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Ron Jeremy posted:I got the impression that inn was a major waypoint on the kings road. Seems like a good place to wait. Jeffrey of YOSPOS fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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the dragon inn was some other place wasn't it?
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Jul 20, 2016 02:44
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jsoh posted:the dragon inn was some other place wasn't it?
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Jul 20, 2016 06:58
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Catelyn remembered it from her childhood, the nice fat lady always chewed sour leaf. Later arya sees the fat old red toothed lady hanging from a tree? Am I remembering that right? Then later Brienne buys a boat there and almost gets robbed? Is there only one inn? I feel like every inn I've ever read in these series was the same inn now.
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Jul 20, 2016 07:04
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Krinkle posted:Catelyn remembered it from her childhood, the nice fat lady always chewed sour leaf. Later arya sees the fat old red toothed lady hanging from a tree? Am I remembering that right? Then later Brienne buys a boat there and almost gets robbed? Is there only one inn? I feel like every inn I've ever read in these series was the same inn now.
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Jul 20, 2016 08:13
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lady gets got at the darry holdfast I think and brienne sells her boat and buys horses there
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Jul 20, 2016 08:52
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:They are literally all the same inn. I think it's where they stop when joffrey gets lady killed. http://www.dionaea-house.com/ (Spoilers for a genuinely awesome horror story) "Every Inn in Westeros is part of the same extradimensional superorganism" sounds like a Preston theory, does he take suggestions?
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Jul 20, 2016 09:54
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jsoh posted:lady gets got at the darry holdfast I think and brienne sells her boat and buys horses there
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Jul 20, 2016 15:10
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Krinkle posted:Catelyn remembered it from her childhood, the nice fat lady always chewed sour leaf. Later arya sees the fat old red toothed lady hanging from a tree? Am I remembering that right? Then later Brienne buys a boat there and almost gets robbed? Is there only one inn? I feel like every inn I've ever read in these series was the same inn now. I may be wrong but isn't that also the inn Hot Pie got left at?
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Jul 20, 2016 15:32
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MrSlam posted:I may be wrong but isn't that also the inn Hot Pie got left at?
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Jul 20, 2016 15:40
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I thought hot pie made it to harrenhall. Gendry is at the inn when brienne goes there though. He escaped Harrenhal with Arya and they got captured by the Brotherhood. He decided to stay at the Inn of the Kneeling Man, ala wiki.
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Jul 20, 2016 15:42
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MrSlam posted:He escaped Harrenhal with Arya and they got captured by the Brotherhood. He decided to stay at the Inn of the Kneeling Man, ala wiki.
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Jul 20, 2016 15:44
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I believe he enacted some good old Tywinian justice at that Inn, hanging the innkeep for daring to not get gutted by all the people with swords arresting Tyrion.
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Jul 20, 2016 16:25
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Preston's dumbest thing is assuming that GRRM's previous works have any implications for ASOIAF at all, like its doing a disservice to any author to act like any of their stories can't stand alone and there just HAVE to be hidden connections!
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Jul 20, 2016 19:40
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When an author deals with similar themes and plots in different works he obviously does so intentionally, GRRM even reuses names and plot devices from his earlier works in ASOIAF, it's not like Preston is trying to make connections where they don't exist, it's all GRRM's doing. Whether GRRM is playing the similarities merely as easter eggs or as something more meaningful is a different question. My opinion is that he's obviously drawing on the same themes and concepts for a reason, whether it is to subvert his own tropes or to retell them in a different setting remains to be seen.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:35
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my bony fealty posted:Preston's dumbest thing is assuming that GRRM's previous works have any implications for ASOIAF at all, like its doing a disservice to any author to act like any of their stories can't stand alone and there just HAVE to be hidden connections! It's actually cool and good to point out that literally every single time someone in his stories claims to be doing magic they are just using technology and being a charlatan. And every single time he does time travel only consciousness can travel back in time. And every time he does a race of individuals coming against a collective consciousness the individuals get sent psychic dreams under the illusion of false prophecy to specifically gently caress them up. It's cool to think you got some multiple choice gently caress ups coming down the pipe.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:38
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It's not magic; it's telepathy, telekinesis, or some combination of both. Which isn't magic for, uh, reasons.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:43
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The Little Kielbasa posted:It's not magic; it's telepathy, telekinesis, or some combination of both. Which isn't magic for, uh, reasons. It's Teke. Teke is different because it's spelled with 4 letters instead of 5 and the letters are all different.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:45
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Boy do I feel stupid now.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:46
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I like knowing that in his sci fi series, every single magician is actually a fraud with a space ship that can't fly but can do "magic" for them. And I hope, and pray, that while yes, the alchemists, and the pyromancers, and the red priestess, and the house of the undying, while they are all charlatans before the dragons came, that the "wow magic is coming back" is true, that awful terrible low fantasy blood magic is working again. hosed up magic that no sane person would consider "Worth it" owns. Burn a princely dick up in a fire to dial up hosed up demon on dickskype, ask him what he ate for dinner and what heck is like.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:51
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What's with this preston-phobia. Preston isn't saying it isn't magic, he says that in GRRM's sci-fi stories telepathy and telekinesis are presented as genetic mutations that are Seriously Not Magical In Origin. It's like, X-men, obviously the mutant powers are for all intents and purposes magical but if you suddenly got a wizard in the story casting spells and summoning forest trolls it would still be out of left field. Preston is (repeatedly) stipulating that ASOIAF magic has a certain logic to it, and again, this isn't something that Preston is just pulling out of his rear end, we have certain examples of Things That Appear To Be Magical turning out to be telepathic illusions. You lay off of Preston, all of you.
