2026... I am forgotten...
For all the shit people give GRRM for mot finishing his stories at least he became successful before doing so, unlike Bakker and Rothfuss
>>25368598He started blogging again?https://rsbakker.wordpress.com
These books are spiritually ugly and the world would be a better place if they were all burned and the author killed.
>>25368671Reading this one might be inclined to speculate whether he stopped writing or publishing books because he expects some kind of societal collapse due to AI fairly soon. This kind of belief probably impacts your behavior on some level to say the least.https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/mythos-and-the-end-of-free-range-ai/
>>25368675Could you please elaborate? I'm at the half of book one, and aside from the prostitute character it seems alright
>>25368653Rothfuss is pretty successful despite being a bigger hack than either Martin or Bakker
Bakker remains KING!
>>25368598One of these days I will read this series, but 6 books of torture porn just seems like a slog. I have gone over the wiki so much I basically get the plot.
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>>25370103>6 books of torture porn just seems like a slogThe slog of slogs, one might say.
>>25368675Tbf, the spiritual ugliness is kind of the point. Bakker wanted to make the world in it as evil and ugly as fuck.
>>25368675whoops meant to post in the GRRM thread sorry!
>>25368681Yeah, that's why I quit my tech job and have been living off savings for a while. Unless Elon pulls off an economic miracle and we get a miracle in that AI doesn't directly or indirectly kill us all I think things are going to be very bad soon.
>>25368681Wow that most recent article is bad
>>25370661Elon is busy importing hundreds of millions of pajeets into the US. He ain't saving shit.
>>25368681> I really hoped my fiction would crack popular culture, provide a reference point for necessary conversations.> In other words, Mythos is proof that my far weaker, far more flawed mythos has failed. My life’s work, just one more broken neck. > In that sense, it’s Helmsdeep time for me now, throwing the odd, dour squint at the darkening horizon, singing hymns as I hew.
>>25368714>I'm at the half of book oneIt would be spoiling to explain it to you. Some guy already had the same sentiment as that anon the other day, though I don't think he was as hostile.
>>25370103When you do, you will realize that this silly graph is wrong.
>>25368598I enjoy his description of penises.
>>25370103>Kosoter>Name is literally Co-Soter>Damnation
Unfortunately the author seems to have developed AI psychosis and is now claiming he never meant to finish the series despite the cliff hanger ending and plot reveals all throughout the end of the last book he wrote and all his public comments about writing two more books. Now he seems to think Claude is going to turn into Kellhus and take over the world within the next three years.It's funny, he opens with a Nietzche quote and he seems to be another intelligent person driven insane by his own shitty philosophy.
>>25372090>seems to have developed AI psychosisImplying he hasn't had it all along? He's been going on about AI for a long ass time.
>>25372090Good. He should never a write another word based off this trash heap of a series.
Bakker is king, I prefer his books over TBOTNS>>25372090>It's funny, he opens with a Nietzche quote and he seems to be another intelligent person driven insane by his own shitty philosophy.Retard, Nietzsche madness was entirely genetic.
>>25372090you've never read bakker or nietzsche so how would you know
>>25372114>>25372128NEET-che is just a symptom anyway. We all know who the real Arch-Heresiarch of Modernity is.
>>25372090How are you so sure that you are right and he is wrong? These systems are becoming more intelligent at a speed that most people would have thought impossible a few years ago.
>>25372153Fuck off.
10/10 prose lashed to a 3/10 plot. He should write a new series, preferably without all the nihilism, cuckoldry, and anime tier characters.
>>25372153>The line went up!
>>25372090Is it really surprising that someone who would write a book series this fucked up would be completely insane?
>>25368675bit harsh innit
>>25372423Not incorrect thobeit
>>25372153as GDP goes up since year 0 AD, the number of people killed by swords has plummeted. Fewer swords deaths are the key to a powerful economy and an even more powerful large language model.
Ever since I've read the books, I ask myself every day: what would Kellhus do in this situation? I analyze people, systems and situations as a schizo, but I lack the drive Kellhus has, since Hell and Damnation aren't real.
>>25372874Kellhus wasn't motivated by damnation for half the story and was arguably possessed by the devil for close to the other half.
i really dont get why people call these books "fucked up" or "torture porn", im halfway through white luck warrior and its nowhere near what it was hyped up to be
>>25375630>i really dont get why people call these books "fucked up" or "torture porn"the most hardcore thing they're used to is dark souls lore and berserk.
