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8:54 AM
So I'm alone at work cuz everyone just up and left
 
9:17 AM
@Edlothiad That's very rude of them. All because you were there! :P
 
It must've taken 2.5 hours to notice I'd arrived
 
Well some people are really slow
Why did everyone leave? Some office event?
 
9:38 AM
I can’t do anything at work yet I’ve got a Windows update, started at 8:45 and it’s 9:40 now and it’s still only at 75%
 
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Q: Why does Tywin need to enter the court on a Stallion?

Nog ShineThis is about Game of Thrones S2 finale episode Valar Morghulis. In hte scene where Tywin Lannister is named as the the "Hand of the King" and the "Saviour of the city" by Joffrey Baratheon, Tywin Lannister enters the King's court on his stallion rather than by walk. Not to forget, his horse s*it...

 
@M&TVFeeds Because he's a up-jumped fool who needs to stroke his ego
@Aegon Seems like it, but old Eddy wasn't invited
 
@M&TVFeeds The shit is there as symbolism that even great mean like Tywin bow before shits like Joffery
 
Hahaha
 
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Q: Why did Tywin ride a horse into court?

user24620When Tywin receives the title of the Hand at the end of the second season, why did he ride a horse into the halls just to receive the pin and go away? Is it that way in the books as well?

@TheLethalCarrot THOSE ARE THE BEST
Automatic updates......Where are you when I need you
 
9:50 AM
Mine happen overnight or something, annoying
Aww man netflix session over, the lads are coming back in 10 minutes
 
@Aegon they are but now I’m bored just wandering around the office doing nothing haha
I’d rather be pretending to work haha
An hour and ten for the update and now it’s doing all the configuring so it’s likely removing all my settings so I’m gonna have to sort them all out again
Yup it's removed settings, wicked
 
10:05 AM
Savage
I'd have to reset everything from French...
 
Well luckily it hasn't done everything just some stuff but y'know
 
I'm ready for Lunch, this 1989 NASA video on Orbital Mechanics is boring
Damn KSP making me learn...
 
Hahaha
I did Physics and astrophysics at uni before I left and Kerbal helped me a bit haha
 
As in you studied Physics?
 
10:15 AM
Sick
And now you right software pahah
Oh... Cuz you left uni prematurely I see
 
Yup first year we had a module called lab software where we basically learned C LabVIEW and MATLAB and I really enjoyed it
 
MATLAB is a mad ting, super powerful blows my mind
 
Second year I realised I wasn’t going to get much out of the degree, I enjoyed it but knew it wasn’t what I wanted to do any more so I dropped out and got an apprenticeship
It is unfortunately we didn’t really do much MATLAB
 
Ah yes, and then you finished your apprenticeship and bob's your uncle, here you are.
 
Aye that was it
Good job I dropped out too cos if you finish a degree you can’t do an apprenticeship cos the gov won’t fund it
 
10:23 AM
Ah well played
Well either way it's a loan right?
 
Well uni loan goes to uni and some to you if you want it
Apprenticeship money goes straight to the company as sort of an incentive for them to hire an apprentice and then they pay you something
 
I mean in the sense that the government isn't funding your apprenticeship for free. It's expecting you to pay it back
Oh they pay you on top of the Loan :O
 
No as far as I'm aware you don't pay anything back for an apprenticeship
 
Damn son!
 
For apprenticeship the gov pays company and company pays you, you have no part with the government so don't get any loan or have to pay anything back
 
10:26 AM
Ok it's 5 minutes to lunch and no ones back yet. Does this mean I'm going to have to eat on my own?
 
That's my understanding of it anyway haha
Sounds like it
 
One day a bill rocks up on TLCs door. "Hi we payed 27000 pounds for your apprenticeship, mind giving it back"
"Oh and 9k in interests, thanks)
 
Haha probably
I already have 2 years of uni loan to pay back
And I was the first year of people to get hit with the 9k fees
 
Ooh rough
 
Yup
I have cousins who paid nothing and all my other cousins paid 1-3k a year
 
10:30 AM
@TheLethalCarrot 9k a year?
 
I know right
 
That's for EU students which is like less than half of what International people pay
Then you go to the US and everyone's paying millions
 
do you get money from the government?
or gotta pay for it all by yourself?
 
