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[@scottag3597]

My theory about women writing poor action scenes: As a young boy, and I imagine this is true for most men when they're growing up, I would be walking along and see a stick on the ground. Not just a stick, but a straight stick that would make a perfect sword. Or, if it had a smaller branch coming off of it for a handgrip, a gun. Pretty soon we're fighting imaginary enemies all around us. Taking the enemy fort (most likely a fallen tree or something), and saving the day. I don't imagine girls doing the same thing. They don't grow up seeing imaginary battles playing out all around them between the forces of good and evil. Then there's dolls (an all inclusive term which includes Action Man, GI Joe etc). The wars that my action figures went through when I was young! By the time I was done playing with them they were broken, the weapons had snapped in half, and they were covered in red pen for blood. Girls don't do that, so they can't draw on that boyish imagination when construction a battle scene. There are always exceptions to the rule, but it's still the rule.

[@SouperGurl81]

I can totally vouch for that, as I was a girl once, w/ an older brother (6¾yr between us). He was/is a great playmate, but I never could understand the presence of perceived violence in our play sessions; me w/ mMy Little Ponies & him w/ G.I. Joe, always in battles! When we'd break out the 20lb giant drawstring sack of Legos, my finished product was always a house or an animal. His? You guessed it! A battle cruiser or spaceship, complete w/ photon torpedoes... I fully stand w/ purge all action, thriller, sci-fi, & epic fantasy of 97% of all women, they/thems, & "transmissions"!!!

[@jessicaavery1080]

I have a little brother, and my first real friend was a boy, so Im probably one of the few that did actually do that (back in the day they called us Tomboys... Now they just try to convince you your a boy). I HATED playing house, let's go fight dragons or some such instead. I write stories for me and my friends (won't ever publish, they're just for fun) and whenever I needed to write a battle scene I would do a ton of research, watch movies with awesome action scenes and try to write along those lines. The problem is, these female writers don't even try to do THAT, and they never grew up imagining they were in a different world with their friends in the woods or any open space. And honestly the same goes for all the weak male writers in Hollywood now too

[@scottski02]

Boys creating hardcore lore for their toys is the universal constant of childhood

[@cosmicmuffin322]

I think you are partially right, but as a former little girl who never went near play fights, I can tell you I would have no problem writing a decent fight scene. Because I would do my research, consult an expert, accept criticism, and I'm a good writer in the first place. These female writers have done none of these things. It is incompetence and pure ego. Any competent writer can write about something they've never experienced; writers do it all the time, it's practically the job description of a fiction writer. But it requires skill, effort, and expert input.

[@O-o-Azazel-o-O]

You are 100% right however in most cases its much more simple than this. Modern feminist type women despise men, they hate everything we are into as whatever it is distracts men from time they could be spending doting on their women. Videogames, tv shows and movies cannot have anything left that is just a boys club, something made by men for men and boys. All of that stuff must die in their opinion, imagine what that really means, men are not allowed to have ANYTHING that isn't controlled by and inclusive to women in every aspect of it. That's terrifying to me because women just don't get what we like at all. We don't try to do this to women btw, in fact we want them to have their own hobbies without us involved so we can do our own thing. What they expect from us is too fucking much and men need to stand up for themselves and stop this insane bullshit.

[@aldunlop4622]

Lee Pace as Thranduil in The Hobbit movies is what Elf heroes should look like. He nailed that role.

[@AnnaMarianne]

Yes, Lee Pace is the cheff's kiss perfect Tolkienian Elf.

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

he looks it, but ew that entire characterisation was bleh

[@aldunlop4622]

@@anonymouslyopinionated656 Could you be more specific? He was exactly the way he is in the books. What's the problem?

[@fionarras4736]

Lee Pace' Performance as the Emperor of Mankind in Foundation is also something to behold.

[@petriew2018]

@@anonymouslyopinionated656 i mean, that's the last 2 movies in a nutshell, innit? The material was stretched so thin it's hard to blame the actors for not having much to work with.

[@bignose8614]

I love that picture of the four elves, the very pinnacle of extreme tokenism.

[@suziechapstick8236]

Hmm, maybe this is all just one big misunderstanding. The showrunner was told it was all based on Tolkien, but they must have heard "token" instead.

[@lbrist7594]

Tolkienism?

[@RetroPages]

The tokenizing of Tolkien pretty much sums it up.

[@Yattayatta]

It completely shatters the verisimilitude. It's done so well in house of the dragon, different areas, different people, and the main cast simply comes from different areas. But in their respective homes, it looks more like you'd imagine. Travel during the middle ages was so hard compared to now, long trips across vast oceans were oneway trips for most people except a few very wealthy, or for explorers, and they were not the 1-2 day affairs we have now with flying, they were months, sometimes a full year or more long trips that were extremely expensive not to mention uncomfortable and dangerous. Why couldn't rings of power spread the "action" between Ruhn and Lothlorien in season 1? Have the important characters converge later on. Or how about a ship from Ruhn sailing to Numenor after rebelling against Saurons rule and failing? There are so many ways to make this really good, but instead we go "nope, we are in California now"

[@Ihavehadmanynames7779]

They are doing it on purpose as a way to mock the average viewer. It’s why they sat on novels for so long so they can demoralize the person to their very core. They do the same thing with contemporary arts everything is a recontextualization and rewritten

[@michaelanderson6290]

Been watching Ryan, Nerdrotic and the Drinker for years. Remember when they were all very small. The irony I see in this whole scenario is the success of these individuals, and ultimately the thriving of them is based on the crap being force fed to the masses via Hollywood in a vain attempt to either pander to the woke, or via the Message, somehow brainmelt us in to their collective. We watch them, and they have the audience numbers they do because they put to words what the majority of us all feel....and let's face it. Watching them butcher the nutjobs out there is far more entertaining than getting preached to in a movie theater I went to in hopes of being entertained.

[@agiksf.8998]

My gateway into this side of the consequence culture was The Drinker, and I liked him for all the Tatiana jokes and other uncultured comments roped into his critique. I miss those times. I miss this kind of humour done right.

[@armouredjester1622]

I've spent more time watching Gary, Will, Shad and Disparu crap all over Star Wars than it would've taken to simply watch Star Wars. Probably thrice over. I say it's been time well spent.

[@lewiswhite95]

I want to say it was around Iron Man 3, it felt as if they mashed together a halmark holiday movie, , x-file script, and a dropped page from M knight shyamalan. Is when I Started to check out of it.

[@Janzer_]

they're still very small. look at the tiny windows they're in 😂

[@KapteeniKaaos]

I love that "the modern audience" is now hatewatching this to try and find something to get us cancelled. Wellcome, all seven of you!

[@georgehouliaras7239]

I finally discovered why Anakin Skywalker blew up the Death Star. In the beginning of the movie, we see Darth Vader taking Anakin's daughter hostage so clearly, he was pissed.

