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  1. Which is a truly weird choice for Regis - and I'm not talking about race. Regis is, ostensibly, a harmless, middle-aged man, lean and looking like a tax collector. Say, Mahershala Ali would kill as Regis. Giancarlo Esposito. Morgan Freeman, if he wasn't actually four hundred years old already. But not Laurence Fishburne. (Fishburne would've been a perfectly natural choice for, say, Dijkstra).
  2. One tangent thought: even after Elon's purge, the company must still be full of nerds. How come nobody told him that they're ripping off the logo of X Window System? It is not "hey, they do look kinda similar", it's "they're the same picture". (Buying popcorn in anticipation of lawsuit from X.Org Foundation).
  3. What's absolutely infuriating is that I can't even cancel the subscription.
  4. Looks like they're advancing through Russian territory like they'd hoped to slice through Ukraine 16 months ago. A little ironic.
  5. Urm... what? That sounds just about as right as that "VPOTUS can overrule the result of the election and pick any president-elect he likes" pitch, which once upon a time gained some popularity as the solution of the problem "what if Trump lost the election, but really doesn't want to leave?".
  6. Ah, all the appropriate quotes! "There's a chance I might have committed some light treason." "I get the worst fucking attorneys!"
  7. I read it as a callback to Season 1 Ted, arguing with assistant referee: "Explain to me how that's offside! No, I'm serious, how is that offside? I don't understand it yet".
  8. Officially and emphatically hairless, how neglectful of you not to mention that.
  9. Probably. OTOH, it's best not to assume anything, in the world where a crow somehow has managed to become King in the North. In such world, who knows anymore?
  10. Jon's lady wife, for example. It would be a perfectly reasonable guess.
  11. Most definitely. I think those are the books he asked, and was denied, the access to. It is his reward.
  12. Greetings and felicitations.
    Would you mind removing the @Ran from the material you quoted from my post in the "Does GRRM Read This?" thread?

    I'm sorry the way I put it at the bottom of my own (admittedly specious) argument, makes it look like I am quoting him, but actually, his words are the quote that follows, and the part you quoted is all my own thoughts, I'm only speculating on GRRM's possible motives, and have no idea what Ran thinks about it at all, so if you could just take his name out of the quote, and let me bear whatever opprobrium your well reasoned rebuttle earns, I'll change my post to make the attribution clearer.

    (I did have a better argument - at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2014, GRRM had said he stopped reading forums as soon as he discovered a couple of fans had worked out Jon Snow's parents, and that he wouldn't change the books on that basis anyway. He repeated his 'art is not a democracy' quote, but I can't remember the details clearly, and couldn't find a transcript of the interview, so I offered my own speculations on his possible motives instead.)

    Dankie in advance,

    Walda.

  13. Still not fixed, by the way.
  14. Huh, I didn't notice somebody had reported the same problem (and, I think, inspired by the same fellow user). That's... nice. (And good to know that it isn't my computer possessed by Satan/malware, that it's the board's problem.)
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