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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:To be fair, he actually wrote a lot of extremely good short stories and novellas going back almost 50 years. A Song of Ice and Fire is just the first of his works to be turned into a hit television series. Skwirl posted:A further thread on Martin being a loving jack rear end.  lmao this owns.StillFullyTerrible posted:that thread uses a whole lot of Inside Baseball terminology, gosh
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StillFullyTerrible posted:that thread uses a whole lot of Inside Baseball terminology, gosh Like what?
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well i don't know who a single person mentioned in that thread is for one thing possibly joseph campbell i guess? if that's who she was referring to?
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StillFullyTerrible posted:well i don't know who a single person mentioned in that thread is for one thing Ahh, the names are all prominent and foundational authors within the different genres, I assumed Agatha Christie was well known enough the rest could be figured out from context (hadn't heard of the romance writers before myself). John Campbell was a prolific and influential sci fi author (among other things wrote the short story the movie The Thing was based on) and editor of ASTOUNDING magazine where a lot of early "canon" sci-fi writers got their starts like Asimov, Heinlein and Arthur C Clarke.
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Joyce Carol Oates teaches at (Ivy League) Princeton University, so her saying that Harvard Law “really isn’t Ivy League” is just her trying to distance herself from Dershowitz.
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oh right, John Campbell. I remember hearing how he would have hated John Carpenter's The Thing because Campbell demanded that humans always win, thusly proving their Pure
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People who really care about where your degrees are from will generally agree that Harvard law isn't on the same level as Harvard undergrad, but they aren't really healthy people, so don't try to think too much about their point of view.
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ultrafilter posted:People who really care about where your degrees are from will generally agree that Harvard law isn't on the same level as Harvard undergrad, but they aren't really healthy people, so don't try to think too much about their point of view. Huh, one of the gimmicks on the TV show Suits was that they only hired lawyers from Harvard, so finding out it doesn't actually have a reputation of being top of the tops is pretty funny.
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Oates went to Syracuse, so her opinion doesn't matter.
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Skwirl posted:Huh, one of the gimmicks on the TV show Suits was that they only hired lawyers from Harvard, so finding out it doesn't actually have a reputation of being top of the tops is pretty funny. No, Harvard is one of the top two law schools in the country, and a degree from there matters a lot. It's been a long time since we had a supreme court justice who wasn't a graduate of Harvard or Yale, and that probably won't be changing any time soon. It just doesn't count for all that much in social situations where people who care about degrees in general come from, because they really care about undergraduate degrees. If you go to Harvard law after finishing your bachelor's at Ohio State, you're an Ohio State grad forever in their eyes.
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Or like how getting into Harvard because you got good grades and a scholarship is lower than getting in because you’re Shitstain Montgomery VII and your great great grandfather bought the first slave on campus grounds or w/e.
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^^^^ Ahh, I get it now. Content: https://twitter.com/bl00dstainz/status/1289567799614926851?s=20 I, uh, what? Even ignoring that's basically what all gorillas look like, does he think a zookeeper went to a gorilla store and picked out the gorilla that looked most like a video game character or something?
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I’m assuming most legacies are mixed up in slavery somehow
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Skwirl posted:^^^^ I might be  here but I think the joke is that he didn’t realize gorillas are real animals and had only ever seen them in video games.
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Henchman of Santa posted:drat, usually when I came across her posts they were pretty funny. What a weird hill to kamikaze yourself on. Just imagine the flamewar she and Shanley could have had. We've been robbed. 
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Millennials are the worst generation because they didn't get brain damage falling off their bikes
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Just imagine the flamewar she and Shanley could have had. We've been robbed. Shanley stanning for Aileen Wuornos is my favorite dumb internet thing ever.
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https://twitter.com/s_amememe___/status/1289637318857392128?s=19 The whole thread is pretty boilerplate incel/Mra/conservative, but the "women are suppressing their maternal instinct to the point of *gasp* caring for immigrants" caught me by surprise. I had never heard that aspect of things before.
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you broke my grill posted:Millennials are the worst generation because they didn't get brain damage falling off their bikes Imagine being such an old miserable rear end in a top hat you want kids to get hurt.
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Ralph Crammed In posted:Imagine being such an old miserable rear end in a top hat you want kids to get hurt. There's a lot of them about. The same people moaning about how kids didn't have gluten intolerance/allergies/autism in their day. No, kids just died or got shipped off to asylums without anyone knowing what was wrong with them. Much better.
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Ralph Crammed In posted:Imagine being such an old miserable rear end in a top hat you want kids to get hurt. Or blaming them for things their parents did that they had no control over.
