...being a buzzkill.

We’re going to have surges like this every year from now on. This is never going away.

Your entire attitude is basically "fuck you, I'll do whatever you want, you're all small brained idiots". You seem to be ULTRA aggressively against, like, being mildly unconvinced, and tremendously selfish, to the point of really, really wanting to put down others who, like, just want a pandemic to be over with and…

You (and everyone else) should consider dismissing Jack Davidson’s replies. They’re a single purpose troll account whose only comments are trying to bait argument about pandemic restrictions. It’s not a good faith account, it’s just noise.

You’re playing a lottery that could get you or others sick and possibly dead. You can downplay the dozens out of ten thousand all you want, but even if only a single person out of ten thousand dies, that’s unacceptable. Your take is cynical to say the least.

It is hard not to react to posts like this with pure rage, because people with your attitude have basically stolen two years of my life at this point. The USA has the highest number of infections and the highest number of deaths in the entire world, and we’re close to the highest number of deaths per capita. Yes, we…

That came out wrong. At this point people need to accept the fact they aren’t going to get a satisfying conclusion. GRRM not finishing it is likely the best outcome and people’s complaints only drive him away from deciding to conclude it. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point on the part of the fanbase. The…

The thing is he’s under no obligation to finish it. The internet masses really just need to deal with thier own entitlement to have a conclusion, let alone a satisfying one.

I’m starting to see why that dude has never finished his own magnum opus. He missed the part where writing is a paying job, instead of For The Sake Of Art and not tainted with grubby commerce.

I 100% agree that everyone should have their basic human dignity respected. No one should be receiving vitriol, period, for not having released another book yet. That’s absurd.

Nothing says I love you like insults and threats.

Whoa, you mean we’re writing right now? I didn’t see it until now. I take it back—you are a writer! And so am I! And given the evidence on hand I’m a much better writer than you!

Look, I’m not trying to be a hard-nosed cynic. Pointing out the uneasy relationship between art and capitalism isn’t the same as saying that everyone’s motives are purely selfish and that all art under capitalism is irredeemably compromised. Martin’s a great writer and his (first three, anyway) books are great art!…

I’m not angry at GRRM. It is fair to say I rarely think of him when unprompted to do so. And the man has the right to write or not-write anything he wants.

I’m pretty sure GRRM is rooting for himself to not have to finish it either. He’s trying to run out the clock on his mortality that way he doesn’t have to create an ending that will never satisfy the fanbase. 

Agreed.

Now, video games are not really my thing — oh, I played a few back in the dawn of time, mainly strategy games

If you read what he’s already released of Winds, and take broad story beats from the show, you can pretty much piece together the remaining two books, anyway. Obviously it deviated majorly from his writing after season 4, but there’s enough there to extrapolate, and Martin has indicated that everything in the books is…

A massive influx of another race though, that would be not just appropriate to address but also cool.

You could argue, lore-wise, that a primarily white area that might mostly be expected to skew white, should you put a lot of black characters in there suddenly might not make sense and would be quite jarring. This definitely seems like a genuine design/lore issue to me.