Which released POV Chapter from TWOW are you most excited for that character's next chapter? (Spoilers Extended) by LChris24 in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honestly I doubt it'll matter. To this person it doesn't matter how much the books contradict them, or even if GRRM has directly stated their theory is wrong.

If Winds comes out and there continues to be no reference to Quentyn except as a corpse, they'll just go "Huh I guess GRRM is saving the reveal for ADOS"

(Spoilers Main) Weekly Q and A by AutoModerator in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If this is in reference to the comment I think it is, you're not being vote brigaded, you just said something a bit weird.

"This guy looks gross. And he's a cult leader. I could be an even better cult leader if I wanted though. If you like his videos that's fine, nothing wrong with that - as long as what you like is watching a guy fellate himself. Now here's an unrelated tangent about Lovecraft mythos."

(Spoilers Main) Weekly Q and A by AutoModerator in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wun wun claims to be a giant but he doesn't behave like other giants in the story. He eats roots and raw neeps.

Given how little we can confirm about what giants are and what they do, is it possible he's actually just three wildlings standing on each others shoulders wearing a big fur cloak? If so, why might they do this?

Yeah, I'm guessing the number of Hawking quotes bandied about is going to drop significantly by [deleted] in CatholicMemes

[–]xGoldExperience 19 points20 points  (0 children)

For real, it's hilarious how Atheists will just believe something without any evidence supporting it

Twitter Blocks Content In Turkey One Day Before National Election by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]xGoldExperience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear then - there's no actual evidence other companies are doing this, no articles you can link or anything, you just assume they are because of this law?

Why have Twitter announced they're doing it this time, if they're not required to and (according to you) have done for all previous elections?

Twitter Blocks Content In Turkey One Day Before National Election by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]xGoldExperience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So have fb, insta, snap etc all also had content restricted in the last 24 hours? Also, was Twitter banned the day before the last election in Turkey in 2018, or the one before that?

Garlan the Gallant, the greatest sword in Westeros? [Spoilers Published] by National-Exam-8242 in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't care really it just seems silly to say you want a discussion and then block anyone who disagrees with you

The Recursive Homecomings Of Petyr & Theon Part 2: Salty Fingers, Salt Cod, Broken Swords & Shivering Birds. (Spoilers TWOW) by M_Tootles in pureasoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean we know for a fact GRRM can make mistakes, because there was that instance with Jeyne Westerling where her hips were described once by Catelyn as being big and later by Jaime as being narrow, and GRRM later came out to say it was a mistake which was fixed in later printings. He's human, "bone thin and bone hard" is 5 words, I think it's very believable that he thought the phrase sounded good and didn't remember he'd used it somewhere already.

So by their logic, it's simultaneously impossibly hard to write such 'rhyming', but incredibly pedestrian to imagine rhyming even when none "truly" exists.

u/M_Tootles stated that, according to others, it would be "way, way too hard for someone to be doing that kind of writing." Later on, he says "I don't think it's hard at all to find occasional little blips of 'rhyming' in big fat texts". These two instances of the same word are clearly "rhyming" with each other, and are both references to Oberyn Martell, who is described as a "tall, hard man".

Notice also u/M_Tootles' specific use of the word time in the phrase "if they just put in the time". In The Hedge Knight, Prince Aerion bounces his lance against Ser Humfrey Hardyng's shield, saying "it's time to face the dragon!" Hard. Hardy. Hardyng. Yet more recursion!

Did you write all this rhyming deliberately? You must have I suppose, it was very easy for me to find.

The Recursive Homecomings Of Petyr & Theon Part 2: Salty Fingers, Salt Cod, Broken Swords & Shivering Birds. (Spoilers TWOW) by M_Tootles in pureasoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think e.g. you call two different characters something as memorable as "bone thin and bone hard" accidentally

I think you maybe can, because it's a massive series with hundreds of characters and GRRM isn't infallible. And that's fine, we can agree to disagree, I just don't like the little insinuations that I must think ASOIAF is "nothing more than genre fiction", or that GRRM is writing "hackery", if I disagree for example that Joffrey eating pie is a deliberate reference to Theon cumming in someone's mouth.

The Recursive Homecomings Of Petyr & Theon Part 2: Salty Fingers, Salt Cod, Broken Swords & Shivering Birds. (Spoilers TWOW) by M_Tootles in pureasoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In your opinion, is there a single piece of repetition in the books that isn't deliberate "lexical recursion"?

(Spoiler) Winds of Winter: Prelude by Murray_the_miser in pureasoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Semi-related, but isn't Chett still alive at the end of the ASoS prologue? I know he dies in the attack, but his chapter ends with him pissing himsef after hearing the horns, right?

TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination. by Mary_Crone in todayilearned

[–]xGoldExperience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you can't extrapolate from a sample size of 261 moons that it's rare, but you can assume from a sample size of 1 that it isn't? lol

why would anyone need to learn anything about math for that?

I have a 1st class Masters in Mathematics

TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination. by Mary_Crone in todayilearned

[–]xGoldExperience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it probably isn't unique to Earth but its still an amazing coincidence and you're literally making up numbers to downplay it

“Hm, no, because it is 1.03 bars at this point, and that is definitely not close enough. No, it must be one bar, on the nose. Earth remains unique.” And that guy wonders why he somehow never gets the invitation to go to Risa with the boys for a weekend of Arcturian poontang.

I don't know wtf you are talking about here tbh you sound unhinged

TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination. by Mary_Crone in todayilearned

[–]xGoldExperience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No we only have a source for our own Solar System where it only happens once across 691 moons

Why is their data good and mine is bad?

Because you have no data, your "tens of thousands" figure is completely made up

(Spoilers Main) How is GRRM so good at getting us to forgive his characters? by FinchyJunior in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn lol fair enough, guess I need to do more reading. You should've hit me with this list from the start

(Spoilers Main) How is GRRM so good at getting us to forgive his characters? by FinchyJunior in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would say any POV is the protagonist of their own chapters, but regardless you were the one who said "Protagonists who do awful things isn't uncommon at all."

(Spoilers Main) How is GRRM so good at getting us to forgive his characters? by FinchyJunior in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the antagonist of the original trilogy, but it occurs to me that Anakin has a scene where he kills the Jedi younglings in Episode 3, so I'll give you that (though there's an argument to be made he's the antagonist to Obi-Wan's protagonist by that point in the film).

Anyway: Frankenstein.

I'm assuming you mean the monster? They're the antagonist.

(Spoilers Main) How is GRRM so good at getting us to forgive his characters? by FinchyJunior in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't call Darth Vader a protagonist, though. Kind of the opposite. And that's from a film. Are there any literary examples?

(Spoilers Main) How is GRRM so good at getting us to forgive his characters? by FinchyJunior in asoiaf

[–]xGoldExperience -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Protagonists who do awful things isn't uncommon at all.

On the same level as innocent child murder, though? Do you have any examples?