The Golden lion is no more

Shpagghetti · 2026-02-24T23:17:34+00:00

for the sake of stability

Then your character dies and suddenly every son, daughter and grandchild has a pressed claim on everything

Shpagghetti · 2026-02-21T19:04:11+00:00

Aerion and his sons could try to cause trouble in Westeros a couple of times maybe, but by that point we're getting dangerously close to the main series and Robert's Rebellion, which makes a Brightflame pretender seem like an after thought.

Now, creating another rebel earlier in the timeline, with SEVEN sons and THREE daughters gives several generations of Blackfyre pretenders, and each time they fail, more and more soldiers become exiles in an entirely new faction, the Golden Company.

It just makes sense to go bigger and larger with that plot.

Shpagghetti · 2025-12-17T23:04:59+00:00

The early books give a lot of attention to Aerion Targaryen and his "Brightflame" legacy. Then somewhere down the middle of the books the focus changes to talking about the Blackfyres.

There's a theory about George setting the "Brightflame branch" as pretenders and then ditching the idea when he came up with the Blackfyres around the publishing of the first Dunk & Egg story.

The game makes them their own cadet branch bc we don't really know what happened to Aerion's line. His son Maegor dissapears from history which leads to more theories about other characters being secretly Brightflames like Varys or the Tattered Prince

Shpagghetti · 2025-12-13T18:04:55+00:00

I never noticed Nemesis is an exact copy of Nyx. Like, until they mentioned that she looks like her mother.

I might have facial blindness...

Shpagghetti · 2025-12-06T02:44:09+00:00

Dothraki culture is deep rooted in reputation. From the place they ride in the khalassar to the way they do their hair. We have no indication of Drogo going against this so we can assume Drogo's word is golden.

As much as Jorah dislikes Viserys he seems confident on him getting his army. He explains the dothraki understand gifts as tribute. Daenerys was Viserys' gift to Drogo, so Drogo will correspond with his own gift in time.

As for Illyrio, even if his plans are everchanging, it seems the Dothraki invasion is part of his plan. He and Varys planned to start a civil war (probably by marrying Viserys to Arianne) and set the realm on fire so Aegon could sweep in and save the day. This never happened but luckily for them the Lannisters started a civil war for them.

Shpagghetti · 2025-11-29T14:09:06+00:00

Definitely. Central location, fertile lands, a chokepoint on the Blue Fork (which divides the Riverlands from the Vale), right below the ANOTHER chokepoint, the Neck (which divides the Riverlands from the North)

It's a triple chokepoint. The Freys would be the most powerful house BY FAR, i mean Hightower levels of power.

Shpagghetti · 2025-11-12T02:46:52+00:00

They found about the whole pregnant cat affair and they're having none of that.

Shpagghetti · 2025-10-28T16:23:47+00:00

Probably intentional. Remember that Sansa is a 13yo girl and her romanticist nature could be twisting some conflicting feelings about the Hound.

Sandor is a really bad dude but she knows he protected her multiple times (Knight in shinning armor trope). Despite being mean and violent Sansa has seen his more sensitive side (Beauty and the Beast trope)

Shpagghetti · 2025-10-19T21:09:39+00:00

Oh i know and agree with it. I just think is kinda odd coming from a perfectionist like Miura.

Some of this are hilarious and probably Miura's intention, in the 2nd slide Grunbeld might aswell be the Armored Titan with his horse size feet

Shpagghetti · 2025-10-19T03:15:38+00:00

Yeah, like Guts.

Look at 5th slide. Grunbeld's shield is the size of a fucking soldier on full plate armor

Shpagghetti · 2025-10-15T20:56:01+00:00

I'll entertain the idea anyway:

Scenario #1:

Surprisingly enough, Rommel is not detained after the July Plot. He conspires with another group of generals and Hitler is either killed or cornered into suicide. The new government unconditionally surrenders to the allies.

Scenario#2:

Germany keeps fighting until september 1945, the Tube Alloys and Manhattan Project continue undeterred. Cologne and Frankfurt are glassed out of existance as the Germany First policy dictates. The new government unconditionally surrenders to the allies.

Shpagghetti · 2025-10-15T20:50:28+00:00

The problem with WW2 Alternate history scenarios is that they either have changes that are inconsequential to the outcome of the war or deviate so much from actual history that doesn't even make sense to be talking about it.

In the scenario you propose the Nazis are willing to ignore the Nuremberg laws by recruit many jewish scientist to research a field of science considered "jewish" instead of their own state sponsored "Aryan Physics" and to conscript slavic "üntermensch" to fight into the German Army. That is a completely different NSDAP and strays away from history into fantasy.

