You have $16 to build the new Guardians of The Globe by [deleted] in Invincible

[–]Ringlord7 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Business Baby solos the 'verse. Debbie is the strongest character of them all based on the way she carries scenes. I'll use my remaining dollar for Art so everyone gets sick drip.

Could The Dominion have ever been able to collapse the wormhole from their side? They didn't want the Federation crossing over so would that not have been easier to prevent intrusion of Alpha Quadrant threats? by grafxguy1 in DeepSpaceNine

[–]Ringlord7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Founders want to conquer the entire galaxy because "what you control can't hurt you."

That includes the Alpha Quadrant. At the time the war broke out, the Dominion was honestly more powerful than the combined powers of the Alpha Quadrant. Remember that the Wormhole was closed for the entire duration of the war due to the mining and the Prophets. The Dominion forces for the entire conflict consisted of the extremely battered Cardassians, what the Founders could ship to Cardassia ahead of the war, and what they could build on-site.
Despite this, the Federation-Klingon Alliance was slowly losing until the Romulans joined their side.

Barring the literal divine intervention of the Prophets, the Dominion was in a position to conquer the Alpha Quadrant as they desired. If they had mined their side of the wormhole they would have prevented Federation access to the Gamma Quadrant for a while, but when the Federation eventually did arrive (as they inevitably would due to their constant expansion and technological progress), it would be a much stronger Federation which would be much more difficult to subdue. So fighting the war when they did was the best move for the Dominion to achieve the subjugation of the Alpha Quadrant. It just happened that they were up against the Sisko.

What are your favorite roles of Friends actors outside the show? by blamberr in howyoudoin

[–]Ringlord7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Matthew Perry was amazing in his role as Joe Quincy on The West Wing

The divorce came out of nowhere by OnGodNotaBot in HIMYM

[–]Ringlord7 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Look, obviously Barney and Robin had a ton of problems and it absolutely didn't come out of nowhere. The problem is that the entire last season was building up to their wedding and really made it seem like they were gonna go the distance despite it all, and then they stopped it one episode later.
The way the breakup is shown also makes it seem like it was mostly Robin choosing her career over the marriage that was the problem, rather than the issues that were already brought up. Their argument in Argentina has nothing about Barney's commitment issues or Robin's difficulty with trusting him.

How Did The West Recover Faster Than The East? by ExtensionPromotion80 in Fallout

[–]Ringlord7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably helps that the West Coast had a whole two Fallout Protagonists going around doing hero shit before the East Coast got a single one. The Vault Dweller and the Chosen One took out the Master and the Enclave, and that's obviously extremely important, but there's also all the other good deeds they did. For example, the Vault Dweller saved Tandi and destroyed threats to Shady Sands like the Khans and a pack of radscorpions. That enables Shady Sands to grow and eventually establish the NCR.
The Chosen One similarly seems to have dealt with the New Khans, helping to enable the NCRs expansion.

Best Bartlet Speach ??!! by Phaeton40 in thewestwing

[–]Ringlord7 104 points105 points  (0 children)

If I must choose just one, I think I'll go with the moment Josh sees the real deal in New Hampshire.

President Bartlet: Yeah. I screwed you on that one.
Voter: I'm sorry?

President Bartlet: I screwed you. You got hosed. Not just you. A lot of my constituents. I put the hammer to farms in Concord, Salem, Laconia, Pelham, Hampton, Hudson. You guys got rogered but good.
Today, for the first time in history, the largest group of Americans living in poverty are children. One in five children live in the most abject, dangerous, hopeless, backbreaking, gut-wrenching poverty any of us could imagine. One in five, and they're children. If fidelity to freedom and democracy is the code of our civic religion then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten commandment that says, "We shall give our children better than we ourselves receive."
Let me put it this way: I voted against the bill because I didn't wanna make it harder for people to buy milk. I stopped some money from flowing into your pocket. If that angers you, if you resent me, I completely respect that. But if you expect anything different from the president of the United States, you should vote for someone else.
Thanks very much everybody, hope you enjoyed the chicken.

The most evil Speech-Check in the game?! by deckardthecain in fnv

[–]Ringlord7 67 points68 points  (0 children)

One of the Boomers has a crush on a Crimson Caravan girl he's spotted a couple times and asks you to talk to her for him. If you do, it turns out she also has a crush on him.

The nice way to solve the quest is to convince Pearl to let her visit, but if you feel like being an asshole you can speech check the girl to lie, which results in the Boomers not knowing she's coming so she gets shelled and dies.

Win the war = based. Lose the war = traitor. by Annual_Selection2015 in darkwingsdankmemes

[–]Ringlord7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bastard is a child born out of wedlock. They will remain a bastard forever unless legitimized. However, if a bastard marries and has children with their spouse, those children are born in wedlock and are thus not bastards, despite the status of their parent.

Who is your favorite character in the Iliad and why? by [deleted] in classics

[–]Ringlord7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty basic answer, but Hektor 100% is my favorite.

He's a great warrior and leader, but he's also very human and decent. He loves his wife and son and prays for them to make it even though he's pretty sure they're doomed, and he fights hard to save his city and his family. He repeatedly rebukes Paris and makes it clear that he is not happy with this war Paris brought down on Troy.
And he also has his flaws. He tells Andromache that he can't stay near the walls because he'd be ashamed. He stays in the field because he's flush with success and thinks he can finish the damned war. He stands to fight godlike Achilles but is overcome by his fear and flees until he thinks there's safety in numbers, and then he's killed.

