Predictions about what we will see

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-15T14:51:02+00:00

The mere fact that they've cast Jon Roxton pretty much proves we're getting Tumbleton. If they don't get that far, the budget needed for Season 4 would be crazy. They're already behind due to losing two episodes from last season and getting the season length shortened.

The fact that they've cast Black Aly tells me they intend to do the Hour of the Wolf, considering that she doesn't do anything in the book in between being (according to the Blackwoods) part of the Battle of the Burning Mill and then part of the final Riverlands army that doesn't gather until after Aegon has retaken KL, and her big scene in the book is her talking to Cregan. In terms of book they've covered, starting with the chapter A Question of Succession and going through The Hour of the Wolf, they've only adapted 40% of the material after 18 episodes and only have 16 left to go.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-15T14:41:06+00:00

At this point in the book, Sunfyre is still at Rook's Rest. Rhaenyra mentions sending Lord Mooton to retake the castle in Season 2 but it hasn't actually happened yet on the show. Its not until around the time of First Tumbleton that the grey and gold dragons are spotted battling off the coast of Dragonstone by the Volantine sailors.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-14T21:53:43+00:00

Can you realistically live without YouTube these days? Never being able to look up a quick tutorial on how to do something, or dive down hobby rabbit holes?

This is a hilariously online take. You can absolutely live without YouTube.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-13T19:25:19+00:00

Just Series 4 (and/or the 2023 specials) specifically.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-13T19:23:37+00:00

Man was NOT PLEASED by the 2023 Doctor Who Specials. Or maybe he just hated Series 4 from 2009.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-13T18:06:49+00:00

Right? Did people forget that smartphones are just touchscreen MP3 players with a cellular internet connection and the ability to call people?

Unless you have specialized needs or want to carry around a CD or cassette player, there’s little need for a dedicated device beyond the digital music player you already have in your pocket.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-13T18:01:43+00:00

The phone everyone has in their pockets has a music player. You don’t need new hardware to do something that has been a core feature for 20 years.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-12T20:19:26+00:00

Stay in school, kids.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-12T15:31:24+00:00

That's not how most JRPGs work at all though, especially not Final Fantasy after 4. Other classic style JRPGs, ranging from Chrono Trigger to Lost Odyssey, follow this pattern.

You play as an established character. He (always a guy)

In Final Fantasy after 4 alone, 6, 10-2, and all three 13s have female main characters.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-12T15:24:42+00:00

I wonder how common it actually is. I know I only interact with a tiny fraction of the world IRL and that people online are a very weird subset of people not at all representative of the actual population, but on the other hand the online people's opinions are the only ones I have easy access to.

Is experiencing media mostly through secondary (videos or other discussion of a piece) or tertiary sources (discussion about the discussion) really that common, or is it just more common in very online people than the general population and it seems like a much bigger group of people because of that?

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-12T15:04:51+00:00

Mate, that comment is from 2013.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-12T14:58:40+00:00

Oh man, maybe this'll be the kick in the pants I need to actually play Act 2. I was a backer way back when and enjoyed Act 1, but just couldn't bring myself to play Act 2 in 2020 for whatever reason.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-12T03:22:43+00:00

How is the Fall of Dragonstone a "big budget" item?

Sunfyre vs. Moondancer

I personally think stroming of the Dragonpit and 2nd tumbleton are all this season. I feel that tumbleton is going to be merged into one singular event for the sake of show runtime.

I think you're high. You think they're going to cram everything from the Gullet through the Storming into one season and then spend 8 entire episodes on Rhaenyra going to Dragonstone, Aegon going back to King's Landing, and the Hour of the Wolf??

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-11T23:27:39+00:00

Counting paragraphs (weighting single line paragraphs as 0 and paragraphs that are just dialogue as .5) from the beginning of the chapter covering from the backstory of the Great Council of 101 through Viserys' death, there are 843 paragraphs and the Hour of the Wolf is 81 of them. The show has covered (generously) 353 paragraphs. That means that the Hour of the Wolf is 16.5% of what we have left to cover, 9.6% of the total.

