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I think the word you’re looking for is ‘disdain.’

• bee_rider 2y ago
  True. Oddly, I totally blanked on the spelling of the word, like I knew something was up and tried to tweak spell-checker to get it, but I didn’t get it to go. Anyway, I think I was mostly downvoted for expressing a negative idea than for the spelling error. He does contrast against Game of Thrones quite a bit, though, which I really appreciate. Game of Thrones has a lot of sort of unpleasant aspects that GRRM tries to pass off as realism; and while the past was full of unpleasantness, the voice that says “actually this is a bit over the top and unrealistically grim” is always appreciated. Maybe that would have been a more well received version of my post… oh well.