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why do plebians love him so much, bros?

>> No.13271260

Because he is a pleb. Look at his physiognomy.

>> No.13271303

>>13271254
Smug, sell-satisfied, cynical nihilism is an easy way for brainlets to pretend to be clever.

>> No.13271307

>>13271254
He is pretty based desu.
Created a deeply rich fantasy world.

>> No.13271348

>>13271254
Answer: A popular tv show was made from his books.

>> No.13271484

because of the show. then they pretend they read his books after watching Preston Jacobs videos.

>> No.13271534
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he has a carnal mind, which is relatable to the common folk.

>> No.13271642

>>13271254
dont call me bro you fucking retard

>> No.13271779

>>13271642
I'm not a retard, fag

>> No.13272155

Weird seeing him go up in popularity when he was on the threshold of niche and mainstream after A Feast for Crows came out.

>> No.13272162

>tfw the fat man is collaborating with fromsoftware now
>tfw my video games are being tainted

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>>13272162
Onions levels are skyrocketing.

>> No.13272632

can we truly say we're shocked?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCdPVnIguw

>> No.13272675

I'm not a pleb and I like him
Most people who hate him seem to be politically motivated, whether they be feminists or nazis

>> No.13272701

>>13271534
Fucking based

>> No.13272882

>>13271348
/thread
There is not much more to say aside from this.

>> No.13272950

>>13271254
I think the South Park episode about his books and tv show perfectly nailed it. In his book there's constant plot devices looming but they never come to pass. His story is basically just a glorified soap opera set in a fantasy medievel setting.

>> No.13272967

>>13271254
Because he procrastinates, but is successful all the same. Most people procrastinate instead of working hard to make it and he gives them hope.

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whoa

>> No.13273004

>>13273001
Rofl

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>>13273001

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>>13273001

>> No.13273024

>>13273014
lol

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>>13273001
lol

>> No.13273042

>>13273014
OP is Muslim apparently

>> No.13273061

>>13273042
Does that mean Quran is his second favorite book?

>> No.13273068

>>13273061
Imagine that. ASOIAF>Quran lmao

>> No.13273073

>>13273068
Quran is boring

>> No.13273482

>>13271303
Erikson is way more cynical but he is far from the pleb's tastes. I think it's more about his branch of fantasy devoid of most of the classic "nerdy" elements

>> No.13274146

>Oh, Elden ring.
Gets me everytime. How good is this man in poetry?

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>>13271254
Martin offers an answer to the sublime crisis of modern liberalism: The promise of a cynical and materialistic answer to Lord of the Rings.

He offers, in essence, purpose and meaning to a generation that no longer venerates beauty and truth, but only power and consumption. So desperate is the modern unread man for meaning, that he will fling himself at any boot and lick it for even the chance to achieve some small measure of meaning in his hollow materialistic life.

But alas, there is none to be found there, because George R.R. Martin is a childish atheist with liberal sensibilities and no belief in anything higher than his own bugman consumerism. This is a man whose entire life's work has been subordinated to niggercollision, or, as some people call it these days, "Football." He is a childless degenerate with no real higher beliefs or values beyond his own fear of death and his vague dislike of war unless someone else has to fight it for him.

Can anyone even feign surprise that this man cannot provide a satisfactory end to his own story? The story which, by all accounts, is his magnum opus? How does one end a fantasy epic when one does not believe in truth, virtue, or any goodness more profound than a gay pride parade?

His fans are desperate and adrift in a sea of modernism, and like the Jew that he genetically is, Martin threw them an anchor instead of a life preserver. Down they will be dragged into the depths of the hideous ocean of ipads and bedazzled sandles and marijuana that people like him have created, and there they will be crushed by the pressure of modernity, denied anything even resembling truth, beauty, love, virtue, glory, faith, or purpose.

ASOIAF is in fact the perfect allegory for the modern age. A great pretense of answers and meaning, but a vacuum of actual substance. Not merely an anticlimax, but the total absence of completion.

>> No.13274516

>>13272967
So why is he unpopular here?

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>>13271254
Cuz there was a tv Show made from one of his series

>> No.13274586

>>13274276
imagine the smell of the person who wrote this

>> No.13274837

>>13272237
>calling someone a nerd on 4chan
nerds calling eachother nerds, forever. btfo'd by pop culture tropes

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>>13271254
Because he's pretentious. He gives them the impression of transcendence like Tolkien, but it's just hamfisted over-written fantasy schlock.

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>>13271254
What's not to love?

>> No.13275370

>>13271534
lamoa do you think hes into that foot fetish?