moist turtleneck posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1792402216390934860?t=fJY5i8xgAzj1G310DU6jsw&s=19

FizFashizzle posted:

My god the battle of winterfel. I knew that was going to be trash when the creators were like “this is the biggest battle ever portrayed on the screen.” I remember reading that about a battle before seeing Troy with their Bronze Age exploding planes and cntrl c cntrl v open plains attack.

Imagine spending that many seasons building up so many things and using one of them.

- They finally got the Dothraki across the narrow sea and immediately sent them into a blind calvary charge into complete darkness (and somehow only lost 1/3rd of them)

- Danaeyris spent the whole battle floating around on her dragon that sure would have been useful against those creatures who were basically only vulnerable to fire.

- Speaking of fire, sure would have been nice if that fire mage who was sending abortion assassins did anything at all during the fight.

- And maybe explain why Bran isn’t just worging into….anything. Do something.

- The unstoppable night king was killed by a teenage girl stealing a move from the second resident evil movie, but not after omniscient bran didn’t stop Theon from killing himself for no reasons mere moments before.

- The giant undead army was nothing but the puddy patrol. The only thing that wasn’t cgi was the quick shot of actors lying on the fire to build the undead bridge.

And of course Plot Armor Jon Snow basically fist fighting an undead dragon and shuffle blocking its fire because the idiots on Imgur demanded it. I’m convinced the last three seasons were made just so Imgur could make memes. Like that little girl who talked poo poo to the lords? Well guess what she’s going to be a general now, and she’s going to be crushed by a frost giant while stabbing it in the eye heroically in her final moments. Epic bacon sir.

The one shot from that battle that will always stick with me is every minor character they didn’t want to kill pressed against a wall just flopping their swords against a literal wall of undead. There’s Tarley and Jamie, somehow surviving.

The lasting image of that series is (and should be) Danny turning into Hitler in the span of twenty minutes of screen time because of how incompetent the (children of Goldman Sachs bankers) creators were and are. But the awfulness of the attack on kings landing really makes people forget how bad winterfell was.

And all this rushed in a condensed season so the creators could pursue their true passion: an alt history series about the south winning the civil war.

One of the eight people that reads the front page should go through the aftermath of the Battle of Winterfel thread and quote the goons reflexively defending every part of that episode. Just complete loving nonsense.

Thank you I’ll take my 5 for 5 2 for 6, please.

moist turtleneck posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1792402216390934860?t=fJY5i8xgAzj1G310DU6jsw&s=19

RealityWarCriminal posted:

well actually'ing a video game catchphrase from 1997

FizFashizzle posted:

My god the battle of winterfel. I knew that was going to be trash when the creators were like “this is the biggest battle ever portrayed on the screen.” I remember reading that about a battle before seeing Troy with their Bronze Age exploding planes and cntrl c cntrl v open plains attack.

Imagine spending that many seasons building up so many things and using one of them.

- They finally got the Dothraki across the narrow sea and immediately sent them into a blind calvary charge into complete darkness (and somehow only lost 1/3rd of them)

- Danaeyris spent the whole battle floating around on her dragon that sure would have been useful against those creatures who were basically only vulnerable to fire.

- Speaking of fire, sure would have been nice if that fire mage who was sending abortion assassins did anything at all during the fight.

- And maybe explain why Bran isn’t just worging into….anything. Do something.

- The unstoppable night king was killed by a teenage girl stealing a move from the second resident evil movie, but not after omniscient bran didn’t stop Theon from killing himself for no reasons mere moments before.

- The giant undead army was nothing but the puddy patrol. The only thing that wasn’t cgi was the quick shot of actors lying on the fire to build the undead bridge.

And of course Plot Armor Jon Snow basically fist fighting an undead dragon and shuffle blocking its fire because the idiots on Imgur demanded it. I’m convinced the last three seasons were made just so Imgur could make memes. Like that little girl who talked poo poo to the lords? Well guess what she’s going to be a general now, and she’s going to be crushed by a frost giant while stabbing it in the eye heroically in her final moments. Epic bacon sir.

The one shot from that battle that will always stick with me is every minor character they didn’t want to kill pressed against a wall just flopping their swords against a literal wall of undead. There’s Tarley and Jamie, somehow surviving.

The lasting image of that series is (and should be) Danny turning into Hitler in the span of twenty minutes of screen time because of how incompetent the (children of Goldman Sachs bankers) creators were and are. But the awfulness of the attack on kings landing really makes people forget how bad winterfell was.

And all this rushed in a condensed season so the creators could pursue their true passion: an alt history series about the south winning the civil war.

