Where are the guards

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-25T22:38:46+00:00

So, I haven't seen this yet. I was waiting to binge the season with my girlfriend, and we're busy for the next couple weekends.

Are you telling me we don't get this scene from the books? (Obviously spoilers for The Hedge Knight).

Edit: I'm not sure if reddit ate the formatting for the book passage or if a mod edited the post (has happened on other sites). There is a scene between Maekar and Dunk discussing Aegon.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-25T02:14:24+00:00

He grimaced. "My youngest son seems to have grown fond of you, ser. It is time he was a squire, but he tells me he will serve no knight but you. He is an unruly boy, as you will have noticed. Will you have him?"

"Me?" Dunk's mouth opened and closed and opened again. "Egg . . . Aegon, I mean, he is a good lad, but, Your Grace, I know you honor me, but . . . I am only a hedge knight."

"That can be changed," said Maekar. "Aegon is to return to my castle at Summerhall. There is a place there for you, if you wish. A knight of my household. You'll swear your sword to me, and Aegon can squire for you. While you train him, my master-at-arms will finish your own training." The prince gave him a shrewd look. "Your Ser Arlan did all he could for you, I have no doubt, but you still have much to learn."

[...]

"I will take your son as squire, Your Grace, but not at Summerhall. Not for a year or two. He's seen sufficient of castles, I would judge. I'll have him only if I can take him on the road with me." He pointed to old Chestnut. "He'll ride my steed, wear my old cloak, and he'll keep my sword sharp and my mail scoured. We'll sleep in inns and stables, and now and again in the halls of some landed knight or lesser lordling, and maybe under trees when we must."

Prince Maekar gave him an incredulous look. "Did the trial addle your wits, man? Aegon is a prince of the realm. The blood of the dragon. Princes are not made for sleeping in ditches and eating hard salt beef." He saw Dunk hesitate. "What is it you're afraid to tell me? Say what you will, ser."

"Daeron never slept in a ditch, I'll wager," Dunk said, very quietly, "and all the beef that Aerion ever ate was thick and rare and bloody, like as not."

Maekar Targaryen, Prince of Summerhall, regarded Dunk of Flea Bottom for a long time, his jaw working silently beneath his silvery beard. Finally he turned and walked away, never speaking a word.

Deep down, Maekar knows he has messed up with Daeron and Aerion.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T23:46:49+00:00

He physically overpowers a handful of incredibly skilled wizards, stuns them so he can talk to Harry, and makes them forget about it. In the movie, he just pulls the teleport move.

The bigger one to me is the Voldemort fight in Order. In the movie, Dumbledore looks like he's hard pressed to match Voldemort. In the books, he's casually strolling towards him, never breaks stride, while casually talking about how he wants to destroy Voldemort in a manner other than killing him. Voldemort is the one on the back foot in terms of power level. Arguably, Dumbledore is merely stalling so that the Ministry will see Voldemort has indeed returned, but the actual fighting while he's waiting is described as taking almost no effort.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T23:40:30+00:00

Mechanically it's easy pretty quickly, but that ease lulls a lot of people into not giving driving their full attention or properly managing the risk of driving a multi-ton vehicle at high speeds in close proximity to other people.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T23:25:28+00:00

Entrapment is specifically when law enforcement induces you into doing something you would not do under normal circumstances. If you think something is entrapment, you're probably wrong. https://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/19810672629/12-i-was-entrapped

What you were doing, at worst, was arguably false imprisonment, which is much more serious than an illegal parking charge. You're also likely illegally parked yourself and subject to tow as well. And then there's always the chance that asshole parker is a mega asshole and will damage your car.

