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Kromlech posted:there have been 214 acts of rape in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, and 117 rape victims. It is still much lower than 1 in 5 on the show which means the GoT world is safer than an American college campus.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:08 |
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facebook jihad posted:Probably my biggest nerd rage in this show is that apparently the society has been like this for thousands of years. You'd think they'd be evolving like normal societies but no we still have dark age technology and poo poo. I point this out because 'oh we made a big crossbow' is clearly some form of technological marvel, you think with the explosive green stuff guns would be on the way and in 500 years it would be like WWI GoT with machine guns or something which would be cool. In the books I justified the stagnant technology to myself with the periodic dieback caused by their super winters. In the TV show, I don't bother justifying it because putting any thought into it is more then they've done. poo poo is all mixed up. The armor varies from early middle ages style to renaissance style that was contemporary with widespread firearms in the real world
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:12 |
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Maybe the gods didn't want them to get too fancy tech
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:22 |
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Your Grace, the finest smiths and engineers of seven kingdoms have worked unceasingly on this magnificent device, which is sure to defeat the dragon menace. Now, if you would do the honors... *Cersei pulls the veil off a giant mouse trap*
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:23 |
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Your Grace, the finest smiths and engineers of seven kingdoms have worked unceasingly on this magnificent device, which is sure to defeat the dragon menace. Now, if you would do the honors... *Cersei looks at a big chunk of stone with "Throw towards bad thing" scribbled on one side*
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:24 |
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i did enjoy how unimpressed the seven remaining noblemen were.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:26 |
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Sams gonna make guns that shoot dragon glass musket balls
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:27 |
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They should just catapult the mountain at a dragon
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:29 |
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Your Grace, the finest smiths and engineers of seven kingdoms have worked unceasingly on this magnificent device, which is sure to defeat the dragon menace. Now, if you would do the honors... *Cersei picks up a novelty door mat that says GONE FISHIN*
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:30 |
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1 giant crossbow 3 dragons dont think it will work
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:32 |
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DrPlump posted:1 giant crossbow It's guaranteed to cause Cersei to almost win by killing 1, possibly 2 dragons.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:35 |
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steinrokkan posted:Your Grace, the finest smiths and engineers of seven kingdoms have worked unceasingly on this magnificent device, which is sure to defeat the dragon menace. Now, if you would do the honors... loving laffin over here, ty
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:36 |
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I bet Theon and Nymeria never show up again.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:37 |
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UnfurledSails posted:I bet Theon and Nymeria never show up again. Gendry gonna row up and rescue Theon. both disappear forever after.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:38 |
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UnfurledSails posted:I bet Theon and Nymeria never show up again. I'd be fine with the latter because Nymeria is a dog with no unresolved plot threads and got a decent enough send off with that scene.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:41 |
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Theon turns into aquaman.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:41 |
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facebook jihad posted:Probably my biggest nerd rage in this show is that apparently the society has been like this for thousands of years. You'd think they'd be evolving like normal societies but no we still have dark age technology and poo poo. I point this out because 'oh we made a big crossbow' is clearly some form of technological marvel, you think with the explosive green stuff guns would be on the way and in 500 years it would be like WWI GoT with machine guns or something which would be cool. Well with Star Wars at least you can kinda explain by the fact that it's a super old world and technology has become stagnant. The only thing societies can do is rediscover a lost knowledge. I suppose in Westeros it could have been explain with the deadly winters setting the world back centuries everytime but
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:46 |
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Who needs a gun when you got wizards though
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:48 |
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Zzulu posted:Who needs a gun when you got wizards though if you had like magic missile and stuff sure, but in got land magic is like "if i look in the fire, sometimes it looks like stuff but i usually get it wrong."
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:51 |
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I haven't seen the episode yet but lorewise ballistas were used to kill dragons before plus these ones don't have some LOTR super armor scales. Plus if an arrow can pierce a dragon (like with Drogon during that arena scene) then a ballista bolt can. e: China had catapults and whatever first probably but China had nothing on a good trebuchet. COMRADES fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jul 24, 2017 |
# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:52 |
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Did the 3 dragons from the weird dragon king die of old age or what
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:05 |
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yes. also the species died out due to inbreeding (books) which targaryans were extremely in to.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:07 |
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Is daenerys gonna go mad?
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:17 |
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"Khaleesi" fans will probably tear benioff and weiss apart in the streets if Danny does not win and end up alive and well at the end of this
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:22 |
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lol if a single person still cares about her after the last 6 seasons
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:28 |
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I'm the mercenary company left in charge of the incredibly tense situation in the city state she abandoned probably never to think of again.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:32 |
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she was a better character in the books where she turned into a female dragon riding George Dubya Bush
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:34 |
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lol @ people whoi unironically think dany is the good guy
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:34 |
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ROFLburger posted:lol if a single person still cares about her after the last 6 seasons non-goon fans who aren't hip enough to be cynical jaded nerds like us still love her like a sherlockwhovian loves Benedict cumberbatch.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:39 |
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steinrokkan posted:lol @ people whoi unironically think dany is the good guy Even though I didn't really know who he was until this episode I'm rooting for Euron. How can you not after that entrance? There are no good guys, just go for the coolest bad guy.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:49 |
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yeah after last ep i was a little down on the show's take on him but after this one they did capture a little heavy metal viking pirate after all
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:52 |
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Even though I didn't really know who he was until this episode I'm rooting for Euron. How can you not after that entrance? There are no good guys, just go for the coolest bad guy. He was still cooler in the books by a loving mile, that's why. The same scene from last night would have only been matter better if his crazy tongue-cut crew or head-to-toe Valryian steel plate was involved, or if he entered a proper king's moot (not that "20 people stand on a cliff" we got) setting people on fire and poo poo. It was definitely his best scene, but all his other scenes are going MURRRRRRDER or talking about his big dick. Still credit where credit was do, his entrance was boss.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:04 |
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bag em and tag em posted:"Khaleesi" fans will probably tear benioff and weiss apart in the streets if Danny does not win and end up alive and well at the end of this Honestly I'll be surprised if she doesn't get speared through the heart by Jon at the end due to all that prophecy poo poo.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:06 |
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Blazing Ownager posted:Honestly I'll be surprised if she doesn't get speared through the heart by Jon at the end due to all that prophecy poo poo. Well actually gender neutral pronouns so woman stab man through heart
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:08 |
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i hope euron's boarding ramp crushes more people
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:09 |
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i hope someone gets facefucked to death!
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:11 |
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I seriously wish Arya would finally get to Winterfell and a wight stabs her through the stomach. Or maybe some overeager guard shoots her. Or she gets within sight of her home and some wildling kills her. Everyone complains about Dany being a Mary Sue but loving hell Arya is so much worse.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:13 |
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I'm not going to bother googling for the quote and I encourage you to take this as a flippant comment regardless but apparently GRRM has said all his characters have no plot armor really except for Arya just because his wife would be super mad at him if she died.
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:15 |
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:i hope euron's boarding ramp crushes more people
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# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:15 |
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COMRADES posted:I'm not going to bother googling for the quote and I encourage you to take this as a flippant comment regardless but apparently GRRM has said all his characters have no plot armor really except for Arya just because his wife would be super mad at him if she died. Goddamnit. The Faceless Men had no reason to let her go. It might have made sense if they gave her a target and said fine, you kill this ONE person and you're free to go. Go kill the last male Targaryen. Something like that. Nope. Her stupid wolf should have thrown rocks at her to make her run. That might have been a better scene.
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