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its not like tbb posters have a long & proud history of praising books with outright fascist and racist themes, of course
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Feb 3, 2019 16:59
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uberkeyzer posted:bb poster 1: more praise for hitler's literary craft and prose mastery...my weapons are useless against it Exactly.
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Feb 3, 2019 17:06
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:pls stop your rap sheet is quite a read
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Feb 3, 2019 17:16
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uberkeyzer posted:your rap sheet is quite a read I can't imagine how dull I'd have to be to post for 13 years without incurring a probation.
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Feb 3, 2019 17:50
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:
quote:Hieronymus Alloy has given me a mod challenge that obligates me to praise racist and fascist artwork, because they think I'm being too negative. Please understand that I speak under coercion.
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Feb 3, 2019 18:11
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uberkeyzer posted:your rap sheet is quite a read lol get a load of this lil bitch
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Feb 3, 2019 19:08
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Feb 3, 2019 21:41
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chernobyl kinsman posted:lol get a load of this lil bitch Why does everyone in TBB post like they're really stupid? Is this the "house style"?
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Feb 3, 2019 21:51
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porfiria posted:Why does everyone in TBB post like they're really stupid? Is this the "house style"? Go cry about the sanctity of the white race somewhere else.
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Feb 3, 2019 22:51
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I found out a dumb mod in a video game forum got mad I was roasting dudes and gave me a probation at 1am and I didn't even notice till I checked my colony entry just now
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Bilirubin posted:Go cry about the sanctity of the white race somewhere else. Ah, it’s supposed to be funny, I see.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:17
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porfiria posted:Why does everyone in TBB post like they're really stupid? Is this the "house style"? chernobyl kinsman posted:lol get a load of this lil bitch
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Feb 3, 2019 23:20
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i had strange distressing dreams and woke up in a bad mood all thanks to sanderson. trying to read his novel has upset me on an existential level. how can someone devote so many hours to writing something so utterly dull and lifeless? did he look at the book in his head and think "yes, this is a story that needs to be told?" if he has any passion whatsoever for his work beyond interminable inventories of army camps and magical plate mail and eighty different conlang words that all mean "wizard who shoots lightning bolts from his rear end", it doesn't show. but the sheer amount of keyboard time required to type out 1500 pages suggests that yes, somewhere, deep down, he has a genuine drive to write what he writes, boring though it may be, pointless though it may be, devoid of any spark of joy and humour though it may be. but why?
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Feb 3, 2019 23:30
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Feb 3, 2019 23:31
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:it is satan's will
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Feb 3, 2019 23:32
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can someone who's read the book tell me where he ends up taking the slavery plotline with the parshmen and the parshendi and all the slave traders etc? i try to give authors the benefit of the doubt, but...
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Feb 3, 2019 23:37
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pikachode posted:i had strange distressing dreams and woke up in a bad mood all thanks to sanderson. trying to read his novel has upset me on an existential level. how can someone devote so many hours to writing something so utterly dull and lifeless? did he look at the book in his head and think "yes, this is a story that needs to be told?" if he has any passion whatsoever for his work beyond interminable inventories of army camps and magical plate mail and eighty different conlang words that all mean "wizard who shoots lightning bolts from his rear end", it doesn't show. but the sheer amount of keyboard time required to type out 1500 pages suggests that yes, somewhere, deep down, he has a genuine drive to write what he writes, boring though it may be, pointless though it may be, devoid of any spark of joy and humour though it may be. but why? There's one good scene in the novel. The tired general character uses his super-special warhammer for the purpose of digging a latrine in his camp, which is work usually reserved for slaves. While he does this he contemplates why the gods didn't send more practical devices, like super-special pickaxes, to do mundane laborer's work instead of having such a focus on fighting and killing all the time. While he does this there's a nice rhythm where the narration sounds the hammer banging between paragraphs of his thought, and everyone looks on thinking a general is crazy for lowering himself to doing menial work. I read ~900 pgs. of it and that was the only part I liked.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:43
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read the rest of the book pikachode posted:but he's a man of christ hes a mormon and thus a devotee of simon magus, father of all heresies
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Feb 3, 2019 23:49
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Nerdburger_Jansen posted:The tired general character uses his super-special warhammer for the purpose of digging a latrine in his camp chernobyl kinsman posted:read the rest of the book
