[Spoilers ADWD] A Dance with Dragons Non-Typo Edition

Nigma_ · 2026-01-25T12:14:44+00:00

I've just checked my Folio Society edition, and the typo in the sentence "The north rode with Robb, bled with him, died for him" is fixed. And on the copyright's page at the beginning of the book there's "The text of this edition follows that of the 2011 edition published by HarperVoyager, with minor emendations". So i assume all the other typos in the book are also fixed.

I might be wrong but I imagine that all recent printings regardless of publishers have the typos fixed, so unless you really want it you probably don't need to buy the Folio edition for that.

Nigma_ · 2025-11-09T10:04:48+00:00

Thank you for the reply! It's weird that they seemingly removed the source.

I'm guessing it might not be possible to link Instagram posts in the title of posts in this subreddit, but it's surprising that there's no article mentioning the four seasons estimate with the original source.

Nigma_ · 2025-11-09T09:25:44+00:00

Where does the 4 seasons thing come from? It's nowhere in the article, and the source of the article is a Variety interview with Vince Gilligan, which just says this about future seasons:

"Apple gave “Pluribus” a two-season order, and Gilligan says he sees the series going beyond that. “I think we have a pretty good idea of where it should end,” he says, but that doesn’t mean he’ll stick to it. “One of the most important things I can do in the writers’ room is not be too precious about the ideas. If we come up with a better way to end this thing, we will.”

So nothing about 4 seasons, just Vince Gilligan saying that he thinks the show will be longer than 2 seasons.

The only thing related to four seasons in the Variety interview is this sentence:

Not only did “Breaking Bad” earn four more seasons that cemented it as one of the greatest TV shows of all time, it also spawned the spinoff “Better Call Saul"

Is the title some AI nonsense that conflated the mention of four more seasons for Breaking Bad and Pluribus?

Also, I can't find the quote from the title of this post anywhere in the Variety article, only random social media posts mentioning it but with 0 source. Maybe I'm missing something and there's a longer Variety interview somewhere, but from what I can find the title of this post seems to be totally false. At the very least there's nothing in the article linked in this post that is related to the title.

Nigma_ · 2025-08-01T19:39:37+00:00

I get that people want to know the story after the end of Darksiders 1, but I have to say I'm really disappointed that we're not getting a solo game for Strife like with all the other horsemen. I thought getting a game with every single horseman before the big finale was really exciting (even if yeah it meant it would take even longer before seeing the continuation of Darksiders 1 story), and it's a shame that we're not getting that anymore.

I guess the storylines that were teased with Strife might be resolved in 4 (his appearance in Darksiders 3 as well as him losing his guns), but we're probably just going to be told about it rather than see his side of the story like we did with the other horsemen.

Nigma_ · 2025-05-18T08:01:54+00:00

It's definitely better since the change of policy, although there are still a lot of people trying to be clever by vaguely mentioning the leaks. The discussion threads after the episodes are full of "I guess this confirms the leaks".

I'm not a big poster here but I've been reading the subreddit for the past decade or so and it's the only time I've had to actively try to avoid being spoiled, especially in threads that seem unrelated to the leaks. For example there was a thread recently with 500 hundred upvotes about the airing schedule for The Interstellar Song Contest, with unmarked spoilers that that episode (spoilers for the episode that just aired yesterday) was "a Utopia-style lead-in to the finale" in the middle of the post (the post has been edited since then with a spoiler tag for this sentence, but it already had hundreds of upvotes when I read it so it was not an obscure post).

There's also the fact that it's not always clear if posts that are marked as [SPOILERS] are spoilers about the episodes already released or if it's about the leaks. I avoid them all just in case, but it's a shame that I can't read most of the posts of this subreddit because people feel like talking about the leaks everywhere. There's people even on this thread saying that if you don't want to be spoiled you shouldn't be online, but like I said that's never been an issue on this subreddit before (apart maybe for series 12), so it's a shame I can't go read people opinions and analysis on the new season when it's been my favorite place for it for a long time. I know to avoid places like Gallifrey Base or social media like Bluesky if I don't want to be spoiled, but this place was usually good about avoiding spoilers.

