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Invalid Validation posted:Anybody seriously making content for ASoIaF at this point is a lunatic. Kylaer posted:And that's why GRRM stopped a decade ago   evenaSoIaf: Anyone making content for aSoIaF is a lunitic, and that's why GRRM stopped
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Ghod loving drat. Nice.
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Preston has a lot going on, but his big Thing is that Game of Thrones is a sci-fi world, or uses sci-fi tropes. He's read a LOT of GRRM's other works, and it has things like 'a telepathic network of trees' and a lot of genetics and time travel type stories. He also thinks dragon-riding is genetic and that the Maesters have been colluding for centuries to keep people with the most extreme version of the dragonriding gene, which makes dragon eggs hatch successfully around them, off the throne, (All the Rhaen-women and their husbands and sons, maneuvering to get Viserys on the throne because his dragon died, so he wouldn't get another one, etc) opposed by people like Daemon, who are trying to concentrate these genes. A lot of it's pretty out there, but it's rarely poorly reasoned or sourced, I like his videos. The few chapters I read of his fanfic seemed good, especially the prologue, but you have to be on board with things like Quentyn being alive, it hits on his theories pretty hard.
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von Metternich posted:Preston has a lot going on, but his big Thing is that Game of Thrones is a sci-fi world, or uses sci-fi tropes. He's read a LOT of GRRM's other works, and it has things like 'a telepathic network of trees' and a lot of genetics and time travel type stories. He also thinks dragon-riding is genetic and that the Maesters have been colluding for centuries to keep people with the most extreme version of the dragonriding gene, which makes dragon eggs hatch successfully around them, off the throne, (All the Rhaen-women and their husbands and sons, maneuvering to get Viserys on the throne because his dragon died, so he wouldn't get another one, etc) opposed by people like Daemon, who are trying to concentrate these genes. So maesters are anti-benegesserit? Do they use their glistening members to influence people? Perhaps he'll add a part in WoW where Jon watches Dany scale The Wall, and he ejaculates when she summits. Hasselblad fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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George says that maternal mortality is lower in Westeros than in real medieval societies thanks to the work of the Maesters. And yet, maternal mortality rates among Westeros noblewomen are eyewatering to the extent that it would threaten the survival of the human race. Either the Maesters aren’t doing their ostensible job, or George is a bad writer.
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Platystemon posted:or George is a bad writer. 
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Platystemon posted:George says that maternal mortality is lower in Westeros than in real medieval societies thanks to the work of the Maesters. That's mostly down to them getting stabbed though.
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Book aint out yet? see you in another decade (not sure when i checked in last)
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Your last checkin was LOCKDOWN week, 2020.Destro posted:Wild Cards fan just doing my yearly check in. Guys the book still isn't out yet
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Man, this thread in 2020 still had hope and some belief in George lolGodFish posted:The coronavirus is the first thing that's made me think gurm might actually finish this book before he or I die
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Platystemon posted:George says that maternal mortality is lower in Westeros than in real medieval societies thanks to the work of the Maesters. Since apparently the maesters killed all the dragons and are part of a creepy larger conspiracy, maybe they are killing westerosi mothers....on PURPOSE. GURM planned it all out from the start, folks. Literary genius. Killing Riverlanders so they can be replaced with dothraki immigrants!
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At the time I think GRRM’s excuse was he could I only write at home, but he kept going to events and had no time to be home and write, so I can at least follow the logic there.
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I read Fevre Dream. The story moves at a very decent speed! There’s a timeskip! An ending! An epilogue even! Crazy to think it’s the same guy. Fun vampire book, i recommend it
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Kylaer posted:And that's why GRRM stopped a decade ago I wish this quote and reply could be the thread title somehow.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I wish this quote and reply could be the thread title somehow.
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Mr. Nemo posted:I read Fevre Dream. This was the first GRRM book I read, way back in the 90s'. It is pretty drat good, actually, and Victorian vampires on a steamboat in the deep South is a really fun premise! (I think the ending is a wee bit weak, but at least there is one!) There's a nice sense of claustrophobic, creeping terror throughout too, it was a solid novel overall, would recommend if you like vampires. I was gifted a free audiobook of Harry Lloyd (who played Viserys in the show) reading the 3 Dunk and Egg short stories, would also recommend that. Not normally a fan of audiobooks, but Harry Lloyd did a lovely job.
