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The Little Kielbasa posted:Really? That's loving hilarious. I'm tempted to buy one of his books to show my respect for his chutzpah. He lost to 'No Award' last year. The Hugo voters disliked his work enough that they'd rather not give out the award for the year than vote for it. Edit: actually, Vox Day lost out to No Award in multiple categories! Best Editor, Short Form -AND- Best Editor, Long Form His publishing company, Castalia House, had eleven other works on the ballot as well. None of them won, and most of them lost out to No Award. Two authors, an editor, ad a fanzine nominated on his slate withdrew their own nominations in order to not be associated with him. He is, so far, the sole and only person ever expelled from the Science Fiction Writers of America due to his sheer unpleasantness, open misogyny, and blatant racism towards other members. In short, gently caress that guy. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jul 14, 2016 |
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Elias_Maluco posted:The author obviously had a hard-on while writing it. A Game of Bones was better written. By accident. I think Chuck Tingle could have done that scene better.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2016 08:53 |
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I watched a couple of episodes for the first time. It was okay. I read those when I was younger, and they were a hard read. Donaldson's prose isn't very inviting, and he went way out of his way to make his protagonist super unlikable. The whole series seems to run on cynicism.
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2016 01:26 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:I wish writers like Sanderson would call these assholes out on their self-inflicted problems. People ask Sanderson about future books (and other things) all the time and he.just.loving.tells.them*. While also having regular progress updates on his website for books he's working on. And doing effortposts on his plans for the upcoming year(s) and possible hitches that could change things. Sanderson also doesn't ascribe to the idea of the writer as the artiste. He considers it a job, and thus sits down and trucks out a novel every six months or so. Same theory that Steven King writes under.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 05:37 |
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I have tried twice to finish the last book and just cant. It just loving drags on and on.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 09:25 |
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StonecutterJoe posted:Meanwhile, Brandon Sanderson writes doorstops on a regular basis, and the secret to his success is "I get up in the morning and sit down in front of the keyboard and write, because writing is my job." But according to GRRM that's impossible because writing is like, HARD, and also there's football on. Or there will be football on soon, and who the gently caress can work with the prospect of football in the air? Sanderson ascribes to the Stephen King school of 'gently caress you, I vomit words for a living'. It is working out for him because he can string them together pretty well. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 16:08 on May 4, 2017 |
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kcroy posted:I do agree with this part, assuming he ever finishes the series: It's almost like this obese cheesedick doesn't understand audiences at all. People don't give a gently caress if they know the ending. Twists are a crutch for hacks. They're willing to pay you good money to see something they've read played out in more detail.
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# ¿ May 18, 2017 12:31 |
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TK-42-1 posted:He's a good writer and the tonal shifts between characters is pretty well done. Each has its own kind of feel to it. But god he needs an editor that won't just lightly lick his dick. And someone to help him actually plot poo poo out and not just meander through for fifteen loving years. Hell, someone forcing him to write an outline for the rest of the series with plot points and beats to hit would be a blessing at this point.
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2017 07:27 |
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The answer to that question is inevitably 'Yes'.
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2017 12:31 |
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Mad Hamish posted:Augh also that! All those Unsullied using long spears in the narrow twisty corridors of Casterley Rock. WHY. Spears in a hallway aren't even the worst provided you, you know, group up and use your pointy sticks to keep the enemy where their shorter weapons can't reach you. Or I suppose your super disciplined soldiers can just kind of mill around and die in the background.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 12:18 |
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emanresu tnuocca posted:No. I really, really feel at this point that GURM has forgotten
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 04:43 |
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CG is expensive. They can't afford to just slap tits on dragons willy-nilly.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2017 10:54 |
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TK-42-1 posted:Lol if you don’t embrace the unyielding edifice of your wage slaveitude, praying for the sweet caress of death in nuclear hellfire. This is the goals statement on my yearly reviews.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2018 08:40 |
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Ginette Reno posted:My favorite thing about Winds is all the hopeful theories about when it will be released. First it was surely gonna get released because the show was about to pass the material he had written. Then it was surely gonna get released because he'd want to stay relevant. And now the next one will be people getting hopeful about him doing a release in conjunction with the final season. I'm convinced he's spent five years trying to find someone who can fix his TRS-80 because he is incapable of writing on any other device but that particular one.
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# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 14:05 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I seriously doubt Tolkien would have said the Silmarillion was his life's work. It was background notes to give LotR a coherent backstory. That is, in fact, blantantly what it is. Calling this back but I mean, poo poo. The Silmarillion was never meant to be published. It was a cash-in by Christopher Tolkien cut together with his Dad's notes, and he openly regrets ever publishing it. Oh, hey! As I was reminded today: Neil Gaiman's whole rant about how GRRM isn't our bitch was in 2009. Nine years ago. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 02:10 on May 23, 2018 |
# ¿ May 23, 2018 01:59 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:his story did come out before dragonlance fwiw Yeah, but that was just a D&D campaign. White dragons were in the D&D white box in '74.
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# ¿ May 24, 2018 15:03 |
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Yeah. HBO has given him the literal definition of gently caress Off Money. I mean, I don't care if he never writes another word of ASoIaF, I'd just like him to admit that he won't.
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# ¿ May 29, 2018 07:12 |
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Probably the Jets. People actually want to go to TGI Friday's.
