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No, he didn't, at least not on screen. I'm not really surprised by the Children of the Forest being responsible for the Others seeing how ADWD dropped a few vague hints in that direction already. Enough to give rise to theories that they're still working with them (I guess the episode jossed that idea though). Anyway, the Iron Islands were sort of terrible. That kingsmoot was ridiculous, as is Euron. Meh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b9Pwd-HhbA I saw an old interview with Kurt yesterday where he recapped his '81 tour in South Africa. White guy and his Jamaican wife show up during the Apartheid with a mixed race band with no racial segregation on stage facing death threats from pretty much everyone, going on a tour of 21 concerts and not backing down. "Almost immediately I was approached by four or five underground commandos, armed to the theeth, telling me to pack up and leave or they'll kill me. And I was like 'Yeah, then go ahead and shoot me now, I'm doing this tour.' and they actually backed down and followed us afterwards, trying to protect us." That sure took some serious brass balls.

The practice is from way back to make books cheaper by cutting lines of code samples while retaining at least some readability. It's outdated, much like Cap is in the movies. No way Tony would do that. Well unless it is JavaScript where you sometimes have to so the JavaScript engine doesn't get confused and assumes a semicolon where there should be none. Stupid JavaScript, really.

InfoWars? Like, really? I love the part where Gysi's comments are mistranslated on purpose (and the rest is, I guess, hobbled together and quoted out of context, but seeing how I don't know the full source material it is hard to say, of course) and then it talks about big government, a boogeyman that is much more at home in the US than it is in Germany. While it is undeniable that there ARE many and massive issues with the current migration crisis and even more problems with second generation immigrants this is... classic truther stuff. Pass me some chemtrails, mon.

Buy him an upgrade so he doesn't fall off any more, at least until such a time when you no longer need zip lines and simply blast your way through everything.

Isn't 10$ in Canada like 7$ in real money? /scnr

Big Brother would be proud of you Bruce. You're the king of sheep.

Proscription worked for the Roman Empire and we've already established that the Roman Empire was kind of the pinnacle of "western" civilisation, so what worked for them should work for us as well.

The video is hilarious. On the one hand it is about an absolutely retarded news story about people who pretend to be liberal and progressive but being regressive arseholes and on the other hand you have a regressive butthole pretending to be progressive (he slips near the end) talking ranting about it. Sprinkled with a helping of supressed rage and making himself feel better: The pot is calling the kettle black.

Our dear friends of the Turkish government once again prove just how much of an ally they really are. Because true allies blackmail each other whenever possible. It just shows how much you care.

No, the game just ends there seemingly out of nowhere. Now you obviously missed some shrines but which ones is kind of hard to tell. There is one gated behind a quest you can only do with high Rover reputation and one hidden behind a secret passage in the Queen's Lair, those are kind of easy to miss...

So this is the second episode in a row without bewbs. What gives?

The Lord Executioner Alkamos is the final boss of the Steps of Torment, and he is very aptly named. It gets a bit easier if you have high levels of cold resistance but otherwise expect to be killed in a hit or two, so... run.

The people here have nothing on posters like Karzak or Caelis who had the unique ability to enrage even the most gentle souls. Actually Caelis was the only one who ever made it on my ignore list, because unlike Karzak his silly trolling wasn't even on topic.

Now that almost everyone in here is armchair moderating I might as well join. I have a question for the moderators, does this forum have a thread splitting function? Since we already had Amentep doing his old man routine and talked about ye old age, back when I was a moderator on the Interplay board we had this nifty little tool that would solve a problem with THIS thread as well as Barti's general problem with him thinking that Bruce derails discussions whenever he posts. Let me elaborate a little, back on Interplay we had two kinds of moderators. Those who would simply go and lock a thread when it drifted off-topic and those who actually bothered to split and merge threads where it was appropriate. I always disliked it when a thread that spawned an interesting discussion was locked with the comment "if you want to talk about this, make a new thread" and thought it was unfair to the original thread starters that often due to no fault of their own the threads they made got killed. Those moderators where well within their rights and only enforced Interplay's community ruleset. Here it seems that neither happens, threads get only locked once they get out of hand pages wise for some reason or another (if it really is performance, well, welcome to 2016, take the person responsible to the lobby and make them the new concierge). So to be honest I can kind of understand Barti when he complains about thread derailing, but I also believe that harsher moderation he demands isn't the solution. So back to the point, obviously I was a moderator of the other group. I don't think I ever locked a topic unless it was complete garbage from the get go. Sure it was more work for me (the IPLY forum also was much, much larger than this one) but I'd like to think that "my" posters appreciated the effort. Interplay certainly did because we once got a free game of our choice from their library for all the work we were doing. That we kind of unanimously picked Lionheart out of all things is probably worthy of a topic of its own. Of course if this forum can't split threads the point is moot. If it can however then as I said before, this thread might be a great example. This discussion about moderation has absolutely nothing to do with the original topic even if everyone inlcuding the original poster is participating and it kind of deserves its own thread, and in my experience a split thread is kind of like the worm myth that both sides live on. Except for real, obviously. Worms just every now and then survive having half their body cut in half. Errr...

