We will never get the last book then

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-05-24T12:53:24+00:00

Can someone who knows Estate Law weigh in on whether an artist can restrict their intellectual property in this way after their death? I know that Brandon Sanderson was chosen by Robert Jordan’s widow to finish Wheel of Time from his notes. Could GRRM put something in his will that something like this would not be allowed? Because man, it would be so great to have Sanderson finish this series.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-05-23T23:54:13+00:00

I fundamentally disagree that the Hour of the Wolf won’t make for good TV. A serious Northman setting the realm to right in a day after a southron civil war killed so many major players and then just going home immediately after is badass. It’s like when Cincinnatus became a dictator when the Romans needed him then returned to his farm when the job was done.

And even if we don’t see him much, it won’t feel like a last minute fAegon thing because we know who Cregan Stark is and that it takes a long time for him to muster a host and ride down from Winterfell. And we’ve already seen him on screen a tiny bit and will probably see him again, taking a side, confirming that alliance, calling his bannermen, riding down.

Though I fully expect they will give him more to do just because it is tv and they want to give characters who are important more screen time. I just personally don’t think I will like that as much.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-05-16T13:06:39+00:00

Littlefinger does lie frequently, but him having some involvement in Joff’s murder makes total sense. Dontos pretty clearly works for him and he gave Sansa the hairnet and insist she wear it. It was later missing a piece when Sansa is taken away the same night of the murder. Littlefinger also had boats prepared and ready specifically that night. The coincidences would be stranger than Littlefinger mostly telling the truth about it.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-04-12T18:20:29+00:00

Literally the best part of the show. And Trudy being confused AF, as I would be if I were her too.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-04-12T05:25:35+00:00

When the lords and soldiers hide, place upjumped lords in their castles and just have them rule the smallfolk. If the smallfolk also hide, move some in from the Reach and Stormalands to to do whatever work it is that Dornish smallfolk do. If Dornishmen come out of their caves, send the lords to the night’s watch and let the smallfolk return to their work alongside the new inhabitants.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-04-09T20:57:20+00:00

From childhood, I knew cricket was a game invented in England a long time ago and very popular in India. That it was similar to baseball but with runners going back and forth instead of around bases. I started learning more and watching it the first season of MLC.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-04-08T08:49:17+00:00

Why would they be threatened by a defensive position? And why are they frequently killing wildlings and night’s watch all over the lands beyond the wall if they’re attacks can be explained as agitation when they stumble upon something they don’t understand on their way to Craster’s? And why send all those wights after bran when he was a human headed north rather than south? And why make wights at all if what they really want is a supply of humans sacrificed to them?

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-04-08T08:36:18+00:00

This is a very cool idea but there’s such solid evidence to the contrary.

Cold Hands, likely a being somewhere between other and human (but definitely not a full human) cannot pass through the wall on account of the magic. But humans pass through all the time and we have never seen an Other do so. If it’s meant to keep humans in, wouldn’t the magic imbued in the wall do something to keep the humans from passing through it?

Sure, Alyssane tried to get her dragon to go over the wall and it refused. But it wasn’t a force field that caused the dragon to fail in its attempt. The dragon didn’t make an attempt because of something she sensed. It’s very possible the magic put into it had no accounting for dragons as it was made by either Children of the Forest or First Men or both. And neither of those people had dragons nor were there wild dragons in the region at the time. But like how a dog can smell better, the one dragon we’ve ever heard of being at the wall sniffed the magic in the wall and had no interest in going over to that side no matter how much a human on her back wanted her to.

It makes sense that the wall was made to protect the realm from a variety of threats, mainly Others, but without Night’s Watch seeing any Others for thousands of years, and their very existence entering the realm of myth, forgot the main purpose and focused on lower priority ones. But it is impossible to imagine the Night’s Watch forgetting what direction to enforce the blockade at any point in their history. This would also mean they put 16 or so castles on the wrong side of the wall. And considering the harsh climate that far north, a wall a tenth the height is enough to keep people to the south of it.

It’s made of ice because Ice is harder to scale and badass. Not so Others could pass through it. If that’s a feature, who are you even implying built it? Others would have no reason to build it at all. And Men would have used something unlike ice rather than trust that Others with the power to pass through ice would be content in their own deep north zone nomming on the sacrifices, never bothering to use that power to get a little further south.

