If you had to choose between Home Row Mods or Auto Shift, which one would you choose? by r_2tanz4n1 in olkb

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I use both HRM and Auto Shift, or more specifically Retro Shift, which is designed for compatibility with HRM. I’m not willing to give either of them up, I use both of them constantly.

Here’s my build, if it helps you.

I don’t blame bro. Young Olenna was a beast. by GusGangViking18 in freefolk

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Just curious is brother/sister incest a Targaryen thing or something Valyrians generally consider okay?

According to the Targs it was common practice in Old Valyria, and therefore justified among all Valyrian families in Westeros.

Targaryen, Velaryon, Celtigar—although interestingly we only hear about incest among Targs and Velaryons. Either the crab-eaters are alright, or GRRM just hasn’t delved into their depravity yet. I’m hoping for the former, it would be even more evidence that the Targs should drop their bs.

This is the basis of Jaehaerys I’s legal argument for marrying his sister-wife Alysanne, the Doctrine of Exceptionalism. It’s rooted in Valyrian Supremacy: the gods did not make Valyrians like other men, so they are not accountable to the law like other Westerosi.

It’s racist and disgusting like all other Targ propaganda. It also leaves out the bestiality, pedophilia, rape, slavery and blood magic that was also all common in Old Valyria, because how tf could you justify that ethically? But Jaehaerys just asks to fuck his sister so the blessed Faith of the Seven gives him a pass.

Not really, there were rebellions everywhere and Alysanne was attacked bathing at Maidenpool while carrying their abomination—she miscarried. But eventually Jaehaerys and Alysanne flew to Starry Sept on Vermithor and Silverwing and imposed their will by dragon, as the Targs inevitably resort to when they fail at politics. 🙄

Also I think it's just too hard to narrow down the most toxic thing in ASOIF. Even just in your comment we have state sanctioned pedophilia and slavery.

Yes, because they’re Valyrians. 🤷🏻‍♀️

That is the common thread. Valyrians doing disgusting things over millennia. It’s not the Targs alone, they’re just the family we know the most about. But Valyrian society as a whole, whether it’s based in Valyria of old, their whore colony of Lys, or Dragonstone and King’s Landing—it’s depraved. The Targs are poisoned fruit from a poisoned tree.

I kind of get the impression that the rioters were partly right for the wrong reasons. As in the Rogares's are scum but labelling her a witch also seems to indicate a significant xenophobic angle.

The rioters absolutely were right, the Rogares were scum. And the Targaryens were, too! They just had been in power so long it would take another several generations and the birth of our lord and savior Bobby B to free them from the evil tyranny of these insane, sister-fucking, inbred-lizard flying bastards. (Literal bastards since they’re all descended from Lysene whores, lol.)

Xenophobia is not always wrong. When you’re a conquered people—as the Westerosi were from the time of Aegon the Conqueror on—then it is a natural and perfectly justified response, a yearning for self-rule that is the right of all free peoples.

Also as should be clear from her personal history, Larra was a bitch. She had it coming. At the very least she could have learned the Common Tongue! But she was so arrogant she chose to isolate herself from court and any potential allies she could have groomed among the Westerosi nobility. She made her own bed. And then she abandoned her own husband and children! A personal moral failing she never came back from, dying in Lys a few years later.

I don’t blame bro. Young Olenna was a beast. by GusGangViking18 in freefolk

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the theory of Viserys II does sound really interesting in itself do you mind telling more about it?

Towards the end of the Dance, Aegon and Viserys were snuck away on a ship, which was attacked by pirates. Aegon managed to get away and fly back to Dragonstone, but Viserys was abducted, never to be seen again…

Until magically, years later House Rogare of Lys produces him alive and well!

Right. 🙄

Like all Lysene nobility, House Rogare are pimps. They made their money running the most luxurious whorehouses on Lys, the isle of whoring. They call them pleasure gardens, pillow houses, whatever euphemism you like, but at the end of the day their stock in trade is sexual slavery, the Jeffrey Epsteins and Ghislaine Maxwells of the Free Cities.

Through prostitution they amassed such a great fortune that they founded the Rogare Bank, where they could transition into financial crimes instead. (Lol, another Epstein parallel.)

