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Yeah, clearly this thing should be 150-200', tops. I know that's still crazy-stupid enormous for a structure as long as the Wall is, but this is also supposed to be a fantasy story with dragons and magic swords. It makes a kind of sense that the men of the ancient, mystical times who built it would be able to stack the Great Wall of China up on itself 8 times at the tallest point, entirely out of blocks of ice. Surely they must have had some kind of magical assistance?
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I think Bran the Builder used some Children of the Forest magic.
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May 4, 2013 15:02
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Is the book out yet?
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A_Bug_That_Thinks posted:Is the book out yet? Yeah. He wrapped it up a couple years ago. Is this news?
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No, we're still putting it together, but I think we're aiming for an Independance Day release this year.
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I've been treating the season airing as our hiatus.
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Does anyone have the list of chapter descriptions, I signed up for the last one left but have no idea which one or what it was about.
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Check A GLISTENING HODOR's posts in the thread for it.
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The post in question is linked to in the OP, one of the first few lines. Said post is also exactly 69 pages ago, naturally.
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When does Thelonius Gayjoy get captured by the bdsm dom Ramsmy Buttman?
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Didn't see this mentioned yet: someone is making Meathouse Man into a graphic novel 
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equity posted:When does Thelonius Gayjoy get captured by the bdsm dom Ramsmy Buttman? Originally it was in a A Dance With Dildos, but we can probably move it up to A Storm of Schwanz. But then we'll have to shuffle around A Fist for Bros.
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Probably can just merge FistDinks together, smoothe things out, put in some 'sounding' sections, aw yiss.
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I will get into the appropriate vampire erotica mindset soon
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Shoehead posted:It's pretty funny that GURM based the wall on Hadrian's Wall, something you can step over in some parts. Well, now.
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rypakal posted:Well, now. Don't look at me, he said it. I don't know why he wouldn't just lie and say he based it on the Great Wall.
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Shoehead posted:Don't look at me, he said it. I don't know why he wouldn't just lie and say he based it on the Great Wall.
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Shoehead posted:Don't look at me, he said it. I don't know why he wouldn't just lie and say he based it on the Great Wall. What I'm saying is you couldn't just walk over Hadrian's Wall when it was built. It's clearly modeled on Hadrian's Wall, from the gates underneath to ever-reducing manned watchtowers and from stretching across a narrow part of the land to the bright white color. It's 700 feet tall because *magic* and that really only presents problems in the battle scene. He should have just made areas in the wall above each gate where you could defend from maybe 50 feet high.
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rypakal posted:It's 700 feet tall because *magic* and that really only presents problems in the battle scene. I'm no climbing expert, but I think it's also kind of unbelievable that lots of people manage to climb up and over a 700 foot tall sheet of ice with gear that's basically stone-headed axes. I don't think the wildlings even have the ability to forge metal, do they? Not only that, but I think even with the technology that the southern side has, I don't think it would be possible to build a medieval elevator that goes from 0-700 feet without making it a staggered series of elevators that go short distances.
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Yeah, a 700-ft elevator would require, at a minimum, just over 700 ft of rope, and that's assuming the winch is only at the top of the Wall. Winch at the bottom, you'd need a rope over a quarter-mile in length, almost four football fields to keep this in a GRRM-y frame. How the gently caress would you ever keep a rope like that in order? And that is just a single rope on a single pulley; a real system would have at least two ropes, probably four for safety, and each rope would be around a mile in length or greater because you would certainly want your pulleys in block-form to distribute the weight load off any single point of the rope. Oh, and you'd probably want steel cables, because rope loving stretches.