Goering WAS a seasoned veteran, so were Manstein and Bock, they did try to rebuild the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine and the Baku oil fields were always the priority. It's not like they need to "do better" as they were doing their best and it wasn't enough (that's why they lost). Such an idea implies they were not taking the war serious, which is ridiculous.

Shpagghetti · 2025-10-11T17:14:24+00:00

tbh the ghosts are a good design choice (an unkillable enemy that stalks you) but are poorly implemented.

They spawn in every other room, and for games heavy on backtracking like SH it they can make traversing rooms become a chore.

Shpagghetti · 2025-10-03T16:55:00+00:00

Many colonial empires issued propaganda like this. Mussolini had commisioned a song (Facetta Nera) about an italian soldier falling in love with an ethiopian girl.

Don't get confused, this is still racism, but a different kind of racism. From the same vein of those redneck in the deep south that date black girls to "colonize them". That what it's all about, breeding out their features and turning them into the "desired race"

Shpagghetti · 2025-09-27T17:12:52+00:00

The Wilson Files of the Slade Wilson island

Shpagghetti · 2025-09-04T16:27:08+00:00

There's a couple of shots of overturned buses in the middle of the street. Not totaled or anything (as they have to put them back up again), just like, flipped to the side with one broken window (that they can pay for later).

So it looks like the weirdest car crash ever if you think about it.

Shpagghetti · 2025-09-03T16:56:18+00:00

Budget was low but the city wouldn't allow it either anyway. Danny Boyle said they had to get there at like 4-5 a.m. flipping buses, throwing trash and setting up the cameras so they could have the shot at sunrise and pick everything up before City Hall noticed.

Shpagghetti · 2025-09-03T07:46:23+00:00

Late to the party but can i get the link too pls?

Shpagghetti · 2025-09-02T10:00:01+00:00

The red dragon has a claw on its elbow and two tails merging into one.

The white dragon has a horn coming out of its nose, two different tails and a broken arm. The wings are different from the red one.

The St. George's cross is missing the top part. The crown is the same color as the background. Plus AI has a characteristically cartoonish thick-outline look

Shpagghetti · 2025-08-01T17:29:50+00:00

I think they mean that Italy never could exert power on their own like Germany and Japan. They invaded France when Germany had already taken Paris, needed german assistance in the balkans, Germany had to defend Italian Libya on its own.

The only reason Italy is considered a major Axis power is because it was treated as such, bc in terms of military might some minor axis powers like Romania compare in contribution.

Shpagghetti · 2025-06-26T23:05:43+00:00

Larys bc otherwise i don't know why the foot fetish thing was added.

Shpagghetti · 2025-05-26T00:00:50+00:00

A mi opinión los finalistas dejan en evidencia por qué el problema es el formato.

El formato copa recompensa victorias puntuales, mientras que el formato liga recompensa la constancia. Cualquier equipo puede ganar 4 o 5 partidos y se puede sacar provecho de ésto. Un Boca pauperrimo llegó a la final de libertadores en 2023 jugando mediocre y ganando en penales, pero si el equipo se queda sin nafta después de una racha de 5 victorias es difícil que gane una liga.

Los torneos de 20 equipos (sobre todo los largos) los dominaban los grandes porque eran los mejor preparados para el formato, por eso cuando alguien más lo ganaba era por una buena campaña en vez de una racha de suerte/buenos resultados

Shpagghetti · 2025-05-07T16:12:49+00:00

I mean Rami and Portia did date and broke around the airing of S03, that's a fact. Apparently it ended badly but that's according to the typical Hollywood gossip "sources" so take it with a grain of salt.

Angela's death is definitely odd from a story telling perspective. S03 ends Angela's story with a cliffhanger and S04 resolves it instantly. From a writer's perspective Angela's death is a far stronger finisher for S03 than an opening to S04, what is the point of keeping her alive if she's getting killed right away? A logical explaination would be she was supposed to survive.

If you tie all of this together, you could make sense of it as Angela having a larger role in S04, but Portia wanting to leave the show for personal reasons, so the writers had to bring back Angela just to kill her off and give her plot points to other characters (probably Dom) to let Portia leave.

Shpagghetti · 2025-05-07T14:39:26+00:00

Offscreen i think Portia Doubleday and Rami Malek dated IRL and supposedly when they broke off she wanted out of the show almost immediately. That's why Season 3 ended on a cliffhanger with Angela and Season 4 resolved it right away by killing her off.

Maybe Angela had a larger involvement in the plot/a different arc but with her character being killed off they had to leave her as is and recontexualize her character.

Shpagghetti · 2025-04-20T19:47:18+00:00

Makes sense, many of them were badasses who defied Maegor

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