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Patware posted:i forgot what this tree was It had the magic ability to tell you whatever would make things the worst for you because it knows the knowledge will force you to do something terrible. Which sounds interesting but in practice was mostly, IIRC, the tree telling him that Denna's patron physically abuses her. So he charges off to rescue her and then immediately get distracted into having endless sex and basically forgetting all about it. Honestly it probably would have been more effective if it had told him that Denna's patron is a C-whatever. Or maybe not, considering how much progress Kvothe has made so far.
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We've seen them twice in two books. How much more do you guys need! Now the fact that the soon-to-be-dead king hasn't made an appearance...that's weird.
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Solice Kirsk posted:We've seen them twice in two books. How much more do you guys need! Now the fact that the soon-to-be-dead king hasn't made an appearance...that's weird. Seemed pretty clear that Ambrose is going to be that king, what with the asides showing him moving closer to the throne each time a relative died.
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Nah, gonna be Sim. He's a poet, in line to the thrown, and it's exactly the kind of stupid "twist" Rothfuss would think was clever.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:No, he was already the best at gently caress before he met the goddess, he was so amazing he was the only person who didn't die from her loving and she didn't believe he was a virgin because he was just that amazing Even if every other flaw (and there are countless) didn't exist, the Felurian wish-fulfillment insanity is reason enough to dismiss Rothfuss as an overhyped hack. Then he goes and one-ups himself with a matriarchal society of sex ninjas who somehow don't know how babies are made or have even the most basic grasp of genetics despite it being something humanity figured out when they started domestically breeding animals.
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Kchama posted:It had the magic ability to tell you whatever would make things the worst for you because it knows the knowledge will force you to do something terrible. Which sounds interesting but in practice was mostly, IIRC, the tree telling him that Denna's patron physically abuses her. So he charges off to rescue her and then immediately get distracted into having endless sex and basically forgetting all about it. The hate tree isn't ruining Kvothe's life. It's ruining the readers life. It's telling you that pursuing your goals is pointless because you aren't good enough to achieve them if you read this book. And it thinks your a sex predator, too.
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To be perfectly honest with you all, I don't even remember who Ambrose is. It's been so long. Rothfuss is in a troubled spot now. If he doesn't release a book, it can't be bad, but it doesn't look good for him to have had an extended period of time where all the conventions were cancelled and he could work on it only to still not produce anything. On the other hand, if he does release a book, it'll almost assuredly be bad. It's a Catch 22.
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Daric posted:To be perfectly honest with you all, I don't even remember who Ambrose is. It's been so long. He's the Draco Malfoy knockoff who is the 25-something dude who keeps getting into middle school bullying matches with a 15 year old.
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Daric posted:To be perfectly honest with you all, I don't even remember who Ambrose is. It's been so long. imo the only way the book is coming out is if it's ghostwritten. Though Rothfuss wouldn't agree to that unless it was under extraordinary circumstances. The only way that the book will be written is if the publisher finally puts their foot down. The chances of this are higher since the tv/movie stuff probably isn't going anywhere any time soon. However it's still not very likely...after all why would they since there's no pressure to publish? No demand since Rothfuss's fans are happy to hurry up and wait and the first two books still sell just fine.
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What does someone like Rothfuss do for income? Surely the few books he's published can't be keeping him afloat? Is it all reprints and new editions? How does it work?
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The only way the TV show would be good is if they treated it like the Sword of Truth show.
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Horizon Burning posted:What does someone like Rothfuss do for income? Surely the few books he's published can't be keeping him afloat? Is it all reprints and new editions? How does it work? I believe he teaches.
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Those two books sold absurdly well, probably netting him a million apiece, plus he sold the right even if they haven't been developed into a show/movie yet. So he's fine as long as he invested wisely.
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Also he decorates his house with Cheerios boxes to keep expenses down.
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Ccs posted:...wisely. Hmmmm
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He's a socially inept creep, not a moron. I'm sure his finances are fine.
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And up until this year, he attended every convention in the world where I'm sure he was paid a fee.
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Ccs posted:So he's fine as long as he invested wisely. He invested in GeekChic.
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Ornamented Death posted:He invested in GeekChic. 'wisely' was always going to be the word to do Rothfuss in.
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Kchama posted:He's the Draco Malfoy knockoff who is the 25-something dude who keeps getting into middle school bullying matches with a 15 year old. In his first interaction with Kvothe he's supposed to come off as a villain when in reality he's just not willing to put up with some random 15 year old kid's poo poo and then gets Kvothe banned from the library because Kvothe is a dumb 15 year old who started a pissing match with Ambrose. Horizon Burning posted:What does someone like Rothfuss do for income? Surely the few books he's published can't be keeping him afloat? Is it all reprints and new editions? How does it work? The books have sold millions of copies, giving him more money than he needs for the rest of his life. Plus whatever money he's gotten out of people for TV/Movie rights regardless of whether anything is created or not. He likely got millions for that since it was during peak GoT fever and there was no shortage of bad opinions about him being the nest GRRM (though in appearance and writing ethic I guess he is). IIRC he poisons young minds as a professor as well.
