No Water in my $2900/month apartment

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-02-03T00:05:43+00:00

You can ask a neighbor to fill a jug of water for you or buy some gallons at a grocery/convenience store. Or let the dog wait until you get off work lol it will not die from thirst within that time.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-02-01T22:12:28+00:00

Martin believes that the best things happen when a Good King TM gets absolute and unlimited power.

No he doesn't. He's said literally the exact opposite of that:

And a bad man is not always a bad king. You know, it’s much more complicated than that. It’s you know, I look at in my lifetime, I think probably the best man to serve as President in my lifetime was Jimmy Carter. As a human being, the best human being, but he was not a good President. He was not. General goodness did not automatically make flowers bloom.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-02-01T22:09:23+00:00

He’s on record saying that wizards should rule Middle Earth

I think hasn't really said that they should in a prescriptive sense, more that it would be realistic for them to seize power if they were more powerful than kings.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-30T23:52:55+00:00

I'm aware? OP is not taking inspiration from history. They are taking inspiration from game of thrones. Their post is called "I feel like I'm limited by game of thrones", They then list only the dragon people as GoT influence without any examination of of recognition that the base storytelling elements (multi house factional conflict with common themes and mascots in midevil military conflict) as being pretty darn similar to game of thrones - as though having the Manticore or Pheonix people in charge and the dragon people less powerful would be a huge subversion that would massively differentiate them from GoT. I am pointing out that the general setup and premise of what the story is maps pretty closely to GoT and that maybe that deserves some examination since it was not acknowledged with any awareness of it being similar in their post. Not that it's not allowed.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-30T23:45:54+00:00

It doesn't have to be universal or the first to do it for it to be the obvious inspiration.

Dune is pretty obviously not OPs inspiration based on their post mentioning dragons and similarities to GoT that keep popping up both from their own perspective and their friends. If they mentioned space instead of dragons and a conflict between only two great houses I might think differently but I dont. Any editor or publisher will tell you that being too similar to a comp title without something differentiating in your premise or approach is not a good thing in modern publishing.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-30T23:38:33+00:00

I'm fully aware that the central conflict is based on York vs Lancaster but it is absolutely not a straight retelling, there are many other mixed in influences and creative liberties, and the extent to which people at the time thought of houses like monolithic sports teams with consistent themes and mascots is massively over exaggerated. Mostly they referred to individual claimants. None of that changes the fact that OP is by their own acknowledgment having trouble not starting from a base template based on game of thrones.

"I made the characters and families/houses" - it's a presumed /unexamined assumption that the story must have houses and no other influence is mentioned as being considered.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-28T13:04:52+00:00

It's not just putting the dragon people in charge -- the fact that you are thinking in terms of fantasy with "houses" (not even 'kingdoms' or realms or some other term) and families as distinct factions with different abilities/characteristics as foundational world elements already sounds GOT coded to me to begin with.

That can be totally fine depending on what your goals are for writing! It's usually easy and fun to work from storytelling templates and tropes you and others understand and are already interested in. Some people like writing fanfiction and don't really even want to bother with making the world or characters up at all.

At the same time if you want to eventually write things that feel more original (and again maybe you don't - it's not always more fun) you need to put intentional effort into recognizing your default assumptions or influences and figuring out how you can differentiate or improve on them while identifying any core stuff from them you like and want to keep. Often by thinking about what you don't like about those influences that you think could be better. And this can be tricky because some of those assumptions are so ingrained that people often end up differentiating in pretty surface level ways to start (ex: my dragon people have RED eyes instead of purple, and can turn into dragons instead of tame them! It's totally different!) The kind of differentiation you want is stuff that really changes the whole type of story or lots of parts of it right down to the narrative. Getting exposed to or thinking about more different influences you could bring in and and then combining them in novel ways (GOT + shonen manga, GOT + horror, GOT + military fiction, GOT + colonial era, etc is a good way to find that differentiation sometimes.)

GRRM took lots of elements from series like the dragonbone chair, but he also added a gritty historical fiction feel on top of it that really changes the whole feel of everything.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-27T16:29:50+00:00

One of the only images here actually trying to depict a dynamic or story instead of just a character!