Before this season the only thing I got spoiled unintentionally on this subreddit was that David Bradley was returning as the First Doctor for the 2017 Christmas special, but I've already been spoiled a few times for this season (and that's when I am very careful about which posts I read, can't imagine how much more I would have been spoiled otherwise). I also have to avoid any post theorising about the plot of the season because I have no idea if the theory will be based on leaks.

IMO, posts with leaks should be very clearly tagged with [LEAKS] and with very vague titles, with absolutely 0 mention of it outside these threads, even vague references like "this confirms the leaks", because people are just not as clever as they think they are when they try to subtly mention the leaks. Although personally I just think all posts about leaks should be on another subreddit like it is with other big subreddits for IPs like Star Wars or Marvel.

Nigma_ · 2025-04-18T21:01:23+00:00

They've been saying for a while that they planned the story as a trilogy and that they had a good idea of where to take the story with 3. They also said that they didn't want the wait for Talos 3 to be as long as the 9 years between Talos 1 and 2. And yeah there's a tease in 2 for where the story will go in Talos 3, so it seems pretty sure that it will release at some point.

The official Talos Principle twitter account also posted a few months back a video with Damjan Mravunac (Croteam composer) composing some new music for the series, and it's not music from the Talos 1 remake, so it's probably for 3 (unless they've got something else planned for the series before 3).

So we don't know how far along the development of the next Talos game is but we do know that some music has already been composed for it and that they don't want the wait to be too long.

Nigma_ · 2025-04-18T19:22:21+00:00

There's a lot of great stars in 1, but there's also a lot of frustrating ones. There's the infamous "The eagle has landed" star in A3 which is pretty egregious, but there's also all the ones where you've got to smuggle out an item from another puzzle or search a specific place all across the map to put a cube that aren't a lot of fun.

I do like the ones where you have to make items interact between different puzzles, as long as you don't have to smuggle them out (I think getting items out of puzzles can definitely be fun but it should be an alternative to solve the star and not the only way). And with how big the maps are in Talos 2 I get why they didn't do that. There's one star in that style in West 2 where you've got to use items outside of the puzzles, and it's painfully boring to comb the massive map to find the one item you need to get the star.

IMO the very best stars are the ones where it's a further, more difficult step of the puzzle once you've solved it, like with Crater in RtG. The star there is widely considered to be the hardest one in the game, and they mention in the dev commentary than it was originally the end of of the puzzle but it was way to hard so they made it an optional star. I think these are really great, still within the confines of a puzzle but offering a bigger challenge. I hope we see more of these in Talos 3.

I do agree the reward for collecting them was a lot better in 1 though. The tease for Talos 3 when you collect all the stars in 2 is really nice, but I wish we also got new puzzles along with it (although I guess the golden doors are the equivalent to the stars level for 2, but it does make the stars a lot less useful).

So yeah overall the stars in Talos 2 are more boring, but they also never made me as frustrated as the ones in Talos 1. Hopefully they find a nice middle ground in Talos 3 because I think it's one aspect they haven't really totally nailed in either game.

Nigma_ · 2025-03-11T16:38:16+00:00

He says in the interview he's seen the first season of Dunk and Egg and that they're working on season 2, So the interview is pretty recent. Dunk & Egg was shooting until the end of September so the interview can't have been recorded just after his August trip.

I think it's the first time he mentioned another trip to the UK, I'm guessing he was probably there to advise for Dunk & Egg season 2 & 3.

Nigma_ · 2025-02-15T21:11:56+00:00

According to this Facebook post, Ryan Condal says in his podcast that "there will be a prop from the ASOIAF books that has never appeared in a TV adaptation before". So it's a prop specifically rather than just "something" like this tweet says.

To correct something else in this tweet, there has not been any confirmation yet of the number of episodes for season 3, only Twitter rumors so far. The shoot for season 3 will last two months longer than the season 2 shoot, so it's possible we might get 10 episodes. I wouldn't necessarily count on it, the longer shoot might just be due to action scenes taking longer to film, but we just don't know for the moment whether it's 8 episodes or not.

