Nedder
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
James Stark was the winner for me.
― Evan, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
Along with Henry
Ned. Nedder.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
Neddest.
Nedderino
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
ashamed to have cracked up so hard at that
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
The Nedsterrrr! x-p
― nickn, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
Okay you people.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
THERIN GREYDUDE
i do have to admit if I didn't read the internet and this board and other boards I would be pretty clueless about the names of 50% of the characters, too.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
Nedder Ragdude
― Evan, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://aamerrahman.tumblr.com/post/52770211665/game-of-tropes-racefail-spoilers
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
grandmother of boobs girl, iron queen
honestly he did better than me
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 June 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
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― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 June 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
Hey I got a new display name of of that.
― Borak. Hogar? Obama! (Leee), Thursday, 13 June 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
Was there talk upthread about another fantasy series by a contemporary writer that is as rad and HAM as ASOIAF and doesn't have the same racial and gender baggage that GRRM carries?
― Lynyrd Cohen (Leee), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
what's HAM?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
It's like BAMF, I think.
― Lynyrd Cohen (Leee), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
I always think BAMF is the sound of Nightcrawler teleporting.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
what about EGGS
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
Extremely graphic and gratuitous sexytimes?
― Lynyrd Cohen (Leee), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
SNIKT
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
POTRZEBIE
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
BLARGH
― Evan, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
VEEBLEFETZER
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
So I've seen most of this, and I don't like it. I don't know why. No complaints about the photography/technical side of it. Why don't I like GoT, anyone?
― cardamon, Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
your a fucktard
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
wow, sorry... that was uncalled for... and probably untrue...
pvmnic
― the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Thursday, 20 June 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
Well, no, lots of people like it, and they like other things I like, so I kind of wonder if I am being a bit of a fucktard.
― cardamon, Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
not everyone has the hunger for it
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
for ass, i mean
i don't know what your deal with the show is
put on your freaking thinking cap and figure it out yourself, pal. we're not your analysts!!
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
dammit i'm a person with a hunger for human asses, not a doctor!
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
I think part of it is the cumulative effect of lots of almost-actual-names. It's a pedantic annoyance. The thing is, I could ignore the silly names if it wasn't also aiming for (and a lot of the time getting) a certain level of realism.
Relatedly, it's medieval europe without the Christianity. It takes away the element of scheming royalty who pretend to be acting for a greater good, or anyone who actually considers themselves to be acting for a greater good. There's no Gregory of Tours writing his histories in the middle of all the violence. Decaffeinated medievalism. But then who wants to watch Kingdom of God.
I like the dirt and sweat on character's faces. Landscapes, costumes, that's all good. And this isn't me being flippant, these things are important in creating a world. In a similar way I liked this element of Mad Men.
I like the eunuch bits and the dwarf bits and the bits with them together.
― cardamon, Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
the eunuch doesn't have any bits iirc
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
The thing that bugs me a bit about the show, having no idea where it is going, is the pointlessness of all this fighting and scheming in a world with armies of snow zombies, dragons and women birthing smoke demons. Prioritize, you inbred morons! That's why I liked the end of the last episode. Red Witch was all fuck this game of thrones shit, there is an approaching army of snow of zombies!
Speaking of which, what happened to the army of snow zombies? Did it get lost?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol i sort of get the name thing
isn't ASOIAF supposed to be one of those "they're all speaking a different language, you're just reading it in english" books? whenever i read some alternate universe story where the names are just slightly different, it seems to imply some sort of evolutionary determinism, like "in every iteration of earth, language will evolve similarly and with a degree of direction, but not quite exactly". which is bunk, and a cool excuse to not create silly names and instead create silly deviations from names we're used to, i guess bc it's between "robb" and "gakzorn". but if we're reading a hypothetically-translated language, why not just translate the names to common english spellings as you would with "dragon" or "sword" or "tree", or i dunno be annoying about it and spell it "dragyn" instead. idk. it is corny and obnoxious to see "robb" and "CATelyn", though there aren't too many other examples from GRRM
also of course the main language we spend the most time with is always perfectly translated into english and the foreign languages across the river into dothraki land aren't based on any real languages, just your standard "savagey gibber-gabber" etc
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
nb i might be thinking of LOTR with this stuff
Actually, they speak English, complete with Latin alphabet.
― Lynyrd Cohen (Leee), Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
oh lol
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, they don't speak using the Latin alphabet, of course! They wrote in it.
― Lynyrd Cohen (Leee), Thursday, 20 June 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
Ah yeah, that's another thing, I wish there weren't dragons in it. Sorry if that's missing the point. Ice-demons and smoke-demons, fine, I liked them.
― cardamon, Thursday, 20 June 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
dragons p cool in general tbh
― the REAL Dr Morbius (silby), Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
"Relatedly, it's medieval europe without the Christianity. It takes away the element of scheming royalty who pretend to be acting for a greater good, or anyone who actually considers themselves to be acting for a greater good. "
Dunno if I agree with this tbh, I think there are a number of characters and organisations who seem broadly interested in representing the interests of the people or "the greater good" or whatever. Most notably at this point Varys (tho tbf who the fuck knows) and the Brotherhood Without Banners, whose raison d'etre is to protect the 'smallfolk' from the schemers and the monsters and so on
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Thursday, 20 June 2013 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
I think GRRM does have a problem understanding religion - the way that the religion of the seven fits with the state and daily life and economic power is v thin and unrealised (and none of the variants he presents in any of the books make it any less so).
the dragons are sadly inextricable from the entire thing.
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, I think it makes some sense as regards the position of religion in a world where there is also magic, but religion isn't it.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
GRRM is a lapsed Catholic and Faith of the Seven is basically Catholicism.
the way that the religion of the seven fits with the state and daily life and economic power is v thin and unrealised (and none of the variants he presents in any of the books make it any less so).
I don't get this though? This is the biggest cultural division between the North and the rest of the realm. Like you have to take vows in a sept to become a knight, the king has to worship the seven, the Faith had to be demilitarised after their power got out of hand etc etc. The connection between the Faith and State seems fairly clear to me.
― gyac, Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
I am hoping this is not "the point" of the series but yeah it's completely implausible that you'd get this ridiculous infighting in the face of a coming apocalypse (or indeed even climate-based apocalypse).
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link