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Dang kids and their tablets …
Is there anywhere we can find a translation yet or is it too early?
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I really have how screenshots have replaced actual articles. I want to know more.
because modern online articles are filled with 800+ words of literally no meaning other than getting the viewer to see the 2,000 ads plastered on the website
My god I wish we didn’t put getting resources into every aspect of everything we do. “Well, this is neat, but we can’t buy that new 400k TV with it so, garbage can it is. The next one will get us the luxury that finally makes us happy. Did you see my new collectible? It’s valuable!”
When we create artificial life, honest to god actual artificial life that can run on sunlight alone, then and only then can we step outside of this resource collecting, bullshit reality.
Well, that or Star Trek replicators that run on something like grass and weeds. No need to compete then, just grow and learn. That is if we can escape our evolutionarily need to collect and hoard resources.
Gettin’ yo shit and bangin’ yo bitch needs to be meaningless for us to really become something special. I know that sounds silly, but I can’t survive without yo money, thrive without yo protection, or reproduce without yo bitch. So what am I gonna do?
Haha. Please don’t take me too seriously. I’m a comeenuhnun. Comeeduhnun. Comedian.
Given that the Epic of Gilgamesh was something copy pasted to train scholars and stonemasons for centuries if not millennium, how can we be sure this is canon?
Because it was around long before cannons.
Behold my comment, unedited, with the correct number of n’s and shirk away in your ill natured unsophistry.
Part of it was also the lack of canon. The ancient world didn’t have “one true version” of anything, it had the version at hand. Which was usually the version that the current (local) king wanted.
that shit looks like it’s written in size 4 font. were Babylonians ant-sized?
Clay tends to be heavy as shit, so writing tiny means that you don’t nead a mule team to bring the reciept for the bad copper.
A Dance With Dragons took him 6 years to write. It’s been 13 years since then. Even if Winds of Winter came out tomorrow, it would take him 26 years to write A Dream of Spring given that each book takes twice the time the previous one did. Sadly it’s vaporware at this point.
Oh good, another chance for people to casually talk about how they expect a person to die soon.
I don’t think it’s so much that people expect GRRM to die soon – nevermind the fact that he’s well into his 70s and rumors about his health are irrepressible – as it is that the most recent book in the series was released thirteen years ago.
Between the first two books, there were two years, then another two years for book 3, then five years, then six. It’s simply a matter of an unfavorable mathematical progression. Even if by some miracle he drops Winds of Winter tomorrow, the planned final book would seemingly take at least as long again to finish, and given the difficulty of endings, probably much longer than that. GRRM could live to 100 and we would be lucky to see him complete this series.
“Soon” doesn’t even come into it.
The TV show has ruined any chance of that series ever being completed. The man is old and now has fuck you HBO money. He should just tell people he’s not going to finish it and hand it off to someone else.
It’s wandered into Half-Life 3 territory. Being both iconic for how long the fans have waited for it, and a product that’s meant to be the climax of a high-profile series, there’s no way it can live up to the hype.
We all know it’s going to be finished by Brandon Sanderson, the Computer Associates of moribund, out-of-control fantasy series.
I know it’s probably a joke, but he has been asked if he would do this given the chance and said no
Perhap$ he can be per$uaded
He’s going to write the final novel in secret in between his regular books and suprise drop it on us with a guilty face
Nah. What ruined it was the fan response to the ending.
That for aure was the ending he had intended for the books and provided to D&D with his outline of major plots points… There’s no way they made that up on their own. The dramatically negative response to the ending means he would have to redevelop the entire ending again.
Most people didn’t really hate the HBO ending that much after reflecting on it. What we hated was how God damn rushed and sloppily it was done. We were also furious how poorly the Battle for Winterfell was done. If they’d done the proper arc for Daenerys descending into madness, more of Bran being positioned for taking the throne, etc etc, it wouldn’t have fallen nearly as flat. Instead, the show skipped all of that development and so all the character choices felt completely random and stupid.
Anyway, I agree with you that that’s why he’s lost motivation for it. Iirc, he initially supported D&D and said that was the intended ending. It wasn’t until later that he backtracked and said that it wasn’t. But, yeah, we’re never going to get the last books.
The poor ending was entirely due to the hubris of Dumb and Dumber who were greedily looking ahead to their next projects. HBO was willing to give them as many seasons as they wanted after season 6 and they said, "Nah, we can do it in two seasons. And instead of ten episodes each they’ll have 7 and 6 episodes because “Fuck You”. They could have handed it off to someone passionate if they were bored, but again, hubris.
I almost forgot about ASOIAF completely. I still remember when A Feast for Crows came out after a couple of years of waiting, and how eager I was to read it. And A Dance with Dragons was generally an unenjoyable mess for me, feels like a forced afterthought.
It’s been almost 20 years, time to give up GRRM. I’m sure you have a couple more unrealized ideas that took a backseat while you finished it.
Oh he already gave up about 12 years ago. He just refuses to admit it.
Would it benefit him to admit it? Genuine question.
In some ways. Him publicly staying that he was done with the book series would be like ripping off the providential band-aid off.
There would be an initial backlash of upset people, and there would be a lingering nagging about giving the series over to someone else for them to finish writing it, but at least people would stop asking him “when’s the next book coming out?”, and variations on that. And if he said “no I’m not allowing anyone else to finish it!” (as he has hunted at before but then flip-flopped away from) then people would hang moved in. They’ve moved on anyway to some degree. But there’s a lingering resentment that is arguably bigger than that resentment would be with the above mentioned declarations.
But does he need to admit it? Do people deserve to know the truth from him? No. It’s his creation, and his choice. If he doesn’t want to admit it he doesn’t have to.
Finally! I’m still waiting for Chess 2.0 though
New Chess! Now with boxing gloves!
Chess Boxing is already a thing.
Of course it is. We can add hookers and blackjack.
A video game version of Chess 2 is available on Ouya as of 2014.
Gonna take the world by storm!
I hate the fact that the only thing that comes to mind when I think of the Ouya is the Detective Heart of America movie. Second-top comment sums it up:
I love how each year that passes the ouya joke gets stronger since the whole point is that no one knew or knows what the fuck an ouya is
I still remember the hype and the disappointment. I mean it was a fun idea but in the end, the expectations for the overall usefulness were too high.
I’ve still got mine. Although I wonder how many people learned about the ouya from digging through the Celeste Wikipedia.
Holy hell!
New response just dropped.
Actual brainrot
GTA 6 will finally be released by archeologist thousands of years from now.
Probably in the same holiday season as Elder Scrolls VI