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 Unironically, this is GRRM's wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin#Bibliography Like lmao, you know who could actually contribute to that list?
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The thing that separates GRRM from true hacks like Rothfuss is he actually has completed a fair amount of satisfying books. Just bit off more than he could chew with Asoiaf
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Ccs posted:The thing that separates GRRM from true hacks like Rothfuss is he actually has completed a fair amount of satisfying books. Just bit off more than he could chew with Asoiaf If we had not at one point loved him, we would have no reason to hate him.
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Kylaer posted:If we had not at one point loved him, we would have no reason to hate him. This really is the perfect way to sum things up. It certainly explains my feelings on him, hoping as I was for the conclusion to this series I loved and learning the ultimate fate of these characters I cared about. He took that away. And didn't just take it away by saying "I'm not writing anymore." Nope, instead he had to keep lying about it for over a decade and counting.
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They say that art is that which provokes an emotional response. George is a great artist.
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I really don't hate GRRM, and I don't care about ASOIAF any more either, moved on from that years ago. But I won't move on from this thread until GRRM is dead, a crescendo of shitposting takes place, and it can at last be closed.
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You will be here with the rest of us reading whatever scraps get published, don't fool yourself
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Kylaer posted:If we had not at one point loved him, we would have no reason to hate him. I am nearing the end of AGoT on my current rererereread, and at times I stop and consider that it is so well written and detailed. Then I think of the absolute fucker. Are we absolutely certain that this pear shaped man wrote the first few books?
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Kylaer posted:If we had not at one point loved him, we would have no reason to hate him. Kylaer posted:I really don't hate GRRM, and I don't care about ASOIAF any more either, moved on from that years ago. But I won't move on from this thread until GRRM is dead, a crescendo of shitposting takes place, and it can at last be closed.
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“I love how much undigested corn is in this poo poo I’m eating.”
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This is the best writing I’ve ever read and I’ve read upwards of 10 warhammer novels
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To be fair, my exposure before ASOIAF was more or less limited to RA Salvatore novels. And I haven’t added much to my resume since then.
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This is amazing work. As a student of history I can say that I’ve read hundreds of books like this, and have shown little to no emotion. The books were just windows to a past I’ve never lived in, people who I never knew or would ever know. But this book made me stop and evaluate. Putting dragons in made me actually look at what is really happening. Putting something that everyone is familiar with in a situation that no one knows, and to make people feel those emotions well, that takes amazing talent. Thank you.
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I’ve read a lot of fantasy and describing mundane poo poo in flowery language is half the word padding the genre gets. It’s a staple.
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Mr. Nemo posted:You will be here with the rest of us reading whatever scraps get published, don't fool yourself I haven't read the third hedge knight short story, or any of the World Of stuff 
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Mr. Nemo posted:You will be here with the rest of us reading whatever scraps get published, don't fool yourself Unless people go "WOW THIS MADE IT ALL WORTH IT" I'm going to read a synopsis instead
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Platystemon posted:This is amazing work. As a student of history I can say that I’ve read hundreds of books like this, and have shown little to no emotion. The books were just windows to a past I’ve never lived in, people who I never knew or would ever know. But this book made me stop and evaluate. Putting dragons in made me actually look at what is really happening. Putting something that everyone is familiar with in a situation that no one knows, and to make people feel those emotions well, that takes amazing talent. Thank you. I want you to know I appreciate this reference.
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FWIW, I actually do believe at some point we'll get book 6. However long it takes. But, if book 6 is actually completed by GRRM and he sticks to his guns on his "no alternate authors to finish the story/it dies with me" then book 7 will never ever happen. But i'll read book 6 if/when it comes out and I'll continue to enjoy the books as much as I can.
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Well, they're right about how much book he doesn't have...
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Honestly, five years ago I'd totally have believed that he has a bunch of chapters that are just not yet ready to be published. But at this point I think he has nothing. A few of them would have to be in a state where he can at least talk about them or publish them as a preview. He hasn't written a word of ASOIAF since Dance.
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pidan posted:Honestly, five years ago I'd totally have believed that he has a bunch of chapters that are just not yet ready to be published. But at this point I think he has nothing. A few of them would have to be in a state where he can at least talk about them or publish them as a preview. He hasn't written a word of ASOIAF since Dance. He had a bunch of "not ready to publish" chapters. Then he released them in 2011 
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