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flip the syllables so selyse becomes lisa and cersei becomes caesar
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frankenfreak posted:It definitely took me a while to catch that it's not Damfair. Certainly a facepalm moment when I did. Same. This is the first I've told anyone of my secret shame.
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Oct 17, 2017 21:55
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Clearly Cersei is an analog to "circle", meaning she's going to end the story in the same place she started it: married to someone she despises (Euron) and getting hosed (over) by Jaime. It is known.
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Oct 17, 2017 22:17
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Fhate posted:If he says that to you, just say, "Then I pronounce 'you' DEAD, sir!" and devour his head with a single bite. Please don't eat gurm's head or any other part. You will get a disease.
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Oct 17, 2017 23:39
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emanresu tnuocca posted:There are plenty of characters Dotrice did really well, even his pouty Arya becomes adorable after a while, but nothing excuses racist chinese caricature missandei. Is there a sample clip online? When you have show Missandei in mind that sounds hilarious.
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Oct 18, 2017 00:26
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NihilCredo posted:Is there a sample clip online? When you have show Missandei in mind that sounds hilarious. Couldn't find but this should do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKhGqWcJGY
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Oct 18, 2017 04:29
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Brian of Tarth. Is it out yet?
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Oct 18, 2017 20:39
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http://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/valve-hires-george-rr-martin-begin-writing-half-life-3/ Lmao
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Oct 20, 2017 01:04
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dentist toy box posted:http://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/valve-hires-george-rr-martin-begin-writing-half-life-3/ Must have heard "poo hole" instead of "Portal" to agree to that one. The idiot. That absolute fucker.
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Oct 20, 2017 04:36
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I've always liked Benjen's casting, mostly because the actor looks 100% like I always imagined Ned to look, before the show came out. Not that Sean Bean as Ned wasn't a great get for the show, but it's cool to have a very clear visual example of the stereotypical "Stark look" that people are always going on about in the books. anyway  benjen, killed off in a dumb way
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Oct 22, 2017 17:47
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PupsOfWar posted:anyway
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Oct 25, 2017 03:48
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kcroy posted:What was his dealio anyway - he was a wight, but not a wight? how'd that happen. 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.
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Oct 25, 2017 04:12
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Magic.
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Oct 25, 2017 04:19
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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. Half wight half black (brother)
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Oct 25, 2017 04:52
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In the books wasn't he supposed to be a wight that the three eyed raven worged into?
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Oct 25, 2017 05:41
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The books never explained Coldhands. It's forever theories.
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Oct 25, 2017 05:54
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The show never explained him, I don't think? poo poo, did it? I assumed he was out warging, whoops his body died, got up again and walked around without him. Time for a second life as a [animal?], nah, lets warg back into my body I mean it's right there, okay got it. Aw beans I can't go back to the wall ever again. Sorry, family who cares about me.
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Oct 25, 2017 10:16
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In the books skinchangers can no longer 'do their thing' in their second life, they're stuck in the beast and are slowly absorbed by it. Preston would probably say this is an indication that the skinchanging ability is some magic biological trait and not something spiritual at all or some poo poo. Anyway as none of this poo poo is even mentioned in the show it probably makes no sense to try to extrapolate from the books to the show, in the show the answer is "we didn't have time to deal with Benjen so we just killed him, lol, dragonglass, whatever"
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Oct 25, 2017 10:27
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I think exceptions could be made if your body is up and walking again all you gotta do is get back in there and get the ghost out, or whatever. I don't know. Man I really thought the book would be announced by November of this year. I really believed, in my heart, it could happen. haha!
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Oct 25, 2017 10:36
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Krinkle posted:Man I really thought the book would be announced by November of this year.
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Oct 25, 2017 11:01
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Krinkle posted:I think exceptions could be made if your body is up and walking again all you gotta do is get back in there and get the ghost out, or whatever. I don't know. Fret not, i'm sure a new installment of "Wild Cards" is just around the corner.
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Oct 25, 2017 11:10
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Krinkle posted:I think exceptions could be made if your body is up and walking again all you gotta do is get back in there and get the ghost out, or whatever. I don't know. Actually this is interesting as Varamyr's corpse isn't shown to be raised as a wight while the wildling woman he tries to highjack does. Perhaps wargs can't be raised if their spirit is still lurking about?
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Oct 25, 2017 14:47
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I read Sons of the Dragon. It's a wikipedia article about people who do not exist. Fun enough for what it is, and a quick read, but a bit schlocky and obviously written by a dirty old man.
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Oct 25, 2017 18:39
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cannot imagine the level of laziness required to just not write a book when that's your only job.
