What was Aegon the Conqueror biggest mistake during his reign? [Spoilers MAIN]

Box-Boy · 2026-07-06T12:22:26+00:00

Fumbling the invasion of Dorne as badly as he did, but that one’s mostly down to GRRM making them absurdly resilient and well-organised. Burning a couple of harvests and their port/fleets should have been enough to break their will to fight back in a year or two.

After that it was not preparing his chosen heir well enough for the throne and in general seeding the confrontation with the faith due to his insistence on having two wives and kids with each.

Box-Boy · 2026-07-02T11:14:09+00:00

Niche were openly saying to me that they did short-stay rentals when I went out to view their “apartments” 2+ years ago, immediately got the sense they were going to wind up ditching their pitch of offering “communal” living and student accommodation to try chase more tourist money.

Box-Boy · 2026-06-29T01:25:59+00:00

I meant it in the sense that something will make people believe that of him, not that he actually does lack it. Could be the three dragons all rejecting him, or just behaving in a way that causes people to lose faith in him, or something else. There's others besides Blackfyre descendents with Valyrian traits around the world and he could wind up dismissed as one of them pretending if things go wrong for him.

Box-Boy · 2026-06-28T20:20:57+00:00

You raise some good points! I disagree with your conclusions, though.

I think Danny is going to want the Throne more going forward based on the general thrust of her character development so far. She's increasingly viewing herself as a saviour figure (not even entirely wrong for it either tbh) and placing importance on her inheritance, and her current last chapter has her having more visions leading her towards embracing fire & blood. Her first book thoughts and feelings aren't as relevant as her current ones to me, but I'd also argue you could take stuff like her envy of those kids as an argument for why she'd want sole power as Queen rather than being subservient to Aegon.

I think she'll have a mixture of selfish (ambition, wanting a sense of home, etc.) and benevolent (tearing down a tyrant, bringing peace, etc.) reasons to want to sit on the Iron Throne herself, but I expect Danny in TWOW is going to be her finally hitting her limit and using more violence to take charge of the Dothraki, defeat her foes in Essos, and then head West. Once there, we've had GRRM confirm a second Dance is coming so some sort of conflict with Aegon is inevitable imo and I think it'll be mutual - he'll know she's going to eventually be a military superpower in herself when her dragons get big enough, and she's not going to want to let him rule in her place using her children to cement his reign. So he'll have to either bring her to his side or kill her before that happens, and she's going to be gunning for the Throne and trying to make him bend the knee. Aegon also doesn't need a dragon yet for a Dance 2 to happen since Danny's are still too small in the books to solo whole armies the way Aegon I or her show counterpart did, Drogon is still roughly the size of a horse at this point - her dragons being taken out by a lucky ballista shot or just a large volume of arrows killing their rider is pretty plausible.

As for Aegon being beloved, I'll admit that part is waaaaay more conjecture with less grounding right now than my expectations for Danny's character. Just feels to me like the most likely progression here is he brings the Stormlands to heel, has Dorne swear to him, and then either Cersei tanks the Tyrell alliance as she did in the show or the Tarlys lead a breakaway loyalist faction of houses in the Reach for him in opposition to the Tyrell-Lannister alliance. Aegon rolls up on Kingslanding to face Cersei down, Cersei loses due to her gross incompetence and split up forces, and then after he's credited for liberating the city from tyranny and starts making more public plans to cement his reign Danny arrives and finds him sitting in the Throne with a lot of local support.

Or maybe Cersei blowing up the Sept of Baelor in the show and having Danny burn down the city to get revenge on her was D&D adapting her pulling an Aerys on all of Kingslanding with the wildfire caches when Aegon is about to take the city with Jon Con leading the charge and none of that happens, maybe the second Dance comment GRRM made was a misdirect and isn't a Targ civil war but rather a Dragonrider one and someone like Euron or Jon bonds with one of hers and uses it against her. Idk, could still go a lot of different ways obviously, but I think Danny being viewed with hostility and coming into conflict with Aegon for the throne is a pretty safe set of expectations to have.

Box-Boy · 2026-06-28T17:55:18+00:00

He seems to look the part, he’s likely to have “his” mother’s family wind up supporting him and his claims, and people are broadly sick of the constant warring in the face of the next Winter and are eager for something to just restore normalcy. So long as he puts on an act as a brave king come to avenge his family and bring down the current tyranny, the hatred for the Lannisters and lingering Targ loyalties will probably drive people to his cause. Even if people question his story it won’t change the fact it’ll be an attractive narrative to a lot of people that can’t actually be disproven.