10:32 AM
Yeah a loan somewhere between 2-6k depending on what your parents earn irrespective of whether they'll help you or not but that all has to go back too
 
The government loans the tuition fees (9k) and maintenance loan (2-6k) all has to go back
And that's per year
Some lucky people get grants but they're either for the really poor or really smart
So the majority of the people are screwed
 
Well depending on how much effort you put into uni to earning money afterwards
There are people who pay it off in 3 or 4 years cuz they make bank after leaving
There are some who never pay it back because they earn less than 27k per year until they're 45 or whatever the cut-off is.
 
Again they're the really smart who probably get grants anyway
And yeah you only start paying when you earn over 21k I think it is and it goes away after 30ish years
 
here it's like 1.9k a year, and if you don't live at home, you get like 270 a month. I think that is a loan nowadays though
 
10:34 AM
Meh not necessarily, I know a bunch of people with grants who are like "well I'm in now, I'll just scrape by"
@JarkoDubbeldam You're not in Denmark are you?
 
When I started, it was a loan unless you graduated within the assigned time
Netherlands
 
I thought Netherlands, but I didn't know the dutch got money as well.
 
Basically my generation in the UK is FUBAR
 
@TheLethalCarrot Again, not really and better than the US
 
@Edlothiad Well, it's changing almost yearly, so idk really
Oh, and the loan has a funny low interest rate
 
10:37 AM
@Edlothiad Well we're only talking about loans here I mean with everything combined. For example my gf can't get a job, even though she has a degree, because she doesn't have any experience in that particular job. And of course to get experience you have to have a job but you can't without experience etc etc
 
The brits like to make a huge crisis of the student loan, and while for the majority because they sleep their way through uni it is, the system is pretty helpful in making sure most get wiped clean. Now why the Unis charge so much compared to mainland Europe, I don't know. But yeah
 
The 5 years after graduation you pay 0% interest over the loan
 
@TheLethalCarrot You can't just throw that in when we're talking loans....
In that sense yes, the UK is FUBAR
 
Yeah when I said FUBAR I meant as a whole not just loans haha, I shouldda been clearer
 
But then there's the thing where most brits don't even look outside their own borders. There are plenty of jobs which might require less stringent needs etc.
 
10:40 AM
Oh of course but I know I wouldn't move yet especially with what's going on at the moment
 
But my friend is in the same kerfuffle as your gf (who I'll assume did a Natural Science degree) and can't find work anywhere because of a lack of experience.
 
The loans aren't too bad it's just how much they are
@Edlothiad She did an English one but is looking for any job really haha
 
It's even better to ship out now, while you can get into the country easy, then the company will sort you out when Brexit happens
@TheLethalCarrot Ah my ex managed to luckily slip into a job she likes after English, but I don't think the pay is great.
Hey @NeelKhare what can we get you?
 
@Edlothiad Yeah she was unlucky in that she missed the straight after uni degree programs so now is screwed
</rant> </offtopictalk>
 
@TheLethalCarrot Could she not re-apply in September. Also the start-up scene usually looks for English students to write like publicity statements and stuff, might be worth a look.
Hmm I'm going to have to go for lunch at some point...
 
10:43 AM
Probably but they usually look for just graduated not 1-2 years after, oh well she'll find something haha
Probably best aye
 
I really don't want to go on my own, it's so depressing...
Well here goes nothing, I'll promise to be more on topic when I get back.
 
Haha I've had mine on my own the past two days cos no ones been in the office
I shall try to keep on topic too! :P
 
Ah but you've got a small office, the 6999 other people here just going to be staring at me like who's that lonely sod
 
Haha yeah it's a bit different when my entire company is only 10 people haha
 
7000 people and he couldn't make a single friend
 
10:47 AM
That's language barrier for you
And it's a lot easier to get lost in the crowd
 
11:01 AM
Ran into the lads at lunch
 
That's good then, where'd they all gone?
 
11:17 AM
They’d gone to some presentation thing, that it turns out I was supposed to be at, but I wouldn’t have understood anything anyways, so Netflix was a better option paha!
 
Quite an interesting read if you guys haven't seen it already
The first couple of questions are the best ones to read through
@Edlothiad Haha worked out then
 
11:34 AM
> Theory we know hope to be true: Ashara Dayne is Quaithe of the Shadow. (It is known.)
that one is new to me
 
Ew. "spoilers default"
Bloody kneelers!
> what it's been like working the GRRM.
 
