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Apr 14, 2012 17:31
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Intel&Sebastian posted:gently caress wrong thread Did you post spoilers dressed up as speculation?
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Apr 14, 2012 17:37
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Intel&Sebastian is a secret Dolash.
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Apr 14, 2012 17:44
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Ross posted:The book wasn't actually released until July of last year (I know it was in the summer sometime), I think that was just the date he finished the last draft or something. Well, that would explain the remarkably sloppy copyedit.
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Apr 14, 2012 18:10
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I posted about how excited I am that the UFC is back after such a long break. Something this thread won't be able to say for another 6 years.
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Apr 14, 2012 18:19
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If I had to invoke trial by combat, I'd probably pick GSP as my proxy.
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Apr 14, 2012 18:37
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Maybe we will get an Ice & Fire Update sometime this year.
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Apr 14, 2012 20:07
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Ross posted:Maybe we will get an Ice & Fire Update sometime this year. Well gurm has read a few chapters of winds of winter, if he likes money as much as anyone then he has a good incentive as any with the tv show.
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Apr 14, 2012 20:23
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El Hefe posted:Well gurm has read a few chapters of winds of winter, if he likes money as much as anyone then he has a good incentive as any with the tv show. I have no hope for an entire book in my hands this year, I'd just like him to post about it on his website.
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Apr 14, 2012 20:31
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Ross posted:I have no hope for an entire book in my hands this year, I'd just like him to post about it on his website. We will never get another entire book. We will get sporadic appearances of his reading a chapter of material here and there.
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Apr 14, 2012 21:12
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:If I had to invoke trial by combat, I'd probably pick GSP as my proxy. You'd be sitting around for days waiting for him to kill the guy
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Apr 14, 2012 21:15
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Well, it could be that GRRM is hearing the clock ticking (you can't look like that man and look into the mirror and think "I got many good years ahead of me.") and is actually hurrying up with the books. Probably not a good thing, since who wants the last two books to be rushed, but on the other hand, "rushed" is a broad term here. Or maybe working on the show rekindled his love for the series? I'm trying to be optimistic about this, for once.
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Apr 14, 2012 21:20
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For the next one I hope he can strike the fine line between "rushing it out" and "taking six years".
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Apr 14, 2012 21:52
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Ross posted:For the next one I hope he can strike the fine line between "rushing it out" and "taking six years". Funny how he managed both for ADWD. Urdnot Fire fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Apr 14, 2012 |
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Apr 14, 2012 21:53
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Intel&Sebastian posted:You'd be sitting around for days waiting for him to kill the guy Yeah, I know gently caress-all about UFC, sorry. I just picked the only dude I know who isn't Ken Shamrock.
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Apr 14, 2012 22:07
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Urdnot Fire posted:Funny how be managed both for ADWD. And neither for the first three!
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Apr 14, 2012 22:12
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crazypeltast52 posted:And neither for the first three! Truly we are talking about a man of many talents here folks.
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Apr 14, 2012 22:14
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Fog Tripper posted:We will never get another entire book. We will get sporadic appearances of his reading a chapter of material here and there. A Dance with Dragons: Episode 2 The more I think about it, the more similar Gabe Newell and GRRM seem to be. (Except that Gabe Newell has actually released GOOD things besides his main franchise in the last decade).
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Apr 14, 2012 22:18
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Fog Tripper posted:We will never get another entire book. We will get sporadic appearances of his reading a chapter of material here and there. I could see exactly one more, but it manages to move the plot even less than ADWD. Honestly, at the end of the day, Arya, the Hound and Bronn had thorough and completed character arcs. I don't know if I still give enough of a poo poo about any of the other characters to care whether or not the plot moves forward for them. I really like Jamie, but do I really need to know what he does next? Well...probably not, sad to admit.
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Apr 14, 2012 23:21
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Why cookie Rocket posted:I could see exactly one more, but it manages to move the plot even less than ADWD. B-but will Jamie ever learn to sword fight with his other hand? 
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Apr 14, 2012 23:45
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empty sea posted:B-but will Jamie ever learn to sword fight with his other hand? *clack clack clack*
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Apr 14, 2012 23:51
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Greatbacon posted:Truly we are talking about a man of many talents here folks. Indeed, none may stand against the Mountain who Does and Does not Write!
