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In It For The Tank posted:The Confederacy was saved at the last minute by the sudden arrival of another army. The south obtained dragons. This could work.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:If they don't how do they survive as a pariah state? yeah if you transported the csa and usa to the current day you'd def have a north korea/south korea situation.
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banned from Starbucks posted:So what's the rest of the world like? Did we stop the nazis while simultaneously fighting our own multiple civil wars? Does no one else give a poo poo we have slaves? Did Germany try to stop us? Is Hitler the good guy? I have so many questions I mean as long as they are making us buy in to a surviving, slave-holding contemporary Confederacy may as well get cheeky and have them join the Central Powers for WWI and The Axis for WWII. Groovelord Neato posted:yeah if you transported the csa and usa to the current day you'd def have a north korea/south korea situation. Just some Juche boys never meanin' no harm Now they're runnin' from the imperialists like a couple modern day Choe Yon-Gongs
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Jul 20, 2017 22:19
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You want a free girl but you need the slave pussy
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“We had an assistant named Dave Hill,” say Benioff and Weiss. “One day last summer he walked into our office and said, ‘You know that kid whose family emigrated from England? The one who runs to Virginia to witness the execution of John Brown?’ ‘Yeah?’ ‘Well,’ said Dave, ‘doesn’t it make sense that he’d stay in the Union and become an actor? Where else is he going to go?’ ‘You’re right,’ we said. ‘That does make sense.’ ‘And what if during a play, he’s the one who ends up killing Lincoln?’ This year, Dave Hill was hanged for treason.
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Jul 20, 2017 22:32
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I could absolutely see slavery lasting at least as long as apartheid did in South Africa. It made a shitload of money.
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Jul 21, 2017 00:15
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banned from Starbucks posted:You want a free girl but you need the slave pussy Yikes Now I kinda wanna see this show
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Jul 21, 2017 00:41
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I mean as long as they are making us buy in to a surviving, slave-holding contemporary Confederacy may as well get cheeky and have them join the Central Powers for WWI and The Axis for WWII. Harry Turtledove already did an entire series of books detailing an alternate history where the South won, starting with How Few Remain. It also featured an aging General Custer. It's fairly dry and I stopped reading partway through the WWII era when I realized he was pretty much just taking a history book and cuntpasting Confederate in for Nazi.
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banned from Starbucks posted:You want a free girl but you need the slave pussy lmao
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Retardog posted:cuntpasting this is a new one for me
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I'm looking forward to Confederacy because of the sheer amount of tweed that is probably going to be worn by the north.
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Maybe it'll be a good show but I'm not sure right now is the best time for it culturally. It just seems lovely to launch a show like that in a time where white supremacy and confederate symbolism are a big concern.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I could absolutely see slavery lasting at least as long as apartheid did in South Africa. It made a shitload of money. Apartheid is more akin to Jim Crowe than slavery and even then it only lasted about 40 years. Slavery just doesn't make sense in a post industrial society where sweat shops and migrant labor actually cost less than buying and keeping slaves.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Maybe it'll be a good show but I'm not sure right now is the best time for it culturally. It just seems lovely to launch a show like that in a time where white supremacy and confederate symbolism are a big concern. Is it meant to be commentary on this? Only outcome I can come up with is that it is going to make a lot of already angry dickheads even more angry and probably handle the northern "good guys" in a weird/lovely way as well.
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I'm mostly concerned that D&D are the ones writing this, because I don't trust them to handle a delicate subject like that well.
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Jul 21, 2017 02:36
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Imagine the exposition about the history of northern reconstruction in a brothel full of exposed boobs and dicks.
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Jul 21, 2017 02:43
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I didn't understand shipping until Tormund met Brienne
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pyrotek posted:They turned down GoT millions to work on that, wow They've been doing it for like 6 years now and remember next season doesn't come out until 2019. I'd be sick of it too. Plus hey maybe they can get someone who can write.
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JBP posted:Is it meant to be commentary on this? Only outcome I can come up with is that it is going to make a lot of already angry dickheads even more angry and probably handle the northern "good guys" in a weird/lovely way as well. I'm so confident all of this is exactly what will happen I'd be willing to toxx on it.
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Max posted:I'm mostly concerned that D&D are the ones writing this, because I don't trust them to handle a delicate subject like that well. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah. Hopefully HBO just allowed this project to get them to agree to more GoT episodes and it will fall the gently caress apart as soon as GoT ends.
