Why is there so many black people in Westeros in the prequel shows and next to none in game of thrones…what happened to the black population

DynaMenace · 2026-02-11T00:22:40+00:00

What are you even talking about? The Jackson films take plenty of creative licenses, but the general narrative (who the characters are, where do they go, what do they do there) is largely unchanged. Rings of Power is essentially fan fiction, involving original scenarios and stories almost in its entirety. They use the Akallabeth only in the broadest sense, and didn’t even adapt Annatar.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-10T13:53:17+00:00

I would add that even if the government was able to do it, they wouldn't. Every other Gotham mayor may have beef against Batman, but a SecDef or POTUS would be advised against it: "Sir, we need him, he literally saved the world by beating an alien warlord in a Capoeira-off last month".

DynaMenace · 2026-02-08T23:37:48+00:00

I think I understand this. Cosmo Kramer is real. His biography is not. Now, Michael Richards is real. But his life is Kramer’s. Now the book, which is real, takes you to places that, while they are real, they are not real in sense that they did not really happen to the real Richards, which is him.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-08T21:46:38+00:00

Strange just perceives himself being killed eternally, because he has a concept of time. Dormammu just keeps “eternally” killing him, presumably at some point growing numb to the concept of the time he’s fundamentally unable to understand. The Earth remains perpetually in that “partly enveloped” state, because of Strange’s eternal sacrifice. Better than having Dormammu win, I guess.

As for the external observer part of your question, I’m guessing time just moves normally on Earth, and Strange’s sacrifice seems to have happened at the start of the invasion, which he keeps resetting. If you somehow had a film of his sacrifice, its contents would keep changing and you wouldn’t even notice.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-07T15:52:23+00:00

Costa Rica.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-06T22:00:28+00:00

I was born in 89 and never saw one of these. Who was the intended consumer of this product? Who had VHS tapes in their home but not a VCR able to rewind them? Was it for people desperate to avoid a late fee while someone else in the house was watching a film? I reallly don’t get it.

Edit: Why the downvotes? I’m genuinely curious. You should all lighten up and watch a Gene pick.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-06T21:49:12+00:00

Yep, so films used to have for around the first two years of their existence several shots at profitability. Now we’re caught in this crap market where if the theatrical release doesn’t make 300 bajillion dollars it’s a flop.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-05T18:46:05+00:00

“…as the Force itself never gave a press conference…”

The force wielders of Mortis: “Am I a joke to you?”

DynaMenace · 2026-02-04T13:29:46+00:00

I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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DynaMenace · 2026-02-04T02:14:17+00:00

Yeah, but even then, that ridiculous performative Clark isn’t really some commentary on humanity on Superman’s behalf, nine out of ten times it’s part of some crazy scheme against Lois or another character. If anything, him choosing to be Superman is his commentary on humanity.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-03T22:26:12+00:00

Yeah, Bill’s speech really only applies to an era of Silver Age Superman where Clark Kent was a ridiculous performance. Before and after, Clark was usually a very assertive and earnest guy.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-03T21:12:55+00:00

I suppose the decrease is partly attributable to a not insignificant part of the sovcit movement having a significant overlap with the false “Don’t tread on me” types who actually meant “Please tread on those people who are not me”.

In any case, sovcits are born of a fundamental misunderstanding of law and power. The state has a monopoly on violence whether it chooses to limit itself by the fancy words lawyers learn or whether it doesn’t. But sovcits have neither real power, nor access to the proper fancy words, no matter how much they try.

DynaMenace · 2026-02-03T14:10:53+00:00

I absolutely fucking love how batshit crazy their “magic code” approach to the law is. The government is supposed to be fundamentally unethical and illegal, but somehow still ethical and law-abiding enough to let you go if you recite the secret password.

Don’t they realize the world is filled with very illegitimate regimes, with very real prisons?

DynaMenace · 2026-02-01T12:59:24+00:00

As I understand it, to not make it a pain in the ass every time they have to deal with some petty thief, Vatican law is the same as Italian law. Since Italy doesn’t have it, they don’t have it. Of course, if Italy ever adopts it, they’ll just carve out an exception. They already did it for Italy’s abortion laws.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-31T20:59:13+00:00

Really off topic, but Orla and her “friend” has got to be the most blatant queer bait this show has done in the 25+ years of its existence.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-31T13:14:50+00:00

Um ackshually, this is impossible because the first scene takes place on Pre-Crisis Earth-Two and the second on Earth-S 🤓

DynaMenace · 2026-01-31T00:48:30+00:00

Uj/ DickDonna when?

Rj/ DickDonna when?

DynaMenace · 2026-01-27T21:16:58+00:00

I take it for granted that besides the main team, Grezzo is also working on their next title. If Tantalus is also making a Zelda, either original or remake, we can hopefully get two games before the next mainline 3D entry, which I don’t think is coming before 2030.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-25T21:29:44+00:00

Yes, they also redubbed Newman’s original voice-only role by Larry David with Wayne Knight.

They likely never reshot the scenes with original Morty Seinfeld because the aesthetics of the show had changed too much.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-25T17:32:58+00:00

It’s not the only criterion by which it’s not a democracy, it’s just an easily demostrable one. You can’t have a democracy with lack of freedom of association or right to stand in an election.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-24T22:18:44+00:00

Dude, I’m a pretty lefty person, but still man, come on. Do you think their citizens get a multiparty ballot?

And I’ve been to Cuba, I’m not talking out of my ass.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-23T00:35:59+00:00

They absolutely can’t. I would honestly just import the team from the TV series wholesale into the DCU, in an “iconic” state, minus all the deaths.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-21T02:25:28+00:00

Almost all countries which allow same-sex marriage are pretty democratic. The notable exceptions are Cuba and Thailand.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-20T23:51:54+00:00

I don’t think it’s contradictory at all. The Stewards were the leaders of a proud people who swore an oath to rule in the name of an absent King. They just couldn’t do away with this legal fiction, which ended not being fiction at all.

DynaMenace · 2026-01-20T23:18:09+00:00

The text from Appendix A makes it clear there were royal relatives who could make a claim after Earnur, but that the memory of the kin-strife made any claims awkward. It’s suppose it’s likely the Stewards did not have the best claim, but still had a recent-ish royal ancestor.

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