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1:13 AM
I just watched Bright tonight. It wasn't bad at all. It probably could have been better, but it clears that threshold.
 
 
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6:16 AM
@Kepotx You Ser, I like you!!!! Man do you know, you can get TWOW artifact in the game :D?
@Kepotx He took their crowns as well. But nobody knows what happened to them. Well nobody knows what happened to the crown of winter.
Aegon made them all surrender their crowns. So game is kinda correct that presumably, they were all locked up somewhere in the treasury so Targs should have them as artifacts
@Edlothiad Actually it is incredibly faithful to the books. You even get something as minor as Harren's curse
Start playing as Lord of Harrenhal. And watch your progeny die in freak accidents or just sudden weird sickness. With age, you will soon have the problem of "Receding hairline heirline"
But it's not endorsed by GRRM so of course it's not canon. But that doesn't make it fan-fic. It is extremely thorough
 
@Aegon It can be as faithful as you want to the books, it's not a canonical source
@FuzzyBoots Wrong chat?
 
@Kepotx Yeah they tried that. And failed. Rhaenys died in one such bombing mission
@Edlothiad Sure. We are in agreement on that
Just pointing out it doesn't make changes like D&D like to do. They make do just in the cases where George is silent i.e. lineage of lords stretching all the way back to their founders.
 
I didn't say it was a "fan-fic", I merely compared it to the canonicity of a fan-fic based on the argument that it's "based on a book"
Well for D&D it's the matter of making a hit TV show with something that was never meant to be adapted by the screen, and then getting ahead of the books and having to make things up to continue the story. I understand why things have to change, they could've just changed them better.
 
@Edlothiad It's not awful at all
@Edlothiad I used the same defence for them up until season 4.
 
It's not a defence. It's the truth. Book readers can be blinded by hate, that's simply how it is.
 
6:35 AM
@Edlothiad I understand why things have to change, they could've just changed them better......Somethings. Somethings didn't need to be changed at all
And they did those just for the heck of it
 
@Aegon Well so you claim, as do others.
I choose to remain skeptical until confirmed.
 
"My claim , best claim" - Stannis Baratheon (Probably)
 
Lol
E&L Always reply to Carrot, but not to Ed...
Maybe they know my name is Sindarin :O
 
They replied to me just once as well
To be fair, I tweeted them just twice
You managed to drag Elio all the way here to answer a question himself so that's something
 
Ye but he has yet to answer my questions.
I've only provided two though
33,999 rep.....
Oh a refresh made it 34000, that's quite a nice number.
 
6:40 AM
I got 30,30
There is a 4 between there
But 30,30 sounds better
@Edlothiad Congrats.
 
Thanks in part to that Northern houses question about honour, not that I know what else to add. I could look through the 5.25 books for the phrase "honour" but effort
 
Wow I am very generous with UVs here, just noticed
1431u, 250d
on SO I am much more leaning towards negative side
980u, 1665d
 
3036 up, 230 down.
 
@Edlothiad And I thought I was generous
 
I think you need to rethink your use of the word generous. You've been around almost 900 days, that's less than 2 votes per day...
 
6:53 AM
I am very generous with the word generous
 
7:07 AM
8 or 9?
it's on 92
 
8 now I guess
It would be the first quadruple gold on SFF
 
8:06 AM
Whats that? Famous Question, Great Question, Stellar Question and ....?
 
Great Answer
 
Right. I thought there was a fourth question gold badge
 
Nah, the Triple is normally Famous Q, Great A and Great Q (In the order they're most commonly earned)
 
Wow SortingHat dude is really pissed at Liberals, Millennials etc
 
Ye, just R/A and move along
 
8:24 AM
 
@Edlothiad that rant in bold italic can be removed actually.
 
@NogShine Meh, no point fixing what's broken
Oh lol I hadn't even seen that! Removed
Sometimes I crack myself up.
 
I would put another reason like "It's okay to admit that you haven't searched the question before posting"
Didn't the original question question had many views and upvotes.
 
