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Hope is just the larval stage of disappointment.
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i release winds all the time, how hard can it be
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Sep 24, 2023 08:01
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Xiahou Dun posted:Hope is just the larval stage of disappointment.
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Sep 24, 2023 08:15
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Xiahou Dun posted:Hope is just the larval stage of disappointment.
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Sep 24, 2023 16:50
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I have been hopefully telling myself since at least 2012, "maybe we'll hear something about Winds this year  "It's me. I'm the fool
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Sep 24, 2023 18:34
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After a Prance with Ponies I really stopped having any hopes for the series. Sure, he might release Winds (pun intended), but it'll be a hot mess and I'll regret the time I'll spend reading it. I might not even bother to read it
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Sep 24, 2023 20:57
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If it comes out I’ll read it but with a completely different attitude than the rest of them. Like going to watch a car crash rather than an F1 race.
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Sep 24, 2023 22:10
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Beginning to think the "American" in "The American Tolkien" has proved to be an insult. Fat, lazy and thinks about sisterfucking a lot.
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Sep 25, 2023 01:44
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Yeah he’s the American Tolkien in the sense of “covered in melted cheese product”
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Sep 25, 2023 01:55
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this person has seasonal affective disorder and only discovered it thanks to GRRM. another life saved by the master of fantasy himself
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Sep 25, 2023 02:51
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I heard about Orson Scott Card finally writing the last book in the Ender series after 25 years, so even though he's gone full chud I decided to at least read the ending (obviously I didn't give him money). I expected it to be bad but I was still surprised. He handwaved every mystery he'd set up before, made changes that contradicted previous stuff as if he didn't remember the old story, and it was just generally boring and poorly written, with no story arc or real payoff. Just a weird side story about sentient birds that gives you a wet fart of an ending 25 years after the previous book. Then in the epilogue he basically goes "I had no idea how to finish this story but people kept asking for a sequel so when I read a book about birds I decided to make it about that". What I'm saying is that's how GRRM's ending would go if he ever got around to it.
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Sep 25, 2023 07:56
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Did he ever go anywhere with the aliens that tried to send people neurotransmitters, ostensibly as a form of communication? I thought that was pretty cool but otherwise he really dropped the ball after Speaker for the Dead. p.s. grrm bad
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Sep 25, 2023 08:23
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Trivia posted:Did he ever go anywhere with the aliens that tried to send people neurotransmitters, ostensibly as a form of communication? Not even sure which aliens you're talking about, did they show up in the Shadow series? The sad thing about Card is that his original 4 Ender books were actually really neat and pretty instrumental in my love of sci-fi as an 11 year-old (which apparently is when everyone falls in love with Ender Game), so it's too bad he is such a piece of poo poo. Few times has a novel blown my mind as hard as it did when they revealed the completely alien life-cycle of the creatures that lived on that Brazil-planet. It was just such a neat paradigm shifting idea that showed that alien life could still use the same building blocks of the universe to make itself, but everything else can just be completely beyond our ability to initially understand. EDIT: The Shadow series was when his rear end really started showing, with all the characters being based on Card's really weird stereotypes of different nationalities and the long descriptions of Petra's perfect Armenian body.
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Sep 25, 2023 08:34
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He's talking about the Descoladores, the species that presumably created the Descolada virus. In the 4th book they find their planet and try to communicate with them but all their messages are just blueprints for viruses and molecules, and at some point they send blueprints for a sedative. The theory was that they communicate through molecules and they expected them to just create these molecules and consume them.Trivia posted:Did he ever go anywhere with the aliens that tried to send people neurotransmitters, ostensibly as a form of communication? Lmao no, he just retcons it all. It's incredible. That planet wasn't the origin of the virus, it was just some human colony that developed genetics a lot and created sentient birds. They also modified some humans during spaceflight to have hands instead of feet because that makes it easier to hold on to things in zero G. The whole "they communicate through molecules" thing was just a misunderstanding I poo poo you not. Card basically retcons it so it was like "we sent them a copy of the descolada virus and they sent us one back" and that's it, when in reality they spent a large chunk of the 4th book trying to figure out their molecular language and theorizing about whether this new alien species might be beyond human comprehension. But no, nevermind that, it's just humans. Turns out they had the virus too but it was a harmless version of it. Apparently the original virus was sent by an unknown species to catalogue alien life, and all it's supposed to do is record alien DNA. Radiation made it randomly mutate during spaceflight and turned it into the terraforming, genetic modificating, incredibly complex and potentially sentient virus from the other books. It's extremely stupid. By the way a whole bunch of people all learn to teleport like Jane does and they spend the book teleporting all around the universe and the new planet. It's like an anime power, it gets super dumb. It truly is a D&D tier ending. Elman fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Sep 25, 2023 08:48
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It only reminds me of Orson Lannister.
