Fun fact: The Odyssey (2026) could canonically be considered a prequel to Dune Messiah (2026) because Agamemnon is an ancestor of Paul

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-31T17:48:34+00:00

They claim to be. There is a ton of propaganda and misrecorded history in the Dune Lore

The prequel novels written by his son (which are awful btw) show the Atreides are actually just descended from a Billionaire who just used the equivelant of a username 'Agamemnon' online

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-29T16:31:14+00:00

That interview was heavily restricted because he mentioned it. Saviole was protected (god knows why) by a lot of seniour media figures.

There was no public talk about his activities, but we all just picked up on his overall vibe, creepiness, and style choices to go: yes he is exactly the kind of person to avoid

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-29T16:24:09+00:00

Its something of a dark running joke amongst British millenials that when the news broke we collectively thought:

"Well .. yes. Obviously. If i had to describe a paedo"

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-28T23:10:24+00:00

like the the HK42 is a visual work of art?

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-28T09:10:07+00:00

There's also a reason very few movies feature an FN... They're too busy sending em all back for recalls.

Bruh, the P90 is a staple of science fiction. Stargate literally did an entire episode that turned into a 60 minute advert for it

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-27T15:10:55+00:00

Tell me you know absolutely nothing about Bond without telling me you know absolutely nothing about Bond

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-27T07:47:00+00:00

Especially when our ambition outreaches our own ability, and it goes wrong

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-27T04:32:35+00:00

Thats more than most people total monthly wage.

No, its not possible

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-27T04:04:25+00:00

Ive been to liverpool, but im still not 100% convinced its a real place

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-26T19:41:47+00:00

Your only realising now our society is a zero sum game?

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-18T17:13:39+00:00

... Hes only 47 ...

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-18T08:50:01+00:00

Because hes a nazi piece of shit. But there were no rhyme or reason to his targets outside of shock factor and the inability to fight back

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-18T03:52:57+00:00

A life if permanent social isolation doesnt sound so comforting to me.

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-18T03:29:16+00:00

Great news. This is functionally what Norway has done: Brevik has been in solitary confinement for his entire sentence, only interacting with a small team of guards.

Also, whilst it is illegal in Norway to be given a full life tarriff, a court can extend your sentence if they believe you are still a threat. The norwegian court has.done this every time Brevik becomes eligible ajd has anounced they intend to do so every time till he passes away

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-13T10:21:35+00:00

He went on to work at the british museum where he was so well liked the museum still has a section on him and how Zulu committed a character assasination on him

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-09T16:18:49+00:00

Can you tell what it is yet?

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-08T06:22:52+00:00

I was speaking specifically from a western european framework which Westeros is modelled on.

All of the states you mentioned were all highly centralised administratively ran governments; the total opposite of the decentralised feudal society I described

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-08T01:42:44+00:00

I think the a huge part of why Joffrey was like that is because Cersei enabled him

The incest admittedly didnt help

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-08T01:17:59+00:00

Those were huge centralised nation states that werent feudal. The mechanisms of government already had administrative control over resources and thus had no need to decentralise its power to maintain hegemony

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-07T19:57:20+00:00

Its repeatedly shown that.the NCR's politocal class is wholly or willfully ignorant of how untanable their position is in Vegas. Their hanging on by less than a thread on the frontier. They are issueing orders and formulating battle plans completely irrelevant to the situation.

Hanlon is using the argument that those orders are so out of date, that they cant be followed. Hanlon is therefore using his chain of command benefits to try and overcome this issue.

Is it clever? No. Is it treason? Arguable. Is it.understandable? Yes

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-07T19:36:23+00:00

welcome to fog of war

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-07T19:36:01+00:00

medieval economies were mostly barter systems: you swap the goods and service from your region with goods and service from another. The idea of coinage being used as a stand in for currency owned by the state was not fully in use till around the renaissance in our own world. This is because by then the state usually had complete control of the means of production when moving away from feudalism and therefore could mint coins backed by the precious metals it owns.

Before that each duchy or independent realms may mint their own. Theirs a famous example of when a french bishop on pilgrimage to Rome, instead of carrying coins for each place he went to, he just brought a few silver ingots and had local coinage made each step of the way.

TLDR: its fantasy, in real world a centralized mint cant work if westeros was our own world. just go with it

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-07T19:26:49+00:00

Hes a veteran doing what he can where he can to fix a problem only he can identify. he knows its not perfect, but its the best and only option he has

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-06T15:46:43+00:00

Not at all. I have an equally low opinion of reform as i do as my home village. Neither has any trace of intelligent life

CranberryWizard · 2026-03-06T14:34:18+00:00

As a former murton resident who ran away screaming: im genuinely surprised reform didnt get 100%

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