8:41 AM
The dupe target?
Or before edits?
If you look at that posts revision history, you can see the OP has no idea what they were asking, just that they wanted it to stay open.
 
Maybe SE should give a badge to people with positive score questions which get closed as dupe
To make them know dupes aren't bad
Something like "Great minds think alike"
But that would be easily gameable
Find an already asked question. Show genuine research in a new question asking the same thing. Get closed or comment "oops, found the answer". Get the badge
 
It'd be a bronze badge, and would deter me further from asking questions
@Aegon I found a meta about you:
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Q: Why don't some people vote?

Major StackingsI was going through the stats, and it appears there are some long time users with substantial rep that don't vote, or vote very seldom. We all like rep. It gives us the privileges and badges that drive the site. If you take the time to answer or ask questions and enjoy the fruit of doing so, why ...

 
8:58 AM
@Kepotx To be fair I'm never really around at that time :P For your question there are more in Essos but they're not relevant to the story so we don't hear about them
@Kepotx They did try that but the Dornish fled the cities and lived off the land. Then ambushed any men coming into Dorne by foot, I think
 
It probably can be related to the vietnam war, in the same way it can be related to any war which has one side opposing with guerilla warfare...
 
@Edlothiad Lol cos I'm awesome, even James Gunn replied to me yesterday though looking through his twitter he's quite good at replying to people
@Edlothiad I doubt GRRM had the Vietnam war in his head when he wrote it though, probably more the Scottish guerrilla warfare on the Romans at Hadrians Wall
 
Hai
 
I probably should have posted the Gunn reply answer today though cos I got no rep for it yesterday cos I was already capped haha
Though I did get triple silver for it
 
9:20 AM
@TheLethalCarrot Twitter is one thing, getting an email reply from two different authors is another...
 
Haha you've given me a new challenge now you know?
 
Email someone?
 
Yeah and get a replty
 
Depending on the author it can be pretty easy
I doubt GRRM would as he's swamped. Julia whatever and Andy Weir were pretty low-brow authors so willing to reply
Tolkien would sign your book plate with a personal note if you sent it to him. I still don't know what a book plate is
 
Aye, though GRRM does reply to some emails you've just gotta get lucky I think
usually a small print or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the inside front cover, to indicate its owner.
 
9:25 AM
Yeah, I know that, doesn't mean I know what it is or have ever seen one.
 
Wiki has some images
 
Ye they didn't help, I was just as confused
 
Looks to be a page sized drawing that's been put on the inside cover
 
Hmm yeah maybe
Eitherway, Tolkien would send you signed book plates
Back in the day
 
That's pretty cool
But then again I bet he had less people badgering him about it, though I obviously don't know
 
9:28 AM
Well a signed book plate
@TheLethalCarrot Well the letters are published fan letters, so yeah, less badgering
 
Aye it's easier to enjoy things when there's less of it haha
 
He may have gotten something like 30-50 letters per week at the peak, and most of these things happened in the 40s and 50s when not many people would be sending letters to authors, so when someone sent in a book I believe he provided a sketch and put it in a book plate
Or wrote a note and signed the plate and sent it back
Cuz what are the odds someone would pay the 8 shillings it cost to post a book to oxford?
 
Yeah, though 30-50 a week is still sort of high
 
That's like a maximum estimate. Letters are also slightly more intimate than email/tweets
 
Oh of course
It's hard to be intimate in a tweet to cos you'd run out of characters haha
 
9:32 AM
Lol
 
One of my tweets to E&L had loads of fluff in it and politeness and I had to cut it all out cos of the damn character limit
 
Even though it's been doubled...
 
