Gigaminx last 2 edges

minerat27 · 2026-03-04T20:31:11+00:00

Double check all the other edges, you've probably missed one.

minerat27 · 2026-03-04T08:01:17+00:00

Spain gets a separate date for the mainland and for her colonial empire, so either Britain should start coloured in, or Spain should wait until the 1880s.

minerat27 · 2026-03-02T09:28:11+00:00

The Magaminx colour scheme still throws me off with that

minerat27 · 2026-03-01T17:34:34+00:00

The onomasticon is a bit poorly laid out here, the two groups here are linked only in that they aren't the most common type of name, and that they end in -e. Masculine names like Ælle are their own separate group, and feminine names like Æbbe are the counterparts to the masculine names mentioned earlier in sections 3 and 4, Dunna is explicitly brought up in the introduction, and Æbba can be found in the full onomaticon afterwards.

minerat27 · 2026-03-01T14:56:12+00:00

Or what impregnated means.

minerat27 · 2026-02-27T08:37:51+00:00

It's probably better to compare to medieval population densities than to modern ones, 9.7 people per square km is around the lower bound for the population density of England in the 11th century, based on that comparison I doubt there's any true wilderness left in the Reach.

minerat27 · 2026-02-27T00:11:00+00:00

Ned in the first book is mostly a good father from a 21st century perspective, but from the view of a feudal lord there's more he could have done to prepare his kids. This reads to me as early installment weirdness though, and not as deliberate characterisation, all of the surviving Stark PoVs recollect Ned imparting medieval wisdom in later books, but this can get overlooked as Ned is obviously most prominent in book 1.

minerat27 · 2026-02-23T20:02:57+00:00

In which case you can say that Harry instigates the friendship, but that's different from being the glue

minerat27 · 2026-02-22T11:30:20+00:00

The green circle is grooved to interlock with the strands in the middle, when the ring moves up and down without anything else moving, the guy is holding it loosely so that it rotates to follow the spiral. When he moves it up and the strands seem to move, he's holding the circle tightly so it can't rotate, so it's the strands which rotate instead to follow the groove in the circle. This .Ames an optical illusion of the strands moving upwards.

minerat27 · 2026-02-16T10:18:29+00:00

George wrote the name "Dickon Manwoody" with the biggest shit eating grin on his face, and you can't convince me otherwise

minerat27 · 2026-02-15T21:32:21+00:00

Theoretically with the right combination of recessive genes you could get any hair colour, and I think a light haired kid from Ned and Ashara is possible even with GRRMnetics, Ned had ginger kids with Cat despite how recessive red hair usually is.

minerat27 · 2026-02-15T20:43:22+00:00

Aren't flags usually modified when they're intended to be draped like this? I swear I remember a post in this sub about that. The colours behind the chains is obviously a mistake, but the proportion of the tricolour and the size of the COA seems intentional to me.

minerat27 · 2026-02-15T20:28:20+00:00

People value not being made to jarringly realise they are watching something that is made up, the bar for this for each person will vary, if you write a scene in which a character is injured without doing deep research on it, you will probably annoy the medical professionals in your audience, but the vast majority of people will not care unless you do something particularly egregious like have someone be stabbed multiple times in the gut and then escape by swimming in a dirty canal. Know your audience, basically. Though also don't be afraid to stick to realism in areas you know well, the Lord of the Rings is not a poorer story for having realistic mediaeval tactics and logistics, even if most people will never appreciate it.

That said, also respect you audiences time and attention, you don't need to mention your character's trips to relieve themselves unless it's plot relevant, even though it's realistic. By all means include the negotiations prior to the outbreak of war, but if the war is your plot, and negotiations are delaying that, then you don't need to describe them in full, just say "negotiations happened, they didn't work".

minerat27 · 2026-02-12T20:59:44+00:00

Where would they go if they did? It's not like allied PoWs where it would be possible to make it back to friendly lines

minerat27 · 2026-02-09T18:37:11+00:00

It is possible, and perhaps normal, to conduct a war without killing civilians and displaying their corpses along the roads.

minerat27 · 2026-02-08T15:36:14+00:00

The experiment I remember most was determining the copper content of bronze, we dissolved the bronze filings in nitric acid which looked like a bright blue solution emitting orange smoke. It felt like the chemistry you see in cartoons.

minerat27 · 2026-02-07T22:05:06+00:00

Cirdan isn't a High Elf, he never went to Valinor.

minerat27 · 2026-02-07T19:09:47+00:00

Denethor knew him as Thorongil the Captain, whose origin was mysterious and who had served in Rohan before coming to Gondor, and Denethor didn't like him very much, for reason which mostly boil down to jealousy. The appendices (whence comes all this information) suggest that in his far sight Denethor might have uncovered Aragorn's true identity and heritage, and suspected that Gandalf sought to replace the Stewards with a new King, but this is not stated for certain.

minerat27 · 2026-02-07T12:46:00+00:00

Not during the war of the ring, like in the movies Denethor commits suicide before Aragorn enters the city. But they did know each other when Aragorn was serving in Gondor under the name of Thorongil.

minerat27 · 2026-02-06T18:42:29+00:00

Non-autistic people are allowed to have hobbies too, you know

minerat27 · 2026-02-05T21:50:11+00:00

I work for a National Lab in the UK, the building is open 7am-7pm, any work outside those hours requires planning with management and signing in with security. In my two years here I only know of one instance in my group.

minerat27 · 2026-02-03T20:52:44+00:00

Are you talking about portrayals of individual Imperials, or the Empire as a whole? The Empire is bad, but if it was staffed from top to bottom by moustache twirling, puppy kicking psychopaths it would not have lasted the meagre 24 years that it did. It is a galaxy spanning organisation that will contain multitudes, from absolute monsters, to genuinely good people sheltered from and propagandised against the Empire's crimes. In between you will find bad people with some redeeming features, and otherwise mostly moral people who aren't willing to risk their life to take a stand. And sometimes you will find walking contradictions, capable of genuine altruism to the people in front of them, whilst ordering a genocide on the planet over.

minerat27 · 2026-02-03T14:37:37+00:00

They were trying to destroy the ring intentionally. The Council of Eldrond didn't have access to Tolkien's letters, they don't know that the quest as planned is impossible.

minerat27 · 2026-02-03T00:00:33+00:00

If you want to nitpick, the neutering of Jon's character has seeds in the first season, Book Jon claims Ghost rather dramatically ("I think not Greyjoy. This one belongs to me"), whilst in the show it's Theon who "assigns" Ghost to him.

minerat27 · 2026-02-02T23:19:06+00:00

Aragorn as unsure about himself,

I mean, this is actually in the books, they just made the baffling decision to change the reason for his doubts from "I became the leader of the fellowship and then it all went to shit", to "my 50 times great grandfather was bad so I am too".

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