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I had entirely forgotten that happened. I think I must have rolled my eyes so hard reading that scene I triggered a memory reset.
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I haven't read any of his books in years but i enjoyed Alistair Reynolds as a lad. I've been meaning to pick up Revelation Space again but im scared to discover that its actually trash 
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Sep 26, 2020 17:06
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queef anxiety posted:I haven't read any of his books in years but i enjoyed Alistair Reynolds as a lad. I've been meaning to pick up Revelation Space again but im scared to discover that its actually trash I enjoyed both Pushing Ice and House of Suns. They're not really recent but I do still think Reynolds is a good read.
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queef anxiety posted:I haven't read any of his books in years but i enjoyed Alistair Reynolds as a lad. I've been meaning to pick up Revelation Space again but im scared to discover that its actually trash His work is always solid. It's not outstanding or super impressive, and once you've read the first series he wrote you can pretty much predict the plot twists in his later books, but it's still a pretty fun read. Some of his later books he really tried to branch out and change up his style, I've only read Blue Remembered Earth and it was a major tone/theme/setting shift from his RS books. Revelation Space was a treat when it came out and it's plot was basically carbon copied for the Mass Effect series. 2 of his stories were adapted into the Love Death and Robots series on Netflix, they're 2 of the most frequently mentioned episodes for very different reasons.
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I was hoping our boy Patrick would take advantage of these covid lockdowns and write the book. I just skimmed his blog, searching for details of progress. No luck. Write the book, Patrick.
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Nov 25, 2020 05:42
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Nov 25, 2020 05:51
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Hughmoris posted:I was hoping our boy Patrick would take advantage of these covid lockdowns and write the book. I just skimmed his blog, searching for details of progress. No luck. all he's been doing is getting drunk and speedrunning minecraft on twitch. It's truly stunning how obvious it is he doesn't want to work. His blog was running silent from july until 2 weeks ago. His twitter was mostly retweets or self promotion stuff. It only seems like he crawled out of isolation after the election hoping people forgot about his editor saying he's done no work in 7 years.
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Nov 25, 2020 05:53
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What the heck? speedrunning minecraft? finish the drat book!
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Nov 25, 2020 06:08
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the editor throwing him under the bus must be one of the most savage things an editor has said about one of their clients ever. i can only imagine what prompted it
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Horizon Burning posted:the editor throwing him under the bus must be one of the most savage things an editor has said about one of their clients ever. i can only imagine what prompted it It made a lot of news because other people in the industry chimed in to say a) it was extremely shocking and borderline unprofessional thing for an editor to say but also b) not seeing any work from an author for 7 years is equally insane and a good reason to say those things
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Nov 25, 2020 06:17
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Horizon Burning posted:the editor throwing him under the bus must be one of the most savage things an editor has said about one of their clients ever. i can only imagine what prompted it nothing prompted it a whole shitload of noting
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Nov 25, 2020 07:04
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TV Zombie posted:What the heck? speedrunning minecraft? finish the drat book! Nah, I wanna see Rothfuss do Minecraft at GDQ. It'd be hilarious: the presenters there are usually pretty charismatic since they're generally successful streamers who actually know how to entertain an audience. Watching Rothfuss bumble around and be awkward while everyone sends in donations asking him where the drat book is would be fantastic.
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Nov 25, 2020 08:03
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As someone who just wrote a book I can't understand how he hasn't produced ANYTHING in seven years. And it's not like I can coast on having made millions, I've had to write it all in four months while working my rear end off at a grocery store to pay the bills. So for him to write literally nothing is just.... come the gently caress on.
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Nov 25, 2020 10:09
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The big difference is he doesn't have to work at a grocery store or bust his rear end. He's got enough cash and clout that he can comfortably do nothing forever.
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Nov 25, 2020 10:15
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Atlas Hugged posted:The big difference is he doesn't have to work at a grocery store or bust his rear end. He's got enough cash and clout that he can comfortably do nothing forever. There's something to be said about having a concrete goal and putting your efforts to sustain yourself to achieve it, providing the kind of internal motivation to stick to it. Especially if you have the kind of job where you can go on autopilot and retreat into your brain to think about your story When you can distract yourself with games all day long you don't really have any of that
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Nov 25, 2020 10:19
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I think Stephen King said that the secret to being a writer is hunger. Okay, you can read that literally - if you need to write to put food on your table, you're suddenly going to write. But I think there's also a more metaphorical element, too, where you have to be hungry to write, to tell the story, to get it out into the world. Rothfuss just doesn't strike me as being particularly interested in telling the story of Kvothe, even going back to the first novel. I believe J Michael Straczynski said similar in his autobiography, that the trick to writing is finding the emotion that drives you to tell a particular story at a particular time in a particular way. So, I don't think it's a surprise that once Rothfuss hit some frankly absurd level of success that he just stopped because, let's be honest, writing is way more difficult than just calling yourself a writer.
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Nov 25, 2020 11:25
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What did the editor say again? I totally forgot about that.
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Nov 25, 2020 14:47
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Solice Kirsk posted:What did the editor say again? I totally forgot about that. What everyone already knew - he hasn't written anything in years.
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Nov 25, 2020 15:16
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Solice Kirsk posted:What did the editor say again? I totally forgot about that. "I haven't seen a page from him since 2013, I don't think he's written anything, I don't think he wants to be a writer anymore"
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pentyne posted:"I haven't seen a page from him since 2013, I don't think he's written anything, I don't think he wants to be a writer anymore" Are we being bigots here. I mean if a person wants to identify as a writer but not do any writing who are we to define their identity? Occupations are a construct of society.
