Game of Thrones is Written One Finger at a Time - Fact Fiend

George R.R. Martin can do a lot with one finger.
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[@BrokenNoah]

Season 8 was written by the writers bashing their head on their keyboards

[@capncrunch6209]

Darn cat kept walking over the keyboard lol

[@obsidiantitan9791]

@@capncrunch6209 Cat probably could've written it better imo

[@ochitakishi2350]

I dont think so, it might be more consistent if it was.

[@DorifutoRabbit]

My theory despite not being a big GoT fan is that he was going to end it similarly to the series and now doesn't want to get the flak for not ending the series in a way people will like. But I wouldn't envy anyone finishing a series like that, you can't please everyone

[@Sergiblacklist]

The same story but over 3 seasons would have been fine fleshed out and added too it's was just too fast for how slow it was earlier

[@sixheadeddog]

I know other people think the same, and the situation lends itself to believing this... but I think the evidence tells a different story. The last book, A Dance With Dragons, was published months after the premiere of season 1 of GOT, so GRRM was writing throughout the 8 season run of the show. We also know there's a *ton* of stuff from the books that D&D cut from the show that necessarily changed what would have been GRRM's ending - major things. And based on what was in the last few seasons of the show, we got some pretty hard to ignore evidence of how the showrunners handled (poorly) adapting several of the things that GRRM did write, like for example the entire Dorne plot. All of that said, there is that famous Martin quote about the different kinds of writers, architects vs. gardners, and how Martin thinks of himself more of a gardner than an architect, so I'm sure the reception of the last few seasons of the show has affected how the last two books will turn out. But I think the two endings were always going to be different simply because of how long the sixth book has taken to write and how quickly the show overtook the existing source material.

[@stuartrafferty2912]

I've always thought that he outlined the story for d and d but they made such an arse of it its almost like listening to a 3 year old trying to explain war and peace

[@gag141]

This is what I tell everyone. They're always in denial

[@Grizabeebles]

GoT couldn't have been more clear that it was also a tragedy and was never going to have a happy or satisfying ending. And the general public *hates* tragic endings.

[@roeiweingarten9389]

G.R.R Martin: Mr. King, how can you write so fast? Brandon Sanderson: hold my 5 secret projects

[@Gfreak250]

In "Be kind, Rewind" the video store doesn't burn down or anything. Basically something happens to Jack Black that causes him to become Magnetised and when he gets close to the tapes, he basically wipes the contents of every one of them. Then the people who run the store, setup their own type of film called "Sweded" named so because they claimed the films were made in Sweden, when it was just 3 people filming around the town they lived in.

[@Naedlus]

Back when I was In high school, computer class was nothing more than learning to type without looking at your fingers.

[@1IGG]

Same. And programming in a language called basic.

[@donovanchilton5817]

Touch typing is important! Just not that important…

[@ejefuller7268]

The whole problem with season 8 was the fact that they didn't make the white walkers the final intimate enemy but instead made cersei lannister the big thing. In my opinion the whole ice and fire series was about the fact that man would rather fight between each other to gain a small amount of power than face the real threat

[@stephaniec9539]

I still look forward to Winds of Winter ... i am forever an optomist!

[@cageygutman7027]

it's spelt "optomotrist"

[@benwagner5089]

I can relate to Brad on the walking too quickly, which I find hilarious with the height difference between him and Karl. I also speed-walk everywhere, because I was short as a kid and had to walk that fast to keep up with everyone else. I hit the growth spurt and got to normal height, but never changed the walking habit I developed. It doesn't help that I silent step as well, so I'm always sneaking up on people unintentionally from 50m away. As for Martin's typing style, I imagine he also uses the old computer because modern ones would see his heavy-handed use as holding down a key too long and he gets a line of letters that he then has to backspace for (and then deletes past the point he wanted to stop at). Reminds me of the Freaky Friday movie from the 70's, where the mom tries to use an electric typewriter that's sensitive to long presses like that.

[@AltonV]

It's easy to configure windows to to only type one character no matter how long you press the keys

[@ColorblindVic]

I like this new format. I normally listen to Fact Fiend while studying or working, giving it a glance every once in a while. And It actually looks cool

[@233Deadman]

One of the best things about how long it's taken Martin to write more, is that the guy who worked as his personal assistant apparently made a bet that he could finish and entire series before Martin finished Winds of Winter. That series was The Expanse, which he wrote alongside another author under the joint pen name James S. A. Corey, which is 9 books long, had the last book published in 2021, and also has six seasons of tv show adaptation. I think he won that bet.

