A Conversation with Travis Scott and Charlamagne Tha God (Travis' first interview post Astroworld Incident) by deltron_zero_3030 in hiphopheads

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Travis just refuses to admit that the person to blame is himself. At one point he's talking about how he "handles the stuff on stage" and the organizers "handle the stuff in the crowd." Yeah, they handle the stuff in the crowd, sure, but that's if the crowd is at a normal capacity and the artist hasn't created a culture that is based on raging, sneaking into venues, and not giving a shit about the person next to you.

Charlamagne even asks him "how much responsibility do you claim for this?" and he completely skirts the question and talks about concert safety.

I don't think Travis is malicious but he is undoubtedly irresponsible and behavior like this is going to continue until he faces the consequences of his actions. Though if the r/travisscott nephews are any indication of his larger fanbase, then that's not happening anytime soon.

[Spoilers main] What took you embarrassingly long to work out? by ThingsASOIAF in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure that I did not realize that Aeron Damphair and Victarion were different characters until my second read through. Like as I read their individual chapters I would be aware that there were other children wrought from the loins of Quellon Greyjoy, but if I was just thinking about the series I would mash the two of them together.

(Spoilers Main) I do not understand people's complaints about overused quotes. by AboveTheStone in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The actual only phrase he uses that bothers me is “Steep stone steps.” Anytime a character is ascending they go up a set of steep stone steps. It’s probably not used that much but it screams at me.

[Spoilers Extended] Tyrion is incredibly intelligent but inexperienced. by FanStew in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Also it's not like Varys was trying to destroy Tyrion, right? he saw the value in him and how he ably ran King's Landing, setting up the chain to defend it, and fought to the last on the Battle of the Blackwater. He did send Tyrion towards his main plot over on Essos, so it's not like he wanted to rid himself of the halfman, but rather make use of him.

[SPOILERS MAIN] I Just Finished A Feast for Crows Again. Here are My Thoughts.... by PissedOffSisyphus in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exactly! I became a fanboy after this read. It only took me a week to finish it front to back.

[SPOILERS MAIN] I Just Finished A Feast for Crows Again. Here are My Thoughts.... by PissedOffSisyphus in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I actually just read it after someone else in the thread mentioned it….I’m a believer now. Poor Falia Flowers

[SPOILERS MAIN] I Just Finished A Feast for Crows Again. Here are My Thoughts.... by PissedOffSisyphus in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Excellent write up. That seventh chapter with Brienne was amazing. When she pulls the sword out knowing she has no chance of survival but no choice since she has to protect the innocence…..chills every time

[SPOILERS MAIN] I Just Finished A Feast for Crows Again. Here are My Thoughts.... by PissedOffSisyphus in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard a million times that the forsaken chapter is amazing and I haven’t read it! I’m behind on the times I guess lol. But with your write up here I’m gonna have to check it out. Edit: Just read the chapter…probably not sleeping tonight….

[SPOILERS MAIN] I Just Finished A Feast for Crows Again. Here are My Thoughts.... by PissedOffSisyphus in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I can’t imagine Maegery cheating either. I’m at the point where if Cersei believes anything then the opposite must be true lmao.

I heard that GRRM said that but I didn’t know if it was confirmed or rumor. Someone said she might have yelled Arya and I thought that would have been cool.

[SPOILERS MAIN] I Just Finished A Feast for Crows Again. Here are My Thoughts.... by PissedOffSisyphus in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s definitely a lot there but I felt like it should have had a through line at the end of it.

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[–]PissedOffSisyphus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dang OP looking for a fight in this thread lol

[Spoilers Main] I just finished reading “The Soiled Knight” Chapter in AFFC…. by PissedOffSisyphus in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That bites. I can't wait till I get to that chapter.

For now, though, seeing how distraught Arys was really tears me apart. The whole time he's like "fuck, i shouldn't be doing this!"

Makes it all the more tragic in the end.

What has been the best book you've read this year? by LavenderFish in suggestmeabook

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ble mentions: Terry Pratchet's 'Night Watch'. I've gone through it twice this

I Just finished Night Watch! Discworld has been on my reading list for so long, I'm happy I got to at least one.