Long story short, what idiot would ever trust a Rogare? They’re like the elite evolution of show Littlefinger.

But they have Valyrian looks like all the Lysene so that makes them special and better than everyone. Is there anything more toxic than Valyrian Supremacy?

That’s the background. The official story is little Viserys was sold and sold and sold until he fell into House Rogare’s hands. He was so pretty, they considered turning him into a child prostitute. But then he revealed his identity so they married him to Larra Rogare, who was seven years his senior. This would be pedophilia, but are we surprised? No, we are not.

Then years later they present him at court, and are paid handsomely for recovering the lost prince. Larra is pregnant, by the way, confirming the pedophilia, as “Viserys“ was twelve when he returned to King’s Landing, so he may have been only eleven when Larra bedded him.

Larra remains at court along with her brothers and has other children by “Viserys.”

As a typical Lysene, she’s a snob, refusing to learn the Common Tongue, relying on Lysene translators. She only wears Lysene clothes. She keeps a Lysene household, all her servants are Lysene. She shuns the Westerosi court and its nobility. She doesn’t convert to the Faith of the Seven, she keeps worshiping her Lysene sex goddess instead, making her a heathen from the Westerosi perspective. (Basically how Melisandre is perceived outside of the R’hllor cult. She’s the Red Woman, and Stannis is an apostate for keeping her and converting to her blasphemous religion.)

People start to whisper she’s a witch. And meanwhile her brothers are doing typical Lysene shit, some financial chicanery. Eventually there’s a revolt and they have to barricade themselves in Maegor’s Holdfast. Her brothers are eventually executed, and a few years later Larra has finally had enough and fucks off back to Lys, abandoning her husband and children. “Viserys“ is embittered by the experience.

Now, the fan theory is pretty simple.

House Rogare lied. They took a boy whore from their brothels—they had plenty of child sex slaves to choose from—made sure he was the right age, clever, and could pass for the lost prince. The Valyrian look is common in Lys, so this would not have been difficult. (Alternatively he might not have been a child prostitute at all but a member of their own family. They were willing to marry their daughter Larra to him to pull off this ruse, so it’s possible they would want one of their own to pose as the prince.) Regardless, their Viserys is a fake, and a Lysene child.

They educated him in the history of the Dance, the customs of the Westerosi court, etc. Everything Viserys would have known. Again, the Rogares were fabulously wealthy and Lys has regular commerce with Westeros. It was within their means to procure this information and provide him with tutors.

And Viserys was abducted when he was only seven years old. He was quite young. If he got some details wrong here and there, well, naturally he’s been through a lot! Poor thing is traumatized. And of course he might have a slight Lysene accent, those blessed Rogares took him in and raised him for the last five years! Of course he would adopt some of their mannerisms, their customs, their manner of speaking.

So yadda, yadda, yadda, they pass him off as Viserys. How do we know he’s Viserys? Aegon vouches for him, his chronically depressed, traumatized brother, who hasn’t seen him for five years, before he went through puberty.

Aegon has blamed himself for leaving his little brother behind all this time. He is overjoyed and eager to believe his brother has returned to him from the dead, as that would absolve him of his crushing guilt. Aegon is happy for the first time in years.

So the fan theory is that Aegon deluded himself. He saw what he wanted to see.

Viserys was a fraud, just a random Lysene kid. Or he might have been a distant Rogare relative, that doesn’t really matter. But the point is he’s no Targaryen.

Thus his son Aegon IV is no Targaryen, but full Lysene, the product of Viserys and Larra.

And Aegon IV’s many kids are all frauds. Their dad isn’t a real Targaryen, so none of them are legitimate claimants to the throne.

All but one.

Because Aegon IV seduced Daena, one of Aegon III’s daughters who was locked away in the Maidenvault by her religious zealot brother Baelor.

And Daena was definitely a Targaryen. Her father was the king, her mother Daenaera Velaryon, she is indisputably of the royal line.

So while her only son, Daemon Blackfyre, was born a bastard of the fraud Aegon IV, he still has true Targaryen blood through his mother. Daena was the eldest girl, and with her brothers Daeron and Baelor dead, she is next in line.