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Jul 20, 2016 21:54
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Krinkle posted:It's actually cool and good to point out that literally every single time someone in his stories claims to be doing magic they are just using technology and being a charlatan. And every single time he does time travel only consciousness can travel back in time. And every time he does a race of individuals coming against a collective consciousness the individuals get sent psychic dreams under the illusion of false prophecy to specifically gently caress them up. It's cool to think you got some multiple choice gently caress ups coming down the pipe. Eh yeah ok you're right, and I would be plenty happy if it turns out the crypto sci-fi theory is right, but I want to give GRRM more credit than that and think that maybe he's *not* doing those in ASOIAF because he's trying something new? Maybe I should know better than that by now :x
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Jul 20, 2016 21:55
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my bony fealty posted:Eh yeah ok you're right, and I would be plenty happy if it turns out the crypto sci-fi theory is right, but I want to give GRRM more credit than that and think that maybe he's *not* doing those in ASOIAF because he's trying something new? Maybe I should know better than that by now :x He's outright stated that Westeros's seasons have fantasy explanations, not sci-fi explanations. It is fantasy. http://asoiafuniversity.tumblr.com/post/108850447935/things-grrm-has-said-about-the-seasons-of-the George R R Martin posted:“Nice try, guys, but you’re thinking in the wrong direction.” This is a fantasy series. I am going to explain it all eventually, but it’s going to be a fantasy explanation. But that's one of GRRM's clever misdirects! Classic GRRM! MrSlam fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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Jul 20, 2016 22:14
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Yeah. Keep flapping your queso hole, Gorge. The height of the wall, the age of the Stark kids, supervillain Darkstar, etc? GURM probably gave as much thought about the reasons for the seasons Ho ho ho, Absolute Fucker.
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Jul 20, 2016 22:48
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emanresu tnuocca posted:It's like, X-men, obviously the mutant powers are for all intents and purposes magical but if you suddenly got a wizard in the story casting spells and summoning forest trolls it would still be out of left field. You mean like a race of mini dryads creating a race of ice monsters?
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Jul 21, 2016 05:48
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MrSlam posted:But that's one of GRRM's clever misdirects! Classic GRRM! I'll say! That implies he's going to write something. That sneaky bastard!
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Jul 21, 2016 12:40
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I got a good feeling about the book coming out next year.
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Jul 21, 2016 19:07
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I feel confident that a book will be released next year.
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Jul 21, 2016 19:11
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You didn't hear? It's out next month.
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Jul 21, 2016 19:17
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Every time someone fools me I get excited to be fooled. Oh boy I can't wait to see what side project I don't care about it is?
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Jul 22, 2016 01:23
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Krinkle posted:Every time someone fools me I get excited to be fooled. Oh boy I can't wait to see what side project I don't care about it is? this
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Jul 22, 2016 02:37
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Krinkle posted:Every time someone fools me I get excited to be fooled. Oh boy I can't wait to see what side project I don't care about it is? haha same though I get disappointed everytime it isn't some lovely GoT's novellization merch
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Jul 22, 2016 03:48
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Hogge Wild posted:haha same you clearly didn't see: http://grrm.livejournal.com/493030.html !!!
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Jul 22, 2016 04:57
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Someday it's going to be either GRRM has died, or the book is out, and we gotta get our misleading URL headlines ready. Gotta be read either way. The wait is ogre (maybe shrek four will be out by now?)
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Jul 22, 2016 05:12
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Is it out yet?
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Jul 23, 2016 00:03
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Out of style to be waiting for it. Yes.
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Jul 23, 2016 00:11
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Ginette Reno posted:Is it out yet? The Winds of Winter was exclusively released on HBO.
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Jul 23, 2016 04:29
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Is there a thread for r scott Bakker books? I've moved on to a superior series with more rape per page (rpp).
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Jul 23, 2016 07:35
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various cheeses posted:Is there a thread for r scott Bakker books? I've moved on to a superior series with more rape per page (rpp). http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3758722&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 and http://www.second-apocalypse.com/ What book are you on ?
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kcroy posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3758722&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Thank you my man. I'm a few chapters into the latest book. Just got past the non-consensual buggery mentioned earlier.
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