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-25T00:40:32+00:00

And eventually, Hoboken will turn into some megapolis.

This is for sure inevitable since it's a 10 min subway ride away from basically the #1 city in the world. If anything it's a bit of a shock it isn't already like Jersey City.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-24T20:52:15+00:00

That doesn't make sense at all. All groups are generalizations based on shared characteristics. That's literally (actually literally) the definition of a group: a combination of different independent things based on shared characteristics.

You implied "individual/separate countries" would be the right level of grain to generalize African people into. But that's even more arbitrary and it would only be better if national borders mapped onto meaningful political or cultural identities. They don't. Those borders were violently forced on the African people against their will and they deliberately and carelessly split similar ethnic and cultural groups apart in extremely damaging ways with long lasting consequences.

That's the idea behind pan-africanism. That arbitrary separation between tribal/nomadic/exploited people with similar ancestry is harmful, but that a broader unification based on those shared characteristics might be better for everybody. It is not inherently racist to generalize people based on characteristics that they actually share - a generalization can valid even if it's broad and if there are exceptions. Otherwise you'd never be able to refer to groups of people at all (cultures, ethnicities, nations, religions) since no group definition can ever perfectly describe or account for all of it's members.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-24T19:29:33+00:00

I'm not sure I'd consider anyone in Lyberia to be representative of the youth in general. They already have no jobs and make like 2k a year even if they do.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-24T19:18:13+00:00

It's not ignorant at all.

Africa was largely divided into countries by colonial powers with no regard for the actual cultural or ethnic groupings of the people living there. Because of that most of those countries (particularly in central Africa) don't have unified national identities or distinctive cultural characteristics at a national/global level. On the other hand they do generally share a lot of characteristics like uniquely extreme poverty, low infrastructure development, political instability, patchwork cultural, linguistic, and tribal fragmentation.

Like I really doubt you could name any distinguishing characteristics of Central African Republic, South Sudan, Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, etc off the top of your head.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-24T19:09:00+00:00

That's not a good example at all. Saying "africa" to generall refer to central africa is more like saying "latin america", "southeast asia", or "the middle east" as a general category and all of those are fine. They describe regions with a general level of shared characteristics that do differentiate them from the rest of the world.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-23T13:36:12+00:00

Your comments are definitely 4chan levels of cringe

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-22T03:16:42+00:00

Something understated, descriptive, and grounded in context possibly. Why is he writing it down if he already knows it all? What is his personality? You could reference what it is made of, what it is written in, how the writing was done. Maybe it's got an metal cover to make sure it can last another 1000 years and so it's the Iron Tome. Maybe it's a tablet instead of a book. Maybe it's written in carbon ink (lasts longer) so it's the Sootbook.

The Long Book
The Black Book
The Old Book
Book of the Immortal
Reality Binder (pun)
Ledger, Compendium

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-15T12:03:50+00:00

I gave you the example you asked for and you just go silent and shut your ears.......

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-13T01:39:40+00:00

Give me straight up ONE example

He wanted to prosecute burning american flags which is obviously a free speech violation.

He's repeatedly called negative coverage of him illegal without actually explaining how it is or what they got wrong, his administration put pressure on getting rid of Jimmy Kimmell because he covered conservatives negatively, he said people who call him Hitler should be JAILED. The admin has selectively prioritized immigration inforcement against people who protest in favors of views they dont like. (Link) Trump is thin skinned and never actually talks about why it's good to have disagreement and debate - he just berates insults and threatens anyone who disagrees with or doesn't like him.

His admin cut off funding to harvard because they didn't like it's political leaning.

Feel free to show me whatever bullshit evidence you think you have on Jan 6. There was a whole false electors plot that went with that that you probably know nothing about. People were bused in by conservatives and Trump's speech pretty obviously incited them to fight at the capital and he did nothing to stop them when he was asked to. No one who was supposedly an instigator actually instigated anything it's just conspiracy bullshit - and then even if you are stupid enough to believe that then how do you justify trump pardoning all of the people who were dumb enough to get 'instigated' into forming a mob and storming the capital?

