing preview chapters. Huh. And holy crap, did we see why he cut those. The Aeron one was passable, but the Arya preview would have gotten poo poo reviews as a scuzzy fanfiction site if published incognito.
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Back when I used to believe a new book was coming out I went to Game of Thrones themed trivia night at a pub. Our whole table had read the books. We were gonna crush this. The competition was fierce with one other table. We were tied for first, having gotten every single question correct over 3 hours. The quiz hosts had been hyping this for like 2 months and they had some serious prizes on the line - there was this pretty cool sword replica, a cookbook, and all sorts of Game of Thrones themed booze that ultimately was worth a few hundred bucks. The tie-breaker they came up with was that they would award the final point to the team that had the most clever or funny Game of Thrones name. We lost. Our name was "The Fat Pink Masts". The quizmasters had no idea what it meant. Our rivals won. They were called: "The Lannisters".
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Life imitates art. Lannisters come out on top even when they shouldn’t.
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Mr. Grapes! posted:Back when I used to believe a new book was coming out I went to Game of Thrones themed trivia night at a pub. You were robbed.
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Trivia posted:I would've gone with Pale Sticky Princes myself. uuuugggghhhhhh we got mention of fat pink mast and the sticky princes, and of mercy. please ..no more
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Barreft posted:uuuugggghhhhhh im a fan of the myrish swamp, personally.
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The Myrish Swamps, filled with Pale Sticky Princes, sent by the Fat Pink Masts.
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Should've went with one of the conspiracy lore references. Varys' Mermen or Roose's Draculas
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kenny powerzzz posted:Could have called yourselves “Winds of Winter” as a joke and then no showed them. lmao Also is the new fat man books mod worth reinstalling Crusader Kings 3, does anyone know?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:lmao It's still very rough around the edges but it definitely has potential, the map is loving gorgeous.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:at the end of the day it doesn't have much artistic merit on its own and it really shows at points, like every single mention of "the prophecy" automatically falls flat for me I finally watched episode 8 and, yeah, holy poo poo. If they're really going with "Alicent gave up her ambition and was ready to forgive and move on, but a dying, delirious Viserys mistook her for Rhaenyra and told her a tiny fraction of THE PROPHECY she didn't understand and now she wants a civil war instead," that's just impossibly stupid and I can't take it seriously. TeaJay posted:Viserys' entrance to the throme room was very memorable for me, on par with some of the better scenes from GoT. This, however, was fantastic. The one last opportunity for Daemon to show he really is the loving brother he's always said he was, and he does it perfectly. And if my understanding is correct, Smith improvised that when the crown fell off, Considine immediately went along with it, and then they regrouped with the director and said "we don't know how you feel about that, but we loved it?"
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disaster pastor posted:I finally watched episode 8 and, yeah, holy poo poo. If they're really going with "Alicent gave up her ambition and was ready to forgive and move on, but a dying, delirious Viserys mistook her for Rhaenyra and told her a tiny fraction of THE PROPHECY she didn't understand and now she wants a civil war instead," that's just impossibly stupid and I can't take it seriously. nothing any targ ever did had ever had any positive impact on the whole prophecy situation, had Aegon not conquered the whole thing the nightking would have just languished for another eternity not able to get past the magic wall, it actually being a major driving force for targ politics for hundreds of years is so comical and anticlimactic it's either an elaborate shaggy dog joke or it's HBO and Gurm pretending that the latter seasons of the show never happened and somehow Jon wound up being super important in the war for the dawn, I personally lean to the latter, while Gurm is not a stranger to shaggy dog punchlines it's that self fulfilling prophecies are a big element in ASOIAF it's still like, a bit much, and the message is garbage because this whole thing about half-accurate monkey paw prophecies driving people to do stupid thing is just... not that profound? it's just a lovely allegory for ambition anyway, it's fine for your epic story to have epic prophecies that matter. like whatever, sure, let's mention this dumb prophecy that is at best an allegory about ambition and at worst a poorly executed epic plot and weave it into a narrative that doesn't need it because it already had all the necessary elements to explain how simple ambition can easily turn best friends and relatives into the worst enemies, I mean, that is already the story anyway, what does the prophecy add. I am not a fan of the prophecy, I guess that's what I'm getting at.
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Mr. Grapes! posted:Back when I used to believe a new book was coming out I went to Game of Thrones themed trivia night at a pub. lol
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Shoulda named yourselves the Lameisters, totally woulda won.
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What is the reference of the fat pink mists? Lannisters is lame but it seems like a default victory for people who don't get it.
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iamsosmrt posted:What is the reference of the fat pink mists? Lannisters is lame but it seems like a default victory for people who don't get it. It’s from Sam’s fourth chapter in A Feast for Crows, the sex scene with Gilly aboard the Cinnamon Wind. quote:And suddenly his cock was out, jutting upward from his breeches like a fat pink mast. It looked so silly standing there that he might have laughed, but Gilly pushed him back
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Platystemon posted:It’s from Sam’s fourth chapter in A Feast for Crows, the sex scene with Gilly aboard the Cinnamon Wind. wow I probably never read that chapter, glad I skipped like half of feast and most of dance!
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It started off in a rum barrel, but by the time they got to their destination it was just in an otherwise-empty barrel, originating the phrase tapping the maester.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5spfpl2wjddnxz/Grim%20Darkness%20of%20Far%20Future%20-%20ASOIAF-40K%20crossover.doc?dl=0 ?
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Are there any good fantasy books written after a Feast for Crows part 2?
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https://twitter.com/sweatieangle/status/1650552827662544955
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Kuiperdolin posted:https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5spfpl2wjddnxz/Grim%20Darkness%20of%20Far%20Future%20-%20ASOIAF-40K%20crossover.doc?dl=0 ? What kind of giant nerd could write such a thi- 
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Oh yeah? name three
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bone emulator posted:Oh yeah? name three I don't even really gently caress with fantasy much but both of Marlon James' recent books are dope Africa-based fantasy and NK Jemison writes some good poo poo too
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bone emulator posted:Oh yeah? name three The Vorrh, Piranesi, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
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disaster pastor posted:I finally watched episode 8 and, yeah, holy poo poo. If they're really going with "Alicent gave up her ambition and was ready to forgive and move on, but a dying, delirious Viserys mistook her for Rhaenyra and told her a tiny fraction of THE PROPHECY she didn't understand and now she wants a civil war instead," that's just impossibly stupid and I can't take it seriously. Also stupid is when she goes in that consel room. She comes in and is like hey so we gotta put my son on the throne. Her dad's crew is like "right here's the plan we've been working on for years" and then she lectures them for plotting behind the king's back and also didn't know about it. It seems like they can't make up their minds on if she is pushed into this by the patriarchy or if she is super ambitious. A lot of the characters are super inconsistent.
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