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I almost forgot about ASOIAF completely. I still remember when A Feast for Crows came out after a couple of years of waiting, and how eager I was to read it. And A Dance with Dragons was generally an unenjoyable mess for me, feels like a forced afterthought.
It's been almost 20 years, time to give up GRRM. I'm sure you have a couple more unrealized ideas that took a backseat while you finished it.
Oh he already gave up about 12 years ago. He just refuses to admit it.
The TV show has ruined any chance of that series ever being completed. The man is old and now has fuck you HBO money. He should just tell people he's not going to finish it and hand it off to someone else.
Nah. What ruined it was the fan response to the ending.
That for aure was the ending he had intended for the books and provided to D&D with his outline of major plots points... There's no way they made that up on their own. The dramatically negative response to the ending means he would have to redevelop the entire ending again.
Most people didn't really hate the HBO ending that much after reflecting on it. What we hated was how God damn rushed and sloppily it was done. We were also furious how poorly the Battle for Winterfell was done. If they'd done the proper arc for Daenerys descending into madness, more of Bran being positioned for taking the throne, etc etc, it wouldn't have fallen nearly as flat. Instead, the show skipped all of that development and so all the character choices felt completely random and stupid.
Anyway, I agree with you that that's why he's lost motivation for it. Iirc, he initially supported D&D and said that was the intended ending. It wasn't until later that he backtracked and said that it wasn't. But, yeah, we're never going to get the last books.
It's wandered into Half-Life 3 territory. Being both iconic for how long the fans have waited for it, and a product that's meant to be the climax of a high-profile series, there's no way it can live up to the hype.
We all know it's going to be finished by Brandon Sanderson, the Computer Associates of moribund, out-of-control fantasy series.
He's going to write the final novel in secret in between his regular books and suprise drop it on us with a guilty face
GTA 6 will finally be released by archeologist thousands of years from now.
Probably in the same holiday season as Elder Scrolls VI
Finally! I'm still waiting for Chess 2.0 though
Holy hell!
New response just dropped.
Actual brainrot
A video game version of Chess 2 is available on Ouya as of 2014.
Gonna take the world by storm!
I hate the fact that the only thing that comes to mind when I think of the Ouya is the Detective Heart of America movie. Second-top comment sums it up:
I love how each year that passes the ouya joke gets stronger since the whole point is that no one knew or knows what the fuck an ouya is