[@kittybrowneye3163]

This is sarcasm right 😂

[@MagickGOATee]

Im so glad you all are winning out against these absolutely targeted smear campaigns. Honestly fuck these peoples opinions, but also fuck them for going out of their way to try to 'cancel' yall again and again because a poor show performed poorly and they pulled it from renewal. They dont even do their research or provide accurate context. Maybe make a decent star wars show people will show up in numbers for? Eh Kathleen?

[@albertbresca8904]

yep i am impressed - not with that these guys survived.. but with people actually trying this cancelling thing...

[@MagickGOATee]

@@albertbresca8904 oh about the sheer effort theyre putting in? Yeah its pretty wild isn't it

[@albertbresca8904]

@@MagickGOATee you'd think they would have realised this was a right off and started a new series without the baggage of this one... i guess bezos signed them up to a contract which binds him and he woudl be up for the money anyway.. maybe...

[@MagickGOATee]

@@albertbresca8904 oh its amazon, disney, warner, all kinds of executives allowing this to happen, i really do wonder who their 'test audiences' really are sometimes, cause this modern movie and show slop does not pass go half the time

[@cosmickeys5766]

The organized attack claim "HATE IS NOT A CAREER PATH".... hmm... except for centuries of literary criticism, musical criticism, art criticism, film criticism, and working at the DMV.

[@jozefmolnar893]

Ryan's face on amandalalala's body is nightmare fuel

[@ManyPeregrine81]

Appreciate it!! Not appropriate it!!

[@cosmickeys5766]

Personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein = American Ghislaine Maxwell

[@bwestacado9643]

There's no way Bigheadland didn't get the leftovers

[@thuglifebear5256]

Imagine being so arrogant trying to disprove Tolkien only to prove him right in every way possible.

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

"I saw an orc extra standing by, eatin a donut." 😂😂😂

[@Rejoice1631]

I am a "boomer", born 1962, and I most DEF believe in heroes, and heroism. The article that was all about how George can't seem to finish "ASOIAF" is because he's a "boomer" and he hates heroes, etc. I, for one, am FIRMLY in the Hero & Heroism" Realm. =)

[@Yosefhouser]

That tweet mentioned that he’s a nihilistic socialist boomer that doesn’t believe in heroes.

[@Tancred73]

Gen X is 1960- 1980...

[@nicoleackerman205]

@@Tancred73 Depends on what site you look at some say boomers are till 1964.

[@chrisgaines7574]

For 800 years has Tom Bombadil trained Jedi knights. His own council he will keep on who is ready to be trained.

[@laffing_hwhitee]

Dr. Who was his eighth padowan . . .

[@tomernst8595]

Gary-there’s a reason they cast 5’4” morfydd-later in the story, she’ll be concentrating with her ring on halbrand, wishing for eleven inches, and she’ll wake up 6’3” and disappointed.

[@wretchardkimball9049]

[Kevin Sorbo] "DISAPPOINTED!"

[@blightedscourge3609]

I still believe that the $180 million was "Good job keeping your mouth shut. Keep it up, and there will be more in your future." After all, how many people at Disney were friends with Harvey? Also, I'll just ask it. Does anyone else wonder if Lesbian Headlump would have fed Amandla to Harvey?

[@AnEriksenWife]

1:37:22 Hey!! That's my husband, Devon Eriksen!! You guys need to check out his book, Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1. It's brilliant, so fun, and not woke. The first self-published to be a Dragon Award Finalist for Best Scifi since 2017, and there's currently a Kickstarter for the audiobook (runs for 1 more week!). Theft of Fire is the breath of fresh air scifi Nerdrotic fans need!

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@AnEriksenWife I've seen so many husband bashing videos critiqued by emilywking and the dadvocate, it's really encouraging to see the contrast of a wife who's supportive of her husband's mission, whatever it happens to be.

[@AnEriksenWife]

@@cosmictreason2242 it would be hard to not be supportive of such an amazing book!! We are re-creating the publishing industry from our little home in East Nowhere, TN, and I'm just so proud of what he's accomplished so far, so excited for every new reader who gets to enjoy his amazing novel THEFT OF FIRE: ORBITAL SPACE #1!

[@andrepadez]

Fuck yeah! Best Sci-Fi book in decades

[@Boothmeister]

Be interesting to see how amazing a writer he is after what he wrote about George. He must be an amazing writer. Can’t wait to read his perfect work.

[@OnimenoJason]

I bought the book I think because some other authors I was reading said something about it. It's sitting on my shelf at the moment. Just have to figure out when I'm going to fit it in to read it between all of of the other stuff I bought at the same time.

[@aldunlop4622]

So I just looked up the Barrow Downs. They were actually created in the First Age and were burial mounds for the Edain (men) living there. However, they aren't inhabited by the Barrow Wights until The Witch King of Angmar sends them there in the THIRD age. So, the Barrow Wights are not there until at least a thousand years after RoP.

[@annienunyabiz6627]

It's just more of them throwing in Easter Eggs for actual Tolkien fans, hoping they'll be all, "Wow, I've always wanted to see a Barrow Wight on the screen!" They keep forgetting though that anyone who knows what the Barrow Wights even are probably know they misused them just like 90% of the rest of the show and it'll piss them off instead.

[@aldunlop4622]

@@annienunyabiz6627 Yeah, it's so disrespectful of the fans who know the lore. They think they are stupid nerds who'll clap like seals about anything because that's the only contact they have, at these conventions. The people who've loved Tolkien's writing for a long time (decades sometimes) just roll their eyes in disgust at these writers who simply don't "get it", and probably never read or appreciated the great author's work.

[@George-um2vc]

Of course they are not, the Barrow Wights do not exist till the Witch King uses his sorcery to animate them during his war with the Northern Kingdom.

[@josephdillard9907]

Not all the barrows were created in the first age. The Edain, which includes the the men in the north kingdom that fought against the witch king, all did this with their dead. It was the tradition of the men of the west. It started in the first age, yes, but was still their tradition in the third age. But of course the Wights didn't take over the barrows until the witch king himself sent them there in the third age. And the barrow that Frodo and co. got caught up in was the barrow of men who fell in the war against the witch king.

[@SautterFilm]

@1:01 or so, Chrissie makes a joke about making sandwiches in the context of Guyladriel and power. The added level of hilarity, is that in Tolkiens lore Galadriel is the one who personally knows the ancient recipe of Lembas. It’s passed down from royal mother to daughter. And the lady of the each elf kingdom is the one who actually makes the waybread.

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

If the campaign can be traced back to Disney, we're looking at an actual crime; KZbin is a direct competitor of Disney.. you can't send your minions to hurt someone else's business. It's like a restaurant encouraging their staff to post one star reviews on competitors.

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

"I'm thinkin so." - Keanu Reeves - 'John Wick'

[@toothgrinder2760]

At the very least, what they’re doing is most definitely *”brigading,”* which is typically against the TOS for most platforms.

[@silverscorpio24]

I don't know about that. _Technically_ they're not going after KZbin itself, they're gunning for certain creators on the platform. Ones that KZbin itself doesn't have any love for.

