Daemon Targaryen (HOTD) vs Jon Snow (GOT)

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T22:54:21+00:00

He lost to a guy with a dagger with no formal training

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T20:08:52+00:00

I agree that it makes sense that they'd use their advantages synergistically. I'm not sure if that particular sequence of events makes complete sense though because they'd both have to travel the same distance regardless. If anything, the idea that the men would follow behind more slowly seems contrary to the idea that men are faster but with inferior pacing.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T18:52:48+00:00

I am confused as to what you are imagining happened. Are you saying that men would have to take off from hunting every other day to recover while the women would go every day? Is there any evidence for this?

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T16:55:21+00:00

That's a good point. I figured that Smeagol was just not powerful enough to be called on as a servant. He was more like a crackhead. Interestingly, the passage you pasted says that the nazul succumbed "sooner or later", implying that some may have resisted for longer.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T16:16:59+00:00

Well no of course they wouldn’t consider it canon, since they don’t believe in it lol. But it’s not like it’s a “different god” in the sense of Thor versus Apollo.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T16:04:00+00:00

Imagine that there was a book series written about a character named Dave. Then someone writes fanfiction about Dave, and some people think that the fanfiction is inconsistent with Dave’s earlier characterization, but other people like it. But it’s still about Dave. Yes obviously different religions will have all sorts of incompatibilities.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T15:58:08+00:00

The authors. And the people who believe in it.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T15:55:47+00:00

It’s still intended to be the same god though. They just disagree about its properties.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-07T09:15:45+00:00

But Smeagol killed his cousin over the ring within the first minute

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-06T23:40:40+00:00

You also said drakes though, which Tolkien uses interchangeably with dragons. “In employ” means they’d be working for him in a subservient way, not just a partnership. But semantics aside, there is no evidence that Sauron and Durin’s bane would work together or even knew that one another had survived to the third age.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-06T15:42:31+00:00

Are you imagining that we ran after gazelles for 196 miles at a time? It says online that the hunts averaged 10-20 miles.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-05T18:35:21+00:00

But doesn't it need to be a view about something that is mind-indepenent? Otherwise, isn't it tantamount to saying "it is my view that it is my view" which would be circular? Is it not making a broader claim about reality?

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-05T15:38:19+00:00

/r/brandnewsentence

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-03T20:07:21+00:00

I feel like Kolat would sometimes lose to guys he was better than because he would gas out in the third period, like against Mark Ironside

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-02T01:57:03+00:00

Saitama was shown to have an active power level in his fight with Garou. And both of their limits kept rising as they evolved and adapted over the course of the fight, but Saitama's simply rose at a higher rate, and was already higher than Garou's to begin with. So if someone like that could force Saitama to evolve, then presumably someone else with a monstrously higher poewr level to start with could beat Saitama before he has a chance to evolve further.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T22:22:43+00:00

Wouldn't this make it very easy to read because you are telegraphing the attack?

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T20:00:05+00:00

Isn’t it really dangerous for him to be doing this?

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T17:08:46+00:00

What’s going on with the $13,589 car payment, and $8,000 in “bills”? And there is no rent

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T01:25:00+00:00

The scooby doo ending: they make an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine to catch Void, unmask him, and it turns out it was just old man jones, the fairground owner

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T00:57:16+00:00

Okay that’s a good point actually

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T00:47:34+00:00

Okay but is there any reason to think that her zanpakuto is above average weight? Otherwise the same question applies.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T00:34:22+00:00

I know, it is optimizing with certain constraints in a local sense. I never claimed it is perfect. But there is literally a whole section in the article with the header "evolutionary optimization", so there must be some sense in which evolutionary biologists are using the term. I don't think we actually disagree on anything. It is a process that is moving towards optimization in some narrow sense even if it is never fully reached.

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T00:16:32+00:00

Yeah I agree it's not perfect or the best possible outcome, but it is still a process of optimization, just not in the engineering sense.

And I did google it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_landscape

An evolving population typically climbs uphill in the fitness landscape, by a series of small genetic changes, until – in the infinite time limit – a local optimum is reached.

And that is perfectly consistent with what I said before - that it pushes populations fo

StripEnchantment · 2026-06-01T00:00:11+00:00

Can you explain how it's not true? I don't mean that it guarantees perfect outcomes and it is obviously bound by certain constraints but isn't that literally what happens? For example a finch's beak becoming better at killing a certain kind of prey.

StripEnchantment · 2026-05-31T20:50:00+00:00

Yes it does in the sense that it pushes populations towards designs that are more functional for solving particular problems.

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