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we're so back edition ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/ Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/ So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/ Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/ SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy General search: http://searcherr.work/ TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters old: >>25561213⬆↩ 19

>threads can't even reach bump limit anymore What went wrong?+

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>>25581657 Dany should have died, Viserys should have lived Same with Sansa and Robb Idk if I am a misogynist+ 1

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>>25583699 Viserys is a retard and would have been shanked within five seconds without Dany tardwrangling him around the Dothraki. Even with her tardwrangling he still got himself killed. Even assuming he survived the Dothraki through some miracle while Dany didn't, he'd have been offed in Qarth, either by the Thirteen or Varys and Illyrio who would never suffer a rival claimant to fAegon.+

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It was not the right call.+

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Gay Reaper Edition Previous >>25605115⬆↩ 19

>>25607449 Are almost all Family gatherings a humiliation ritual and dick measuring contest? In my experience, family gatherings follow a predictable pattern. Relatives consistently engage in conflict and disagreement, frequently showcase their recent purchases(house,boat, car, watch, gold etc), highlight their children's and nieces' exceptional beauty and accomplishments, recount travel experiences, emphasize their multilingual abilities and muh fucking politics. We meet a couple of times per…+ 1

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>>25607495 All my family is either dead or lives across the ocean, I couldn't tell you.+

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>>25607550 i wish there wasn't an ocean between me and whatever is on the other side of the ocean+

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I had a mental breakdown years ago and broke my phone and deleted all my social media accounts. My 'friends' from childhood of 10+ years - who all knew where I live and had visited regularly - never bothered to try to contact or visit me, and we have never talked since.+

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I don't really get evolution. I mean I read this book, very interesting, but I don't really understand why every animal isn't intelligent. It seems like the most useful trait by far and one that would be easily selected for since smarter creatures would have a better survival rate. Random mutations of things like air-breathing lungs and wings would be way harder to select for. Let's talk wings for a second. Birds come from reptiles, I can buy that. But an animal can only fly if it has a lot goi…⬆↩ 18

>>25582683 You've demonstrated a total lack of understanding of the mechanism at play. There is no agent thinking "wow, it would be great if we developed intelligence". The only pathway is if one generation has more and less intelligent members and the more intelligent ones have a survival/reproduction edge. And as others have mentioned, most species go through periods of time when food is scarce, and having a complex brain is resource intensive, meaning you starve to death quicker if you have…+ 1

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>>25582834 >You've demonstrated a total lack of understanding of the mechanism at play. Natural selection is an imaginary abstraction that is tautological by the nature of its inception, so you tell me.+

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>>25582906 > Intelligence is incredibly energetically expensive Can it be quantified somehow, how expensive it is? Why is it more expensive than a pair of wings or whatever?+ 1

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>>25582923 >Can it be quantified somehow, how expensive it is? Yeah, we literally quantify it in calories. Nervous tissue is fucking expensive to upkeep, and it's working 24/7, even when you're sleeping. Bigger brains are made up of more nervous tissue, and more complex brains require more calories to feed them. A pair of wings however aren't burning very much energy when you're not using them, because wings are just muscle tissue connected to bone. Studies have been done on selecting for intel…+

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What's so great about being alive?+

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>>25609828 I read these posts like I'm in a library filled with my very best friends. Each one sitting at a desk or sprawled on a couch or leaning dramatically against a window beside a stack of books that mimes their influences. Most of it is smut, but that Burroughs drug guy is one of my favorites, as is that kind but condescending guy who always gives nonchalant and poignant advice. The randoms are just ghosts of the others, floating about touching this book and that one, trying to remember…+

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>>25609872 >>25609863 Let me rephrase, the hyperbolic insulting one who promptly backs off when there is a real issue. There are a few, you both are correct, but the pugnacious one makes me laugh. He thinks he's such a baddie.+

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>>25609909 Better question, who are your favorite anons?+

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moat cailin edition ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/ Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/ So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/ Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/ SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy General search: http://searcherr.work/ TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters old:⬆↩ 10

Stannis! Stannis! Stannis!+

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STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANIS+

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Hey anons quick question, there's a bunch of greasy black stone objects (sea-stone chair), forts (Moat Cailin), cities (Yeen, Asshai) that pre-date Valyria, the people who westerois scholars wrongly think must of built all the black stone stuff, and probably the Long Night too. What are the structures made from FUSED black stone that pre-date Valyria/the Long Night? It seems to me to just be the Five Forts and the base of the High Tower. Are there others? Very telling to me if not. I think the…+