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

@@silverscorpio24 KZbin is also earning money from the videos. It's a direct attempt at decreasing their revenue by unfair business practices. But, sure, technically speaking, it's more like the restaurant in the analogy only claiming that one dish in the other restaurant is rancid.. a dish that happens to outsell their own servings every week.

[@pistonburner6448]

@@silverscorpio24These KZbinrs are competitors to media companies owned by Disney, and for sure it's not OK for corporations to pay all medias who make positive reviews for them and try to bankrupt all medias (meaning KZbinrs) who write negative reviews.

[@fokkyall]

@25:00 panel is discussing Weinstein but no one seems to know or remember that Courtney Love(Kurt Cobain's wife for the uninformed) spoke openly about his behaviour in some red carpet interview years before it came out and was subsequently blacklisted from hollyweird,

[@TwoshedsGabby]

This is Twosheds Gabby... Thank you (and my son Ben Gabbard) for the shout-out... Twosheds is from an old Monty Python Skit. My channel is coin roll hunting and a good bit of small talk. Still enjoying the pre-walker years.

[@aldunlop4622]

My head is just rolling around. I simply can't wrap my head around the Elf Away Team. A Ranga, a short Asian, Captain Cisco and some other dude who literally look like cosplayers outside Comicon are supposed to be Elves from The Silmarillion. I just can't...compute how ANYONE could think this is what Elves from Tolkien's could look like. Actually, I was watching Atomic Blonde last night and the whole time I was thinking, "man, Charlize Theron would make a perfect Galadriel, and Henry Cavill would make a great Elendil". RoP is the worst tv show in history possibly.

[@Calvinosaur]

I mean, there is Velma. (For anyone who is as confused as I was when I first read this comment, "ranga" is Australian for "ginger.")

[@aldunlop4622]

@@Calvinosaur Yep, always has been:)

[@jasongodfrey4158]

My dog Odin passed away unexpectedly this evening. Needless to say, I'm devastated. Thank you to FNT for giving me a distraction and some laughs tonight.

[@jmtheelitefan9616]

I’m sorry for your loss, my condolences.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@jasongodfrey4158 sorry to hear that, truly. Lost my dog in December, still hurts.

[@Langley_Ackerman19]

Oh no, sorry for your loss.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[@kyledonworth3845]

Sending love my friend.

[@GenMVeers]

1:35:32 *George R. R. Martin versus **_Battlestar Galactica_* 1:38:55 *The Drinker reads a tweet on **_A Song of Ice and Fire_*

[@cosmictreason2242]

I badly want the text of that tweet. It was excellent. Can someone copy it here, if yt doesn't censor it?

[@Flession]

@@cosmictreason2242 It gets censored and I can't even tell you where to go to get it without it getting censored

[@douglasstewart4790]

Yeah, that's an epic tweet!

[@christimacc]

That excellent essay was made all the more so by Drinker's recitation.

[@greatkhan7278]

Ryan rapping Discourse will never not be funny

[@jodiemcadams1418]

GRRM will never finish ASOIAF because if he does and it sucks, then he sucks and his legacy dies there at his own feet, his own fault. But if he dies and someone else finishes it "based on GRRM's notes," then all his fans will say, "If only GRRM had been able to get it done." And if he dies and it is completed and it is good then everyone will say, "Wow, he really was great." Either way, if he dies first, his legacy can be maintained. He has zero incentive to finish it, especially if he plans to end it like the show ended which he knows everyone hated.

[@TheKpa11]

I agree that will happen. It feels like something that would happen in his book even. A once old great man who went out cursing the world and politics, and only in death, are they forgiven and mourned and when someone else comes and has any short comings or does worse, the previous one is missed That’s how the world is. Heck, if Tolkien had been around in modern day and had grown cynical and lashed out, he’d be in that position (Because his work was assassinated and used for personal profit)

[@trajanthegreat2928]

It's pretty plausible that the character endings in GOT are the same as George has planned, so as long as he doesn't publish the ending people can say "GOT was terrible, George's ending will be so much better".

[@cian239]

@@trajanthegreat2928It’s 100% this

[@Yosefhouser]

Schrödinger’s Martin

[@sivad1025]

Jamie Lanister really highlights this point. I don't for a second think his anticlimactic ending with Cersei was from Dave and Dan. Sure, the hypothetical book execution may better with more clever dialogue, but what people mainly hated is that they watched Jaime for 7 years of their life and got invested in his redemption only for it to be lately subverted I think George knows that people didn't just complain about the execution but also about where the characters ended up and is embarrassed to admit that the book would have had similarly disappointing character finales

[@peregrination3643]

I have effectively gotten all of my Twilight knowledge from FNT. RIP.

[@insensitive919]

"You have to agree on every single thing or else they oust you" Yeah.. yeah.

[@sulijoo]

Rewriting Ripley is such an insufferable name. WTF.

[@ezrareviewshisalbums2735]

I don't know why so many of you waste your time with GOT. The show, the books, they all mean nothing. Don't get mad at me, that's what the writer intended. That essay validated what I've been saying for years now. You'll never get an ending to that miserable series and you wouldn't want it even if you did. Georges despicable world view on people would never allow him to write a decent ending. Do yourself a favor and throw GOT in the trash. Long live Tolkiens work!

[@cosmictreason2242]

The essay is important, same reason criticisms of nietzsche exist

[@FireRising86]

I never watched that garbage

[@rogue_of_the_winds1286]

Completely agree. It's smut. Reminds me of the junk books my grandma reads.

[@Houd_Vast]

Don't know enough about GOT to rebut that, but I appreciate the opinion. I do feel as if I invest time in it, I'll just get proverbial blue balls.

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@Houd_Vast gratuitous sexually explicit perversity so ...

[@ryanz486]

Never forget that it was well known within Hollywood about Weinstein (hell even look at the old Courtney Love take on him), so being his personal assistant just makes it worse.

[@Jyoelmejor]

Disparu said it, ultimately the message should be that there is always something in this life worth fighting for and that message somehow, has been lost with the current mainstream.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

My favourite part of The Rings of Power season 2 is when Xray Girl awakens the ghost Vietcong army, and they bring the power of mannnnyyyy ........AK-47s.

[@laffing_hwhitee]

Isn't Kim Kattral in that movie???😂😂😂

[@TheREALSimagination]

Just because THEY can't part the actor from the character doesn't mean everyone else can't.

[@samblack5313]

If someone is screaming hate at me one day, it’s hard to buy into their character the next day. Everyone is responsible for what comes out of their mouth, consequences exist. If you want to be an angry activist, you will have trouble also being an artist.

[@TheREALSimagination]

@@samblack5313 Yes

[@agiksf.8998]

The poor souls that are trying to shut down the 'opposing team' should wrap themselves in cushions, spend a day blocking the 'harm ful content' on every social media they use, and get a safety helmet permanently attached to their messed up little heads. I feel for them, we live in a time when you can't even get the proper kind of help from a professional. The therapy field is corrupted by the 'I see you, understand and affirm ' folks. Those ppl, WILL NOT make you into a well adjusted human being. Make therapy great again!