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Feb 3, 2019 23:55
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Feb 3, 2019 23:59
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chernobyl kinsman posted:maybe it gets better
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pikachode posted:can someone who's read the book tell me where he ends up taking the slavery plotline with the parshmen and the parshendi and all the slave traders etc? i try to give authors the benefit of the doubt, but... A skim of the wiki (because of course there's a loving wiki) tells me that the Parshmen are a form of Parshendi that lack Spren, rending them dullwitted, although exposure to the Worldstorm can turn them into Voidbringers unless they use a Cleanshard to purge the violent Spren and replace them with a Peacespren created when a Sprensmith merges a Blankspren with one of the 16 types of Soulplasm. Of course, the poisoning of the Soulplasm by the Poiseromancers means that Hemiplasm is the only a available Plasmcasting available. I might have made some of that up. This is also the second time that Sanderson has had a magically inferior lower caste. Lots of fantasy has a worrying eugenicist undercurrent, but this current isn't exactly under anything.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Parshmen are a form of Parshendi that lack Spren, rending them dullwitted So... literally a magical version of the Chris Rock "black people and n-words" bit? Jesus screaming poo poo
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Antivehicular posted:So... literally a magical version of the Chris Rock "black people and n-words" bit? Jesus screaming poo poo
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pikachode posted:i had strange distressing dreams and woke up in a bad mood all thanks to sanderson. trying to read his novel has upset me on an existential level. how can someone devote so many hours to writing something so utterly dull and lifeless? did he look at the book in his head and think "yes, this is a story that needs to be told?" if he has any passion whatsoever for his work beyond interminable inventories of army camps and magical plate mail and eighty different conlang words that all mean "wizard who shoots lightning bolts from his rear end", it doesn't show. but the sheer amount of keyboard time required to type out 1500 pages suggests that yes, somewhere, deep down, he has a genuine drive to write what he writes, boring though it may be, pointless though it may be, devoid of any spark of joy and humour though it may be. but why? I've never read the Sand Man, but if this is causing you angst I probably shouldn't tell you there are World of Warcraft novels. And people read them.
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porfiria posted:I've never read the Sand Man, but if this is causing you angst I probably shouldn't tell you there are World of Warcraft novels. And people read them.
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Antivehicular posted:So... literally a magical version of the Chris Rock "black people and n-words" bit? Jesus screaming poo poo The Parshendi are pseudo-shapeshifters, able to periodically change forms with altered physical and psychological traits. So Warform gives you armoured plates but you'll be poo poo at abstract thinking, Mateform makes you uncontrollable horny. And then there's Genderstereotypeform: quote:Nimbleform has only been known to the Parshendi for the last three years. It's a general form that is lithe and careful. It is suited to fine motor skills and capable of scholarship. It is used when caring for young and doing work that requires dexterity. Few were spared this form, though it was more skilled at art. In Nimbleform, females have hairstrands and hints of breasts This is creepier than loving Bakker.
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holy poo poo, I have a copy of this book somewhere but never bothered to read it and now I feel relieved that I've been saved the trouble.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:The Parshendi are pseudo-shapeshifters, able to periodically change forms with altered physical and psychological traits. So Warform gives you armoured plates but you'll be poo poo at abstract thinking, Mateform makes you uncontrollable horny. And then there's Genderstereotypeform:
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does someone want to invite the brandon sanderson thread in here & have them explain themselves
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Strom Cuzewon posted:quote: This form sounds OP, Sanderson should nerf their Health Points or Charisma.
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Whoa how did this get passed over:quote:Parshendi females usually have small breasts, except in mateform. Parshendi in mateform have a hard time concentrating on anything productive though they seem to be more able to understand abstract concepts, as compared to Parshendi in warform.[2] Most couples enter the form and sequester themselves away from others for a year, then leave the form immediately after the female gives birth.
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only the fantasy genre allows us to explore the outer limits of the human imagination, like "what if strong but stupid" and "perhaps, racism"
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Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:only the fantasy genre allows us to explore the outer limits of the human imagination, like "what if strong but stupid" and "perhaps, racism" If someone was strong and smart they would be OP and if they were stupid and weak no one would play them.
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i'm starting to wish i'd kept reading, but please understand
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porfiria posted:Whoa how did this get passed over: I find Nimbleform way worse, at least Mateform sounds fairly egalitarian. And the idea of a race that has to mutate themselves to reproduce, and then spends a year loving themselves senseless is a hilarious mental image. Also god these names are boring. Almost like they're video game classes, and not something a real culture would come up with.
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