Spent a bunch of time with the Everspace alpha version. It is already good fun even though it really only has the core gameplay implemented yet. Lots of potential I would say. Just hope the developers don't listen too much to the whining about the difficulty level on the alpha board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv9L4QmaD74

So GOG released Shadows of the Empire. It's been a long while since I played that...

That would be very... odd, to say the least.

This is the "cuckold-meme" part of the novella (so if this quote does not fall under fair use feel free to remove it): Yeah. This is totally related to the meme in a deliberate attempt by the author to include it. Oh for crying out loud. Seeing how it is appropriate to the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUh7sb4c-M I'm guessing there too much muave around right now. Color me (un)impressed.

I have tried long and hard to find a reason to link Animal Farm - which the new Torment novella was very clearly inspired by - to being anti-SJW. It's a tale of a revolution gone wrong, something that has happened time and again in our history, for hundreds and hundreds of years before there even was a concept of social justice warriors or utterly stupid debates on the internet. If anything the novel gets a leftist bent with the final few pages talking about a counter-revolution based on the fact that underneath all their differences, the three races involved in the novel once were - and in some way, still are - humans and that they have more in common than they have differences. A final push for justice and equality for everyone where the previous revolution failed utterly. But hey, it's the Codex. Denial is not only a river in Egypt, after all.

The way I see it they needed the Dorne part to simply get a conflict going with the Tyrell/Lannister alliance in King's Landing, assuming there still is one, they have been curiously absent recently. Which kind of doesn't bode too well for Book!Aegon because he seems to be expendable in a way that a trashed Dorne storyline is not. Euron needs to be there because Dany needs the Iron Fleet and he has a horn to do bind a dragon with. So apparently that is important enough to have her own fleet burnt down by the Harpy, which would have been completely unnecessary if they never had captured it off-screen to make Dany's decision to stay and rule more meaningful. I'm not sure what the hell is going on there to be honest. It seems like George told them things they most likely need to do only after they decided to drop them from the show, particularily the Ironborn. They're also very clearly dropping characters that are of no particular use any more, like Roose, Bashir, Trystane and Hotah. I wonder if we get to see a bottle episode this season. Also, hands up, who is surprised that Jon "He is really dead, we swear!" Snow is back? So anyway I still really liked this episode even if it is a bit strange that Ramsay can take over like that and the resurrection ceremony that came straight out of the most tired fantasy clichés D&D could get their hands on. It does get bonus points for having SJWs knickers in a bunch because Ramsay uses Walda's baby and herself as dog feed. I don't get it. Really. Book!Ramsay is just as bad, some of the things just happen "off-screen" and with implications (ahem, Fake!Arya and sex with dogs?) rather than having them happen on screen, but seriously, this is exactly what would happen to Lady Bolton and her son in the books IF Ramsay could actually come up with a way to do it. I don't think so, Book!Roose is too smart to let that happen.

In 2020 maybe.

There are theories that Aegon might be Illyrio's son and that his late wife was somehow related to the Blackfyres. The entire storyline is a bit weird though. If Aegon is a specially groomed Blackfyre and Varys and Illyrio want him on the Throne, why bother with that entire Dothraki shenanigans? Why help Dany and Viserys in the first place? I wish I could say time will tell but right now it doesn't look like all the time in the world is going to solve any of the mysteries here.

Yeah, I'm a 100% positive that Aegon is the mummer's dragon, which also fits with her visions in the House of the Undying. The uncertainty here is simply the question of whether he is a mummer's dragon meaning he belongs to Varys who once was travelling with a theatre troupe or that he is fake, as in not a true Targaryen. Or maybe both. If he is a Blackfyre he is only distantly related at best, unless there was some hidden heir to Maelys I. But yes, Ilyrio's comment about red and black dragons certainly suggests Aegon might be just that. Oh, and I'm not entirely convinced that the "Quaithe" that Dany can see after she leaves Qarth is a real person. There is preciously little interaction between her and anyone that isn't Dany in Qarth (Jorah I think mentions that he's creeped out by her, but that's pretty much it) and Dany keeps seeing her without anyone else ever noticing or even hearing her. Might just be as nuts as her father.

Hopefully the campaign will be successful this time.