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The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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Well, we still don't know if he has walls. He could be under a bridge.
Patrick Rothfuss just wants to play Fallout 4!
Patrick Rothfuss essentially tells the people who want him to write and do nothing else to put their money where their mouth is. He's asking people to donate to his charity, and in return they can vote on whether he has to write without a break or get some gaming time.
Patrick Rothfuss essentially tells the people who want him to write and do nothing else to put their money where their mouth is. He's asking people to donate to his charity, and in return they can vote on whether he has to write without a break or get some gaming time.
GasBandit
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Raymond Feist put out a Riftwar book every year for 20 years straight. Kingkiller Chronicle and Song of Ice and Fire are good, better even, but they're not THAT many times better then Riftwar. Not 5, 8, 10 times better.
I know that George RR Martin's excuse is that he has come to hate his subject matter, but sometimes I think Patrick Rothfuss is just lazy.
I know that George RR Martin's excuse is that he has come to hate his subject matter, but sometimes I think Patrick Rothfuss is just lazy.
There are highway signs along the roads here in MI that flash various messages from time to time.
One of the messages they flash is how many traffic deaths have occurred YTD. Currently they are showing "835 traffic deaths," and all I can think whenever I see it is like they're reminding us of some kind of challenge and we'd better hurry up and get in another 165 if we're going to hit 1k before the end of the year.
--Patrick
One of the messages they flash is how many traffic deaths have occurred YTD. Currently they are showing "835 traffic deaths," and all I can think whenever I see it is like they're reminding us of some kind of challenge and we'd better hurry up and get in another 165 if we're going to hit 1k before the end of the year.
--Patrick
I think Rothfuss' problem is he literally obsesses over every single syllable. He's talked about how he'll spend days upon days just thinking of the best name for a river he'll mention once or twice (to be fair, every single name in those books is perfect). He's obvioulsy one of those "never feels the work is done" type of artists, which can be annoying to no end.
On the other side of the spectrum, Brandon Sanderson ejaculates like three books a day and they're 99.99% of the time awesome, some of them even Rothfuss-level. Pat should really learn something from Sanderson.
GasBandit
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Try this on for size.
Well, not YOU guys, I don't want you to actually...
You know what, just shut up and look at this:
It would be interesting.
Oh, baby!
It's like someone granted Oolong's wish by mistake.
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The "do you smoke weed" thread is over there --->
He should have made a left turn at Albuquerque.
I made a wrong turn in Albuquerque once.
Where did you end up?
my bet is walla walla, where he took the wrong road out of town.
No, it's actually a funny story...
My dad had finally decided he was going to become a snowbird and spend his winters down in Arizona. After two days of driving, we had stopped in New Mexico for the night.
He's always been an early riser, so we were heading out at like 6 AM local to try and get around traffic in downtown. Unfortunately, at this time, NMDOT was completely redoing the main Interstate interchange downtown (I-40 and I-25). They had an overnight detour that put us on a series of side streets. We saw this big Variable Message Sign indicating that we needed to turn at the next stoplight.
My dad saw the left-turn arrow was green, about two blocks ahead, so he got over into what he thought was the left turn lane.
It was the oncoming traffic lane. And the light was turning yellow.
He gunned his SUV, got onto the proper side street to take us back to the Interstate - while I'm holding on for dear life in the passenger seat, and my wife is still half asleep in back.
Once we made the turn, the full impact hit me: we just made a wrong turn in Albuquerque.
My dad had finally decided he was going to become a snowbird and spend his winters down in Arizona. After two days of driving, we had stopped in New Mexico for the night.
He's always been an early riser, so we were heading out at like 6 AM local to try and get around traffic in downtown. Unfortunately, at this time, NMDOT was completely redoing the main Interstate interchange downtown (I-40 and I-25). They had an overnight detour that put us on a series of side streets. We saw this big Variable Message Sign indicating that we needed to turn at the next stoplight.
My dad saw the left-turn arrow was green, about two blocks ahead, so he got over into what he thought was the left turn lane.
It was the oncoming traffic lane. And the light was turning yellow.
He gunned his SUV, got onto the proper side street to take us back to the Interstate - while I'm holding on for dear life in the passenger seat, and my wife is still half asleep in back.
Once we made the turn, the full impact hit me: we just made a wrong turn in Albuquerque.
Woohoo! Time to restart that Halforums calendar thread!
GasBandit
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As someone who used to live in Albuquerque, I can really appreciate the "god damned road construction" aspect of this story.
And so ends Day 1 of caring for a friends cat. It's already not happy about the situation... like, it's not ANGRY at me but it doesn't want anything to do with me ether. And I need to give it meds twice a day orally. DIS GONNA BE GOOD.
you should see its through the mirror darkly brother MNDOT...
BananaHands
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I'm going to Vegas over thanksgiving with the girl and I'm so excited.