[@GeraltofRivia22]

The Twilight stuff was pure gold. Seeing Gary rage was hilarious.

[@AHSOKA777FAN]

Timestamp please

[@cosmictreason2242]

The banter was great

[@Tundra.]

@@AHSOKA777FAN Around 2:49:50 it takes off. 3:02:12 for a bonus Trump tweet about Edward/Bella.

[@AHSOKA777FAN]

@@Tundra. THANKS 😊

[@cian239]

Twilight isn’t good but idk why Gary gets so mad about it. It’s not offending anybody

[@satch8580]

I’m a gay 36yr dude . I love fnt I love this episode when Ryan said I order the Carmel macchiato coffee I could not stop laughing this is comedy and perfect entertainment for anyone who understands novelty and classic and original cinema culture and true connectedness reaching a vast set of different personality brutal and it’s always honestly , I love this show it reminds me of the classic comedians actually funny. . a true program for real adults,

[@BootheTempleton80]

I wonder how an interview would go if the content creators, that were called out this week, invited, and were actually able to conduct an interview with KK on FNT. She wouldn’t ever accept an invite, and if she did, I’ll eat my hat.

[@mattymatt1979]

Noone saying how bad last season of HotD was. Last 4 episodes are weak.

[@breelee4362]

It was rather disappointing 😢

[@Angel-gp6tx]

It was terrible

[@mattg5791]

As much as we love when the whole crew is united in crapping on shows, the fact that they can find some enjoyment from it and have differing opinions from each other and the fans is a good thing. People have gotten so used to everyone being united in hating the same things that they forget that this is the true cornerstone of nerddom, having differing opinions and levels of appreciation for the few decent things being made as well. I've seen way too many people upset that they don't shit all over hotd season 2, it's time to remember that this a good thing. Too many snowflake fans have gotten used to being validated by the FNT crew sharing the same opinions as them, and honestly, it's making all of you sound more like the disney shills we all universally hate. Take out the pacifier and accept that even the FNT crew might like something you hate.

[@DavidByrden1]

A question for the book-reading community : is there an obscure detective novel that has separated twin girls, a Catholic convent of nuns, murders commited by one twin, police, and a mixup between the twins? Because the Acolyte's plot makes a lot more sense if the action all takes place in a single town on Earth in the 20th century. I'm wondering if the plot was "lifted". Somebody else noticed this, not me.

[@TheSetkon]

Don't know about books, but if you scout the very edges of the fanfic communities you'd likely eventually find some major inspiration for the show. Something tagged Alternate Universe, Modern-day setting, witches etc. It reeks of the kind of drivel you'd find there.

[@banhammer3904]

It was probably lifted from a bunch of books. Nothing is entirely original because everything has been done already.

[@WesleyHill-md5cg]

The witches are Waco and the Jedi are the ATF.

[@nicoleackerman205]

There are a lot of boarding school and orphanage books out there so it could be a book.

[@TheJadedFilmMaker]

haha nice one Shad. Gary fukn deserves this!!!! I mean WE have to listen to him ramble on about ROP for hundreds of hours. Bring on twilight!! he totally deserves it haha. this is how we feel right now

[@PaulaBean]

These attackers didn't mention The Drinker, which I found a bit lacking.

[@laffing_hwhitee]

Drinker is a casual freaking assassin!!! He should have definitely been at the top of their list!!!

[@mikehunt3205]

No matriarchy ever survived and prospered. Why people think corporations can survive corporate matriarchies is beyond me.

[@carlettoburacco9235]

2012-2024: The longest funeral recorded in the annals of human history. We are at the point in the ceremony where the coffin slowly descends into the grave. It will take a few more years to finish it but it seems that Disney has succeeded in destroying a galaxy far, far away.

[@RockRedGenesis]

The Darkspawn from Dragon Age is directly inspired by the Orcs from Lord of the Rings. They exist for one thing, destroying shit, The surface world (DA), the Kingdoms of Man, Elves and Dwarfs (LoTR). That is their only purpose in the story, trying to make them into something they are not is doomed to fail. i don't mind nuance being introduced into the Orcs, the Darkspawn had that introduced in the Awakening DLC for DA: Origins, and even the Rakghouls from Star Wars were shown to evolve into something more with the Nekghouls and their increased intelligence and use of the force in SWTOR after hundreds of years of breeding on the ruined world of Taris. But pretending the Orcs from LoTR are anything other then the twisted evil creatures they are is against the writings of the man who created them.

[@bwestacado9643]

I'm seriously doing a playthrough of Origins on my 360 right now 😂. I just got to Castle Redcliffe and it's the last place I have to go to get allies. I like this way more than 2 and I didn't really get into 3. I'm gonna give it another try though

[@RockRedGenesis]

@@bwestacado9643 I love Origins. Too bad my install is broken due to mods. Gonna have to reinstall at some point.

[@bwestacado9643]

@@RockRedGenesis Well that sucks. I don't have a PC, so I play vanilla console versions

[@RockRedGenesis]

@@bwestacado9643 First time I played it though was on the 360, even bought all the DLC for it too. Good times.

[@bwestacado9643]

@@RockRedGenesis Never got to play the dlc. I'll buy the add on and hope I can play it without needing a download. I got Oblivion, but without the update (no Internet connection) I can't play any of the dlc. I was wanting so bad to go to my Mage's tower too lol

[@ryandaniels9825]

Alright I gotta start watching more of disparu, him talking about Brandon Sanderson gets my stamp of approval

[@Ammoniummetavanadate]

I can listen to him but until he gets his teeth fixed I can't watch. I don't know what disease caused that damage but I would toss into a go fund me to fix it.

[@Whiskey0880]

It's pretty feminine behaviour criticising another mans appearance.

[@Ammoniummetavanadate]

@@Whiskey0880 It is genuine concern for his health, tooth damage is strongly related to heart complications later in life

[@Gunleaver]

