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7:13 AM

Hi y'all

7:29 AM

@JAD rytsas! Skorkydoso glaesa?

you what now?

@Kepotx related question, if she has a valyrian steel weapon, why was she commisioning a dragonglass weapon?

for more versatility than a simple dagger i think

@JAD it's the high valyrian (minus a couple of bars over letters as I'm on mobile) equivalent to 'hello! How are you?'

I guess it's a dagger that can be put on the end of a shaft, so triple weapon : dagger, spear, quaterstaff

depending on combat style, she choose the weapon

why not make that out of the VS dagger? :P

7:41 AM

so, in close quarter, dagger, but in open battlefield, spear

because the design isn't suited to be fixed on top of the shaft i guess

also, this spear-dagger can be mass-produced

Also, as to your question, I suppose for similar reasons she said "only once or twice" when asked whether she used Needle. Not wanting to come off as a murderous psychopath that is armed to her teeth

true

@Kepotx thats possible yeah, more slicy than stabby would make it meh as spear

also, the handle is suited to be held by hand

@JAD the way she said it made it pretty clear that she's done a bit more than using it for defence purposes a couple of times though

7:46 AM

it's still the understatement of the century

and kind of dodging the question

Yeah, sure

@JAD she killed more people without needle I guess

8:01 AM

@AnkitSharma not so sure. Depends howmany times she killed off-screen as member of the faceless men

Although, I don't really remember how she killed all the Freys. Was that poison?

Poision

I get the impression she hasn't really used Needle that much

@TheLethalCarrot I also though same

How she killed that faceless thing?

@TheLethalCarrot > "The Night's Watch takes no part in the wars of the Seven Kingdoms," Jon reminded them when some semblance of quiet had returned. "It is not for us to oppose the Bastard of Bolton, to avenge Stannis Baratheon, to defend his widow and his daughter. This creature who makes cloaks from the skins of women has sworn to cut my heart out, and I mean to make him answer for those words … but I will not ask my brothers to forswear their vows.
"The Night's Watch will make for Hardhome. I ride to Winterfell alone, unless …" Jon paused. "… is there any man here who will come stand wit…

that's at least his speech in the books

or the end of it

I never did a full rewatch so could be totallywrong but we only see like 3-5 kills with Needle don't we? Stable boy, Polliver and the Waif

8:05 AM

Walder Frey too I thnk

@JAD In the show the killing is for bringing the wildlings through, I can't remember if he planned on facing Bolton before his death or not... it was certainly talked about though

Doesn't she just use a dagger for Frey?

@TheLethalCarrot I don't recall

@TheLethalCarrot Could be. The trigger for the thing in the books is the murder of King Beyond the Wall dude. I don't think he is in the show anymore

Mance?

ye

Stannis burned him a while back

Jon shot him before he burned to death

8:08 AM

and no swapperoo with Lord'o'Bones

No

And even if there was Tormund beats the shit out of him at Hardhome I think

So then in show canon you're probably right. BoB wouldn't've happened without the murder. In the books it would though (assuming he does resurrect)

Aye probably

10:58 AM

in The Screening Room, 32 secs ago, by Ankit Sharma

Did that quote come from that question on here the other day or did that question borrow the quote?

Q: How is Gendry supposed to fulfill Arya's request?

Somebody send this meme

And movies and scifi both had this question

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There are no dimensions. How is Gendry supposed to make it? Is it a blowgun? A spear? What materials does it require? Gendry is supervising the forge for thousands of dragonglass weapons and Arya comes to him with this little drawing. Is he a joke to her? How is he supposed to make what Arya w...

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Q: What is Arya's weapon design?

In season 8 episode 1, Arya asks Gendry to forge her a dragonglass weapon (which we can see drawn). What is the purpose of this weapon?

game-of-thrones

But this meme is better fit for scifi version ;)

Supposedly the question got the quote from FF

What is FF?

FreeFolk

a subreddit

11:02 AM

ohhh

Reddit is a dark black hole I stay away from

Are adult meme joke on topic here on scifi or not?

probably 'depends'

is it a Scifi/Fantasy adult meme joke?

The same ruling is what SE enforces site wide

to be pedantic, these are not duplicates. One asks what is this weapon, the other asks how could Gendry know what she want, and how to forge it without further details

@TheLethalCarrot but scifi have past and little more sensitive then ANime or movies

@Kepotx I never said duplicate, just said related to the meme

@Kepotx They're on different sites as well

11:06 AM

arguably it could be closed as unclear, or too broad, since it asks like a million questions

@Kepotx latter question is probably going to have to be handwaved though. not that interesting

well, the answer is obvious. AutoCAD is not invented yet in westeros

> He probably follows up on the design offscreen

or something like that

@Kepotx lol agreed

Q: Mathematica command that allows it to read my intentions

They just need Mathematica:

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In version 2.0 of Mathematica there was a command, ReadProgrammerIntentions[ ] which allowed it rapidly compose code that could solve problems simple to complex, based on my requirements. Understand it was deprecated in later versions. Is there a similar functionality available in maybe a hidden ...

machine-learning date-and-time neural-networks

Did they invent zero yet?

11:12 AM

@AnkitSharma the word zero doesn't appear in any of the five books

so.... inconclusive?

Hmm valid

I am high on GoT memes, so not messing with this room, if anybody wants to sneak in :

The Spoiler Room

Beware: Discussions involving new releases and spoilers. Not f...

Q: Significance of Cersei's obsession with elephants?

1:14 PM

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In Game of Thrones S08E01, Cersei was so disappointed for not getting elephants and it's being part of so many memes and joke now, like: But why does elephant matter? Her competition/rivalry is with Daenerys/Starks etc. And they have dragons. So what purpose elephants can fulfill? What is the ...

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in The Spoiler room, 13 secs ago, by Ankit Sharma