The Lounge on the Train

[Reek]

I am extremely famous... Extremely. I just walk up to hypsters and kiss them.. I can't help it... and they let me. I just go up to them and grab their avatars. It's fantastic.

#MTHGA

 

[Reek]

I'm a New Yorker and... Rudy just gets more and more rat-like as the years pass.


Oh I forgot to tell ya'll I received my copy of THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE. It's pretty awesome but dense and I now know I HAVE to read the books. The DANCE OF DRAGONS, even with this guide is a bit hard to follow at first glance. I know that GRRM said that readers can easily tell the difference between the characters but I myself am having a bit of what I call the Tolkien glaze going on. The names, so many similar or the same with the Targaryen Kings and royalty (what with the incest and all) that it's gonna take me a couple of reads to get the full story straight... Or I could just read the books.

All in all though it's super cool and impressive and makes for a great companion piece that gives this world a real historical weight to it. I think that it would behoove LUCASFILM to do a similar project for the Star Wars universe. Lay some solid groundwork now so that continuity errors and the like are easily sidestepped or avoided in the future. WORLD chronicles thousands of years of history more or less with incredible texture. No reason the history of the Jedi, Sith and Republic can't be handled in similar fashion.

It's an amazing book... the book ADWD has the best chapters of the entire series.... WE ALL KNOW IT... IT'S TRUE... BELIEVE ME... HUGE HUGE CHAPTERS OF GREATNESS.

 

[Guts]

I kinda wonder if Trump is a eunuch.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

It's an amazing book... the book ADWD has the best chapters of the entire series.... WE ALL KNOW IT... IT'S TRUE... BELIEVE ME... HUGE HUGE CHAPTERS OF GREATNESS.

I'm just saying but... Look at Yunki. Look at Astapoor. It's a mess. Once I'm in Kings Landing I think I will have the Goldcloaks investigate the Mother of Dragons.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I kinda wonder if Trump is a eunuch.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I'm a New Yorker and... Rudy just gets more and more rat-like as the years pass.


Oh I forgot to tell ya'll I received my copy of THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE. It's pretty awesome but dense and I now know I HAVE to read the books. The DANCE OF DRAGONS, even with this guide is a bit hard to follow at first glance. I know that GRRM said that readers can easily tell the difference between the characters but I myself am having a bit of what I call the Tolkien glaze going on. The names, so many similar or the same with the Targaryen Kings and royalty (what with the incest and all) that it's gonna take me a couple of reads to get the full story straight... Or I could just read the books.

All in all though it's super cool and impressive and makes for a great companion piece that gives this world a real historical weight to it. I think that it would behoove LUCASFILM to do a similar project for the Star Wars universe. Lay some solid groundwork now so that continuity errors and the like are easily sidestepped or avoided in the future. WORLD chronicles thousands of years of history more or less with incredible texture. No reason the history of the Jedi, Sith and Republic can't be handled in similar fashion.

Yeah he put out the Dance of the Dragons in more of a narrative context via two novellas, THE PRINCESS AND THE QUEEN (which is the war itself more directly) and THE ROGUE PRINCE (Which is more about the backstory leading to the war and how King Viserys' reign got to that point.) He rewrote them from the world book material and basically gave it more of a novel-like flourish.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Yeah he put out the Dance of the Dragons in more of a narrative context via two novellas, THE PRINCESS AND THE QUEEN (which is the war itself more directly) and THE ROGUE PRINCE (Which is more about the backstory leading to the war and how King Viserys' reign got to that point.) He rewrote them from the world book material and basically gave it more of a novel-like flourish.

