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I love the tension between IRQ and Azure_Horizon (not to be confused with Azur Ahai) in this thread.
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IRQ posted:All I will read from now on is Ulysses because some taint on the internet told me fun books aren't worth reading. I read Piers Anthony, and thoroughly enjoy Xanth. Oh hey, while we're not on the subject of young vampires, I watched "Let the right one in" this morning. AWESOME movie. Fog Tripper fucked around with this message at 04:08 on May 11, 2012 |
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May 11, 2012 04:05
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Dead Man Posting posted:I love the tension between IRQ and Azure_Horizon (not to be confused with Azur Ahai) in this thread. I am the Queer That Was Promised.
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May 11, 2012 04:16
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Ponce. Ponce That Was Promised.
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May 11, 2012 04:17
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run DNC posted:Ponce. Ponce That Was Promised. That's quite the jape.
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May 11, 2012 04:25
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My name is jape it rhymes with nuncle. Words are whores goes thrum. Where do crossbows go?
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Contra Calculus posted:My name is jape it rhymes with nuncle. Words are whores goes thrum. Where do crossbows go? Neeps on a breastplate.
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May 11, 2012 04:50
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Tony Danza Claus posted:Neeps on a breastplate. Must needs to be leal, much and more.
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May 11, 2012 04:51
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Azure_Horizon posted:Must needs to be leal, much and more. The more she ate the more she poo poo. Her myrish swamp and grease ran down her honey covered fat pink mast.
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May 11, 2012 05:03
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Tony Danza Claus posted:The more she ate the more she poo poo. Her myrish swamp and grease ran down her honey covered fat pink mast. I really, really didn't need the imagery of Daenerys with a fat pink mast. What is she, making GBS threads dick nipples?
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May 11, 2012 05:17
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Azure_Horizon posted:I really, really didn't need the imagery of Daenerys with a fat pink mast. What is she, making GBS threads dick nipples? Well to be fair, after so long in the desert her fat mast is more Snakebite Leather than pink. Also my imaginary four year old's favorite part of Gravity's Rainbow is the british candy scene, he also enjoys, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Brian Jacques, Marquez, and Bret Easton Ellis
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bigmcgaffney posted:Also my imaginary four year old's favorite part of Gravity's Rainbow is the british candy scene, I think I would have liked the part where the giant adenoid terrorizes London. Reading the Hansel and Gretel poo poo and the end to a four y/o would be bordering on abuse, though.
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Azure_Horizon posted:I really, really didn't need the imagery of Daenerys with a fat pink mast. What is she, making GBS threads dick nipples?
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May 11, 2012 06:29
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savinhill posted:Daario introduced her to steroids. When she conquers the seven kingdoms (lol) there is going to be a big asterisk next her name in the history books.
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May 11, 2012 06:41
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There has to be an explanation for this, but, if Varys' motivations all trace back to being pro-Targaryen then why didn't he object to sending assassins after Dany in Book 1? Also, is Littlefinger aware of events in Essos and Slaver's Bay, and how do they fit with his all knowing scheming? It's been a while since I read the books. Edit: at the end of ADWD were events moving towards a Bolton-Lannister war, or am I misremembering? Furthermore, why does Stannis care about liberating the north and where does he stand in general? cargo cult fucked around with this message at 07:43 on May 11, 2012 |
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May 11, 2012 07:40
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cargo cult posted:There has to be an explanation for this, but, if Varys' motivations all trace back to being pro-Targaryen then why didn't he object to sending assassins after Dany in Book 1? Also, is Littlefinger aware of events in Essos and Slaver's Bay, and how do they fit with his all knowing scheming? It's been a while since I read the books. Varys put all his chips on Viserys (with a secret marker on Aegon), he probably figured if Dany was assassinated, Drogo would want revenge, give Viserys his dothraki army and make the big move on westeros. Bolton's house is allied with the Lannisters since Roose took care of Robb and they made Ramsay (now a legit Bolton having been legitimized by the iron throne) the warden of the north. Stannis doesn't want to liberate the north so much as he realizes the true king's duty is protector of the realm and since major poo poo is happening at the wall, he needs to be there, but since the Lannister-backed Bolton's are making moves against the Night's Watch (by majorly trolling the gently caress out of Lord Commander Snow), he's marching on Winterfell to wreck their poo poo and reinstate the Starks (or at least a Barratheon-friendly northern family) as the warden of the north.
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May 11, 2012 09:06
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El Hefe posted:Already read all of those. I have been waiting months to link it in the thread: http://www.ansible.co.uk/misc/eyeargon.pdf The greatest novel ever written.
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May 11, 2012 09:20
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whowhatwhere posted:I have been waiting months to link it in the thread: http://www.ansible.co.uk/misc/eyeargon.pdf WWW you sure do know a lot of truly horrible books off hand.
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May 11, 2012 09:24
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So the last thing I remember was Gurm put up a chapter from Winds of Winter on his terrible website. Anything happen since?
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IRQ posted:WWW you sure do know a lot of truly horrible books off hand. The Eye of Argon is not exactly obscure; conventions have traditionally had contests where the object is to read as much as possible of the text aloud without laughing.
