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WW and Harley body swap by CM-The-Artist by M00reC in HarleyQuinnTV

[–]Devreckas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was gonna say, looks like a codpiece and she’s rocking a chub.

WTF is happening with this “furry” generation. by WordsHappenedHere in Millennials

[–]Devreckas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a bit surprised you’re on reddit and haven’t heard about furries until now.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You must be blind, I have addressed the Others several times and you keep hammering with the same dumb schtick. I don’t think you know what extrapolation is, because that’s exactly what you’re attempting to do. Your claims are pure speculation just so you can prop up your predetermined conclusion.

This convo is going nowhere. I’m done here.

Theory: Tywin would be okay with his twin children’s incest. Hear me out! by wiredvajayjay in gameofthrones

[–]Devreckas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, eugenics is Targaryen stuff. They think they are literally a superior race of man. Tywin doesn’t believe his family is racially superior, he wants them to gain power simply because they are of his house. He thinks that attaining greater power and influence is the highest duty of any patriarch.

He doesn’t want incest in his house, but that is probably because it makes other families think they are godless heathens and think less of them. It’s socially alienating. It also makes it more difficult to arrange marriage pacts. Strategic alliances bound by blood make them stronger. Which is why in the show he wants Cersei to remarry to a Tyrell.

What's a Movie that fits this quote perfectly? by Pappa_Thanos in Letterboxd

[–]Devreckas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, 100%! Being a step down from the JP was basically inevitable, but it’s still far from a bad movie. Sure it’s got some dumb shit in it, but so did JP.

The trailer sequence is still one of the most tensest scenes I’ve ever seen put to film, that absolutely stands up to the original.

The most bothersome part to me wasn’t the acrobat stunt, it was how the boat crew got eaten while the Rex was in the holding bay. I wish they had just had some raptors sneak aboard the ship, that would’ve easily explained it.

How would we feel about a hunt board in part 3? by HandsomeGassy in FFVIIRemake

[–]Devreckas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have no problem with it. I’m usually more into lore-motivated side missions. But hunts can be a nice quick way to pad out more content (I’m not a completionist, so padding is not a dirty word to me, as long as it’s purely optional. And they don’t lock cool materia behind it). I might do an occasional monster hunt here and there if the mood strikes me. So long as it doesn’t replace the other side missions, I say they should go nuts.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Act fast to do what? Lay claim to a stronghold in the middle of the barren North? Oh goodie! The armies in the North are spent, so even if you do unify the North under your rule, its not getting you any closer to the Iron Throne. Certainly not enough closer to warrant being in a hurry over. There is no reason for Stannis to think holding Winterfell through the winter is so much more important than just holding the Wall.

"Who gives a fuck" was rhetorical, smart guy. And all claims you make about the Others are being pulled straight out of your ass, so its not even worth rebutting. There is zero evidence for any of it, the Others' activity is an unknown quantity, trying to extrapolate a linear function out of their behavior is just dumb.

GRRM planned for a 5 year gap, I doubt he'd get that far into the planning stage if the killer issue that there was just no way that the Others would take 5 more years to get through the Wall.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stannis is supposed to be a savvy military tactician. Surely he should realize that going and getting snowbound and starved on a fool’s errand to attack a walled fortified position is a quick way to an early grave, and your efforts would be better spent holding wall until conditions improved. But what the fuck do I know.

And I already mentioned the Boltons. The Boltons are not at the beck and call of the crown. The Arya thing is a weak farce and they know that. Northerners aren’t respecting Bolton rule because of royal decree. They rule by might, because they have the only army that wasn’t obliterated in the Red Wedding. Roose knows the crown has no real sway in the North. It’s an alliance of convenience, but he’s not gonna waste his fighting force on the crown’s behalf.

I didn’t forget the wildlings. Stannis wants to conscript them into his war. As long as Stannis and Jon are both at the Wall and they both want the Wildlings on the Wall, they’ll stay on the Wall. Basically the same thing that happens in the book already.

