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  2. I always had to sneak vegetables into our meat sauces for pasta so the kids would eat it, usually by grating carrot, courgettes and mushrooms so they basically disappeared from view. More recently throwing in brown lentils has been good to extend the volume esp as meat prices have been higher than they used to be but again barely noticed. Can't call it bolognaise since I almost never use pork. My new thing the last few months has been spaghetti all'assissina. Possibly the best vegan dish in my life.
  3. Most importantly did you save Karlach ? Fuck the city. It’s a wretched hive of scum and villainy anyway. Yeah the epilogue party was added in. Don’t think we’ll get full upper city content though.
  4. It's the only road in and out of a large, fairly nice private housing estate, along with a large Sainsbury's and the local pharmacy. So I guess there's quite a bit of heavy lorry traffic, but also a whole load of regular traffic from people trying to get to and from their homes. And because people can't drive down this road at anything approaching normal speeds, a road which happens to be sandwiched between two roundabouts, it's been creating nightmare levels of traffic for years now. Woe betide the person that drives within half a mile of those roundabouts during the school rush. It's so shit. This country is so shit. For a decade, our leaders have been the absolute worst. Unimaginably bad. But Labour are no better. The nation is literally falling apart and all our politicians seem to care about is this absurd, carbon-fuelled, planet-wrecking fantasy of maintaining infinite growth, just so they and their revolting chums can continue slobbering at the teats of their lucrative shareholder dividends. My pending Irish passport can't come soon enough.
  5. I dunno, Denis turned one half of Dune, which was mostly people talking and thinking in caves, into a 2 and a half hour movie that was very, very good and very not boring so I think there's enough meat on the Messiah's bone to make a full movie. Much like Dune Part Two, it probably won't be entirely faithful to the source material, but as Dune Part Two largely, IMO, benefited from the changes, I could certainly see movie of Messiah being quite engrossing.
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  7. Ah, understandable. I hope you find something workable closer to home!
  8. Some of the stuff shown in the movie - especially when inside the speed force early on in the first half of the movie in particular, is apparently intentional, as the director, Andy Muschietti, wanted to give viewers a sense of something different, and strange, to convey the weirdness of what Barry experiences. Points for at least thinking about these things and wanting to try something weird and different?
  9. Welp, I finally finished Baldur's Gate IIII, and that was a thoroughly underwhelming set of fights, but the post-boss battle stuff was Very Extremely Charming and Heartwarming. Apparently previous versions of the game prior to the latest patch just had slide cards a la Dragon Age: Origins and Pillars of Eternity/Deadfire?
  10. That should work - I'll update the draft tomorrow. Not working on mobile.
  11. I'm sure he could care less. Anyway, people in aluminum shelters shouldn't drop nucular bombs.
  12. A minor technicality like that wouldn't even slow Trump down.
  13. I'm partial to the identity theory myself, but I think it's more subtle than that. If GRRM is retelling past history (or rhyming it) by way of current events and character parallels, then it's possible the named chapters represent characters who have opted or been forced by circumstances to depart from the status quo and take a new approach, do things differently this time round, hopefully to achieve a better outcome for the world in this cycle. The World Book has a passage stating that the GEotD was not restored: This exactly reflects what we see in the narrative. So instead of history repeating itself with small variations over and over again, a reset is necessary and this can be brought about by the people who actually play a role in driving events. As such, these chapters are future oriented, representing a departure from the rhyme of history. Sansa as "Alayne," a new version of herself, not a little bird repeating stuff others have fed her but a player who learns to play the game. Arya learns a whole new set of skills with every iteration / identity change and we are yet to see how these will play out in the future. JonCon as the Griffin reborn also makes sense in this context. He's come through his period of exile a changed man. While Tywin thought him too young, bold and eager for glory when Aerys named him Hand, Kevin Lannister's current thoughts on Jon are quite the opposite: Victarion also fits this mold. Not only is he feeding the Red God as well as the drowned god, surely a blasphemy in the Damphair's eyes, his intention to defy his brother Euron speaks to a change in his mental framework. The dutiful brother turning rebellious. In the case of Theon > Reek > Theon, I suspect his historical parallel was neither able to withstand the Ramsay parallel nor recover his own identity. The Soiled Knight of the Kingsguard literally forsook his vows and went to bed in more ways than one with the Dornish - an age old enemy of the Marcher Lords. This also drives forward the plot in ways that are yet to be revealed. Hotah probably ties into this as well. In the Prophet, the Damphair calls the first kingsmoot in hundreds of years. In the Kraken's Daughter, Asha makes it clear she intends to put herself forward as a candidate for the Seastone Chair - a woman - unheard of in Ironborn culture. Both examples of taking a new approach, doing things differently. I think the title of Euron/Damphair's Forsaken Chapter illustrates this principle of treading new paths and sweeping away the old - the plethora of defeated Gods seen by Aeron in his vision is a poignant example, and drastic as it may seem, Euron's description of the "charnal pit" he aims to turn the realm into before instating a new order. This is gross and not what we imagine a "dream of spring" to be but it makes the point. Those gods are truely "forsaken." This isn't a new idea either. It's what the Dothraki did during the Century of Blood, compelete with carrying off the gods of the defeated peoples to Vaes Dothrak, only slightly milder. From this point of view, it even makes sense for Daenerys to be assosiated with Euron. This pattern of the characters in those chapters acquing new skills, engaging in atypical activities or simply doing things differently is what may lead to a healthier restoration in the end. This does not mean that the actions engaged in are "good" or will have positive outcomes for the characters involved. It's how the pieces finally come together that matters.
