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Christ, is that really Ernest Cline? It must be, my fists are burning with homicidal rage.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Christ, is that really Ernest Cline? It must be, my fists are burning with homicidal rage. That's not just Ernest Cline, that's him and GRRM bombing around in one of the two DMC DeLoreans that Cline owns. https://twitter.com/erniecline/status/942610075008602114 At least when Glenn Beck bought a DeLorean to be a hipster rear end in a top hat he had the decency to immediately total it by rolling it over a concrete highway median in a cocaine-fueled haze. I can at least respect that... nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Mar 12, 2018 05:01
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Western civilization was a mistake.
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My wife just gave me the drag name Connie Lingas So I will go with that.
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Mar 12, 2018 06:09
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Errant Gin Monks posted:My wife just gave me the drag name Connie Lingas Strangest way to brag about having sex I've seen today.
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Mar 12, 2018 06:21
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I could go for some connie lingas right about now its been a while
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Mar 12, 2018 06:22
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Whenever I watched The Newsroom, I always thought the name "Don Keefer" was some kind of sex joke I just wasn't getting. How close was I?
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Mar 12, 2018 06:33
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Sounds like Sorkin's attempt to be clever by punning on Don Quixote, but I have no idea how apt that comparison might be.
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Mar 12, 2018 06:54
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mind the walrus posted:Sounds like Sorkin's attempt to be clever by punning on Don Quixote, but I have no idea how apt that comparison might be. Well, the Newsroom tried its damndest to be one giant on the nose Don Quixote reference, so... yes? Also at one point Don willingly shoulder checks a locked door in righteous furor. That's kinda like Don Quixote tilting at windmills, right? The Newsroom was a great show, that was also an amazingly terrible show at the same time 
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Mar 12, 2018 06:58
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Solice Kirsk posted:I think the show handled the Dorne problem very elegantly. Just kill everyone off and drop the entire region and it's influence from the story. That is the solution to the whole series.
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Mar 12, 2018 10:11
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I still believe there will be something called "The Winds of Winter" poo poo out by the publisher just in time for the final season in a year. It will be 75% complete without a real ending, and considering that the first 33% will be stuff that was cut from ADOD, it will effectively be 50% of a new book. That's it though, there will be nothing after that. On the other hand, I  that GURM will not release TWOW in his lifetime.
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Mar 12, 2018 10:40
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With all the preview chapters and poo poo he's released online and at cons and stuff, how many pages of a hypothetical book (that will almost certainly never actually be finished) has he written?
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Mar 12, 2018 11:03
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cis autodrag posted:Strangest way to brag about having sex I've seen today. Ha! That would have been great had i gotten laid yesterday. As it is we were discussing this thread instead and going over the great drag names .
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Mar 12, 2018 16:21
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nine-gear crow posted:That's not just Ernest Cline, that's him and GRRM bombing around in one of the two DMC DeLoreans that Cline owns. I hope he gets nailed for impersonating an offices for the blue and red lights. Then I hope Ready Player One is purged from human memory.
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Mar 12, 2018 16:22
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:With all the preview chapters and poo poo he's released online and at cons and stuff, how many pages of a hypothetical book (that will almost certainly never actually be finished) has he written? I thought all the preview chapters he's released were just ones that were cut from Dance or Feast.
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Mar 12, 2018 18:21
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nine-gear crow posted:It wasn't long after that that GRRM publicly said "Yes, I've told D&D all the big plot points and how I picture things ending," with the stated reason at the time of "in case I get hit by a truck and can't write the last two books" actually being a cover for "so they can finish it on their own." This has been public knowledge since S1 or S2 came out. D&D (and others) mentioned that the showrunners knew the 'ending' for the series.
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Mar 12, 2018 18:48
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He told Sean Bean that Jon was Tywin's son too.
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Mar 12, 2018 19:16
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Solice Kirsk posted:I thought all the preview chapters he's released were just ones that were cut from Dance or Feast. Absolutely not! The Arya chapter where the child Stark willingly accepts sexual assault so that she might murder someone was written even before AFFC (if GM is to be believed). He released it after HBO aired the Arya episode where she makes the kill. Probably in a fit of pique as there wasn't enough rapiness in the adaptation.
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Mar 12, 2018 20:09
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The scene in the show was much dumber. They hammed up how bad he was so that there was no ambiguity if it was right that she kill him. Like, obviously meryn trant was a bad guy for beating sansa but in the show he's also explicitly an oafish pedophile saying "younger!" down a list of increasing young girls - merely beating a child a few seasons ago is not enough for the average tv viewer's peabrain. In comparison, seducing and cutting the throat of raff the sweetling in that chapter, months/years after he killed lommy because he didn't want to carry him, was pretty uncomfortable and makes the reader question whether arya's path is the right one which is 10x more interesting than what the show did.
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Woodpile posted:Absolutely not! The Arya chapter where the child Stark willingly accepts sexual assault so that she might murder someone was written even before AFFC (if GM is to be believed). He released it after HBO aired the Arya episode where she makes the kill. Probably in a fit of pique as there wasn't enough rapiness in the adaptation. That particular chapter was released just before the episode aired where she makes the kill. He clearly wanted credit for that scene. I just also realized that they cut that chapter up into two parts. He released the chapter just before the first episode of whatever season aired where she and The Hound get into that bar brawl and she kills Raff there, even making him repeat Lomy's last words before stabbing him in the throat. The killing in Bravos got transposed to Trant and gently caress why do I have this info in my head. Max fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Mar 12, 2018 20:23
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What the fucks a Lomy?
