Someone must really hate Verbatim's tastes

i made the account

i use it to dislike posts
so when you check to see who liked one of your posts, you'll see, "Verbatim dislikes this." instead

it's just my workaround over the fact that there's no dislike button

I wasn't talking to you.

I dunno if locking the other thread was necessary.

I use it to dislike posts. Duh.

You should make a thread stating everything you hate, so all of us can be informed.

i would, except there's a 10,000 character limit

cut your mouth off

flip upside down

tape back to your face

I'm playing the HD collection.

There's a lot of... little problems with it, unfortunately. As is the case with most of these ports.

Because I love the things that you hate, thus you hate the things I love and so on and so on. Yin and yang.

but that's just the question in statement form :/

Because we're all special unique snowflakes

that's what i'm asking, though

like, why

theres a happy medium you could reach though. there are some short novellas set in the world you could read.
The Hedge Knight
The Sworn Sword
The Mystery Knight

The Rogue Prince
The Princess and the Queen


and then there's a 288 page "history" called The World of Ice and Fire, with a lot of gorgeous original illustrations like this one

Spoiler

maybe

thanks for letting me know

Look man, you clearly don't want to read it, and no amount of arguing about character depth or realistic plot movement is going to convince you otherwise. Just add this to the list of things you vilify without actually experiencing.

it's important that i know precisely what i'm getting into before i get into it

let's not imply that it's a bad thing to gather some preliminary facts about a series and then surmise that i probably wouldn't enjoy it based on those facts, despite the fact that everyone else seems to

i just don't see how you can justify a story not wrapping itself up as soon as possible

unless you're seriously trying to say that "every paragraph has a purpose"
which is the most ingratiating thing i've ever heard

every paragraph may have a "purpose", but that doesn't mean it's necessary

you're basically calling him perfect, and that's just kinda... laughable
you REALLY think the entire series is exactly how it needs to be?

its not just about "oh i care for this guy now, story over GG nice," thats silly.

that's not what i said, though

like, at all

well i'm not just gonna start loving shit so that i don't suffer

that would be silly

and i mean, if youre really that put off by the prospect of a long book, this isnt for you. you need to have a proper attention span to really enjoy this series. its not for everyone.

i mean, i've read long books before, and what tends to kill them is that i just lose interest in them after awhile

i don't think it's an attention span thing as much as its my own perception of, "oh, i'm being manipulated into caring about these people, instead of genuinely caring about them"--at that point, i stop, because it's a waste of my time

As for being able to tell the story in a single book, well yeah you could tell the entire plot in a shorter period, but the books are really about getting inside the characters and making them real and believable; you can't do that, while including incredibly complex political struggles, in a single novel.

not if you're a good writer

just sayin