ouch

LOL

TIL, well yesterday I learned, Sophie rarely smiled like she's truly happy as Sansa ever since Season 2.

Had a really tough time finding one for the Creepy bran meme

And people keep talking about how Maisie learned to be left-handed, Sophie's invested in her character too.

well, if there is someone to blame for the tv show, it would be D&D and not the actors

most of it yeah

Yeah this guys acting was so wooden and stiff

wooden?

Well it isn't wooden but you use wooden for describing some poor acting so it fit better

well, at least he didn't have stage fright

steel nerves

Lol

It probably is wooden, easier to detail etc.

I'd assume it was some sort of plastic

Ah yeah, it's the 21st century, not Shakespearean England...

Lol

I wonder how heavy would it be if it was pure gold

7.3kg

/r/theydidthemath

didn't he at some point block a swordblow with the hand?

@JAD Heh, as if gold could withhold a blow from steel. It's a soft metal ffs

still thick enough i think

@Kepotx Not really. You can dent and bend gold by exerting enough pressure with your bare hands. Now imagine a steel sword with the weight of the attacker behind it.

That's why Gold plated armors were used only for ceremonial purposes

IRL

In universe, that's why Jaime's regular armour is gilded steel, not actual Gold as many believe.

sure, but plate armor is no way as thick as a whole hand

never manipulate that much gold but sure, you can bend a thin stick, but im unsure that you can bend the hand.

also, paper is soft and can bend, but...

mythbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Paper_Armor_Myth

@Aegon IU is the hand solid gold?

@Kepotx Mountain can ;) If he can crush a human cranium with his bare hands, he can take care of a puny hand

The sword would likely have dented the hand, but not sliced through it.

But yes, for regular humans, something as dense as the hand would be nigh impossible to bend

@Edlothiad I believe so

I don't know if smashing a human cranium requires "that" much weight. I'm not going to google the stats now, but I don't imagine it's all that high

and still, the mountain is the strongest man (both in universe and irl...), not a random guy with a sword

@Edlothiad It is impossible to crush a cranium

and if a thin wooden shield is enough to protect from sword attack, so is a thick golden hand

Do we have any studies on how much force is needed to cut a bone?

And how much is needed to cut solid, unheated gold?

We can find some common reference there to draw some reasonable assumptions.

@Kepotx Thin Wooden shields don't. Heavy shields do

i saw once the pressure human bone can withstand, way better than some construction material

@Kepotx Yeah I think I saw one on NatGeo where they measure the force of bite of some predators and how much of it would be needed to break human bones

@Aegon citation needed

@Edlothiad washingtonpost.com

Oh crap

Paywall obfuscated the link

That is the worst citation ever...

Those articles were really hot right after the episode

TO THE SKY CELLS WITH YOU!

sciencealert.com/…

> Quoting a bike-helmet study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, he wrote that 235 kg (520 pounds) or 2,300 newtons of force would be needed to crush a human skull

Not I never said bare hands. I just said that it wouldn't require "that" much weight

Check this guy out

livescience.com/6040-brute-force-humans-punch.html

Shout out to your boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Maybe I should open it in not incognito and comment, lol

Well, that article says Bones are stronger than steel and can take a lot of force. But still a fast enough blow from steel can break the bones

If Steel can cut across the bones, Well, Theoretically it can cut across gold too

@Edlothiad Change your name to Edd Tollett from Edlothiad

Nice try...

> The hand was wrought of gold, very lifelike, with inlaid nails of mother-of-pearl, its fingers and thumb half closed so as to slip around a goblet's stem.

Hmm fair enough

I totally didn't misread that as hummus.

Haha I did too

How else would you even say that?

earth

debris

Am I missing something?

georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2018/04/25/fire-blood-on-the-way

Fire and Blood on the way

@Aegon r/freefolk is pissing itself

@Aegon Winds of Winter, not on the way.