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[greenkoolayd]

I first read that as "you can stay at his house" as in, he's so not tough that you can beat his ass and then make him put you up for the night.

his wife and daughter all cowering in the corner as tears of shame fall down their faces....

[jaydub]

I'm pretty smart - I bet I could figure out how to stream it over the internet.

Says the guy who sniveled over a little command line editing of a vlc script...

I keed, I keed.

[greenkoolayd]

you just got called out, migg.  are you gonna let him get away with that?

[dejavroom]

It did kinda read like the little speech a politician gives at the end of the night when he knows he's probably gonna lose but flabbityflurb.

Coming in late, but it's never too late to say "fuck you".

[Nabubrush]

Says the guy who sniveled over a little command line editing of a vlc script...

I keed, I keed.

CHING-CHONG, WING-WONG

[Turbo Ninja]

I'm just now getting around to reading an article in a recent New Yorker about George RR Martin and the complaints he's been getting for YEARS about the lack of a new Song of Ice and Fire book:

The online attacks on Martin suggest that some readers have a new idea about what an author owes them. They see themselves as customers, not devotees, and they expect prompt, consistent service. Martin, who is sixty-two, told me that Franck calls the disaffected readers the Entitlement Generation: “He thinks they’re all younger people, teens and twenties. And that their generation just wants what they want, and they want it now. If you don’t give it to them, they’re pissed off.”

Sounds familiar, no?

[wombat]

I meant to post that here and somehow forgot. You all should read it, whatever side of this Battle of the Whines you are on, it's great.

[CortJstr]

I refuse to start reading Ice and Fire (or watching Game of Thrones) until the whole series is done. I don't want to be one of those people anxiously/annoyedly awaiting the next book. Then needing to reread the whole series when it finally does come out because I've forgotten what happened.

[theinevitable]

I wonder what gave them the idea they were customers?

[Nabubrush]

I refuse to start reading Ice and Fire (or watching Game of Thrones) until the whole series is done. I don't want to be one of those people anxiously/annoyedly awaiting the next book. Then needing to reread the whole series when it finally does come out because I've forgotten what happened.

I'm this way with Star Wars. Who needs the fuck*ng aggravation?

[pmcd9]

And I still maintain that if you are writing a serial you have an obligation to your readers to finish it. 

[Nabubrush]

And I still maintain that if you are writing a serial you have an obligation to your readers to finish it. 

It's people like you who drove Conan Doyle to believing in fairies.

[smick]

And I still maintain that if you are writing a serial you have an obligation to your readers to finish it. 

Or in the case of Stephen King, and the Dark Tower: fuck*ng knock it off already.  You finished it.  Quit it.  You loon.

[Choop]

GOD those last dark tower books destroyed my enjoyment of the first three. now i hear he's working on another. whatever, i'm done, ain't gonna read it. felcher.

[oball]

And I still maintain that if you are writing a serial you have an obligation to your readers to finish it. 

But unless you have your release schedule announced ahead of time, are you obligated to spend every waking hour working on said serial until it is done?

I'd rather GRRM take the time to write a book he thinks is good enough to release rather than rushing it because the internet wants it yesterday.