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hast thou considered the tetrapod
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# ? Jan 10, 2018 23:22 |
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rabidsquid posted:hast thou considered the tetrapod Just gonna link the song so others don't have to go find it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfugn-7kZEk
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# ? Jan 10, 2018 23:35 |
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the sunset tree is the best album ever written, do not at me
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# ? Jan 10, 2018 23:38 |
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Elyv posted:Honestly, the Vraska section was fine. Not amazing, but fine. The Kumena section was...not fine. Literally the Kumena section: Yes! I made it, I'm first! Total almighty power is mine! Wait, what? Vampires? Get away from me, what are you doing, let me go. *gets hurled out the window* AAAAHHHHhhhhhhhh...... *crunch*
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# ? Jan 10, 2018 23:44 |
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An update to the Arena beta to add Rivals next week was confirmed on the twitch steam this afternoon. Sounded like limited and BO3 will not be included in the update though.
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Rigel posted:Literally the Kumena section: Always knew that guy was a jabroni.
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# ? Jan 10, 2018 23:52 |
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rabidsquid posted:the sunset tree is the best album ever written, do not at me @rabidsquid then maybe link to it to share it with others
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# ? Jan 10, 2018 23:52 |
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I started typing out a jerkoff-smart contribution to the olde timey dialogue convo, but I'm just going to post this review of The Name of the Wind and Children of Hurin that gets at my point better. The long and short of it is that the issue isn't dialect or register, but the characters in most contemporary fantasy are recognizably modern in their worldview, and not shaped by premodern institutions and beliefs.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 00:00 |
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Flip Yr Wig posted:I started typing out a jerkoff-smart contribution to the olde timey dialogue convo, but I'm just going to post this review of The Name of the Wind and Children of Hurin that gets at my point better. The long and short of it is that the issue isn't dialect or register, but the characters in most contemporary fantasy are recognizably modern in their worldview, and not shaped by premodern institutions and beliefs. Thanks, this got at the core of what was bugging me, I think. "This speaks to a broader state of affairs in which style—the language and form of the novel—is seen as an unimportant adjunct to the "story." It is not. A bourgeois discursive style constructs a bourgeois world. If it is used to describe a medieval world it necessarily mismatches what it describes, creating a milieu that is only an anachronism, a theme park, or a WoW gaming environment rather than an actual place. This degrades the ability of the book properly to evoke its fictional setting, and therefore denies the book the higher heroic possibilities of its imaginative premise."
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 00:15 |
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Flip Yr Wig posted:I started typing out a jerkoff-smart contribution to the olde timey dialogue convo, but I'm just going to post this review of The Name of the Wind and Children of Hurin that gets at my point better. The long and short of it is that the issue isn't dialect or register, but the characters in most contemporary fantasy are recognizably modern in their worldview, and not shaped by premodern institutions and beliefs. quote:Rothfuss is a skilled writer, with good storytelling instincts I can only roll my eyes so much.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 00:18 |
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the fictional setting of mtg is hopping across multiple planes where magic is way more advanced than technology, its not shitfarmers in low fantasy vietnam
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 00:23 |
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rabidsquid posted:the sunset tree is the best album ever written, do not at me I am willing to accept this point if you admit that Tallahassee is a close second.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 00:25 |
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PJOmega posted:I can only roll my eyes so much. Rothfuss is a loving fraud. He also took a page from martin which makes him a special kind of rear end in a top hat.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 00:38 |
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rabidsquid posted:the fictional setting of mtg is hopping across multiple planes where magic is way more advanced than technology, its not shitfarmers in low fantasy vietnam It's more about how you could almost imagine the characters saying "L.O.L. O.M.G." out loud---because they're taken straight out of our own world---than about the specific realities of the fantasy.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 00:48 |
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Sickening posted:Rothfuss is a loving fraud. He also took a page from martin which makes him a special kind of rear end in a top hat. Oh trust me I'm agreeing. He's in the top 5 of worst yet popular authors of the time. I'd drag him only behind Cline, Meyers, and E.L. James.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 01:22 |
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Rinkles posted:It's more about how you could almost imagine the characters saying "L.O.L. O.M.G." out loud---because they're taken straight out of our own world---than about the specific realities of the fantasy. Look, talented fantasy authors could probably invest the time and energy required to think through how each of the planeswalkers' life on their plane of origin would help create their distinct personas based on how those planes reflect specific geohistorical realities of our world, but that's not the world we live in. They're superheroes, and I don't expect the meagerly paid creative team interns to care much more than that.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 01:54 |
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Flip Yr Wig posted:Look, talented fantasy authors could probably invest the time and energy required to think through how each of the planeswalkers' life on their plane of origin would help create their distinct personas based on how those planes reflect specific geohistorical realities of our world, Turns out even wotc managed a little bit of that (albeit not in a very subtle way), until they decided they needed something a little bit more whitebread to put together their superfriends and retconned it.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 02:51 |
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I mean, you guys are right: the characters in the story don't really have a belief system or way of looking at the world or anything which really maps to the way pre-modern societies looked at the world. It doesn't bother me here because it's just not something I expect from mediocre genre fiction that gets released weekly.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 03:07 |
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Elyv posted:I mean, you guys are right: the characters in the story don't really have a belief system or way of looking at the world or anything which really maps to the way pre-modern societies looked at the world. It doesn't bother me here because it's just not something I expect from mediocre genre fiction that gets released weekly. Yeah this too. I don't begrudge people enjoying the lore by any means, but I don't see why anyone would expect it to be anything but pure schlock.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 03:46 |
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One of my favorite things about early MTG was that it had that high-fantasy gravitas, when the flavor/lore was more about giving us little bits of a world and less about telling a complete story. Anyone else remember the Love Song of Night and Day? Also I seem to recall some of the books (the Jeff Grubb ones, about Ice Age etc) being actually good but I read them when I was 11 so who knows.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 03:50 |
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Rules question. Tyrant's Choice reads: "Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life." Is a player who has no creatures able to choose death, even if they have nothing to sacrifice, because it says "each"? Or would they be forced to choose torture, as they cannot fulfill the requirements of that option? What I'm saying is, can I use this as a potential 2-mana 8 damage pseudo-burn spell?