Yup they are kneelers over on r/asoiaf
 
This is why reddit needs peer editing...
 
I like that they sort of debunk the whole Bolton theory too, I only read that yesterday and it didn't really make much sense to me then
 
> Do you see yourselves having future authority to expand the ASOIAF universe when GRRM retires from writing for it?
This makes a HUGE assumption. That he'll survive to his retirement.
 
11:39 AM
retires, dies
w/e
 
If he never finishes it they seem like the next best shot
"Help us Elio and Linda, you're our only hope"
"You served our writer during the Long Night"
/r/prequelmemes
:P
Not a prequel
 
If he passes away, I'll hold my stomach and giggle, then bow my head in mourning, then continue to hold my stomach and giggle.
 
I suck
Lol
 
That was a OTmeme, which I think was received poorly on reddit
 
Probably I hadn't seen it though and I know OTmeme I have no idea why I said prequel haha
I have since hung my head in shame
 
11:51 AM
There's SequelMemes which has about 3 times the subs that OTmemes has but only a quarter of PrequelMemes
 
Meh I don't really care for the cross works memes
The odd one is okay but a mass load of them is just annoying
Most are just crap too
 
@TheLethalCarrot I agree, but I was purely talking about SW only memes
> however that is 80 years in cat years!, meaning Rhaenys is the oldest and wises person in the entire red keep by now.
Lol no. She's still only 16 rotations of the sun old, therefore, still young.
 
Oh dear that's a terrible theory haha
It even contradicts itself
 
12:09 PM
> if George publishes Fire and Blood after he's done with the series.
Faithful puppets they are
 
Well he's now said it's likely we'll get Fire and Blood V1 before TWoW
Though we all know what his guestimates are like
 
If we get anything in 2018 kudos to him
And I mean anything a preview chapter, a short story, a novel, a completely unrelated novel/short story to ASOIAF
 
Well the quote I refer to above says it's possible we might get TWoW and Fire and Blood V1 though it's likely we'll only get one of them
Or most likely nothing haha
 
@TheLethalCarrot You should say more likely that we'll only get one of them
 
My personal opinion is we'll get Fire and Blood V1 in 2018, TWoW in 2019 after GoT airs and then potentially Fire and Blood V2 end of 2018 or 2019
 
12:18 PM
V1 and V2 in short succession? Dream on paha!
He might be 7 years without a book, but I doubt he's written 3!
Although from the sounds of it F&B is effectively written.
ADOS should be easier if it is the last book, otherwise, we're looking at a good half decade before anything final
 
Yeah I think F&B is pretty much written, from the sounds of it he wrote most of it when helping with TWOIAF. I think it's just him adding bits, changing stuff and holding back why it's not ourt already
 
12:30 PM
You're going to hit Gold today... You've done way more than 5
 
4 so far today
 
Ye 2 in 7 minutes...
You've still got a number of hours to go.
 
Yeah they were easy finds though cos I already knew where my sources were
 
Hmm to edit 28 tag wikis, or sit doing nothing?
 
You could stop being lazy and go for your TL gold haha
 
12:45 PM
I looked at questions today, threw up in my mouth, then watched that orbital mechanics video haha
 
Yeah I saw that this morning. (The caption is something about Bran)
 
Yeah caption was a bit boring
There's not much good on there today
 
All the good stuff was last night.
 
Like what?
 
12:56 PM
That bobby b "When you open your camera and it's facing you"
 
Meh shitpost
 
Too much nip
You know what's a shitty shitpost?!
 
Most of them? haha
 
That bloody one with Season 1 - Season 7 with Sansa being "Annoying" -> "Annoying but older"
 
Haha I didn't see it but it seems fine to me :P
 
12:59 PM
Just a load of rubbish
 
Oh seen it now
Seems like an accurate description to me
 
You're blinded by hate
 
Only the kneelers deal in absolutes
 
Lol
She's just annoying
You kneel for Sansa ;P
 
1:00 PM
@TheLethalCarrot OH HELL YA!
 