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# ¿ Sep 1, 2018 18:10 |
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Some important news about upcoming releases on the blog!
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2018 12:16 |
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precision posted:Actually why does anyone still want Cleganebowl anyway? The Mountain is dead already. There's no indication he's anything more than a zombie. Also the character arc of the Hound should end with him renouncing violence, not triumphing via the use of it I dunno, The Hound leaving The Mountain's head nailed to a Sept door with his sword and just walking away from it for good would be pretty poetic.
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2018 11:25 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:GRRM is sealing himself into a wall made of Wild Cards novels., "Yes, for the love of neeps!"
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 00:57 |
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Woodpile posted:Redshirts won a Hugo. “Blood of the Dragon”: Hugo Award, 1997 Novella
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 04:49 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Because Tolkein didn't publish it. Not only that, his son who did publish it admits openly that he shouldn't have, and it was a bad idea to publish it as-is given that it was unfinished and rough.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2018 03:15 |
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:I'll happily recommend the Sandman comics. It also has The Corinthian, which really justifies many other things. Such a beautiful concept.
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# ¿ Dec 24, 2018 11:57 |
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PupsOfWar posted:isn't the prequel set before targs exist Truly the most absolute of fuckers.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2019 11:27 |
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Katt posted:Did you do Orson twice? The hilarious part is how alike those two are, despite Correia being a hardcore right wing libertarian who spends his free time fellating the military, and Card being a centrist Democrat most of his adult life until he went off the loving deep end and signed up with Gingrich because he just hates gay people that much (enough that he wrote and published a Hamlet fanfic all about how Hamlet's dad was a pedophile because all gay men are) , and Obama being elected broke his tiny little brain and made him write a whole screed: http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2013-05-09-1.html posted:By Orson Scott Card May 9, 2013
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2019 04:56 |
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Fits right in here. Is the book out yet?
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2019 05:47 |
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Katt posted:Sansa did like one not dumb thing ever and that was to have Balish executed. I was amazed at how not dumb that was. The rest of the people Arya knows are her family, who are somehow each dumber than the other, and the Hound who is dead.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:He presumably lost his title as Queensguard by leaving Cersei, and she could theoretically strip his title as A Lord of Casterly rock or THE Lord of Casterly Rock, whichever he is, which would have also made him Warden of the West. A lord, IIRC, as he gave up his position in the succession of House Lannister by joining the Kingsguard. IIRC Tyrion is actually the valid choice for Lord Lannister right now, which is the best thing.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2019 05:07 |
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Grevling posted:There was a good point, I think, in the BoL thread about genre fiction where he's talking about ASoIaF, that lower class people really don't seem to have a lot of agency or things going on besides being oppressed, and that the edgy "nobody really believes in that chivalry stuff" attitude among the nobility is very unlike feudal ideology irl. I mean, that's pretty accurate. The code of chivalry as we know it was formulated by 19th century scholars displaying the usual Victorian fondness for candy-coating history. Feudalism is brutal, from the perspective of the peasantry. Especially when their lords manifestly have spent the last century or so warring amongst themselves rather than caring for their people.
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2019 03:44 |
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Grevling posted:Yeah, but do you think medieval nobles were a bunch of nihilists who knew they were an oppressive class and didn't care? Didn't they truly believe that they deserved their position because they embodied some sort of ideal? They believed, from their writing, that God said they should be in charge, and whatever oppression that took was in the name of doing God's Work. Projecting some concern for themselves as oppressors onto them does a disservice to their attitudes, they often write about considering the peasantry as much a part of the land as the beasts in the fields, and as such simply property to be husbanded for revenue. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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nine-gear crow posted:There are roughly 576 hours left before he's irrelevant forever. Dude's gotta go out with a bang, and this is all he's got left in the tank now. I mean, this is the only bang he's gonna be getting any time soon.
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2019 10:53 |
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Jesus Christ that closeup makes it impossible to unsee the 3d printer tracks on that dagger handle.
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2019 06:13 |
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Like, am I stupid for thinking they've done this in wrong order on like the most basic level? Nah, it's on message. The wights are a side issue, the real meat of the story is the politics. Expect the campaign for KL to be exactly the same poo poo, because what they want to focus on is the politics after.
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# ¿ May 1, 2019 06:17 |
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Goddamn I would watch the hell out of a Schlocky HBO Shadowrun series
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# ¿ May 3, 2019 09:26 |
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pseudanonymous posted:It'll be interesting how well they stick to the script with Good Omens, imo it has a fairly anti-religious message, but I don't know if they'll keep that in it. I worry it'll get the same treatment as the Golden Compass, though that was more overtly atheistic. They're sticking with the message. The Chattering Order of Saint Beryl has been touring in support. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boz7rHYLj6s
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# ¿ May 18, 2019 05:32 |
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nine-gear crow posted:GRRM makes me firm. I'd be firm too if I tried to eat like GRRM. Packed to the gills and bursting with lemoncakes.
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# ¿ May 19, 2019 02:26 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO3l6qNA2Q4
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# ¿ May 19, 2019 10:26 |
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nine-gear crow posted:also lol bran engineered a genocide and used his brother/cousin as a pawn and discarded him purely to win absolute power over everyone who survived holy poo poo Don't forget all the implications that he's actually immortal. It doesn't matter that his dick don't work, he's there for as long as he wants to be.
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