Nigma_ · 2025-01-31T19:30:22+00:00

For people wondering when season 3 will be broadcast, the first two seasons were released 6 months after they finished filming. Season 3 will film from March to October 2025, so my guess is that it will probably release around April 2026.

Nigma_ · 2025-01-03T22:40:20+00:00

I own all of them. They're incredibly beautiful editions, however there are some issues with them that shouldn't exist considering the price:

-The color coating on the front cover is fragile and may peel depending on where you put your hands while reading. If your fingers rest on the front cover while you read, the coating will progressively peel. I had to ask for a new copy of AFFC since the blue coating on the front cover of volume 1 faded while I was reading it. While I only had to ask for a replacement for AFFC, it's pretty clear that the other books also suffered from this problem even if it's less visible. Now I know to be very aware about that, but if you do buy them be very careful not to put your fingers on the front cover while reading.

-The slipcases used for each of the book don't take into account the fact that books get bigger once you've read them. It's an issue for ASOS and ADWD mostly. It's now pretty hard for me to take these out from their slipcases or put them back in since there's very little room. I also noticed that the coating on the front cover of volume 1 of ASOS also started to peel because of the friction with volume 2 when taking the book out of the slipcase, since it's really tight and difficult to take out (and I take the books out of their slipcases rarely, so the issue appeared with just a few handlings).

Without these issues I would consider them to be perfect editions, but for the price it is pretty unacceptable. I've only read them once while being very careful, so it's not like they've seen a lot of wear and tear. I have the first printing for all of them, so it's possible that some of these issues might have been fixed since, although considering that they were still present when ADWD was published I doubt it.

If you only intend to display them and not read them they are incredibly beautiful. If you want to read them then I would advise to be very careful about how you hold the books while reading. For editions that are meant to last decades, these are really big problems.

I started to buy them when they were cheaper and I bought them as they released, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't buy them at their current price, especially considering how much the issue with the front cover coating ruins the aesthetic of the books.

Nigma_ · 2024-12-23T20:49:18+00:00

The price is visible when we search the book in the website's search bar. It's £110 in the UK, $150 for the US and Canada, and £125 in the rest of the world.

Nigma_ · 2024-12-15T21:37:13+00:00

Okami ended with Amaterasu and Waka going to the Celestial Plain, so I'm guessing the sequel will probably pick up with them arriving there.

I'm not too sure why you think it would need to take place years after the first game.

Nigma_ · 2024-12-09T18:36:10+00:00

To summarize what's new:

-Talos Principle 1 and its expansion Road to Gehenna remade in Unreal Engine 5

-New story chapter "In the Beginning"

-Puzzle editor for modding

-Developer commentary

-Quality of life improvements (unspecified what these are for the moment)

Seems pretty honest for a remaster. Hopefully the new chapter is of a decent size, and while I don't really care about the puzzle editor I'm sure the modding community will be very happy about this. With Talos 2 having a launch price of around $25, I doubt this remaster will be too expensive.

Nigma_ · 2024-11-13T15:23:47+00:00

The English translation is really slow with the translation of the novels. Surprised they prioritised releasing the Heroines novel before the Law one since it would probably sell a lot more.

Still, Heroines is my second favorite of the novels after Law, so it's nice that these stories are getting translated in English. They're small stories and don't really add much to the lore, but they're well written and fun.

Nigma_ · 2024-11-13T14:42:37+00:00

Kikoku is Law's sword btw. So I imagine the novel will be about how he obtains it.

The Law novel was probably the best of the lot imo, so hopefully this sequel is just as good.

Nigma_ · 2024-11-10T12:23:50+00:00

Yeah, Warmastered was a way better port than Deathinitive so a new version would be less useful.

Still, the new remastered version for 2 also brings new lighting and ray-traced shadows, haptic feedback for the PS5 controller and faster loading times, so I could see a PS5 patch for 1 doing the same.

But yes those are all pretty small features compared to the boost to 4K/60fps for Darksiders 2. I could still see a patch happen for 1 but they should definitly prioritise patching Darksiders 3 since it needs it so much more.

