Off topic but related to the “it’s not fantasy if there aren’t British accents”

What gun-owning guy needs to consider is that displaying a weapon is automatically going to make any encounter you have seem creepy and threatening. Imagine any of the below scenarios with a gun added into the mix:

I read somewhere (or maybe a drunk person at a bar told me) that fantasy directors and writers have an easier time working with English actors, because they’re used to saying weird shit anyway. Like, look at your stereotypical fantasy British actor: they probably are famous for being a Shakespearean actor who went to…

and seems to be a decent person

The GoT actors sound British because most of the GoT actors *are* British, or at least from somewhere closeby. They do all the filming in Europe, Ireland most of all, so it’s just more convenient for the actors and the directors to get actors from Europe. Plus, yeah, the show is loosely based on actual British history…

I think there’s a lot of people who would take re-animated Andrew Jackson as president over Trump, and he was a definite racist who owned a parrot that spoke so foul that it got kicked out of his funeral.

I would retire and move to a private island within 48 hours. If I woke up suddenly a billionaire, my sloth would go up by a million percent, I don’t care how naturally gifted of an athlete I am. You would never see me again.

You know nothin’, Jon Snow, don’cha know.

I would like the Lannisters to have Boston accents.

The Nort Remembers

I think I would effectively destroy LeBron’s brand in 36 hours, wouldn’t even need to step onto the basketball court before the world has decided it was done with bron-bron.

Now I kind of want to watch GoT where all the actors have Minnesota accents.

Game of Thrones is also based on the War of the Roses (the historical event, not the Michael Douglas film), so British accents are further warranted

I recently went down to NYC this weekend with my girlfriend

Good Writing: “I watched all the Star Trek Series”

I was listening to a podcast a while back, and one of the guys posited this idea of the “idiot detective,” where our brains get so excited that we recognize something that we don’t really care if it makes logical sense to be there or if it adds anything substantial to the plot, because we’re so excited that we make…

This was, hands down, one of the worst books written in the last ten years, and the film rights sold before the book was done. It’s nothing but regurgitating references without having them truly connect in any meaningful way. It was just “hey remember Zork, remember this, remember that” ad nauseam.

Hollywood loves movies about making movies. Journalists love journalism about journalists. Youtube rant people love youtube rants about youtube rant people.

Ready Player One is fanfiction about fanfiction authors.

I’m exactly Cline’s age and played with 90% of the toys/games he vomited up in that tome, and I was overcome with self-loathing around the book’s 4th list of entertainment detritus. It was like 459 pointless Family Guy references, but without laughs. Or exactly like 459 pointless Family Guy references.

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