Damp Hair - The Prophet Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Ever seen Erik the Viking? It's the edge of the world / Valhalla (witness me). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6_qHiEma8w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Never understood what people find so appealing about Valhalla. Imho it's one of worst afterlives in any mythology. I'd rather chill in the Asphodel Meadows than spend an eternity with loud, aggressive and drunken warriors eating disgusting greasy food, let alone being forced to fight every day...no...no... -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcotron Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Never understood what people find so appealing about Valhalla. Imho it's one of worst afterlives in any mythology. I'd rather chill in the Asphodel Meadows than spend an eternity with loud, aggressive and drunken warriors eating disgusting greasy food, let alone being forced to fight every day...no...no... -_-I suspect it's more appealing if you're a loud, aggressive, drunken, greasy warrior type...But I think Terry Jones got that idea across pretty nicely in the clip Damp Hair gave us. The Asgardians are spoiled children, the slain warriors seem bored (but what else are you going to do, being dead and all), and the special effects are terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Danyel Mortimer Posted August 9, 2015 Author Share Posted August 9, 2015 No Vahalla idn't all that appealing its also not westeros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReal_Rebel Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Do we even know if there are 24 hours in a day on Planetos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcotron Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Do we even know if there are 24 hours in a day on Planetos?Yes. GRRM has confirmed that days, months, and years are the same as on our planet, or close enough as to make no difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Danyel Mortimer Posted August 9, 2015 Author Share Posted August 9, 2015 curious given the irregular seasons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcotron Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 curious given the irregular seasonsThe irregular seasons aren't normal seasons. GRRM has confirmed that the cause of the long seasons is definitely magical, and implied that the cause will be revealed over the course of the series. They call it "winter" because temperatures get colder and days get shorter, not because it's caused by the precession of the axial tilt over the course of an orbit causing the sun to be lower in the sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Danyel Mortimer Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Well I hope we do get an explanation then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damp Hair - The Prophet Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 No Vahalla idn't all that appealing Never understood what people find so appealing about Valhalla. Mediocre! You are not awaited. Witness me Bloodbag! Witness! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHAWpKFtbjo I myself will carry you to the gates of Valhalla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-FMvt83fA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Danyel Mortimer Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 I take it as a compliment they wouldn't want me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 I take it as a compliment they wouldn't want me Man same here, I wouldn't fight for the Aesir, they are jerkasses. If the Nordic gods turn out to be the real deal I'll happily take my seat in Hela's hall. At least you don't have to fight there and the overall atmosphere gotta be much more chill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Danyel Mortimer Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 the thing a lot of people forget is that originally the gods dying and us succeeding them was seen as a good thing, it was only later christian writers who wrote the gods as actual good guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcotron Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 the thing a lot of people forget is that originally the gods dying and us succeeding them was seen as a good thing, it was only later christian writers who wrote the gods as actual good guys.I think the Jews and the Zoroastrians got there first. Well, God was only a good guy to them, kind of a bastard to everyone else, but I don't think they minded that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Danyel Mortimer Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 yes but he was a good guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcotron Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 yes but he was a good guy.The Pharaoh might disagree. He was going to let the Jews go, but then God "hardened his heart" and forced him to keep them enslaved, and then punished him and his people for it. That doesn't sound like a good guy to me--even from the perspective of the Jews, much less the Egyptians. He even tells Moses and Aaron that he was just doing it to show off how strong his hand and outstretched arm are. And the people of Jericho and the other cities of Canaan might disagree as well; for the crime of settling the lands God gave them, they were exterminated (except for one prostitute collaborator) because God changed his mind and decided he wanted to re-let their homes to another tenant.Unless we're talking about Ahura Mazda. At least he can justify killing millions of people and sending them to hell, because the alternative was to let Ahriman win, in which case all men and spirits would be damned. But you'd think he could tell the enemies they were on the wrong side so they'd at least have the option of switching, for strategic reasons if not moral ones.But at least they're both against burning people alive in sacrifice, unlike the good guy in ASoIaF, so I guess they get some points. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damp Hair - The Prophet Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 May you not ride eternal, shiny and chrome. *(get on my lvl w/ the MadMax references guys) Actually since we are all living in the eye of a blue-eyed giant I suppose what's past the Lonely Light is just, like, a big eyelid or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Danyel Mortimer Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 There is that admitedly you mean there are good guys in Westeros, I was never particularly under that impression Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcotron Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 you mean there are good guys in Westeros, I was never particularly under that impressionYou'd be surprised how many readers seem to believe Mel that the Others are evil followers of the Great Other and R'hllor is the savior of mankind. (Because when has Mel ever been wrong, or deceptive, about anything?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 You'd be surprised how many readers seem to believe Mel that the Others are evil followers of the Great Other and R'hllor is the savior of mankind. (Because when has Mel ever been wrong, or deceptive, about anything?) I still find it suspicious that she never talks about what followers of R'hllor believe happens after death...I mean in most religions, particularly missionary ones that seek to convert people, that's a big factor. So why the hell is Mel so quiet about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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