The TV show has ruined any chance of that series ever being completed. The man is old and now has fuck you HBO money. He should just tell people he’s not going to finish it and hand it off to someone else.
It’s wandered into Half-Life 3 territory. Being both iconic for how long the fans have waited for it, and a product that’s meant to be the climax of a high-profile series, there’s no way it can live up to the hype.
I was so disappointed they pivoted and turned it into an MMORPG. I just wanted a single player focused game where I could be immersed in the story.
I don’t get immersed in an MMO type game. It just becomes a task to complete all missions and end up clicking through dialogue. Maybe that’s just me though.
I also just read all the development issues about the SWKOTOR remake.
We all know it’s going to be finished by Brandon Sanderson, the Computer Associates of moribund, out-of-control fantasy series.
I know it’s probably a joke, but he has been asked if he would do this given the chance and said no
Nah. What ruined it was the fan response to the ending.
That for aure was the ending he had intended for the books and provided to D&D with his outline of major plots points… There’s no way they made that up on their own. The dramatically negative response to the ending means he would have to redevelop the entire ending again.
Most people didn’t really hate the HBO ending that much after reflecting on it. What we hated was how God damn rushed and sloppily it was done. We were also furious how poorly the Battle for Winterfell was done. If they’d done the proper arc for Daenerys descending into madness, more of Bran being positioned for taking the throne, etc etc, it wouldn’t have fallen nearly as flat. Instead, the show skipped all of that development and so all the character choices felt completely random and stupid.
Anyway, I agree with you that that’s why he’s lost motivation for it. Iirc, he initially supported D&D and said that was the intended ending. It wasn’t until later that he backtracked and said that it wasn’t. But, yeah, we’re never going to get the last books.
The poor ending was entirely due to the hubris of Dumb and Dumber who were greedily looking ahead to their next projects. HBO was willing to give them as many seasons as they wanted after season 6 and they said, "Nah, we can do it in two seasons. And instead of ten episodes each they’ll have 7 and 6 episodes because “Fuck You”. They could have handed it off to someone passionate if they were bored, but again, hubris.
Is there anywhere we can find a translation yet or is it too early?
+1
I really hate how screenshots have replaced actual articles. I want to know more.
because modern online articles are filled with 800+ words of literally no meaning other than getting the viewer to see the 2,000 ads plastered on the website
New Thing Found By Scientists
Scientists at the Science Lab for Sciencey Science this Thursday have found a thing. The thing is a science thing found by scientists at the Science Lab for Sciencey Science.
Nobody doesn’t like molten boron Nobody doesn’t like molten boron Nobody doesn’t like molten boron Nobody doesn’t like molten boron Nobody doesn’t like molten boron Nobody doesn’t like molten boron
“Some people misspell it ‘seance’;” reports Fleeg Fleegerson of the Science Lab “But there’s two C’s and an I in it.”
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My god I wish we didn’t put getting resources into every aspect of everything we do. “Well, this is neat, but we can’t buy that new 400k TV with it so, garbage can it is. The next one will get us the luxury that finally makes us happy. Did you see my new collectible? It’s valuable!”
When we create artificial life, honest to god actual artificial life that can run on sunlight alone, then and only then can we step outside of this resource collecting, bullshit reality.
Well, that or Star Trek replicators that run on something like grass and weeds. No need to compete then, just grow and learn. That is if we can escape our evolutionarily need to collect and hoard resources.
Gettin’ yo shit and bangin’ yo bitch needs to be meaningless for us to really become something special. I know that sounds silly, but I can’t survive without yo money, thrive without yo protection, or reproduce without yo bitch. So what am I gonna do?
Haha. Please don’t take me too seriously. I’m a comeenuhnun. Comeeduhnun. Comedian.
Looks like it’s the 2015 discovery:
It was a handful of extra lines that described the Cedar Forest being much more lively and noisy, acting like a whole royal court, than previous versions. It also showed that the whole tablet was much more recent than previously thought.
can’t answer definitely, but if you look up Irving Finkle (not Finkelstein)on YouTube, he is a really interesting fellow who I believe can read it all fluently.
I want to like my job as much as Dr. Finkel does his. Also I think it’s just Irving Finkel.
Dang kids and their tablets …
Gilgamesh, a king. Gilgamesh, a king, at Uruk. He tormented his subjects. He made them angry. They cried out aloud, send us a companion for our king. Spare us from his madness. Enkidu, a wild man from the forest, entered the city. They fought in the temple. They fought in the street. Gilgamesh defeated Enkidu. They became great friends. Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.
The new friends went out into the desert together, where the great bull of heaven was killing men by the hundreds. Enkidu caught the bull by the tail. Gilgamesh struck it with his sword.
They were victorious. But Enkidu fell to the ground, struck down by the gods. And Gilgamesh wept bitter tears, saying, 'he who was my companion through adventure and hardship, is gone forever.