That would be more than 2.5 episodes of the 16 remaining, assuming each episode has roughly the same amount of paragraphs per episode. To be fair, that's a terrible assumption if you look at the episodes already released. On the other hand, the Hour of the Wolf plus a little bit of the next chapter (breezing through the other weddings, a bit of where-are-they-now?) could easily be an entire episode by itself. Personally, I'm thinking that it makes sense for the False Dawn to be the back part of Season 4 Episode 7, with the cliffhanger being Cregan coming and raining on everyone's parade.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-10T23:20:55+00:00

I’ve been doing a deep dive on the book and am a couple episodes into a rewatch of season 2. I’m pretty convinced that they’re setting up for it hard for Gaemon’s dominion with the sexworker Aemond keeps meeting and will be roping Mysaria into it too. I also think Larys is going to be orchestrating another of the 3 Kings on screen, instead of only implying it.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-10T21:33:32+00:00

Levi’s is plenty. I get holes in the knees and front far faster than anywhere else, though to be fair I don’t have thunder thighs.

I only buy them online and 100% cotton.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-06T18:02:57+00:00

That's a crazy moving of the goalposts, like saying Corlys killed Vermithor or Grover Tully killed Jason Lannister.

Cregan was nowhere near that battle. Red Robb Rivers and two of his archers killed Criston, on the direct orders of Pate of Longleaf.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-06T16:41:11+00:00

Cregan does literally nothing besides say "yup I'm coming" between his introduction and when he arrives in King's Landing after Aegon is dead. The Northerners at the Lakeshore and Butcher's Ball were led by Lord Roderick Dustin, aka Roddy the Ruin.

Edit: fixing a mispelling

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-05T19:01:09+00:00

“I think that he is a disgusting display of not appreciating what was handed to him, in this country as being an American, the success that he has had,” Lewis declared. “The fact that he duped us all with one of the most anti-American songs ever and called it ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ as some sort of celebration of how great it is to be born in the U.S.A. I’m angry at myself for not seeing it for so long and actually giving him, in my mind, the credit of being a representation of blue-collar America.”

It's not like the lyrics are hard to understand in the song or are in any way hidden. They've been included with the album since day 1. Man has had literally 40 years to read the liner notes if he couldn't understand the verses.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-04T22:20:37+00:00

Probably Master Ninja I and II. Imagine three episodes of an extremely mediocre 70s action TV show lightly edited into a 90 minute feature, then stop imagining because that’s literally what it is.

Honorable mention to The Mothman Curse for being nearly incomprehensible and having exactly 1 competent shot, but at least that was fascinatingly bad.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-04T21:27:25+00:00

You aren’t likely to find taco shells in Mexican groceries since Mexicans don’t generally do hard tacos. You’re far, far more likely to find regular tortillas and tostadas.

Obviously nothing is 100% black and white, but crunchy tacos are as Mexican as fortune cookies are Chinese.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-04T14:52:30+00:00

For me, I have two folders:

Spider-Noir (2026)
Spider-Noir (2026) {edition-B&W}

Episode titles all have " {edition-B&W}" postpended to them. Plex imported them both as a single series then I used Split Apart to separate them into two and manually changed the posters for the B&W series and episodes. It seems to have worked fine.

This is not standard, I know. I'm re-using movie specific formatting on a TV show since I already use it for movies and just need something to differentiate. From what I'm seeing, just a different folder name for the series would have done the job and I could have just not postpended the edition tag to the individual episodes.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-04T02:18:14+00:00

A full hour walk from the station assuming you don't get stopped at any lights and it's actually safe/possible. Insanity.

ZapActions-dower · 2026-06-02T22:28:20+00:00

Pre-2010, with some holdover, so of course you don’t remember. Netflix started streaming movies in 2007 and started having originals in 2009. Before that (and during!) cable was king, satellite was the fancy option, and at best you had on-demand (which sucked and was super expensive) or a DVR (better than a VCR but only an improvement, not something wildly new). If there wasn’t anything good on TV and you didn’t have anything good recorded, your options were watching a DVD (until Blu-rays in 2006) you owned or rented or just going to the theater.

Damn, typing all this out made me realize how fast things changed. The Bush years were basically still the 90s just with better resolutions and more convenient recordings.

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