Yes. It’s hardly the same skillset as being linguistically nimble, as most authors tend to be.
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I think in-world characters are bad at cartography too !
(I’m tiring to making up excuses for the linguistically nimbles but geographically incepts)
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Mountain ranges and the regions by it can be dry. See The Andes or regions surrounding the Rocky Mountains, especially in the Nevada area. Then again, i’m not going to be pedantic and nitpicky about geology and geography when it comes to literary fiction.
Movies on the other hand make these inconsistencies much more obvious, like the trainwreck that was 10,000 BC. They had a part where the protagonist was in a mountain range full of snow, he descends and then suddenly the snow just stops and he’s in front of a tropical forrest. What.
Well typically one side is wetter than the other. That’s because prevailing wind currents tend to lose moisture as the air cools at altitude. So the Pacific Coast of North America is generally wetter than the land inland of the Rockies since the prevailing wind is from the West. OTOH the Chile is much drier than the Amazon since the prevailing winds are from the East.
Dinkworld?
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Thank you. I had to read all above blunder until you finally came in.
Pratchett, as usual, had a wonderful take on the absurdity of fiction, as well as of life. And he more or less stayed consistent. I’m not so sure about GoT there, but I can’t really be bothered to find out.
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All the intelligence of a Twitter rant, without the sweet brevity!
Still, don’t get me started on fictional star charts…
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Sshh, it’s an oblate spheroid. You’ll anger the pedantic trollies.
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Almost, imagine snow and then right next to the snow there’s jungle. In the picture it seems that there’s some transition between them.
Oblate spheroids aren’t round?
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I remember a pic from my biogeography lectures like this. NZ is thus still on my list of places to see before I die.
I think that’s what is so astounding to me; some adults take their make-believe so damn seriously.
Talk about missing the point.
Oh, good; so it’s not just me!
Never read the novels, never watched a single episode… yet I still know way too much about that particular fandom, just from being online in general…
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Strictly speaking no, they don’t have a circular cross-section in all directions.
Colloquially, yes, which is more salient, unless one is taking a cheap shot at his fellow pedants 
I havent seen any of it yet. No access to HBO and i can’t be bothered to pirate it or find illegal streams of it. Seems right up my alley but i have no desire to get an HBO subscription over one show.
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Wa-ay back in the nineties, I was in a bookshop, saw that GRRM had a new novel out, A Game of Thrones. Picked it up, took it to the checkout intending to buy it. There was a queue, so I started to read the blurb, saw that it was the first in a series, and put it back, thinking to myself, “I’ll just wait until the series is complete, then I can read them all at once. Should only be a few years.”
When the TV series started, I thought I’d leave it until the book series was finished, then catch up on the show later.
Still waiting…
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Oh, I immensely enjoyed the first season - politics, not fantasy bullshit. Then came dragons. Still enjoy it, but on a different streak.
Also, I read the books. And it’s one of the rate cases where I think the TV adaption is adding value, not to say: it’s better than the books.
But I still can’t be bothered. I will eventually watch the current season, and even try to avoid spoilers, but FFS, I got a so-called life I can’t get a hang of. I currently need fictional escapism to wind down, not to get tense about it.
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Fuckin’ A; I know that’s right.
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This is how I feel about 90% of TV (is that what we’re still calling it?).
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