|
Kylaer posted:All those deaths and yet the GRRM still lives. So far this year I have lost a brother in law, godmother, and the pup that had been literally at my side for 16 years. Not to mention Neil Peart, and Terry Jones. Gurm though? Alive and still not writing. Absolute Fucker. Hasselblad fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Feb 16, 2020 |
#
?
Feb 16, 2020 16:04
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 22:35 |
|
|
found this on my hdd yesterday
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2020 16:09
|
|
|
TK-42-1 posted:found this on my hdd yesterday It's so beautiful. Let it never be lost to time.
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2020 16:37
|
|
|
TK-42-1 posted:found this on my hdd yesterday What year was this original made?
|
|
#
?
Feb 16, 2020 19:11
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2020 16:44
|
|
|
Isn't that the picture that got surreptitiously inserted into his blog comments by someone who embedded an image link to a 1x1 blank pixel, allowing it to get past his blog's censors' oversight, and then changed the linked file into that?
|
|
#
?
Feb 17, 2020 19:01
|
|
|
TK-42-1 posted:found this on my hdd yesterday It's like walking into a bar and seeing an old friend. Just fills my heart with joy.
|
|
#
?
Feb 18, 2020 22:16
|
|
|
I was trying to remember where I got it from and found that forums poster geno1173 PMd it to me a while back. They're the real mvp.
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2020 00:39
|
|
|
It's so drat high rez lmfao
|
|
#
?
Feb 19, 2020 01:13
|
|
|
The maester-rape graph is killing me...
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2020 08:24
|
|
|
I currently have Montezuma’s Revenge, can anyone post the shat/drank audio clip?
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2020 15:28
|
|
|
What’s the date of that con this year that GRRM promised he’ll have the book out or else he’d go to jail or whatever stupid poo poo it was he said?
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2020 23:29
|
|
|
July 29 through August 2 ASOIAF fans are coping because GoodReads has TWOW listed as releasing this year. the site is user-managed
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2020 23:52
|
|
|
https://vimeo.com/393361658
kcroy fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 24, 2020 |
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 05:30
|
|
|
TK-42-1 posted:found this on my hdd yesterday I wish I knew who did this. It's really just so beyond amazing. I mean there has to be software to do this right?
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 05:32
|
|
|
TK-42-1 posted:found this on my hdd yesterday Someone please update or remake this to include Dan Weiss and David Benioff on either side of him as cherubs hoisting aloft his loin covers, and change the "lemon cakes" watermarking to "Dany kinda forgot about the Iron Fleet". Thank you, from the future.
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 07:24
|
|
|
kcroy posted:I wish I knew who did this. It's really just so beyond amazing. I mean there has to be software to do this right? I want to believe they did it like Willem Defoe’s character in To Live And Die In LA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvf8aEZerPE ruddiger fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Feb 24, 2020 |
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 08:05
|
|
|
i read all the witcher books recently and they really reminded me of these books, except they were good and had an ending that made all the boring politics stuff really cool and interesting by virtue of actually concluding
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 14:19
|
|
|
scary ghost dog posted:i read all the witcher books recently and they really reminded me of these books, except they were good and had an ending that made all the boring politics stuff really cool and interesting by virtue of actually concluding The Witcher books are my favorite fantasy novels and combine the grittiness of ASoIaF with the charm and fairy tale lore of Shreck and Grimm. It's a fantastic world that I can't get enough of and I even loved Season of Storms.
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 14:35
|
|
|
chaosapiant posted:The Witcher books are my favorite fantasy novels and combine the grittiness of ASoIaF with the charm and fairy tale lore of Shreck and Grimm. It's a fantastic world that I can't get enough of and I even loved Season of Storms. yeah theyre wonderful and the last book is a joy to read thanks to how conclusive it is
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 14:39
|
|
|
scary ghost dog posted:yeah theyre wonderful and the last book is a joy to read thanks to how conclusive it is One thing I appreciate from the Witcher books is that, despite how grim it can get, our main characters more or less survive all the way through. We lose some side characters and there's tons of death on the sides, but Sapkowsi allows you to feel a bit safe with the main characters, which I like. It walks a line between having a character like, say "Drizzt" and then someone like Eddard Stark. We get to have a main character who stays the main character (not counting Ciri's role of course) and while is in constant danger, Geralt remains a threat to said danger. He remains our "hero", where as ASoIaF always keeps you guessing who the heroes are. I like this approach too, but sometimes I just want to zone out and follow a bad rear end dude's exploits and not try to figure out who my next favorite character is once the one I'm currently rooting for dies.