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Oct 26, 2017 22:48
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Groovelord Neato posted:cannot imagine the level of laziness required to just not write a book when that's your only job. I get the feeling he just really doesn't want to write WoW currently. I mean the man makes plenty of other work for himself to do, and barely touches ASoIaF. If he wanted to finish it he'd make the time. Will he get around to finishing it some day? Hell, maybe. Less likely things have happened. But for now it seems like he'd rather do any number of other things instead.
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Oct 27, 2017 07:30
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Fhate posted:I get the feeling he just really doesn't want to write WoW currently. I mean the man makes plenty of other work for himself to do, and barely touches ASoIaF. If he wanted to finish it he'd make the time. Will he get around to finishing it some day? Hell, maybe. Less likely things have happened. But for now it seems like he'd rather do any number of other things instead. He will finish TWOW at some point unless his health takes a turn for the worse in the next 2-3 years. Maybe he somehow rediscoveres his enthusiasm for the story, but if not he will never finish the last book. I don't necessarily think he doesn't want to write it, there's just a whole lot of things he wants more. Maybe going from a moderately successful TV/Scifi writer to a world famous fantasy author has made him feel a lot of pressure about his magnum opus and that's why he's stopped writing. Wild cards and other stuff is still fun for him, because there's not an extraordinary amount of expectation. Once the show hype dies down after the last season, he'll push all the books out in a few years, it is known.
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Oct 27, 2017 07:42
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Groovelord Neato posted:cannot imagine the level of laziness required to just not write a book when that's your only job. He seems to be working super hard to invent other things to do instead of writing. Honestly sometimes it sounds exhausting just how much effort is put into this. He'll never get interested again and finish them. Writing had slowed down significantly before the show came out, even if he managed to get back up to that pace again, he'd probably still die before he finished.
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Oct 27, 2017 07:49
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He lost interest in writing these books once he realised A Feast For Crows was going be: A: Very hard to write B: poo poo
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Oct 27, 2017 08:36
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And sealed his fate when he decided to write through the timeskip and ran out of energy.
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Oct 27, 2017 08:46
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the threefold combo of pressure, laziness, and money is to blame i am very much in the camp that thinks he only has written the already previewed chapters, hope i’m wrong  (i’m not)
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Oct 27, 2017 09:03
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When four out of the five main characters are kids, it seems obvious that the timeskip was an integral part of whatever vision he once had.
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Oct 27, 2017 09:13
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He said it was and explained that it kind of failed because of Cersei.
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Oct 27, 2017 09:36
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emanresu tnuocca posted:He said it was and explained that it kind of failed because of Cersei.
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Oct 27, 2017 09:47
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emanresu tnuocca posted:He said it was and explained that it kind of failed because of Cersei. I thought Jon would be a bigger obstacle, since the Others would have to be laughably slow to have not done anything of note during that time.
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Oct 27, 2017 09:54
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From the book, I don't really remember any indication that the Others are planning to attack the wall or go south of the wall. They have come closer gradually and have attacked many wildlings, but so far their behaviour is totally compatible with just wanting the north to be human free. The only thing is the two wights who attacked the night watch command in the first book. But I guess I glossed over that because I assumed the wights operate on the general zombie algorithm of "attack any humans". If they are actively being controlled by the Others that's a different story.
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Oct 27, 2017 10:00
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pidan posted:From the book, I don't really remember any indication that the Others are planning to attack the wall or go south of the wall. They have come closer gradually and have attacked many wildlings, but so far their behaviour is totally compatible with just wanting the north to be human free. At this point, I think it’s safe to say that anything we’ve learned about the White Walkers in the post-book show can be transposed on to the Others, save for the specific identity/name of the Night King. I’d assume that the books equivalent to the NK is the Great Other and they basically function in the same role in both versions: the leader of the Others/Walkers and the big bad of the series.
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Oct 27, 2017 11:01
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pidan posted:From the book, I don't really remember any indication that the Others are planning to attack the wall or go south of the wall. They have come closer gradually and have attacked many wildlings, but so far their behaviour is totally compatible with just wanting the north to be human free. Them attacking the watch in the opening of the first book could maybe be explained away, although I did get the impression they were incredibly close to the wall when that happened. The real kicker is when they sent the trojan wight into castle black itself with the obvious intention to assassinate the lord commander.
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Oct 27, 2017 16:46
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Kavak posted:I thought Jon would be a bigger obstacle, since the Others would have to be laughably slow to have not done anything of note during that time. The others seem for all intents and purposes to be immortal and they've already waited millennia. Waiting another 5 years or moving very gradually during that time hardly seems out of character for them.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:37
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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.
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frankenfreak posted:So I've made the poor life choice of spending most of my Sunday messing around writing a Markov chain generator and feeding it AGOT. While still somewhat crude, it spit out this nugget: Holy smokes lmao
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