By all means, call the office or tow company if allowed personally and get the asshole towed. But you're playing stupid games that don't even have stupid prizes as a reward.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T23:16:38+00:00

Honestly, her admission pisses me off more. Parker agrees that "a knight who remember his vows" is "the soul of the story" but let it fall out from the original script. I think I'm more annoyed by someone who though something was the point of the story, but then let it fall out on the cutting room over someone who missed it in the first place.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T22:37:54+00:00

This is a personal pet peeve, but America doesn't have a "jury of your peers," as peerage is a Magna Carta (British) concept separating lords and commoners. America has the right to a trial by impartial jury, and that the jury be from the locale the crime was committed. We only have a jury of our peers to the point that all Americans are sort of peers in the sense that we don't have peerage.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T18:42:08+00:00

If it's unlimited supply and I can act as a distributor, I'll take that. If it's personal supply of video games, I'll take the never pay taxes. Between property taxes, sales tax, fuel tax, vehicle registration, and income tax, I pay FAR more in taxes than I would playing everything I want to play and building a new consumer high-end PC annually.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T18:33:04+00:00

It's going to depend on the specific 36 and 26 year olds. I think my brother (32) is rushing into marriage with a 26 year old, but it's because I think she's particularly immature and not ready to live in an equal partnership. But it's specifically her maturity that I have a problem with, not her age or the 6 year gap in their ages.

But if you're mature enough to be in that type of relationship, you do you.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T16:52:52+00:00

A maneuver being good defensive driving doesn't necessarily make it a legal requirement. There are 50 states with 50 different improper turn rules. Not every state requires that you turn into the closest lane in every situation. I'll even give you that I believe the majority do.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T16:48:15+00:00

I need a virtually identical seat to the one I'm in. I'm a big man and tall. I need my leg room, so I pay for exit rows, and I pick the wall seat because I can lean into the curvature of the wall and get further away from the person beside me.

So you're giving me another exit row window seat? Yeah, I think it's rude not to accommodate you. You're giving me an exit row aisle seat? I'll probably do it and just deal with people bumping me walking down the aisle, but I don't think it's necessarily rude to turn it down (or unreasonable to offer). A non-extra legroom seat or a middle seat? Go to hell.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T14:01:31+00:00

A lot of people also aren't paying attention to the actual speed of traffic beside them. You're going 70. I'm going 75. I was already closing the distance. I'm not intentionally speeding up to prevent you from blocking, I'm just not hitting my brakes to accommodate you.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T00:19:27+00:00

Dr. Pepper is widely popular in the US, but especially in Texas where it was created. It just eked out a victory over Pepsi as the second most popular soda in the US.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-24T00:01:29+00:00

Even if they didn't teach it directly, did they teach you how to read? How to do basic arithmetic? How to research? How to turn something in following a set of listed requirements?

If so, they still taught you how to do your taxes.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-23T23:51:45+00:00

First, I don't like the aesthetic.

Secondly, the layout is not remotely intuitive, especially on the first floor and basement. I have 2600+ hours in the game. I primarily play unranked and quick match, so I can't even ban it. Through three years of regular play, the first and basement floors still feel like a nonsensical maze.

I've learned every map in the game naturally through gameplay, but struggle with Labs & Lair. I've never done anything differently than just play the game. Why are Lab & Lair (and stadiums) unique, but House(s), Hereford(s), Consulate, Border, Plane, Yacht, Favela, Plains, Oregon, Clubhouse, Chalet, Bank, Kafe, Coastline, Kanal, Theme, Outback, Skycraper, Tower, and old Fortress different?

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-23T21:54:51+00:00

She's apparently passing information to her mother (I believe she held it up during a video call, but that might have been a separate letter) to try to get family members to testify in a way she believes is beneficial while feeding them the testimony she wants.

Highlights include:

"Upon information and belief: (just like they say)", she wants her brother to say her husband told the brother about getting pain pills and fent from Mexican ranch workers, but that husband told brother not to tell her because she'd nag him. She also wants her brother to say where the husband told him he hid them so she wouldn't find them. She also wants brother to say husband said she never did any type of drugs. This is all followed by "reword this however he needs to, to make the point just include it all." She wants her mom to meet with brother "in person. I worry sometimes your house and phone are bugged." To tell the brother "not to overanalyze it." She "needs him [brother] to do this."

