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Started by Disco Pickle, April 17, 2011, 07:27:46 PM

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Disco Pickle

April 17, 2011, 07:27:46 PM Last Edit: July 22, 2011, 12:36:12 AM by Disco Pickle
Thread.

anyone doing a party?  I've come to terms with just how much of a fucking dork I am for planning one, but I have good company, so it'll be a house full of dorks.  and my GF, who hasn't read the damn thing yet.  The rest of us have.  She'll just have to suffer.

One of my friends suggested we do it Rocky Horror style and dress up, but only if he gets to be Daenerys.   :lulz:  

Thought I'd pass on that if any of you spags is in to it and wants to watch it but don't have HBO, my cable company was offering 3 months free when I called to ask about it a week ago.  I don't usually watch enough tv to justify the price, but free is nice.  

So here's how you do it, from an old cable company call center rep:  call em up, ask if they can give you a 3 month sampler of HBO.  If they say no, tell em fine, you're just going to cancel and go with (insert major dish network co), be adamant.  They SHOULD send you to the retention dept, where they have more tools available to keep you as a customer.  tell them you want HBO free for the next three months and you'll keep your regular service.  Be nice to the person and they'll likely give you whatever you want, because that's how they bonus.

9 o'clock eastern you fucks.  and it repeats every hour until midnight.
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#1
April 17, 2011, 07:31:33 PM
What are you talking about?
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Freeky

#2
April 17, 2011, 07:49:35 PM
A Game of Thrones is this book series that the writer has written over the past 20 years or so (with only 3 or 4 books) and still hasn't finished.  Now they're turning it into a TV series.

Disco Pickle

#3
April 17, 2011, 08:00:44 PM
yeah, its been stretched the hell out, and we really should have gotten a Dance with Dragons by now, but he's got two more books planned after it and so I'm ok waiting.  HBO does good work so I expect they'll do this story the right way.

If you haven't read it Nigel, I highly recommend it.  It really is a very good series.
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"sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it." -- John Von Neumann

Freeky

#4
April 17, 2011, 08:08:13 PM
Roger told me he refuses to read any more of that guy's works, because he keeps putting off Game of Thrones. :lol:

Kurt Christ

#5
April 17, 2011, 08:08:46 PM
I don't actually own a television now, but I will probably look into finding some way to watch this.
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Eater of Clowns

#6
April 17, 2011, 08:24:28 PM
Free HBO weekend on DirecTV, so I'll be watching this at work.  The following week I'll catch it on DVR at a family member's place, then I have Sundays off for two months.  So I'm set watching it for the foreseeable future.
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Laughin Jude

#7
April 17, 2011, 09:17:10 PM
I don't have any TV service, but that's never stopped me before.

The books are worth reading, though he takes forever to get each one out. They're more politics/murder/intrigue than stereotypical swords and sorcery fantasy. Lots of backstabbing. AFAIK, the War of the Roses was a big inspiration for the story.
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Don Coyote

#8
April 17, 2011, 09:51:25 PM
Quote from: Jenkem and Tomahawks on April 17, 2011, 07:49:35 PM
A Game of Thrones is this book series that the writer has written over the past 20 years or so (with only 3 or 4 books) and still hasn't finished.  Now they're turning it into a TV series.

Sounds like Robert Jordan :kingmeh:

Jenne

#9
April 17, 2011, 11:15:31 PM
Will be watching!!

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#10
April 18, 2011, 12:22:33 AM
Oh, I think I know this one. It's a series Space Cowboy is obsessed with... I started to read the first one, and it made me cry, and then we broke up and I couldn't finish it because of sentimental attachment.

Maybe I will give it another shot at some point when I have less stuff going on... right now I'm having a midlife crisis that involves changing everything about who I am, so I don't have too much time for reading ATM.  :lol:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Cinderflame KSC

#11
April 18, 2011, 03:33:12 AM
Just finished watching that shit, and watching it again. Great shit.

LMNO

#12
April 18, 2011, 03:44:14 AM
Fur trim, big fuck-off swords, and lots if tits. Can't make heads or tails of anyone but the most obvious characters, but I'll keep watching, and get his books after I finish The Hunger Games.

Eater of Clowns

#13
April 18, 2011, 03:47:23 AM
It did feel a bit rushed, between all the characters.  They covered quite a bit of ground with the first episode though, so I feel like it might allow for some time for the more intense moments as the season goes on.

Also, Daenerys.   :fap: :fap:
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

Quote
the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Cinderflame KSC

#14
April 18, 2011, 03:54:25 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on April 18, 2011, 03:44:14 AM
Fur trim, big fuck-off swords, and lots if tits. Can't make heads or tails of anyone but the most obvious characters, but I'll keep watching, and get his books after I finish The Hunger Games.
Yeah, that's why I'm watching the replay. They're really front-loading this thing to try to get all these plot hooks into the first episode.
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