If you ever do decide to start playing the series, I would start with the FireRed or LeafGreen versions if you have a way to play Game Boy Advance games. (The two games are more or less identical except that a few of the Pokémon that appear in certain areas, differ between the two versions, encouraging players to…

I can't wait for Pokémon Conquest. It's a strategy RPG with Pokémon, and it comes out next Monday. Praise the Lord!

You have a good point. Thanks!

And I can't wait for Connnnnnnnnnnnnquest <3 ♥ ♪

I've read much worse, but I have read better. I don't really care for Martin's extreme excesses in adding more and more characters of little to no consequence to the story. The world feels more than bloated, and the actual conquest plot feels thinly developed beyond, "This character feels he or she deserves the Iron…

I'm not surprised by any of those. Thanks! I am surprised that more people aren't complaining about the child sex in the books, though, or about George's repeated mentions of Daenerys' naked body and breasts in the first book (even if not always in a sexual context, such as at the very end). At least not that I've…

The world of Pokémon is a world where individuals known as Trainers battle wild Pokémon using their own (battles in the animé and games are generally never to the death; defeated Pokémon "faint," which is something along the lines of being too dizzy to continue fighting, and serious internal injuries are not…

Good to know, thanks.

Thanks for the info.

What's with the older ages? Believability of how young they can make the actors look, or something to do with ages of consent (because of the things that happen to some of the children in the story), or what? Oh, and thanks for the info.

Thaaaank you. I need the encouragement. The Sansa (!) chapter earlier was brilliant.

Clash of Kings is the second book. There's *some* action other than tourneys, but tourneys make up most of it. In fairness, the tourneys are condemned in-universe as being wasteful, but they do tend to go on and on.

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Joffrey sounds like he's nearly a decade older as an actor than a character (I'm going by how old he is in Clash of Kings, which is on my lap).

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I don't mind adapting ongoing series if the writer is good about releasing new installments on time (J.K. Rowling). I'm not saying anything about or against George or the series. I'm just commenting.

I am sitting here reading Clash of Kings right now. Renly is holding a tourney for the sake of doing so, and little of interest is happening. Please tell me this gets better.

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I wouldn't have said they were trolling from the headline, but the Kickstarter rewards are too unfunny to be the kind of parody they want to be. I'm not saying I'm taking it seriously; I'm just saying I didn't find it amusing. But I don't know if they're "trolling."