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 05:36 |
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Matsuri posted:Rules question. Tyrant's Choice reads: They can vote whatever they want.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 05:40 |
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literally Patrick rothfuss I mean holy poo poo. posted:
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 05:43 |
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Lone Goat posted:They can vote whatever they want. I figured as much. Edit: I misread the card. Not as good as I thought. Framboise fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Jan 11, 2018 |
# ? Jan 11, 2018 05:46 |
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You have no idea how quickly I stopped reading that
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 05:57 |
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My main context for Rothfuss is that the McElroy brothers are fans and friends of his, and this makes me really disappointed.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 06:14 |
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I like Rothfus as a personality most of the time but not a writer. I love the semicolon; their use is crucial.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 07:00 |
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Flip Yr Wig posted:My main context for Rothfuss is that the McElroy brothers are fans and friends of his, and this makes me really disappointed. the good good boys are, in fact, bad
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 07:22 |
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the cult of the mackle boys is legitimately one of the strangest phenomenon, i just dont get it
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 07:26 |
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rabidsquid posted:the cult of the mackle boys is legitimately one of the strangest phenomenon, i just dont get it my favourite is the one who sounds like his tongue is clearly too large for his mouth
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 07:53 |
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Bravestofthelamps might be one of the shittiest posters on this site who is a foot in the grave from getting permabanned, but god drat if I don't treasure those 50 pages he spent describing in meticulous detail why The Name of The Wind is Bad and You are Bad for Liking It citation: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3365216&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=122 A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Jan 11, 2018 |
# ? Jan 11, 2018 08:36 |
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Tainen posted:Agreed. Aside from the part where Lilli is like "we ain't together but we can still gently caress if you want", my favorite part was Jace owning Alhammarret and how gruesome it was Yeah this was legitimately pretty loving horrifying, the description of someone's brain being so broken that they can't breathe automatically or control their limbs or interpret any sensory information. Lets Pickle fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Jan 11, 2018 |
# ? Jan 11, 2018 09:21 |
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Rinkles posted:Thanks, this got at the core of what was bugging me, I think. I dunno, this cuts pretty close to the whole "why is there gender equality in this fantasy setting, it's not historically accurate"
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 11:25 |
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A big flaming stink posted:Bravestofthelamps might be one of the shittiest posters on this site who is a foot in the grave from getting permabanned, but god drat if I don't treasure those 50 pages he spent describing in meticulous detail why The Name of The Wind is Bad and You are Bad for Liking It Not gonna read BoTL, but basically every friend of mine who's read that book has said it's terrible Probably has something to do with the Mary Stu protagonist who's the best at everything and can do no wrong.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 14:38 |
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Barry Shitpeas posted:I dunno, this cuts pretty close to the whole "why is there gender equality in this fantasy setting, it's not historically accurate" It really doesn’t. Wanting characters to have an actually distinct voice doesn’t have much to do with thinly veiled attempts to keep women out of the hobby. If the writing is good you should be able to tell who’s talking without being told because characters have distinct mannerisms and ways of speaking. If the writing is not good you have to distinguish them by what they talk ABOUT because they all have the same voice, snarky 20-something superhero. Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Jan 11, 2018 |
# ? Jan 11, 2018 15:03 |
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Barry Shitpeas posted:I dunno, this cuts pretty close to the whole "why is there gender equality in this fantasy setting, it's not historically accurate" It sure doesn't.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 15:18 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:It really doesn’t. Wanting characters to have an actually distinct voice doesn’t have much to do with thinly veiled attempts to keep women out of the hobby. That's a different criticism though
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 16:09 |
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I'll be honest here, I have no fuckin clue what you nerds are talking about over this last couple of pages other than MTG's bad fantasy poo poo, but this is your friendly reminder that this is a game with the target demographic of children and young adults. The writing is intentionally done.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 16:10 |
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I personally cannot fully enjoy the children's card game unless the tie-in fiction writing is on par with like Yeats or Hemingway.
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 16:29 |
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I personally cannot fully enjoy the children's card game unless the tie-in fiction writing is on par with like Yeats or Hemingway. Faulkner or go to discard phase
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# ? Jan 11, 2018 16:34 |