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Invalid Validation posted:Mind you it’s been a long time but I thought the Others were supposed to be a little more than just zombies. With the way the show portrays them I just assume they’re just gonna turn into zombies regardless. The others are ice elves wearing icy crystalline armor and wielding icy swords; people only remember them as being corpse-like due to the way they're depicted on the show.
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Gaunt and hard as old bone is how they're described in the book.
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GRRM describes them as, "... strange, beautiful… think, oh… the Sidhe made of ice, something like that… a different sort of life… inhuman, elegant, dangerous." So in the book they're basically evil ice faeries.
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Lycus posted:Gaunt and hard as old bone is how they're described in the book. As someone who has dealt with a lot of cadavers, trust me that old bone is brittle and very fragile. But, yeah, metaphors.
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Barreft posted:He said he was in the process of being turned to a WW when the Children stabbed him with dragonglass. Is that right? It's what I seem to remember but it opens up so many other questions my head hurts. ok thanks, and yeah, that opens up a bunch of other questions.
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kcroy posted:ok thanks, and yeah, that opens up a bunch of other questions. Looked it up to check: quote:Until the season-six episode “Blood of My Blood,” that is. In that episode, we learned that Benjen Stark was stabbed in the gut with a sword of ice by a White Walker, but the Children of the Forest intervened by shoving a handy blade of dragonglass into his chest to prevent the magic from taking hold. (Someday, we need a dragonglass 101 tutorial: How can it turn you into a White Walker, prevent you from becoming a wight, and kill a White Walker, all in one. Is there anything it can’t do?)
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Answer: Magic. Hold on. You're telling me Harry Potter's wand can make things float, shoot lightning bolts and turn Ron into a horny toad? How? Lycus fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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Lycus posted:Answer: Magic. Dragonglass is clearly overpowered for a low magic world. Nerf that poo poo.
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The next season is going to be a jack black comedy about farting on the white walkers with dragongas.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:The next season is going to be a jack black comedy about farting on the white walkers with dragongas. The Winds Of Sphincter?
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:The next season is going to be a jack black comedy about farting on the white walkers with dragongas. I'm not gonna lie, if they turned Season 8 into one giant Kung-Fu Panda movie, that would be legit amazing 
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hey asoiaf thread, just wanted to stop by to say i watched logan lucky and it had a really hilarious asoiaf bit that the thread would enjoy
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Former Everything posted:hey asoiaf thread, just wanted to stop by to say i watched logan lucky and it had a really hilarious asoiaf bit that the thread would enjoy how was the movie?
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kcroy posted:how was the movie? Pretty darn good imo, definitely worth a watch
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I'm never gonna watch it what's the bit
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TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:I'm never gonna watch it what's the bit Some dudes in a prison riot capture some guards as hostages and part of their demands are for the latest ASOIAF volumes to be bought for the prison library. The leaders refuse to believe GRRM isn’t done, quoting some of his completion promises from before they went into prison, and are skeptical about there being a show.
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Syzygy Stardust posted:Some dudes in a prison riot capture some guards as hostages and part of their demands are for the latest ASOIAF volumes to be bought for the prison library. The leaders refuse to believe GRRM isn’t done, quoting some of his completion promises from before they went into prison, and are skeptical about there being a show. Lmfaooo Nice
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Appropos of not much, MGMT's "Congratulations" is such a 2017 album
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Syzygy Stardust posted:Some dudes in a prison riot capture some guards as hostages and part of their demands are for the latest ASOIAF volumes to be bought for the prison library. The leaders refuse to believe GRRM isn’t done, quoting some of his completion promises from before they went into prison, and are skeptical about there being a show. This is a well crafted gag.
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TK-42-1 posted:This is a well crafted gag. The best pop culture gag about GRRM's worthlessness is in the obscure show Younger, which my wife watches and I've caught a few episodes. The main earner of the publishing company the characters work for is "Edward LL Moore," author of the wildly popular "Crown of Kings" series. They cast Richard Mansur in the role as an old, skeevy, heavily bearded dude who is so morbidly obese he has to use a mobility scooter to get around. Under a female pen name he writes a book about the female orgasm, and it has some really gross and intimate passages that he lovingly reads out, to the obvious discomfort of the young female editors and assistants at the publishing house. They, of course, have to pretend he's not a loving human garbage fire because he makes the company so much money. I really hope GRRM has seen the episodes where his doppleganger appears. Syzygy Stardust fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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some guy on the bus posted:Is the book out yet? 
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some guy on the bus posted:Is the book out yet? smh at asking this question during football season
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PupsOfWar posted:smh at asking this question
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PupsOfWar posted:football season Sorry for my ignorance but when is it not football season in the US ?
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from mid february until early september.
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Groovelord Neato posted:from mid february until early september. Yeah but then you have the combine and the draft and training camp and then the preseason starts in early August. Football season never ends for junkies like GRRM.
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i do love that martin roots for two awful teams and that my team is his most hated and is the best.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i do love that martin roots for two awful teams and that my team is his most hated and is the best.
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:Yeah but then you have the combine and the draft and training camp and then the preseason starts in early August. You have to be a 99.9th percentile junkie to really care much about what happens in training camp or OTAs, so I imagine Martin does most of his writing in between April and August or, rather, I would imagine this if it weren't for the fact that late spring/summer is Convention season. If he won't write during football season and won't write during con season, there is really no time when he can write. tl;dr books never getting finished Ravenfood posted:I know he roots for the Jets. Who else? and who does he hate? I might as well keep it in mind when football's on since it'd at least make me smile. I assume the Patriots are his foes
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"The galley was also where the ship's books were kept ... the fourth and final volume of The Life of the Triarch Belicho, a famous Volantene patriot whose unbroken succession of conquests and triumphs ended rather abruptly when he was eaten by giants."
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TK-42-1 posted:"The galley was also where the ship's books were kept ... the fourth and final volume of The Life of the Triarch Belicho, a famous Volantene patriot whose unbroken succession of conquests and triumphs ended rather abruptly when he was eaten by giants." Alas, he was done in by his top general's deceitful practice of slightly deflating... I can't finish this metaphor. All's I know is GRRM is good and right to hate Tom Brady, Bill Belichec and the Pats. They're the NFL Official Evil team.
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If tom brady says balls should be deflated, they should be. The NFL should be sanctioned for over-inflating them.
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when I first heard about deflategate, I assumed the controversy was that the patriots had somehow infiltrated the colts' equipment staff and deflated their balls so that Luck wouldn't be able to throw them as well which would be cheating later I learned that the actual idea was that the Patriots' staff had deflated their own balls because Brady thought it'd help him throw better which seems like something the QB should be able to decide anyway the Patriots are very evil and I'm glad Triarch Belicho was devoured by Giants.
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Something something neep-deflationgate.
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PupsOfWar posted:when I first heard about deflategate, I assumed the controversy was that the patriots had somehow infiltrated the colts' equipment staff and deflated their balls so that Luck wouldn't be able to throw them as well I mean, both teams have to throw the ball.
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TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:I mean, both teams have to throw the ball. No one HAS to do anything. See: GURM
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TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:I mean, both teams have to throw the ball. Each team brings their own balls. It’s pretty dumb, but objectively so is football.
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Dangerllama posted:Each team brings their own balls. Yes, but interceptions happen. Both teams handle the balls, they need to be standard
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