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Malazan had some cool ideas, like from what I remember the magic in the world is all opening up portals to "warrens" or demiplanes of pure aspect like fire or air or whatever, and then you find out there's more esoteric ones like healing, and then you follow the story through the royal line who carved out an empire based on their ability to connect and travel through their warren which is presented as an ash wasteland tasting slightly of metal, and as they travel they come across some bone shards and it's revealed later that it's not a pure plane but the ruins of a civilization that once lived there and instead of creating it they really just sort of stumbled on it and claimed it, and it's clear things still reside there because there are huge slither trails and people disappear every once in a while... Or the sword that emanates wailing of souls and creaking of wheels when drawn, and when someone is killed the soul is chained to and forced to pull a huge wooden wagon that's slowly being kept ahead of an encroaching tide of dissolution and chaos, containing an original piece of an aspect of the world (or a portal to it?) which is teased and sort of threaded through a bunch of the books. It's a shame the story's disjointed and the way the ideas are presented isn't that great. A lot of people like the bridgeburners storyline and I hardly remember most of the plot but there are a couple of really well written scenes and reveals - imo not worth reading the whole thing for, but still cool. Bhodi fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Nov 20, 2021 |
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Bhodi posted:Malazan had some cool ideas, like from what I remember the magic in the world is all opening up portals to "warrens" or demiplanes of pure aspect like fire or air or whatever, and then you find out there's more esoteric ones like healing, and then you follow the story through the royal line who carved out an empire based on their ability to connect and travel through their warren which is presented as an ash wasteland tasting slightly of metal, and as they travel they come across some bone shards and it's revealed later that it's not a pure plane but the ruins of a civilization that once lived there and instead of creating it they really just sort of stumbled on it and claimed it, and it's clear things still reside there because there are huge slither trails and people disappear every once in a while... I liked Malazan way more than wot and I read them basically back to back (I finished wot and then picked up malazan, im a glutton for punishment). malazan was cool for the reasons detailed above and wot I finished out of sheer stubbornness. to this day I’m still surprised when I read a book that isn’t 400 pages of walking (most books meet this criteria)
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I feel like Malazan's biggest issues outside of the writing style are just the amount of characters. Erikson does tend to focus on a few, but I think even he loses track of what characters in the periphery are supposed to be. Kruppe goes from being a all powerful behind the scenes schemer who has the respect of the older gods to the comedic relief after book 3.
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I'm not smoka, but I'll try my luck anime-posting: I started watching Nichijou, since it was recommended in the dead lowtax thread. it's fun! and now I know the origin of   (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Bourricot posted:I'm not smoka, but I'll try my luck anime-posting: I started watching Nichijou, since it was recommended in the dead lowtax thread. 
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Bourricot posted:I'm not smoka, but I'll try my luck anime-posting: You deserve at least a week off for this
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https://twitter.com/quendergeer/status/1461731798447185932
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they wish it was that good
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I watched "to live and die in LA" last night. pretty great. that guy sure was a huge rear end in a top hat, and it had the courage to not linger on big moments and keep things moving. the end was masterful.
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matthew lillard is ed? so confused
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:matthew lillard is ed?
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paul rudd was not in ghostbusters 4 as much as the trailers led me to believe, i could have used more of him also the movie does all the things everyone expected it would BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:matthew lillard is ed? yes, clearly  
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oh yeah, duh it's just the last time i saw him was opposite christina hendricks on good girls  being all, "uh, no peg"
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:oh yeah, duh yeah, i did a double take because i got to used to current matt lillard, too
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I mean it was 1⅝ hilbos ago, he's not doing so bad
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:it's just the last time i saw him was opposite christina hendricks on good girls wow she's had an image change and no mistake! also I see the new Korean 'HELLBOUND' series has dropped, the trailer looked interesting- anyone had a look yet? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbound_(TV_series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWfgm20-LTM
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NoneMoreNegative posted:also I see the new Korean 'HELLBOUND' series has dropped, the trailer looked interesting- anyone had a look yet? this looks great yes
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duz posted:yes, clearly
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Truman Peyote posted:I watched "to live and die in LA" last night. pretty great. that guy sure was a huge rear end in a top hat, and it had the courage to not linger on big moments and keep things moving. the end was masterful. also great soundtrack
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Chris Knight posted:also great soundtrack  the last time i visited la i made a point to drive across the vincent thomas bridge blasting "wait" on the car stereo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esLmTJLEwss
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Jonny 290 posted:bebop ep1 not THAT BAD but i knew what i was getting into. gonna second this take after just watching e01. it's not the anime, but it's not really its own thing, either. lots of tweaking to establish drama for later, but it's 10 hour-long episodes, so that makes sense for pacing. i wouldn't mind quicker cuts on the fighting, or at least sped up footage to give it more intensity faye always read as a tweaked version of fujiko mine from lupin III, at least initially, and that doesn't seem like it'd fit in the world they're establishing. right now she's reads as a character from a different show, one with swearing instead of barbed commentary for some reason they're set on fully including the original primary characters, so yeah, i'm sure it'll get flimsy as it approaches anthropomorphic ed with the nuance of the super mario bros. film's character design
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network execs: thank you for coming in. tell us about this project of yours, this ‘wheel of time’ george, smugly: it’s a show… about nothing!
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Watched the first two episodes of WoT last night. This pacing is much better than the books. The cinematography has been good gorgeous. So far I'm really liking it. e. Wheel of Time FalseNegative fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Nov 21, 2021 |
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u wot m8
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Jabor posted:u wot m8
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i watched the first 2.5 eps of the time wheel show and i just got bored. i havent read the books and the characters werent interesting enough to be a game of thrones nor was it fun and campy like a hurcules or xena. borrrriinnnggggg.
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i did like the bad guy tho. more bad guys should just revel in being evil cause it makes them more fun.
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Anyone ever read Gemmell? I always thought his books would work better on TV than these massive fantasy series. Stories are more self contained and satisfying than slogging through 10k pages of braid tugging, etc.
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i started watching mythic quest and it was only kinda okay and then there was one episode completely disconnected from the rest of the series and it was totally awesome
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jesus WEP posted:i started watching mythic quest and it was only kinda okay and then there was one episode completely disconnected from the rest of the series and it was totally awesome the actual pandemic episode or a different one?
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Blinkz0rz posted:the actual pandemic episode or a different one?
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