  14. It could be dormant or it could be luck or he could have some kind of Targ immunity!
  15. I'm hearing a lot of good things about India. But, like Mexico, it's a bit too far.
  16. Okay it seems I need to qualify, I did not make things clear enough, so that's on me. I was not meaning anyone who thought that Sansa either directly or indirectly kill Sweetrobin, but rather a select group of people here, I think either some of them might be trolls, or even the "fan who really hates the starks and loves Dany" that I've read about. "Sansa will poison the little lord. Myranda looks suspicious of Sansa. She will suspect Sansa of murder. It will lead to Sansa's trial for murdering Lord Robert Arryn. Sansa gets the moon door exit." "The Sansa we know is a selfish girl who has delusions of her own grandeur. Sweetrobin is a dead bird if Sansa ever got the notion to kill him to benefit herself." "If or when Sansa kills Robin it will be because she chose to do it. She will if she thinks it might bring Harry closer to her. Harry is mean like Joffrey and that is what Sansa likes. " "Sansa will do the bad. It is only a matter of time before she murders Robin. There is hope yet. Somebody with honor can come along and protect Robin from Sansa." There are others, but these are the ones I thought where the worst, and actually I was right about one of them (the one who said Sansa likes Joffrey) being the Dany stan, I already suspected him as being either a troll (I mean Sansa likes people like Joffey? lol) or being the Dany stan.
  17. Wasn't just talking about you nor even this thread. Just all the wasted ink and breath on this shit when it's just like who the fuck knows?
  18. Giants really made out between this and the Chapman deal. Happy for them after striking out so many times the past few years.
  19. 2 time Cy Young Award winner, and all around okay pitcher Blake Snell to the Giants for 2yrs/$62m, with an opt out after the first year.
  20. Never done it myself, but I understand many Americans (and personally know some) who have gone to Mexico for dental work due to the much lower cost.
  21. Lord. Does that road get a lot of truck (lorrie?) traffic? Around Detroit, Michigan, the roads are constantly being repaired due to lots of heavy transport going over them. Of course, the weather doesn't help either.
  22. English doesn't work like German. You can't just smash words together. But back to the topic, it was interesting hearing a brief breakdown of more Trump properties. As I assumed, he doesn't own 100% of much a number of his main assets. For example he only owns the public facing parts of Trump Tower and then his residence and a few other condos. If that's accurate then it's not worth nearly enough to cover the costs. They also said that because a lot of his properties have people paying dues/memberships he can't just sell them off without a nightmare amount of paperwork. Their speculation was that because of this and that he couldn't secure a third party bond is why he has little chance of paying the cost to appeal.
  23. You don't say. This wasn't about the made up numbers, but about the mechanism, and how the value would be determined/calculated. I have not looked up how any of those things are valued. And neither do the Trumpkins. So it would be kinda funny to keep my random numbers in mind to compare them to their made up numbers and see who was closer to market value. And US politics have been silly for the past 8 years+ Just sayin'
  24. Don't take all the fun out of this! Speculation until the facts come in and then we'll be holy shit, the man is broke!
  25. I think it's silly to do back-of-the-napkin math of the assets of quite literally the biggest liar in the world when it comes to his assets. It's 100% speculation. Just wait and see.
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