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Sep 25, 2023 17:53
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If GRRM is 75 and he's been working on the last book for 12+ years, imagine how old he'll be when Time for Spring comes out
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Sep 25, 2023 17:59
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some bust on that guy posted:If GRRM is 75 and he's been working on the last book for 12+ years, imagine how old he'll be when Time for Spring comes out I mean "Deceased" is technically an age, right?
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Sep 25, 2023 19:59
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some bust on that guy posted:If GRRM is 75 and he's been working on the last book for 12+ years, imagine how old he'll be when Time for Spring comes out Not Time. Dream. As in dream on.
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Sep 26, 2023 00:12
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As in you’ll only ever read that poo poo in your dreams
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Sep 26, 2023 01:17
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Sep 26, 2023 16:40
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Weird. It's almost as if setting up a world to serve a narrative should have limitations on it to... properly serve the narrative. That's the annoying thing when GRRM calls his writing style "gardening." In a proper garden you don't just haphazardly throw seeds everywhere and see what happens. Gardens require *planning*.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:55
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Very few series do as much describing of food as SoIaF does, it's true, so in terms of flavor it probably wins out against almost all of them. Of course it still can't compete with Redwall 
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Sep 26, 2023 20:41
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Kylaer posted:Very few series do as much describing of food as SoIaF does, it's true, so in terms of flavor it probably wins out against almost all of them. Write what you know
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Sep 26, 2023 20:49
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Dirac Fourier posted:I don't think we're ever getting another ASOIAF book out of GRRM, but I still check for a status update about once a year. I found this timeline which is depressing: Incredible lmao, at least the series still provides comedy material
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Sep 26, 2023 21:44
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E erybody should binge read Malazan books in the meantime
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Sep 26, 2023 22:36
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Counterpoint, Malazan should never be read and everyone should read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series instead.
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Sep 26, 2023 23:44
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Kylaer posted:Counterpoint, ASoIaF should never be read and everyone should read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series instead.
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Sep 27, 2023 00:05
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Phenotype posted:Counterpoint, ASoIaF should never be read and everyone should read Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series instead.
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Sep 27, 2023 00:22
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 Didn't he die with the series unfinished though (Technically so did Patrick O'Brian but the last published book is basically the ideal series finale)
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Sep 27, 2023 00:30
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Kylaer posted:
Nope. All four books of that series are completely done and out.
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Sep 27, 2023 00:32
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I remember reading he died with some series incomplete and people were mourning not getting a proper ending for it. I will add Book of the New Sun to my list of things to read.
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Sep 27, 2023 00:40
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Plan to read all 4 books once, take some time off, then reread all 4 books again. Do not discuss the series with people in-between. Enjoy the fact that you basically are reading a completely different story the second time through knowing where everything ends up and seeing all the events happening in the background in a new light. Do not read the 5th book until you've fully digested the original 4 because it just gives away all the subtext.
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Sep 27, 2023 01:18
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LiterallyATomato posted:Weird. It's almost as if setting up a world to serve a narrative should have limitations on it to... properly serve the narrative. And pruning.
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Sep 27, 2023 01:46
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Let’s all read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Speaking of next books that are coming out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sep 27, 2023 02:32
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this kind of comment just bums me out There's not exactly a shortage of people who have overly ambitious and complicated ideas that fizzle out well short of the finish line. What made GRRM exciting is that he had these cool and grand ideas and he was active and had a clear plan for the end. We knew it'd be six (later seven for ~symbolic~ reasons) books really early on, and he cranked out 3 huge titles in 6 years so there was really good reason to believe he knew what he was doing
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Sep 27, 2023 03:21
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:E erybody should binge read Malazan books in the meantime *700K unnecessary words about characters you won't see or care about again until book 8* Why have I done this? Never have I read a more boring series. Makes the WoT Slog seem like fast paced urban fantasy.
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Sep 27, 2023 08:53
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If we're suggesting other epic series that are actually good and finished:Anonymous Zebra posted:Counterpoint, everyone should read Janny Wurts' The Wars of Light and Shadow series instead. If you start now, you will be done just in time for the release of Book 11, the finale, in May 2024. That's 8 months away!
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Sep 27, 2023 09:46
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remember when Stephen King couldn't finish his magnum opus The Dark Tower and delayed the next book for a massive 6 year delay lmao
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Sep 27, 2023 10:49
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crepeface posted:remember when Stephen King couldn't finish his magnum opus The Dark Tower and delayed the next book for a massive 6 year delay lmao Remember when three years to develop Daikatana was considered to be a ludicrously long time for a game to be made?
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