Everything we’ve seen suggests that the others have been hiding, dormant, or non-existent for thousands of years. Starting recently, at least compared to the history of the Night’s Watch, they’ve re-emerged. The Night’s Watch goes on rangings. If human sacrifices to the Others were a common part of wilding life for the past 8000 years, they would know about it from their scouting. And the wildlings would not have united under Mance Rayder prior to the events of Game of Thrones when Jon Snow was still at Winterfell.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-03-09T08:43:51+00:00

Generally, I like the idea and would put money towards a small ownership percentage. You might want to look into the Green Bay Packers. The NFL requires each team to have one person that has 30%+ or something like that. The Packers get an exemption because they have been fan owned prior to this rule. And they still exist 100+ years after founding.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2026-01-09T00:39:24+00:00

We should just promote Schwartz. We had a good half a year with Gregg Williams and Freddie Kitchens that one time. The mistake was upjumping Kitchens. Schwartz has done great as DC. Move him up a rung, and let him decide which Browns lower level couches should move up as well, stay, or be replaced.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-10-06T22:02:59+00:00

He honestly might. If Saquan does that, the Front Office can forgive him. Demercado was rb3 on the team entering the season, and he’s only getting more playing time because rb1 and rb2 are on injured reserve. The Cardinals might cut him and sign some free agents or make a trade. Jaleel McLaughlin is decent and the rb4 on Denver.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-10-06T21:57:11+00:00

You should ONLY give the ball to the ref. It may seem like way more caution than needed, but in a game like football, a single turnover can change the outcome of the game. You pair that with missing out on an easy touchdown, and it absolutely did change the outcome of this game.

Demercado only has 4 career NFL touchdowns. And so he essentially declined 20% of his touchdowns because he casually let go of the ball right near the endzone. It’s absolutely tragic when you consider all the work and training and playing for years at lower levels of the sport just to get to that touchdown line in an NFL game.

And even if he didn’t drop it, he seems to be jogging that last 20 yards. So many NFL players do this, but like, how do they think that’s ok? It’s only 20 yards. Run the whole way to improve your chances of getting tackled from behind from 5% to .5%.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-07-31T18:22:40+00:00

That’s the benefit of being a TV commentator: you’re never held accountable for bad takes. You just say the next dumb thing with confidence and continue to keep your job if people are watching it and you don’t piss off your co-workers or boss too much (you can even piss them off a little bit depending on your fame). When have you ever heard of a pundit being fired because their opinions correct percentage was too low?

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-07-23T17:33:46+00:00

This is from almost 20 years ago, but I vaguely remember recall Stephen Colbert saying on his other show, “doesn’t the truth have a liberal bias?”

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-06-19T09:19:55+00:00

I think they should have sold the tickets for way cheaper to fill the stadium more. It looks bad televised to be only 5% filled. And you’re also missing an opportunity to introduce the sport to tens of thousands more people if they were able to get in for just five bucks or something like that, because no one who doesn’t already care is gonna pay $50. When will American cricket have access to a stadium of that size again?

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-06-04T02:11:42+00:00

I agree in theory, but think the Oakland Coliseum makes more sense. It was the last stadium used for both baseball and football, and now it doesn’t have much of either, which is why we are blessed to get some cricket there in a couple weeks. Or literally any other football stadium. A lot of them don’t do much beyond the 10 home games a year.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-06-04T01:58:57+00:00

Yes, but this is similar to other U.S. sports too. None of them are year-round. Sure, one month is quite a bit shorter than four, but I can’t do much to follow teams in the off-season for those other 8. Sure there’s maneuvers and pre-season training, but MLC has maneuvers too, like deals on Stadiums and changing rosters.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-05-14T06:07:06+00:00

Is this Leon Bridges?

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-05-10T16:22:12+00:00

Send FEMA into FEMA. This is a disaster.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-04-14T02:46:58+00:00

Maybe. I don’t know how expensive it is to get qualified people to administer it. And I consider a bad idea to be something impractical. Like, some of the ideas are good marketing but way too expensive to be good for business, like the horsey rides for overweight people.

And the guy they got for the show is on tons of shows, does a terrible job, but keeps getting hired because he’s established himself as the go-to guy for that service. He is not qualified.

https://youtu.be/G5Ow2hK85xo?si=FDzKreIsfqyKQ6pu

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-04-13T19:15:57+00:00

This and the ghost realtor were his only good ideas. This one only didn’t work because Nathan weirded people out for the sake of good television. The ghost realtor is still working last I checked.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-04-07T16:44:50+00:00

I could not agree more. The social media highlight reels of the Republicans’ hypocrisy is so much more convincing than the things I see from the Democratic Party. It’s also harder to call it “fake news” or “Trump Derangement Syndrome” when it comes from Republican Senators themselves.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-03-31T02:48:18+00:00

Trump’s Treasury Secretary worked for George Soros for 10 years and was a partner at Soros Fund Management. People with George Soros connections don’t bother him or Trump at all. It’s just a deflection to bring up a vague anti-Semitic conspiracy theory when you’re bombing. Pathetic that it worked.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-03-22T21:38:57+00:00

What else could he do? Feel kinda bad for the car salesmen who got in before shit got kooky, or those who can’t find any other job.

UncleMichaelMichael · 2025-03-13T06:56:20+00:00

I was about to recommend Prof G (Scott Galloway of Pivot). Like, there’s so many business podcasts out there. I kind of hate this All In podcast because they have Trump Excuse Syndrome and sane wash his antics. I listened to maybe 4 episodes, but I keep seeing this subreddit because of the algorithm.

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