Yeah it was a longish question anyway
And I showed some research effort so they didn't repeat what I'd done...
Wait
Is twitter SE?
:P
 
I'm confused
I'm way to bloody sleep deprived, that North honour question had me up far to late
 
Haha oh dear
Not too bad of an answer though
 
9:37 AM
I still think it's awful, but I can only work with what I got.
I think the only part of the answer I like is "The North remembers"
Made me giggle
 
Me too
Simple things
I think the only thing it would need would be to say why the others don't
Unless you added that already and I just missed it when I skim read it
 
Nah I didn't, didn't even think of that. Guess that gives me something to do till lunch
Although I can't recall any quotes that would suggest it, besides "they forgot quicker"
 
Well I haven't looked into it to be honest
I'm sure there's something where they discuss the Watch in the south
Tyrion POV at the Wall has a few thoughts about it I think
Especially when he thinks about Jon
Or on the way up to the Wall
 
Hmm yeah can look at that and have a quick google
I'm currently deciding whether I should just delete this answer or give them time to edit.
Guess they've had an hour (LQP review queue)
 
Pretty poor answer
 
9:51 AM
We got E&L
 
...?
Also No doubt the boy had made the mistake of thinking that the Night's Watch was made up of men like his uncle. If so, Yoren and his companions were a rude awakening. Tyrion felt sorry for the boy. He had chosen a hard life … or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him.
That's the quote I was thinking of sort of answers for you
 
Meh not really, that's just Tyrion acknowledging the realities of the wall
 
I know but it shows the difference between how Jon was told the Wall would be and how Tyrion was told it would be at least
Or at least how they perceived it so maybe not
I suppose there's a couple of ways you can interpret it
 
> "It's also a recognition that the wall has helped protect the North from wildling invasions much more recently than when the Others were las seen. It's an honorable calling for a younger son, who otherwise has few prospects, to take the black because of this history"
So nothing I hadn't really already said.
Shucks, I'll give them a like and a thanks.
 
Yeah basically all your points but it does back up your answer at least
 
9:55 AM
They forgot the u in "honourable"
 
Ew they used the American spelling
That's working with GRRM that's done that haha
 
Ok Southern Lords first, then E&L tweet
It genuinely irritates me that the writing of a medieval set story uses AE
Makes me physically sick paha
 
Better than Ye Olde English though
 
Nah that would've been lit
It's reasonably easy to read, with a few weird words
What is that term they always use in ASOIAF for stories?
Like Maid Stories or something
Wives tales?
 
@Edlothiad I like how the answer begins. That's definitely true. We all like rep. isn't simply true and enjoy the fruit of doing so, the fruit is different for each one of us.
 
10:00 AM
I've heard of wives tales before but don't know if I've read it in the books
 
Wet nurse stories
@Aegon Sure but if you look at one of the top users, they have 480 upvotes, being a member for 3.5 years, and a hyper active member for at least 12 of those months. Having received themselves over 10000 upvotes.
Just seems like some people are unwilling to congratulate the efforts of others.
 
I can't speak for others but I know I'm very bad at upvoting questions I answer
I have got better recently though
 
I just upvote things I see.
I upvote the questions I answer because I want them to hit the HNQ
 
Well I wouldn't say I am just unwilling. I primarily vote only in asoiaf and got tags. Other than that, I do show appreciation in form of bounties as well
And in those tags too, I mostly UV only the questions which are really interesting and answers which leave me saying "Boy, I can't add anything here"
 
Fair enough
I mean to each their own. I see an upvote as having little value, so I cast it when I see a question I thought "interesting observation" and the answer seems right and answers my curiosity
 
10:11 AM
That's essentially what I do but I spend most of my time in ASOIAF and GoT so I don't usually see other content
 
10:45 AM
Hmm, I love the small hints to future events/revelations that are in the books
Each time I reread I find new things
> Sansa Stark, that ought to put a smile on Tyrion's face. He remembered how happy his brother had been with his little crofter's daughter . . . for a fortnight.
 
@JarkoDubbeldam said everyone ever...
 
11:23 AM
Next time someone moans about HNQ spoilers I'm linking them to Valorum's meta answer
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A: Is there a way to hide the HNQ List?

ValorumYou could get a piece of paper approximately three inches wide and use masking tape to attach it to the side of your monitor. Artist's Impression.

 
It's on main meta too
 
Oh is it? I've only just seen it haha
 
Oh maybe not, I thought he linked it over, maybe it was someone else
 
Probably is somewhere else I just haven't seen it
 
Holy crap I'm infuriated by these whining spoiler people...
I CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 8!
 
