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I don't remember. Definitely not the worst thing you could do though. I watched a kid use a microphone stand as in impromptu slide at an open jam night once. With a borrowed Les Paul. That one ended quickly.
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The worst thing you can do to someone's instrument is bore a hole in it with a drill and then gently caress it while audibly noting that you're thinking about their mom. So obviously these books are trash and Rothfuss is a hack.
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Mar 6, 2017 07:39
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You could just gently caress the sound hole.  I think the worst thing you could do to a musician's instrument is turn it into a bass guitar. No one likes hanging out with those guys.
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Mar 6, 2017 08:04
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I thought it was using a musician's instrument to serenade and seduce their mother.
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kenny powerzzz posted:I don't remember. Definitely not the worst thing you could do though. I watched a kid use a microphone stand as in impromptu slide at an open jam night once. With a borrowed Les Paul. That one ended quickly. I like to play the guitar with sandpaper and an electric drill.
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Reene posted:This is old hat: http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2012/02/concerning-hobbits-love-and-movie-adaptations/ Look I know we shouldn't judge the author's work from the author's weird ramblings and whatnot. I've never liked the personal Rothfuss hate train, when I'd rather be criticising the books rather than the man. (Though admittedly it is hard to disassociate when talking about a first person narrative that talks about how great the protagonist is and does come off like a wanky power fantasy, so of course it will happen more than with other authors...) I also hate it when people hyperbolise over something weird someone said and they're all like "JESUS CHRIST" "that's what a serial killer sounds like"... quote:You know that it’s going to be like? It’s going to be like wandering onto an internet porn site and seeing a video of a girl I had a crush on in high school. You probably knew someone like her. The smart girl. The shy girl. The one who wore glasses and was a little socially awkward. The one who screwed up the curve in chemistry so you got an A- instead of an A. You would think someone who compares porn actors to violent junkies was anti-porn. Maybe that's why he feels the need to paint it where he's like "Oh pardon me, sirs. I, a grown man, appear to have wandered onto this hub of pornography by accident. How very droll."
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Did you guys think that a fantasy author would have Good views on women or something
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I don't know how creepy it is, but it certainly does imply either that sex workers don't read books and aren't smart, or that what he really loved about her was her shyness and awkwardness, not her intelligence and sweet nature.
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Mar 7, 2017 13:09
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It's nothing really new. Assuming for a second that he actually is a feminist, there's a pretty big divide with feminists, at least ones I've seen online, and being a sex-positive woman. Just look at the response to Emma Watson showing off some skin. She's apparently not a feminist any more because she decided to express herself. In Rothfuss's case, I think he just puts women on a pedestal as these mystical, perfect fey beings who are pure, innocent things who need protecting. The kind of condescending poo poo that can happen with male feminists. They kind of miss the point.
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Mar 7, 2017 13:15
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Rothfuss is a Nice Guy. He is very invested in being a Nice Guy, and don't question his feminism, you slut.
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HopperUK posted:I don't know how creepy it is, but it certainly does imply either that sex workers don't read books and aren't smart, or that what he really loved about her was her shyness and awkwardness, not her intelligence and sweet nature. Or both. I also kinda got a vibe that what he REALLY liked about her was either her inferred virginal status, or that he fell in love with a vague outline of a person he made up in his mind rather than actually getting to know her. Because "She likes books and has tits!" doesn't seem to me like he knows her very well on a personal level at all.
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It can be discomfiting to come across a familiar face like that but geez laweez that's a lot of words to dedicate to "MUH WAIFU HAZ BEEN DEFILED" Why does he care so much about someone he used to know doing porn? Mind your own business Pat
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HIJK posted:It can be discomfiting to come across a familiar face like that but geez laweez that's a lot of words to dedicate to "MUH WAIFU HAZ BEEN DEFILED" Doesn't he also have a wife too? Wonder how she feels about that.
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pentyne posted:Doesn't he also have a wife too? Wonder how she feels about that. Ahahahahahahaha yup, oh gosh.
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It's kind of creepy to speculate about some dude's personal life.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It's kind of creepy to speculate about some dude's personal life. It was very creepy indeed for him to have written the stuff that forced us to speculate about what in his personal life led him to think that was ok.
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Guys, I don't think what he wrote really happened to him. He's just making a labored metaphor about movies using women as the object.
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Rothfuss posted:like watching Winnie the Pooh do heroin and then glass someone in a bar fight. Not gonna lie I'd kinda like to see that.
