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Daima jumped the shark on the show. It's nothing like anything Toriyama did and definitely feels much more like the new guy. I don't even want to know his name. It's all fanfiction what he does. If he does super the same way he does Daima You and I won't be the only two people not a fan of the show anymore.

He doesn't know how to write any story arcs and he has sapped the entire soul of Dragon Ball Out of the series for fan service moments. Not to mention completely retconning everything after DBZ. Without any explanation either! There should have been a memory wipe after that show.

If he sticks to the source material which is the same problem we have with Game of thrones then we might get one last good arc. After that I really don't have much hope for the franchise. Besides the voice actors are all getting old and it's about time to put this thing to rest anyway. All good things must come to an end.

Under 1st TV show.. Its just Star Trek. You don't put The Original Series there. Thats just an online designation for us to distinguish via chat. When naming the show its Star Trek. There is only 1. You call it by its proper name.

Kenshi is the best game ever just about. If it was made a bit better (polished) i would call it flawless. The fact that the AI is stupid at times & things can get out of hand because you are constantly waiting on someone's arm to heal before you can move forward is frustrating. Im hoping Kenshi 2 comes out & keeps the simplistic view with a slight makeover & smartens the AI & speeds the healing so that I can play instead of WATCH the game 75% of the time.

If they did that it would be everything Ive been waiting for in a game for 30 years. The absolute pinnacle of gaming. There's literally almost nothing you cant do on that game. Its as free an open a world as you can get. Nothing comes close.

Meanwhile StarCraft 2 isnt even as good as StarCraft 1 Broodwar. That game is still the BEST EVER RTS ever created. I spent 100 hrs/week for 3 years playing it. I ran a league online. I played from the Shareware version (SharewareMasters clan! - we were pretty famous) to 2005 or so & had accounts of 1060-63-103 type records. People knew when -=SWM=-Pulsar=- &

-=SWM=-Joker=- caught you in a 2v2 fight it was a 99% chance you were losing! I invented the 4 minute zealot rush that took out thousands of opponents. The vulture rush which only the best could counter.

StarCraft 2 was trash & ran on the same system as Warcraft 3. It was clunky & ugly & didnt feel right. The UI was also the same. Bulky & slow. Gone were the customized maps like Lurker or Sunken D. They never should have changed what made it work.

I read the books between season 5 & 6 because I started GoT late & when I binged to catch up to everyone else I wanted to also read the books hoping to be ready for "all the cool theories" that might happen in the show (which of course NONE did!).

I must have spent 500 hours on YouTube watching videos about GoT theories & side characters etc. I was in DEEP. It was a fun exciting time that I hadn't felt since LOST was all the internet rage for TV nerds. (At least that show nailed its ending - for people who took the time to learn the show properly). I never expected Id still be waiting to this day. As to your comment which was probably sarcasm -

Victorian Greyjoy is currently sailing towards the ancient remains of Valyria. He has the dragonbinder with him. He is the ultimate wildcard just like Lady Stoneheart & you'd think he could easily write their stories to the end. Tyrion shouldn't be hard. Young Griff shouldn't be hard. He HAS to know what Dany is going to do. Arya etc. So just do them. Its all these minor characters hes confused about. The Faceless man in the Citadel - the Grand Northern Conspiracy, Everything around Kings Landing - which he could solve with some mass killings, Robs will, I mean if he wrote it he has to have had an idea where he was going. He's changing everything. Cant even imagine how Dorne is going to play out. Thats the only reasonable explanation. He should just kill lots of people, simplify the plot & move it forward.

Honestly if you haven't read the books I really don't think that you should have an opinion on this. You don't know what it's like and you don't really understand the difference between the books and the show not to mention how it affected GRRM.

If you had read the books you would understand why it's so hard for him to move forward. The plot is called the Mereense Knot for a reason. At this point most fans could finish the books is a few weeks. We've been coming up with correct theories to his stuff for decades. He's mad that the show flopped at the end. He feels he has to change it & he went so far down the road he doesnt know how to go back & get out, & even if that wasn't the case - he was already in trouble. The book was already delayed nearly 10 years BEFORE the show flopped. Proving he wrote himself into a corner. Now he's tied TWO knots & cant get out.

His comments on his page count prove this. He has repeatedly said he had 1100, then wrote "hundreds more" & then said he wrote "many new Chapters" but then said he was still at 1100 pages. So that means he deleted what he wrote. This isnt a case of "just let him cook." He is in his own head & just needs to put out the 1200 he has & be done with it, get the response from fans & then go from there because its obvious he listens to them way too much.

A better writer would have just wrote what he wanted & been done with it.