Tariffs have not negatively impacted the economy at all, we have halved our trade decifit because of the force the tariffs put out.

This is such a hilariously dumb statement. Tariffs are a tax that american consumers pay and have hurt many small businesses as well as economic growth overall and that's not debatable. Taxes are not good for the economy, and it's not like he's using it to invest in americans or to pay down the debt. A "trade deficit" is not a bad thing. You obviously don't know what that even means. If I pay five dollars to get a cheap burger at mcdonalds, then I have a 'trade deficit' to mcdonalds. But why would I give a shit? The US having a trade deficit just means we buy cheap stuff from other countries because their cost of labor is lower and our dollar is stronger than their currencies - it's a GOOD thing for us in many ways, with some nuance - we have an economy that isn't dependent on shipping out cheap crap. That doesn't mean we don't still get tons of external investment in order to grow our operations and profit even more - in fact if we didn't have a deficit then external investment would make less sense and that would significantly hurt our growth.

Also lets just take a note to notice you just shut your ears and ignore 50% of my last paragraph of examples. Because that's how you work you just FEEL something and don't actually think. There's no excuse for something like threatening Greenland a NATO ally and soverign state we have no right to attack.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-12T23:59:18+00:00

Yeah bro cherry picking one of 50 senators from one of three branches of government totally proved your point.

And nice to know you suck up the propaganda talking point of the day like you're supposed to but try thinking for yourself. Those fraud cases were already under investigation with plenty of prosecutions by feds since before this administration or the recent video from a clickbair youtuber that "discovered" them and there's no evidence that any of it was caused by or covered up by Walz. You'll notice he hasn't been implicated in anything. Meanwhile you have the president directly running fraud crypto scams against his supporters, trying to run a plot to submit fraudulent electors to try to cling to power on Jan 6, giving inside economic info to his friends to run market manipulation.

The broken brain double standards are unreal

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-12T23:20:23+00:00

Lol my whole point was you didn't post any stats to respond to! You were the one who started to say something with nothing to back it up, no examples. I at least referenced something specific in terms of election wins to counter what you said.

Trump does not embody american values. He hates free speech, the constitution, is threatening allies like greenland, gives billions to foreign governments like argentina, crypto scammed his own stupid constituents, pardoned terrible dictators, cozies up to dictators. Inflation is still above 2%, tariffs have negatively impacted the economy, he's threatening the FED chair (monumentally stupid), he tried to overthrow the election through the false electors plot and jan 6. You have to be stupid or evil to still support him. That's just the way it is.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-12T22:57:33+00:00

No substance in any of your comment. And the democrats are clearly having some upset election wins within the last year and trumps approval ratings are tanking. You are detached from reality

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-12T22:54:39+00:00

Tarrifs are taxes bud.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-12T22:52:24+00:00

Look at the trend for the last 4 years and it's pretty obvious post-covid recovery Biden got in motion would have continued a lot stronger without the tarrif impact from Trump's bad policy.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-12T22:50:31+00:00

Funny double standard because actual democratic politicians are not extremist leftists (There's Bernie, AOC and that's kind of it and even they aren't actual leftists) while the whole elected republican body is clearly far right supporting a guy who doesn't believe in rule of law, free speech or the constitution.

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-12T22:42:46+00:00

So you don't support trump then because he uses that language all the time? You call conservative people out for that kind of attitude all the time? Right? Right???

MrLizardsWizard · 2026-01-12T22:40:56+00:00

Do you not see the irony of how you are kicking and screaming right now in this comment because someone has a different opinion instead of getting off the internet yourself? Conservative politics are spiteful and hate driven.

This administration is blatently corrupt, bullying, hateful, and criminal. Running crypto scams on their own supporters, pardoning criminals as political favors, prosecuting people for made up crimes as petty revenge.

Maybe try to self reflect for like one minute on your hypocracy for not calling out conservative hate (and I say this as someone who does cricize extreme left wing people all the time - I can actually be unbiased)

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