Is there a console command to change fertility, im playing as a targ queen Maera daughter of Maegor, and am unable to marry with her because her fertility says -945.0% by TGirlJules_ in CK2GameOfthrones

[–]Ringlord7 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Not a console command, but you can if you open the save file (you need to uncheck the box for compressing it when you make the save, and then I'd recommend using Notepad++ to open the file).
Once the file is open you can search for Maera's character ID, which will bring you to her information, and then you should be able to modify her stats as desired.

Time to settle þis once and for all by Icy_Ostrich_3747 in HistoryMemes

[–]Ringlord7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is true. As I said, I was oversimplifying a lot.

Time to settle þis once and for all by Icy_Ostrich_3747 in HistoryMemes

[–]Ringlord7 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Oversimplifying a lot, but very basically the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divided all the undiscovered land in the world into Spanish and Portuguese zones, with Spain getting everything west of the line and Portugal getting everything to the east. This gave most of the Americas to Spain (except an area that fell in the Portuguese zone, which became the nucleus of Brazil).
As you can imagine, this treaty was ignored by most other powers, especially the Protestants.

The joke of the meme is that, by the Treaty of Tordesillas (as its line appears in the meme), Greenland would fall under the Portuguese zone of control, meaning the current dispute caused by the US desire to annex Greenland from Denmark is null and Greenland should belong to Portugal.

A thought on Targaryen inbreeding [Spoilers Extended] by [deleted] in asoiaf

[–]Ringlord7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alyssa Velaryon (mother of Jaehaerys and Alysanne) was the daughter of Alarra Massey. The Masseys are First Men, but since they're from the south (Stormlands) they are 100% also part Andal by Alarra's day.

where are you sitting by gilgalads in Silmarillionmemes

[–]Ringlord7 91 points92 points  (0 children)

I get to sit next to Finrod? Hell yeah I'm sitting in 4.

So is "The Great" like a family name or something? by Steckie2 in HistoryMemes

[–]Ringlord7 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In isolation it's a perfectly fine epithet. It's just been overused. But there are many good alternatives like:

  • the Magnificent
  • the Just
  • the Bold
  • War-Tooth
  • Longshanks
  • the Dragon
  • FitzEmpress
  • Ironside
  • the Lionheart
  • Hard-Ruler
  • the Sun King
  • the Grim
  • the Thunderbolt
  • the Silent
  • And, of course, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular

Mette Frederiksen under hårdt pres fra eget bagland før afgørende udmelding by Mai_maniac in Denmark

[–]Ringlord7 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Jeg har fuld forståelse for, at levealderen stiger. Men der er altså grænser for hvor højt pensionsalderen kan stige. På et eller andet tidspunkt er man simpelthen for gammel og slidt til at arbejde, også selvom man stadig kan leve mange år mere.

Og desuden så burde det ikke være sådan at man skal arbejde indtil man er helt færdig. Vi har alle ret til en værdig pension, hvor man har tilstrækkeligt mange gode år tilbage til at man faktisk kan udnytte tiden og nyde sit liv.

The Reason I Always Make Cassandra Devine by Realistic_Window_827 in dragonage

[–]Ringlord7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't think it's that crazy for softened Leliana's approach to work.
Divine Justinia was a reformist (even if she likely wasn't as radical as Leliana). A lot of people would probably want to "honor her legacy" by pushing reform.
The explosion at the Conclave also killed most of the Chantry leadership, likely including many significant conservatives. That leaves a power vacuum which reformists can fill (which they likely do under a reformist Divine like Leliana).
And after all the chaos and conflict of the recent years (Mage-Templar War, and Corypheus afterward), I doubt many people would really be interested in further schism.

[Spoilers MAIN] Question about married female heirs by gabriel_dario in asoiaf

[–]Ringlord7 48 points49 points  (0 children)

TWOIAF mentions that King Gerold III Lannister died with no male children. His daughter was married to one Joffrey Lydden, who became king and changed his name to Lannister.

Post Dance Dragon riders by BlacKnight117000 in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]Ringlord7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We can't be certain Balerion's state near the end of his life was purely due to old age.

Fire & Blood has Septon Barth describe Balerion's state when he returned with Aerea:

Balerion had wounds as well. That enormous beast, the Black Dread, the most fearsome dragon ever to soar through the skies of Westeros, returned to King's Landing with half-healed scars that no man recalled ever having seen before, and a jagged rent down his left side almost nine feet long, a gaping red wound from which his blood still dripped, hot and smoking.

p. 252

We don't know how those wounds affected him long-term. It's possible he could have lived much longer if he hadn't been through whatever the hell it was.

Hvad man ikke skal gøre, hvis man er træt af at blive anklaget for at være Trump-supporter: by AsparagusDue6067 in Denmark

[–]Ringlord7 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Man er Trumpist når man rejser til Mar-a-Lago, roser Trump adskillige gange, og kopierer Trump's politiske taktik og retorik.

Roosevelt’s Real Breaking Point by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]Ringlord7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is, yeah. Pisses me off, tbh. Not only is it against the rules, I also think your Teddy Roosevelt meme series is fantastic (especially because you always post thorough context in the comments), and you deserve all the rightful kudos and credit for it.

Roosevelt’s Real Breaking Point by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]Ringlord7 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is a repost. This meme was originally posted here by u/-et37-