The only relevant part is this:
The only relevant part is this:
That’s a stretch. What percentage of military personnel have been in a Humvee? What percentage of gamers have played Call of Duty. Humvees are a fixture of military hardware. Call of Duty isn’t. It’d be more like a character using an Xbox controller or a computer using Windows as the OS in a movie. Those are fixtures.…
Maybe not but the wording seems to imply that the game made that much money because they used Humvees which is clearly untrue.
have made billions of dollars by using AM General’s iconic HUMVEE® military vehicle and its distinctive trade dress
First: I want netting. Period.
Second: Until that happens, adults need to stop bringing kids into those sections.
Fully admit that I don’t want to look through a fucking net. Now your turn to fully admit that “you won’t even notice it’s there” is utter bullshit. The only time you don’t notice the net is when you get up to go to the concession stand or restroom and look the opposite direction.
I mean I guess. People paid money to him for his books with the promise of a complete series. I would wager that if he had told people that he would lose interest with two books left and start on other business ventures that the amount of people that would have started the series and given him money would be fewer. I…
I feel like there is probably some middle ground between:
What a luke-warm take...
I think as a reader when you commit to a series you have a fair expectation that the author will make a valid effort to complete it. We all understand that it is not always possible. For example, Robert Jordan died before he could finish the Wheel of Time. GRRM has had 8 years since A Dance with Dragons came out…
Yes and no, and jesus these “GRRM isn’t your bitch” comments are getting as tiresome as the people joking about how he needs to finish the books before he dies.
Just MHO...the whole “dancing monkey” defense, so to speak, would be a lot easier to swallow if it wasn’t for the 1) the implicit promise of completion that starting a series incurs, and 2) active hyping and promising of impending (or even eventual) product.
The more the continuation or completion of a project is hyped…
2015's obnoxious trend: people complaining that he should just be working on the book.
Your comment is just as common as the complaints now. People invested themselves in the book series, they are allowed to be discouraged too. You are correct, he doesn’t owe us anything, that doesn’t mean fans of the book aren’t allowed to vocalize (commentize?) their discontent. GRRM was adament the show wouldn’t…
That ending was as bad as the Battlestar Galactica ending
Right, next he’ll be complaining about the lost art of sending someone a letter.
Name an issue, any issue. I’m trying to think of a single Republican-advanced issue that polls higher than 50%.
The level of annoying coincidences just continues to grow. Apparently the ships were able to hide from not only the fleet, but also the dragons soaring a few hundred feet above? And not only where they able to hide, but then they were able to swing around the coast, aim their magic crossbows that don’t lose speed and…
To be fair, between losing no speed over distance (well over a mile) and coming from completely different angles (even though the ships were all in the same place) the scorpion bolts defiance over the laws of space and physics were probably not on Dany’s mind?
(I mean I know they’re shooting at magical creatures)
Also,…