That essay about "A Song of Ice and Fire" (or the first part, analyzing the series, at least) is exactly what I have been saying about the series for years, and the reason why the TV show's interpretation of many of the major characters - shared by many casual fans, and given the boost of confirmation bias by the show - is so far off. Ned Stark is not a chump who is incompetent at politics, whose honor gets him killed. He is a staunchly moral man, who values morality over honor, and many times through his adult life has committed dishonorable actions that were the right thing to do, to protect innocent lives. In his epic conversation with Cersei where he confronts her over the paternity of her children, she tries to give the usual false-equivalency villain argument, having established the wrongdoing and abuses of her and her brother and how Robert has mistreated her, justifying her infidelity & treason, she asks Ned how he is any different or any better than they are. His answer is a flat "I do not kill children." He pities Cersei, and Robert. He has empathy for both. But it does not deter him from doing the right thing. He is not going to let her crimes stand, and he is not going to let Robert commit crimes in reaction. That's why he offers her the chance to flee. Not out of Honor, because to Ned & the rest of Westeros, honor demands he turn her over to the king and put her children to death to cleanse the shame. But out of a desire to protect children from the punishment for their parents' crimes. And the situation when he tells Cersei, is one where he has the complete advantage and upper hand. The only reason for their reversal of fortune is a -the author making it happen- an incredible stroke of bad luck. Cersei basically bought a lottery ticket, pinning the survival of her children, brother/lover and father on winning the Mega Jackpot, and somehow it worked. And the tragedy of it for Cersei, is that had she taken Ned's offer and fled the country, her children might have actually lived to adulthood. As it is, Joffrey died, because she insisted on fighting to put him on the throne, and Myrcella & Tommen are prophesied to die as well. Tywin is not a brilliant political mastermind and the best ruler or player of the game. The Starks forced his hand and he started a war that would have had his whole family wiped out in short order, as traitors to the crown, had Robert not died before he learned of Tywin's crimes. If Robert had simply taken a less-than-mortal wound, or been unhurt, even if Ned sat on the news of the twincest, on learning that Tywin had ignored Robert's order to stop fighting over Tyrion and attacked innocent people who had nothing to do with Cat's actions, or even worse, learning that he had attacked Beric & Thoros while carrying the royal banner & serving a writ from the throne, Robert would have brought the might of a united Westeros down on Tywin, who would have stood alone, with no allies. As it is, his reputation only survived because he got murdered right before things were going to turn to shit for his family. The collapse of Lannister power during Cersei's reign has only been altered in character by her mistakes. It was coming anyway, even with Tywin in charge. During the last book where Tywin lived, when the Lannisters were supposedly ascendant, with Tywin ruling as Hand in his grandson's name, he was the Tyrell's bitch. He had to give them all the rewards and offices and honors, he had to marry Sansa off on the sly to keep her from marrying a Tyrell, because he literally could not afford to tell them "no." He had to accept the insult of Olenna's comments in urging Mace to reject Cersei as a bride for his son, and all he could do was pretend the offer never happened. He had to get the approval of the Tyrells to marry Cersei to the Red Viper. He put his son on trial in part to appease the Tyrells who were making a big stink about the danger to Margaery who was sharing Joffrey's food & drink and even give Tyrion's place on the council to Mace Tyrell's uncle. And the whole time, they were laughing at him behind his back, as they plotted to murder his grandson (framing his son for the crime) and replace him with the easily-swayed Tommen. The message Martin is sending with Ned & Tywin is that being good is hard, it entails sacrifice and it won't necessarily bring you success, but in the long term, it makes the world a better place and is worth it. Tywin's ruthlessness, his brutality and willingness to use any methods to win, mean that no one cares about the Lannisters, no one is coming to save them when they are in trouble, just behaving like vultures around a dying lion (or Crows, gathered for a Feast), at the same time that northmen are marching through blizzards to certain death, just for the chance to strike at the Boltons for murdering a Stark, and to rescue The Ned's daughter. The treachery of the Red Wedding has every hand turned against the Freys, it means no one will make truces with the Lannisters or accept an offer of honorable surrender, because they don't believe in Lannister promises or Lannister honor. The REASON why the Sparrow movement rises up is in reaction to Tywin's goons pillaging the clergy while making total war on the Riverlands, and they are supported by the people of the capital who still resent the Lannisters for the massacre and destruction Tywin committed during Robert's Rebellion. When Margaery is framed by Cersei & arrested by the Faith, the crowds of commoners besiege the sept demanding her freedom, because of all her charity work and the food her family gives out. Because good actions are remembered, and crimes and atrocities have blowback, in Martin's books. This whole message of bad politics distracting people from the true Evil, the theme of good and honorable heroes being needed to save the day, does not work in a story where Ned is a chump who was blinded by honor, where Robb was good-intentioned but incompetent, and Jon is just a guy who rises in rank by swordsmanship, a story where Tywin is the master player of the Game of Thrones. The show adopted Cersei's line "When you play the game of Thrones, you win or you die," as a catchphrase, but in the book, it showed how Cersei is her own worst enemy, and cannot ever wield power successfully, because it's a zero sum game to her - anyone with power is a threat she has to destroy or subdue, or else die trying. That is the arc for which she is being set up in the books, to die trying to take and keep her power. But on the show, it kept her alive right up until the penultimate episode. Benioff and Weiss are the bad parts of George Martin the essay refers to, without any of GRRM's affection for the old stories and connections to the old morality, and their nihilistic failure of a show is the result.

[@HaydenFPlaysVODS]

Dude Disparu is the smartest guy here

[@The_Sisyphean]

That’s not saying much. 😹

[@nealm6764]

Also the greasiest.

[@ballsackkin]

Who's the dumbest?

[@Edward-W]

​@@nealm6764 Fr it looks like he showers and brushes his teeth about once a month 😬 I need him to start taking care of his basic hygiene ASAP it seriously turns me off from watching his videos

[@Whiskey0880]

It's such feminine behaviour criticising another mans appearance.

[@fortcastellan1730]

Okay, you NEED to release The Drinker's reading of the Critique of GRR Martin as a stand-alone video! It was awesome. ...You also need to record of clip of Gary trying to read through that same critique. The mis-statements may undermine the message, but it will make it very, very funny...

[@Lone-wolf-1982]

That opening is hilarious.

[@bwestacado9643]

I want a full parody of that song. I loved the Frosk song Chrissy did, this would be just as funny

[@beige_projection]

Fire & Blood: A compelling and dramatic historical account of the power struggle between two branches of House Targaryen that are in equal parts heroic and vile. HoTD from S2: A story where the morally superior can't-do-anything-wrong women have to work together in order to save Westeros from the morally inferior men. Surprised that Nerdrotic actually liked Season 2. Was hoping that they'd call out the showrunners but it looks like they bashed GRRM instead. I get it, GRRM deserves to be bashed for not finishing ASOIAF too. But what the showrunners is doing is, in my opinion, the same, or worse, than what the showrunners in RoP are doing with the IP. I guess these guys spent so much time watching 3/10s like RoP and The Acolyte that even a 5/10 like HoTD S2 is good now

[@GH-ub7qz]

i smelled girl bos bs in s1 trailers...never bothered watching a single episode... don't care...its a prequel...and dragons are for children

[@Opener73-r3s]

Yup they are full on hypocrites when in comes to HOTD. They do this from time to time. Part of it is so they can trash other shows by comparing them to HOTD. Like HOTD > ROP. But in reality they are just saying one turd smells a little less.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

Yeah I have been very surprised about their praise of the series. Ryan called it very good and even great. Its writing has never been that good imo.

[@trajanthegreat2928]

Gary's said several times that he does not like Fire & Blood, so he doesn't care if GRRM thinks the show is diverging from the book. If you'd watched his reviews, he's given lots of criticisms but thinks it's overall good. If you genuinely think the writers of HOTD are doing worse than ROP, you are delusional.