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Apr 14, 2012 23:54
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I said it before and I'll say it again over the next twelve years- I bet he's completed the series over the past seven years, which is why he gave the go ahead to HBO, and he'll release the last book the year before the HBO series is due to end.Why cookie Rocket posted:I don't know if I still give enough of a poo poo about any of the other characters to care whether or not the plot moves forward for them. I'd like to see Arya's complete a little more, and hopefully we've seen the end of Jon's, but yeah I feel that way too. Although it'd be kinda nice to see this series be entirely about the eradication of the Stark family with no resolution concerning the Others.
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Apr 14, 2012 23:57
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empty sea posted:B-but will Jamie ever learn to sword fight with his other hand?
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Apr 15, 2012 00:02
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Maytag posted:I said it before and I'll say it again over the next twelve years- I bet he's completed the series over the past seven years, which is why he gave the go ahead to HBO, and he'll release the last book the year before the HBO series is due to end. Nah he gave the go ahead to HBO because he knows he's old and going to die and he wanted to get that paper before it happened.
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Apr 15, 2012 00:03
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Maytag posted:I said it before and I'll say it again over the next twelve years- I bet he's completed the series over the past seven years, which is why he gave the go ahead to HBO, and he'll release the last book the year before the HBO series is due to end. I've never heard that theory before. It would be incredibly improbable...I can't help but hope you're right. Though as a lifelong Dune fan, I have already reached maximum "hosed over by a series" and am immune to most ill effects this series has caused others.
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Apr 15, 2012 00:14
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Maytag posted:
We are arguably past the midpoint of the series (in theory), and the Others have not even become a legitimate threat yet. Resolution? Of what? I have a feeling that Winter is Coming... long after the books are done.
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Apr 15, 2012 00:29
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Fog Tripper posted:We are arguably past the midpoint of the series (in theory), and the Others have not even become a legitimate threat yet. Resolution? Of what? Yeah, by the fifth book the North (at least) should have their backs up against the wall with the Others. Instead we have Jon still moving dudes around like a very tedious game of Risk that's still going on at 3 in the morning.
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Apr 15, 2012 00:34
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Factor_VIII posted:I think Jamie should install a spring behind his golden hand. That way when he goes in a fight he can release the spring and deliver a long-distance punch to his enemy's face before closing in and finishing him off with his off hand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-kxuy0CTyk Jaime GO!
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Apr 15, 2012 00:52
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Fog Tripper posted:We will never get another entire book. We will get sporadic appearances of his reading a chapter of material here and there.
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Apr 15, 2012 00:56
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savinhill posted:I wish they were sporadic, Gurm hasn't stopped traveling for his appearances for more than a week in the past year. He's basically Tyrion in ADWD, then. And yet no closer to
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Apr 15, 2012 00:58
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-kxuy0CTyk I was going to say this sounded like something that would happen in some anime, but you went ahead and proved it.
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Apr 15, 2012 01:24
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I wonder how he's going to avoid writing two books' worth of "Everybody in the Six Kingdoms* starves to death, because it's a long winter, the autumn crops were trampled, and the food stores were destroyed by constant warfare." * Dorne doesn't seem to worry about seasons.
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Apr 15, 2012 02:37
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I seriously think that was his plan all along, that the whole series was to be the shocker decapitation of the apparent Fantasy Protagonist writ large, but he got too involved in his world and regrets setting it up, and doesn't want to finish it. He doesn't want to kill all of his imaginary people with an endless winter.
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Apr 15, 2012 02:45
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I wonder how he's going to avoid writing two books' worth of "Everybody in the Six Kingdoms* starves to death, because it's a long winter, the autumn crops were trampled, and the food stores were destroyed by constant warfare." The only person who really seemed to give a drat about Winter coming was Ned. And Ned's dead, baby. So, what winter? I'm stocking up on flip-flops.
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Apr 15, 2012 03:25
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Ambiguatron posted:I seriously think that was his plan all along, that the whole series was to be the shocker decapitation of the apparent Fantasy Protagonist writ large, but he got too involved in his world and regrets setting it up, and doesn't want to finish it. He doesn't want to kill all of his imaginary people with an endless winter. That doesn't necessarily has to happen, Dany can still come and save the day with her dragons and burn every Other if GRRM wants a happy ending.
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Apr 15, 2012 03:37
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El Hefe posted:That doesn't necessarily has to happen, Dany can still come and save the day with her dragons and burn every Other if GRRM wants a happy ending. You assume that Dany will eventually make it over to Westeros.
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Apr 15, 2012 03:48
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I hope that sample chapter that's supposed to be in the back of the ADWD paperback has a cliffhanger Dany death.
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I've already accepted that if an ending does ever come out it's going to be like lost. Ned is going to wake up under a God tree the day before he leaves to be the Hand at Kings Landing.
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