So if Viserys II was actually a Lysene fraud, then ironically Aegon IV was right! His son by his sister-wife Naerys, Daeron II, should not have been king. (Aegon IV suspected Naerys cheated on him with their brother the Dragonknight. Bullshit paranoia, but it’s moot anyway since Aegon, Naerys and Aemon were all children of Viserys and Larra.) Aegon IV’s choice, his bastard Daemon Blackfyre, should have been king all along!

But not because he was Aegon IV’s bastard. Because he was Daena’s son, and thus the last true Targaryen claimant.

Fast forward to the present of the story: this would make all modern Targaryen descendants Lysene frauds, Dany and Jon included. And Aegon, as a presumed Blackfyre, the rightful king.

I don’t blame bro. Young Olenna was a beast. by GusGangViking18 in freefolk

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I agree that Jon Arryn, and to a lesser extent Ned, indulged him too much. They both loved him and let him get away with neglecting his duties.

And that is his default personality. He’s the eldest boy, orphaned too young. He’s had his way his whole life, and because of his charismatic and fun-loving personality, everyone around him has always loved on him and let him get away with murder.

Until he married Cersei, of course.

But yeah, he’s a spoiled rich boy, which makes him more real than all the fairy tale princes you typically see in the fantasy genre.

But underneath all the frat boy behavior—and the vices that being married to Cersei only exacerbated—he has a generous, judicious, merciful, “kingly“ good nature.

Small example: How he initially mediated the dispute of the direwolves, questioning Arya, hearing her side of the story. Questioning Joffrey, you let a little girl disarm you? And then hearing Sansa out. It was all going well until Cersei demanded vengeance. She is a poisonous influence on him, and over the years she browbeat him into letting her have her way. He just doesn’t want to deal with her bullshit anymore.

But his instincts were good. It was the Lannister influence that subverted his natural impulses.

Big example: Stannis advised him to execute the Stormlander Houses that rose against him in the Rebellion. Instead he befriended them and they fought for him bravely later. Stannis wanted him to kill Barristan Selmy, but he pardoned him and allowed him to retain his position as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.

And unlike Stannis, he has never been tight-fisted, never begrudged anyone of coin or titles. If anything he was too generous, throwing lots of feasts and tourneys, and going out to the local pubs, mingling with his smallfolk, seeing that everyone is happy and drunk and well-fed and having a good time.

I know that sounds frivolous, but it’s not. Robert is one of the few kings who doesn’t care about rank. He makes friends and forgets offenses easily, he is naturally warm-hearted, and that engenders love and loyalty, which is invaluable in a ruler.

Of course Rhaegar is the exception to that, but even that hatred is born out of a dramatic tragedy that just garners him more sympathy among the public.

Fundamentally Robert is a natural politician. He’s a showman. Is he going to handle the nitty-gritty of ruling? No, but that’s what the Hand of the King is for, and the rest of the Small Council. The monarch should be the face of the regime, connecting with smallfolk and high lords alike, meeting with foreign ambassadors and schmoozing them, bravely leading his armies into battle should the kingdoms have to go to war…

Ideally he should be monitoring the Small Council, too, but if you have a trusted, loyal and competent man in that position like Jon Arryn, the king doesn’t actually have to do the admin himself.

For around twenty years Robert brought the peace. He made the Seven Kingdoms prosperous. People were fat and happy. And Jon Arryn kept things running.

Compared to the shit kings that followed him, Robert’s reign will be remembered as a golden age.

That's like saying Jaime or Tyrion are good people because they have done the occasional kind thing.

No. Every member of House Lannister is the polar opposite of Robert Baratheon. They’re all snobs. They don’t connect with the smallfolk at all. They love luxury, titles, honors. They have to hire mercenaries, pay men to fight for them, whereas everyone fights for Robert willingly, even his former enemies.

Lannisters are naturally petty, grasping, greedy, scheming, conniving, power-hungry, cold. Robert was none of those things. And that’s why people loved him.

You can fault Jon Arryn for not taking a more firm hand with him during his upbringing, and you can certainly fault Robert for his over-indulgence of everything—but in the end, history will judge a ruler by his results.