These companion novellas and novels and short stories in the ASOIAF world, are they all pretty much in the same tone and style of the "main" books? Reading through the WORLD book (not finished yet, first I scanned around and started going through it from front to back just two days ago) there seemed to be some eras that kind of do feel like the "fairy tale" type fantasy stories.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Well, it's tricky to say exactly. But the two I mentioned are kind of more High Fantasy/Tolkienesque because they're largely dealing with dragons and dragonlore...that said, there's a lot of explicit content. Incest, adultery, murder of children etc

The three Dunk and Egg novellas are written in the style of the main books, but they're somewhat more lighthearted and adventurous with occasional moments of brutality.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Well, it's tricky to say exactly. But the two I mentioned are kind of more High Fantasy/Tolkienesque because they're largely dealing with dragons and dragonlore...that said, there's a lot of explicit content. Incest, adultery, murder of children etc

The three Dunk and Egg novellas are written in the style of the main books, but they're somewhat more lighthearted and adventurous with occasional moments of brutality.

The Dunk and Egg stuff does come off as more light from all I have heard.

What is your opinion of the theory that Brienne is a descendant of Duncan?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

So this happened... That's Tiffany Trump BTW.

 

[Roose Bolton]

The Dunk and Egg stuff does come off as more light from all I have heard.

What is your opinion of the theory that Brienne is a descendant of Duncan?

Well I had no reason to doubt it when it was a theory, and GRRM's confirmed it as true lol

The other theory that hasn't been confirmed one way or another is whether Dunk had anything to do with the Cleganes.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Well I had no reason to doubt it when it was a theory, and GRRM's confirmed it as true lol

The other theory that hasn't been confirmed one way or another is whether Dunk had anything to do with the Cleganes.

Oh, so this was already confirmed? Cool. It would explain her, um... Bigness.

What's the theory on the Cleganes? The idea is they too can be linked back to Ser Ducan?

 

[Roose Bolton]

Yeah, George didn't even try to play coy, he just casually confirmed it in a semi-recent interview.


The theory with the Cleganes is basically that, they're all big people, they all have the thematic connotations to Knighthood and the question of what a true knight is, and GRRM implying Dunk had a few descendants around Westeros. Hodor is another one, due to Dunk and Aegon having visited Winterfell at one point, as seen by Bran in a vision.

 

[Reek]

The three Dunk and Egg novellas are written in the style of the main books, but they're somewhat more lighthearted and adventurous with occasional moments of brutality.

The Dunk and Egg stuff does come off as more light from all I have heard.

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[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Reek]

Wow. Whoa. That is some group of posters. Thousands.

That’s really nice. A wonderful forum, the Hype.This is beyond anybody’s expectations. There’s been no crowd like this. And, I can tell, some of the candidates, they went in. They didn’t know the air-conditioner didn’t work. They sweated like dogs. Jokes, sweated like a dog. How is he going to beat PBUs? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.

Our forum is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, Shadowboxer in a deathmatch? They kill us. Reek beats Shadowboxer all the time. All the time. Today, we had a victory. Reek gave us a victory. It's true.

Our enemies are getting stronger and stronger by the way, and we as a forum are getting weaker. Even our ban hammers don't work. These previously banned users, they come in, and they just take. The previously banned users are going to take over the Hype, ComingSoon.Net and somebody else will get the superhero fandom. Think of it. Previously banned users are taking over the Hype, and they’re taking it over big league. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop and it’s got to stop fast. Mark my words, nobody would be tougher on PBUs than Reek.

Now, our forum needs — our forum needs a truly great leader, and we need a truly great leader now. We need Reek now. The Hype dream might be dying, but Reek's gonna bring it back. This is just a taste. Reek's gonna make the Hype great again!

#Reek2016!

 

[Perfect Cell]

 

[Vartha]

man, this night's DRAGGIN'

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

man, this night's DRAGGIN'

 

[Vartha]

Actually, there were racoon tracks INSIDE the back Docking bay door lol that's about as much excitement as I've had tonight

 

[Reek]

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[dude stannis]

Reek's played golf with C.Lee and he's heard worse than that.

 

[Vartha]

lmao yup, that's about it, figures it's MONDAY

 

[ComicChick]

Hype Awards this year will be difficult.
The easy ones are Best Rivalry (although Reek being a previous winner of this award makes me want to find an alternate candidate) and Thread of the Year.

i wonder who is gonna host