Review And Book Review He Did

[poocolator]

Bob cringed, nonplussed, as angry red blood leaked from his hemorrhoids.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

I smell a meme.

 

[Chefe]

aaaaaaaand you just killed it.

 

[poocolator]

Rest in peace, proto-meme.

 

[nomask7]

Modelling your fantasy lands on historical ones isn't difficult. Trust me. It's just so stupid that most fantasy writers don't do it explicitly. They don't want to admit that they didn't have enough imagination to come up with something of their own.

This is interesting, because you've actually got no idea. What a silly statement, no offense.

It would be much more difficult for me to make a list of fantasy novels whose settings are obviously modelled after historical periods and locations than to make a list of those with genuinely invented settings, because there are so many of the former and so few of the latter. Most likely everything you have read was in some way inspired by history, either directly or indirectly through some other fiction writer. Hobb's and G.R.R. Martin's popular series are just the most prominent examples, where the authors themselves have admitted they had to rip off history to come up with anything (Hobb admitted this embarrassedly after being asked about it at her newsgroup some years ago).

There is the related fact that creating something out of nothing is impossible. The more straightforward your pillaging of history, the easier for you. If you think it's the other way around, no one is stopping you from trying to create something for once instead of just flapping your lips.

Still, I'm curious, is there anything you know about this subject you say you have such great new ideas about?

 

[poocolator]

Heh... you actually responded.
Don't worry, I'm sure that all of the venerable people at RPGCodex don't doubt your amazing literary prowess... or your ability to discuss topics such as "herd mentality," or whichever droll topic, in however droll a fashion, people such as yourself tend to discuss, naturally, to make themselves feel superior.

 

[bat_boro]

What were you two arguing about again?

 

[poocolator]

No idea. I'm just doing it now for the fun.

 

[DefJam101]

 

[Elzair]

Do you know what this book needs more of? Cheese!

I liek teh cheeze!!1!

 

[poocolator]

What kind of bovine would you get were you to cross DefJam and Elzair?

Discuss!!
Discuss!!!

 

[DefJam101]

 

[kris]

Heh... you actually responded.
Don't worry, I'm sure that all of the venerable people at RPGCodex don't doubt your amazing literary prowess... or your ability to discuss topics such as "herd mentality," or whichever droll topic, in however droll a fashion, people such as yourself tend to discuss, naturally, to make themselves feel superior.

However little I like nomask I can still only say I agree with him on that post wholeheartedly.

 

[poocolator]

Me too, that's why I troll him repeatedly.

 

[Elzair]

Here is the love interest!

WTF?! Why do sculptors ache for chins?

 

[Elzair]

Here is Maric's rebel army.

Why would the nobles abandon their lands for this douchebag?

 

[Elzair]

Here is the second description of a battle.

Goodness, Gracious! Great Ball of Fire!

 

[Elzair]

We now meet the 'bad guys' for the first time. Meghran is the usurper-king; Severan is his mage advisor.

No, the definition of insanity is continuing to read this book expecting it to actually get good!

 

[Elzair]

I must admit that it is nice to see the hardships of a rebellion described in a realistic way.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

Steal decent camera from someone will you? Can read only half of page sometimes.

 

[poocolator]

I think we should give Elzair an award for suffering this.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

A good camera would be appropriate.

Nice phone btw.

 

[Elzair]

A good camera would be appropriate.

Nice phone btw.

Thanks! I like it too!

BTW, how did you know I was using a Blackberry Curve? Does the goddamn phone encode metadata in the image?! I really hate it when electronic devices do that. What else does it encode?

 

[Elzair]

I think we should give Elzair an award for suffering this.

Thanks, but when I was younger I read much worse. The Elminster novels and the Baldur's Gate novels come to mind.

I know the writing can be quite shitty, but, despite my best efforts, this novel is actually making me look forward to Dragon Age.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

BTW, how did you know I was using a Blackberry Curve? Does the goddamn phone encode metadata in the image?! I really hate it when electronic devices do that. What else does it encode?

Most today cameras/phones/other encode metadata into the imagine. My 3 years old Sony DSC-S90 also does that. BTW, Photoshop if used likes to point out by adding or overriding it with it's own data (usually which version of the program is used).

I can easily look it up by using Opera (right click on the pic and choose "Properties"), it gives me something like this:

In polish of course. For my own info - is the time/data that of the time when you made it (phones time of course)?