House of the Dragon did not learn from Game of thrones and they decided to change the material as well. These shows never learn. After all of the bad will that was created you would have thought that they would have stuck to the game plan to regain the loyalty of the fans. Instead we got a great first season and then season 2 was basically as good as season 7 of Game of thrones. They are going downhill fast and unless they stop playing games I don't see how we aren't going to end up with two absolute disasters. If that happens Dunk and Egg won't pull in the numbers they need and you can forget about his universe getting any more shows for a while.

Its moved way past that. The fans are CLEARLY in the right here. GRRM seems to be openly mocking them at every turn. The disrespect. The lies, the backtracking, the It's halfway done, I've written 300 more pages, I'm at 1100 pages, is 3/4 done, it's still at 1100 pages, it'll be done by next year, get somehow it keeps losing pages?

But wait I have time to do seven pilots, two new shows, and a ton more novels on the side. I have all this free time to travel the world and even COVID to help me but I couldn't squeeze out 200 more pages. I tell the world it's going to be a 1500 page book but I've been at 1100 pages forever. Since 2020 he has it written a single page. Either that or he's written and destroyed them all multiple times over. He needs to pick a lane, stay in it, & do the JOB He was hired and paid to do. Remember he got an advance on that book. He got a TV show based off of that book. And the one after it. He thinks he's going to die without having to do the work he was paid for.

Does that sound honest and legitimate to you? You think the fans are out of line?

Exactly. Put out ANYTHING you have & then worry about cleaning up the mess in the next book but at LEAST get the monkey off your back. He doesnt realize how much pressure that will take off him.

He has killed any goodwill he may have had. Even if the book comes out, it wont sell. Then he will be upset about that & refuse to write the ending.

GRRM: "Oh woe is me I procrastinated 21 years on these 1400 pages & now anyone who wanted to read them has grow up, had a family, grandkids, & moved on. They've abandoned me! I never should have done that damned show! I told them it couldn't be made into TV! I'm an old man now, A Dream of Spring will remain just that... A Dream. Ohhh you sweet summer children. Winter came but you weren't ready!"

I haven't played any of these except Stellaris & Alpha Centauri. Which I kind of feel should have made the list. Especially over civilization? I've tried Eve but you really can't do anything on there. It's too combat heavy and not enough everything else.

Some of these look like they could be close to Stellaris but then that's the thing. Are they basically the same game? If they are why do I need three of them? You did zero job with the pictures showing how these games are played nor did you explain any of their differences in the article. You just made the laziest top 10 list you can find and through whatever the first five pictures were that you could find.

Some of them are just stock photos. Probably taken from a cinematic scene in a game. They show me nothing of how the game works. This is not how you get people into gaming.

So the Starbucks cup in GoT was a production error too... That's canon now to you? You really think Westeros has a Starbucks now? 🤣 Every other show with every other mistake also is canon now? I hate to tell you that's not the way the world works. Go through all of the errors on TV and you will see none of them are actual canon

A Dream of Spring will take 35 years. Not really. As plot points get resolved you have less to work with. It's a reverse snowball effect. I assume SOME of what's in this book will get pushed to the next & then as people die, & he has less characters & locations to deal with the next book should gain steam. The first half will go slow & the middle fast, but the very end he might waiver a bit... & Then decide. F it. I'm done. This is as good as it gets & then send it. So I expect 5-7 years on ADoS. He HAS to finish this one soon because I don't know if he has that long.

I truly hope he has copious notes & doesn't trash he alternate theories he throws to the side. He says he uses an old computer/program to write & that may cause memory issues but text files aren't huge. Theres a chance he has THOUSANDS of files all over the place on DVDs or floppy drives. Who knows.

Crusader Kings 2 is still better than 3. But keep sniffing the Kool Aid. We aren't moving. I have 7400+ hours on CK2 & I'm STILL doing new things.

Stellaris is solid. But Paradox hits hard with the DLC costs. I just happen to have all the CK2 DLCs. It's going to be a while before I get all of Stellaris so I don't place Stellaris as often until the price comes down. It's MUCH more Multiplayer friendly though.

Civ 7? No thanks. The other ones are far superior... Going back to Alpha Centauri.

I'm still playing CK2 & loving it. I'm well over 5000 hours in & have yet to do everything on it. These games are so deep there is no need to upgrade for 10 years.

I don't see myself getting CK3 until it's $5. The DLC adds up. Getting all the DLC on CK2 (and Stellaris - as Paradox games usually drop 20 of them) means that you have to get Steam codes for sale at $5 each & still drop $75 or more.

I still have half my friends on CK2... Not CK3. Most haven't converted yet because 2 is superior to 3. I wouldn't go yet. Price, DLC, future content, & Paradox's style of releasing too many DLCs all prevents but the richest of people from transferring over ASAP.

Hard pass.