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I marathoned Venture Bros recently and realized that show never really made it big because it’s never in doubt how pathetic the characters are. Even if they’re super scientists, they’re failures. Rick and Morty wants to have its cake and eat it too, by making Rick both an rear end in a top hat and a badass. There’s probably also a correlation between how every character except one on Venture Bros has an annoying voice, whereas in R&M only one regular character has an annoying voice and both of their viewership numbers... Edit: lol now this thread isn’t even remotely about the books anymore Ccs fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Jun 6, 2021 |
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Ccs posted:Edit: lol now this thread isn’t even remotely about the books anymore Forum imitates life.
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Jun 6, 2021 03:45
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Brock Samson is pretty cool.
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Ccs posted:I marathoned Venture Bros recently and realized that show never really made it big because it’s never in doubt how pathetic the characters are. Even if they’re super scientists, they’re failures. Rick and Morty wants to have its cake and eat it too, by making Rick both an rear end in a top hat and a badass. The show never made it big because it takes 10 years for half an episode
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Jun 15, 2021 00:03
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Notahippie posted:Vita Nostra: A Russian girl is accosted by a mysterious figure and told to do increasingly bizarre tasks or he'll murder her family, then is told she's been admitted to a boarding school filled with depressed kids. Thank you for recommending this. I just finished it today and it was a very interesting read. It is extremely Russian but certainly a different take on "magic school" stories. I see there are others and I hope they get translated.
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Jun 15, 2021 00:40
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Terror Sweat posted:The show never made it big because it takes 10 years for half an episode The same could be said for Rothfuss's books, except they made it big.
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Jun 15, 2021 05:02
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calandryll posted:Thank you for recommending this. I just finished it today and it was a very interesting read. It is extremely Russian but certainly a different take on "magic school" stories. I see there are others and I hope they get translated. The authors, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, have a couple of translated books and I really like them. They're good modern fantasy and it's interesting to see a different cultural background than you normally get with English language authors. It's way better and more interesting to me than the "American/British person writes fantasy 'inspired' by some other culture" approach. The Gray House (https://www.amazon.com/Gray-House-Mariam-Petrosyan/dp/1503942813/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) is another really interesting fantasy book that's kind of/sort of a "magic school" book written originally in Russian and translated. It's a little weirder and denser than Vita Nostra or The Magicians, and IME it can help to refer to a wiki as you're reading to keep track of what's going on, but it's also good both on its merits and as a view into Russian writing.
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Notahippie posted:The Gray House (https://www.amazon.com/Gray-House-Mariam-Petrosyan/dp/1503942813/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) is another really interesting fantasy book that's kind of/sort of a "magic school" book written originally in Russian and translated. It's a little weirder and denser than Vita Nostra or The Magicians, and IME it can help to refer to a wiki as you're reading to keep track of what's going on, but it's also good both on its merits and as a view into Russian writing. Nice, gonna read this one.
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If you're fine with some middle grade, Tamora Pierce's catalogue rules for magic school books. She was also writing gender & lgbtq+ themes in the late 90's/early 00's. I don't see her come up a ton, which is a shame! Song of the Lioness is NOT middle grade and rules. Alanna (main char) disguises herself as her brother and goes to knight & mage school. If you like these, there's more in the same setting. Circle of Magic IS middle grade and rules. Four characters go to mage school, eventually graduate and face bigger problems. It toes the middle grade line with surprising amounts of gore. Middle grade means there's some whining and simplistic villains, but that changes as the characters age with the series.
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ThePopeOfFun posted:If you're fine with some middle grade, Tamora Pierce's catalogue rules for magic school books. She was also writing gender & lgbtq+ themes in the late 90's/early 00's. I don't see her come up a ton, which is a shame! In a similar YA vein, I remember Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones being great. It's the second book in the series, but can be read on its own (though the first book was good too, just didn't touch on magic school.) The general premise is that the magical universe has been invaded by a capitalist rear end in a top hat from our world, who forced all the magicians to put on big tourist shows where they go on a pilgrimage, defeat a demon lord, etc. At the end of the first book they overthrow him and end the tours, but the world's been totally wrecked by the years of rampant capitalism and tourism. Year of the Griffin is about a bunch of students going to the magical school and finding out that it's totally dysfunctional: the school is broke, the curriculum is still geared towards teaching students how to run the tours, and the teachers have little interest in helping the students explore and follow their passions. There's a pretty strong anti-capitalist vein to it. It's not particularly deep: it is a YA novel and spends a lot more time focusing on the adolescent main characters. But it's a fun time regardless.
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Jul 1, 2021 22:06
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Just read discworld
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Karia posted:In a similar YA vein, I remember Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones being great. It's the second book in the series, but can be read on its own (though the first book was good too, just didn't touch on magic school.) The general premise is that the magical universe has been invaded by a capitalist rear end in a top hat from our world, who forced all the magicians to put on big tourist shows where they go on a pilgrimage, defeat a demon lord, etc. At the end of the first book they overthrow him and end the tours, but the world's been totally wrecked by the years of rampant capitalism and tourism. Year of the Griffin is about a bunch of students going to the magical school and finding out that it's totally dysfunctional: the school is broke, the curriculum is still geared towards teaching students how to run the tours, and the teachers have little interest in helping the students explore and follow their passions. There's a pretty strong anti-capitalist vein to it. Holy poo poo I've been trying got remember the first book in that series for ages, and you've solved it for me. Dark Lord of Derkholm is what I was looking for but couldn't find based on my searches with half remembered plot points.