[@agiksf.8998]

@@trajanthegreat2928 I stopped watching HOTD after few episodes in s1, because it is dark and depressing. And that's not what I look for in my fantasy. But you can tell it's much more intelligent than most popular tv written these days. And I would never say it's close to Rings of Poower. RoP wouldn't know how to begin writing political intrigue, we saw that in spades in s1. Freaking toddlers trying to sound profound by stringing the most ridiculous dialog put on screen.

[@rpgadventurer32]

In 2:08:10 - Ryan claims that the books specifically says that the Orcs multiple like the children's of Illuvatar but that is not accurate, there are various versions but never the definite answer. There is a quote that specifically mentions Melkor creating them from the earth: That was the first version that continued as the definitive version in later writings of Tolkien's early chapters of what would become the Silmarillion , it was a direct description of how they were created and bred by Melkor - The description in the "Book of Lost Tales": ...for all that race were bred by Melkor of the subterranean heats and slime. Their hearts were of granite and their bodies deformed." In "Quenta Noldorinwa" it's mentioned they were made of stone: "the hordes of Orcs he made of stone, but their hearts of hatred". It's true that Tolkien in later decades revised this origin but never came to sit on a definitive one that would replace the earlier ones as shown by his later essays and writing published by his son after his death. In later versions it is mentioned the Orcs were likely bred with men and elves. Both Sauron and Saruman bred them with men according to the later versions - interbreeding - but no version states they bred with other Orcs or that they had female orcs. Most of the later versions seemed to imply they were corrupted men and elves, but that idea was never definitive in its several revisions. In "The History of Middle Earth" the statement that the Orc multiplied in "the manner of the children of Iluvatar" was believed to be true by some of the wise elves, but it was never definitive, so it was written as an unreliable narrator. There were versions that implied they were soulless creatures. The easiest thing is to go with the first canonical version of Tolkien in which he makes it clear they were bred from the stone, the earth and slime, this is also the version that was shown in the Peter Jackson trilogy because that was the easiest one to convey as a definitive idea as part of the worldbuilding.

[@radagast83]

1:38:00 Something about Battlestar Galactica that people seem to forget is that "Head Six" outright says she is an messenger/angel sent by God. This is at the VERY START of the series. There's a lot that people could find to not like about how BSG ended, but God and/or "supernatural elements" were there from very early on.

[@cosmictreason2242]

The part where Drinker read the essay on GRRM was worth the price of admission. I want the text of it for my personal journal. Where can i get it if i don't have a Twitter?

[@AnEriksenWife]

Devon Eriksen also posted it on Facebook, under his Devon Eriksen - Author account :) You'd probably also love his book, Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1

[@aldunlop4622]

Drinker was on fire tonight.

[@thuglifebear5256]

1:41:25 God that is SO TRUE. George RR Martin's POLITICAL BELIEFS are stopping him from finishing his own damn story. It's so damn petty.

[@slaplace123]

I remember Gandalf's name being taken from Norse mythology and means wand elf. Thats why theyre using gand for his staff

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Lady of the Sandwiches: The Sandwiches of Power One Sandwich to rule them all, One Sandwich to find them, One Sandwich to bring them all, and in the kitchen bind them.

[@TheRavenShadowsWolf]

Annnd... now I want a sandwich. Thanks for that lol. Interesting to note Disparu gets a title credit. So it's official he's joined up? What does that make him; the power of... Heart? o.O By their powers combined - Gary is... Captain Cram it. Especially with the woke messaging.

[@banhammer3904]

Only if it's Quinzo's, damnit. Everything else sucks.

[@PROTOHYPE.0088]

The wokeys don't like sandwiches because they are both in bread.

[@SouperGurl81]

​@@PROTOHYPE.0088O. M. F. G. That actually made me LoL!!! 😂🤣💀 I'm totally borrowing it! 👍🏼😉

[@jessicaavery1080]

​@@TheRavenShadowsWolf yeah, when HvB stepped back, he got tapped to take the spot

[@colebrandt9302]

Amandla thinks her name means 'power or something' but in Wakanda it means 'don't do the Acolyte'😂

[@malumachado4561]

Amandla awethu. Like "Power to the People" Because ama 12 hours of "loadshedding" 😅

[@MRFIKSIT31]

It’s just Amanda spelled wrong. Idk why some folk think adding letters to an existing name makes it neato. Don’t try and church it up 🤣

[@bwestacado9643]

​@@MRFIKSIT31 Her mom messed up on the "D" on the birth certificate and just rolled with it 😂

[@bradleymcdowell9089]

I noticed the bot comments on RoP S2E4 reviews across KZbin. For every real negative review of the episode, there were 5 or 6 positive fake reviews. They all use the same verbiage. Amazon is clearly paying youtube for this. The episode was boring AF, I fell asleep about halfway through.

[@6vitamin]

at 30:49 I think what Drinker was referencing was a 4chan post (lol, mightve been based on real studies, idk) that said something like: men are presented with an idea and they think "is this true?"- while women, and low-t men, are presented with an idea and they think "what will others say if I believe this". Again, I'm butchering it, but essentially "masculine men" will work with the idea, and are concerned with its inherent value, and not outside views of "you and your idea". While women/feminine men are more concerned with what others think if they believed such an idea, rather than its contents.

[@Great_Watt]

I love that when one of these terrible projects like Star Wars Acoshyte fails, the "fandom" blames some KZbinrs who gave it negative reviews and discussion. What are they trying to say exactly? That the "loyal fanbase" who liked the show were somehow influenced by these KZbinrs into not watching it? Or to leave negative reviews? Are they that easily influenced by people they claim to hate? If the show had an audience it would have had better viewer numbers, better audience reviews, and not been cancelled and ridiculed. These people can never accept responsibility and always try to blame others. Also, that letter to KZbin was hilarious when they stated Amandla Stenberg's pronouns! LMAO

[@dogstar5927]

If anyone wants to know exactly how many fans the Acodyke had on the entire planet, just see how many people signed the petition to renew it. That's it...that's each and every fan of that godawful show there is...! 🤦🏽

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

Since they are known to have been using more than one account already before, I wonder how reliable that list's number really is.

[@jackmesrel4933]

​@Ewil.Bluetooth I say cut it at least by half, then you get the accurate number XD

[@mattmartin6493]

That GRRM rant was fucking epic and spot on.

[@KendrickEdits]

Twilight: The Acolyte. Gary's worst nightmare

[@fionadrennan314]

Most guys I knew when I was a teenager thought Gillian Anderson was hot, her and Kate winslet cause of the titanic. Lol geeze im old now

[@guitarhero8110]

I don't know if the 70 bucks a month in ad revenue is hyperbole but if it's not, that's terrible. I was part of a channel in 2011 which was nothing to boast about but we made at least 100 a month.

[@beezdiego8196]

I want to officially petition the Critical Drinker to make a polished recording of the analysis he read into a KZbin short!