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Waterbed Wendy posted:https://twitter.com/s_amememe___/status/1289637318857392128?s=19 the strasserites seem to be getting bolder these days, or maybe people are just noticing them more and going "get a load of these assholes"
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Ralph Crammed In posted:Imagine being such an old miserable rear end in a top hat you want kids to get hurt. Also, I always wear a helmet and I've been in bike accidents and they still loving hurt.
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you broke my grill posted:Millennials are the worst generation because they didn't get brain damage falling off their bikes good old millenials...how I hate them!
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Waterbed Wendy posted:https://twitter.com/s_amememe___/status/1289637318857392128?s=19 We've been drugging women, especially housewives, for a lot longer than the past fifty years in order to keep them complacent. Heroin was a brand name and you could buy it mail order from Sears.
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lol, that's a p good troll
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Skwirl posted:^^^^ I know calling SA a "comedy forum" can feel like a stretch, but come on, dude, at least try to recognize it
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you broke my grill posted:Millennials are the worst generation because they didn't get brain damage falling off their bikes Charlie Brown: definitely a big hardass who really likes the idea of getting hurt.
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Skwirl posted:A further thread on Martin being a loving jack rear end. good thread, also why I'm psyched for these upcoming books:   which granted skew more horror than sci-fi/fantasy (hey there's an opening for you valancourt)
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goblin week posted:I know calling SA a "comedy forum" can feel like a stretch, but come on, dude, at least try to recognize it I was trying to point at the post two above mine and the other, also good, post slipped in while I was typing.
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I appreciate the "-Fact" tag since I had my doubts about this one. Conservapedia used to do the same thing, if I recall correctly. (Are we sure these are really serious and not a parody in the vein of Look Around You? "Pigs are feline-canine-rodent hybrids made of worms" is just the sort of thing that show would come up with.)
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SerialKilldeer posted:(Are we sure these are really serious and not a parody in the vein of Look Around You? "Pigs are feline-canine-rodent hybrids made of worms" is just the sort of thing that show would come up with.) it sounds so much like something from Garth Marenghi.
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I've been following the GRRM mess. 1. ConZealand requested pronunciation guides from some (perhaps not all) nominees, then apparently did nothing with them. Mary Robinette Kowal, one of the individual category presenters, wasn't given a pronunciation guide and took it upon herself to check with nominees for the correct pronunciations. 2. Apart from the mispronounced names, GRRM went on and on. The entire ceremony was supposed to last 2 hours; it went on for 3.5 because of the length of GRRM's reminiscences, spilling over two sessions of panels that had been scheduled afterward. An irritated fan commented "I cut a THREE HOUR & THIRTY-FIVE MINUTE CEREMONY down to 1:41:02 *JUST* by cutting out Martin & Silverberg." (I don't know details about Bob Silverberg's speech other than that people hated it.) 3. Apart from the length, GRRM sees himself as a raconteur and spent all his time telling stories about himself and his friends in the 20th century. There was little mention of works and authors from after 2000. It was focused on the Great Men of the past: Campbell, Heinlein, et al. 4. Last year Jeannette Ng, who had just won the John M. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, began her speech with "John M. Campbell was a loving fascist." It was a barnburner of a speech. Shortly thereafter, after years of complaint, the award was renamed the Astounding [the magazine] Award for Best New Writer. This year, GRRM not only spent a lot of time reminiscing about Campbell as a giant of the field, but pronounced "Astounding Award" with an audible sneer every time. It was widely seen as sweet sweet justice that Jeannette Ng's 2019 speech won this year's Best Related Work Hugo. 5. He made a "real men have dicks" joke. So. He had real things to apologize for, and his "all have sinned" post didn't address them. https://www.pretty-terrible.com/george-r-r-martin-2020-hugo-awards/ (Disclaimer: Natalie and I follow each other on Twitter, but that's the extent of the acquaintance. This post is not solely based on Natalie's blog post.
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Skwirl posted:I was trying to point at the post two above mine and the other, also good, post slipped in while I was typing. The gorrilla thing was an extremely obvious joke you are the idiots on social media, sorry
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To be fair, GRRM's response to the complaints. My favorite bit: quote:Most of the stories I told last night were time-tested, in a sense. I have told those same stories before. Usually they get big laughs. Or medium sized laughs, in any case.
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What is it with people and not loving showering when they're showing? https://twitter.com/nealbrennan/status/1289990168665968642 
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RoboRodent posted:I can never decide which I like more, the idea that Gregor Mendel invented soybeans or that by hybridizing a rodent and two carnivora (none of which are worms) you'll produce an animal that is made of worms. The latter has more insane crazy to it, but the idea that an Augustinian friar doing experiments with peas created beans that are so alien we can't digest them has a subtle weirdness that appeals to me.
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