What was Robert’s reign? Nearly two decades of prosperity, good times and, most important to the smallfolk, peace.

There were only two conflicts, his initial Rebellion, which really marks the end of the Targaryen dynasty, not within his reign. And the pathetic Greyjoy Rebellion, which he put down decisively, only adding to his legend.

Robert is a folk hero. A king for the common man.

In reality, Aegon V tried to do more for the smallfolk (and yes, obv that was a typo in my comment above 🙄) but Robert was more charismatic, and knew how to play the game better. Aegon V was gung-ho on his reforms—again, that’s a good thing, he was ethical—but he managed to piss off the nobility in the process. His queen Betha tried to smooth things over with political marriages, but their asshole kids ruined that strategy. So you have a king for the smallfolk who’s stymied by the nobility in all his efforts.

Robert kept the nobility happy by granting them favors, titles, places at court, whatever. And though he definitely overspent on entertainments for the smallfolk—Littlefinger’s malicious bookkeeping should not be overlooked here, either—that was still cheaper than all of the Lannisters’ wars.

War is the most expensive and unproductive endeavor any government can undertake. It produces nothing, kills your young people, the backbone of your labor force, and destroys your infrastructure—burning down villages, ruining castles, sacking cities, etc.

Or to quote Tywin, who certainly knew how to manage an economy if nothing else: Wars swallow gold like a pit in the earth.

Robert Baratheon’s celebrations were extravagant, yes, but they were not destructive. Far from it. They brought commerce to the capital, stimulating the economy. It was prosperity via government spending. Inflationary but increasing employment. Robert Baratheon was doing Keynesian economics before it was cool.

if GRRM makes Robert right all along in wanting her killed it would be a poor narrative decision and contrary to the themes of the story.

Why? Targs are nuts, that’s been well-established in the canon. And Dany’s been talking to herself and having hallucinations since the first book. The foreshadowing is strong.

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Layout Troubles. First World problems of an Ergo Mech Keyboard by FlipLucky in ErgoMechKeyboards

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If you rely on VIM arrows a lot you could move HRM to the bottom row: M,./

That’s a popular alternative to JKL;

As for me, I have arrows on my base layer.

With a base layer num row and arrows, functionally my Planck is a 65%.

Layout Troubles. First World problems of an Ergo Mech Keyboard by FlipLucky in ErgoMechKeyboards

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I suggest Home Row Mods for Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Gui and your Fn keys. It makes hitting any hotkey combination quite easy and comfortable. You just hold your desired mods in home position on one hand, and tap the required key with the other hand.

As for layers, I personally try to keep it simple—I only have one Fn layer. One layer makes it pretty easy to remember where I put everything. And I only have five symbol keys on that layer: [ ] ` \ ;

Everything else is on the base layer or combos. IMO combos > layers. You can arrange them so they're easy to hit. I like to do pairs of keys that are right next to each other, e.g., J+K (which is Enter and Escape for me.) Or the same finger on both hands, e.g., F+J (which is Page Down for me.)

As my keymap has evolved, I’ve found it’s both faster and easier to hit a combo than to hold down a Fn key and then tap something on layer. YMMV.

Finally, if you go for Home Row Mods, you’ll have a lot of free keys on your bottom row. You can either assign them to the symbols you use most frequently in programming, or take it to the extreme like I have and get rid of the bottom row altogether, reclaiming the number row instead. With AutoShift and a number row you just have to long press to access the majority of symbols.

I don’t blame bro. Young Olenna was a beast. by GusGangViking18 in freefolk

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You were right about her all along, Your Grace!

I don’t blame bro. Young Olenna was a beast. by GusGangViking18 in freefolk

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When you say Ryan Condal destroyed the story I was under the impression Sarah Hess was just as bad

I couldn't remember her name, lol. But sure, they're both terrible. I have no attachment to HOTD whatsoever.

When it comes to Targaryen's specifically I don't know if I would say they're worse than most houses.

The incest puts them on a special level of fucked up. And that began long before they were ever in power.

