HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

i personally wasnt privileged enough to have that option

who will win the game of thrones?

i bet there is a game of thrones risk. i would play that.

game of risk its good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwtSdJaPCSI

Insert your own Westeros cities.

http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/214344?gclid=CI2f4seU9MUCFcQXHwodHJgAsA

there is also a game of thrones monopoly

http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Se2J9v7Gao-CHUE-JzHo8EMlOnI%3D/1020x0/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3624324/got-monopoly-DSC_4622.0.jpg

that risk looks p good, more balanced layout than this terribly conceived planet we call earth. nothing obviously overlarge and overexposed like hopeless asia. i guess the reach and riverlands are a bit surrounded.

altho i see now there are 2 boards, curious.

theme monopolys otoh are just mystery to me

ya was thinking the risk one might be interesting via the new layout

i like that the railroads are the houses and chance is valar morghulis.

"pirates of the caribbean risk"
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I might Ask The Maester if a giant has ever been turned into a wight. Maybe Wun Wun or whatever his name is will get to squish a few white walkers before they turn him blue.

i might ask the maester about some personal health issues

wight giant surely just a matter of time

A better "ice dragon" gif: http://gfycat.com/VelvetyDecimalFirebelliedtoad

special effects on this show leave something to be desired

they certainly do if that is supposed to be a gdamn ice dragon

lol seriously it just looks like a piece of tarp flapping in the wind

That's just silly, if they had ice dragons, why would they need an army of the dead? Now, a zombie ice dragon, then we'd be talking. And instead of breathing fire (since that would make no sense), it could breathe a special chemical that disintegrates clothing. Though mostly on women. Also, it would feast on the most delicious of meals. Ice quail fragrant with ice garlic, with crispy ice skin cooked to icy perfection, dripping with ice juices, served with a frosty flagon of ice wine, drawn from the finest ice barrels north of the wall.

I love the mythology of Myth II but I never played the original

― 龜, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 10:22 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i loved myth II, i played the shit out it, i wanna play right now

breathless nerdlingers screencapping this like it's L O S T ffs

nerdlingers be nerdlingers

gbx i challenge u to an online match

dorfs only

JinC GRRM parody always funny

ice dragons traditionally breath electricity iirc via my old monster manual
god i wish i still had that. i think i have the pdfs somewhere

I love the mythology of Myth II but I never played the original

― 龜, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 10:22 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i loved myth II, i played the shit out it, i wanna play right now

― gbx, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 9:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you get your hands on a disc you can install and play using the 1.8 updates here: http://tain.totalcodex.net/mythii

Just to check, we're discussing the possibility that Game Of Thrones, if it had an ice dragon, would be coy about it, y/n?

You serious? This is a series that introduced two very existential threats - an army of magical snow zombies and dragons - and has literally kept them either locked up or off-screen for the bulk of the show while people doof around in Dorne or talk tiddliwink politics. I'm curious to see if this past ep has backed the series into a corner. After such a massive display of force and unbeatable evil, how can they simply shift back to mundane political machinations and expect that to hold our attention? At the same time, you can't have a snow zombie dragon battle every episode, either. It's kind of Walking Dead syndrome, all or nothing, with "nothing" meaning people in a room - sometimes sitting, sometimes standing - glaring and talking and for god's sake, no blinking. Never blink! Anyway, this show has much better writing and acting than Walking Dead, so at least the talking is compelling, but in terms of big picture I have no idea what they're up to. Keeps it interesting, at least, even when (as has been this case most of this season) it has not been terribly interesting.

If you get your hands on a disc you can install and play using the 1.8 updates here: http://tain.totalcodex.net/mythii

― Evan, Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:11 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

I still have my original discs lol but no disc drive and I'm on yosemite?

Our hero GRRM the Warrior makes a good but also terrible case for the sexual violence in Game of Thrones:

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/03/george-rr-martin-thrones-violence-women?hootPostID=fd755821de73a6dbf75a0649e2b7bb1b

"I'm just the author and creator here. Who am I to argue with 8000 years of fictional history? Everything I've put in my books fake-happened already, so to excise or change it for the sake of contemporary sensitivities would be to do an injustice to fake historians everywhere. That women walked around with no tops on while fighting ice zombies and dragons let alone bearing the oppression of a stylized patriarchy where women are second-class citizens (except when they're not) is part of the fake historical record, and to re-write those female characters into more equitable scenarios would just not be right. You have noticed my fake attention to other fake details, such as fake food and fake geography and fake shadow cats roaming the forests? Well, multiply that by 1000 and you understand the task set before me. My hands are tied by the binds of fake truth."

He is kinda right, that it would be wrong to sanitize history. But if he wanted to show people on the margins of the power-structure, I feel like he could skip at least a couple of the rapes, include a non-noble character, and tell the same story.

LOL, sanitize history. That's why I said he made a good but terrible case. This is not the middle ages, this is his fantasy version of the middle ages. It is about fake people doing fake things. He can tell the story any way he wants to tell it, but the issue I and others have had is that the show has often relied on sexual violence as a lazy/shocking crutch rather than explore other, possibly better ways to convey the same horror/drama.

he seems very much not entirely serious about that

I agree. But. It's a fake history based on real history, as is most fantasy, and there's a clear tendency in fantasy to makeup the fake history by making men less like violent assholes. But there's countering that, and then there's using sexual violence as a crutch while still claiming to be countering that.

u guys just go ahead and write that fan fiction youre dying to already, except not itt

What is the fake history to real history ratio of this show?

60-60. Art can be like that!

If you get your hands on a disc you can install and play using the 1.8 updates here: http://tain.totalcodex.net/mythii

― Evan, Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:11 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

I still have my original discs lol but no disc drive and I'm on yosemite?

― 龜, Thursday, June 4, 2015 8:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you can get get it installed with an external drive you should be alright. I run on Yosemite too.

the only remarkable thing about game of thrones is that it's a true-to-the-grittiness-and-nihilism-of-real-history fantasy series. quite literally the only remarkable thing. without the dark violence it's just dragonlance w/ zombies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderlust_%28Dragonlance_novel%29 <-- Dragonlance with zombies

lol ok, so without dark violence it's just dragonlance w/out kender

If you get your hands on a disc you can install and play using the 1.8 updates here: http://tain.totalcodex.net/mythii

― Evan, Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:11 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

I still have my original discs lol but no disc drive and I'm on yosemite?

― 龜, Thursday, June 4, 2015 8:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you can get get it installed with an external drive you should be alright. I run on Yosemite too.

― Evan, Thursday, June 4, 2015 10:47 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry I should mention that you only need the disc to install iirc. I know for sure you don't need it to run the game itself beyond that.

imo the big thing that sets it apart from the genre norms is its focus on politics economics and so forth which is also very gritty dark and lurid, so the violence is of a piece with that

plus the violence itself is more realistic than some hero narrative show where nobody just gets knifed in the back, regardless of era

Jacqueline Carey also does pretty deep political intrigue in her fantasy, only instead of "gritty realism" her trappings are "increasingly uncomfortable BDSM" (at least that's how Kushiel's Dart felt, never read the sequels)

politics sure economics eh not so sure about that

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