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IIRC he lost a ton of money on GeekChic, like almost 7 figures. It wasn't recoverable in the slightest either or like a debt transfer he poured his cash into the company and then whoops! bankruptcy. Selling the rights might've been a windfall if there was a lot of buzz about being a GoT-like series. He probably makes easily 6 figures a year in actual income and if he's not buying $500 bottles of wine and wall mounted cereal dispensers he should be set for life. Worst case scenario is he's facing poverty he finishes up his third book real quick, it sells millions of copies despite its quality, and he can start his "real" series which if it sells even decently is more then enough to live off. I can't see his editor giving a gently caress. GRRM only got in trouble because he got so much money they basically demanded to see pages at one point.
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Evil Fluffy posted:In his first interaction with Kvothe he's supposed to come off as a villain when in reality he's just not willing to put up with some random 15 year old kid's poo poo and then gets Kvothe banned from the library because Kvothe is a dumb 15 year old who started a pissing match with Ambrose. Can't wait to see your Harvey Weinstein take.
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pentyne posted:IIRC he lost a ton of money on GeekChic, like almost 7 figures. It wasn't recoverable in the slightest either or like a debt transfer he poured his cash into the company and then whoops! bankruptcy. Why would he need to buy a $500 bottle of wine when you can get a great Beaujolais for $30? Come on Patrick
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Ornamented Death posted:I believe he teaches. Again, where is his income coming from?
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According to his website bio he used to teach part-time at University of Wisconsin - Steven's Point, but gave that up after publishing. It's also one of the loving smuggest bios I think I have ever read while needlessly throwing shade on... chemical engineering... for whatever loving reason.
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Atlas Hugged posted:According to his website bio he used to teach part-time at University of Wisconsin - Steven's Point, but gave that up after publishing. It's also one of the loving smuggest bios I think I have ever read while needlessly throwing shade on... chemical engineering... for whatever loving reason. I mean, the books themselves constantly and smugly throw shade on poetry for the crime of not having music. He just likes smug, needless shade throwing.
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Kchama posted:I mean, the books themselves constantly and smugly throw shade on poetry for the crime of not having music. He just likes smug, needless shade throwing. Which is doubly ironic because Rothfuss is neither a poet nor a musician himself and as seen in his writing, he knows almost nothing about music.
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Atlas Hugged posted:According to his website bio he used to teach part-time at University of Wisconsin - Steven's Point, but gave that up after publishing. It's also one of the loving smuggest bios I think I have ever read while needlessly throwing shade on... chemical engineering... for whatever loving reason. Don't forget the part in the books where Not-Rothfuss criticizes his any-resemblance-to-a-real-person-is-totally-coincidental University chemistry TA because of his perverse insistence on writing down the results of experiments instead of just mixing up magic potions.
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Donkey posted:Don't forget the part in the books where Not-Rothfuss criticizes his any-resemblance-to-a-real-person-is-totally-coincidental University chemistry TA because of his perverse insistence on writing down the results of experiments instead of just mixing up magic potions. gently caress this makes a lot more sense. Almost every cartoonishly evil/dumb/bad character in his books are just him getting petty revenge at people who slighted him in his life.
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pentyne posted:gently caress this makes a lot more sense. Almost every cartoonishly evil/dumb/bad character in his books are just him getting petty revenge at people who slighted him in his life. I mean the Magic College is literally just him being mad about his experiences in college, so yeah. Pretty much.
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Donkey posted:Don't forget the part in the books where Not-Rothfuss criticizes his any-resemblance-to-a-real-person-is-totally-coincidental University chemistry TA because of his perverse insistence on writing down the results of experiments instead of just mixing up magic potions. supposedly a loving adult posted:And I learn some interesting things. I learn that the name “metheglin” comes from the old English term for medicine. Metheglin was mead with a bunch of herbs in it. Because, as you know, herbs are good for you. I think I know why he failed ChemEng
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I think I know why he failed ChemEng I like how his recipe is loving useless because he admits he didn't really follow it at all and would just throw random poo poo in and got lucky that the stone he threw in didn't poison him.
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That's such idiotic bullshit. This modern idea that our predecessors were morons who are incapable of doing more than rubbing rocks together is so infuriating. Does he think that people didn't have deep and rich knowledge pools of arts like brewing and just hoped it went right by the time we were crafting intricate and labor intensive longboats?
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Patrick, if you wanna go do some "mad scientist poo poo" just go under your kitchen sink or in your laundry room and just mix random stuff from the bottles and containers you find in there. Preferably without your wife or child(ren?) home. Parody, parody. Please don't mix random poo poo and then ingest it. One of the cool things about science and medicine is that they let us live longer and give us more time to appreciate art/music/lovely fantasy novels.
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"everyone liked it! anyway i basically fermented lsd and absinthe"
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I think I know why he failed ChemEng I hate to be all "classic Liberal arts major" but he really embodies the stereotypes that everyone hates about the literati type who scoff and mock the idea of 'rigid thinking' when it comes to any development process. Also the fantasy of pre-industrial societies as a bunch of morons who just slapped things together and everything always worked so who needs all this big brain notebook stuff? pentyne fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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