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 14:48
|
|
|
i would still say asoiaf has its hero characters that never die. the trick grrm pulls is that he has an enormous amount of chapters that dont follow these characters, and instead follow characters whose deaths are preordained. its not really any more grim than the witcher, sapkowski just has the courtesy to not trick us into liking doomed characters
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 15:43
|
|
|
ultimately both series have the same fundamental perspective on war, feudal politics, modern politics, gender politics, etc, but grrm is so much less confident in his opinions that asoiaf has no energy comparatively
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 15:48
|
|
|
ASoIaF has the main characters engage with those feudal politics. The main characters in the Witcher flip the bird and scream gently caress OFF to feudal politics.
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 15:52
|
|
|
also the books are maybe a quarter the length lol
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 16:02
|
|
|
the witcher in a nutshell
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2020 16:15
|
|
|
ruddiger posted:I want to believe they did it like Willem Defoe’s character in To Live And Die In LA. I know right?
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2020 00:11
|
|
|
chaosapiant posted:One thing I appreciate from the Witcher books is that, despite how grim it can get, our main characters more or less survive all the way through. We lose some side characters and there's tons of death on the sides, but Sapkowsi allows you to feel a bit safe with the main characters, which I like. It walks a line between having a character like, say "Drizzt" and then someone like Eddard Stark. We get to have a main character who stays the main character (not counting Ciri's role of course) and while is in constant danger, Geralt remains a threat to said danger. He remains our "hero", where as ASoIaF always keeps you guessing who the heroes are. I like this approach too, but sometimes I just want to zone out and follow a bad rear end dude's exploits and not try to figure out who my next favorite character is once the one I'm currently rooting for dies. Though, in Witcher literally all of the main characters who are not Ciri/Dandelion/Triss die right at the end, unless you want to go full video game canon.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2020 16:21
|
|
|
font color sea posted:Though, in Witcher literally all of the main characters who are not Ciri/Dandelion/Triss die right at the end, unless you want to go full video game canon. This is absolutely true, but at the very least, their story is done by then. I also count the games as canon because they're awesome and why not? I'm not against the way ASoIaF handles character death at all, I just like a bit of variety and appreciate that Witcher doesn't take that approach. The main five book saga is a more classic group of friends/fellowship style story with a disfunctional group of misfits and outcasts.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2020 16:35
|
|
|
font color sea posted:Though, in Witcher literally all of the main characters who are not Ciri/Dandelion/Triss die right at the end, unless you want to go full video game canon. Technically its ambiguous; Ciri teleported them to a magical isle after all. Sapkowski said Geralt and Yen live on Avalon at the end, though he says lots of things.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2020 16:42
|
|
|
hobbesmaster posted:Technically its ambiguous; Ciri teleported them to a magical isle after all. Sapkowski said Geralt and Yen live on Avalon at the end, though he says lots of things. Not to mention that in Season of Storms Geralt is at least clearly alive quite a bit into the future.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2020 16:44
|
|
|
kcroy posted:I wish I knew who did this. It's really just so beyond amazing. I mean there has to be software to do this right? It's so good I could imagine GURM hanging a framed version of this on his wall.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2020 17:14
|
|
|
kcroy posted:I wish I knew who did this. It's really just so beyond amazing. I mean there has to be software to do this right? Forums user geno1173 is the hero we should all thank.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2020 17:30
|
|
|
chaosapiant posted:Not to mention that in Season of Storms Geralt is at least clearly alive quite a bit into the future. i wouldnt say its that clear but the ambiguity seems to be the point with the ending of that one and lady of the lake. a message about how real life doesnt have happy endings, but this story isnt real life. its all very clever
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2020 22:17
|
|
|
Mat Cauthon posted:Honestly the Black Company books are very not good once you get past the Silver Spike, which cleanly wraps up the White Rose plotline. I think the first Taglios book is decent and then it goes off the rails because Cook leans way too heavily on the "Vietnam but with magic" analogies and then let's the whole Shadowlands/dimensional crossroads plot run way too long because he doesn't want to stop writing about his favorite characters. If I was a writer for the Black Company adaption, I'd steal some of the better Bridgeburner/military campaign plotlines and scenes from the Malazan books, and copy-paste em into later seasons of the Black Company series.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2020 08:39
|
|
|
But Malazan sucks so why would you do that?
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2020 11:16
|
|
|
i only read the first malazan book but it was a total nightmare
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2020 15:14
|
|
|
Doesn't that part of Season of Storms happen like 200 years into the future? I'm not sure even witchers can live this long. Meaning one way or another Geralt would be a spooky ghost by then.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2020 16:37
|
|
|
font color sea posted:Doesn't that part of Season of Storms happen like 200 years into the future? I'm not sure even witchers can live this long. Meaning one way or another Geralt would be a spooky ghost by then. Vesemir is likely to be 300...so it can happen.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2020 16:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 22:35 |
|
|
Kylaer posted:But Malazan sucks so why would you do that? I tried three times to read the first book and only get about 1/3 of the way through each time.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2020 16:54
|
|