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The creative process bringing us book 3: https://twitter.com/patrickrothfuss/status/1414697623160766464?s=21
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Jul 13, 2021 04:01
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M_Gargantua posted:The creative process bringing us book 3: I would've made dumbass posts like that in my early twenties. I'm not in my early twenties. He's not in his early twenties. What the gently caress.
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Jul 13, 2021 05:13
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4/5ths of that bottle’s contents will end up dripping into his rats nest of a beard too and he’ll stink of cheap cinnamon and alcohol for a week.
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Jul 13, 2021 05:27
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At least pick something either egregiously terrible, like Lewis & Clark, or something classy. Fireball is the sponcon of liquor. I bet he actually is being paid for that.
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Jul 13, 2021 08:13
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M_Gargantua posted:The creative process bringing us book 3: Lol goddamn, are his fingers just too fat to type now?
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Jul 13, 2021 08:28
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M_Gargantua posted:The creative process bringing us book 3: He could have easily made an actual meaningful statement about space tourism vs. actually helping people. It wouldn't even have been wholly unexpected, since he pretends to do charity. Nope, instead you're getting a really lame unfunny joke.
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Jul 13, 2021 14:41
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I wonder what Rothfuss thinks about bacon
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Jul 13, 2021 14:53
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That thumbnail needs a chainsaw taken to it. Gross.
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Jul 13, 2021 15:33
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While the disgusted reactions to this tweet are certainly justified, let’s all take a moment to be grateful that he didn’t mention sex in it.
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Jul 13, 2021 17:18
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M_Gargantua posted:The creative process bringing us book 3:
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Jul 13, 2021 17:37
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Cut your nails, Patrick. gently caress.
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Jul 13, 2021 18:31
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Mzuri posted:Cut your nails, Patrick. gently caress. I doubt he does either.
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Mzuri posted:Cut your nails, Patrick. gently caress. No wonder he can’t type.
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Jul 13, 2021 20:24
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lmao freezer fireball
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Jul 13, 2021 21:49
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Why would you put fireball in your freezer? Does it dull the taste so you can pretend you aren't drinking fireball?
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Jul 14, 2021 02:29
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honestly at this point I can't even be bothered to be annoyed. Rothfuss is secure. Any current fans are into the kool-aid so hard they don't really care if they get a third book, and between his book sales and his charity scam he'll never want for money unless he wipes out his savings in another geek related business venture. let the happy rich man roll around in the filth to the cheers of his fans.
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pentyne posted:honestly at this point I can't even be bothered to be annoyed. Rothfuss is secure. Any current fans are into the kool-aid so hard they don't really care if they get a third book, and between his book sales and his charity scam he'll never want for money unless he wipes out his savings in another geek related business venture.
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“vast wealth”
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I mean, freezer fireball isn't a bad idea in itself. I like whiskey and vodka cooled to below the freezing temperature of water so that it's sort of this jello-like liquor substance that comes out slow like a syrup and gives instant brain freeze if you guzzle it. The problem is that fireball is liquid candy for fat baby men and girls who don't like real alcohol. It's only 22 percent alcohol so it has the possibility of actually freezing and separating into flavored ice with a strata of pure alcohol, which sucks. If you're going to do freezer liquor right you gotta get some Buffalo Trace or some Ardbeg single malt. Don't be like this witch-fingered sweet-tooth rich baby man hack. Do it right or don't do it at all, and cut those nasty nails back so everyone doesn't instantly know you haven't been physically intimate with a woman in months (human fingernails grow at a rate of 1/10th an inch a month and that thumbnail has gotta be about a full inch). Maybe it's a flex move, like, "I don't need my Edward scissor hands to satisfy you baby." Any vagina is going to take a look at those claws and make a single note that sounds like "sad" no matter what elvish sex massage move you try on your harem of blue-haired furry fangirls in the convention suite.
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Jul 15, 2021 22:38
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Oh, good, we've hit the "dissect tiny details of the target's appearance" phase of the mock-thread life cycle C'mon, Pat, give us a new blog post about how, I dunno, some new Star Wars thing is like seeing your ex at the supermarket and knowing her life has gone down the toilet since she dumped you because there's a six-pack of Mike's and a box of snack cakes in her cart
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Jul 15, 2021 23:28
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What garbage whiskey and vodka are you drinking that putting it in the freezer makes it jello-like?
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Jul 16, 2021 04:27
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He says he's using Ardbeg which has a decently high alcohol content for standard scotch, but there's no real need to chill it. It's a phenomenal whiskey for its price point at room temperature with a drop of water.
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Atlas Hugged posted:He says he's using Ardbeg which has a decently high alcohol content for standard scotch, but there's no real need to chill it. It's a phenomenal whiskey for its price point at room temperature with a drop of water. Ardbeg is good, but water in it? No thanks. I like it so cold it comes out like maple syrup.
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latinotwink1997 posted:What garbage whiskey and vodka are you drinking that putting it in the freezer makes it jello-like? Jello-like was the wrong descriptor. Gelid, smooth, and viscous is what I should have said.
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Jul 16, 2021 05:46
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I get it: you want to drink Jaegermeister or Goldschlager, but you also want to maintain a modicum of class.
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Jul 16, 2021 19:21
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Antivehicular posted:Oh, good, we've hit the "dissect tiny details of the target's appearance" phase of the mock-thread life cycle
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Jul 16, 2021 21:02
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Write the book, Patrick!
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I'd like patrick rothfuss to publicly step on his own balls somemore.
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