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Guy A. Person posted:He can finally go back to having excuses for never writing, instead of pretending to write (but never actually writing) His only real output these days is writing excuses for not writing, and i guess sportsball?
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Aw, he's doing plenty! He's working on Elden Ring, consulting for the new HBO shows, promoting the Wild Cardzz, getting invited to pitch all sorts of TV shows and stuff. The only work he doesn't want to do is the work that got him all the attention in the first place. It's like if Michael Jordan rose to prominence in his first few years, got the Nike deal and everything else, and then quit basketball before ever beating the Pistons and winning a championship, so he could focus on starring in Space Jam and golfing and trying to get more advertising deals.
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quote:(news about the three new shows with Sea Snake being developed by Bruno Heller) So, this strikes me as actually pretty goddamn cool, because a show that's all about exploring all the crazy disparate locations in the world of ASoIaF sounds like it could be a lot of fun if done properly with a decently talented person at the helm. And it sounds like they have that - so I guess we will see! That said, I am less interested in the other two possible shows '10,000 Ships' and 'Flea Bottom'. A show about Nymeria and the Rhoynish could be cool, but to me it sounds like... epic battle scenes and improbably large amounts of ships doing improbably stupid poo poo could be a real possibility, and there isn't a very good track record for those things as far as GoT is concerned. I mean, I was always under the impression that that was more likely a legend and like many Dornish stories of military conquest, featured vastly inflated numbers. As for 'Flea Bottom', that sounds like it could bring out the worst in GoT in terms of featuring copious amounts of gratuitous sex, violence, and sexual violence - given what Flea Bottom's reputation is. So, I suppose the best part of this story (to me) is the news that they're doing the Corlys Velaryon for sure, out of these three - because that's the only concept that strikes me as having real potential for greatness, rather than a setup for the worst qualities of the original series to resurface. edit: Oops, I was very beaten 
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Mar 20, 2021 01:44
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Jesus Christ HBO just reboot Rome you cowards.
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I swear fleabottom is gonna be a procedural cop show
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TERFherder posted:I swear fleabottom is gonna be a procedural cop show I think we were very lucky that only the first season of GOT was a procedural cop show.
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Mar 20, 2021 21:53
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probably better than whatever the gently caress the watch is
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TERFherder posted:I swear fleabottom is gonna be a procedural cop show It’s gonna be Ripper Street but way worse.
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Bruno Heller is the guy behind Rome right? That’s the best hbo show I’ve ever seen so I’ll watch anything he does.
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I was going to give him poo poo for also creating the Mentalist, but I guess the titular Mentalist is in fact a fraud? That does sound like a pretty funny show
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:I was going to give him poo poo for also creating the Mentalist, but I guess the titular Mentalist is in fact a fraud? That does sound like a pretty funny show So there are two TV shows about people who fake being psychic detectives because they're just so good at detectiving that nobody will believe it? TV is so weird.
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pseudanonymous posted:So there are two TV shows about people who fake being psychic detectives because they're just so good at detectiving that nobody will believe it? TV is so weird. Yes, but only one of those shows was fun enough to point it out. I miss Psych sometimes.
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Psych was one of those shows where the bottomless reserves of "don't give a gently caress" actually became an infectious asset. A rare win for irony.
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The “science” of experts analyzing facial expressions and micro body language is all fake bullshit right?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The “science” of experts analyzing facial expressions and micro body language is all fake bullshit right? Yep, along with blood spatter analysis, eyewitness testimony, and like 1/3rd of other evidentiary "sciences" that the justice system relies upon.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The “science” of experts analyzing facial expressions and micro body language is all fake bullshit right? By and large, I think yes. I remember seeing a few stories years and years ago debunking all those body language experts Bill O'Reilly would bring on his show to go through footage of people he was mad at to try and prove that they were insane or something which meant he was right and won whatever one-sided debate he was imagining he was having with them. It was basically like Councilor Troi level poo poo of "Oh well, here you can see he's he seems like he might be angry about something", said over a picture of a person literally screaming in a red-faced rage.
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Yeah that poo poo is reading tea leaves
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Mat Cauthon posted:Yep, along with blood spatter analysis, eyewitness testimony, and like 1/3rd of other evidentiary "sciences" that the justice system relies upon. I know about eyewitness testimony being worthless, but I'm not familiar with blood spatter analysis being pseudoscience. Got a good article or write-up on it?
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I know about eyewitness testimony being worthless, but I'm not familiar with blood spatter analysis being pseudoscience. Got a good article or write-up on it? https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter-analysis/herbert-macdonell-forensic-evidence-judges-and-courts/
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just remembered that the isla vista shooter was a big fan of the books and show
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pseudanonymous posted:So there are two TV shows about people who fake being psychic detectives because they're just so good at detectiving that nobody will believe it? TV is so weird. Does iZombie count?
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PittTheElder posted:I was going to give him poo poo for also creating the Mentalist, but I guess the titular Mentalist is in fact a fraud? That does sound like a pretty funny show It was a pretty fun show though it eventually overstays its welcome. The main character used to be a mentalist conman who now uses his conman powers to solve murders. He also now despises mentalists and openly says it's all a fraud.
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Bobby Digital posted:https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter-analysis/herbert-macdonell-forensic-evidence-judges-and-courts/ Thanks!
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Mat Cauthon posted:Yep, along with blood spatter analysis, eyewitness testimony, and like 1/3rd of other evidentiary "sciences" that the justice system relies upon. Excuse me but I'll have you know that lie detectors are perfectly good and flawless and can't be defeated by things like just clenching your butt real tight and next you're going to suggest that drug dogs aren't reliable because their controlling office can make them 'detect' something at will so that they can have reason to search you, your car, or whatever else whenever they feel like it. 
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trial by combat is the only correct way
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expert testimony in court is one hundred percent grift
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Is the book out yet? https://twitter.com/thr/status/1375597306427420676?s=12
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Klungar posted:Is the book out yet? Wow a five year deal huh? So they should get a good 100-200 pages of material in that time.
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Guy A. Person posted:Wow a five year deal huh? So they should get a good 100-200 pages of material in that time. The SomethingAwful 2021 "Optimist of the Year"  Guy A. Person
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quote:Martin has some projects beyond HBO, as well. There's Wild Cards, based off a series of anthology novels written by Martin, and others, that's in the works at Peacock. it always comes back to this
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What do they know that we don't?
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Kuiperdolin posted:What do they know that we don't? WILD CARDS
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We finally saw The Boys and Invincible adaptations, I suppose WILD CARDS really was a matter of time... ... good lord I'm a diehard superhero fan and even I think WILD CARDS sounds lame as gently caress, and this was before I knew he was an absolute fucker
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I'm hoping this is a setup for an elaborate April Fool's joke, but I know it isn't
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Gurm continues to be an absolute fucker
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gently caress grrm
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His greatest prank would be to actually release the book on April 1st. It'd probably be around April 6th before we all figured it out and started spoiling each other.
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Klungar posted:Is the book out yet? And how well did that work out for you the last time around, George? 
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Made a bajillion dollars.
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nine-gear crow posted:And how well did that work out for you the last time around, George? He made a zillion dollars, retired from writing, and got a dozen contracts with everything from HBO and NBC to Japanese game studios.
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