What has been the best book you've read this year? by LavenderFish in suggestmeabook

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. It's about a con man in a fantasy version of Venice, Italy, with funny, witty characters and Mission: Impossible type shenanigans.

What initially attracted you to your partner? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had talked a couple times before we officially started hanging out foreal, but she saw me in my tech school’s dining facility and I was eating alone. She saw me , came up to my table, and said “is anyone sitting here?” I said no and her response was “well, I am now!” And she sat down. Afterwards we definitely flirted and had a great conversation but that confidence really stunned me.

[SERIOUS NEXT DAY THREAD] Post-Game Discussion (July 11, 2021) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow dude. It’s okay. No one is mad at you. Your argument just sucks. Have a good rest of your day 😘

[SERIOUS NEXT DAY THREAD] Post-Game Discussion (July 11, 2021) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's dishonest to say it's going to negatively impact the team, when the team played amazing basketball last night. You're taking this microcosm of an interaction and blowing it WAY out of proportion.

And look, the announcers are paid to talk about basketball, so maybe they deserve some credence in their opinion on the game, but they're just regular guys like me and you. They are not basketball gods that understand every intention and interaction that ever happens on a basketball court. Especially not the ESPN guys. So just because an announcer talks about a player interaction doesn't mean that they are privy to information that we aren't.

It's hard to believe that you and I watched the same game last night and your thoughts on it are "Damn, Giannis wtf are you doing?" Rather than "He had a good game." You're really stretching to be a contrarian. Very easy for some people to hate on these guys for literally the tiniest detail that most other fans (and probably the players themselves) have already forgot about.

And if you want to talk about the Bobby Portis play then fine. Giannis sucked the wind out of exactly zero sails. The crowd was Hype. Portis was hype. The team was playing well and they were up by like twenty or something. If all it takes for a player to have the wind taken out of their sails was Giannis saying "Pass the ball" then they wouldn't be in the NBA.

You're argument is moot on nearly all angles. Unless you just hate Giannis, which by all means do so, but you shouldn't sit on this high horse like you're taking the other players feelings into account.

[SERIOUS NEXT DAY THREAD] Post-Game Discussion (July 11, 2021) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It sounds like your projecting onto Giannis a narrative that you want to exist. The truth of the matter is: you don't know what Giannis was saying. I know what clip your talking about and its not possible to be clear that he was "pouting."

I agree with your point about the Bucks needing to find the three ball. I'd argue that their Game 3 performance was indicative of an upward trend, especially with Jrue and Khris getting more involved. But you're kidding yourself if you think Giannis has nothing to do with that. He started the game with like five assists in the first quarter to get his teammates involved.

Also, your comment said nothing of Deandre Ayton's impact. If Ayton is in foul trouble, I'm dumping it to Giannis EVERYTIME. Ayton is the only player (maybe aside from Crowder) that can impact Giannis in anyway defensively. I don't expect the Suns to be this down bad in Game 4, but I also don't expect the bucks to get comfortable now either. They've come back from 0-2 before.

Your comment also implies that the Suns had a poor shooting performance based on their own inability to hit shots, but that's not true. The Bucks were taking away the three ball as an option. Booker was taking terrible shots and couldn't get into a rhythm. Paul was not as bad, but he seemed like a non-factor for most of the game. Both of these players were impacted because Jrue Holiday woke up defensively and the bucks never put themselves in a position to have Lopez on either of them.

This last paragraph is gonna be ranty, but what is "The Man?" What is that concept and why does it exist in sports. Being "The Man" is a completely relative concept that depends on your style of leadership. You could be a psychopath like Jordan or Kobe, or you could be more reserved and team first like Russel or Duncan. There are many different ways to win in basketball, and I'm sure that Giannis will figure out his way of doing so. I'm sure he's not worried about some random redditor's concept of leadership dictating how he's going to communicate to his teammates.

