It’s primarily a liability dodge. It allows the service provider to say that they have filters in place, and it’s not their liability for bad info from users (ie people incorrectly entering their birthdates intentionally or otherwise)

Do people think minors are too dumb to realize they can just enter bullshit information? What is the point of this other than wasting people’s time?

How do I stop it from adding every random sports team that’s ever been mentioned on a page I once visited? At one point I looked up something cricket related and suddenly I was getting scores for basically every single national team.

...but you didn’t hear anything because the sound driver was out of date.

Yeah, it’s only a typo.

I’m sure they have a team of experts dedicated to working on your very specific issue.

This guy’s lawsuit didn’t work out either.

I can’t even imagine the pressure he’s under to deliver these final books. The books already had a pretty rabid fan base before the TV show, but now it’s just enormous. Couple that with his ability to get himself tangled up in his own plots. That’s ultimately why Book 4 and 5 were split up - his so called “Mereneese…

This exactly. Hes lost his muse. I dont blame him at all, either. Hes fabulously rich, well regarded, successful by any measure. What drives him now, I wonder?

Plus, if he dies before he finishes the books, he’ll always be remembered as Some Great Writer. If he finishes them and the last ones suck (as the most recent have), he’ll become a Jeopardy question.

Get off his back, he can do what he wants and us fans will live with it and love it or die bitching. It’s his story, he’s rich now and eveyone can piss off. maybe he’ll never finish it, then good for him. He owes no one nuthin.

This.

I reconciled a long time ago that ASOIAF is George RR Martin’s party he was throwing for himself. We’re all invited, but we should expect nothing.

The dude is 67 and has more money than ever before. He is within 10-15 years of the average life expectancy of an american male and he’s not especially fit. I wouldn’t…

I was all ready to try this but it really cuts into my drinking time.

Because Windows sucks in general and siphons off a good deal of your computer’s power for stupid reasons, but sometimes you want to play Skyrim.

I find that deadlines really help me create quickly. I’m also guilty of procrastination too, haha. So I’ll let you figure out how that combo works for me.

I have a long well thought-out response to this article that I will put together some day soon.