>Martin said: “It’s one of the great videogame stories of the 21th century, but that doesn’t mean that I think it’s perfect.
>“I keep wanting to argue with [Hidetaka] Miyazaki through the years about certain aspects of it.
>“He did what he wanted to do very brilliantly but…I look at the end and it says Gwyn is the king and he says, ‘And Gwyn ruled wisely and well for 100 years’.
>“It’s easy to write that sentence…but I want to know what was his tax policy and what did he do when famine struck the land.
>“And what did he do with all those Hollows?”
>“A lot of Hollows left over. They weren’t all killed, they ran away into the mountains.”
>The author added: “Did Lord Gwyn carry out a policy of systematic Hollow genocide?
>“Did he send his silver knights out into the hills to kill all the Hollows? Even the little baby Hollows?
>“Or was there Hollow rehabilitation going on. Trying to teach the Hollows to be good citizens.
>“And if the Hollows were the result of Dark ring… could Hollows and those with Humanity intermarry? They can in Dungeons and Dragons I guess.”
>A gook and a jew sit together to make a game about ancient white Germanic mythos.
Le cringe
Andrew Scott
kill yourself faggot
Jason Lewis
damn i didnt think americans were THIS retarded.
Joseph Reyes
based
Gavin Johnson
>implying Americans don't care about le heritage and le culture
Ayden Jackson
Well LOTR supposedly takes place in a long lost period of Earth right? Or at least the hobbit suggested as much. So the answer to these questions is obvious. Elves and angels departed from the world, hobbits eventually became rare and little-seen creatures and orcs became niggers.
Landon Wright
kinda true since black people only care about what happened 300 years ago and at one specific point in egypt thousands of years ago.
niggers aren't anywhere close to egyptians you dumb fucking retard!!!!
Cooper Hill
Imagine being so assblasted by mythic styled fantasy that you spend decades painting yourself into a grimdark corner that you can't escape from. Creativity dies when resentment lies at its heart, Martin is Morgoth.
Wyatt Carter
preordering elden ring rn
Justin Powell
Miyazaki is to creative literary genius what Martin is to hack pulp idiocy. They both so far surpass anyone else in their field that they will be remembered 1,000 years from now as a kind of yin and yang of fantasy, a Manichean duality of speculative letters. For every sublime, luminous beauty that Miyazaki has gifted the world, Martin has cursed us with a tedious, banal ugliness. It is unfair to compare the two directly on any one point, because Martin is in every way the anti-Miyazaki, patently sterile, parasitical, and inferior, but so much so that he becomes a monument in his own right, and counterbalances Miyazaki. Could one exist without the other?
Miyazaki obviously could. But it is only by the contrast that Martin offers that we can truly appreciate the full depths and heights of Miyazaki. Our understanding of Miyazaki would be incomplete if Martin had never set pen to page. It is through only the abject failure and futility of Martin that we can approach an apprehension of the true scope and scale of Miyazaki's hitherto inconceivable greatness. Perhaps this is what Miyazaki had in mind when he wrote about the Age of the Ancients. If Miyazaki is a subcreator in the image of Gwyn, truly Martin is like unto Manus. It is only reflected in the awfulness of the one that we can fully see the goodness of the other.
Whereas with Martin we have "Sunset found her squatting in the grass etc." to Miyazaki we have “Soul of the mind, key to life's ether. Soul of the lost, withdrawn from its vessel. Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended. So the world might be mended." and “I may be but small, but I will die a colossus.", I wonder if future scholars will study the contrast and literary relationship between the two authors.
Mi-Mi-Miya*sputters as he loses oxygen* TOYOTA-san, I am a VERY busy man, you must understand *eats* I am as of late working quite diligently on my newest book, The *fart* The WINDS of Winter, *sweats loudly* I have only so much time to devote to your little electronic amusement.*hacks of chicken bone* But what I find TRULY egregious, based on the material you have provided me, and *belches* based on your PREVIOUS work, is the complete lack of believable World-Building. In particulaaaaaaaarrrrrr*heart stops for 20 seconds* the complete LACK of any description of Lord Gwyn, who is a KING I suppose *snort* having ANY kind of discernible tax policy! His capital, Anal London I believe you so quaintly named it *chuckles* seems to be quite grandiose, aye? But how does he PAY for it all? Flying buttresses ah yes, great big knights patrolling around, who pays for THOSE? *urine stain slowly spreads on shorts* You've got to THINK about these things, man, or else I won't get any work done at all! *falls into diabetic coma*
>George "R.R" Martin spends his career aiming gripes at Tolkien, each time showing he understands less and less of Tolkien and the mythos he created >hurrr Gandalf should've remained dead >durrr what were the mundanities of Aragorn's rule? Big fucking fatty idiot cunt hack
Yet books are considered art and videogames are not. Compare a masterwork such as Bloodborne to schlock such as Dance of Dragons and you will laugh at the absurdity of this convention.
William Lopez
The irony here is that Martin never explained Westeros' tax policy, or even the exchange rates between currency (golden dragons, silver stags, copper, etc). It's truly insane.
Lucas Bennett
>and videogames are not they are though they're also much more culturally relevant now
Africa was absolutely ravaged so I would be pretty pissed if I was black too, imagine being white and crying because blacks are mad about being enslaved and having their hands cut off for not working hard enough.
Christopher Evans
Maybe by us, but not mainstream. Start talking about BB to a normie and see how fast they try to change the subject or get away from you. That doesn't happen with films or literature.
Benjamin Nguyen
yes it does, give me one book that is as relevant as a game like gta5 for example, any modern book that everyone knows about is probably because it had a movie adaptation i agree that movies are more relevant in the mainstream though
Asher Sanders
>blacks were enslaved Blacks enslaved other blacks and sold them to arabs and later on to european jews who bought them and transported them to the americas. Ironically these black slave were treated better in the americas than in africa or the arab world. Africa was always shit before europeans even knew that place existed. Whatever improvement that shithole has even over the past 5 thousand years of recorded history is thanks to europeans.
Isaiah Robinson
>Tolkien meticulously plans his epic story for which he has created entirely new languages for his characters to speak >He focuses on the important themes and makes it a morality play for the modern age >He finally finishes his story and publishes it in three parts >A sequel crosses his mind but he understands that he has told the important part of the story and that anything more would be regressive >A couple of decades later, a hack writer believes he has found inspiration in what Tolkien missed:
You could talk about one of the worst books to come out recently, I don't k ow, 50 shades of gray, or gta5 at the dinner table. Just as a test, do this and see what kind of responses you get to each. In normie company, vidya is for dorks and losers and a think to be mocked and not taken seriously.
Sebastian Hall
Jesus Christ, really?
Carson Edwards
Everyone in this thread is retarded except me.
Luis Kelly
>In normie company, vidya is for dorks and losers and a think to be mocked and not taken seriously. You are so much of a loser that you have no basis on what normies think or act and you're just guessing. You're an N word and your thought is wrong
Landon Gutierrez
yeah except everyone would be talking about the movie, not the book books are irrelevant in the mainstream now, they're just used as free ideas for movies, i can't think of a single book that stands by itself without needing some sort of adaptation to catch on i'm not saying books are bad, im just saying normies don't read