[@rpg_haven]

Ryan liking a "pump of vanilla" is the gayest thing I've ever heard

[@cosmictreason2242]

Three rapid pumps of vanilla of increasing then decreasing volume and velocity

[@CllrP]

That whole Twlight section killed me 😂😂😂

[@randm4246]

The next time someone from the UK criticizes The American education system I am going to play them a clip of Drinker reading 😂😂😂

[@breelee4362]

When is it?

[@maxwillis3840]

Still better reading comprehension than Gary lol

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@randm4246 he's an alcoholic so it doesn't count.

[@jhnshep]

@@breelee4362 @1:39:35 He leans into it with the drunk voice, nothing much wrong with it.

[@Whiskey0880]

Ok let's just ignore the awful education statistics of america. Lol!

[@Elricsedric]

It's funny that George would call "toxic Fandoms" that fans don't like star wars and star trek anymore. It's not that they don't like star wars anymore, it's because what they're getting isn't star wars it's corporate shallow garbage. But here in this great adaptation that's loved by fans, he seems to be the most salty about it. Complaining about everything, not saying his complaints aren't reasonable. They're But it's funny because that would be so called "toxic" but it's not, it's wanting better treatment to the stories you love. Just like all the fans not liking stuff like rings of power.

[@aldunlop4622]

Drinker's out there secretly rallying the Disnoshills to destroy his competition...

[@samuel5591]

Talk about punching down!! What a bastard!

[@aldunlop4622]

@@samuel5591 Ruthless!

[@wesheiser7531]

George could never have created Boromir. Boromir felt terrible after he tried to take the ring from Frodo. George would’ve written Boromir as a villain trying to take the ring and never thought he could be wrong.

[@TheHatersarebad]

Boromir would've taken the ring, done a bunch of evil things, have a bunch of chapters trying to make readers sympathize with him, and finally die a random death.

[@wesheiser7531]

Tolkien put in a lot more work making a story that makes sense and characters that make sense. Martins characters vary not only in book vs show but also book to book. Some characters are great in both (Tywin), some are good in one/great in the other (Jon Snow) yet some are completely disjointed in both (Stannis). It is simply not believable that the same man who chops off a smugglers fingers then offers him a high post would also send out a smoke assassin to kill his brother who had not harmed his people in any way.

[@ProfligateGhost]

Maybe this is an unpopular take but I genuinely believe an artist doesn't owe humanity as a whole anything. For whatever form the artistry takes come what they do is their own. However I will say, more often than not, artists tend to get more satisfaction out of their work when they realize so many people can enjoy it. And I genuinely think most people would be doing themselves a disservice by robbing themselves of that potential enjoyment if they are an artist.

[@Opener73-r3s]

If an artist makes money off their art I disagree. You owe people the finished product you promised them when they bought your art. GRRM wouldn't have sold all those books without the implication he would finish his story.

[@ProfligateGhost]

@@Opener73-r3s People don't owe you anything. Even if they make money. At the end of the day people make their own decisions, you live with that and move on or you don't. It's that simple.

[@Opener73-r3s]

@@ProfligateGhost Sure buddy. When you order something and they don't deliver I'm sure you don't demand a refund.

[@ProfligateGhost]

@@Opener73-r3s That's the best part. You are grossly comparing two very different things. Whenever I order a package or your product and I don't get it, I can get my money back. That's one of the reasons why I don't donate to anything for someone to create. Because the promise of getting my money back isn't there so I'm not foolish enough to give my money for a product based on The promise that a future product might come out. The difference with what you want or anybody else wants is a future project that they can eventually enjoy. And as I've stated before, no one owes you anything. The sooner you can accept that the better you can live on with your life. After all, you wouldn't ask content creators like them in the video or anywhere else on the platform to give you content till the day that they died would you? I mean cuz if you think they owe you something that's what they should do right?

[@Opener73-r3s]

@@ProfligateGhost You say no one owes you anything but then you say you would ask for a refund. Sounds like you thought someone owed you something. If I paid a content creator in exchange for a video then yes they owe me a video.

[@naamari]

It's been said before, but I think Elizabeth Debicki would've been the perfect Galadriel. Not that it would ultimately have changed too much, considering how trash the writing of the show is.

[@james3744]

I've always blamed Martin for making the 'subvert expectations' mainstream over the last 25 years. I think the Rian Johnson star wars film was the spiritual child of Martin

[@cian239]

Martin did it right though, I don’t know what you are implying

[@james3744]

@@cian239 How do you not see what I am implying from what I wrote? Did you listen to the twitter post they read? Modern writers deconstruct everything, there are no true heros, the ones that try are naive flawed idiots, the author and cynic are the true smart ones because they 'get it'. This goes hand in hand with lionizing modern villains as being entirely justified. There's a fine line between making a character interesting and compelling, and flat out taking their side. To be clear I never said he isn't a good writer, despite lifting most of his stories from history. My implication, which is more than an implication, is that Martin made this cynical, no-winners only losers, style of story telling popular and this is all we get in our movies and tv-series now.

[@terrystewart1973]

56:00 Some confusion over the creation of the Rings here. The elves created 16 Rings of Power, for use by the Elves with the help of Anatar/Sauron. Sauron then left for some unnamed mission, and Celebrimbor then forged the 3 greatest Rings (so they were untouched by Sauron). Sauron then created the ruling master Ring in Mordor - the Elves sensed this, and they took off the Rings as they knew they'd been betrayed. Sauron attacked Eregion, killing Celebrimbor, and captured the 16, which he later distributed to Men and Dwarves. Those Rings, the 7 and the 9, none of them were originally intended for anyone except the Elves, and they were not particularly grouped as the 7 and the 9, though there is some hints that different Rings were associated with the elements; Earth, Air, Fire and Water - so maybe the Dwarves got 7 Rings associated with Earth and Fire, whilst Men got the 8th one plus all the Air and Water ones. The 3 Elven Rings were certainly associated with the elements; Galadriel's Ring Nenya (the Ring of Water), Gandalf's Ring Narya (the Ring of Fire), Elrond's Ring Vilya (the Ring of Air), which would leave the One Ring associated with Earth - which if you read the legendarium was the element most contaminated by Morgoth (hence Arda sometimes being called Morgoth's 'Ring'). The Elves only felt safe to use their Rings when Sauron lost that Master Ring.

[@nealm6764]

36:00 They are starting to turn things around." Gary talking about Disney. Oh you sweet summer child.

[@BoniJNeto]

I'm 100% convinced that Not-Gand-Alf and Not-Saruman are actually Alatar and Pallando. Both are said to have been the first ones to arrive at Middle-Earth around the time of the creation of the rings during the Second Age, and both are said to have travelled to the East (remember Not-Gand-Alf is travelling through Rhûn?) and South. I think Not-Saruman arrived first and rapidly decided to imitate Saruman, and so, to achieve whatever evil he wants, he realized he would have to kill the other Blue Wizard. It is also said that the Blue Wizards deviated from their path and formed cults, just like The Real Slim Shady Cult. So, I bet they are basically repurposing (as always) Gandalf and Saruman's feud with the Blue Wizards while trying to deceive the audience into thinking Not-Gand-Alf really is Gandalf.

