Game of Thrones - mostly

[DBTrek]

How is this thread even fucked up...

Capps was debating in good faith from what I can see...

Screaming headline... nothing to see here.

Are you trying to provoke another Armageddon?

Kath likes to dance with the God of War... it obviously excites her.

Tango? Flamenco?
What's it gonna be?

Yeah, I was disappointed that it wasn't all-out war.
Especially when I saw Monte posted . . . I thought the two old armies had reformed, and the battle was imminent.
Nope.

Click-bait.

[Kath]

How is this thread even fucked up...

Capps was debating in good faith from what I can see...

Screaming headline... nothing to see here.

Are you trying to provoke another Armageddon?

Kath likes to dance with the God of War... it obviously excites her.

Tango? Flamenco?
What's it gonna be?

Four pages on the cost of Netflix is related to Game of Thrones, how, exactly?

[heydaralon]

Would this be the wrong thread to mention that George RR Martin is the laziest sloth ever to evolve into a fat, dust-bunny looking motherfucker, ever?

How you going to sleep on your own damn story for eight years and allow people organizing massive film-shoots to outpace you? You have to pick up a pen, or poke a letter key on a keyboard, you lazy fuck. They have to organize hundreds if not thousands of people, reserve locations, crrry out logistical support for remote shoots, etc, etc . . . and they still told your damn story faster than you.

Shame.

I've been saying for years that he's gonna croak before he finishes the books. Its a given. Look at the guy. He's like 80 with a BMI of 41. Imagine the stress from that on his heart alone, now imagine millions of angry fans, his publishers etc demanding to know when he finishes the books. Incessant demands, and I doubt he has good answers as to what he has been spending his time doing. Stephen King wrote the Stand in 2 years. Wouldn't surpise me if he dies before he even finishes the next one. I think what happened is he expanded his universe and kept doing so, but now he doesn't know a good way to close the loop, even if he has an ending in mind.

I'm watching with amusement. Never read the books, and felt the show lost its luster after season 3.

[Zlaxer]

Such language in the title.

[Fife]

This is another goddammed monopoly!

We need some reasonable regulation, or "content organization," to stop this perverse market share abuse.

Canadians are all just more sheckel cuck fuckers.

[DBTrek]

Poor Capps.

First Martin gave him the business, and allegedly put him on "special Capps rules"
Now Kath has him on blast for any time he marginally strays from the thread topic - putting him under special Kath rules.

Capps is the oppressed minority of the MHF.

There should be a college fund.

[brewster]

I've been saying for years that he's gonna croak before he finishes the books.

So? Probably for the best. Someone else will actually finish it, and then if they really want to clean up, they'll open up the timeline for other authors to play in. Like they're apparently doing with the prequel series, and Martin himself did with several prequels. Some of the best stuff ever written in Known Space was not written by Larry Niven. Authors run out of creative juice, why pretend otherwise?

[Fife]

Poor Capps.

First Martin gave him the business, and allegedly put him on "special Capps rules"
Now Kath has him on blast for any time he marginally strays from the thread topic - putting him under special Kath rules.

Capps is the oppressed minority of the MHF.

There should be a college fund.

Capps is forcing the forum to subsidize his posts.

Why you just a sheckel cuck for Capps?

[heydaralon]

I've been saying for years that he's gonna croak before he finishes the books.

So? Probably for the best. Someone else will actually finish it, and then if they really want to clean up, they'll open up the timeline for other authors to play in. Like they're apparently doing with the prequel series, and Martin himself did with several prequels. Some of the best stuff ever written in Known Space was not written by Larry Niven. Authors run out of creative juice, why pretend otherwise?

I don't have a dog in this fight beyond casually watching the show. If someone else takes the torch from George Martin's hands after his coronary, thats fine with me. I know a couple of GoT fans who are really angry that the show has somehow advanced further than the books, and they seem to be in denial about it.

[Kath]

Poor Capps.

First Martin gave him the business, and allegedly put him on "special Capps rules"
Now Kath has him on blast for any time he marginally strays from the thread topic - putting him under special Kath rules.

Capps is the oppressed minority of the MHF.

There should be a college fund.

This is another goddammed monopoly!

We need some reasonable regulation, or "content organization," to stop this perverse market share abuse.

Canadians are all just more sheckel cuck fuckers.

Lol... I'll change it back. I wake up pissed of every morning, now, because I have to do work for dumb fucks who have no idea what they are doing. I now spend more time documenting what I do than it takes to do the thing I do.

This morning's code change: 2 minutes. (change a URL in a .js file)
Testing: a few seconds
Justification Documentation: 15 minutes
Testing Methodology for QA team: 5 minutes
Justification conference call: 30 minutes

Just short of an hour to do less than 5 minutes of work, and now it's off to the QA team and leadership for the 8-day approval process, for a URL that the company asked me to change.



After that, scrolling through 40 posts of not GOT just rubbed me the wrong way. I thought some fresh posts about GoT would cheer me up, but it wasn't to be. Apologies for the over-reaction.