Well, the loving details of missile guidance subsytems are there for armchair generals to have a wank over. Read more
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Fan Theory: Is Victor Hugo an immortal and is he pretending to be Neal Stephenson? Read more
I remember when nerds pitched a hissy that P-Jax cut out Tom Bombadil, but it was really, really necessary. Read more
I wonder if there’s a good example of getting lost and wandering around; I wrote a very poorly selling paranormal/fantasy romance about a woman trapped in a labyrinth and immediately ran into the problem of being lost in a dark labyrinth turning into relentless tedium (which is sort of what I was going for, but it was… Read more
Yeah, the framing narrative is essentially “Hey, I’m going to deconstruct this heroic myth with my true story” and then gives up on that Read more
I’m a little sad she didn’t, but in the end it’s probably for the best. Read more
New Rule for Fiction: If the book starts with the characters wandering in a forest, it is a metaphor for the series so flee immediately. Read more
In fairness, they were his in-laws. Read more
The book doesn’t really go into Thoros and Beric all that much either, just that less and less of Beric comes back every time. I think in part it’s meant to keep things sort of weird and mysterious (which means we never quite know the rules, so it’s harder to point out plot holes surrounding magic). Read more
In fairness to Tolkien he’s emulating heroic epics, everyone after him are kind of like the three blind men trying to describe an elephant - they can show you some of the particulars but in the end none of them has really described an elephant. Read more
Cosmos was pretty good. Read more
I find that people are really bad about striking the right balance between judging a work aesthetically and judging a work on a political/moral basis. Typically they’re at really extreme ends (especially as we saw last year with GarmerGoop) either the political lens should be wholly discarded, or everything should be… Read more
It is literally the most insane thing. How can a store have like a million dresses and non with straps? Read more
Let’s be honest, wouldn’t we all leave our partners for Jason Statham. He seems like he’d be a lot of fun to be around. Read more
What is she going to do, beat me up and steal my credit card? Ha! Jokes on her, it’s maxed out. Read more
Unfortunately I’ve seen a lot of wedding fights, and sometimes I’ve even had people try to pull me into their wedding fights (which is the worst place to be) back when I didn’t have good business boundaries and became an ersatz wedding planner. And a surprising number seemed to revolve around the groom not really… Read more
I can imagine it’s hard to reconcile, since weddings are often ponderous events with a hundred little pieces and you’ve been fed on a steady diet that each one has to be perfect - and he’s been led to believe that you sprung forth from your father’s head as a fully-formed wedding planner.
But sometimes it’s okay to be… Read more
True. Really one of the big points in the book that emerges from having POV characters is really digging into what characters know and believe and how unreliable those things can be. While the show centers around POV characters, there isn’t that same play with perceptions since the audience is seeing it through… Read more
I’d say they could make the refund window variable to the length of the game, but it seems troublesome to have a stretchy window like that (after all, how do you let people know that information in a meaningful way ahead of time?). Alternately refunds could not be available for games under a certain dollar amount,… Read more
Counterpoint - I actually like the fact that “the Others” are so downplayed in the books. After all, for most in Westeros “The Others” are a fairy tale and the Wall is little more than a penal colony where thieves and murderers are sent to die in the forgotten wastes of the North. Only a few know the real threat to… Read more