11:38 AM
@Edlothiad doesn't make it less true
 
@JarkoDubbeldam Doesn't make my statement false.
;)
 
@Edlothiad well, I think I could point at some people that might have never said that
starting with those that don't speak english
 
Well see, that's where you've not taken the context of the conversation into the reply
In context, "everyone ever" means "everyone ever to have read/reread the books."
 
@Edlothiad even then there might be people that don't speak english
 
So in that case, the stranger on google would not be a valid argument.
 
11:41 AM
and thus don't think that in english :p
 
Language is universal, you merely chose to portray your feelings in what we call English.
Whether it says "I find new things every time" or "Mahita zava-baovao aho isaky ny mandeha" makes no difference.
Lawyered
Back to what I wanted to say!
> Install an external script or plugin to block the HNQ bar: More of a workaround than a solution, and moves the problem to the user while the source should be fixed.
Spoilers aren't a problem with the system, they're a problem with the individual users who fear "spoilers", silly goose.
Oh nice profile picture JD
 
:)
"I take offense to your comment and would like a button to hide it" Try to tell to my face now that the problem is in the design, and not with me.
 
You confused me
 
@Edlothiad an appropriate response to this would be to point out that if I take something ridiculous on the website, such as that comment, and demand it to be hidden, that it is me that has the problem, and not the site. Ergo, that I should adjust my expectations.
Then continue to argue that demanding the HNQ list to be hidden falls under 'something ridiculous'
 
@Edlothiad Where's this from?
 
11:52 AM
@JarkoDubbeldam I wasn't sure if this was a quote or a hypothetical :D I get you now though.
-3
A: Prevent questions with movie/tv shows/game spoilers from appearing in the hot questions list

JornThis has been a problem for several years now, and it doesn't look like we're closer to a solution. So: Let's ban at least Movies, Scifi and Arqade from the HNQ sidebar Feel free to suggest other sites too. While it has some negative effect on exchanging traffic between network sites, I think ...

 
Yup the spoiler brigade are annoying
 
They don't have the numerical strength to be a brigade.
 
Gaming (Arqade) is another major site where this is an issue — Mad Scientist Apr 16 '14 at 8:18
 
Spoiler Regiment? Battalion? Nopes, just a squad
 
This is not an issue unless you make it one.
 
11:55 AM
SPOILERS SQUAD!! SS!
 
@Aegon To be fair with the amount of people I see moaning about it I'd say they're coming up to an army ;P
@Edlothiad Yup and I'm pretty sure I've never seen a spoiler on Arqade
 
How do you spoil a video game?
Later in the game you're going to shoot 3 people instead of 2
 
Well a cutscene plot I suppose
 
@Edlothiad By telling you what happens next
 
"Watch out halfway through Ezio kills someone"
 
11:57 AM
@Edlothiad That's just one genre
Take the GoT game from Telltale
 
ERRMAGHERD I THOUGH EZIO WAS A GOOD CHRISTIAN, HE KILLS PEOPLE?!
 
If I tell you what happens to Asher
That's a spoiler
 
You think I've played that rubbish?
 
Telltale is a good example actually cos they're essentially playable stories
 
Nothing is a spoiler. It's an enlightenment.
 
11:57 AM
@Edlothiad Dunno, just an example. I have played it
@TheLethalCarrot More like an animated visual novel
 
Isn't that just a fancy way of saying what I did?
 
Lol
 
Well, if you play Harry Potter 6 the videogame, you might get spoiled if I told you Dumbledore dies
 
@TheLethalCarrot googling Burn units near Aegon
 
11:58 AM
@JarkoDubbeldam You mean enlightened me by telling me the future.
 
@JarkoDubbeldam ERMAH GOOOD SPOILERZZZZ!!!!!1111!!!
 
If something is out it's your fault.
 