[@hiphopsingh]

I hate how the algorithm doesn't immediately put these in my feed

[@anewspinonthings]

One thing I do the stupid way is not putting contact info into my phone. I just go to recent text/calls and find the persons number that way. It works well but occasionally I’ll go to contact sometime I haven’t spoken with in awhile and it will take ages to find their number

[@Nostripe361]

Talking about stage plays makes me think of just how Japan, from I have seen, seems to love making Plays based on random stuff. Like all of the stage plays for different anime shows. Still plan n to go watch one of them.

[@lazylazerrsp8781]

Something i do the inefficient way is when i come up with an idea i create a text document and type it out... it's great in that it takes the least amount of time to open and type, but everything else is just terrible. The formatting is always wrong, no fancy spacings, no spell/grammar checks, no italics or bold. There's literally an option next to it called "rich" text document that solves all that, but the time it takes for the program to open makes me think, "whatever you write here needs to be the final draft." Which scares me off. The simplicity of regular text docs resembles the trouble of artists as well, in that we feel so much more comfortable drawing on scrap paper, but crack open a sketch book and there's a sudden pressure of finality.

[@noti7510]

the worst habit I can think of is tying my shoelaces wrong. it's hard to explain especially as I could never get how other people would do it when I was very young. I just draw them together in the same way that you would to pull them taught, form two loops, and tie them together in the same way. it works, but it takes a second longer and is probably less secure

[@ShadeVial]

oh neat! been awhile since a fact fiend vid popped up on my recommended good to see you guys are still doing stuff

[@OlieB]

The infallible algorithm eh?

[@1IGG]

Pretty stupid to rely on recommended..

[@Zaneoo]

As soon as I heard "years", I literally froze in shock.

[@ThatFreeWilliam]

Literally perfect thumbnail.

[@Minkamurink]

I've been typing with 1 finger my whole life cause I'm too uncoordinated to be able to type with both hands,but I still feel like I'm fast at it.

[@Protagonaut]

I draw photorealism with a regular piece of cheap printer paper and a no.2 pencil that you'd give a child to go to school with. Not selling them atm and drawing is a gift I stumbled on vs trained really hard to do. Trying new materials feels like I don't have the same natural skill so I stick to the wrong way to draw high contrast black and white photorealism lol.

[@YukikoAiko]

My doing things the stupid way.... when I was younger I taught myself crochet in the days before KZbin so all the books I found taught Right handed. I'm left handed. I didn't realize it was possible to do the patterns backwards with my hook in the other hand. I didn't stick with it for VERY long, just long enough that I could remember basics. Years later I got a job at a call center that didn't allow pen or paper and I was bored between calls and just HAD to find something artistic/creative to do other than MS Paint so I started to crochet again and got pretty good at it. The older woman who sat next to me started to crochet with me and was teaching me how to do certain projects and one day I asked her "how long did it take you to get that fast and how long did it take for your hands to stop cramping?" she was like "ummm it's not supposed to hurt?" She tried to figure out if my grip was bad and all kinds of stuff... then one day she saw me sign my name on a form and practically shouted at me that I was left handed and that's why it was hurting so bad and why I was so slow at crocheting. I tried it left handed, realized it DID feel better and I could go faster.... but because I had learned all my stitches right handed I just couldn't un-learn it and do it backwards.... so I still crochet right handed and it still kinda hurts.

[@technotaz]

My stupid thing is going to work for a living. Finding a sugar momma would be much more efficient.

[@benjaminmoroni]

Thank you for committing to the bits!

[@anarchessthorson3556]

Yeah the GoT stuff was cool but the real highlight was learning I have the same keyboard as Karl (granted, the US version) Pretty neat

[@trustmeimapotato4708]

Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind has entered the chat.

[@daragon0055]

I once heard someone justify the M. Night Avatar movie as being the Ember Island version of events

[@Iffem]

I spent entirely too long trying to figure out what game is on the shelf behind Karl's left shoulder...

[@Malevolent74]

This reminds me of how mumbojumbo uses his thumb to crouch in minecraft 😂😂

[@andrewbobbygaming]

My habit I absolutely cannot stop is pressing “Y , Y” in Call of Duty. It gets me killed ALL the time. Still… to this day…. SAVE ME!

[@gartsur84]

Congratulations on remembering to plug, keeping up with the new years resolutions.

[@ctmackenn]

Here here!! I still use same crappy logitech keyboard i was buying when I was 18. Its gone through 3-4 different mice models in the mouse/keyboard package, but the keyboard remained the same.... I got so many extra mice and USB Logitech wifi connectors.