Although lower down the page there's one that's something about Sophie Turner flipping the bird at reporters. That imo looks so trashy
 
Didn't see it again I usually only read titles and look at the thumbs to see if I can be bothered to look at the full thing
 
So close to getting that nipple off my screen
And there it goes
 
@Edlothiad small screen then
 
1:04 PM
It left mine too :)
 
only gone for me now
 
17"
 
We can't all have massive work screens haha
 
Pretty big screen imo, Would probably still be on the 24" one though
 
I have two 24" ones I'm guesstimating
 
1:05 PM
My right monitor is shorter than my left so it's on top of a cardboard box, that explains everything you need to know about my company
 
I just put my monitors stand all the way to the bottom so it's sat on the table because my laptop is shorter
I HAVE A SHOE BOX AT HOME! SOLVED
 
But then I can't cover the screen with my back
 
The left monitor is adjustable but the right isn't and it's so short and crap
 
1:06 PM
Also I remembered it has nothing to do with screen size but number of pixels, right?
 
I'm on 1920x1080
 
Mines only 1280 * 1024
That's the max it supports too
 
Ah but similar height
Mines are super wide
 
At home I have 1920*1080
 
1:08 PM
I think I do too, but it's on a 13" so it looks small
I don't care how heavy a 17" laptop is. When I get a new computer I'm getting 17". 13" is too small
 
I would aye
I don't think I could program effectively with one of these monitors alone everything would be way too squished up
 
Well not that I program anyways but I concur!
which is why my deskless room is awful, because I can't put my monitor anywhere so I have no motivation when just on my laptop
 
`Thankfully there is a warg in the red keep she can use to her advantage. Tommen Baratheon! Tommen has THREE kittens following him around at all times. That means he is already halfway to Varamyr's level at the age of eight.`

PMSL.....This is awesome
 
@Edlothiad Aye. when I bought a desk for home I got the biggest one I could find haha
Ended up coming from Germany in the end I think haha and was bigger than all the other desks I found by miles
 
@TheLethalCarrot that's a big desk then
 
1:13 PM
I bought one for the flat in London when I lived there that was 175x50 or something, absolute weapon of a desk. Left it there when I moved out because 1 no one wanted it and 2 I wasn't pointlessly shipping that bugger back home
 
Yeah it wasn't the width that I wanted though but the depth
It's surprisingly hard to find a nice deep desk
I think mine is 65 or 75
Maybe bigger I really can't remember haha
 
It was an Ikea Adils with Linmon legs
 
Can't beat Ikea though I didn't get mine from them haha
 
The desks at work are deep. About 75cm
Whatever the largest Ikea Adils was, I got it.
 
Ah mines 80cm deep just googled it
And it was from the UK my chair must have been from Germany
 
1:20 PM
That's a deep desk
 
Yup, like I said I wanted the deepest I could find
 
I like how you call it "my desk" and not "our desk"
What use is all that depth?
 
Well it's my desk at home haha
I bought it before I moved in with my gf too and it's only used for my PC
I just prefer the monitor to be further away from me, staring at a screen is bad enough but I do have eyesight problems and I wear anti glare glasses too to try and stop it
I don't wear normal glasses yet but I think I'm going to have to get a pair soon cos my right eye is going completely now
 
Ye I don't wear my glasses, but I have them
 
I think I will need some in the near future
I went last year to the opticians and was fine but recently my right eye has been going downhill fast :/
 
1:30 PM
What level did they say last year?
I'm -1.75 and -1.25
 
I think only 0.1 or something so very low, basically no need still
 
Oh that's like perfect
 
Yeah my left eye is still around that from what I can tell but my right after a few hours awake words start to blur only a couple of meters away
I have a lazy eye too so I'm only using one at once
 
The struggles haha
 
I know haha
I'll stop moaning about my eyes now
 
1:38 PM
Nah I know the struggles of having bad eyes (albeit not personally)
 
Apart from the lazy eye, which has never really been a problem, my eyes have been fine up until recently though
 
I think I've read something that are like "Lazy eyes are a challenge that one doesn't notice"
Or something, and that they're actually affecting your ability to see
I don't even know how to fix this
Ok I'm bored of tags, I'm going to do some work.
 
Oh yeah it does, I mean my right is the lazy one so I generally don't have much FOV to my right, I can't use 3D glasses though the "new" polarised ones aren't too bad and when something is coming directly at me from a certain angle I can't see it at all and I have some problems with depth perception haha
But generally those problems don't effect me day to day haha
Unless I play badminton
@Edlothiad Meta tag anyway, are those sorts of tags really useful? Like at all?
Best thing about a lazy eye is I can switch which one I'm using haha
You know when you blink and objects "move" relative to their background? I can do that without blinking when I switch my dominant eye haha
 
1:55 PM
You mean wink?
That just sounds like such a struggle for such little payoff hah
 
Yeah wink
But it's not a struggle it's just something natural
 
Ramin Djwadi's ancestral homeland's touch to his arguably greatest work
 
@Aegon Only work?
 