@Edlothiad I have requested Ice. I do hope they don't get a two handed sword for me to end my life with
 
@Edlothiad well, I think for some things there should be a grace period of a few days
 
The grace period for something going into the HNQ is before it gets hot
 
11:59 AM
No tasks today.....I am bored.
 
That's my rule. I don't care if it didn't come out in your country that you're in, you live in the wrong country. If you had "work" or whatever. If you really cared that much, you would've seen it ASAP
 
In that time it's most likely been edited to be unspoilerish
 
Thinking about, GRRM asks what's Wise King Aragorn's tax policy.... But what's Jaehaerys the Wise's tax policy?
 
@TheLethalCarrot Searching Burn units near everyone in the spoiler Squad
@Aegon GRRM was chatting splange...
That's one of the interview answers that angers me the most.
 
He did all those welfare works
After a horrific civil war
The treasury must have been empty
Where did the funds come from?
More taxes?
Loans?
Or did he just wrest away assets of nobles
 
12:02 PM
I'd read it the first time before I'd seen or read anything, and I couldn't forget that. Irritated me so much...
 
Like he took the new gift from starks and gave it to NW
 
Does he ever really explain anything that he says Tolkien's work lacks?
 
@TheLethalCarrot Kinda
We know Robert's policy
 
Find Bessie?
 
Which is "Ask Littlefinger about counting coppers. More wine and find Bessie"
 
12:03 PM
Which is essentially nothing
 
Loans really
Borrow whatever you can from anyone you can and create a semblance of good economy
Joff relied on more taxes
 
So really just a handwaivy excuse.
 
Tommen is the same but he got assets from fallen nobles too
Robb, we don't know about Robb's policy
 
To be fair he only really uses throw away lines to say these policies
 
Exactly. Chatting splange...
Back to getting riled up by the Spoiler Squad
 
12:05 PM
The whole crown in debt thing too
We're 6 mil in debt but it's alright they'll let me borrow more
 
Spoiler Squad (183 AC, colourised)
user image
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Plus my Father in law is loaded so I got 99 problems including my wife but $$$ ain't one
Bobby B, the economic visionary!
 
@Aegon Bobby B 2020?
 
@Edlothiad 2018! Impeach the incumbent one and Get Bobby in there!
 
@Aegon Feisty one, I like it.
 
12:09 PM
@Edlothiad He does
 
OH NO BRONZE BADGE
 
Haha! I knew it was coming for you :P
 
Why are my subs not subbing?
Did you ever get an answer to that Carrot?
 
I don't understand either of those questions haha
 
The second is fixed, the first is my <sub>s aren't subbing.
 
12:14 PM
Oh when I had that problem
It was one of the earlier <sub>s wasn't closed properly
 
Ye but all of mine are, no way I messed up my HTML
 
Haha you spoke to soon
Fixed it for you
 
OI I WAS EDITING!
I found it :/
 
Soz
Overwrite my edit then, I only fixed the tag
 
One upvote from a silver badge, hrrrrrrrrrngh
 
12:16 PM
When a Byzantine Emperor marries an Ottoman
Idk why nobody suspects her.
 
Are you playing CK2 at work?
Also you should know by now I have no idea what's going on there.
 
@Edlothiad No. Reddit
 
Ah
I wish I could play KSP all year long
I fear when I go back to being a student that I'll just be on here and playing KSP
 
@Edlothiad Ottoman Empire ended Eastern Roman Empire in 1453. In the game, for some reason, the Roman Emperor married an Ottoman Princess
And then died in suspicious circumstances i.e. someone murdered him
I swear it's more funny if I don't have to explain it
 
@Edlothiad When I was a student I spent most of my time playing Skyrim haha
@Aegon Aye but we're not history buffs like you :P
Lol I love blatant attempts at cheating on SO: stackoverflow.com/q/48401562/4631427
 
12:21 PM
@TheLethalCarrot No ankles sprained
 
0
Q: Have there been any religion changes, schism, heresy or branches in religions of Planetos?

KepotxSomething that I always found strange in Planetos is the fact that each religion seems united : there is no Eastern Church of the Sevens opposed to Western Church of the Sevens for exemple. This is odd to me, as when we see real life example, as Christianity or Islam, there are lots of different...