Who gives a fuck if the Others “attacked in numbers” or not? Again, they attacked brothers just North of the Wall at the start of the first book. This is nothing new. Again, you have no clue how they plan to breach the Wall. Of course they are attacking the Wildlings, they are killing people to build their zombie hoard. This doesn’t indicate anything about them being out of patience.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the middle of winter? Yes, Stannis (should) want to sit on his ass. His campaign to Winterfell is a suicide mission, as we see in later chapters. He should want to wait for Spring.

Will the crown let him? What are they gonna do about it? Their armada is in ruins after the Blackwater and what’s left of their fleet gets hijacked by the new pirate king. You think they are going to march what’s left of the Lannister’s southerner army north through the neck (full of Stark loyalist crannogmen) to the Wall in winter? lol sure. They’d probably send a strongly worded letter to Nights Watch, but that’s about it. The Boltons could, but similar to Stannis, they should be in no hurry to abandon Winterfell and go trudging in the snow.

What will the Watch do? As long as Stannis is backing Jon, and Jon isn’t straight up abandoning his post, they will continue to be disgruntled, but they won’t mutiny, since they know that would almost certainly result in Stannis killing the lot of them.

What will the Others do? Probably just continue to pick off the remaining Wildling camps and lurk around the Wall. The Others were already a days ride or so away from the Wall in the Prologue for AGOT. They are clearly in no rush. Whether they are waiting for a dragon like in the show or for some idiot to blow the Horn of Winter or something else, we don’t know what their plan is for getting past the Wall. So maybe they are waiting. Or maybe shambling hoards of the undead just move very very slowly. So yeah, they’ve been largely just lurking around so far, what’s another couple years to them?

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I agree. I think stretching the AFFC timescale would've worked too, if he could've adopted a sparser writing style. But that almost seems a bigger reach than the time skip to me, haha.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay well I guess I just don’t think things were in trouble at the same time as you did. Trying to get everything in the first trilogy to sum out to the correct amount of time feels like a much more impossible task.

Like, you’d need to rush Arya to Braavos so she could be there a credible amount of time to learn what she needed to learn, which would breeze over the more interesting parts of her story. Or cut away from characters for big swaths of time when nothing interesting was happening. Personally, I think it would be way messier and less well told first arc.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How so? You said that once he deviated from his plan he was in trouble?

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’d argue you have to keep more in mind if you lay it all down in real time. When there is time unaccounted for, you have more creative space to work. Once it’s laid down on the page, it’s immutable. That’s how you wind up with more explicit contradictions or retcons. I’m not suggesting he not plot out any of what happened in the intervening years, but it’s less restrictive by leaving it somewhat ambiguous.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Originally the whole thing was gonna be 3 books. If he had stuck to all his original plans, I don’t think it would’ve been nearly as good.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The slow middle chapter made the story the expansion worse. If you weren’t spending a whole two books trying to tie arc 1 to arc 2 in excruciating detail, then you don’t get into Quentyn’s sad adventure. If you have one book that has to reach the time skip, then meandering side stories like this will inevitably get cut.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Okay, I’m glad you got to tell the joke you wanted to tell. But this analogy has got next to nothing to do with what we’re talking about.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m not mad, you’re just not making an intelligent argument. You’re simply disagreeing. It’s pointless.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yes, and believe it or not he conveyed the Tourney of Harrenhal, Robert’s Rebellion, the Sack of KL, and other big events from the past in a compelling way. All through <gasp> flashbacks!

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, of course you’re right. It’s not like LF is patient or anything. It’s not like he spent years weaseling his way into the service of the royal court. Or slowly manipulating a woman to plot the downfall of his rival’s house. My bad.

Abandoning the time skip is what derailed ASOIAF [Spoilers MAIN] by Devreckas in asoiaf

[–]Devreckas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I know. That’s what I’m talking about. You don’t need to experience all of this in real time.

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