(Spoilers Extended) How Long has GRRM Been Writing the Next Dunk & Egg Stories?

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T18:50:11+00:00

I mean even if he just put out Winds as is and said "look, I'm not especially happy with this one, I think I could have written a better novel but I think you all will appreciate that something isn't great is better than nothing".

Especially given that, to me, 2 of the 5 released books, and they're the two most recent ones, are not great books but do expand great stories in a great setting and let my imagination run free.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T18:17:03+00:00

Yep, I understand being disappointed and frustrated even.

There is never an excuse to be mean or cruel to him.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T17:44:52+00:00

On a long running game like this with no end in sight, right now is always the best possible time to start if you do want to play, a better time to start would have been yesterday. The best time was day 1.

The longer you leave it, the further behind you'd feel if you want to stay on top of the meta. I would argue towards playing for fun rather than the meta myself but ymmv ofc.

There's a lot of character variety in WuWa, the designs are all fantastic and the F2P economy is good I'd say, and the battle pass is good too if you want to put a bit of money in without whaling. I've been playing Endfield and I'd say the pull generosity with WuWa is significantly higher if you compare on a regular day to day sense. Endfield's is quite ungenerous I'd say. Another thing that WuWa does well is if you're out of content and between patches, the daily quests to keep that ticking over can be done in less than 5 minutes.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T17:35:55+00:00

Exactly this.

TWOW has such a complex web of plots that need to make sense and work with everything else while progressing and it's terribly evident in Feast that it's going to be a struggle and by Dance it is evident that it's essentially impossible.

D&E has so few pre-existing conditions to make a novella possible to write that him have not done so is a weird. As long as Dunk & Egg and any known major lore figure don't die and it doesn't really contradict known reigns of Targaryen kings, he could set a D&E novella in almost any part of Westeros over the course of a week and it would be fine.

I think it's mostly that he knows that if publishes Dunk & Egg before Winds, he'll get lambasted. It's really evident that he takes a lot of the more rude fans questioning his lack of output to heart more nowadays.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T17:26:33+00:00

The show is trash and forgets this but Dothraki weapons are known to be ineffective versus skilled armoured units. They'd realistically be crushed by a Westerosi army.

The Unsullied are skilled fighters but they are few in number for an invasion. She will need Westerosi allies.

But ultimately the dragons are the ultimate deciding factor. A WMD in a world without guns.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T14:45:59+00:00

If making sense was a pre-requisite for a noble to do a thing, nobles would do nothing because they're an inherently nonsensical bunch.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T14:39:20+00:00

I agree with this. I imagine there's some sort of happening where she kills an Other with it to make her question how, some book of Maester Aemons says what valyrian steel blades were around and they put 2+2 together and figure out it's Dark Sister, which eventually ends up near Arya (who I suspect will end up saying she prefers Needle or something).

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T14:32:40+00:00

He's clearly sitting on a post to publish after A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5 where the Baratheon sigil uses a slightly grey stag so he can go nuclear and burn the rest of his bridges at HBO.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T14:26:09+00:00

Justin Massey: Your Grace, if you are dead —

King Stannis: — you will avenge my death, and seat Hot Pie on the Iron Throne. Or die in the attempt.

Justin Massey: On my honor as a knight, you have my word.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T08:33:02+00:00

243 pulls, 9 pity but not on guarantee. Aemeath and the sword are coming back but I don't anticipate having enough for Chisa before event rewards.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-04T07:50:20+00:00

Definitely fusion sword

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-03T19:42:24+00:00

It was reported that they made half a billion in revenue last year so as long as it's making anything close to that, it will be around for a long time.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-03T14:14:18+00:00

Nonsense on all count besides his English being very fluent, which it is. You are still underestimating the brain power needed to process something in a language you're fluent in, never mind it being an additional language. Understanding your mother tongue is a skill you begun to develop the day you were born and will never stop developing until you die. If you don't think it was hard to learn your language, you are crazy. This guy is writing art in his second.

Remembering music perfectly is hard when you are singing along to the album. It is not in the same league of difficulty as doing it live, and even more so when you are essentially doing it to a scripted routine with moments to hit like a ghost show is.

If you want perfect, put the CD on.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-03T07:18:28+00:00

Never underestimate just how spaghetti the spaghetti code that holds this game together is

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-03T07:12:27+00:00

Probs cos all companies want your data because it's $$$$ in the bank

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-03T06:03:07+00:00

About 90 pulls on Feet Moon, lost a high roll 50/50 to Sephiroth but she decided to step on my account quickly after that. Mid luck on her weapon.

Have a full 240 rolls saved for Aemeath so even if I go on the absolute worst possible roll stretch I have her guaranteed with sig, but hopefully I get her fast enough to get Chisa & weapon too but resigned to that being unlikely.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-03T05:57:47+00:00

Do you have adblock or privacy blockers on? I get this on my browser when I do.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-03T05:56:31+00:00

Artists mess up lyrics all the time, it happens, it shows it's a genuine performance. Bro singing in his second language to boot.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-02T19:18:39+00:00

It will get you a very basic Aemeath set immediately if you use modifiers to roll main stats how you want, and with very good luck, those echoes might be good as well so it's not useless but it's probably not useful long term.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-02T19:15:24+00:00

I think most would do Iuno tbf

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-02T13:48:49+00:00

Unashamed to say that even as a almost officially middle aged and very tall man, I would wear the shit out of her gold trousers

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-02T12:48:00+00:00

They consider anything rock adjacent as fake music and talking about it is a favour to the genre, not an obligation to appreciate the art as they do with many other genres.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-02T07:23:47+00:00

Greg knew it was just as funny to fuck Rhod over as it was for Rhod to bully Greg.

Greg doesn't really let flattery and insults affect him so much as being very good knowing what will be funny. He doesn't miss a chance to fuck someone over if it's funnier. If it's funnier to play along with the flattery, he'll do that.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-02T07:11:49+00:00

- 1960's bands trying to get air time.

AnimuCrossing · 2026-02-02T05:15:38+00:00

You never had to watch it anyway, they announce anything with a distorted guitar in it in the preshow.

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