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DeadmansReach posted:Wait, wut? I like to interpret his posts the same way he seems to "interpret" media
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Alaois posted:I like to interpret his posts the same way he seems to "interpret" media Lol, Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a bad book with silly politics. You might as well get upset over someone calling A Kingdom Besieged: Book One of the Chaoswar Saga poo poo. Back on topic, I'd like to name Guy Gavriel Kay's novels except for maybe Last Light of the Sun as terrible. The sad thing is that they shouldn't be. Kay is a rare genre writer who can really tell stories about adults and their concerns. He can bring distant worlds and cultures to life, and he always has some interesting insight to offer, and his humanist ideals really come through. The problem is that he can't write. His prose is bad, he's excruciatingly unsubtle, and recycles the same narrative, thematic, and character beats from book to book. And that makes them almost more terrible than just regular bad novels, because it's so tragic to see the good book struggling to escape its shell. BravestOfTheLamps has a new favorite as of 20:37 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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Alaois posted:I like to interpret his posts the same way he seems to "interpret" media
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Lol, Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a bad book with silly politics. You might as well get upset over someone calling A Kingdom Besieged: Book One of the Chaoswar Saga poo poo. Having never read the book, I'm sure you're 100% correct, and it could never compare to the thematic and artistic masterpiece Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice
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Sham bam bamina! posted:You seem like a fun person. I take it you haven't read Lamps posts before, he is like a blander mechagodzilla or whatever he is called.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I take it you haven't read Lamps posts before, he is like a blander mechagodzilla or whatever he is called. Except he has a massive stick up his rear end about what he considers to be "proper criticism", while his criticism is the most shallow, banal poo poo in the world.
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Alaois posted:Except he has a massive stick up his rear end about what he considers to be "proper criticism", while his criticism is the most shallow, banal poo poo in the world. Lol I'm sorry for implying that the Chaoswar Saga was poo poo. I never read it, I just thought the title was hilarious. I didn't know it was so close to your heart. Or was it Kay?
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Lol I'm sorry for implying that the Chaoswar Saga was poo poo. I never read it, I just thought the title was hilarious. I didn't know it was so close to your heart. I'm tired of you showing up in every thread about media and making it actively less enjoyable to read with your smug head-up-your-own-rear end myopic bullshit, especially since you can't seem to form any kind of counter to ANY argument other than "lol you must like this thing cuz i made you mad" CSI co-creator Anthony Zuiker's Level 26: Dark Origins is amazingly awful, but don't take my word for it, watch the trailer to see for yourself! And that's not the only video, cause this is a diginovel. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 01:56 |
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Jesus Christ, settle down Alaois.
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 01:57 |
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I can't settle down! Squeegle has invaded my nightmares and only Steve Dark can save me!
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He's not wrong, but most people just sort of accept that about Lamps and move on.
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Alaois posted:I can't settle down! Squeegle has invaded my nightmares and only Steve Dark can save me! He's busy, but I can have Tom Clancy's Net Force there in twenty minutes
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 02:03 |
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Life is too short for grudges over posting
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Xarbala posted:He's not wrong, but most people just sort of accept that about Lamps and move on. Shhhh, I lurk PYF for the unexpected meltdowns over trivial poo poo. Don't ruin this for me.
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Alaois posted:CSI co-creator Anthony Zuiker's Level 26: Dark Origins is amazingly awful, but don't take my word for it, watch the trailer to see for yourself! And that's not the only video, cause this is a diginovel. I Don't Even Own a Television did an episode on it.
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awaiting someone to just quote pages off the Western Canon to show how the books they read are better than the one you read
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VanSandman posted:Shhhh, I lurk PYF for the unexpected meltdowns over trivial poo poo. Don't ruin this for me. Nice meltdown
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Alaois posted:CSI co-creator Anthony Zuiker's Level 26: Dark Origins is amazingly awful, but don't take my word for it, watch the trailer to see for yourself! And that's not the only video, cause this is a diginovel. With hyperlinks in the text, no less. I remember flipping through it at the library. It was kinda like reading a mid-90s point and click adventure game with Quicktime video cutscenes. There was also that piece of trash J.J. Abrams co-wrote where the REAL story was marginalia written by two different people in a library book. Gimmicky garbage.
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queserasera posted:With hyperlinks in the text, no less. I remember flipping through it at the library. It was kinda like reading a mid-90s point and click adventure game with Quicktime video cutscenes. Hey now, Abrams just thought of the idea, taking no inspiration from Pale Fire, House of Leaves, or any other book that tells the story through addenda. The other guy did all the actual writing.
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queserasera posted:With hyperlinks in the text, no less. I remember flipping through it at the library. It was kinda like reading a mid-90s point and click adventure game with Quicktime video cutscenes. yeah like therewolf said, he only contributed ideas. the story written in the margins of the book detailing the two nerds going through some amazing mystery/conspiracy is interesting enough (though probably better without the romance), but the prose of the book itself if i recall was really dire and unfun granted it was a fun way of experimenting with storytelling but i wasn't super impressed at the very least he didn't go full Mark z danielewski and just write unreadable gimmicks after the success of HoL
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Pastry of the Year posted:He's busy, but I can have Tom Clancy's Net Force there in twenty minutes I kind of enjoyed the early ones in that series.
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The_White_Crane posted:I kind of enjoyed the early ones in that series. Ha ha and I really enjoyed your shrimp experience, it's the one Comedy Goldmine I go back to again and again.
