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November 27, 1985
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  1. In Topic: The Winds of Winter

    31 May 2025 - 12:12 AM

    Tsundoku, equating writing a book series with promising more sex after sex happened isn't quite the apt metaphor.

  2. In Topic: The Winds of Winter

    29 May 2025 - 04:11 PM

    He's making these choices over and over to go do these specific things that are not writing ASOIAF instead of delegating.

    The guy makes a ton of choices to not do ASOIAF and that's pretty much that. The rest is for everyone to find a place they can reside comfortably while they wait to see if he actually does finish a book or multiple books.No point in getting mad or telling him this - several hundred thousand people have already done that and it didn't lead to more books.

  3. In Topic: The USA Politics Thread

    29 May 2025 - 12:14 PM

    The details of how Musk "left" (I don't believe he's actually abandoned much power and he has surely kept a structure to come back when the while strikes) are absolutely insane.

    Stephen Miller and his wife Katie have been in a polycule type deal for a while. Katie has been spending time with Musk as part of that. Katie has now left govt work to go be with Musk and Stephen is real mad about it. This is credible enough that the NY Times is reporting/writing on some of this and the rest is easily found online from fairly credible journalism platforms.

  4. In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread

    24 May 2025 - 06:42 PM

    I think Amazon bet big on the Mormon-ish fantasy TV series making more viewer numbers pop up than what actually happened.

    I'm not saying shows need to be Game of Thrones clones - I am saying that in a landscape where Sarah Maas sells a ton and The Pitt/White Lotus/Squid Game/Yellowstone dominate the prestige audience, skewing expensive shows towards chaste elves and vague magical medieval fantasy with a tiny dollop of polyamory doesn't get the casuals in.

    Amazon will rightly get the reputation for killing a prestige show that they bet big on before it could finish. I think fantasy TV needs to go more the animated route rather than the live action route - like Blue Eyed Samurai. Or even the technically limited, yet propulsive Arcane.

    And white America needs to stop with the incest storylines...

  5. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    18 May 2025 - 12:17 PM

    I ripped through Medline Miller's The Song of Achilles while traveling.

    Miller clearly picks and chooses which elements of the Iliad and the various Achilles myths she works with. The biggest is transforming Achilles from someone who understandably rages in the Iliad to someone who kinda just gets ticked off inexplicably due to all the prior character work being of someone who generally doesn't rage. The next big transformation is with Patroclus, moving him from an extremely deadly warrior to another role that fits a love story better.

    So the story is not one that hews super close to the mythology, yet it is one that focuses heavily on the bromance. I liked it, yet I think there was a way to make Achilles more Achilles rather than an easy going guy who only insists about Patroclus's presence otherwise.

    I do love the portrayal of Odysseus in this book - much more dangerous, much less heroic - and how Briseis is realized as a character - with a full personality and arc.

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    Tsundoku 

    27 Nov 2024 - 12:03
    happy #39, wow
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    Tsundoku 

    27 Nov 2023 - 09:14
    happy #38
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    Tsundoku 

    26 Nov 2022 - 20:52
    Happy another one, hope things are looking up for you.
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    Tsundoku 

    26 Nov 2021 - 22:43
    happy birthday
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    EmperorMagus 

    13 Apr 2015 - 21:01
    I love how well you write in discussions. It's like a far more articulate version of me saying things I want to say.
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    Terez 

    26 Nov 2014 - 09:15
    I needed an excuse to change my profile status so I used it to respond to your incredulity that I am still alive.
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    QuickTidal 

    29 Nov 2012 - 20:46
    Um, the NEW SANDMAN trades have the Absolute -recolouring-...but the older trades don't. You can see a comparison here at the link below and personally I think it's staggeringly different for tonal value of the panels. http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/09/23/absolute-sandman-recoloring/
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    Illuyankas 

    17 Aug 2012 - 16:02
    Oh, and cheers for calling me out on the pics on the election thread, I have a bad habit of not registering if a thread's in Discussion or not but I will cut down on the no content posts there.
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    Terez 

    05 May 2012 - 04:34
    heh, sorry, didn't mean to make it look like you were resentful of my presence or anything. I just felt most comfortable approaching you about it. As QT mentioned there are others who feel the same as him. I'll still be around, but I'm just saying I wouldn't be offended. :p
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    Terez 

    05 May 2012 - 04:11
    By the way, if you guys want to have a Terez-free WoT thread, I wouldn't object to that. To be honest, I probably won't be discussing WoT online much longer anyway. It's not good for me. ;) I'm told some people feel like they have to defend a dissertation to discuss WoT with me. Not true, really, but I get it.
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    Greyfrog32 

    11 Jan 2012 - 20:26
    and dont be rude you little bastard
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    LinearPhilosopher 

    09 Nov 2011 - 03:48
    You doubled back for GOTM and DG? tell me did you read them in the correct order?personally i read DG b4 GOTM
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    Guest 

    06 Jul 2011 - 14:53
    I will look into getting my hands on it :) By myself.
    Have you seen Valhalla Rising?
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    Guest 

    06 Jul 2011 - 14:46
    I saw you said something about Winter's Bone, I recently watched it :D I liked it :D
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    HoosierDaddy 

    11 Jun 2011 - 06:43
    I have not. I'll see it at some point.
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