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I am always disappointed to see this general still gets posted⬆↩ 5

Then hide the thread and let the people who want to be here post in peace.+

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do you think?+

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This is as 4chan as it gets b, we aint got no structure or rules here. Ain't no wrong, aint no right. Just thoughts put into writing. Having said that, I dont care much for the assortment of rabble that has gathered here lately.+

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Last thread I couldnt help but notice we have some aspiring philosophers in our midst, so as the resident epistemological mechanic I hereby extend an open invitation to anyone looking to partake in some friendly discourse to pass the time. Mostly because I can't sleep, and I am too tired to properly focus⬆↩ 2

Sure. What do you want to talk about?+ 2

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I'm more of a pong to another persons ping honestly+ 1

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Fair, I'm also drunk, but I'm more of a semiotics, political theory, and art history sort of guy. Any recommended authors I should read from an epistemological perspective? I've always been more of a pragmatic sort of guy after going through the mandatory neo-platonist phase, but Camus and Kierkegaard are the last two guys to really jingle my johnies, and I'm always looking for new stuff to read. Maybe Spinoza again, but goddamn the axiomatic style of writing reminds me of grotius and fills me with dread.+

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"The search for happiness is finding your purpose through harmony of your material and intellectual powers." What is it with philosophers using way too many words to communicate simple ideas+ 4

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You're preaching to the choir babe, but to be fair, in this situation Polo, being a fan of Aquinas, is trying to map the thomistic hierarchy towards God unto the human consciousness. I'm sure he would argue that "Harmony of your material and intellectual powers" can only be achieved through aligning yourself with your transcendent existence.+ 3

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Hello philosophy-sama. I am a lowly post-modern existential faggot, am I just cooked?+ 2

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>am I just cooked? Well... It doesnt bode well :/ But fret not dear one, for hope is ever abound. One line of reasoning to lure you out of this bottomless pit could be that your mind simply attaches meaning to the world around it, even the label "no-meaning" thrown around by the post-modern existential faggots has been attached meaning. However if you simply recall the days where you still were a child, with a mind yet untainted by the pollution around it, carefree and joyful, you will realize abandoning labels could be a first step towards a blossoming mind.+ 1

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But meaning is relativistic in that context. I can ceed that there is ordinal meaning beyond what I know in what we share together, but there is no way I can ever understand anything beyond that. Even if truth exists, I dont think a mortal being can ever know it based on two limitations: they're stuck temporally, and they're stuck geographically. So, because meaning can shift over time as context changes, it cannot be known totally by something that wasnt around since the beginning, and since it can vary with distance, it cany be known by something in one place at once. I reconcile this aspirationally: I do good because I want to, and it's productive to the shared experience I can verify as being beyond my own subjectivity. I also function in a sort of continuous improvement model where I adapt new heuristics as they become applicable. But, as you can probably guess, it'd be nice to care about something for a real made up reason rather than because I'm spiteful due to the absence of a reason.+

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Wouldn't it be fun to rewrite these removing all first person reference, and transform it into a non-egotistical religious text?⬆↩ 3

Or, just stick entirely to the collective third person. Why 'you' or 'I'? Maybe 'we' or go full surrealist for purposeful divine effect and use no articles or pronouns at all+

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No, that would remove our personal endeavours to convince the other.+

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Here. Practicing my speaking skills. Removed all articles (the, a) and a couple other things (get over your egos lmfao) let me know what you think) https://vocaroo.com/1tD1Z7ZowiTf+ 4

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pretty cool dude, just expect a spiteful reply from my counter part lmao+ 1

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Decent performance? Should I pursue professional audiobook reading after some practice?+

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Hey now dont be talking smack. I gave it a reread for you fucks, the way I would have said it at least. https://voca.ro/1iLrM124bmwF+ 1

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Very nice voice, different readings. I like this. We should do this more often. Someone write something. You sound sarcastic like Xavier Renegade Angel, likely intended. Pretty funny actually lmfao+

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hiatus Edition Stubbed >What is /wng/ — Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more >Why read web novels? Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you…⬆↩ 3

read Clara Casewell, Attorney to the Villainess by cocopi it's peak+

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>imagine knowing this mutt's law+ 1

