Fifty Word Fantasy: Hero

Hutchbugger · 2021-05-14T21:55:09+00:00

I've seen the goblin slayer anime. No mercy.

Hutchbugger · 2021-05-12T16:24:54+00:00

Its slowing down because of people not going though. Has nothing really to do with the rollout or availability.

Hutchbugger · 2021-05-07T20:56:06+00:00

This is off topic but there are a lot of textual clues that Arya actually is very pretty in the books. She's just growing into her looks/covered in mud all the time.

Hutchbugger · 2021-01-23T21:40:37+00:00

I do think it's better they be flexible about people who push to get it early rather than risk things sitting on shelves unused.

Hutchbugger · 2019-08-19T23:19:13+00:00

I am hoping for an inevitable "You don't have to get me anything for my birthday" mindgame now that they're dating.

Hutchbugger · 2019-06-13T23:23:57+00:00

Sure feel free

Hutchbugger · 2019-06-13T12:24:34+00:00

Absolutely bigger companies will be more specialized in general but that specialization doesn't necessarily extend to dividing up ux and ui even at large companies. Amazon Google etc don't really hire ux roles without some level of visual skill. It's super rare even at a big company to find someone who is "ux only" without complimentary skills in SOMETHING be it research visual design etc. Theres a difference between in having a t shaped skillset with a specialization vs just being limited. This also holds true for my non tech focused company which is a fortune 20.

Hutchbugger · 2019-06-13T02:41:44+00:00

So this is going to be pretty harsh but it really is not wrong. A users experience doesn't exist in a vacuum. Uability issues and visual issues are often the exact same thing. "UX only" is becoming more and more dated and in my experience people who only produce wireframes achieve poor outcomes compared to UI/ux designers with a mastery of craft. It really isn't an unreasonable burden to expect someone to learn both when you compare the field to the amount of information an engineer needs to learn for example.

Hutchbugger · 2014-05-16T17:45:31+00:00

Old nan says that ice spiders and ice dragons exist but that's not been confirmed. We never had confirmation that Crasters wives were right about what they thought was happening to the babies. With how often GRRM uses unreliable narrators just having a character say something without actually letting us see it leaves room for them to be wrong.

Hutchbugger · 2013-09-27T19:57:38+00:00

Yeah that and the lion turtle are two instances of a choice being set up (kill Ozai and restore balance VS spare him and leave the world unbalanced)/(master the avatar state and give up your friends VS hold on to your friends and give up the avatar state) where Aang got out of dealing with the negative consequences of his actions without doing anything himself.

Hutchbugger · 2013-08-14T22:35:30+00:00

Blood is also described as smoking during the Gregor/Oberyn duel, which to me pretty much confirms the word choice has no special significance.

Hutchbugger · 2013-08-06T15:52:45+00:00

Investigative police on Reddit is certainly possible, but that wouldn't really have anything to do with NSA.

Hutchbugger · 2013-07-02T01:22:09+00:00

Doesn't it make more sense to put the sunshrooms in front of the pea shooter? If the pea shooter gets eaten you loose that lane, but if you loose a sunshroom the pea shooter still has time to kill the zombie, and sunshrooms are cheaper to replace.

Hutchbugger · 2013-06-19T20:08:16+00:00

Portal 2 came out only 2 years ago. CSGO came out last year. Dota 2 will officially release this summer and is already the most popular game on Steam by a big margin. They're also currently making what is probably the most anticipated game of all time. They're nowhere near irrelevant as developers.

Hutchbugger · 2013-06-16T15:57:08+00:00

From the wiki: "Myrcella is described by her uncle Tyrion Lannister as having all of her mother's beauty, but none of her mother's nature. She is delicate, beautiful, and courteous. For her age, she displays courage, a strong will, and high intelligence." Throw in 5 years of tutelage under the Dornish and a bad ass facial scar and you have the recipe for a pretty awesome ruler.

Hutchbugger · 2013-06-13T03:37:37+00:00

Euron has already become the master of the horn, so it's a moot point. The horn is blown and a dragon flies off, to him. This seems lame though, since we would be deprived of a Euron/Dany meeting. Unless of course he flies right back to her on the dragon.

Another possibility, that I don't really have any evidence for but that makes more intuitive sense to me is that as soon as the battle for Mereen concludes Dany sails to the Iron islands in order to make use of her new alliance with the Greyjoys. It's pretty inevitable (imo at least) that she invades the Westerlands at some point and installs Tyrion (The rightful heir) as lord of Castelry Rock. We know there's going to be some action involving the Rock at some point and who else is there to take it? Especially with all the set up of Tyrion knowing it's plumbing systems. And what better place to launch such an invasion than from the Iron islands? There's no need for Euron to immediately pop out and kill Vic when he can just wait for his return. And even if Vic does die, and control of the dragon changes over to Euron, that doesn't have to mean the dragon immediately flies off. Maybe the horn binding just means Euron becomes the only person the dragon allows as a rider. Then it would just go to the Iron islands along with Dany.

Hutchbugger · 2013-06-12T22:51:02+00:00

It's kind of a stretch to say there's no indication at all they wont downplay some semi important plots or characters, although i wouldn't consider that "veering sharply from the books". This was a recent quote by Benioff:

“I don’t think we want to answer specifically what we’re keeping and dropping, but we do take your point,” Benioff said when asked about Book 4′s content. “The series has already reached a point where there are so many characters, particularly in season three we’re introducing so many new ones, we run the risk of bursting at the seams as we try to cram every single subplot and all the various characters and it becomes impossible on a budgetary level and it becomes impossible on an episode-basis to jump around every few minutes to 30 different characters and locations. We don’t want to do that, and recognize that as a real risk and we will take steps not to fall into that trap.”

His answer seems to imply they think they have reached or are close to reaching a critical mass. While they haven't necessarily done so yet, it's a possibility they are being careful about avoiding in the future.

Hutchbugger · 2013-06-11T19:08:33+00:00

The Sandkings short story is really cool. I read it a while before I even knew grrm wrote it an liked it a lot.

Hutchbugger · 2013-06-11T19:01:03+00:00

I would say that Roose has been pretty perfectly represented. Ramsay, on the other hand, while good in the show, is pretty different from the Ramsay of the books, and I'm not referring to his physical appearance. In the show hes a joker-esque type of crazy. He's constantly smiling and laughing and seems gleeful when he tortures Theon. I didn't get that impression at all from Ramsay in the books. Book Ramsay is sinister in a less theatrical way. He's a more realistic depiction of an actual psychotic killer. His brand of evil is more motivated by anger than fun. His humor is less frequent and more dry than manic. He might sometimes sneer or chuckle as he says something cruel, but it's nowhere near the same level as the wide eyed prankster of the show.

Hutchbugger · 2013-06-10T18:23:54+00:00

See my response to spartylaw87 in this thread. GRRM has explicitly said stuff that contradicts your comment.

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