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Nov 25, 2020 15:57
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pentyne posted:all he's been doing is getting drunk and speedrunning minecraft on twitch. Lol that owns
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Pisstrick Rothfart sits before his orange toned screen, dirty bead illuminated by the blue-filtered light of an empty Word document. His fingers steeple. His elbows press deeper into his chair's armrests, pressure ulcers building. Against his better judgement, he tabs over to his browser. The internet, he sees, is dissatisfied with him. These music hating muggles. These assholes who wouldn't know art if it iambic'd their pentameters. He will not be obsequious in the face of their criticism. He cracks his fingers. Every knuckle pops from disuse. And then they move like lightning. Criticism is the refuge of the petulant. It is easy, vapid. Like the girls in highschool who... No. He remembers the deal he made with his publisher. If he wants to keep collecting royalties, he cannot slay internet trolls in this way. He holds the delete key, eyes watering as he becomes the Ouroboros and consumes his own prose. Do you know how difficult it is to pick up a series you've left idle for a dozen... Pisstrick pauses. These basement gorgons don't understand empathy. This approach is pointless. He sneers, tabbing back to the empty Word doc entitled Doors of Stone. He stares at it for a full minute. His intensity blacks out the world. There is only Pisstrick and the story that wants to be told. He gasps, realizing belatedly that he has been holding his breath. He farts and coughs at the same time. Disgusted, Pisstrick tabs to the doc entitled Fantasy Fan Battle, Round 4. Kvothe vs. Saruman. Here then he will exhaust his fury. The old magic creeps back into his fingers. His words are like a river, their flow the most natural thing in the world. A weak trickle of serotonin touches the same parts of his brain that masterbation has long since ceased to stir. He feels, if not joy, something. This will be his magnum opus. Benson Cunningham fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Nov 25, 2020 16:58
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Solice Kirsk posted:What did the editor say again? I totally forgot about that. These were the original comments from Betsy Wollheim the editor back in July Inspector Gesicht posted:Rothfuss' editor comments that she hasn't seen a shred of material in nine years. Most damning comment was "I've never seen a word of book three." And a reddit post that collected what she said: https://www.reddit.com/r/KingkillerChronicle/comments/i1na9e/betsygate_facebook_post_and_comments_documentation/
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Nov 25, 2020 17:32
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How can we say Pat isn't an writer when he just published a 300-word essay on how he bought a couch he couldn't even get in his home because he liked writing pirate slash fiction about it? Looking back over his blog its amazing how much reads like porn written by a juvenile steampunk cosplayer.
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Dienes posted:How can we say Pat isn't an writer when he just published a 300-word essay on how he bought a couch he couldn't even get in his home because he liked writing pirate slash fiction about it?
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 And then there is this vasty beautiful beast. I mean, just looking at this couch I gave it a loving backstory. Figuratively AND literally. It belonged to a pirate captain who looted it from the wealthy merchant vessel he raided. That’s why it’s scratched up in places. It was marred in the heat of battle, and rough sorts that they are, the pirate crew wasn’t gentle bringing it onboard. Luckily, it’s a sturdy piece of furniture. And it was put to hard use over the years by Captain Fuckbeard. Lo, there was much carousing conducted in its vicinity. And yay, many a buxom lass and laddie was swivved thereon after giving enthusiastic verbal consent. And yes, much aftercare was also conducted upon thereto. 
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Nov 25, 2020 18:58
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Nov 25, 2020 19:05
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I feel compelled to point out this is a direct Rothfuck quote and not Sham bam bamina! sarite. holy poo poo
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I feel compelled to point out this is a direct Rothfuck quote and not Sham bam bamina! satire. Patrick “Poe’s Law” Rothfuss He should really abandon the boring Kvothe story and just write Fake Woke Pirate Porn.
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Nov 25, 2020 19:24
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Based on that quote alone I feel very confident in predicting that style of sofa didn't exist until the 1920s.
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I’ve never written anything in my life, and I could poo poo out a better funny pirate backstory for a couch. And pirates don’t loving say “Lo” or “thereto”. Jesus, this guy makes me irrationally angry.
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he cannot write a single loving paragraph without finding some way to shoehorn in how ~feminist~ and ~sex positive~ he is. all the criticism, purple prose, "great man" writer pretensions aside using phrases like "giving enthusiastic verbal consent" "and much aftercare was conducted" is the sign of a terminally online brain poisoned redditor not a loving published author. it's such a performative display of his wannabe wokeness it makes him look extremely guilty like he's trying to deflect away from 10+ years of creepy flirting at conventions as some over-spirited banter that was no big deal
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Chicken Butt posted:And pirates don’t loving say “Lo” or “thereto”. Jesus, this guy makes me irrationally angry.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I feel compelled to point out this is a direct Rothfuck quote and not Sham bam bamina! satire. jesus christ
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Impressive, though, that getting older while being obese and sedentary has not curbed his horniness at all. Edit: Mods, please change my name to Captain Fuckbeard, King of Enthusiastic Verbal Consent and Aftercare. Chicken Butt fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Nov 25, 2020 21:35
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Oof, those editor comments are hilarious.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Oof, those editor comments are hilarious. I just went back and re-read all of them and as of July she'd been waiting 10 years for book 3, hasn't seen a single word of it, and she says she doesn't think Pat has written anything in 6 years
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Not to distract from Captain Fuckbeard's Aftercare Couch, but what the gently caress happened here? Did homie have a severe Kool-Aid accident?
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Well that certainly was cringeworthy writing, but more literally, how about this tattoo? Bonus points for the person saying it was delayed due to covid but now is deffo the right time to go for it!
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