You Have MK Tied to a Chair With a Gun to His Head... : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:52 pm

There is a time and place for Socrates, and it's called College. In the real world cold hard answers are more gratifying and lead to less cases of insanity.

Well, the Aurbis is a gigantic case of insanity, so...

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:18 pm

Oh, great topic. Cookie (печенька) to the opener. Or should it be the fish stick?

At least this topic isn't called something like "You Have MK Tied to a Gun With a Head to His Chair".

What would I ask him? All the same as earlier. Why he's not posting at forums. And where in the name of Lorkhan are Vehk, Hasphat Antabolis, Nu-Hatta, Jobasha and Fyr. Dwemer? No, I don't want to know more about dwemer. Maybe Amaranth? Maybe. Let us start and we'll see.

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:42 pm

Oh, great topic. Cookie (печенька) to the opener. Or should it be the fish stick?

At least this topic isn't called something like "You Have MK Tied to a Gun With a Head to His Chair".

What would I ask him? All the same as earlier. Why he's not posting at forums. And where in the name of Lorkhan are Vehk, Hasphat Antabolis, Nu-Hatta, Jobasha and Fyr. Dwemer? No, I don't want to know more about dwemer. Maybe Amaranth? Maybe. Let us start and we'll see.

Я тебя съем и ваш печенье!

АЙ АЛТАДУН ГАРТОК ПАДХОМ!

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:02 pm

Я тебя съем и ваш печенье!

АЙ АЛТАДУН ГАРТОК ПАДХОМ!

Om-nom-nom-nom.
That is what I call "edible communications".

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:35 pm

uh

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:33 pm

How come you guys didn't take into account that his explanations could potentially Mind Spork you and make you vulnerable to his suggestions afterwards?

Somehow I can see this as a likely scenario.
"Vivec is really.... TIBER SEPTIM!!!"
I think I would have both an immediate neural collapse and violent seizures...
And then I would be MK's braindead slave child... Which, all things considered, isn't all that bad.

» Tue May 08, 2012 5:57 am

One last thing, and I'll let you go: promise to collaborate with China Mieville on an Elder Scrolls game set in the Fifth Era.

I dunno if this is a joke, but -- well, MK once mentioned that he hates China Mieville to pieces. So yeah.

» Tue May 08, 2012 6:04 am

I dunno if this is a joke, but -- well, MK once mentioned that he hates China Mieville to pieces. So yeah.

I'd never heard of him before. What's he hate though? Just looked him up. Seems like a cool guy.

» Mon May 07, 2012 10:34 pm

I think we would play Jenga for a while, and I would style some doodles of Vivec and Talos on each brick. Some kalpa nonsense, towers, and the like

» Tue May 08, 2012 4:55 am

As much as I love Mr. Kirkbride and want to find a surrogate so I can have his babies, there are other devs involved in the lore.

That said, I'd want him to do a Chris Avellone and write a comic book along the lines of All Roads. Perhaps something with Cyrus?

» Mon May 07, 2012 6:27 pm

As much as I love Mr. Kirkbride and want to find a surrogate so I can have his babies, there are other devs involved in the lore.

That said, I'd want him to do a Chris Avellone and write a comic book along the lines of All Roads. Perhaps something with Cyrus? :biggrin:

but Cyrus is already in a comic.

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:31 pm

but Cyrus is already in a comic.

WERE!?! I must see this!

» Mon May 07, 2012 9:18 pm

WERE!?! I must see this!

It's the prequel to Redguard. I think it's posted on TIL.

» Mon May 07, 2012 10:13 pm

WERE!?! I must see this!

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/origin-cyrus

» Mon May 07, 2012 10:46 pm

Another comic then! On Lorkhan's moon-bodies! With Dwemer space-colonies and comely Dreugh-princesses!

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:08 pm

Another comic then! On Lorkhan's moon-bodies! With Dwemer space-colonies and comely Dreugh-princesses!

And Nerevar having an argument with a craggy crater.

» Mon May 07, 2012 4:48 pm

I'd never heard of him before. What's he hate though? Just looked him up. Seems like a cool guy.

I'd thought that if they were aware of each other, they would either love each other's work or loathe it. In some ways, their styles strike me as similar: very dense, complex, and unsettling. Both present morally complex stories, but in different ways: in Mieville, there is always a definite right and wrong; the trouble is that that protagonists are usually faced with a choice of nightmares.

» Tue May 08, 2012 5:35 am

Well after I got my answers, I'd be sure to leave the door open for you and anyone else...

Eeeexcellent.

» Mon May 07, 2012 9:20 pm

I just remembered what I'd say if I had MK tied to a chair and pointing a gun to his head! I'd make him finish that story he was going to do about Cyrus and Thras.

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:49 am

I dunno if this is a joke, but -- well, MK once mentioned that he hates China Mieville to pieces. So yeah.

Well, Mieville de-mythologises nearly as relentlessly as MK mythologises, so that makes sense.

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:18 am

Well, Mieville de-mythologises nearly as relentlessly as MK mythologises, so that makes sense.

That sounds about right. Mieville's rather hostile to the concept of a "hero". His protagonists tend to be anti-heroes. In The Iron Council, there are two characters who are recognizably "heroes"; by virtue of their heroism, one renders himself irrelevant to his cause, and the other nearly destroys it.

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:17 pm

Well, Mieville de-mythologises nearly as relentlessly as MK mythologises, so that makes sense.

Who would like to see how a (S)word-Meeting of MK and Mieville would go down?

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:59 am

Who would like to see how a (S)word-Meeting of MK and Mieville would go down?

If MK tries to cut the atomos, and Mieville parries with the possible sword, we'll all be blown into the next kalpa.

» Tue May 08, 2012 1:45 am

Michael Kirkbride called China Mieville "turgid, coat-tailing, [and] self-indulgent," as well as some less appropriate things, in a long post about his time at gamesas that cannot be linked here because of its language.

» Mon May 07, 2012 10:44 pm

Michael Kirkbride called China Mieville "turgid, coat-tailing, [and] self-indulgent," as well as some less appropriate things, in a long post about his time at gamesas that cannot be linked here because of its language.

Found it. That was disappointing.