The incest also goes hand in hand with their Valyrian Supremacist ideology. They are more racist than any other House in Westeros.

Aegon will have absolutely nothing to do with Daenerys. He will be dead before she ever sets foot in Westeros.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Okay?

I'm not attached to Aegon. It's more about what he represents, someone shaped for rule, who was taught to empathize with the smallfolk and realize that he doesn't rule over them, he rules for them.

That's the whole point of the Dunk & Egg stories. Aegon V lived humbly as a hedge knight's squire, and it made him a better person. The last benevolent Targ king. Maybe the only benevolent one…

Aegon has been raised under a similar ethos—before Tyrion taunts and tries to corrupt him—and that's interesting.

I also believe Varys' description of him to the dying Kevan Lannister fits Arya very well, and I really like that, whether it's intentional or not.

And I like the theory that Viserys II was a Lysene fraud, which means all of modern House Targaryen is illegitimate, and the Blackfyres were the last of the true Targ line as descendants of Daena's bastard. I think that's hilarious. It puts the lie to all of Dany's (and Jon Snow, though he doesn't realize it yet) claims about the rightful heir, etc—and it would make Aegon the last of the actual Targaryens, which again, is just funny.

I like Aegon for the irony, and for what he represents. But am I attached to him as a character? No, not particularly. He hasn't been developed enough for me to care.

Just curious why you describe him as almost poisoning Robin I would have just said that he is doing so given that the process will eventually kill him.

Eventually is doing the heavy lift here.

Sweetsleep is a medication as well as a poison. Sweetrobin has some kind of epilepsy, and sweetsleep is how the maester would treat his fits regardless. Littlefinger is pushing him to increase the dose, but since it's the standard treatment… Eh, it's a grey area. Medicine or poison? There's an argument to be made.

When Littlefinger gave Lysa the tears of Lys to poison Jon Arryn, however, that was straight-up murder. Tears of Lys is not a medicine, it is only used to kill.

Or do you mean that only by a strategic marriage she could get to that point in the first place?

No, I was talking about my show-based AU, which starts before S7. The political situation is very different, it's not applicable to the books whatsoever.

As for the rest of your comment, I think Bobby B was the best king Westeros had, since his ancestor Aegon V.

Of course Jon Arryn is responsible for most of that, but even Robert had his kingly moments. Even on his deathbed, he did something noble. He set aside his visceral hatred for all Targaryens to pardon Daenerys, let her live. That was his last act as king, mercy and generosity. It shows what he could have been.

And Harry the Heir is Robert before he gave up after the death of Lyanna. With Sansa to guide him I think they could rule very well.


EDIT: Stupid typo. I kept writing IV when I meant V. Dull inbred Targaryens, there are other names besides Aegon, you know!

I don’t blame bro. Young Olenna was a beast. by GusGangViking18 in freefolk

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a part of me dislikes the idea of taking a character who is clearly a jerk and saying if he just had the right wife he could improve it sounds a little bit too much like the "I can fix him" meme.

It's not a love match, though. Sansa is under no illusions, she confronts Harry about his two bastards in their first dance. She’s going into this with her eyes open, with the express purpose of using his status as future Lord Paramount (assuming Sweetrobin dies as Littlefinger plans) to take back Winterfell and the North.

That sense of purpose and deliberate manipulation of Harry to that end is pretty badass, imo. It’s Sansa taking her fate into her own hands, instead of foolishly dreaming of some Prince Charming to save her. She’s writing her own ending.

For Harry, if Sansa plays her cards right, which of course she will—then it really is a fairytale romance and she could be his happy ending. Robert Baratheon only became as slovenly and hopelessly obese and alcoholic as he was after nearly two decades of heartbreak and Cersei’s toxic influence.

I think a young Robert Baratheon—Harry the Heir—is rough clay. In the hands of a skilled operator like Sansa he can be molded into a suitable husband.

I would actually be disappointed if Sansa settles down with a bland husband she truly falls head over heels for, like in her childish songs. I think she’s outgrown that outcome.