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It's not rope, it's the hair of princess Rapunzel Targaryen who has been locked up in the Maiden's Tower (why did you think it was called that) at the top all these years by her evil godmother Lysa Arryn. Rapunzel (nicknamed Rapy by the narrator) tosses her long braid down the window of the tower and then pulls up unaware visitors like Catelyn in a basket.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Yeah, a 700-ft elevator would require, at a minimum, just over 700 ft of rope, and that's assuming the winch is only at the top of the Wall. Winch at the bottom, you'd need a rope over a quarter-mile in length, almost four football fields to keep this in a GRRM-y frame. How the gently caress would you ever keep a rope like that in order? And that is just a single rope on a single pulley; a real system would have at least two ropes, probably four for safety, and each rope would be around a mile in length or greater because you would certainly want your pulleys in block-form to distribute the weight load off any single point of the rope. Elevator built with magic.
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rypakal posted:Elevator built with magic. It's the only way. They don't have enough stewards or builders to maintain poo poo. Now I kinda wish GRRM would ever write again so he could do some Die Hard meets Speed and I guess Underworld scene? *squints intensely* "Shoot the
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I don't think the dragons eat enough food, either. Dragons are for real big monsters and to achieve a for real big stature you need to eat a whole heck of a lot of food. Way more children/animals that Drogon eats!
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I should also point out that people can't drink magic green goo and turn into a tree. Except, of course, if you're in Nilbog.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:I should also point out that people can't drink magic green goo and turn into a tree. Gnomes turn into trees when they die, though. Ipso facto, Bran is a dying gnome.
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Or maybe Bran drank the Nilbog juice, and that turned him into a gnome. THEN he died. But then why did the Nibog goblins not just eat trees? Was it the sick thrill of turning humans into gnomes so they become trees so they can eat them.
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This reminds me. Why are there no trolls in a movie series with the name Troll?
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Yeah, a 700-ft elevator would require, at a minimum, just over 700 ft of rope, and that's assuming the winch is only at the top of the Wall. Winch at the bottom, you'd need a rope over a quarter-mile in length, almost four football fields to keep this in a GRRM-y frame. How the gently caress would you ever keep a rope like that in order? And that is just a single rope on a single pulley; a real system would have at least two ropes, probably four for safety, and each rope would be around a mile in length or greater because you would certainly want your pulleys in block-form to distribute the weight load off any single point of the rope. Being a steward is hard work. That's why you need to know redirecting pulleys and mechanical advantage
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And counter-weights! Goddamn it, George, your stupid loving ice wall andghahbrhahgrhahgraab
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This is the thread to complain about the ice wall right? Man I loving hate that big ice wall. Goddammit George.
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All loving kinds of wizards did it.
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It is filled with the bodies of everyone who tried writing ASOIAF fanfiction in the nineties.
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Is there any "vintage" ASoIaF fan-fiction to dredge up? That stuff sounds morbidly fascinating. My apologies if you lot already secured some in your research for Game of Bones and Clash of Quims.
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I have no idea actually. There were literally like 3 ASOIAF fanfics on fanfiction.net when I checked in 2009 for the hell of it. If there are any vintage 90's ASOIAF fanfic, it was probably on a fan site or some poo poo. Now that the show came out and it's popular, there's like thousands of fanfics and they're probably all bad except Game of Bones of course. Contra Calculus fucked around with this message at 00:10 on May 6, 2013 |
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When I googled game of bones and it's an actual book about skeletons on boats or something did I do it wrong?
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Is it this one, cause yeah I think we need to knock this Privateersman mystery off the top of his mountan in the search engines here.
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ASOIAF is too complex for fanfic. In depth sci-fi/fantasy has shipping. Fanfic is for 4th grade reading level baby poo poo like Harry Potter and Star Wars and anything by Joss Whedon.
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Maybe once this wall is destroyed, they'll rebuild a new one from Dany's storm of poo poo. It'll only NEED to be around 30 feet to stop anything, but they'll make it 1000 because she just won't stop. She'll be adding layers as she does flybys on her dragon like a crop duster
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:All loving kinds of wizards did it. I rearranged this to "all kinds of loving wizards did it" and it suddenly got disturbing and worthy of Game of Bones. Godric Gayne is a loving wizards, he knows the secret language of Pleasure.
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