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Jimbot posted:It's nothing really new. Assuming for a second that he actually is a feminist, there's a pretty big divide with feminists, at least ones I've seen online, and being a sex-positive woman. Just look at the response to Emma Watson showing off some skin. She's apparently not a feminist any more because she decided to express herself. In Rothfuss's case, I think he just puts women on a pedestal as these mystical, perfect fey beings who are pure, innocent things who need protecting. The kind of condescending poo poo that can happen with male feminists. Except in his writings women are one-dimensional and often just sex objects. Complete with the tavern girl who literally has Sexdar and therefore knew Rothfuss's self-insert wasn't lying about his totally awesome time with the fairy sex goddess.
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We always said "bottling someone" if you smashed anything glass against their head in a fight, but I really like "glass" to mean the same thing. I may start using that.
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Glassing is stabbing someone with a broken bottle.
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Glassing is nuking from orbit huge surface areas of a planet.
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HopperUK posted:I don't know how creepy it is, but it certainly does imply either that sex workers don't read books and aren't smart, or that what he really loved about her was her shyness and awkwardness, not her intelligence and sweet nature. Half the sex workers I know of are huge loving nerds who read comics and play D&D and poo poo, dude is a dumbass
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Lightning Lord posted:Half the sex workers I know of are huge loving nerds who read comics and play D&D and poo poo, dude is a dumbass That sounds.... unlikely.
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It's pretty common among the sex workers I know as well. Tons of them are huge dorks. ETA: I mean it's a moot point because the way he talks about sex workers is incredibly dehumanizing regardless of their loving hobbies but v  v
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Benson Cunningham posted:That sounds.... unlikely. His mom isn't, his sister is, that's half, man.
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All I mean to say is that a low percentage of people play D&D, so for a high percentage of sex workers to would be strange. Anyway, who wants to talk about Hyperion? That book loving owns.
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Benson Cunningham posted:All I mean to say is that a low percentage of people play D&D, so for a high percentage of sex workers to would be strange. Lots of weird or fringe preferences are strongly correlated, though. If you've got one you're much more likely to have several. "She likes D&D, anime, goth poo poo, AND screwing guys for money? What are the odds?!"
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Benson Cunningham posted:Anyway, who wants to talk about Hyperion? That book loving owns. At this point I'm thinking Hyperion was a fluke - Simmons puts out so much crap he sometimes just happens to do a good book by accident.
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A human heart posted:Did you guys think that a fantasy author would have Good views on women or something 
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anilEhilated posted:It does. Thing is, each sequel owns less. Exponentially. The first sequel is pretty good. Hyperion will feel pretty incomplete without it. Do not read either Endymion under any circumstances.
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im surprised it happened but this hack managed to make a good character in rhin. the game had problems but he wasn't one of them, somehow.
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Mr. Unlucky posted:im surprised it happened but this hack managed to make a good character in rhin. the game had problems but he wasn't one of them, somehow. Probably because he was forced to work in a shared creative universe and given restrictions on what he was and wasn't allowed to do.
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Or...... he just made a good character? People aren't usually 100% terrible at anything.
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shirts and skins posted:The first sequel is pretty good. Hyperion will feel pretty incomplete without it. Do not read either Endymion under any circumstances. The Endymion books had some cool things in them (like the FTL ships that had no kinetic dampeners in them so they murdered all of the passengers and then reformed them using the Cruciforms) but other than that, it was kinda bad. Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion were pretty good though.
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Wherein OFP (Our Friend Pat) suggests it is easier to write tawdry fan fiction than a complex narrative of 800+ pages to the surprise of no one. Please don't read the actual fan fiction he wrote. It's just so weeaboo.
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A dude I know got super, super mad when I showed him this thread. It's odd too he's normally really easy going about nerd poo poo
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Lightning Lord posted:A dude I know got super, super mad when I showed him this thread. It's odd too he's normally really easy going about nerd poo poo I didn't realize jivjov had friends. Or was this guy mad at Rothfuss?
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Benson Cunningham posted:Wherein OFP (Our Friend Pat) suggests it is easier to write tawdry fan fiction than a complex narrative of 800+ pages to the surprise of no one. Rothfuss's original stuff certainly reads like fanfic. I can think of a lot of fanfiction that's miles ahead of Rothfuss though, even the silly romantic stuff.
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