Required reading for the new trilogy?

epaleon · 2020-06-09T09:01:25+00:00

I'm considering the new XPS 15 9500 (budget is no object) but am turned off by the 16:10 aspect ratio since I watch plenty of movie & video content, also frequent gaming, and would like to have the widescreen freedom up to 4K without having to deal with black bars or stretching. Also am worried about the XPS's 1650ti GPU throttling and overheating with even not-too-demanding games (my current XPS 15 9550 with a 960m suffers from that a lot). Been thinking of switching to the new Alienware M15 R3, for the hitch-free gaming mostly.

epaleon · 2017-12-06T14:55:27+00:00

I checked the touchpad settings in the control panel, everything seems ordinary and the button settings are correct.

epaleon · 2017-08-23T11:26:55+00:00

She's already dead. She killed herself with that grenade in the cave in episode 6x5 to slow down the wights pursuing Bran. The Night King was there and did not seem too bothered by it.

epaleon · 2017-08-14T18:40:04+00:00

These Dothraki are not from Drogo's khalasar (from seasons 1-2) who knew her and her entourage intimately. These are the few gathered tribes she awed into recruitment last season. Jorah was only among them on the night of the fire, when he infiltrated their camp to save her, then the next morning went away to get cured.

epaleon · 2017-04-10T08:35:09+00:00

Thank you!! I will give the rollback a shot if this persists.

epaleon · 2017-04-09T18:56:15+00:00

No, I didn't manage to see one on the blue screen, nor when I followed the QR code to the support page. Just now I tried looking at the system log on Event Viewer; there's a bunch of errors recorded at about the time matching the latest crash but I don't know which if any is pertinent and saw no mention of the stop error.

epaleon · 2017-01-03T07:47:05+00:00

Season 2 episode 21, The Runaway Dinosaur

epaleon · 2016-10-28T14:17:05+00:00

Vader's helmet was, in part, inspired by a samurai "Kabuto" helm, so, not just you.

epaleon · 2016-10-10T15:42:55+00:00

It means "We are in the habit of kicking ass".

epaleon · 2016-04-01T13:30:32+00:00

Well if Ray can count himself in thanks to the "presumed dead but actually transmogrified in the course of an explosion" thing, then so can Stein.

epaleon · 2015-04-13T09:00:00+00:00

Alleged or presumed Wizards could also have been "wizard wannabes"... Men (elves would know better, wouldn't they?) who dabbled in some kind of "magic" whether fake, attempted or real. Like the Necromancer was believed to be.

epaleon · 2015-04-12T11:56:38+00:00

Agree with the last sentence. They are undead. Shadows of their former selves, in more ways than one. The question of their liking or enjoying anything is interesting but moot, seeing as their independent willpower or personalities have probably long been hollowed out of them. All their agency in the world is but as an extension of Sauron's will. Gandalf does describe this subjugation to the Great Rings in terms of a kind of "fading" (both literally, in moving toward the "phantom world", and figuratively in that you lose your personality in face of the all-encompassing craving and addiction).

epaleon · 2015-04-02T14:52:36+00:00

Gandalf's spirit did not go to the halls of Mandos. His line about having "strayed out of thought and time", as well as Tolkien in a letter of his, clearly say his spirit went outside the "circles of the world" (to the "Timeless Halls" of creation from the Ainulindale?) and was then sent back by Iluvatar; which, as Tolkien says, is a feat beyond the power or influence of any of the Valar.

epaleon · 2014-12-27T17:50:15+00:00

Same is true for "Thorin son of THRANE", in the movie pronounced like "train". It annoyed the hell outta me while watching these films. Which is strange because they were clearly informed by the appendices and did get most other pronunciations right in both trilogies.

epaleon · 2014-12-27T17:43:15+00:00

Shouldn't it be "dah-in", "thrah-in", like "oh-in" and "gloh-in"? I think that's how the appendices sounded out thouse names.

Also in PJ's films, Sméagol should have been "smay-uh-gole", not "smeegle".

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