OH hell yes! the chess game scene

ChessWolf needs a top hat.

IncredibleEdibleEgg said:
ChessWolf needs a top hat.

Gentlemen don't wear their top hat during combat. Only afterwards to stroll along their conquered lands.

YCde_dragon said:
OH hell yes! the chess game scene

Yep! <3 :D

Made of awesome and win, forged in the depths of hell by Charlie Sheen himself in order to create a picture so winning that it even surpassed his own power.

your move

THIS HAPPENS?

I've only read the first book. Apparently I need to catch up...

the URSC supreme admiral needs to win the game to prove he is worthy to lead the wolves of planet Algol.

ill probably get poked fun at but what is this from?

FOR THE HORDE! I mean why else would a worgen have red shoulder pieces

You loose your kingdom is mine. Seems like a fair profit

The most horrifying game of Chess

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This is from Jim Butcher? O.o Same guy who wrote the The Wheel of Time books? What is it from?

Hyena kid nice rocket raccoon pic from galaxy what ever it was

Hah. Jim Butcher did NOT write the Wheel of Time books... if he had they'd be good, and they're not.
He writes the Dresden Files and he wrote the Codex Alera series, which this is from. Both series are beyond fantastic--they're in the top 10 fantasy series around, for sure.

he has to win a chess game to rule a nation? thats stupid

Alphonsevaher said:
This is from Jim Butcher? O.o Same guy who wrote the The Wheel of Time books? What is it from?

Tanilion said:
Hah. Jim Butcher did NOT write the Wheel of Time books... if he had they'd be good, and they're not.
He writes the Dresden Files and he wrote the Codex Alera series, which this is from. Both series are beyond fantastic--they're in the top 10 fantasy series around, for sure.

And we can see here, a person who could have just googled his question and someone who is stating opinion like it is fact.

You see, even if you didn't like tWoT that doesn't make the series bad, it just throws you into the minority who (I presume have actually read ALL of it) and did not like it.

Also, you're comparing apples and a different offshoot of genetically different apples here. Similar, but fundamentally not the same. The genres are completely different, and so is the style! If Burtcher wrote tWoT, then he would have written it telling the tale of Epic Fantasy, not Heroic, which Codex Alara is. Epic fantasy is a completely different beast altogether, and you have to keep in mind that Robert Jorden (tWoT author, for those that didn't know) was following on the heels of Tolkien, trying to create something new and unique, but also trying to stay true to the genre.

TL;DR The Wheel of Time was a great series for a buncha reasons, and don't let others tell you so until you yourself have read it and can form your own opinion. Codex Alara and Dresden are also amazingly written, not dissing Butcher here at all.

Void_Slash14 said:
And we can see here, a person who could have just googled his question and someone who is stating opinion like it is fact.

You see, even if you didn't like tWoT that doesn't make the series bad, it just throws you into the minority who (I presume have actually read ALL of it) and did not like it.

Also, you're comparing apples and a different offshoot of genetically different apples here. Similar, but fundamentally not the same. The genres are completely different, and so is the style! If Burtcher wrote tWoT, then he would have written it telling the tale of Epic Fantasy, not Heroic, which Codex Alara is. Epic fantasy is a completely different beast altogether, and you have to keep in mind that Robert Jorden (tWoT author, for those that didn't know) was following on the heels of Tolkien, trying to create something new and unique, but also trying to stay true to the genre.

TL;DR The Wheel of Time was a great series for a buncha reasons, and don't let others tell you so until you yourself have read it and can form your own opinion. Codex Alara and Dresden are also amazingly written, not dissing Butcher here at all.

And we can see here, a person who feels like being a dick for no apparent reason over things that don't really matter, and is doing so in hypocritical fashion, by ending his post commenting upon how great the series was, which is, in fact, an opinion. Yes, imagine that. Criticizing someone for voicing an opinion, then ending one's post with one's own opinion. And no, don't even bother responding with something like 'but you stated yours as though it were fact! And I didn't!', because you most certainly did.

The Wheel of Time was a rather poor series because it was massively bloated, poorly written, and often entirely unoriginal in blatant ways. At this point, very little is truly original--and that doesn't matter, because it can still be done in entertaining and new ways. Avatar, for example, was so successful because it was a retelling of an old story in new and entertaining ways. Wheel of Time was not.

I will however admit that Wheel of Time was much better than the Sword of Truth series, in general. Though Sword of Truth was rather enjoyable for the first 3 or 4 books, in ways that Wheel of Time wasn't, it quickly became mired in the author trying to force his political and religious ideas down peoples' throats, and also suffered from more than its fair share of bloat. Though that (Sword of Truth being better than Wheel of Time for a while) could very well have something to do with the way Rand gets written into situations where he should be royally screwed, but then gets out of it in incredibly blatant displays of Robert Jordan just pulling shit out of his asshole, making for the dumbest, most retarded ways of keeping his main character alive and winning.

@alekpo
No, he doesn't have to win a chess game to rule a nation. He's just taking a break from waging war against his opponent in order to play a game of chess. It's like, a break between battles for a less violent contest of wits.

i dont know whats this all about but i feel important being quoted there ! i shall tell of this day to my children in the same crappy english grammar im using now. cheers!

I should reread this series again. I didn't really like it the first time around.

It just feels like Butcher is much better at snappy urban fantasy than epic fantasy. Oh, and the main character got a lot less interesting when He goes from a mundane in a magical world to a superpowered badass.

Also, the wheel of time just drags on and on. It follows the unenviable traits from Tolkein, such as describing every little thing for pages.

I have just gain unfathomable respect for this site. And it's all thanks to this picture.

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