 
@Kepotx Nice Question
 
@Kepotx Mouth froths
 
There is one heresy that I can think of off the top of my head
 
thanks
 
12:22 PM
Sparrows might be an example
 
the question come in y mind while playing CK2, where they split old gods religion between the North and free folks
 
@JarkoDubbeldam Not quite. They are a movement within the faith
 
So where the cathars
 
@Aegon based on different interpretations of doctrine and scriptures
that's how it starts :)
 
@Kepotx Yeah that's really silly. And their rules to ban inter-faith marriages. Had to mod those restrictions out
 
12:23 PM
I dont know if we have to see them as one religious order or a heresy
 
@Kepotx They aren't an order as such as no High Septon has ordained them like the Swords and Stars
Just one movement which seeks to purify the Faith
From perceived corruption
 
I think it's the closest example though
 
well, each religion/branches/order don't have to have a religious head
 
And defend the faith against others
 
also, the doctrine to ban corruption, wealth of church and the power of religious head lead to protestantism
 
12:26 PM
@Kepotx yep, I think there are some parallels
Between the high septon and the pope for example
 
where the first protestant saw as a new religion or just a bunch of christian that were agains the Church ?
It's hard to tell the difference between a different point of viex, an heresy, a branch and a whole new religion
 
@Kepotx it all depends on what side you're on
 
after all, as christianity is a "fork" of judaism, could'nt it be considered as a branch of judaism ? same for islam
 
What came first, God or Man?
Eh?
 
yes, it's a heresy if it's seen as is by other branches, but it's odd as there is no difference between heresy and new branche
 
12:29 PM
@Aegon nice answer, but do you have sources? :o
 
@Kepotx Precisely but that's because they didn't topple the Pope. They just went the way of schism. Sparrows made their leader the Pope i.e. The High Septon
 
"any sufficiently advanced sect is indistinguishable from religion"
 
They don't need to go down the Schism highway
 
@JarkoDubbeldam It's his stupid stub answers...
 
Could you argue that the Many Faced God is a branch of all the gods into one religion? If so I'm arguing that ;P
 
12:31 PM
@TheLethalCarrot Probably
Everythings a branch of MFG
 
Or MFG is a branch of everything
Or both :P
 
is'nt that syncretism rather than branches of a specific religion ?
 
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Q: Have there been any changes, schism, heresy or branches of religions in Planetos?

KepotxSomething that I always found strange in Planetos is the fact that each religion seems united : there is no Eastern Church of the Sevens opposed to a Western Church of the Sevens for example. This is odd to me, as when we see a real life example, as Christianity or Islam, there are lots of diffe...

 
is Bael the bard a bot ?
 
@Kepotx From a certain point of view
And yes
Feed bot
 
12:35 PM
@Kepotx Nah he's just a minstrel
 
@Kepotx Though technically Egg's answer is then syncretism of Seven and Drowned God
 
@TheLethalCarrot The King first made it 8 gods
 
Yeah but it's the joining of both religions
 
Then after seeing the public reaction he was all "Oh no you misunderstood. There are 7, but ours is one of the seven too"
True
 
there, added the sparrows aspect
 
12:53 PM
yep, i consider @Aegon answer as sincretism example, but still a good example. The question was more about the "staticity" of religion in Planetos, so it cover what i want
 
@Kepotx I guess it is part of the mediaval stasis trope
 
Still digging for something GRRM may have said about this
 
Ok French time, then I'll test my work, then I'll see what y'all have posted as answers and consider giving votes.
 
@Edlothiad "I see an upvote as having little value" - Edlothiad (Few Hours Ago). For a guy who thinks of a UV as having lil value, you do think a lot before doing it :D
 
Well I don't upvote trash. But I'll happily give out 40 upvotes in a day if I find 40 posts worth upvoting
(given that I open everything, it's a bit surprising I don't
Also, I'm extra careful with you guys.
I need to spur competition in your answers.
 
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