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I was thinking this morning that the cobblestones actually could have been an interesting detail that added a fantastic element to the dangers and powers of magic but he wasted the opportunity because he used the word mend. As has been stated, you don't really mend cobblestones. You'd tear them out and put new ones in. He should have said that no matter what they did, the place was twisted or uneven or horses still broke their legs or cart wheels still shattered despite it looking flat. Imagine a city where there's a superstition to avoid a certain point in the road and everyone goes around it. A foreigner shows up and doesn't understand it and no one will explain it to him. So one day he's in a hurry and tries to walk across and trips and breaks his neck. Was it because there's some elemental power at play that changes the geometry or was he just in a hurry and being careless?
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Congrats, you are a better writer than Rothfuss I think he just spits out prose, and doesn't go back and think about what any of his flowery bullshit actually means or implies.
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Mar 11, 2019 01:43
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The plot being wrapped up is pretty easy because we just need to see how things went sour and the faerie beasts got loosed on the world, Kvothe has to kill a king, and a couple other dumb things sewn up. It will end with Kvothe returning to awesomeness, now even awesomer that he's had to eat crow. All of this could be wrapped up in 100,000 words. The problem is if he wrote it that way it would be inconsistent with the plodding pace of the other books. It needs at least 3 threads that have nothing to do with anything, school/debt problems, banging lots of maidens and saying you're welcome, and lots of lunch room talk.
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BananaNutkins posted:The plot being wrapped up is pretty easy because we just need to see how things went sour and the faerie beasts got loosed on the world, Kvothe has to kill a king, and a couple other dumb things sewn up. It will end with Kvothe returning to awesomeness, now even awesomer that he's had to eat crow. You forgot not banging Denna
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Mar 11, 2019 07:15
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Five chapters of Denna telling Kvothe how wonderful he is and then getting mad when he asks her to be his prostitute girlfriend
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Mar 11, 2019 11:10
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Scholtz posted:
lmfao goddamn
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Mar 12, 2019 13:51
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Baby man.
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Mar 12, 2019 15:26
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Scholtz posted:
Thanks, I hate it.
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Mar 12, 2019 15:43
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That's a masterclass troll move.
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I have to admit I’m a little impressed at how committed Rothfuss is to not writing. GRRM is still the master though.
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HIJK posted:I have to admit I’m a little impressed at how committed Rothfuss is to not writing. GRRM is still the master though. I love that his response to “when’s the next book coming out” is to get huffy and go “STOP ASKING MEEE”
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mewse posted:I love that his response to “when’s the next book coming out” is to get huffy and go “STOP ASKING MEEE” He got on the groundfloor of "I get paid when people watch me and my buddies play DnD" grift and those events certainly take less time than writing a book. Also, he can say he weaved a story simply by reacting to what a dungeonmaster throws at him, with some joke or some sort of heroic saying or whatever. It's like you're actually there.
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Patrick Rothfuss posted:I love Rick and Morty with a powerful love, and I’ve played D&D since the 5th grade,” Rothfuss said in the press release from IDW. “So when they approached me about writing a story with both of them together? That’s some serious you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut butter $#!& right there. I’m in. I’m all the way in. I’m gettin’ that chocolate all up in the peanut butter. Like, deep in. All the way in. It’s going to be sticky and delicious.
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Never accept a PB&J sandwich from Rothfuss.
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While a silly D&D + Rick & Morty crossover sounds like it could be fun, I will not be purchasing it solely to avoid giving Rothfuss a goddamn thing.
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Mar 12, 2019 22:24
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I'm pickle riiick!
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Mar 12, 2019 22:25
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:I'm pickle riiick! haha lmao
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:I'm pickle riiick! What did you think was going to happen when you rolled a 1 on the wild magic table?
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I follow Rothfuss on GoodReads and when the Rick and Morty comics started coming out he kept posting on there about how he'd love to write for them, it'd be such a great project for him, it'd be wonderful to contribute as a fan and author, etc. Guessing he leaves that part out of the interview.
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Dienes posted:I follow Rothfuss on GoodReads and when the Rick and Morty comics started coming out he kept posting on there about how he'd love to write for them, it'd be such a great project for him, it'd be wonderful to contribute as a fan and author, etc. Guessing he leaves that part out of the interview. It was an omission of three parts.
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I'm... Roger Stoooone?
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:I'm... Roger Stoooone? Going with the recent ban, I’d say pretty accurate.
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pseudanonymous posted:It was an omission of three parts. Holy poo poo 
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Mar 13, 2019 04:20
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Since BotL is banned and Rothfart isn't going to write anything but Rick & Morty, what are we supposed to talk about here now? Is this the silence of three parts??
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Well, in the ASoIaF thread we usually talk about Rupaul's Drag Race.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Well, in the ASoIaF thread we usually talk about Rupaul's Drag Race. Is that show similar to GoT?
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I haven't actually watched it. I'm a big fan of double entendres and puns though.
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mewse posted:Is that show similar to GoT? it's a lot better
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my bony fealty posted:it's a lot better It really is
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my bony fealty posted:it's a lot better It has more magic and fantasy than KKC
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From the AV Club on what fictional bar you would want to hang out in: The Eolian. This is one of The Kingkiller Chronicles’ best establishments, the bar residents of Imre and university students have to pay a whole jot to enter. But it’s worth it. Once you’re inside you’re treated to the best music from the best musicians in the Small Kingdoms, there’s some solid people watching with rich folk staking out potential patronages, and scamps like Kvothe keep the entertainment fresh with his clever tricks that get him into trouble but keep the audience entertained. I’d love to sit back over a mug of metheglin while Kvothe plays the equivalent of a lullaby and sweats and labors over his lute, making it look like an impressive technical feat, then plays a monstrously difficult song and makes it look boringly easy, all to humiliate a noble who dismissed him for playing “folk music.” I’d be among the audience fooled by the trick, but it’d be so worth it to watch it unfold.
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Poisonous link.
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Captain Hotbutt posted:From the AV Club on what fictional bar you would want to hang out in: Sounds like boring baby poo poo to me. Take me to the Total Recall bar.
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I've posted this before, but loving up "Teinkle Twinkle Little Star" isn't a joke, it just makes you incompetent.
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ElGroucho posted:Sounds like boring baby poo poo to me. Take me to the Total Recall bar. 
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I've posted this before, but loving up "Teinkle Twinkle Little Star" isn't a joke, it just makes you incompetent. Agreed. I'm a performer. Played a stringed instrument on stage, even. If you gently caress up, especially at something everyone knows, the best you can hope for is merely losing the audience. Worst case, you're dodging projectiles and wondering if you can get to your car in one piece.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I've posted this before, but loving up "Teinkle Twinkle Little Star" isn't a joke, it just makes you incompetent. IIRC he didn't gently caress it up, he just made it look like it was super difficult so idk, he had his tongue poking out and was grimacing a lot? I'm pretty sure the passage is about as descriptive as 'i played this one easy song and made it look super difficult and then i played a real toughie but looked just so bored while i did it' Captain Hotbutt posted:scamps like Kvothe keep the entertainment fresh with his clever tricks This is a potently cursed series of words
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I have no idea how you make it look difficult without it sounding bad, and I'm a string player too.
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