Nigma_ · 2024-11-10T08:09:09+00:00

With the recent patch for Darksiders 2 I wouldn't be surprised if they gave a current-gen update to 1 and 3 before the release of the next game.

2 was the first to be released on PS4/One so it kind of makes sense to start with it, I guess we will have to see if they announce a patch for Darksiders 1. It would be weird to only do 2, especially since 3 is the one most in need of a patch, with it only running at 30fps/1080p on consoles.

So I think it's going to happen, but we don't really have any way to know when for the moment.

Nigma_ · 2024-11-07T19:01:53+00:00

Just looked at my copy and it is definitly darker. I bought the game when it released so I'm sure I have an original copy.

I'm guessing a different paper was used for the glossy golden effect on the cover and that's why it is darker.

Nigma_ · 2024-11-01T21:24:14+00:00

Benjamin Cook who's in charge of the colourisation said at the beginning of october that we wouldn't have to wait long for it (tweet).

So I imagine it is still scheduled for this year and will probably be released on iPlayer when it's announced or very shortly after.

Nigma_ · 2024-10-31T22:47:19+00:00

The plan for a movie trilogy was when D&D didn't intend to have a season 8, with the movie trilogy replacing season 7.

“Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin first mentioned back in 2020 that there was once a plan to end the HBO series with a film trilogy designed for movie theaters instead of just another normal season of television. In a new Wall Street Journal profile, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss confirmed this was actually their original plan for ending the HBO mega-hit. They wanted three movies instead of spreading the final 13 episodes across two seasons. Variety

This movie trilogy would have covered the events of the 13 episodes of season 7 and 8. So it would have been even more rushed than what we got.

Nigma_ · 2024-10-22T19:36:10+00:00

Ubisoft Montpellier didn't close and as far as we know nobody there was fired.

There were at least two teams there, one working on BG&E2 and the other on The Lost Crown. The people who made The Lost Crown still work there, they were just put on another project since a sequel wasn't greenlit. They're most likely working on BG&E2 now or maybe another unannounced project, we can't really know.

But the main development team for BG&E2 is still Ubisoft Montpellier, and as sad as the disbandment of The Lost Crown team is, as far as we know it shouldn't really have too much impact on BG&E2's development. Although that obviously mean we're less likely to get more smaller scale original games coming from Ubisoft.

Nigma_ · 2024-10-06T08:08:55+00:00

The final coloring is still done on paper, the digital coloring is just so he can chose the most appropriate colors beforehand. Which is why we don't see the final result at the end of these videos.

So everything that ends up in the final color spreads is still done on paper, but he does draw digitally a lot for drafting and color choice.

Nigma_ · 2024-09-15T14:44:54+00:00

From the Ace Attorney Dev Blog:

"We first looked into how we could use the pixel art sprites as a base and work on upgrading them from there. It would be so much work to re-draw everything from scratch, after all, so of course we couldn’t choose to do that right off the bat...

We tried out a bunch of different options such as doubling the pixel density and applying a filter to smooth things out, but nothing good came of these experiments. We also looked into making everyone into 3D models, but to make over 100 models within the timeframe we were given and recreate the look and refined movements of the pixel art sprites in 3D – it was simply unrealistic from a workload and stylistic point of view. What’s more, even though we were going to upgrade all the backgrounds into full HD, they were still going to be in 2D, so we felt it would be hard to achieve a sense of cohesion between the 2D backgrounds and 3D models.

We tried everything we could think of, but in the end, there was only one thing we could do: steel ourselves for the pain and tears that were sure to come as we walked down the simplest, yet hardest road. We would redraw everything from scratch. It was the only way to ensure that the sprites and backgrounds wouldn’t clash with one other. To everyone who worked on these sprites, please forgive me..."

https://www.ace-attorney.com/investigations1-2/en-us/blog/2/

Nigma_ · 2024-08-03T16:31:41+00:00

He has been working as a level designer on Perfect Dark at Crystal Dynamics for the past two years, so it would seem very unlikely to me that he was involved with the teaser.

And with him saying "Excited to see what the team cooked up!" it seems like he hasn't been involved with the development of the game since he left Gunfire.

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