[@JL-zw3tj]

Thanks for this info, it's really interesting. Unfortunately, I 90% don't believe they'd use those characters. Listening to Gary and comment section spout off lore dates and how much the ROP writers are mixing things around, makes me think they don't care when Gandalf and Saruman are really on middle earth. Even if they can't say his name, I really do think they want the audience to pick up on the "clues" cuz look guys it's really Gandalf and he's in our story [memberberry]. I'll give them 10% to actually be surprised if those characters become a thing.

[@nicoleackerman205]

Problem is they are not smart enough to have them be those characters.

[@Ora_]

Shad should try to have one full stream where he doesn't touch his mic even once. Because he REALLY likes touching that mic when he talks.

[@Genericusername1004]

Hot caramel machiato with a vainlla pump ... I always knew Ryan was a gay

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@Genericusername1004 Ryan really loved vanilla pumps huh?

[@bwestacado9643]

I'm glad no one knows what I get at Starbucks 😂

[@Janzer_]

@@GeraltofRivia22 right in the mouth

[@Pablo-ny5mp]

Did anyone notice how Tom Bombadil looked like Jesus Christ when holding the lamb under the light? 🤣 And Tolkien will ALWAYS be the better one, just because he finished his work.

[@RetroPages]

Does Odin ever talk?

[@CRhodesDesign]

Rarely just takes up much needed screen space

[@artemisentari9274]

Ryan Kinel rules! The Leslie Headlamp stuff at 23:33 comic gold!

[@ogamiitto5642]

I would like to disagree with the Drinker @ 1:48:42: “the good guys will win” is such a boring trope. Especially in the world of ASOIAF it would, I think, be quite fitting, if one of the morally bankrupt protagonists “won”. I for one would massively enjoy it, if ASOIAF (should it ever be finished) left this tired trodden path and gave the world to whoever happened to be the most cunning one. (And then the world went to shit, maybe. The end.)

[@samblack5313]

Observation: the further back you go, the older the average age of actors in a movie/show. I just watched the old Star Trek movies, they’re 30-50 on average. New media they’re all teens-early 20’s.

[@GH-ub7qz]

everyone knows kids make great astronauts

[@Justice-ian]

You chose an odd example to generalize about eras of movies/shows. They cast the actors in the original series when they were average (or younger) in age compared to real-life naval officers. The movies are the way they are only because they were made decades after the series, by which time the original actors were much older than anyone who is serving in those respective roles on ships now, or at any time in history.

[@Hassohappa]

Speaking of Milo Yiannopolis and 2016 there were actually efforts like this being coordinated by GamerGaters. Mass emails to advertisers of websites doing sketchy stuff, "thunderclaps" having a bunch of people posting the same thing on social media. If GamerGate was a harassment campaign then Rewriting Ripley is engaged in one now apparently.

[@MRFIKSIT31]

Are the orcs supposed to have feelings and wives and kids? Idk how they were in the books but I didn’t think the orcs were essentially just ugly humans or something 🤣

[@Wiwcharizard]

Whats the collective losses for all this BS this year? Acolyte, Rings of Power, Concord, Dustborn... all gigantic failures crippled by woke bullshit, all in one year. Please let this be the nail in the coffin.

[@cosmictreason2242]

The losses are taken by your 401k account

[@GH-ub7qz]

dustborn was tax money

[@FireRising86]

This crap will never end

[@HickoryChip0]

Forgot Echo & Madame Web

[@MMAVoodoo]

First time?

[@jsto2466]

At 2:39:21 - Gary mentions how much fun it is for him to watch Ryan get really mad. At 2:52:12 - Everyone is having fun watching Gary get really mad.

[@bob1967-p6r]

i remember when i watched watership down and expected looney tunes .in the 1970's. i did not get it.

[@JW-nc3zr]

22:14 Leslie Headland heard the word a lot, but doesn't know what it means

[@junecatira]

The strength in making sandwiches line was dumb af 😂 As a woman (who also plays a lot of dark souls) I love women in armor or fighting with weapons. That trope is not the problem, the problem is that these new characters have very little depth and rarely lose fights. Which isn't compelling. Take Kill Bill for example, Beatrix fights 80 dudes at once, which isn't believable at all and ends up winning al the fights. But she's a compelling character and feminine even in her strength. She's ruthless and vengeful, not a "good" person by any means but we like her because of her love to her daughter. She also shows respect to those stronger than her, her former master and Hatori Hanzo and is overall a very likeable character. We also have the example of Brienne of Tarth, who's much more honorable and naive than Beatrix but very compelling as well. The strong women we are getting nowadays are your typical male power fantasy character with the depth of a puddle, which is boring and annoying. A good variety of strength types in both genders is needed, give us smart but physically mean and women, politically savvy, seductive and manipulative, magic users and of course warriors. Fantasy gives us the opportunity of ignoring the natural strength differences between men and women, we can have a universe where they don't exist and fight fairly. And even if you don't, it gives us a good problem for the female protagonist to deal with: it's not enough with training, she must also use her brains to best opponents naturally stronger than her. This has also been applied to male heroes with a disability or just weaker build and is very compelling (the og Mulan used fireworks against the bad guys for example). Honestly, I find it really sad that these women are so badly written because I love the visuals of women in armor.

[@DonnaCPunk]

Probably already mentioned but Spielberg won the two top Oscars last year for his semiautobigraphical film, The Fablemans. He's also 77 years old. So he's far from being irrelevant behind the camera, tho he has definitely shifted more to producing the last 15 years.

[@johnnyblade1557]

Drinker brought his A game this stream. No wonder he has 2M subs. Great energy, he didn't hijack the show but he wasn't sitting their like a mute either. To future guests of FNT, watch this stream & learn how to navigate the frenetic environment of FNT. Also I like that Gary got Drinker to read an article. I hope he does this with future guests. He doesn't have to hold their hands but he can at least encourage more guest participation.

[@wendysbrian1]

That Apalachee super chat wasn't funny. I graduated from that H.S. in 2004 and everyone is still reeling from it. Hits different when it's your school, like a 9/11 joke.

[@apocryphicdeath]

That hasn't stopped 9/11 jokes though. You're just going to have to cowboy up and endure the jokes. Welcome to the interwebs.

[@RicardoOtero]

The mental gymnastics of the guy behind the tweet are admirable but jn the end he’s just a guy tweeting with a blue checkmark. He probably won’t even write a decent short story in his life. Martin’s problem is way simpler. He created a solid foundation for his world and then did the easiest thing, the exact same thing Lost did, and that is add layers of layers of plot and mysteries and build expectations that not even Shakespeare would’ve dared. Now he can’t deliver because no one can write such promising storylines and take them to a satisfying and logical conclusion.

[@johnscott6984]

The coffee moment was classic - at one of my past jobs we had to pour our coffee from the break room pot through a filter to clear out the metal filings😅

[@slash903]

It's funny that Jeremy won't watch anything assigned for the show, but he's more than willing to watch the Twilight movies just to piss off Gary.