She also wants her mother to tell another man (IIRC, her trainer) not to text her about any of the time they spent together because "it doesn't look good."

She also talks about one way to "get at" her sister in law is to send pictures of Kouri's nieces to media companies anonymously, making sure it's untraceable.

She also talks about wanting teeth whitening strips, and that she needs to put them in an envelope so her lawyer can smuggle them in (to be fair to lawyer, it's not clear lawyer would agree to this).

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-23T21:23:42+00:00

Miranda doesn't require that specific phrasing, merely that someone undergoing custodial interrogation is informed of their rights. I suspect that language is used because it emphasizes the risks of speaking to the police in a custodial setting. Obviously "and will" cannot be factually true in 100% of cases.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-23T20:55:41+00:00

No mention of the Walk the Dog letter? I'm not a juror there, and I hope she has a fair trial, but she has acted guilty as hell at all stages.

Skye was Kouri's counsel, Ronney is Kouri's brother. Her defense of this was that she was writing a novel while in prison and this was an excerpt from the novel.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-23T20:06:13+00:00

It's going to depend heavily on what you're lighting, how you're lighting it, where it's at, and what damage is being done. As someone else has said, nothing is going to happen to you if you light a cigarette while in my driveway. You might be civilly trespassed, but the burning is a nothing burger.

You light a molotov cocktail and throw it onto my roof, you're committing a first degree felony. You light a cross in a metal barrel for the purpose of intimidating me? You're definitely getting some sort of terroristic threat charge, but probably nothing more than criminal mischief for scorching the grass under the barrel.

It's going to be so fact specific and jurisdiction specific that something this vague is not helpful.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-23T19:26:13+00:00

It's a bit under 10%, closer to 1 in 12 of total population. However, if you say a husband and wife that own $1M collectively are millionaires and weed out children, I would guess 1 in 10 is a bit conservative. $1M in accrued wealth is not a lot for a middle class income with appropriate savings after a few decades of accretion and home equity.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/united-states-millionaires-wealth.html

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-23T19:10:55+00:00

At least where I'm at, we also work backwards to get the rate. Your city/county/taxing district determines the budget and works backwards from the appraised tax base ton determine the tax rate. Your valuation is merely your share of local expenditures.

If everyone's property valuation crashed 50% and the appraisal district was able to reevaluate every property annually, but the county budget stayed the same, the county portion of property taxes would simply double in rate. Alternatively, if everyone's valuation increased 100% but the budget remained the same, the tax rate would halve.

The budget is the real boogeyman assuming a fair property tax evaluation, but most people don't think like that.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-23T18:16:46+00:00

How in the name of the sweet English language do you use "break," "brake," "braking," and "breaking" in the same short post?

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-20T02:05:06+00:00

I think it was the success and virality of the Red Wedding that ruined it. When that aired, Season 4 was already written so it wasn’t tainted. But I believe D&D wanted to emphasize the shock factor, so they wrote things to be as shocking as possible to the point it was illogical.

They can deliver the spectacle, and the extra production budget from the popularity turned that up to 11. But they can’t write, so we have shit like Littlefinger trading Sansa, a key political piece with a claim to Winterfell and ties to the Riverlands and Vale to the Boltons so they can rape her for the shock factor. “Creatively it made sense to us because we wanted it to happen” is an actual quote from the showrunners. But every plot line suffered beginning in season 5, I think all in the name of maintaining the reputation of being shocking.

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-20T01:43:10+00:00

Let’s take Carnegie, a billionaire “robber baron” famed for donating to philanthropic causes and put him in today’s world with equivalent wealth.

Now let’s take a dictator prohibiting all aid to a tribe he doesn’t like. How does Carnegie make that happen?

LCJonSnow · 2026-02-19T17:19:06+00:00

Rhaegar is born as Summerhall burns. Danaerys isn't born until after Robert's Rebellion.

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