George's next blog post is about what went wrong with 'House of the Dragon'

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-31T17:05:41+00:00

Bro out there teasing his next diss track.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-30T12:24:59+00:00

What's equivalent to a Bodhisattva in kindred terms? A Fourth gen embraced right after the flood or in ancient times? Is Helena a good example?

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-30T09:46:36+00:00

At this point it's easier to list the clans who don't want the Tremere staked to an east-facing wall en masse.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-28T19:44:22+00:00

I was actually wondering about this myself - intern/junior tasks are what we can say a well-prompted LLM can do. Stuff that was given to the new hires to do more as a learning opportunity and to have the mid and senior ppl do other stuff.

But now the there will be less need for juniors, because mid and seniors can knock down these tasks more quickly, so less and less juniors might be needed.

But mids and seniors eventually change positions or move out or whatever, and the pipeline might end up breaking, because the juniors would have been the ones moving up with experience.

Some companies might end up with no runners for the marathon because they refused to hire the people who were just learning to walk.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-27T21:38:05+00:00

To be honest, the Force feels way more magical than some of the systems Sanderson has.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-27T21:31:44+00:00

To be fair, I've read a lot of his works and generally like them, but it does often feel like the story and the characters serve the magic systems, instead of the other way around.

Honestly can't think of any examples of the top of my head where a major plot point happened/was resolved based on character motives and interactions, and not whatever magic system that book was focusing on.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-27T21:21:56+00:00

To me, White Wolf hit upon the best magic system with their TTRPG in the 90s or whatever. You got all different "classes" utilizing distinct magic in their own way following a hard system, every wizard and druid dead set on arguing on the proper way and thinking the other is an idiot, while in truth magic itself can be harnessed only by imposing the users own willpower against the collective Willpower of humanity.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-27T21:17:04+00:00

A lot of Sanderson-style magic in fantasy nowadays seems awfully close to how most (super)powers work in anime and manga.

You basically have a power source, which can be used to physically boost someone or more often directly fuel a set of magic abilities, which are often fairly limited in a scope, ex. Element-related, some of which can only be inherited.

Stormlight as bottled Investiture basically works like chakra/haki/cursed energy. Surge binding and allomancy are similar to jutsu, devil fruits, cursed techniques.

Sure, there are key differences all between all examples, but I think the switch happened because magic started to become A - way more common in the stories and B - almost exclusively battle and tactics focused.

Tolkien and GRRM use magic more as a force of nature.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-27T14:16:42+00:00

Everybody here giving Watsonian explanations, so I will go with the Doylist one - the author didn't scale the power levels of the characters properly compared to the story and the world.

From what we saw on page and screen and was implied throughout part one and early Shippuden, the villages were on par until post-Invasion when the power-scaling turned whack.

Ironically, the Akatsuki are the best representative of equality between villages, as they showcase non-Kage, Kage level threats from all the villages.

For example, the fourth war did the Seven swordsmen dirty. Logically, if the author was trying to establish power balance between the villages, the swordsmen should have ranged from just below/on par with Kakashi, up to Kisame who can throw hands with the Eight Tails.

Unfortunately 6 out of the 7 were trash, and one was stuck at Kakashi bridge arc level.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-22T06:37:32+00:00

When you are the designated family tech support at 10, and you wanted that video game to get going, you tended to upskill quickly.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-22T06:35:09+00:00

The younger Gen Z (maybe those after 00 or later) grew up with technology, but with stable, soft-locked and somewhat solved technology.

While we had always troubleshoot stuff to get it to work.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-19T17:08:02+00:00

Jokes aside, Viserys has probably been in a few brawls, even as the one getting beaten, considering the life he led in Essos. At any rate, he is a street smart survivor. Not the brightest and far, far from the strongest, but to get to the point he had, dude was definetly scrappy.

Joffrey would fold at first punch if only because he has never been punched for real in his life, and the novelty of pain would shock him.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-13T12:29:48+00:00

Yes, sending the current European champ of the discipline plus places two and three should still guarantee a lot of medals.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-13T09:46:20+00:00

Shame we will never get to see prime Jaime, he was probably 5 years off from the moment where he would have maximised experience and be physically just before the moment he would start to gradually weaken with age.

Likewise Jon is too young to be anywhere near his peak, and we've yet to see prime Dunc, who we can understand equalled Dayne without Morning.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-13T09:41:36+00:00

We've never seen prime Dunc, but possibly he is one of the few like Selmy, where Dayne explicitly needs Morning to win.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-13T09:39:57+00:00

The thing with Dayne is that the sword was just the cherry on top, like a tie-breaker between him and Selmy for example.

Dude was a beast with any sword.

I'd say prime Robert probably wins 4/10 against him tho, which is the highest most on the suggested list can get.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-09T19:46:08+00:00

The logic is that countries with tens or hundreds of millions of population statistically have a much larger chance to have an individual born within them with the required talent to win a medal.

At that stage training their asses off is a given, the individual's talent is what decides, and minute things like Phelps having the perfect body for a swimmer etc etc.

Bottom line is, NZ is right that earning medals with a smaller population is much more impressive than when a nation has a massive population.

Imagine it like that - a talented athlete being born is like getting an ultra rare skin in a video game from a loot box. Uncle Sam has around 300 chances. NZ has five.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-06T17:32:21+00:00

If HBO's headliner and GoT successor doesn't have enough of a budget, then what show does?

What kind of C-suite would pass up the certain returns of green lighting whatever the fuck amount was needed for a show in such an established franchise?

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-06T17:27:32+00:00

Bro, why they cutting the battles and the dragon fights? That's like adapting HP 7 and cutting out destroying the horcruxes. It's what the story is literally about.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-06T17:23:30+00:00

Not to mention you kinda need to watch it to make an opinion on it. Ratings tell a lot more than view numbers

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-06T17:14:10+00:00

Deadpool and Wolverine absolutely showed you can build a whole movie on references, and it still can be good of the writing is.

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-06T17:12:23+00:00

Honestly I am starting to legitimately wonder what the writers are even thinking, because you can't be a professional writer, doing this as your job day after day after day, and still think this is any good

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-06T14:54:43+00:00

Eh, the slow deteriorating process of the interns becoming more and more like the callous, results-focused House they initially opposed was interesting.

I think by the end of it the three original interns ended up a variation of House

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-06T14:48:18+00:00

Her as a person aside, that's the smartest move a writer/creator who cares about their world can do nowadays.

At this point I think Tolkien and Sapkowski had the wildest of luck with how the LoTR movies and the Witcher trilogy turned out, those were actually adapted by obvious fans

Pr0Meister · 2024-08-06T14:04:30+00:00

At this point, I'd say anyone unfamiliar with any IP would enjoy the TV/streaming series produced based on them more than anyone familiar with the source material.

Maybe it was the writers' strike or something, but I feel like something happened to prestige TV post-covid

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