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I remember it because I recall Grue being the most normal person in that entire group and Taylor trying to get turd-dick while the poor fucking guy was traumatized so hard he got new superpowers. It was the moment that cemented in me that Wildbow knew how to write women because that was a uniquely womanly evil.+

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People like to joke about how webnovels are low effort literature, about how they are "Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues," but I can't for the life of me play the game like that, I need to know I did everything I can to make every individual chapter perfect in every way possible. It's exhausting, but worth it. Everyone should do their greatest effort when writing something with the intention of publis…+ 3

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I took this same approach with mine (still am with my next project because I am mentally ill) and the issue is now you're putting all the effort of a novel into something as rapid-pace and pulp-economized as a web novel. This will fuck your brain up in the long run. You better be wolfing down 20mg of creatine daily just to undo the brain burn.+

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Take the moorcock approach.+

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>It's exhausting, but worth it. Is it?+

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"Manual disimpaction" is what they call it when you go to the ER because you haven't shit for 12 days and your shit is now rigid and/or the muscles of your intestines unable to move it and so they get the nurse with the smallest hands (invariably a Philipina) to reach up into your asshole and pull the shit out. It can often be billed as "manual disimpaction" and might run you 1200 or 1400 bucks on its own these days, plus the associated "told a doctor what was wrong" fees. If you "slip in the garage" and get a screwdriver or length of garden hose or cucumber stuck up your ass in way that you can't remove it yourself they will still call Marisol in to do her thing but they don't call it disimpaction any more.⬆↩ 1

Are you trying to scare me? Don't worry, I already said I try to go on day 7, and at absolute latest day 9.+ 5

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Just giving you the vocab in advance. Hopefully you don't have to use it. Anyway have fun chopping up your senna tablets with a razor blade and doing some fat lines of that shit.+ 4

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I actually use 3 tablets of Bisacodyl. I do have some of that Sennoside in my closet. I should try it, see if it has less uncomfortable stimulation. But the problem is if I try to use it and it fails, then I'll be on day 8 and really on the clock, you know what I mean?+ 3

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Stick with what works. No+ 2

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True but if the Senno is more comfortable... like the Bisa works (most of the time) but yeah, it puts me into this weird uncomfortable zone of overstimulation where the only thing I can really do is mindlessly watch TV to pass the time until it's over. Like it's uncomfortable and jarring enough to where I don't read, listen to music, or go out while on it. So a laxative without that would be a godsend. But maybe that's just intrinsic to any kind of stimulant laxative.+ 1

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People do have laxatives they prefer over others but all I've ever needed was a coffee or another day so I don't know the details. I think the longest I've ever gone in my life without shitting is three days.+

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Turk with the /lit/ fetish⬆↩ 3

Who was the worst person in Scrubs? I think JD was the worst of them all.+ 2

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I think Dr Cox would actually be horrible to work with. He's great because he's pure spectacle to us, but if we were in his world, it'd be torture. And I love him as a character to watch.+ 1

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Cox and Kelso were the only realistic doctors.+

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Turk had a thing for medical lit, not just surgery — made him the most relatable of the bunch.+

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wait, what /lit/ fetish? did i miss an episode?+

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I am a hardcore rightwing nationalist and fundamentalist Christian. Is it okay to blow off steam from time to time by enjoying sexual liaisons with men? As long as I don't push gay agenda and don't actually introduce the fag to anyone in my family or social circles, or "build a life" with him it really doesn't hurt anything does it? I still hate fags >inb4 hi nick Fuck Nick Fuentes and all his cringey followers. And fuck the pope.⬆↩ 3

yeah sure why agonise over a harmless bit of fun probably we’d have less antisocial behaviour from that end of the spectrum if they got some dick from time to time.+

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4D chess.+ 1

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Huh? Is that supposed to be an achievement? Beer is disgusting. Alcohol is disgusting. Wine is a mocker and strong drink RAGING and he is a FOOL who is deceived thereby. Grow up.+

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no, you're disordered because you think what makes something immoral is just whether it hurts other people or not. God spoke, homosexual relations are gravely immoral and contrary to nature, regardless of how much modern people want to whitewash them with feelgood propaganda or make it seem like anonymity from your neighbor is anonymity from God. this post is bait anyway so congrats on getting me to reply I guess+ 1

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I know it's wrong but fuck I want some cock and muscle underneath me.+

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