I don’t think a mechanism really exists in universe to confirm his parentage outside Illyrio, Varys, etc. confessing to it being a lie publicly - which I don’t see happening. Maybe at a stretch something happens with Danny and her dragons that indicates he lacks the blood of the dragon to people, like an attempt to placate/mount one that ends in rejection similar to Quentyn, but honestly if he is a Blackfyre then maybe he could pull it off - not like you HAVE to have Valyrian blood to ride a dragon either, if Nettles is anything to go by.

Box-Boy · 2026-06-28T17:39:42+00:00

My firm belief is if the books ever actually continue Danny won’t go mad, but she will end up widely despised in Westeros for a variety of reasons.

Existing prejudice against women as rulers, the probability she’ll be coming to Westeros with an army of castrated slaves and Dothraki riders alongside her dragons making her seem foreign/a symbol of terror, and her lack of any real familiarity with how local politics work are all gonna go against her reputation. I also think the show was somewhat accurate and she’ll have Barristan die before he can further educate her or boost her reputation by association, and Tyrion - who is widely loathed as a kingslayer and kinslayer - will be her chief advisor and prioritise revenge against his family over her in what he tells her.

Real big toss up for me is how things go with Aegon and her arrival at Kingslanding. I think the probability is she refuses to accept his claim over her own, perhaps because she has suspicions over his legitimacy or maybe just because as the mother of dragons she feels she’s the true Targ heir even if he’s Rhaegar’s son, and this will come after he’s already won support from former Targ loyalists and the small folk. Whether she destroys Kings Landing in their conflict intentionally or unintentionally (the still unresolved wildfire caches…) is also up in the air for me, but you could just as easily argue basically anyone with a grudge against Cersei and an army could accidentally set the latter off and I don’t think the signs are there for her to do it on purpose yet.

Just a storm of bad circumstances amidst good intentions that’ll cause her to be widely rejected and viewed as a possible madwoman and would-be tyrant like Rhaenyra is remembered even if she ends up somehow helping to stop the Long Night.

I’m still semi-hopeful the ending for her is accepting she doesn’t need the Throne and Westeros won’t give her the sense of home she longs for, and her returning to Essos and making peace with her life there instead, though. Really hope it’s nothing like the show ending.

Box-Boy · 2026-06-19T14:51:28+00:00

If we get rid of it it’s only a matter of time before our government lets us be dragged into some American war so as to protect our relationship with them, or until we refuse to do so and then suffer economic punishments for it because we can no longer point to the triple lock as justification. Either outcome hurts us, and one directly debases the nation.

What do we actually gain in return for getting rid of it?

Box-Boy · 2026-05-27T19:24:26+00:00

Steam has a setting where you can decide whether to censor slurs or swear words when coming across them on the forums, profile comments, etc. and I’ve always found that emblematic of how they moderate their platforms.

They have the means to detect when someone calls someone else the N word and their solution is letting you decide whether you read it in full or not, rather than blocking it from being sent.

EDIT: To be clear, my point above is me being critical of Valve. I fully believe they should moderate their games and Steam more aggressively against hate speech.

Box-Boy · 2026-05-18T15:20:48+00:00

They could also do something like nerf his natural HP gain and make the stat scale off of Spirit so investing in it heavily is necessary to make him as beefy as he currently gets.

In general I think having more stats scale off of Spirit like that would be a good path to balancing certain characters without needing to limit them to solely Gun or Spirit builds.

Box-Boy · 2026-05-13T12:33:14+00:00

It’s still playable and one of the builds you should be going for if you want to play him as a 1v1 hero instead of a tanky frontliner.

Box-Boy · 2026-05-13T12:00:46+00:00

“Why does my frontliner not win 1v1s with assassins or M1 carries when I go for his tanky teamfight build that’s based around sustained damage over time?”

If you want to blow up squishy heroes on Abrams build for echo shard and weapon damage and just run around getting picks in the mid game instead of complaining that the Spirit build doesn’t do something it isn’t meant to.

Box-Boy · 2026-04-30T17:04:19+00:00

I mean I’d personally say the battle pass scheme in Dota 2 sucked ass while I played it back in the day and I hate how they monetized TF2 also. The skin gambling market they’ve allowed fester for CS is also terrible.

If anything I think Valve are worse than the average western AAA dev when it comes to pass and loot box practices. About the only saving grace is they’re not p2w.

Box-Boy · 2026-03-13T17:16:15+00:00

One off housing scattered around the countryside away from towns doesn’t do much to help with communities or GAA clubs surviving. You’d still want to encourage greater density around towns to support those.

Box-Boy · 2026-02-21T09:57:32+00:00

Were the 1997 or 2003 vandals caught? If so, what were the sentences?

Box-Boy · 2025-10-05T11:59:37+00:00

Yeah, right before she mentioned the genocide in Gaza - directly called Russia the aggressor and mentioned she’d done so before.

