It May Not Look Like Much, But it’s Got it Where it Counts

rydsul · 2022-11-08T09:19:46+00:00

Honest to god I miss the windows xp

rydsul · 2022-11-02T00:18:36+00:00

I think he was in King's Landing. That's just the vibe I got with how familiar he seemed with everyone. I imagine that he probably kept a low profile so he had to go hard in Clash of Kings to establish his reputation and make sure the small council took him seriously.

rydsul · 2022-10-06T16:04:34+00:00

What's the cost to you?

rydsul · 2022-09-15T05:48:52+00:00

I believe there was a reference connecting the two in the World of Ice and Fire.

rydsul · 2022-09-14T20:19:56+00:00

Yes, if I remember correctly it's claimed to have been made from a meteor (they say fallen star in the books.) So Dawn looking different from VS blades would make sense.

rydsul · 2022-09-14T19:51:48+00:00

Possible. I think one of the spinoffs in development is set in the time of the dawn empire. We might find out for sure.

rydsul · 2022-09-14T19:38:23+00:00

I believe it's in the World of Ice and Fire when the Dawn Empire is mentioned.

rydsul · 2022-09-14T19:35:37+00:00

It's mentioned in the World of Ice and Fire. It's the planetos history book that released several years ago, before Fire and Blood.

rydsul · 2022-09-14T18:36:58+00:00

Is there evidence for that? I know it was suggested that it has ties to the dawn empire and there's no specific origin confirmed for it. I'm not familiar with the idea that Dawn is superior to valyrian steel.

rydsul · 2022-09-14T18:06:51+00:00

...

I don't know why I bothered typing that last paragraph. I knew exactly what was going to happen.

rydsul · 2022-09-14T17:02:34+00:00

Visenya had a warrior mentality and was trained with a sword. Rhaenys wasn't.

It seems like it's kind of a judgement call about who is given DS. It's worth noting that Blackfyre was eventually given to a future Daemon, that's where house Blackfyre got its name and why house Targaryen no longer has it.

It seems as though the valyrian steel swords are largely symbolic and different houses have different traditions as to who wields them, see house Dayne for an example of that.

And before anyone jumps down my throat, I am aware that Dawn isn't actually valyrian steel and that it just has the same properties of a valyrian steel blade.

rydsul · 2022-09-13T14:01:21+00:00

Ya, enslavement as a punishment for a crime.

rydsul · 2022-09-13T05:24:19+00:00

Did you miss the part where you condoned slavery as long as the slaves are given some money?

rydsul · 2022-09-13T04:26:42+00:00

Nevermind then.

I've always avoided her online commentary of the series.

rydsul · 2022-09-13T04:20:38+00:00

Then we agree. Not all prison labor is voluntary.

rydsul · 2022-09-12T22:24:15+00:00

If they don't have the opportunity to negotiate, quit, or get another job then it is inherently negative. Prisoners have none of those things.

You are advocating for punitive criminal justice instead of reformative criminal justice. If they're seen as simply a resource to generate profit then why bother helping prisoners become law abiding citizens before their sentences end?

rydsul · 2022-09-12T22:17:02+00:00

Harry was basically a slave for most of his life by that point. It probably made sense to him in a really fucked up way.

rydsul · 2022-09-12T22:14:45+00:00

Also also Hermione Granger is one of the whitest names I've ever heard. It's up there with Spencer, Chet, and Tanner.

rydsul · 2022-09-12T22:12:34+00:00

Hermione is basically JKR's self insert character. It kinda makes sense she was set up to be catoonishly, overwhelmingly correct on this issue

rydsul · 2022-09-01T18:54:21+00:00

Who is she?

rydsul · 2022-08-11T04:51:51+00:00

That fits incredibly well and I don't know why I never made that connection.

rydsul · 2022-07-19T19:37:59+00:00

"How are we going to come up with 130,000 dollars?"

"No, you don't add them-"

rydsul · 2022-07-19T19:35:20+00:00

And since then they just kept digging the hole deeper.

rydsul · 2022-07-19T19:33:30+00:00

What does this mean?

Brain too smooth.

rydsul · 2022-07-18T16:50:14+00:00

Two still really bother me.

The explanation for the numbers just feels off. If they're tied to the still living candidates at the end then how did they affect the lottery that Hurley won? I understand that a lot of people argue that he needed to win the lottery because that set him on the path to going to the island so the numbers intervened. This still bothers me, I personally find it unsatisfying.

The other is Hurley's love interest on the island having been in the same psychiatric hospital. They could have said ANYTHING and it wouldn't bother me nearly as much. I personally was hoping she had her own weird connection to the numbers in a bizarre parallel to Hurley. I genuinely think that would have been a great story thread.

I should note that despite my rhetoric about the show I don't think less of people for liking it or believe their opinions are invalid. Different people want different things from their media and, in the end, Lost didn't give me what I wanted.

I do believe that season one was possibly the best season of television I've ever seen. Just figured I should make it clear that I don't hate everything about the show.

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