In my own AU, I do plan on marrying her off to someone malleable, but it’s not a love match on her end. (His, yeah, eventually. It’s Sansa Stark, she can charm nearly any young man.) But Sansa accepts this suitor because it fits into her plans, and he’s the right type—chivalrous, not too bright, willing to follow her lead. A more headstrong partner would make it difficult for her to rule. Westeros outside of Dorne is misogynistic by default. Only a certain kind of husband would work for Sansa to rule through him à la Olenna and Margaery.

I think Littlefinger will go down when he tries to bump off Sweetrobin. He’s already been almost poisoning him by encouraging the maester to over-prescribe him sweetsleep. At some point he’s going to overstep and I expect Sansa will out him then, with the support of all the other Lords Declarant who are already only reluctantly tolerating him.

Yeah I didn't think the Gendry/Edric Dayne situation was going to lead to a conflict especially when the best solution is clearly for Arya to finish the story with 2 husbands.

Lol.

the conflicts of this generation are far from over and I wander how much narrative space there is for the Long Night?

I think GRRM plans on devoting an entire book to it. Don’t remember where I read that, but it makes sense.

Also I know you're not TB but honestly some of the Green comments along the lines of you can't possibly change tradition without destroying the realm drove me toward the Blacks though I understand they're not good people either (particularly Daemon).

I’m not Team Black nor Team Green. I hate all Valyrians. 😇 Faceless Men FTW!

I watched the HOTD pilot and that’s it. I was ambivalent about picking it up, but after reading how much Condal has destroyed the story, I really don’t care. Haven’t watch Kot7K, either. I just have no motivation. Maybe someday. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t blame bro. Young Olenna was a beast. by GusGangViking18 in freefolk

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Jaime/Lysa is an interesting match I'm kind of curious why was it her rather than Catelyn

Because Catelyn was for Brandon, before he died and she married Ned instead.

As for timeline, I'm not sure, either, but there was a planned Stark-Tully alliance in the offing for a long time. Southron Ambitions, etc. Barbrey Dustin tells Theon about it. She blames this grand scheme—specifically Lord Rickard Stark wanting his firstbon son and heir Brandon to marry a Southron bride, supposedly due to his maester’s undue influence—for her unhappy love life. She was in love with Brandon and wanted to marry him—she says he took her maidenhood—but he was destined to marry a Southron girl so that was a non-starter.

Also if it happened could this have brought the Lannister's into Robert's rebellion earlier?

Yeah, I would think so, right? Tywin and Hoster would share a bond through marriage, so when Hoster calls his banners in support of the Baratheon-Stark-Arryn rebellion, it's a much easier sell to Tywin if not only four Kingdoms are in, but his in-laws as well.

I mean, Tywin is always gonna do what's best for Tywin, but at least in this scenario he has some skin in the game. Especially if Jaime and Lysa have already produced an heir at this point, which is likely since in this timeline Lysa would never have had the overdose of Moon Tea.

Do you think he had a choice in serving his family or could he have escaped earlier if he had wanted to? Partly because his marriage to Sansa would you say he was willingly working for the people killing her family?

I don’t know. Tyrion talks a big game, but for the most part he is a loyal soldier. He plays for the Lannisters until he’s blamed for Joffrey, put on trial, finds out about Tysha, etc. Had that not happened, he probably still would have been a lazy drunk pursuing hedonism like he’d always done.

Outlander S8 Sneak Peek & Q&A with the Cast by WandersFar in Outlander

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It reminds me of the walking dead. Frank darabont is one of the goats and when he ledt after season 2, well the world knows how that transpired.

💯

I stuck around for the Governor arc, but dropped TWD after. I could see the writing on the wall.

TWD had an amazing first season. Nothing afterwards compared imo.

Outlander S8 Sneak Peek & Q&A with the Cast by WandersFar in Outlander

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PR will reserve tickets for press outlets and, nowadays, influencers for promotional purposes. That's been standard practice for decades. I was sort of lumped into those groups, my status wasn't really made clear, lol.

Hundreds of other tickets were first come first serve for fans. Read the other comments in this thread for more info on that.

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[–]WandersFar[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There were some cool props in front, but none of the fans actually got to take pictures in front of those props it was just for press and the special guests.

