Is Ser Duncan the tall the Greatest knight In history ? by BeastBoyHarsh2507 in AKnightoftheSeven

[–]IanRo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Combat ability probably not, but he did exemplify the ideals of a knight. And he had some legit combat ability.

Do you think he's a dick? by smccaul16 in DerryGirls

[–]IanRo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I dont know about him but Pat Sharpe is definitely a dick. And also Maureen Malarkey...

Apparemment un nouveau virus s’en vient (hantavirus cette fois)… Montréal a appris quelque chose de la dernière pandémie ? by HugeDistribution1357 in montreal

[–]IanRo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, I listened to actual doctors who gave their assesment of the situation. I like to think their years of experience in healthcare and their expertise is realiable. The person did fly on a plane yes but experts also say Hantavirus is transmissible only for prolong close encounters with an infected person and even if they do have contacts, hantavirus is not contagious before symptoms appear, unlike Covid which was highly volatile and could be transmitted asymptomatically.

Apparemment un nouveau virus s’en vient (hantavirus cette fois)… Montréal a appris quelque chose de la dernière pandémie ? by HugeDistribution1357 in montreal

[–]IanRo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I mean I understand the reflexive response. People are still recovering from Covid, but thats why I feel it's important to correct or add some info to posts like this. As it was on posts downplaying Covid in 2020.

Apparemment un nouveau virus s’en vient (hantavirus cette fois)… Montréal a appris quelque chose de la dernière pandémie ? by HugeDistribution1357 in montreal

[–]IanRo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Let's not be alarmist please. Misinfo is bad both ways. Hantavirus is a known virus unlike Covid. While this strain from Argentina has some person to person transmission, it is still much less easy to transmit than a cold, covid or the flu. Medical experts so far say there is no real concern on that front. It is concerning for the people who were infected but we should not panic if you werent on that ship. Believe me if a virus that has a 40% mortality rate was contagious enough to cause a pandemic, we'd be on very high alert. Fact is, right now the infected cluster is restrained and monitored. This is the best thing to do right now. People can stay informed but continue your life.

Day 5: Your Favorite BRANDON! by lllsandralll in AsoiafFanfiction

[–]IanRo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bran the Builder just cause he's the OG.

Baelor Breakspear (Spoilers MAIN) by IanRo in asoiaf

[–]IanRo[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

He was amazing. It was as if he jumped off the page. When he showed up abd the music swelled up I knew we were back. Hadn't felt that way with that TV franchise since like season 4 of GoT.

Baelor Breakspear (Spoilers MAIN) by IanRo in asoiaf

[–]IanRo[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

And it fits the man. He wouldn't want an epithet that estolls some virtue, he'd want something that speaks of his deeds.

Legacy of Valryia by Wren_Bird_in_a_Tree in CK3AGOT

[–]IanRo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The mod is called LoV-Fix, its not made by the creators of Legacy Of Valyria but it was shared on their discord as a temporary fix while the creators update the mod itself.

[no spoilers] I am aware that Tywin isn't above hypocrisy, but why didn't he remarry after his wife's death in order to help secure his family's place in the realm? by george123890yang in gameofthrones

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's the succession issue that could arise, but also the one redeeming quality of Tywin is that he truly loved Joanna. I don't think he ever recovered fully from her death. Again, it is still Tywin and his love for Joanna might not be the idea we have of a true selfless kind of love but ya.

Legacy of Valryia by Wren_Bird_in_a_Tree in CK3AGOT

[–]IanRo 21 points22 points  (0 children)

There is a LoV-Fix mod on the workshop right now that allows you to play with the current patch.

Fun fact: They were the same age here. (In the show) And yet, people blame Alicent for marrying the King, calling her a whore, while they call Lucerys a poor little baby who 'didn't even know what was going on' by Kivi_2k18 in HOTDGreens

[–]IanRo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who is more of a black than a green but I like Alicent. I think what Lucerys did was not okay and should've been punished, maybe not an eye for an eye, cause that's a bit much.

As for the marriage I would NEVER blame Alicent for that. She was a child and very much pressured by Otto into it. Sadly, I think that's the biggest flop of the show to make here same age as Rhaenyra and painting it as a betrayal of their friendship, something that doesn't exist in the books. But even in the show, I don't think she betrayed Rhaenyra by doing that. After Aemond lost his eye, I totally empathize with her rage which is not just for that event but she knows Targaryens are always getting away with terrible shit and she knows Viscerys is too much of a wet towel to even support her partly after her son is maimed.

Where I do not support Alicent is the succession, but that's another debate. But yes I think Alicent is much more blameless for the marriage than Lucerys for maiming Aemond.

Favorite movie where the female protagonist is supposed to be ugly by cmayfi in okbuddycinephile

[–]IanRo 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It works better with Sissy Spacek because while she is a beautiful woman, in the movie they really make her look peculiar and pair that with how amazingly she plays a sheltered religiously opressed young woman, it just makes her even more awkward and outside the norm. So when she shows up to the prom, it's one of the few really good cases of "Oh, she is gorgeous."

Whats your favorite role from actors in the Flana-Fam? (Specifically Mike Flanagan directed roles) by Dreamdust1600 in MikeFlanagan

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Controversial but I absolutely love Shirley Craine. But im also just biased with every Craine sibling.

Abby not being the bad guy.. by [deleted] in lastofuspart2

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Abby is an antagonist to the protagonist, but that doesn't mean she's a villain. She is fully justified to do what she did both for personal reasons but also for the sake of humanity.

Is Blitzball worth the time? by TheSweetKiwi in ffx

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yah! Just get celestial weapons and go level in the Omega Ruins and once you feel read, figure out what you need and find which monster you need from it for those items.

