• ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    >fights off 5 ringwraiths while protecting a gang of hobbits
    >kills like a hundred magically engineered supersoldiers so hobbits can cross a river
    >kills an unreasonable number more at Helm’s Deep
    >beats up an actual ghost
    >just one of those supersoldiers could easily kill like 10 regular humans, but here he is again just mowing them down
    >charges the entirety of mordor on foot: survives

    But yeah, I’m sure the regular human of above average skill will be fine.

    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      beats up an actual ghost

      This one made me giggle a bit and honestly was the first thing I thought of when I saw the post about this.

      Fucker throttled a ghost oath bound to defend his lineage to prove who he was and that he wasn’t a bitch. Said ghost and his minions, then went forth and literally ate orks and Mûmakil alike slaughtering everything in their path.

      • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Yeah, when your sister keeps your cojones in her purse, you start off the cage match at a big disadvantage. He hates himself and believes in nothing.

  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    So one Question I’m always asked. Who would win in a fight? Who would win in a fight if Galactus fought The Hulk, or if Thor fought Iron Man? And there’s one answer to all of that. It’s so simple, anyone should know this. The person who’d win in a fight is the person that the scriptwriter wants to win!

    -Stan Lee

  • arymandias@feddit.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It is a stupid question to begin with, and it was classy from George to give a straightforward answer, and maybe it would have been more classy to say that Aragorn would have won.

    But I don’t understand this antipathy towards George, he wrote some great groundbreaking fantasy novels just as Tolkien, and I’m happy I was able to enjoy both.

    • exocrinous@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I tried to read A Game Of Thrones and it was so boring. It didn’t stay with one character long enough for me to get invested in their story. Too many characters, and not enough writing skill to pull that number off.

      I think George should have written a few simpler novels to practice good writing before he went and did a big project like this.

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I think George should have written a few simpler novels to practice good writing before he went and did a big project like this.

        Guy’s been writing professionally since 1970; his first full length novel was punished in 1976; he had been awarded two Hugo awards, six Locus awards, two Nebula awards, a Bram Stoker award, a World Fantasy award, and a couple Emmys before he even published A Game of Thrones.

        Him having no experience writing shorter works is extremely evidently not the problem.

        Him not having written something on the scale of A Song of Ice and Fire before, and writing himself into a gordian knot of plotlines and characters his aged brain might not be able to untangle, on the other hand, might.

        Or he simply lost interest and would rather write about gridiron in his not a blog. 🤷‍♂️

          • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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            6 months ago

            he had been awarded two Hugo awards, six Locus awards, two Nebula awards, a Bram Stoker award, a World Fantasy award, and a couple Emmys before he even published A Game of Thrones.

            Oh, well then I guess he’s just not very good

            🤦‍♂️

      • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I read the first book back in the 00s. This was just before everyone was making these epic, high production TV series. Even so, my first thought was, this would do well as an HBO/Showtime/cable series. My second thought was, I’m not going to bother reading any of the other books. Too many characters that I not only didn’t like, but could keep track of. Having a different chapter for each character, and jumping back and forth, not for me.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Gg, Im the perfect amount of drunk to actually very literally lol at this. Am I embraced by this. Perhaps.

    But do I imagine Aragorn wondering where that -0hp damage is coming from? Perhaps.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, this is where any semblance of respect for GRRM died for me.

    The show fucking sucked and his books aren’t even close to finished after decades so why bother even engaging with him at all? And he still has the audacity to try to repeatedly dunk on Tolkien the GOAT when he can’t even finish one story? FINISH YOUR FUCKING BOOKS, GEORGE, AND FINISH THEM WELL. Then we’ll see if you can talk a little shit. But we all know he won’t.