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Honestly I think a 30 mile bike ride while smoking a joint and stopping for a glass of wine/beer at the midway point isn't anywhere as close to as difficult as just putting 10 minutes in on that fucker.

The viewership numbers are still looking good if not stellar. This show will lose the no.1 spot for English shows this week, as Baby Reindeer is surging, but it should still be in the top 10 for another week or two at least. So can they just get on with renewing it? I wish Netflix would just have some intellectual commitment to an idea and follow it through sometimes. This is the kind of show where enthusiasm needs to build because it does not fit easily into a box so can take time for some to discover. That doesn't mean it will not succeed. I predict a second season, if they have some courage and actually invest in it, will have MUCH stronger numbers than the first as people over time try it out. and get excited about seeing more.

One head is absorbed?

Just another delusional Stark-hating thread.

I would agree, but even a stopped clock is accurate twice a day. I think the idea is at least worth discussing on is own merits. Benjen is a fairly enigmatic figure in the story - GRRM might have a heel turn in store for him. That said, there isn't much to go on here yet.

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I don't think Benjen resents Ned, I was only suggesting that Benjen has plenty of reason to if he were a lesser man. Benjen has his own guilty conscience to answer to. Taking the black is part of how he's doing that. You've got me beat. I've only read the books all the way through one time. But in the depths of depression I needed something to do, so I studied the story rigorously for eight or nine years, and then in 2022 managed to work out how most of the big mysteries resolve. Benjen's mysteries revolve around Jon Snow's parentage mystery for the most part. Harrenhal mystery to good extent.

So far Iran is playing everything down and saying no damage so that is hopeful as long as Israel doesn't overdo it.

Yeah, I could cycle for an hour easily, and if I didn't have a fucked foot I would be able to run for that long, but if someone told me to row for an hour I'd honestly weep.

I've read all the books multiple times, and sorry, I really have no idea what you're referring to. Ben was younger than Ned. The only way Benjen could become lord of Winterfell would be if Ned died, or joined the Night's Watch himself. It seems unlikely that Benjen would resent Ned for not having done either of those things.

Except for lack of slaves, everything you have listed isn't "more advanced" but merely "different".

Its no great secret, he does a better job because its easier to keep people fresh when you have by far the strongest squad.

Quite a few YouTube videos came out when they news broke Dunk & Egg TV Series: BOTH LEAD ROLES OFFICIALLY CAST!!! (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

The internal combustion engine won't stay the same. It will lose 150 kW of power. That's why they're tinkering with the aerodynamics. They need to reduce drag to avoid embarrassingly low speeds on the straits. And the ICE will run full throttle in slow corners to charge the battery because recuperation from braking won't be enough.

If one opens the Westeros.org page, there is a link to a article about the casting, with photos.

Jon's story is very familiar because it's the same one of the Night's King. A woman, Arya in this case, led Jon astray from his sworn duties.

So, Israel has titted Iran's tat, I guess we should be expecting an Iranian tat in the coming weeks. Potential silver lining (though feels a bit gross calling it that), but perhaps the escalation between Israel and Iran will help Ukraine in that Iran will be less able to supply Russia with the hardware it needs to keep prosecuting its war of aggression.

I should have clarified that the main benefits were to the landowners and factory owners but I guess the capacity for greater food production had some wider benefits. It must be nearly 50 years since I studied this stuff but a quick google to refresh my memory revealed that the top 100 wealthiest landowners in the 19th century were all members of House of Lords, so farm workers never stood a chance.

Jhogo, Aggo, and Rakharo are the three young Dothraki men who guard Daenerys. These three are her Bloodriders. They are part of her growing number of Queensguards. Ser Jorah and Ser Barristan are the two from Westeros. Three cadets are in training to join. The term "Bloodrider" changed and acquired more meaning after Daenerys became the Mother of Dragons. It is said that one needs to have Targaryen blood, the blood of the dragon, in order to bond with a dragon. That normally means carrying Valyrian genes. And that is acquired from birth. But Daenerys is special. Just as she was reborn and became the Mother of Dragons, the Unburnt, Azor Ahai, etc. The Bloodriders were also reborn. It's like getting baptized. The day they knelt to Daenerys they became blood of the dragon. Not just as her bodyguards but kinsmen by blood through bonds forged by magic. She refers to them many times, blood of my blood. Daenerys saying that carry more significance than someone else saying it. I am not saying the Bloodriders will ride dragons. Perhaps one will. It fits the story to have one of the riders be a Dothraki.

Those wetas look scary to me. Please keep them in New Zealand, thank you.

This is really something very small but there is a post on Facebook about the fact the main actors for the Duncan and the Egg series that is going to be filmed have been cast, and Duncan is going to be played by a former footballer who has started an acting career by the name of Peter Claffey. He’s so new he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. I asked the question so how tall is he, since I couldn’t find the answer anywhere (about 6’5”) and I just saw my question got a “like” by…Sean Bean. I think it’s the real Sean Bean, but who knows for sure, his identity could have been appropriated. But I am inordinately pleased.

No reports of casualties yet. *fingers crossed* US officials don’t seem surprised or overly concerned. All this posturing though…

It's the story of Azor Ahai told another way. The Dothraki spun the story according to what they know about in order to make it make sense in their reality. They know horses, grass, and khalasars. So this great leader will mount the stallion and bind the khalasars together to follow her. It is the same event just seen from the eyes of different people and they composed tales and legends for their own people.

Kinda cool that we will be able to see a nova with the naked eye in our life times, kinda meh that no one will notice it except those who know where to look. Also pretty cool that astronomers are able to be this precise about when it's going to happen. Though I guess it needs to happen before anyone can say the predictions were correct.