dr_rat posted:

Wasn't one of the warhammer 4k warp demon things all about corrupting people so everyone just constant loving in a very hellraiser way?

Frosted Flake posted:

Someone in the Epstein Thread posted a fascinating book that suggested the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, manifesting as Borderline Personality Disorder, and filtered through a religious worldview, presented as “witchcraft”. There were some sources that suggested communities basically didn’t know how to handle women who described sexual abuse and presented with BPD, since they’d be talking about sex and the devil or whatever.

I don’t know the degree to which that dovetails with incest or incest accusations, but it makes sense to me that we’re still basically unequipped to handle people who are abused and don’t enter therapy, many end up on skid row. So, imagine how that would have been handled then.

You would think as a society we would have gotten better at addressing these particular crimes and their dramatic and often lifelong fallout, but idk. SVU doesn’t really seem to give much reason to hope, as far as pop culture goes.

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uber_stoat posted:

that demon critter's thing is decadence and extremes of sensation but i think they aren't allowed to talk about the sex part anymore so instead they just torture people which is more acceptable. my only contact with warhammer poo poo recently is just video games so maybe i'm wrong.

dr_rat posted:

Wasn't one of the warhammer 4k warp demon things all about corrupting people so everyone just constant loving in a very hellraiser way?

Frosted Flake posted:

He painted himself into a corner because gleefully subverting expectations and convention makes it very hard to tie together the completely scattered plot threads in a satisfying way.

“This isn’t your grandfather’s novel!” becomes a liability when some of those storytelling conventions, say not introducing random characters for no discernible reason, actually served a purpose.

Ardent Communist posted:

yeah they don't frontload all the weird sex stuff, but its still there in the background. don't really see them getting much credit for having the avatar of desire and sexual pleasure being a transgender _monster, but their icon is literally a combination of the old signs for male and female.

the milk machine posted:

anthony bourdain gave every kitchen employee the idea that they're some kind of combination artist/doctor/first responder and it sucks big rear end

i say swears online posted:

lol I'm still kinda miffed about not getting howland reed in the books

Lady Stoneheart was a weird one because like you said, unfinished pointless realistic stories were his wheelhouse but Stoneheart was about as mystical as he got

Whirling posted:

thinking about the goofy hammer that gendry had in the last seasons of game of thrones

Whirling posted:

thinking about the goofy hammer that gendry had in the last seasons of game of thrones

Ammanas posted:

there was also beric dondarrion who keeps getting killed then brought back to life with magical cpr + has a sword that lights on fire by itself

i think there was something else too but i dont remember the books from 15 years ago well enough

the milk machine posted:

so it seems I've never seen a Werner Herzog; what are a good couple things to start with? I assume the bear one is one

i say swears online posted:

he's the only one that knows everything. he was supposed to do a huge loredump and blow our minds

Blood Boils posted:

In GoT, both show & book open with ice demons raising the dead as zombies

Every character who we see that has a dream or vision it comes true in some form. Every single character!

Magic is everywhere

Was he? Which pov character is supposed to meet up with him? And what does he know, other than Jon's a half dragon? The average reader knows more of what's going on than any single character, especially one as in-universe reclusive and unimportant as the swamp chieftain. His kids probably know, Varys too maybe I forget if Ned ever gives him that letter to Jon

Anyways it doesn't matter, fans figured out the clues before the 4th book was out, making a Reed appearance redundant. Though it would be pretty on brand for Grrm to have him show up, then still not tell anyone lol

Xaris posted:

Frosted Flake posted:

He painted himself into a corner because gleefully subverting expectations and convention makes it very hard to tie together the completely scattered plot threads in a satisfying way.

“This isn’t your grandfather’s novel!” becomes a liability when some of those storytelling conventions, say not introducing random characters for no discernible reason, actually served a purpose.

Ammanas posted:

there was also beric dondarrion who keeps getting killed then brought back to life with magical cpr + has a sword that lights on fire by itself

i think there was something else too but i dont remember the books from 15 years ago well enough

lumpentroll posted:

you got the only ending you’re gonna get

A Buttery Pastry posted:

He is just making sure he really subverts expectations, by having the books only get released a decade after his death, when no one expects them to ever be finished.

Well, hermaphroditic, not transgender. But yeah, good on them for having sexual pleasure belong to both men and women.

Hell, they even came up with their own pronoun for shem in the 80s, making them the most progressive Brits the world has ever seen.

HootTheOwl posted:

You got the outline of the ending and everyone hated it.
Why would he finish when people still love the side books and the HOT D show has fans?

Xaris posted:

idk i just remember then spending years and years rabidly defending patrick rothfuss against the dastardly goons for like a decade. they're probably still around but i havent read tbb in forever

Whirling posted:

I really love A Song of Ice and Fire but I feel like GRRM's just gonna spend the remainder of his life having fun instead of finishing the series. Good for him, but I hope he didn't pick Brandon Sanderson to finish it after he passes away because I'm not a fan.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

You really do have to wonder how close it hews to his outline at that point though

like the last book is just setting up poo poo that never or barely makes it into the show (warging, fake Aegon, Stoneheart, the Greyjoys, everything in Dorne, etc etc)

If you can throw away all of book 5 and still get to the same place, I can understand why GRRM just threw up his hands and said "ah gently caress it"

the milk machine posted:

so it seems I've never seen a Werner Herzog; what are a good couple things to start with? I assume the bear one is one

Fellatio del Toro posted:

like just hire literally one more than the absolute bare minimum number of employees lol

Fellatio del Toro posted:

the bear s2 wasnt as good as s1, but i still liked it, the christmas ep was extremely good, and i stan ayo

but lol at the whole "if anything is off by 10 seconds in any restaurant it causes cascading slowdowns and the whole system falls apart" like just hire literally one more than the absolute bare minimum number of employees lol

loquacius posted:

King Gendry is still the only really satisfying ending IMO

i say swears online posted:

primogeniture ftw

Fellatio del Toro posted:

the bear s2 wasnt as good as s1, but i still liked it, the christmas ep was extremely good, and i stan ayo

but lol at the whole "if anything is off by 10 seconds in any restaurant it causes cascading slowdowns and the whole system falls apart" like just hire literally one more than the absolute bare minimum number of employees lol