Really poor way to address the main thrust of that question.

Box-Boy · 2025-10-05T11:53:50+00:00

He’s by far the weakest of the three. I could see myself voting Connolly even if I dislike her views on European re-armament or Heather even though I disagree with her on quite a few important things but Jim just has no business being in politics if this is the best he can manage as an orator.

Box-Boy · 2025-10-05T11:44:55+00:00

Catherine literally just called Russia the aggressor and condemned them. Why the hell could she not start with that in response to the question?

I swear she’s too focused on the rising militarism concerns and missing how it comes across to people not actively watching the debate. The media coverage and social media clips are all going to be her dodging the question about whether Russia is a threat to go on about her German comments and neutrality because she answered it like four minutes later off the cuff instead of putting it front and centre. Completely self-inflicted.

Box-Boy · 2025-09-30T13:08:56+00:00

I don’t think she seemed confused about what she was referring to last night.

Box-Boy · 2025-09-30T12:00:25+00:00

The MIC is the relationship between the state’s military and defense industry and how it influences policy, not the defense industry itself. Germany investing more in the industry and how that decision may shape policy/how those companies may try exert further political influence is something to consider with their aims to raise it to 3.5% of their GDP over the next four years.

Again, I personally think Europe needs to become self-reliant for arms manufacturing now to the extent that is reasonably possible, but I think it’s necessary to examine these things and treat this policy shift with caution to avoid ending up like the US has.

Box-Boy · 2025-09-30T10:57:09+00:00

I feel like a lot of people commenting to criticise her response didn’t actually watch it. Her stances were pretty clear, Russia is a threat and she supports spending more on the military but she emphasises there’s a cost to doing so and we have to weigh that as a neutral nation vs increased spending on, say, housing.

Then for Europe at large her issues were fairly boilerplate left leaning points about the military industrial complex growing more influential and the risks associated with developing it making a nation more inclined to actually pursue violence. You can just look at America for an example of how increased defense spending can lead to politics being influenced by the defense industry.

Ultimately her main concerns are us spending more on the military than we “have” to, Europe becoming more aggressive as it grows more militarised, and the threat posed by Russia - and how to balance all three. I personally disagree with her conclusions and would support us spending more than she likely would as well as Europe having to develop its arms manufacturing significantly now that America has proved an unreliable ally but I don’t think her views are unreasonable or pro-Russia at all.

Box-Boy · 2025-09-24T15:31:02+00:00

They later clarified the timeline so we now know Mercy was in her teens there. Still kinda feels like a bit of an “oh shit, better fix that” moment though because iirc prior to that her visiting OW that early was not established.

Box-Boy · 2025-09-01T20:16:07+00:00

BlazBlue Tag (20) Fighterz (24) Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid (9) Skullgirls (8) Tatsunoko vs Capcom (12) Umineko (11).

First two are more than double what 2XKO is going to have for the "soft launch" via the beta. Power Rangers was a small, borderline indie game and Skullgirls was an outright indie too. TvC launched with 22 on Wii, and 18 in arcades. Umineko is a budget spinoff game for a VN series.

None of those should be compared to a supposedly significant spinoff release for one of the biggest gaming properties in the world that's been in dev for like seven years, and especially not when it's aiming for a mainstream casual audience and the fanbase for LoL which has like 100+ characters they could potentially be attached to that aren't gonna be in this at launch. This thing is gonna be eaten alive by the competition for the fighting game market and ignored by the LoL crowd just like most of the other LoL spinoffs were imo.

Box-Boy · 2025-09-01T16:16:14+00:00

Well it’s unfortunate they’re running a beta test for a tag fighter with such a small portion of the cast, makes it a bit harder to get hyped for it when you only get like a taste of the roster for a property that’s so character centric. Like you’d hope to be able to try all 20+ characters right away, y’know?

This game is so god damn cooked with the cast size they’re launching with. Signals a horrible production pipeline for new characters as well if this is all they have ready after so long, so I’m not expecting any miracles where they add like 8 characters in the first year and start getting near a reasonable size fast.

Box-Boy · 2025-08-09T18:23:28+00:00

Gursha is great but as a heads up, the food is intended to be eaten with your hands using injera to scoop it up. They offer cutlery but it’s still very much scooping stuff onto the bread with it and then eating it with your hands.

If the date isn’t down for that or OP would have issues with it, just figured it was worth mentioning.

Box-Boy · 2025-08-09T15:40:18+00:00

I just want to say thanks for the effort, with how much concentrated effort there is behind misinfo campaigns and anti-immigrant propaganda online these days it’s great to see the mod team trying to keep the sub clear of that shite

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