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Please, this is PYF terrible book Keep your PYF grudges in the fanart thread where they belong
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We need a PYF PYF Grudges thread.
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Plorkyeran posted:We need a PYF PYF Grudges thread. Pick one: Quotes thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3749412 Anyone remember that thread where.. Lost SA stuff thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2701257 Greatest sagas of the SA forums: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3784826 Probably the last one works best, but eh, it's not like any of them are really on point 100% of the time There's also Internet Necromancy -- help others find long lost internet junk http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3005662
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The military history thread has recently been talking about A World Lit Only By Fire, which seems to be a suitable candidate for this thread.Pistol_Pete posted:
Mr Enderby posted:btw, A World Lit Only by Fire also claims that peasants didn't wear any clothes in the summer. quote:THE DARK AGES were stark in every dimension. Famines and plague, culminating in the Black Death and its recurring pandemics, repeatedly thinned the population. Rickets afflicted the survivors. Extraordinary climatic changes brought storms and floods which turned into major disasters because the empire’s drainage system, like most of the imperial infrastructure, was no longer functioning. It says much about the Middle Ages that in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent. Most others were in such a state of disrepair that they were unusable; so were all European harbors until the eighth century, when commerce again began to stir. Among the lost arts was bricklaying; in all of Germany, England, Holland, and Scandinavia, virtually no stone buildings, except cathedrals, were raised for ten centuries. The serfs’ basic agricultural tools were picks, forks, spades, rakes, scythes, and balanced sickles. Because there was very little iron, there were no wheeled plowshares with moldboards. The lack of plows was not a major problem in the south, where farmers could pulverize light Mediterranean soils, but the heavier earth in northern Europe had to be sliced, moved, and turned by hand. Although horses and oxen were available, they were of limited use. The horse collar, harness, and stirrup did not exist until about A.D. 900. Therefore tandem hitching was impossible. Peasants labored harder, sweated more, and collapsed from exhaustion more often than their animals chitoryu12 posted:Also his justification for peasants walking around naked in the summer is that medieval people had no sense of self, or ego. Everyone but nobles went around with just a single name, with a nickname if they needed further identification, and would just take a surname from their occupation if necessary. He believes that the casual "anything goes" spelling utilized was due to medieval people literally not giving enough of a poo poo about their identity in the mortal world to care. As such, they had so little care for themselves as individuals that they also had no sense of privacy and would go dicks out whenever they felt like it. chitoryu12 posted:He said that "prosperous peasants" lived in a single room in a large building that also included the farm animals' pens and feed storage, and everyone in the family slept on a communal bed of vermin-filled straw and even had sex among everyone else. Travelers who stayed the night would be invited to sleep in the pile.
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quote:THE DARK AGES were stark in every dimension. Famines and plague, culminating in the Black Death and its recurring pandemics, repeatedly thinned the population. Rickets afflicted the survivors. Is the implication here that the Dark Ages were literally dark, meaning little to no sunlight, and that's why everyone had rickets?
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Wow that's a weird as gently caress fantasy setting.
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Jacob Burckhardt after the lobotomy. BravestOfTheLamps has a new favorite as of 11:31 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Pick posted:Ha ha and I really enjoyed your shrimp experience, it's the one Comedy Goldmine I go back to again and again. Link Link
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Xarbala posted:Link Link https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770505&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=29#top
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Tunicate posted:Wow that's a weird as gently caress fantasy setting. It's weird peasants couldn't use their ability to transcend time to get out of their poverty. lovely world building always ruins any fantasy series.
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CharlestheHammer posted:It's weird peasants couldn't use their ability to transcend time to get out of their poverty. They could, but their lack of ego meant they had also ascended beyond such petty concerns and knew they had to let their physical bodies die to bring about the bright future where a dude could shitpost a whole book about them.
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Tunicate posted:Wow that's a weird as gently caress fantasy setting.
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quote:He said that "prosperous peasants" lived in a single room in a large building that also included the farm animals' pens and feed storage, and everyone in the family slept on a communal bed of vermin-filled straw and even had sex among everyone else. Travelers who stayed the night would be invited to sleep in the pile. So in a way, we're right back to Thomas Kinkade's gently caress Cabin
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doodlebugs posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770505&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=29#top hey thanks That started out alright, and then Palpek bust into the thread like fuckin gangbusters holy poo poo
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Strategic Tea posted:So in a way, we're right back to Thomas Kinkade's gently caress Cabin Time to write my filthy-sex-peasant Twilight fanfic novel, Fifty Shades of Hay
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Xarbala posted:hey thanks Somewhere in there is a link to the Katering Show, which is a must-see. Utterly off-topic for this thread, but hilarious.
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C.M. Kruger posted:The military history thread has recently been talking about A World Lit Only By Fire, which seems to be a suitable candidate for this thread. I feel kind of silly because I loved this book, and have continued to recommend it to people despite not having read it since 10th grade. quote:In particular, Adams pointed out that Manchester's claims about diet, clothing, and medieval people's views of time and their sense of self all ran counter to the conclusions of 20th-century historians of the Middle Ages. Manchester’s views on the transition from medieval to modern civilization, though they were popular in the 19th and early 20th century (and still are current in some segments of contemporary culture), have long been rejected by professional scholars in the relevant fields. Despite this, the book is often taught at the beginning of College Board's AP European History class. Dammit, Mr. Treadwell, I trusted you!
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