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[AwkwardMD]

@AwkwardlySet The Who and Led Zeppelin are basically the same band, and largely interchangeable.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

@AwkwardlySet The Who and Led Zeppelin are basically the same band, and largely interchangeable.

Why can't I find the Michael Jackson eating popcorn GIF when I need it!

 

[AwkwardlySet]

@AwkwardlySet The Who and Led Zeppelin are basically the same band, and largely interchangeable.

When I want to confuse people, I usually play them the Rock Aid for Armenia version of Smoke On The Water, and then proceed to explain how Brian May, David Gilmour, and Ritchie Blackmore are all guitarists from the same band. It never works these days, mostly cause youngsters have no clue who either of them is.

 

[jsmiam]

From another thread but fits better here…

I've had two dozen PMs with Laurel over 11+ years after maybe three dozen attempts to ask her something, and I bet I'm so far above the average that I might as well be a star in the sky.

Some of us aren’t convinced you aren’t Laurel.

/2…. (Only Half joking.)

 

[AwkwardMD]

From another thread but fits better here…

Some of us aren’t convinced you aren’t Laurel.

/2…. (Only Half joking.)

If I was Laurel, Lafayette Hills would have a green E. It is a thing I want so badly that I petitioned her directly for it, years back.

I understand, though.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

@AwkwardlySet The Who and Led Zeppelin are basically the same band, and largely interchangeable.

Oh God, I wish I was in university again to say this and see how everything devolves into a fist fight!

 

[jsmiam]

If I was Laurel, Lafayette Hills would have a green E. It is a thing I want so badly that I petitioned her directly for it, years back.

I understand, though.

Good cover! ;-)

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Good cover! ;-)

Squirrel!

 

[Areala-chan]

There is no such thing as "epic fantasy". There are only people who have no idea how to get to the fucking point, and editors too timid to tell them, "If you need more than 1,200 pages to tell your story, you're a horrible writer."

 

[StillStunned]

There is no such thing as "epic fantasy". There are only people who have no idea how to get to the fucking point, and editors too timid to tell them, "If you need more than 1,200 pages to tell your story, you're a horrible writer."

As much as The Wheel of Time annoyed me, one thing it did do was create an "epic" feel. The end of the world was coming, and *everybody* was invited.

So often it seems that only a handful of characters are aware, and the rest of the world never know anything about it. It always makes me wonder what would happen if the heroes lost. Would all those other people wake up one morning to an apocalyps, without knowing what caused it or why nobody had stopped it?

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn also had an epic scope, but for me it missed that sense of "the end of the world for everybody".

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

@AwkwardlySet The Who and Led Zeppelin are basically the same band, and largely interchangeable.

I can listen to most of The Who.


Very little Zepp.

 

[TheLobster]

There is no such thing as "epic fantasy". There are only people who have no idea how to get to the fucking point, and editors too timid to tell them, "If you need more than 1,200 pages to tell your story, you're a horrible writer."

Way to dismiss the 1200-page epic fantasy slow burns from the shortsighted PoV of the mere 400-page regular fantasy strokers

 

[Kumquatqueen]

There is no such thing as "epic fantasy". There are only people who have no idea how to get to the fucking point, and editors too timid to tell them, "If you need more than 1,200 pages to tell your story, you're a horrible writer."

There are a few truly epic series, and an awful lot of fantasy authors who just keep on going and publishers who let them, because too many teenage-brained readers think one book was fun, a trilogy will be even better. Or even a trilogy of trilogies (glares at Yet Another Bloody Noun of Shannara...)

Some books deserve to be 1200 pages (Cryptonomicon), others are just 200 pages with a lot of repeats. (cf the difference between 20 years of experience and the same year of experience 20 times...)

 

[SimonDoom]

@AwkwardlySet The Who and Led Zeppelin are basically the same band, and largely interchangeable.

This is an appallingly bad opinion.

Out of my regard for sensible things you have said in the past, I'm going to assume you're kidding.