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Mar 12, 2018 20:49
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TK-42-1 posted:What the fucks a Lomy? The best line from the best character.
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Blind Sally posted:lmfao maybe he will ghostwrite grrms next book Snarf, a maiden of ten and two sat down to eat one of the meals from Princess Mononoke
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Mar 12, 2018 22:00
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I really wonder if the RP1 movie is gonna do bad, word of mouth is killing it in the community that should be it's core and idk if the general public is going to respond to BTTF, Iron Giant and whatever else a normal non broke brained person would have noticed in the trailers. Seems like it's laser focused on 30-something losers and I haven't heard a single one of them have a good word for the book or movie.
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Mar 12, 2018 22:05
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I really wonder if the RP1 movie is gonna do bad, word of mouth is killing it in the community that should be it's core and idk if the general public is going to respond to BTTF, Iron Giant and whatever else a normal non broke brained person would have noticed in the trailers. Seems like it's laser focused on 30-something losers and I haven't heard a single one of them have a good word for the book or movie. A friend and I are planning to go see it at some point and just loudly mock the poo poo out of it, but gently caress me if I'm paying to see it. I'm just gonna buy a ticket to Black Panther instead because BP was a loving sweetass movie. But yeah, it's not getting good reviews from even the purpose-built outlets that should be praising it, like io9: Review: Ready Player One Is an Orgy of Nostalgia in All the Wrong Ways.
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Mar 12, 2018 22:12
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Oh so people have seen it now? Which means this tweet probably wasnt just a joke: https://twitter.com/emilyyoshida/status/973077687651721216?s=21 Woof
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Mar 12, 2018 22:20
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Oh so people have seen it now? Which means this tweet probably wasnt just a joke: Yeah, they did a "surprise" screening (which they hyped the poo poo out of for a solid week) at SXSW last night or something, and even among a laboratory grown perfect possible audience for it, the reception was decidedly "...Eh. It's a movie with stuff I remember from the 80s in it."
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Mar 12, 2018 22:23
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lmao describing the studios cynically deploying all their licenses in order to get oo's and aah's from an audience as a VG player using all the pay-to-win poo poo in a game rather than playing it is way too astute of a take.
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Mar 12, 2018 22:28
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I didn't read the book, just saw the movie trailer. Was the book a rip-off of Snow Crash or is that just my unfair impression from the trailer?
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Mar 13, 2018 00:50
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A loving parody.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I thought all the preview chapters he's released were just ones that were cut from Dance or Feast. The one with Tyrion seeing the ironborn ships show up in Mereen might've been new? If not then yes. Intel&Sebastian posted:I really wonder if the RP1 movie is gonna do bad, word of mouth is killing it in the community that should be it's core and idk if the general public is going to respond to BTTF, Iron Giant and whatever else a normal non broke brained person would have noticed in the trailers. Seems like it's laser focused on 30-something losers and I haven't heard a single one of them have a good word for the book or movie. Isn't the relationship between the main character and his love interest extremely stalker-y and creepy as hell? As in he just pursues her until she finally gives in and likes him? Should call it Ready PUA One if so.
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Solice Kirsk posted:A loving parody. A parody of a satire? Is it just jokes about jokes all the way down?
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Lycus posted:I didn't read the book, just saw the movie trailer. Was the book a rip-off of Snow Crash or is that just my unfair impression from the trailer? From what I gather it’s Snow Crash without anything that makes Snow Crash remotely good.
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TK-42-1 posted:From what I gather it’s Snow Crash without anything that makes Snow Crash remotely good. Not a bad description actually. To be fair, I think its a young adult novel, so it maybe doesn't deserve the same amount of .. i dunno criticism a real book would have.
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kcroy posted:Not a bad description actually. To be fair, I think its a young adult novel, so it maybe doesn't deserve the same amount of .. i dunno criticism a real book would have. I'm pretty sure it's meant to be for grownups. Isn't there like this huge rear end paragraph in there on how masturbation makes you a genius
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Mar 13, 2018 10:55
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Down With People posted:I'm pretty sure it's meant to be for grownups. Isn't there like this huge rear end paragraph in there on how masturbation makes you a genius I don't remember that part. What struck me as odd - this seems like a book designed for 35-45 year olds to jerk off to about their childhood. I can't imagine why anyone younger than that would find it very interesting. I mean look - I geeked out on the Tomb of Horrors part, because I played that loving (insanely hard) module when I was younger. I played pacman in an actual video arcade. I've had to line up my quarters to reserve my "next play". I mean if you are 30 or younger - I don't see it hitting you as nostalgia. It's also like "cyberspace 101" poo poo. If that book had come out in 1995, It would have been way more rad for sure. The set up is interesting enough, but its just not that great of a book unless you are fapping away to the War Games references.
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kcroy posted:Not a bad description actually. To be fair, I think its a young adult novel, so it maybe doesn't deserve the same amount of .. i dunno criticism a real book would have. Young adults don't remember any of the poo poo RP1 is deeply obsessed with
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Corrode posted:Young adults don't remember any of the poo poo RP1 is deeply obsessed with I dunno man, I know a bunch of higschool kids who are super into it. Maybe its like watching a 1920's indiana jones solve puzzles for them. poo poo i dunno.
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Mar 13, 2018 11:18
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Also, we should be perhaps more critical of YA, because it's intended to keep children reading and eventually transition to regular fiction and non-fiction. It should be actually good and not just where lazy writers go because they can't hack it in the regular SF market.
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