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I'm optimistic on Mistborn. Everything about that seems very doable. That will live and die on the casting though, given the tight focus. If they get someone in charge of casting like Nina Gold*, they're well, uh, golden. If on, the other hand, they get the sort of people who have cast a lot of...

I don't think anyone has ever said that here. I mean there's absolutely no question about that. If that's something you're even considering might not be the case I think you must be making some truly bizarre assumptions. D&D books sell many, many times the numbers they did even at the absolute...

I mean, you should read what you quoted. I literally asked if it was a good deal! That wasn't a purely rhetorical question, that was an actual question! I gave my answer and expected others which didn't make up other opinions and assign them to me. My opinion is right there and doesn't need to...

Yeah and I think Stormlight is prima facie evidence of the eternal truth that limitations breed creativity, and removing those limitations can result in something massive and sprawling but not necessarily actually any better. But there's just Mistborn on the table so far and that's a compact...

Absolutely. D&D genuinely did a good job when they were adapting existing material, and whilst I haven't seen 3 Body (or read the book), my understanding is they did a good job adapting that too. Seems like they have poor judgement/instincts with original material, but extant stuff? Good, maybe...

I think it's very genre-dependent, and particularly how trope-heavy shows are, for me. There are lots of shows, maybe the majority of shows, which I could not background-"watch" whilst playing a game or doing housework or easy work or w/e. Any show which is complex or has strong acting or...

Agree re: The Magicians TV show characters for sure. Especially Penny and Alice who irritated me a ton at first. Quentin though never ceased being fist-clenchingly annoying!

I also have severe inattentive ADHD (with some impulsivity) and dislike Actual Plays, but not quite for the same reasons - I've never had difficulty sitting through a movie or listening to a podcast, so long as I'm entertained. But that's the thing. So long as I'm entertained. And that's where...

I mean, it's been a few years, and these are giant ass books written in a rather forgettable style, it's not like Gene Wolfe who is basically writing in flame direct into the memory, but I would say whilst the first book had relatively little of this, only an excessive amount of repetitious...

Bethesda also didn't make FO1 or FO2, nor does anyone who worked on them work at Bethesda, nor indeed has anyone who had a major role in FO1 or FO2 ever had a major role at Bethesda (even if the FO3 and FO4 era), AFAICT, and indeed Bethesda's vision of "what Fallout is" notably rejects FO2's...

I mean, 8Chan already exists. But seriously WoW without moderators would rapidly degrade into just nazi trolls - because any totally unmoderated chat with enough people in it always does. Because nazi trolls have no self-awareness, no self-control, no sense of decency, no sense of decorum, no...

No, I'm not, because it's not saying it's "definitely a bad business decision". That is literally you projecting on to my comment lol. As a business decision, in the sense of getting eyes of Apple TV, it may be a good decision. Or not. We just don't know. What I'm suggesting is that it will...

9 is pretty much the worst-reviewed one (though Famitsu, the most respected Japanese review mag, thought it was pretty close to 8 in overall quality, and I feel like they're the most trustworthy on this particular genre). However for the low, low price of free, and never having played Dynasty...

Daniel Abraham, I think. He's worked closely with GRRM before, I think GRRM is kind of his mentor, and he's written multiple epic series, especially with his collaborator as SA Corey (The Expanse). Tonally he works in a similar space to GRRM, even though I don't anything he's written that I've...

I really doubt that that's the choice being made, though, do you think it is? I think it's much more likely they're giving a certain amount to Apple TV, which can be negotiated a little, but not vastly. I suspect it's more like $700m+ on several seasons of one huge, meaningless, loud TV show...

Yeah it does seem like we're there, but it was a lot of books to get to that point! Personally I think they just need to do a time-skip, (huge spoilers)

I'd personally strongly rate Novik's Uprooted over Spinning Silver. It's got a lot of similar ideas but it executes insanely better on every single one, and is also more unique, and also doesn't have a distractingly insane attempt at apologia for landlords kicking out destitute peasants (one of...

I mean, was there a time when most SF/F books weren't? After the 1970s anyway. Maybe there was a brief window in the 1990s and early 2000s when increasing taste levels combined with more careful use of art so some SF/F books didn't routinely look like the tackiest junk imaginable, but a lot of...

For sure, but that's not really the issue I would suggest. A four-year-old can footle around hitting the easiest monsters (if it's anything but those, they'll be dying a lot, which I doubt they'd enjoy), or monsters made easy because someone else got gear/hearts on the character, and that'll...

I am always interested in excessively long YouTube video essay recommendations! This one has appeared in my YouTube recs before but I ignored it because of the title, but with your recommendation I'll add it to my to-watch.