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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?

It's "training". Basically, most of the bosses have a few trash or other stuff just before them to showcase the important mechanics you'll face in the fight. In this particular case, the infusion and lane running between Maiden jumps.

Only Maiden in ToS. Her weapon is obviously there for xmog, which is... slightly stupid since it takes a loot slot for non-loot stuff.

They didn't had the technology for hotfix back in Vanilla. Any modification to the game, including server-side required to stop and restart the realms, so it was always deferred to maintenance day unless it was game-breaking (read: too exploitable)

Go Broken Shore (the scenario isn't very hard even at low ilvl), unlock Broken Shores, get nethershards and buy a couple 850 tokens until you've unlocked LFR/heroics. Don't forget to do the goblin treasure quest line (5 quests over 5 days), which unlocks a 3-day WQ where you spend 100...

Well

"Apparently", they're dropping some hints in 7.3 about the possible expansion, which means we might see it unveiled at Cologne's Gamescom, like they did before. There's also rumors of a post-Argus patch as well, but probably not a major raid given how the Antorus raid wraps the story. So...

The same way transmuting a Blood of Sargeras costs a dozen days of transmutations. It's almost certainly not the primary source of Primal Sargerite.

Assuming Argus the Unmaker is really a codename, rather than the real reason Sargeras came there. Because the alternative theory that's now floated is that Argus was a proto-Titan, like Azeroth, and Sargeras did double dip by destroying a proto-Titan and enlisting some of the most powerful...

You get a heroic ToS chest for this week's quest (4M or M+). Not bad.

Now, that's a nebula that's... looking

Apparently, there's a pretty big easter egg hidden in the middle of the movie. If you wondered why the Chief's presentation to Diana isn't subtitled, and only people speaking Blackfoot can understand it, it's because there's a lot more going on than you realize (beware, the URL spoils).

It is one, but then, you have to fear the transition back to the next expansion's gimmick. Because we're not going to carry those artefact weapons with us. Heck, they've said in their dev interview that our legendaries essentially shut down at 120. No effects anymore.

The next expansion is called The Universal Crusade, and this time, WE are the ones leading the purge of every single trace of void gods so that the universe is finally safe for the birth of Azeroth. (which does sounds suspiciously like Azatoth, one of the lovecraftian old god figures)

At the moment, doing that a bit is useful since you'll want to upgrade your current legendaries (unless they're shit, and you hope for the new ones). I made so many alts because our guild needed to get the class/race combos for achievement (back then), plus I wanted to cover all professions and...

That's part of Genomic Medicine 2025, a large and extensive plan in France to get every cancer patient in 2025 a full sequencing of its tumors, and a treatment that is entirely targeted to its exact tumor mutations, not "generic soandso cancer". (designing the security for the main datacenter...

The liver is a good first start, because it does regenerate. If you can introduce your modified cells, then in a controlled manner depress/kill the non modified ones, eventually you're ending with a liver that's almost entirely your new cells. There's a couple parts in your body that would be...

See an old post of mine where I was exactly describing this. Embryo selection a-ok, but you're not allowed to select based on a number of characteristics. The reason why it's forbidden isn't because we don't know how to do it. The reason it's forbidden is that it's "Eugenics", and Eugenics...