@Edlothiad Is it? Idk he has composed several tracks for GoT alone. Don't know about his other works
 
It was a yoke
Still no Hans Zimmer though.
 
2:01 PM
Hans Zimmer is great too
Often when I am looking for theme music to add to my games, I come across his works
 
You seem to have miss-spelt "the greatest"
 
Gladiator tracks are what I mainly knew him from
Huh, just found out there's a Norwegian rendition for Song of Roland
 
 
1 hour later…
3:19 PM
@Edlothiad John Williams is obviously the greatest contemporary composer. Hans Zimmer is pretty damn good, but not Williams-level.
 
Is it confirmed that Bloodraven is the 3EC?
 
@amflare That would be correct
@TheLethalCarrot We covered this 12 times in 2 days
 
I know
It's not confirmed right?
Just making sure for an answer haha
 
@TheLethalCarrot two Bryden’s, both loved their sister hated their brother or something like that, both crows, etc.
 
3:26 PM
Okay coke
According to this TWOIAF states Maester Aemon was born in 198 AC but I can't seem to find the quote
Anyone got any ideaS?
 
I feel like this should be a fairly accessible fact.
But no, I have no ideas other than a word search
 
Yeah I've searched but can't find it anywhere but awoiaf seems to think it's in there somewhere
 
3:46 PM
Oh well I'll just assume it to be true haha
 
4:15 PM
@TheLethalCarrot, the correct answer is "because he still wanted to be an adventurer." scifi.stackexchange.com/a/179199/62201
 
I don't understand
 
You sure it's not in the index somewhere, @TheLethalCarrot
 
@TheLethalCarrot the sword across his knees
 
@Edlothiad For Aemon? Maybe but I couldn't find it on asearchof and I don't have my copy handy at the moment
 
as opposed to in the knee
skyrim
nvm
:/
 
4:17 PM
@TheLethalCarrot I'm on it, don't worry G
 
Aeg was 233 AC
Oh no, that's when he reigned
 
It's been a while since I've played Skyrim so I'm not quite sure what you mean, oh well
Yeah I tried inferring his birth from some other events but I couldn't work it out haha
 
Nah haven't found anything.
When is Egg born?
 
Errr....
Apparently 200 AC
 
Not possible
 
From this calculation
@amflare I played way too many hours of Skyrim and I never picked up on that haha
 
damnation....
why the ever loving hell is my asinine RPO question on the thrice-damned HNQ?????
 
@TheLethalCarrot OHHH BORN!
 
Well you asked for born haha
 
4:29 PM
Oh I did
I don't know why I typed that, I meant joined up with Dunk
 
Haha how? Just how?
 
I have a more serious question, whats an easy way to tell what I'm eating is really burnt cheese and not burnt plastic?
 
@Edlothiad That'd be 209 AC
@Edlothiad Looking at it before you burn it?
 
@TheLethalCarrot Well They might have fused together
 
4:33 PM
@amflare What's Asinine RPO?
 
Ready Player One
(I've never heard of it though)
 
asinine, meaning "extremely stupid or foolish." RPO, meaning "Ready Player One" which is a book/movie
 
I'm not seeing it
Yep not seeing it
@amflare I'm looking and I ain't finding.
 
@Edlothiad Can you not see it in the HNQ? You don't seem to have mentioned it
 
4:50 PM
That's weird I thought those messages had sent.
I'm not seeing the asinine rpo question in the HNQ.
 
Lol
Stop eating burnt plastic
2
 
@Edlothiad it dropped out already
it was second from the bottom for like 15 minutes
no longer
I didn't even know it could do that.
 
5:21 PM
3 to go, I should get it tomorrow, I was busy today haha
Though I'm trying to track down a tricky one at the moment
Just before I leave...
Go Jon
 
 
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8:37 PM
And now it's back on the HNQ
this is a rollarcoaster
 
 
1 hour later…
9:48 PM
@Aegon Audio Network is great too.
 
10:09 PM
Oh yuk
the accepted answers marker in in a user profile page are now olive green
 
10:27 PM
pic or it didn't happen
 

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