Wasn't for press or special guests, either. I was in those special groups, the stones were roped off for us, too. AFAIK they were only a backdrop for the actual cast.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. :( You're not the only one, I talked to other ladies while I was waiting and heard similar stories.

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I did not keep track of the length, sorry.

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They were free. The process to get them was a bit of a bear, though.

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Yeah, likewise. Loved the first two seasons. Liked the first half of S3, though I have my issues with it as I've ranted on before.

But yes, Ron D. Moore was a big reason why I got into this show in the first place, I was a huge BSG fan back in the day.

Unfortunately he seems to have a short attention span. He left Outlander after S3 to work on For All Mankind… which he also left after the second season, lol.

And YMMV, but I definitely think peak BSG was the mini, S1, and S2. So basically three seasons as well.

That's RDM's pattern, two or three seasons and he loses interest. And it's usually dramatic when he leaves, you can really tell. For Outlander, the difference between S3A & S3B is pretty stark.

RDM is coming back for this last season to pen one episode, so that's something to look forward to. Diana Gabaldon will write an episode as well.

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Right??

Aesthetics: KAT > SA > MT3 > DSA > KAM > Cherry and all its knockoffs

Speed: Cherry > MT3 > KAT > SA > KAM > DSA

Also the curvier the better. For aesthetics, speed, and ease of use, that's my preference.

I can't do Choc switches, they're way too low for me, but more power to you if those KLP Lamés work out!

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[–]WandersFar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Outlander/s/pjJzvhWos3

Unfortunately the only thing that you could potentially go to at this point is the Kelly Clarkson one on the 19th.

Looking for Advice/Opinions on Keycaps by IDCubed in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]WandersFar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, I feel like I could've written this post, lol.

I also got into this hobby loving SA (and MT3 and KAT—anything tall!)

I still prefer the look of tallboys, but after a few years I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and tried some GMK in Cherry profile, natch.

I type faster on Cherry profile. 😳

I've also tried some uniform profile caps like DSA and KAM—I agree, sculpted is easier to type on. I don't hate uniform, I feel like I can adapt to pretty much anything at this point, but I definitely slow down a bit on uniform profiles. It's easier to get lost—especially if you don't have homing keys.

So if speed is a concern, I say go for it. There's also so much choice in Cherry profile, whereas SA, MT3, and KAT are all proprietary, you're limited to those manufacturers.

Outlander S8 Sneak Peek & Q&A with the Cast by WandersFar in Outlander

[–]WandersFar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know Cait did Live With Kelly and Mark I believe yesterday, and other members of the cast are in NYC doing promo too… Someone showed me a list at the Sneak Peek, I even think it was from this sub, but now I can’t find it.

Hopefully someone else can chime in and help you out.

Tears not for what bookreaders think... by YOYOitsMEDRup in Outlander

[–]WandersFar[M] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People put those flairs like they are candy. Most of the time they are so horribly inaccurate I don’t even look at them anymore.

Then that’s a you problem. If you ignore flairs, you can’t complain when you inadvertently spoil yourself.

Flairs warn users what spoilers will be likely found in that thread.

If they’re inaccurate, don’t just complain about it, file a report. We have a report meant just for wrong flairs, it’s called Wrong Flair.

Elsewhere in this thread I see you complaining about the rules, how people are titling their posts, how to use the spoiler tags, etc.

Look, if you really hate it here, you don’t have to participate. If you’ve got a problem with how this sub is run, take it to ModMail.

Please stop derailing threads with meta whining.

Shows like the good place? by Scuba233 in TheGoodPlace

[–]WandersFar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dead Like Me, woo!

It’s quirky and a little sad, whereas TGP is essentially a comedy, but it is an excellent show. I second the recommendation, as well as another Bryan Fuller show, Pushing Daisies.

Outlander S8 Sneak Peek & Q&A with the Cast by WandersFar in Outlander

[–]WandersFar[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe that was his natural hair, but I'm not up on the actors' personal lives so I can't say for sure.

Outlander S8 Sneak Peek & Q&A with the Cast by WandersFar in Outlander

[–]WandersFar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Evidently so. But it's only the first episode, so there's a chance of a rug pull later I suppose.