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SirKibbles posted:They've been doing it for like 6 years now and remember next season doesn't come out until 2019. I'd be sick of it too. Plus hey maybe they can get someone who can write. I understand getting sick of GoT but not being excited to make a show with that premise.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Maybe it'll be a good show but I'm not sure right now is the best time for it culturally. It just seems lovely to launch a show like that in a time where white supremacy and confederate symbolism are a big concern.
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Jul 21, 2017 14:51
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SirKibbles posted:remember next season doesn't come out until 2019. When did this happen? Have a source link?
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Jul 21, 2017 15:59
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SirKibbles posted:They've been doing it for like 6 years now and remember next season doesn't come out until 2019. I'd be sick of it too. Plus hey maybe they can get someone who can write. If that's true, maybe the Winds of Winter will come out before...just kidding, it's never coming out.
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I imagine it's like being a chef who's a huge fan of a particular cuisine, getting your dream job at a Michelin-starred restaurant. And after a few years of the freshest, most incredible ingredients they start expecting you to make meals out of lard and sawdust. And for the most part the diners still eat this up but you know it's trash.
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Jul 21, 2017 16:26
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I've always got it in my head that they'll finish got with a movie. Given the built in fan base it wouldn't be a bad idea to make a $200m film and turn over some Marvel money.
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JBP posted:I've always got it in my head that they'll finish got with a movie. Given the built in fan base it wouldn't be a bad idea to make a $200m film and turn over some Marvel money. Hahaha, are you kidding? People would hate that, they'd unsubscribe from HBO in droves.
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Jul 21, 2017 16:34
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HBO already said that they're not gonna gently caress over their subscribers like that.
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Jul 21, 2017 16:35
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Ah right. I live in Australia so subscribing to something to watch this show is an alien concept to me. Just make a Bronn and Tyrion buddy cop film instead.
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Jul 21, 2017 16:37
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Can't wait for The Winds of Winter, which will be out in 2018 for sure.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Can't wait for The Winds of Winter, which will be out in 2018 for sure. I love how even if WoW comes out it just means another 5 year wait at minimum for A Dream of Spring. And that's a conservative estimate considering he's now taken 6 years to finish a book that's like 25% composed of poo poo that was already written and cut from the last book. And I'd bet my house that GRRM either officially gives up or dies before then.
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Max posted:I'm mostly concerned that D&D are the ones writing this, because I don't trust them to handle a delicate subject like that well. From what I can gather its going to set in an alternative version of the modern day though, so if they wanted to be funny about it they could always just depict a society that isn't actually that far off what it is now.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I love how even if WoW comes out it just means another 5 year wait at minimum for A Dream of Spring. And that's a conservative estimate considering he's now taken 6 years to finish a book that's like 25% composed of poo poo that was already written and cut from the last book. And I'd bet my house that GRRM either officially gives up or dies before then. I believe the conspiracy theory that the reason it's taking so long is that he's writing the last two books simultaneously. Let's go Big George.
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After two books of build up, all I want is for poo poo to pop off in tWoW. If aDoS never comes out I may be able to deal. As it is, tWoW is the only way I'll get an answer to the Cat/Jaime/Brienne cliffhanger. Everything else I can guess or infer from how the show did it.
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I just want TWOW to resolve the storylines I care about. I know how the story is going to end on a broad level: some combination of Jon, Dany, and Bran do something magical and contrived to stop the Others at great personal cost, and someone assumes rulership of the broken Seven Kingdoms through the winter. The epilogue is set as spring arrives and hope returns to the world and Jon's hand had not pained him in nineteen years. The end.
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When GRRM dies, the troll will be the books had been finished for years and he just was some twisted sadist. Probably not, but you better believe the estate will get ghost writers in and tie this poo poo up.
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It's nerdy as hell but I want to read the Blackfyre theory being confirmed.
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In It For The Tank posted:I just want TWOW to resolve the storylines I care about. Pretty much. I like Feast and Dance a lot, much more than most people seem to, but if I don't get some kind of resolution to everything they set up these blue balls are going to kill me. I want to know what happens in Winterfell, with Cat and what the hell book Sansa is moving toward. I also want to see some actual consequences for Jon coming back to life. Even if he's still mostly himself in there, I can't see GRRM handwaving the resurrection as lazily as the show did.
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esperterra posted:I also want to see some actual consequences for Jon coming back to life. Even if he's still mostly himself in there, I can't see GRRM handwaving the resurrection as lazily as the show did. Yeah, in the show is like he recovered from a flu or something. Nobody even mentions it
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