The Winds of Winter A new chapter release
#181
Posted 14 December 2022 - 08:02 PM
I blame Brood.
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#182
Posted 14 December 2022 - 08:36 PM
Jahdu, on 14 December 2022 - 03:35 PM, said:
And all the other people on the thread who said they won't be reading it, are they super weird too or was that just reserved for me... dawg
We were discussing it, and people weighed in on if and when they'd read it when it finally comes out during said discussion.
You just came in and said "Oh my god, you people still want to read this?! I'm not, and I need you to know that!"....and then you dropped back in after Worry made a joke about your post....to reiterate that refusal to read it.
If you can't see the difference, I can't help you.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#183
Posted 14 December 2022 - 08:50 PM
Yeah we've all been there. FWIW I'm not reading any further until the series is finished. By GRRM or a legacy author a la Branderson for WOT.
It was bad enough waiting for AFFC. By the time ADWD came out I was all "Meh, I'll wait until it's done thanks".
Nothing against anyone waiting and reading as they come out though. Fill your boots.
I dunno how you remember anything though. I'll have to consult wikis or similar before I open ADWD.
It was bad enough waiting for AFFC. By the time ADWD came out I was all "Meh, I'll wait until it's done thanks".
Nothing against anyone waiting and reading as they come out though. Fill your boots.
I dunno how you remember anything though. I'll have to consult wikis or similar before I open ADWD.
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#184
Posted 14 December 2022 - 08:53 PM
We should all stop reading, period. Nasty habit, flares up the body’s humors, particularly yellow bile.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
#185
Posted 14 December 2022 - 09:06 PM
worry, on 14 December 2022 - 08:53 PM, said:
We should all stop reading, period. Nasty habit, flares up the body’s humors, particularly yellow bile.
Aww I'm finally learning to read and now you're telling me we should stop?! Oh woe is me!
Tehol said:
'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'
#186
Posted 14 December 2022 - 09:22 PM
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#187
Posted 15 December 2022 - 06:07 AM
Tsundoku, on 14 December 2022 - 08:50 PM, said:
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I dunno how you remember anything though. I'll have to consult wikis or similar before I open ADWD.
I dunno how you remember anything though. I'll have to consult wikis or similar before I open ADWD.
Let me make it easy for you:
Stuff happened. Some of it was incest. Also, dragons, zombies, and a short dude with a huge cock and an unhealthy obsession with dead hookers.
Boom, you're good to go.
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#188
Posted 15 December 2022 - 07:57 AM
Tsundoku, on 14 December 2022 - 08:50 PM, said:
Yeah we've all been there. FWIW I'm not reading any further until the series is finished. By GRRM or a legacy author a la Branderson for WOT.
It was bad enough waiting for AFFC. By the time ADWD came out I was all "Meh, I'll wait until it's done thanks".
Nothing against anyone waiting and reading as they come out though. Fill your boots.
I dunno how you remember anything though. I'll have to consult wikis or similar before I open ADWD.
It was bad enough waiting for AFFC. By the time ADWD came out I was all "Meh, I'll wait until it's done thanks".
Nothing against anyone waiting and reading as they come out though. Fill your boots.
I dunno how you remember anything though. I'll have to consult wikis or similar before I open ADWD.
100% this. Too much time between books means a required reread of prior materials each time and with an unknown amount of books still on the horizon this is becoming madness. I cannot even fully remember anymore which bits were book cannon and which bits have filtered into the story in my head from the TV series. Once rereads turn from fun into a chore, it is time to move on. I completely appreciate that GRRM has no formal obligations to us and that he can finish or not finish stuff anyway he pleases. But then he will have to appreciate that most of his reader base will have moved on and doesn't care anymore. The pendulum swings both ways and he is taking the mickey by continuously flogging a dead horse.
Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
#189
Posted 15 December 2022 - 12:47 PM
QuickTidal, on 14 December 2022 - 08:36 PM, said:
Jahdu, on 14 December 2022 - 03:35 PM, said:
And all the other people on the thread who said they won't be reading it, are they super weird too or was that just reserved for me... dawg
We were discussing it, and people weighed in on if and when they'd read it when it finally comes out during said discussion.
You just came in and said "Oh my god, you people still want to read this?! I'm not, and I need you to know that!"....and then you dropped back in after Worry made a joke about your post....to reiterate that refusal to read it.
If you can't see the difference, I can't help you.
Not asking for your help... thanks for the offer though, you seem cool and normal.
#190
Posted 15 December 2022 - 12:50 PM
#191
Posted 15 December 2022 - 01:12 PM
Jahdu, on 15 December 2022 - 12:50 PM, said:
You really want to come on the board as a newbie and start swinging sunshine?
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#192
Posted 15 December 2022 - 01:13 PM
Yeah ... can we all just not, please?
This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 15 December 2022 - 01:14 PM
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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#194
Posted 15 December 2022 - 02:52 PM
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#195
Posted 15 December 2022 - 03:09 PM
I wonder if the sequel series for Snow is going to have any affect on whatever it is GRRM has planned. Or are they going multiverse type, this is a different story sort of thing.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
#196
Posted 15 December 2022 - 03:25 PM
HoosierDaddy, on 15 December 2022 - 03:09 PM, said:
I wonder if the sequel series for Snow is going to have any affect on whatever it is GRRM has planned. Or are they going multiverse type, this is a different story sort of thing.
From want I understand Kit went to GRRM with his idea and GRRM approved it, so I feel like it will be a soft retcon of S8 to align more with what GRRM set out, and the show will add context to everything. Like I think the Prince that was Promised thing is still in play, and the "Long Night" is still in play and has not occurred yet.
I can't see any show continuing Jon's journey to NOT softly retcon some of the more heinous things D&D did in S8.
As such, I expect the two remaining books to sort of align with that if they need to?
But in the end, who knows.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 December 2022 - 03:25 PM
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#197
Posted 15 December 2022 - 03:41 PM
#198
Posted 15 December 2022 - 04:08 PM
QuickTidal, on 15 December 2022 - 03:25 PM, said:
HoosierDaddy, on 15 December 2022 - 03:09 PM, said:
I wonder if the sequel series for Snow is going to have any affect on whatever it is GRRM has planned. Or are they going multiverse type, this is a different story sort of thing.
From want I understand Kit went to GRRM with his idea and GRRM approved it, so I feel like it will be a soft retcon of S8 to align more with what GRRM set out, and the show will add context to everything. Like I think the Prince that was Promised thing is still in play, and the "Long Night" is still in play and has not occurred yet.
I can't see any show continuing Jon's journey to NOT softly retcon some of the more heinous things D&D did in S8.
As such, I expect the two remaining books to sort of align with that if they need to?
But in the end, who knows.
I’m going to be cautiously optimistic that you’re correct.
I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.
#199
Posted 15 December 2022 - 04:13 PM
I r'hllor r'hllor hope so.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
#200
Posted 15 December 2022 - 04:13 PM
Slow Ben, on 15 December 2022 - 04:08 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 15 December 2022 - 03:25 PM, said:
HoosierDaddy, on 15 December 2022 - 03:09 PM, said:
I wonder if the sequel series for Snow is going to have any affect on whatever it is GRRM has planned. Or are they going multiverse type, this is a different story sort of thing.
From want I understand Kit went to GRRM with his idea and GRRM approved it, so I feel like it will be a soft retcon of S8 to align more with what GRRM set out, and the show will add context to everything. Like I think the Prince that was Promised thing is still in play, and the "Long Night" is still in play and has not occurred yet.
I can't see any show continuing Jon's journey to NOT softly retcon some of the more heinous things D&D did in S8.
As such, I expect the two remaining books to sort of align with that if they need to?
But in the end, who knows.
I’m going to be cautiously optimistic that you’re correct.
We can hope. Problem is just how long we wait to see....LOL
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon