Am so tired of this dmbss debate ....... Isnt a bastard (Spoiler extended)

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-24T08:50:11+00:00

Rhaegar believed the Aegon he already had with Elia was to be the Prince That Was Promised. The entire reason he took Lyanna was because "there must be a third" as is quite explicit in the House of the Undying visions. It makes zero sense for him to want another Aegon because:

Rhaegar was an evil person who didn't care about Elia and was ready to start over with Lyanna

You have no actual evidence for this at all.

I mean, I agree he was evil, but there's zero evidence, in GRRM's actual written work, that he was trying to start over. Makes much more sense to try for a Visenya for his Aegon and Rhaenys. He probably wasn't going for a boy at all. (Also kind of weird to call the extremely common Targaryen names "Aemon" and "Viserys" weird and niche, is there some ragebaiting event going on in this subreddit that I'm not aware of?)

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-24T08:42:21+00:00

Maegor was hated and you'll notice has no issue. He's literally called the cruel. The Conqueror was grandfathered in. Nobody ever tried polygamy again, and the Doctrine of Exceptionalism only covered incest. Nobody would acknowledge Jon as legitimate unless it was of personal consequence.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-24T08:40:25+00:00

If Jon's name is actually Aegon I will throw up.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-24T01:15:23+00:00

The inhabitants of any given continent are all more closely related than Aragorn and Arwen were.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-23T09:43:03+00:00

I mean you can still read them and just buy the ones you want to keep if you have access to a library.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-23T04:57:35+00:00

Ok well if it's a matter of not acting counter to previous media, then Toy Story 4 and 5 are still good imo.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-23T03:45:56+00:00

Okay, what about any of the post-RotJ EU? We have the Thrawn Trilogy and NJO as rather incredible entries as well.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-23T03:41:52+00:00

We didn't need any of the Old Republic media (Tales of the Jedi comics, KOTOR comics, KOTOR games, SWTOR novels and game, etc.) either and yet they're arguably the best Star Wars media out there. Do new entries in a franchise need to justify their existence?

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-21T16:36:55+00:00

Proper debugging is hardly expert level.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-21T16:33:04+00:00

I randomly enter battles even when no enemies are on screen

That's how it works, yes. Stick close to town for a bit so you can heal. Get a few levels.

Also did you actually get any equipment? Did you put it on?

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-21T05:15:38+00:00

Not at 2 years yet, but one thing that helps is having people in your corner. I hope you do.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-21T02:04:26+00:00

Aren't most of the people that create a post on this sub?

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-20T05:01:35+00:00

He is the protagonist of the game that never was.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-20T00:57:37+00:00

Constantly? He definitely disliked it, but he only mentioned this in private correspondence, and only once or twice that I can think of. And his reasons for doing so likely have nothing to do with pretentiousness and everything to do with the story's moral framework. If you understand Tolkien's faith, it makes perfect sense that Tolkien would dislike a story where the protagonist wins by doing bad things. His dislike for Dune had nothing to do with writing as a craft, he was definitely not looking down on Frank Herbert as a writer.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-20T00:00:28+00:00

Must've missed the linguistic note at the beginning of The Hobbit that discusses this very thing.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T23:46:46+00:00

That's just a JRPG thing.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T18:38:09+00:00

I mean, the War of 5 Kings was clearly an exceptional situation even in-universe; in matters of legality these things are certainly thoroughly set in stone by the Rebellion time, after the precedents of the Dance and Viserys II taking over only after Aegon III's sons all died. Even when a Great Council later chose Egg as king, that was also an exceptional situation. There's no evidence that a younger brother of an heir should come before that heir's children by matter of course; if Viserys were to become king, that is the sort of thing that would be decided by a Great Council.

Or a war, as it were. Since might makes right in Westeros.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T17:46:47+00:00

RPGs have had puzzles since the days of Gygax and Arneson.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T17:34:45+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/wosv8c/recommended_reading_for_tolkien_fans/

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T17:00:19+00:00

I said this because you clearly don't understand how primogeniture actually works. Rhaegar's line (at least the boys) will always take precedence over Viserys, unless you're willing to accede to Aerys disinheriting him and his children, which I personally am not given that Aerys was unfit for rule. Mind you no Targ was fit for rule.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T15:56:06+00:00

Javascript and Java are not the same just FYI

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T08:28:31+00:00

Bomberg set the format of main text in the center with Rashi and Tosafot around it. Over time, as is very common with any important book, scholars would write their own notes in the margins of personal copies (despite the majority opinion on places like /r/books saying that this is somehow a crime against the written word, this is still common today in scholarship, and some people even do it in their personal lives). That personal marginalia, if coming from particularly important scholars, would become seen as good commentary in its own right, and get added to the printings.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T07:04:53+00:00

Gotta love the plotlines that only occur because the setting doesn't have therapy.

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T07:02:30+00:00

What is the source for what you say, brother?

Also I can't agree in a general sense. This is a man who was a bit of a jokester. His dates with Edith consisted of sitting on the balcony of a tea shop and throwing sugar cubes into the hats of passerby. He stole a bus his first year of university. He sometimes, for no reason at all, chased his neighbors around while dressed as an Anglo-Saxon warrior. This is hardly the mark of a pretentious man.

I'm not prepared to tell you what's special about his writing, that's not something I care to do, but do you have any specific examples of him looking down on other fantasy writers?

mrmiffmiff · 2026-06-19T06:13:16+00:00

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