 

[Britva415]

The year Pearl Jam’s Ten hit the airwaves, for some reason I thought it was just Led Zeppelin songs I hadn’t heard before.

Don’t ask me why - that was also appallingly bad discrimination. I have no idea today what tf I was thinking

 

[ElectricBlue]

The year Pearl Jam’s Ten hit the airwaves, for some reason I thought it was just Led Zeppelin songs I hadn’t heard before.

Don’t ask me why - that was also appallingly bad discrimination. I have no idea today what tf I was thinking

The guitarist who comes closest to Jimmy Page riffs is Jack White, so it was pretty cool seeing that video from several years back with Page, White, and The Edge, swapping riffs.

 

[alohadave]

The year Pearl Jam’s Ten hit the airwaves, for some reason I thought it was just Led Zeppelin songs I hadn’t heard before.

Don’t ask me why - that was also appallingly bad discrimination. I have no idea today what tf I was thinking

I had something similar the first time I saw Wanna Be by Spice Girls on MTV. For some reason I thought it was an older song that they were playing and I hadn't heard it on the radio yet, so I had no reason to think it was a new song.

 

[StillStunned]

There are a few truly epic series, and an awful lot of fantasy authors who just keep on going and publishers who let them, because too many teenage-brained readers think one book was fun, a trilogy will be even better. Or even a trilogy of trilogies (glares at Yet Another Bloody Noun of Shannara...)

Some books deserve to be 1200 pages (Cryptonomicon), others are just 200 pages with a lot of repeats. (cf the difference between 20 years of experience and the same year of experience 20 times...)

Sometimes shallow writing makes it easier to keep reading. I've read what feels like dozens of Raymond Feist's Midkemia books, and most of them twice or more. But I lost interest in Terry Pratchett around Night Watch, and I don't think I've read or reread anything by him since then.

As annoying as Feist can be - "The noun verbed" to start every single chapter, Aeris and Bob, and the fact that you can almost hear the dice and character sheets in the background - he makes for much lighter reading than Discworld, which despite its humour and ridiculousness got pretty heavy-handed on the humanist morality.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Sometimes shallow writing makes it easier to keep reading.

Fair point - light reading is an easy pleasure. Though some easy reads are good, some are repetitive crap.

Discworld, which despite its humour and ridiculousness got pretty heavy-handed on the humanist morality.

OK, that's a controversial opinion I've not even heard before.

 

[StillStunned]

Fair point - light reading is an easy pleasure. Though some easy reads are good, some are repetitive crap.


OK, that's a controversial opinion I've not even heard before.

I must have started reading Discworld not long after "The Colour of Magic" was first published. My entire family were massive fans, for the entire run. My opinion still meets with blank stares.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I can listen to most of The Who.


Very little Zepp.

Not big on the Stones either.

They have a FEW good tracks.

 

[Off_base]

As a survivor of a violent attack, I carry a firearm and know how to use it, and think more women should do the same.
Today is the third anniversary of the attack, so it's on my mind.

 

[Erozetta]

As a survivor of a violent attack, I carry a firearm and know how to use it, and think more women should do the same.
Today is the third anniversary of the attack, so it's on my mind.

A controversial opinion off of this:

Not everyone can or should carry a firearm and people should be aware of their own limitations as well as the limitations of others.

I cannot even touch a firearm. Being in the vicinity of one makes me deeply uncomfortable because intrusive thoughts take over and I simply don't trust myself with my own safety while handling or being near one.

 

[iwatchus]

A controversial opinion off of this:

Not everyone can or should carry a firearm and people should be aware of their own limitations as well as the limitations of others.

I cannot even touch a firearm. Being in the vicinity of one makes me deeply uncomfortable because intrusive thoughts take over and I simply don't trust myself with my own safety while handling or being near one.

Like you, I do not trust my inner demons enough to let me have access to a gun. I do not think I would be here today if I had had access to one.

 

[onehitwanda]

Controversial opinion - I like living in a country where it is almost impossible to come into contact with firearms.