Gina Cerano is already waiting by the phone... (in costume, weirdly)

Nie... *ahem No. That is not true. I am fat lazy western capitalist gamer here to talk about video game and how much I like coca-cola and to argue over weapon specification in modern war game simulator.

Weird hill to die on, but okay...

If you’re going to leak your employers confidential information, maybe at least try to cover your tracks, even just a little.

It’s gutsy not putting LttP at #1.

That’s not technically true...

I mean, you may disagree that it should be that way, but nothing Green said was wrong.

Okay, how amazing would it be if sing-offs replaced street brawling as the go-to method of settling disputes amongst football hooligans?

This movie was everything I wanted it to be and taking my four year old to see it was a magical experience that I will remember forever.

So much this man. I took my four year old to see this yesterday and it was just a magical moment for both of us.

Yeah man, it was my four year old’s first movie in the theater.  He had a blast, and so did I!

When the owners of the swanky apt. Mario and Luigi are working on are downstairs, one of them is reading a magazine called “Galaxy” with a very familiar looking planet on the front.

I don’t think any of us expected him to say that...

Some good choices, a few I would disagree with, but I will say that you have taken on a nigh impossible task here.

Just to clarify, since I’m too late to edit, I should have said Martin managed to avoid “many” of the tropes prevalent in other fantasy of the era. Obviously he didn’t avoid them “all”. He just avoided the ones I was specifically thinking about.

Haha, yep.  It’s funny how as a teenager, you’re so quick to equate edginess with maturity, when it’s often so far from it.

Definitely. I probably wouldn’t defend any of the authors I posted above (with the exception of Tolkien) as great literature now. Looking back at them now, you can see how reliant they all were on the various tropes of the monomyth, various maguffins, “magic” as deus-ex machina, etc.(also some questionable politics,…

I wouldn’t disagree with your comments re. Goodkind now. But keep in mind I was like.. 12? I’m just saying that those authors at least had the trappings of maturity, where you could look at it (at least from the perspective of a 12 year old) and say, “this is serious fantasy for adults, why would I want to read…

I suspect we are of a similar age where, for those of us who were fairly literary as kids, Harry Potter felt a bit juvenile. By the time Harry Potter came out, I was a big fan of JRR Tolkien, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, etc. and Rowling definitely had the air of “Fantasy for Kids.” And of course being…