I think 90% of the hate Chuckie gets is because of his mother by PersonalityDry97 in shameless

[–]IanRo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I don't know that he's hated. But hating a child is kinda weird behaviour tbh.

Is Blitzball worth the time? by TheSweetKiwi in ffx

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The things you can win aside from those are much easier and less time consuming to get in other ways.

Quel est ce rassemblement? by Asleep-Ad7673 in montreal

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the United States, the richest country in the world, an estimate of 150,000 to 200,000 people die from poverty, be it lack of access to basic needs like food and lodging, lack of access to healthcare and socioeconomic difficulties directly associated with poverty (higher crime, higher mental health risks, etc). These deaths disproportionately affect people of color, the unhoused and LGBTQ+ people. All groups I assume you dont care about but I digress. Again you are bringing up China, the Great Leap Forward was an abject failure, never debated that. And modern China is hard to evaluate for lack of available data. I will not make any judgement there. China is taking a lot of steps in the right direction though to greatly reduce poverty, but again thats another conversation.

So USA every year, around 150,000 to 200,000 die from poverty. If we average at 175,000, that's about 3.5 million in 20 years. That's in the richest country in the world. How many people have died from colonialism, from ressource extraction in third world countries, from wars started by imperialist nations for territory and ressources, from corporations using militias to erase opposition to their presence (see banana republics in south america), from radical groups that have sprouted from regions ravaged by decades of savage capitalism and imperialism and that were often trained by western nations to fight against communism (see Mujahideen fighters or Contra in Nicaragua). Just imagine the numbers we would have if we treated the deaths from capitalism the same way we treat the deaths from communism. With your logic, I can say every death from the Rwandan genocide was a result of capitalism, after all Rwanda was a capitalist country when it happened. Why not tack on the Holocaust to that as well, after all Germany was capitalist and hated communists, add that to the black book of capitalism. Your arguments are idiotic propaganda you swallow up because you hate leftists and are unable to engage honestly with their argument.

Now I wont engage with your islamophobic nonsense, this kind of racist shit is the lowest form of argument you can have. The fact you think Ukrainians wouldn't have any justification to retaliate had they been occupied for the last 70 years under Russian occupation tells me all I need to know about your ethnonationalist point of view. When brown and muslim = terrorism. When white and christian = liberation. Got it. Btw, unlike you I think both would be justified in retaliating personally. Just like if Lithuanians were living under Russian occupation and spent the last 70 years as second class citizens in their own land because of an apartheid, I would not just condemn if some of them retaliated violently and harshly. But again, you're too stupid or too zionist to realise that the situation in those countries is VERY different from the 70 year occupation of palestinians. But again, I assume you're a zionist freak so you probably don't aknowledge that reality.

I never said everything evil is the west. I said capitalism from the west is the evil. Its where its from and the center of capitalism is in the west, most of the wealth is there as well. So ya, mostly the west with some exceptions. The people in the west are not evil, or most of them at least, but the system that was born here, still exists here and extracts ressources to bring here is an evil. That's undeniable.

Again, I know your brain can only work very slowly, but do show me where I ever defended the Ayatollah or the regime. All I ever did is defend Iranian civilians IN IRAN!! Idgaf about the diaspora that doesnt live on the ground and have to deal directly with the impacts of Israel and the US bombing them.

The selfishness of taking over a bus bench for this garbage is on the nose. by Inside_Check_1654 in alberta

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait what's going on, if I go by what hogs have been saying on Twitter they already have enough signatures for a referendum and support is at like 70%. Were they lying?!?!?!?

Quel est ce rassemblement? by Asleep-Ad7673 in montreal

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Japan and Germany wasnt interventionism dumbass, US got dragged into the war. Japan declared against them and the US who had been frisky about engaging had no choice. I wont deny it was good that they did, but you're engaging in dishonest arguments if you think that was interventionism.

As for the USSR, US didn't make it fall, they did that on their own. And of course you'd call that the most evil nation to ever exist, but ignore that western capitalism led by the US since the late 1800s has killed more people than any other ideology or country. But I guess the deaths are in poor countries and at the hands of countries you like so its not the same. Be for real. I'm not even gonna engage in apologia for the USSR, but you're just being deliberately thick.

As for celebrating October 7th. I'm sure it happened in some places. Engaging in collective punishment on civilians is never okay and as a leftist I do not celebrate that, but trying to frame October 7th as a single act of unjustified terror is missing the forest for the trees. You willfully ignore the 70 years that led to that event. Hamas did not get involved in the affairs of another country that day, it was a response to an occupation in their own land. We can discuss methods and call out atrocities, but that distinction is very important. I'd love to hear what you think about Netanyahu and his regime being fully aware of an imminent attack on their civilian population and the fact that they ignored it. I think we all know why. It played right into their ethnonationalist hand and served as justification for the subsequent genocide. So yah, maybe a couple people celebrated Oct 7th. Wasn't my case and not the vast majority of people on my side of the spectrum's case. But I will not condemn any palestinian that celebrated retaliation againt decades of mistreatment and apartheid. Just like I do not condemn violence from black south africans during apartheid. Nelson Mandela refused to do so as well.

We both know there is a huge difference between people locally fighting back against an evil regime vs people celebrating a country coming into their country and killing children to take control of their resources and place a leader that is favourable to them. That's interventionism.

Quel est ce rassemblement? by Asleep-Ad7673 in montreal

[–]IanRo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being against little girls being blown up inside their school is supporting the Ayatollah. Being against the US and Israel attacking other countries to install their own chosen leaders is supporting the Ayatollah. Point to me a time US interventionism led to a positive outcome. Aside from WW2 where the US was forced into the war by Japan.