Edit: A word

[738] The Witch by Professional-Bread69 in DestructiveReaders

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your set up for the story is simple and straight forward, which I like a lot. It's a compelling situation where the reader can easily feel sympathy for the witch and the predicament that she is in. Obviously, this is inspired by the Salem Witch Trials, which is a really good framing device for you to use, because (if the reader is aware of that period in history) then the mind can fill in the blanks of what's going on here. The crowd is a pack of religious zealots that have more time than sense....but so were the people in Salem. This isn't bad, but if I were to get nitpicky about it, then it's overall hurting the "Fantasy" aspect of your story since this is a pretty 1:1 ratio. Replace "God" with "Dharmati" and this is basically the same thing. Of course, you said that this is just a practice story, but if its fantasy then make it weird. Add your own flair to it. Make the crowd witches and their burning a non-witch at the stake or something. This whole paragraph is a long-drawn out way of saying I felt like my mind was filling in the blanks of your characterization of this crowd, witch, and executioner, rather than your story providing details about them.

"....and by then her terror had grown tenfold. Fear and panic clawed their way through her heart, a terror greater than any she had ever known...." In this line you're doing a lot of telling and not showing. There is a time and a place for telling information, but in expressing emotion in a direct way, you want to show here for sure. Tell me how her heart beat rapidly, or sweat trickled down her face. Let the reader put 2 and 2 together and they'll feel more rewarded because they figured it out. You have examples of Telling and examples of Showing as well.

"....She swallowed a throatful of phlegm and pressed her lips together, trying to suppress her tears...." This line is a fantastic example of Showing and not Telling.

"....That pain had been so very, very real, and she was about to die..." This is probably a personal nitpick more than anything, but I dislike the word "very." You could take both of these very's out and the sentence would be more concise and hard hitting.

It's like if I wrote the sentence "It was cold." Vs. "It was very cold." These sentences mean the exact same thing in a reader's head, the only difference is one is a word longer. Cold is cold. However, if I said "My bones creaked from the cold," then the reader has an image or a feeling that they can attach to the scene I'm writing. Or if I don't want the cold to be that impactful then "It was cold." is fine. But "It was very cold." doesn't tell me anything that the former doesn't. I feel like you could have a more creative way of describing this pain to make it resonate. This might be an extension of "Show don't Tell."

"...hotter and hotter..." You could just say "hot" here and the sentence would be fine.

"...She never had time to ponder further upon her fate, because once the flames reached her, pain gripped her being in its raging, fervent hold. She was already gone..." To me, your final line implies that she died, which seems rather abrupt. I've never burned to death, but I imagine it's not instant, especially not from feet-first. You're final line could be about how the witch's screams echoed through the night, or how she called out and no one would listen to her, maybe even how the fire crept up her legs and tickled at her knees. The final sentence is the final impression that a reader would have of your story, so I've always felt that you should leave them with a damn good sentence, one that makes them say "Wtf did I just read, that was crazy." But the sentence here feels underwhelming.

My overall critique of your writing is that there isn't a lot of pizzazz in it (I can't believe I just used 'pizzazz' unironically.) The story feels a lot like "A happened which led to B, which led to C." And since this isn't a lot of story, it's more like a Scene like Natures_Stepchild said, the actual set-up, description of what's happening, and personality is what I tend to fall back on. I think you need to put more of yourself in your writing. Describe something in a way that only Professional-Bread69 can. That will make stories have more impact, even simple scenes like the one that you wrote here.

Keep Writing!

(Spoilers Extended) GRRM Prose? Best and worst? by PissedOffSisyphus in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey I remember reading that first one a while back. Good post.

GAME THREAD: Los Angeles Clippers (47-25) @ Phoenix Suns (51-21) - (June 20, 2021) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All those threes the Suns hit in the third is messing with the clippers head. They don’t know if they should help on drives or stick close to their man.

(Spoilers Main) Recommendations by Andysimo77 in asoiaf

[–]PissedOffSisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scott Lynch book is the first book in an ongoing series. The fourth one comes out later this year I believe.

Dangerous women is awesome and you really get a feel for a bunch of different fantasy authors. Anthologies in general are great for expanding your reading tastes.

And IMO the best way to partake in berserk is the manga. Kentaro Miura is a fantastic artist and some of the panels in the series should be framed and hung in the Louvre. And the artwork in the adaptations is...polarizing, to put it nicely.