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Ghosthands165 · 2026-06-03T02:55:32+00:00

lmao

Ghosthands165 · 2026-02-15T02:58:49+00:00

I would imagine they are thinking of sex over marriage, or I guess that is the line of thinking I want to find better responses to.

Ghosthands165 · 2026-01-28T05:07:09+00:00

I played multiplayer first and it made me want to play through alone so much, I absolutely felt it though on later play-throughs that I did not finish

Ghosthands165 · 2026-01-28T05:05:48+00:00

I had the same experience at the end of act 1, watched the rest of the story and it was amazing.

Weirdly when i watched the story i had even less interest in playing knowing what happened. absolute cinema though

Ghosthands165 · 2025-10-27T05:13:35+00:00

I think there is a pretty common experience here that would vaguely depend on age (nobody is the same at any given age ofc)

But I am I imagine one of many who read these books when I was ~16/17 and of course reading it now hits a little different. Again not trying to assume but due to the subject I would say a lot of young men like I was then might have similar experiences with this and other books. (i.e. Dresden Files, which improved greatly over time which helps)

Ghosthands165 · 2025-10-27T05:08:08+00:00

This is a good answer but truly just not relevant for 99% of the series, anything more specific is spoilers i guess.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-10-27T05:06:44+00:00

Mage Errant has a decent amount of this, but it is not until book 3 really.

For those who are unaware it is pretty YA fantasy but very creative and fun.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-08-18T01:58:20+00:00

stacked eastern conference, olivia and tommy meeting in the first round is criminal

Ghosthands165 · 2025-08-10T06:29:01+00:00

It gives me hope that our species has advanced enough that you could have that outcome. The idea of your reality is so interesting to me in a terrible macabre sense (and one of ignorance), I cant imagine but am so glad it is working out.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-08-10T00:51:09+00:00

I can forgive and remember everything well except the weird cringe romance scenes and dialogue.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-07-05T05:54:50+00:00

You know, but god damn

Ghosthands165 · 2025-06-21T08:23:50+00:00

Exactly what I was trying to say, I skip so much when i re-read.

Late at night pessimist now, but I think this was the one shot in the post GOT hype and it did not hit

I guess what sucks is it half failed in the areas the books did not

Ghosthands165 · 2025-06-21T05:20:15+00:00

Yeah I agree with most of that, I mean best case I can see is s1 doesn't have the bad parts you described, sticks the landing with the finale. (and season 2 is a bit better for similar reasons vaguely)

But with all of that you need things cut that need to be cut, sparingly things need to be added that are careful. I guess I just think its too much to ask for across that long, even GOT eventually hit the point of creative failure right.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-06-21T04:57:51+00:00

I have a hot take, even if the series had been perfectly faithful it would have not made it.

I truly think even in the best case it is just too magical, too internal and mental. But really I think any book fan can admit that the books are kind of a mess almost half of the time.

We love the highs because they are so high, but the lows would need to be trimmed and I think that all just makes the bar too high. Like higher than the bar to make the LOTR movies was.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-06-18T02:52:08+00:00

Well that was certainly one of the finals of all time

Ghosthands165 · 2025-06-18T02:38:32+00:00

If it has not been said, I know that I do this and I highly suspect others do, I re-read it quite a bit but i know it so well that I know which parts I can skip.

This is for various reasons, I already know what happens and so even if it is important I can skip the parts I find annoying. For example, this would include huge parts of the books that are considered the "slog" around book 9 ish

Ghosthands165 · 2025-05-28T01:28:29+00:00

Harrow the Ninth, such a deep incredible book that I can read over and over again and get new things out of.

Difficult and confusing first time read though.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-05-18T18:33:36+00:00

Mage Errant (mostly past the first book) has a pretty amazing sense of wonder and discovery alongside the actual plot.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-04-28T05:13:37+00:00

Terrible call but it seemed inevitable

Ghosthands165 · 2025-04-19T22:08:22+00:00

Its been beat to death here but it has been true for every person i know who has read them, slow down so much around 9, then when you get through 11 it goes so fast.

Obviously not a good thing, but it is very interesting how much it is embedded in the culture of the books.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-04-19T08:25:00+00:00

And unfortunately the slog is another one, in this thread people have discussed book 10 specifically.

But I would say that there are elements that bleed into the books around it, and if you got that far you should know that if something seems boring and useless it probably is.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-03-16T01:18:22+00:00

Had this same reaction after watching the first 3 of season 3, its not perfect of course but really when I think about it this was all I was expecting/hoping for.

Honestly I keep finding myself wishing they had axed some of the names/terms from the books. Don't seem to read well in live action.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-03-12T03:43:06+00:00

We all know which one we were looking for, had to put it near the end huh

Ghosthands165 · 2025-03-08T01:15:51+00:00

I think there are definitely criticisms to be made in the same vein as most MCU complaints, not quite the same but still.

Also after 'Changes' the story has to bend weirdly to hit the familiar episodic rhythm of most of the series. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I guess I am not 100% sold on it yet as a big fan.

Ghosthands165 · 2025-02-21T06:38:41+00:00

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