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Groke posted:The Eye of Argon is not exactly obscure; conventions have traditionally had contests where the object is to read as much as possible of the text aloud without laughing.
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May 11, 2012 10:43
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Azure_Horizon posted:I really, really didn't need the imagery of Daenerys with a fat pink mast Need it? No. Want it? Yesssssssssss Time to wake the dragon!
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Niccy Bones posted:So the last thing I remember was Gurm put up a chapter from Winds of Winter on his terrible website. I think he came back from book signings in Europe and got all excited about the NFL draft. No mention of writing a new chapter, though, or even a page.
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May 11, 2012 13:18
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Technically, he still hasn't finished what he intended AFFC to be.
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Junkenstein posted:Technically, he still hasn't finished what he intended AFFC to be. Awesome! That means that he should have a ton of chapters already left over and it shouldn't take as long! Right..?
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Guy A. Person posted:Awesome! That means that he should have a ton of chapters already left over and it shouldn't take as long! Right..? Yeah don't worry WoW is already half done and should be out next year! - 2005
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May 11, 2012 18:34
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In some bizarro universe A Dream of Spring has already come out and it was really good and there are good posts in TVIV.
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Tony Danza Claus posted:In some bizarro universe A Dream of Spring has already come out and it was really good and there are good posts in TVIV. I've read convincing theories that GRRM's density is so high that it warps space/time around him and he exists in all possible universes at the same time. Therefore, the speed of ASoIaF's releases are consistent across the entire multiverse.
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Ouch. Anybody volunteers for trekking across multiple universes to piece together what Gurm originally intended for the series after ASOS? That way we might actually get a new book a few decades earlier.
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May 11, 2012 21:06
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Only way to trek so would be using the Gurmian gravity well.
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thornghost posted:I've read convincing theories that GRRM's density is so high that it warps space/time around him and he exists in all possible universes at the same time. Therefore, the speed of ASoIaF's releases are consistent across the entire multiverse. Think of spacetime as a stretched fabric. A GRRM placed upon that fabric will sink down into the fabric due to its great mass, and any lemoncakes placed near it will roll down the slope it creates, inevitably spiralling into the GRRM. Eventually the GRRM becomes so massive that not even text can escape its pull. Myrish swamps are neutron stars or something.
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sentientcarbon posted:Think of spacetime as a stretched fabric. A GRRM placed upon that fabric will sink down into the fabric due to its great mass, and any lemoncakes placed near it will roll down the slope it creates, inevitably spiralling into the GRRM. Eventually the GRRM becomes so massive that not even text can escape its pull. Quoting this because Einstein loving owned and managed to make a very easily-understandable metaphor which is still used in textbooks today. Seriously, go Einstein.
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He did the Wild Card run in 12 parsecs! GURMO's Word Processor Cursor paradox: If a book is being written, then at any given frozen point in time the book will be in a non-transitive state of "not being written", and the whole of time it takes to write the book is only a sum of these moments in time of the book not being written. And therefore while time continues to pass, the book continues not to be written. EDIT: Spoilerdinger's Zombie Cat: Upon finding out someone is watching Game of Thrones or has a GURM book in hand, blurting the red wedding will cause them to exist in a super position of both a spoiled and non-spoiled state. The waveform collapses when they respond by "Yeah I know that, I'm re-reading the books" versus "WHAT!@?  NO NO NO NO gently caress WHY  "
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I had a dream that Winds of Winter came out and I started reading it and something happened with Stannis but I can't remember what. I think I have the gurmsight, I must travel north and turn into a fat pink mast.
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The Slippery Nipple posted:I had a dream that Winds of Winter came out and I started reading it and something happened with Stannis but I can't remember what. I too had a ASOIAF dream, which eventually turned into a sex dream about my acting teacher. But the asoiaf part was like a family comedy film with Ned and Robert Baratheon in a sort of Daddy Day Care situation, trying to make ends meet by caring for a rowdy bunch of suburban Connecticut toddlers, in spite of problems at home w/ their own family lives. Heart-warming and non-stop laughs for whole family I give 10/10 would dream again. Acting teacher dream I give 8/10 for Myrish swamp but unnecessary reinforcement of my feelings for married faculty. Anyway the point is, hop on my back, old grandfather, we're heading north to meet the three-nippled breastplate. Carly Gay Dead Son fucked around with this message at 01:58 on May 12, 2012 |
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I spent a half hour on Thursday sperging about the GoT books to a friend who had only read half of the first book and gave up. It was when her eyes started to glaze that I realized I know far, far too much about this poo poo-stained series. I have felt the shameful glee of spoiling...and it was not enough to satisfy.
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empty sea posted:I spent a half hour on Thursday sperging about the GoT books to a friend who had only read half of the first book and gave up. It was when her eyes started to glaze that I realized I know far, far too much about this poo poo-stained series. True story: I'm at a friend's house right now and we just tried to convince his new GF to, at the very least, watch the show. End of episode 1, her: "this is stupid." I don't know whether to nerd out, or accept that she's 110% right. So I'm smoking a cig on the deck typing to you guys because I may have just realized I wasted a lot of time on books about making GBS threads and relative-loving.
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Well duh, the first, iunno, five episodes are dull as GRRM's poo poo.
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I think IRQ wrote this song about ASOIAF.
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