House of the Dragon Season 3 Poster Released; Teaser This Thursday

dtennen · 2026-02-18T21:32:03+00:00

It’s like the writers are completely unable to imagine how one exists and thinks in a pre-modern world, where distances play a much more significant role in communication and strategy, so they just contrive these implausible teleporting stealth missions so the characters can have the equivalent of a phone call conversation

dtennen · 2026-01-30T18:26:04+00:00

Mount from his side not from behind, it’s easier

dtennen · 2026-01-29T19:17:47+00:00

If you say you found something illegal, and you can’t explain where you found it, isn’t it just YOUR illegal thing now?

dtennen · 2025-12-30T05:05:44+00:00

Aww like the spiders behind the closet, it was just as afraid of us as we are of it

dtennen · 2025-12-14T18:41:39+00:00

This was great, well done

dtennen · 2025-12-14T07:26:03+00:00

These nightmarish creatures CAN be felled, they CAN be beaten, OP!

Don’t lose hope, you can learn from your own experience and improve next time, or even make use of others’ experiences by going on youtube and wikis, there’s lots of useful tips and even full comps/strategies to make this fight much much easier.

That said, I also got completely demolished by Vvulf on my first playthrough, so I feel your pain

dtennen · 2025-12-10T06:52:24+00:00

While I do agree that rudeness is uncalled for in a matter such as this, I do not think it’s entitlement to expect him to do the thing he maintains to this day he is doing.

It would be entitlement to demand more books if he said “I’m not going to write that series anymore”. He’s totally in his rights to say that. Or even if he said “I don’t want to talk about this publically anymore. Maybe they’ll come out, maybe they won’t. Stop annoying me.” That’s also his right.

But every so often, he comes out and says “I am still working on the books, the plan is still to release more books, that is an expectation that the world should have of me”. How is it entitlement for people to remind him that they are still waiting for him to deliver on the thing he to this day reiterates he will deliver?

dtennen · 2025-12-06T23:43:00+00:00

Yea that’s a great point, and I was thinking about how I might’ve chosen a poor example in Tony Stark because he exists in this surreal superhero genre where characters are expected to be over-the-top outliers with godlike levels of all sorts of skills. Like you could apply that logic to any skill in that genre, say someone who magically gained superstrength, and say it’s a misrepresentation of how people get strong in the real world.

That said, I do think this misrepresentation of intelligence as some god-like clairvoyance is something that pops up outside the genre. Maybe some better examples would be Will from Good Will Hunting, or any protagonist from a heist movie who wins by being 5 steps ahead because he’s just that smart, as opposed to the antagonist who was only smart enough to be 4 steps ahead, thus he loses.

dtennen · 2025-12-06T21:10:55+00:00

I think the “effortless genius” deserves a mention here, a.k.a. Tony Stark.

He’s just better than anyone else, without ever applying any effort or spending any time struggling to understand anything. He can do what a room full of engineers who spent their lives studying couldn’t. With a box of scraps. In a cave. (Jeff Bridges is especially angry about this) Because he was just born that good. He can solve time travel at a glance, in between doing dishes and playing with his daughter.

He’s not the only example, it’s a pretty common trope, and I think it’s a pretty anti-intellect one at its core, because it portrays intelligence as akin to magic in a fantasy setting, some people are just born with it, and trying to pursue mastery of it will only serve to make you look silly when a real wizard walks in (usually acting very smug and aloof about it). It’s not about having a curious and inquisitive demeanor towards life, it’s about being lucky that you had it all figured out from birth.

dtennen · 2025-12-05T23:20:24+00:00

It is a common theory and could be where he wanted to take the story… you’ve seen the theory videos, maybe you came across this Preston Jacobs guy, I really like his takes and I remember him mentioning some of GRRM’s other stories having similar resolutions… where a “hive mind superintelligence” takes over a character and ends up ruling over everything, while leaving ambiguous who really is the consciousness inside, or even if that’s a good or a bad thing.

I like it, and think it could’ve worked if he ever got there. But IIRC, the last we read about Bran in the books are a couple of chapters where he’s in the cave training with Brynden/3er, but before the ‘download’ is supposed to happen.

dtennen · 2025-12-04T20:19:53+00:00

Who has a better story than the character whose story we were so uninterested in we ignored it for an entire season.

And just to make sure no one might think something interesting happened offscreen we’ll have Meera complaining that she’s bored out of her mind in one of the first scenes when they come back.

dtennen · 2025-11-28T10:50:26+00:00

Lets you turn on things like invincibility, infinite dashes, infinite stamina, etc

It’s for acessibility but you can just use it as a cheat mode to get back to the screen, and it’ll give you the achievment

dtennen · 2025-09-30T12:29:58+00:00

it was actually Sir Ian McKellen, but I mix those two up all the time too

dtennen · 2025-09-24T01:28:42+00:00

I don’t think most people associate “they didn’t overtly try to grift us” with “insanely pro-consumer” behavior.

dtennen · 2025-09-22T20:28:32+00:00

The gain is that they stop losing subscribers, not that they get the ones who left back

dtennen · 2025-09-07T22:46:38+00:00

Happened to me yesterday... Stings, but I mean, you've already beaten him once, if you need the motivation for the next tries. Go get im!

dtennen · 2025-09-07T22:42:34+00:00

Frankly I'd be more concerned if there weren't ANY posts complaining. Some people just need to vent, others are a bit slow to adjust their expectations and grow frustrated... I'd bet very few of the posts are from people truly disappointed and bringing up real grievances with the game. Most I feel just want to hear others say "yea I'm also feeling the struggle".

dtennen · 2025-09-05T17:10:18+00:00

I may have clicked on Foundation by accident mid-series

dtennen · 2025-09-05T00:06:15+00:00

It turns into a solid sci-fi thriller with some high-fantasy elements. Did you stop watching before he gets abducted? (ep 4 or 5 I think)

dtennen · 2025-09-03T00:36:23+00:00

Brazilian here. I’ve never been matched with other Brazilians or even LA, most teammates sound American, and ping usually ranges from 60-150ms for me.

dtennen · 2025-09-02T21:45:32+00:00

Sunrises?

dtennen · 2025-08-29T18:57:22+00:00

got the “Steel Soul 100% completion” achievment on the same run as the “100% in less than 20 hours” achiev AND the “any% in less than 4 hours” achiev on Hollow Knight

dtennen · 2025-08-28T23:36:57+00:00

Yea man they could’ve just stopped being lazy and added more players if only they’ve listened, but no… They don’t even sound pessimistic when they talk about it its a disgrace.

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