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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Whale Mothers
« on: September 16, 2016, 01:32:57 am »
I for one am grateful to the creators of DARPA net for birthing the internet and showing us all how much we truly hate one another.

It's the cognitive pollutions, I tells ya! (lol, prolly is)

Also the damnation button is bad, IMO

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General Earwa / Re: The Prince of Nothing: TV series
« on: September 15, 2016, 10:18:13 pm »
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"Forgive me. There are no crimes when no one is left alive."

Yeah, someone once pointed out that's like probably a reference to the whole 144,000 thing.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Whale Mothers
« on: September 15, 2016, 07:41:12 am »
Hate got her anonymity outed and was in damage control last I heard.

Vox *brrrr* probably doesn't have his fur rubbed the wrong way by it.

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General Earwa / Re: Bakker and Tolkien
« on: September 14, 2016, 03:06:06 am »
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At each of these junctures, the characters resolve to take matters into their own hands

So what were they doing before those moments?

Going with some overall flow?

Maybe it's anti individualistic?

Always an ironic position for the lone author to take

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General Earwa / Re: The Prince of Nothing: TV series
« on: September 14, 2016, 02:52:30 am »
Does make me wonder if there'd be a point where he'd put his foot down, or whether it was all popcorn to him and hey, as long as the cheque doesn't bounce then there's no change that'll be a problem (it's just popcorn after all)...

What was he trying to get at with the series?

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General Misc. / Re: Some kinda game idea brewing
« on: September 13, 2016, 03:01:34 am »
Okay, I have a work in progress uploaded! It's surprising how long things take!

https://www.scirra.com/arcade/adventure-games/s-rank-savages-10937

Several warnings here, lol! First, it's text based (I kind of wanted to go for a book feeling). Also really I'd suggest people who are into playtesting are the ones to play it - it's very short at the moment (as I've finished the basics of play structure and have just started to use that). Plus side of playtesting is that you can throw your ideas at me and there's a chance your ideas will end up in a game! Or at some point maybe an NPC named by you?

Anyway, out to the wilds ye go, mine little game! What find ye in that no mans land, aye?

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General Earwa / Re: Traitor of men
« on: September 12, 2016, 08:28:04 am »
It's funny how Seswatha's writing style is very different - focused on action and basically no introspection into characters. Just a touch a hack.

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Listened to part of a special on an artist the other day, it reminded me of something

Captains hate it

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General Earwa / Re: Traitor of men
« on: September 10, 2016, 09:43:23 pm »
The one thing I absolutely hate about The False Sun is that they call Aurang, Aurang. Aurang is the epithet the Kuniuri gave him!—which is not a kingdom/language that will exist for many centuries. Surely they would call him Sin-Pharion, or the Umeri would have some other name for him.

Interesting observation there!

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] Kellhus/Bakker
« on: September 09, 2016, 11:53:18 pm »
From reviews I've read of the SA, a lot of people slate it because of the status of women in the books. Never mind that it's an accurate reflection of the way the world used to be, and still is in some places.
And they argue 'But there were seamstresses! Self employed women! Focus on that!'. It's like an argument to look away at how women were mistreated and just look at ourselves as if it's been seamstresses all the way down. Which is kind of an anti feminist way to think about it - as if there was never a problem or to avoid looking at the problematic history.

On the other hand I wouldn't mind some seamstress depiction used primarily to show it's the exception to the problematic rule.

But maybe that'd require depicting the Kianene side more than they get, eh? :) Since we seem to be following the bad guys, mostly...

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] Kellhus/Bakker
« on: September 09, 2016, 03:33:15 am »
Eh, I'd be curious to see graphs of fans for other fantasy that went on to be fairly mainstream and where they started out. I suspect with the early adopters forming the core of the snowball for some time, accumulating in a slow but exponential curve. I mean, didn't GRRM do stuff before GOT - and it wasn't really on the radar?

I think though that the curve takes longer the more you try to bring up socially controversial ideas. But SA would be like a dead dragon without those - just rusting, iron bones.

Anyway, I work on my serial numbers filed off derivative text based game...it'll have links to the blog and such, so it's a promo tool. Peeps could always look for fan fiction forums and drop some home made SA stuff there :)

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General Earwa / Re: The Gods - which is your favorite?
« on: September 07, 2016, 10:16:41 pm »
None, but
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Her idol depicts the severed head of a beautiful woman upon a copper tree.
Head on a pole confirmed ;)

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General Earwa / Re: TSA related art and stuff. (VI)
« on: September 07, 2016, 06:58:52 am »
That would be amazing. He's the only key god that you didn't do art for.
They have a deal.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Whale Mothers
« on: September 02, 2016, 12:50:38 am »
Yeah, but silly doesn't mean unbelievable. That's why thermodynamics defying magic still gets believed. Probably because it's cool.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Whale Mothers
« on: September 01, 2016, 06:46:59 pm »
Not anyone here, per say, but the more this is discussed, the more I wonder why the cognitive average funneled towards outrage and incredulity.
Or perhaps more exactly, why believability suddenly dropped out and was replaced by outrage and incredulity? For example, some people have suggested that in the Matrix the machines could have just used cows. But no one found it unbelievable that the machines used humans, or if they did they figured ways it could make sense.

It seems unlikely (unbelievable), but if instead the dunyain went by consensual sex, I wonder how unbelievable the whale mothers would be then? I suspect they would be less unbelievable for folk.

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