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I think the whole setup is trying to convey the fact that Arya is no longer really Arya Stark. While she hasn't finished her journey to Nooneness, she's not your normal noble anymore (if she ever was). If she survives all of this, she'll probably be back to Jaqen in the end. Which is what he...

Trinket. Since everyone is always complaining about not having the right trinket (when they're not complaining about their legendaries, that is), it makes sense to have the Artefact Trinket. Which of course means it's not going to happen.

Well,

You haven't paid attention to the progressive stack. Did you notice how Jaime gets Tarly on board? Not with honor, or duty. No, he gets him on board when he says "you fight for Daenerys, you fight with rampaging savages. And ennuchs". And that's why he goes and fights for Daenerys, to the...

Just after Gamescom, the "11 week per patch" points to 8-29 (30 in the EU) as patch day.

We still have room for the last episode of the season. Hope springs eternal.

First build in the beta series spotted: Updated World of Warcraft Beta Build Config Looks like we might get more than an official 7.3 trailer at Gamescom...

Drat, already gone...

No magic Horn around to blow a hole in that wall...

Doubtful. At least half of those will die before the show's end. Until Sam's departure, I was an adherent to the "writer's theory" that has the entire Song of Ice and Fire being written by Grand Maester Tarly using his own experiences and all the stuff he got by raven at the Citadel after...

Well, so far, only 3 people seem to have interacted with mature dragons without them doing burninator moves. Daenerys, Jon, Tyrion (who, coincidentally, has a couple of theories about being also a Targ bastard from Aegon himself). (ok, didn't Missandei play and feed stuff to the dragons back...

It still puts a monkeywrench into the "I am the one and only rightful queen of the seven kingdoms" narrative. She can still be the Conquering Queen, but the Legitimate one is out of reach now. A bit of an ego blow.

Yea, we know GRRM shared about 3 key scenes he has planned, and we know the Hold The Door was the first one, so we should get the 2nd one sometime soon (hopefully this season). Assuming the wight-grabbing party is that occasion makes sense given than the previous also involved the undead.

If the fact that Cersei and Jaime gets back in the sack together in the middle of previous episode and she's already diagnosed as pregnant this one tells you that weeks and months happens between scenes, probably nothing will. I think it was a popular theory last season that, until NK-marked...

Dunno. Large corporations are incredible resilient against difficulties; much more than smaller ones. Once you're the dominant factor in the market, the only thing that can happen is that another big player from a parallel market wants to purchase you. IBM is still around, even if they...

More like "let's wait until they're low HP from fight then pvp camp their asses"

Nope. This is the third interpretation of the Valonqhar prophecy. It was never said whom Valonqhar it was... it's the little brother to Cersei's 3 children... and she's going to have her life squeezed from her by her unborn last son.

Can't remember if Benjen is back as a wight in the books (it's been toooooo looooong). But I wouldn't be surprised if the north raid (or rather, one very specific part of it, like the door holding) was one of the 3 main plot points that GRRM had ready, and the showrunners didn't think of the...

Preview still had him at the Dragonstone strategy table, talking about Eastwatch the target of NK. So JS will tp straight to the Eastwatch druid circle... sorry, weirwood.

No you cannot examine that. It's treason!!! Because they're now at the point of "too big and influent to fail (easily)". Competition no longer needs to be better than them, they need to be massively better. And not getting bought out before they grow.

As I said somewhere in the general politic thread, if you have even the slightest difference in the distribution of ability between two populations, the more you are selective, the more the population % will differ. The only way you can "restore" equality is by giving up on ability, and picking...

The core progressive idea: if equality of opportunity does not yield equality of outcomes, something is wrong with the equality of opportunity.

A battle scene that makes no sense unless you watch the post-episode recap seems perfect.

Almost every great family in Westeros is riddled with consanguinity. I mean, Tywin and Joanna Lannister (Cersei & Jaime's parents) were cousins. Which makes it funny because of the recurring theory that Tyrion is a Targaryen bastard, son of the Mad King himself and "proof is that he's a dwarf...

We're so fucked:

Hence, the onerous financial sector, with all its regulations and expertise. KS, like a fair number of recent startups (up to the most valued such world-wide, Uber) is a very simple and basic idea: "if we can ignore all those pesky regulations and safeguards, we can massively reduce costs and...

Speaking of History, I'm almost finished with SPQR - An ancient history of Rome and that's probably the first time I ever heard about the Social War which blows your mind. Imagine that an alliance of italian cities decide to declare war against Rome... to force Rome to grant their people roman...

The first 3 books are good, but the series starts to bog down quickly after that. Stopped the series at book 6. (I have book 7. Unread since 2012...)

Yup. I had skipped on it when Amazon put it on my recommendations, but went back when recommended here. Didn't regret it. Not sure I'll read the 3rd book as soon as it comes out, because I have currently a hefty backlog... (on the other hand, I'm on track to beat the "75 books read" reading...

By the way, I saw an article today (can't find the link again) about mathematical analysis of the interaction of the characters and scenes vs chance of death before the end of the series. They had done it last year based on season 1-5 (and the results weren't too surprising, and a lot of...

And who's going to have the last laugh as she sits on the throne of the North after all the others end badly???

Let's be simple. I did log almost daily (save for a few stretches where I had really other stuff keeping me busy) since GW2 came out. I stopped logging about 2 weeks after HoT, and logged in exactly once per living season chapter (since that unlocked them for free) "just in case, maybe one day".

So the protomolecule fell on Westeros from that comet in the sky? Shit, they're doomed now! They should ride dragons and burn it fast before it... ... hmmm, wrong fantasy universe...

They do? Whoa, I totally skipped them on every alt, because it was not worth doing (since I don't need rep because I fly, and I don't need shards because Iksregeed give me free stuff, and I don't need anything else anyway, it's a non-raiding alt). But if it counts...

Same here, because that was always happening during intermission... Now, it's much better.

Doesn't work in France. Does that mean we're out of EU yet? There is an official "do not call" registry. Made no difference. Btw, this thread made me decide to junk the voicemail (on land line). It only gets telemarketing calls anyway, so that's not a loss.

Same thing. Unless the phone displays the name of someone on my contact list, you're going to deal with my voicemail. That's mostly on my landline. The only marketing calls on my cellphone are my phone operator who wants to sell me new plans or bundle my cell with their internet fiber offer...

That's because you're a shitty Lich King minion. As a minion of the Old Gods (Shadow Priest, as my blade likes to remind me regularly, when she's not complaining that the fight is boring) my T20 4-piece would probably make me pick a LFR cloak over my legendary (which is the 2nd BIS legendary) if...

God no! Vaccines cause autism, don't you know?