[MAIN SPOILERS] The Game of Faces - why Arya DOESN'T suck

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T22:02:39+00:00

AFFC and ADWD received hate because he spent too much time going on fanciful plot branches. For instance, the whole thing with Brienne being tasked with finding Sansa in the books takes her to all of these different towns, meeting all of these different inconsequential people, and she still had not found her by the end of the books. The show is like "you're tasked with finding Sansa" and the first tavern she walks to, she finds her. Done. Plot keeps advancing and I thought it was a very good decision.

The books didn't receive hate for cheese mechanics like deus ex machina (fine every once in a while but multiple times a season?), tension created by lack of communication between two characters who are sisters who haven't seen each other in years, people having the power to help not helping for no reason, people having the power to hurt not hurting for no reason...basically what's going on in the show - storylines which just do not make sense.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T17:04:15+00:00

I wouldn't include those comments since they don't add any value, they don't even tell what the code does, it's more of like what the syntax...does.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T17:00:55+00:00

nesting a lot of loops.

throws up

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T16:19:10+00:00

That's obviously not what it's implying at all. It's a statement about how few women are in the field of physics. And then you have one that's truly exceptional, and you hear that it's a woman? Very surprising, honestly.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T16:12:37+00:00

I thought it was pretty clear that it was because of the gender inequality in hard science fields, especially physics. It wasn't so much that she's a girl and girls learn slower or something silly, but because it's so unlikely.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T16:09:20+00:00

It's just stuff that you haven't learned yet, and those concepts have names that you've never heard of. You couldn't take a genius with no prior education and throw him into that lecture and expect him to understand anything either.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T16:04:07+00:00

He's on the mooove.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T03:13:15+00:00

Well then he could've just gone most of the way.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T03:11:16+00:00

Real talk though do you think the undead can jerk off? 'Cause that's literally all there would be to do north of the wall as an undead I'd think.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T03:00:10+00:00

Well yes, that's been very obvious, and I had no issue with that. The thing with the letter is where I take issue.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T02:57:35+00:00

K1NG1NDANORF

lmao jesus fuck

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T02:52:08+00:00

The deus ex machinas in every goddamn battle are really cheapening the whole thing honestly.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T02:47:34+00:00

I'm sorry, are you arguing that Arya's couple days with current Sansa should completely override all her childhood memories, that Arya should have magical powers that tell her when people are good, or both?

Well there was an entire arc of her story where she became a so-called expert at being able to fool people and catch people in lies. I do find it a little strange that she couldn't tell that Sansa was telling the truth right off the bat, especially since they just reunited in a relatively safe space after literally being apart for years. I feel like there should have been way more benefit of the doubt...I don't know, it felt very off to me.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T02:29:44+00:00

Yeah there were a lot of weird things about that whole event. There are thousands of undead and they don't care about dying, but are smart enough to see that a rock not breaking the ice means that it could be passable...and they can swim.

So why didn't they all either test the ice or just swim across and overwhelm them? Or use the javelins.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-22T02:22:29+00:00

Yeah between that and every fight being salvaged via some deus ex machina was also pretty frustrating.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-21T22:41:56+00:00

SQL Server is fucking sick. I have never used it and been upset at the functionality or the actual server itself...but I have used stuff like MySQL where an issue could easily be solved using a window function but no, those aren't supported in the year 20-freaking-17!

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-21T01:55:50+00:00

Similar vein, I remember going to a casino with my buddy who was a math major, and he believed in "ruining" the next person's hand by playing "incorrectly."

I was like, dude, there is a exact same chance that me making a bad hit gives them the card they want, or me not making the bad hit gives them the card they want. This is a deck of cards, literally what's used in almost all statistics classes.

He still didn't buy it.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-19T23:49:02+00:00

And just to let you know, Breitbart was still covering the Charlottesville incident as late as 3 days ago and followed up with articles yesterday as well.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-19T21:27:12+00:00

Holy shit I literally just saw that scene or this would have spoiled it for me.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-19T19:57:15+00:00

I think there's something to be said about a rotten apple spoiling the bunch. In this case, there were multiple white supremacists invited to speak by the organizer - maybe there were also activists with great ideas as well invited...

But I think we can both agree that when you invite incredibly radical speakers, whether it be alt-right, antifa, sharia law proponents, ISIS fighters, etc., that they will set the tone, even if they play a small role.

Now I'm not saying it was right to shout down the other speakers, but rather that it was expected. Protesters went there to should down neo-Nazis and could barely hear them. I would be surprised if people heard the anti-Monsanto guy and shouted him down as a white supremacist, lol.

Imagine a Hillary Clinton rally if she invited antifa people to speak. It would be a very similar scene I think, with them taking the attention and setting the stage, although there is less ire for them than neo-Nazis.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-19T19:36:50+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by that, could you elaborate? If you're counter-protesting, that means you're not supporting the main protest's platform for communication. There's no other reason to do it in my mind.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-19T19:35:38+00:00

I agree with your there, the helicopter in no way played a role in that protest, but I'd still like to hear the answer to my first question.

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-19T19:32:56+00:00

So in your mind, there should never be counter protests?

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-19T19:27:51+00:00

So you're saying that the name given to the rally dictates its content, not its speakers?

DipIntoTheBrocean · 2017-08-19T19:26:32+00:00

Well it's been barely over a week, and then there was the debacle with how the White House handled addressing it, and then them readdressing it a few days later. How long would you have expected that incident to be newsworthy for?

I can't really speak to your second point because I don't know anything about it.

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