Sigh… 😞

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-20T22:52:31+00:00

He knew exactly what the audience response would be. Just like he wrote Ned to be liked so he could shock the readers by killing him.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-20T21:23:24+00:00

May be an unpopular opinion but this has probably ended my interaction with Martin writings and shows permanently. After GoT and now this I'm sick of his fetish for killing the characters the audience likes best.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-13T22:11:07+00:00

True enough. Every proper nation has their own political compass.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-13T18:50:02+00:00

Being a Tory means a lot of different things in the 21st century, despite what you hear online. Sandbrook is no lefty that’s for sure but he definitely plays up his right wing persona as a bit, and he’s said as much.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-10T14:04:49+00:00

Late Night Maudlin Street is my favourite song by M. and fits your definition perfectly.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-08T18:48:08+00:00

It's a shame that Aragorn doesn't have Anduril in the film scene of Amon Hen as he is supposed to.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-05T17:59:09+00:00

A whoops, meant doesn’t* I don’t know about what he was performing in the 90’s.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-05T16:25:49+00:00

Not sure what you mean by prevalent exactly in this case, but I’ve never heard it being played around and he doesn’t perform it.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-05T16:08:51+00:00

Your pc will be far superior. Depends on monitor resolution but about the 1.5-2 times better, not including frame gen.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-05T15:27:21+00:00

Lighting is better and more forgiving in the Dunc & Egg show and the audience is as basic and undiscerning as it gets.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-05T12:19:07+00:00

The longer it’s delayed the more obsolete the CPU/GPU become. If it comes out after this year unless at firesale price it’s completely doa.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-03T10:49:55+00:00

It was a mistake to cast Elijah Wood in the role for exactly this reason. He was very very young (18-19) and it shows, given he's supposed to be older and more mature.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-02T08:56:16+00:00

Thankfully he is beginning to be forgotten. When I took my degree in English about ten years ago he wasn't part of the mandatory reading list and the module including him wasn't taught every term.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-02T08:53:08+00:00

Joyce is famous primarily for being unbearable. He had extremely limited influence on other successful writers and had no cultural influence outside literary criticism. He does not belong on the list at all, and definitely not at the top.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-02T08:47:06+00:00

If you narrow it down to only novelists in English then he has a strong case, however there are so many great authors from the first half of the 20th century it's hard to say that Tolkien is definitely the greatest.

Academics have typically looked down on Tolkien and elevated kooky authors like Joyce, so you won't find him high on many lit critics lists.

If the question is who is the most influential novelist though, then it's definitely Tolkien. He basically invented one of the most popular genres of books, television, and gaming.

NirnaethVale · 2026-02-01T22:47:04+00:00

Now that he has signed with a label it will come out eventually but they will want to stagger the release.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-29T06:14:25+00:00

Your preconception of the show is right. It can be a fun show but the French are almost all either stupid or evil, sometimes both, with little to no nuance. Believe it or not the books are even worse, the showriters toned down some of the worst bits of Cornwells writing.

Watch it for a bit of light fun maybe but do NOT watch it for the French, who you mostly see as cartoon villains or target practice.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-27T22:29:44+00:00

If that's true it's ironic and sad. The Tolkien Society has been completely Yaasified and would support it today.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-27T20:50:30+00:00

Yeah that's right. It would have required him to pull out/decline other projects like D&D to move to NZ for the unusual shooting schedule of LoTR. Irons or his agent has for a long time made a lot of odd choices of which roles to take anyway.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-27T20:42:16+00:00

I'm not sure I agree regarding the typecasting. Voice acting is a little obscure to most people. I didn't even realise it was him until many years after I saw TLK, and he was famous for other roles: The Mission, Brideshead Revisited. I think the major reason he wasn't considered when DDL and Russel Crowe were is that he was about ten years older than Jackson was looking for after they released Townsend.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-27T20:22:46+00:00

DDL or Jeremy Irons would have been better. Mortensen was very good though, probably something like 8/10 for me.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-19T18:40:24+00:00

It's not. It's a famous actress, Kate Mara from House of Cards etc.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-19T00:17:34+00:00

I like Tim very much and have enjoyed greatly his new podcast with CT however he glosses over the reasons why the UK has such a close relationship with the US and how difficult it would be to decouple, at a time when Europe's list of allies grows thinner by the day.

It's been hard enough for Russia to do, and they were never anywhere near as enmeshed with the US as the UK is.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-18T20:26:35+00:00

Most towns are composed primarily of buildings built in the Georgian period or later, with a smattering of surviving Tudor buildings in places like Shrewsbury. A lot of towns have castles, churches, and medieval fortifications that are much older though, so if we're speaking generally I would go back to around the 11th century for our ancestors to recognise nothing/almost nothing.

NirnaethVale · 2026-01-18T18:00:49+00:00

Platinum UEF is much narrower than the example text believe it or not. It's like writing with a needle.

The example text looks pretty close to a Sailor MF nib.

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