[@varamyrsickskinzz7355]

10:55 - There are no chapters written from Littlefinger's perspective in the books

[@sterloinporker]

Love that shirt!

[@RobClampitt]

the keyboard thing, my keyboards have a year life cycle. six months gaming, then i take them to work for six month. and repeat.

[@joustingbears]

I still peel veggies and fruit with a peeler the wrong way. I fully understand that it's only a matter of time before I get myself, but after almost 30 years, we all know I'm not changing.

[@joustingbears]

@HITMEUP_Factfiend... is this spam? This has to be spam... I don't win anything.

[@deathslade2003]

Karl me doing the stupid thing is called my life.

[@joshuahargrave8239]

I press the Caps Lock key every time I need a capital letter (like in names & starts of sentences) because muscle memory.

[@meiguess1386]

Winter is, in fact, coming

[@shadenhand]

The nibs on f and j keys are there so you can recenter your fingers without looking. They're like that on nearly every keyboard, it's pretty much the standard now. Kinda feels like looking at my hands slows me down when I'm typing now.

[@newsucc5434]

I guess it may count that I still make two loops when tying my shoes. Everyone tells me the other way is better but I’m just not changing how I do it. Or I tie lose enough to slide in and off

[@leonmayne797]

Why am I not surprised.

[@schtoobs]

Regarding doing something your own way despite their being better ways. I wrote a macro to highlight duplicate values in excel. Yeah. In my defense this was 15-20 years ago and I felt it would be easier to create the solution myself rather than try to interpret how the people making the software might have solved similar problems or how I could use a combination of built-in functions (that I wasn't even aware of) to get the same result. Probably (definately) not the only time I've done something like this.

[@lolly9804]

Having written a couple of fantasy short stories, and plots for D&D campaigns I DM. Yes seeing a red squiggly line in pretty much every sentence is very distacting.

[@jojotheswede8444]

fervent, is that the word karl was looking for?

[@octavioflores8996]

I like that the skeleton is still with him

[@tr4shp4nd45]

My problem with finger printin passwords on keyboards is that there’s no miss typin bc Ik everybody has had a bad day & accidentally miss type😂

[@ninjabiscuit1095]

I know enough coders personally to know that coding basically is doing things the inefficient way as long as it works eventually

[@christianbarrett3040]

Sounds like he uses peck typing, sometimes referred to as hunt and peck typing. It can be very slow indeed, I use it myself on computers, depending on what you are trying to type. I personally find that peck typing shines when you know what you want to type, but falls very short when copying information over from a book or something. Peck typings main weakness is that, unlike touch typing, you have to visually look for the key that you want, but if you have done it for long enough you can peck type, or some variation of it, without looking because you have muscle memory to help you.

[@GerinoMorn]

I'm a software dev, I type A LOT. Mostly into google, but still ;) I just use built in laptop keyboard. And it's not something fancy. The only thing that matter in the end is that it works and time spent using it - it can be few hours or days, but your hands will adjust. Worst thing was working in the office space and having "random" keyboards available, or having to do things from a particular PC in a particular room...

[@nullarts3059]

I write and draw each line from the bottom up, which is awful for the wrist. I draw every day, my wrists hurt so much, all I would need to do is write and draw from top down and I would be fine. But I don't.

[@TheForrest05]

Glad I got into Gemmell instead of Martin early. Should look up his bio chage up. Great world building with the sagas.

[@somnambulistgaming273]

Hey man, I bet he's got some precision. I know I can type pretty fast, but the tiniest slip jumbles a whole swath of shit. He probably doesn't have to worry about that so much.

[@ericmalikyte885]

Holy shit, Karl and I have the same keyboard. I've broken one of the kick stands too, and I still won't replace mine! Muscle memory, baby.

[@ericmalikyte885]

The write-to-market guys are really irritating. When I'm on a roll, I can write like 8 to 10k words in a day, but when I need to recharge I can go weeks if not longer without writing a damn thing. Write to market might be profitable from an advertising sense, but most of that stuff isn't going to last the test of time, IMO. (This in response to the person who said if you're not writing 2-3k a day, you're not a writer)

[@ZGKIV]

You got no heat for a week. I've had no heat for 2 Winters straight, including this one. Lol. Gotta use space heaters

[@detvarvalfanda]

When i play ff7 i always unlock all available limit breaks on cloud and barret before the first boss. And before the swamp snake after midgaard i do the rest. Then i kill the snake with no problem. And do the same with the rest the moment i get them. And not always, but i breed a gold chocobo before the races are available. I think this is the most innefective thing i do.

[@joncrow3228]

If he’s typing with one finger, he DIDN’T learn to type!

[@bryanbalment7993]

The Red QWERTing

[@treycampbell759]

5:03 Mos Def is the other guy.

[@CocoMura]

This is a formal declaration. Super Smash Bros me.

[@GA-ww3gr]

Personally, I’m terrible about learning shortcuts and gestures. For example, all of the gestures for windows 11.

[@jean-paulmita2957]

Curious what the writing is on the whiteboard in back 🤔 Probably the worst I’ve done was sticking with Vector software too long, procreate is sooo much quicker and more convenient 😁

[@candidgamera]

Karl has the same keyboard I do!

[@Broman-Empire]

Sam Tarly better be sitting on the iron throne!

[@GrandCorsair]

I feel a bit guilty it's like so nice in our area I walked out in a tee and shorts.

[@sophiathekitty]

I'm basically building my own MVC framework in php and JavaScript because I don't want to learn how to use one of the already existing ones. I learned jQuery back in the day and that's good enough for me.... Don't wanna try and figure out react or node... Or cakephp... I even decided I'd just make my own graphQL thing instead of trying to figure out how to get a graphQL server working with my existing backend stuff.

[@KAGdesignsDOTnet]

feel awful for saying so, but not even considering starting to read Game of Thrones until they're all finished in case George R. R. Martin dies leaving them unfinished. Cannot invest to no be able to reach the end lol

[@atjatkatkaktark]

Ffs can we please get George some dragon software.

[@h13nr1]

Sweded film making is that low budget style u were talking about.

[@CrocTV42]

Kid named finger:

[@jackledrool]

I have that same keyboard

[@devinodonnell]

Stupid thing that I still do because I can't find a way to more easily do it; editing 65k+ line csv files in Notepad++ because excel cannot be trusted to not absolutely BUTCHER the files trying to "be helpful". -_-

[@beartankproductions4192]

I think I'm his mind jon snow dieing was the end of "his" series. Everything after that is for the producers an fans and probably explains why it's hard for him to finish

[@Dragonsurf3]

Commenting for the algorithm and shouting out hot water bottles!

[@t.mcgarry4]

IMO George has clearly just lost interest in GoT. It's alarmingly similar to how most of us stop playing certain video games or picking up a particular hobby. you interact with that hobby religiously in the beginning, and then begin to do it less and less until one day you stop altogether. given that the first few books came out at a pretty rapid pace and the time has only increased since then, thats what i get from it.

[@rorycuthbert3794]

I think i much prefer his short stories to Game of Thrones, especially his sci-fi

[@atjatkatkaktark]

I read dance of dragons in hard copy it's been over 10 years

[@Itarios2]

I'm here to comment that I have the exact same keyboard!

[@NinjaMaxMC]

Do you know Patrick rothfuss? Name of the wind is amazing but over a decade for this last book

[@alexfranz817]

How about the wild card series? He never finished that either

[@christopherdeclan1486]

Kid named finger

[@johnmc67]

Waaaaah!!!

[@rdeckard338]

My theory is he has already finished all the remaining books and is just waiting until after he's died to release them as a big fuck you to all the people who said they were worried he would die before finishing the books

[@gavinluc6860]

Bro what isn't written one finger at a time

[@John-Doe-Yo]

Capital letters or the special characters on numbers 🤯

[@gavinluc6860]

@@John-Doe-Yo capslock

[@John-Doe-Yo]

@@gavinluc6860 doesnt work on the numbers or keys for punctuation lol who's gonna turn caps lock on and off for a single capital letter

[@gavinluc6860]

@@John-Doe-Yo grrm apparently

[@John-Doe-Yo]

@@gavinluc6860 😂

[@jwalterswartz]

Reading the books I got angry because all he wrote were beginnings.... then the next book was a new set of beginnings.... then more beginnings. He has no end plan so it was doomed from the start. He's part of that school of write so many words per day and that leaves you with no end plan.

[@alexfranz817]

There's anybody else used the right click button on their keyboard or my the only person on the planet?

[@spiceweasel]

Really just got a big wanger in the thumbnail aye?

[@henryvacherweill]

So this is what it feels like to be first How lonely

[@mikecoatsworth6048]

Reboot final ep the Mainframe players

[@josephtabbi7902]

First in yeah baby!!

[@samuelvandekloetje]

*Nelson voice*: HAHA

[@hoc3028]

tf is this video about idk yet, let me watch for 3 minutes