One of the eight people that reads the front page should go through the aftermath of the Battle of Winterfel thread and quote the goons reflexively defending every part of that episode. Just complete loving nonsense.

Thank you I’ll take my 5 for 5 2 for 6, please.

FizFashizzle posted:

My god the battle of winterfel. I knew that was going to be trash when the creators were like “this is the biggest battle ever portrayed on the screen.” I remember reading that about a battle before seeing Troy with their Bronze Age exploding planes and cntrl c cntrl v open plains attack.

Imagine spending that many seasons building up so many things and using one of them.

- They finally got the Dothraki across the narrow sea and immediately sent them into a blind calvary charge into complete darkness (and somehow only lost 1/3rd of them)

- Danaeyris spent the whole battle floating around on her dragon that sure would have been useful against those creatures who were basically only vulnerable to fire.

- Speaking of fire, sure would have been nice if that fire mage who was sending abortion assassins did anything at all during the fight.

- And maybe explain why Bran isn’t just worging into….anything. Do something.

- The unstoppable night king was killed by a teenage girl stealing a move from the second resident evil movie, but not after omniscient bran didn’t stop Theon from killing himself for no reasons mere moments before.

- The giant undead army was nothing but the puddy patrol. The only thing that wasn’t cgi was the quick shot of actors lying on the fire to build the undead bridge.

And of course Plot Armor Jon Snow basically fist fighting an undead dragon and shuffle blocking its fire because the idiots on Imgur demanded it. I’m convinced the last three seasons were made just so Imgur could make memes. Like that little girl who talked poo poo to the lords? Well guess what she’s going to be a general now, and she’s going to be crushed by a frost giant while stabbing it in the eye heroically in her final moments. Epic bacon sir.

The one shot from that battle that will always stick with me is every minor character they didn’t want to kill pressed against a wall just flopping their swords against a literal wall of undead. There’s Tarley and Jamie, somehow surviving.

The lasting image of that series is (and should be) Danny turning into Hitler in the span of twenty minutes of screen time because of how incompetent the (children of Goldman Sachs bankers) creators were and are. But the awfulness of the attack on kings landing really makes people forget how bad winterfell was.

And all this rushed in a condensed season so the creators could pursue their true passion: an alt history series about the south winning the civil war.

One of the eight people that reads the front page should go through the aftermath of the Battle of Winterfel thread and quote the goons reflexively defending every part of that episode. Just complete loving nonsense.

Thank you I’ll take my 5 for 5 2 for 6, please.

a.lo posted:

Read the books

a.lo posted:

Read the books

a.lo posted:

Bip Roberts posted:

the last two books are as bad as the last seasons of the show

moist turtleneck posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1792402216390934860?t=fJY5i8xgAzj1G310DU6jsw&s=19

Elias_Maluco posted:

Yep. And the show actually finishes the story, even if the ending is hot garbage

a.lo posted:

Read the books

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Beating on GoT is hardly a challenge, even my dad started criticizing it around the time Euron Grayjoy's fleet pops out of a wormhole to surprise attack Theon in the middle of the ocean. (This was made up wholecloth for the show naturally.)

a.lo posted:

Read the books

sharknado slashfic posted:

I never watched game of thrones so the freak outs are always funny to me. Now, Lost...

Karach posted:

The Winds of Winter will be around 1,500 pages. Martin said, as of November 2023, he had written roughly 1,100 pages and had “hundreds more pages to go."

Oglethorpe posted:

lost got lost in the middle but actually had a decent ending

sharknado slashfic posted:

keep making poo poo up for a few years.

Rauros posted:

he should just give up trying to solve the convoluted knot he wrote himself into and enjoy his retirement. surprised the 13 years of procrastination stress hasn't already killed him.

moist turtleneck posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1792402216390934860?t=fJY5i8xgAzj1G310DU6jsw&s=19

sharknado slashfic posted:

I actually didn't mind the end either, most people just called it in the first few episodes.

I saw a retrospective on it on YouTube and surprise, they didn't even expect the pilot to get picked up let alone become a hit so they just had to keep making poo poo up for a few years.

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Only about 15 percent of the electrode-bearing threads implanted in the brain of Neuralink's first human brain-chip patient continue to work properly, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The remaining 85 percent of the threads became displaced, and many of the threads that were left receiving little to no signals have been shut off.

Neuralink, owned by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, believes it can prevent thread movement in the next patient by simply implanting the fine wires deeper into brain tissue. The company is planning on—and the FDA has reportedly signed off on—implanting the threads 8 millimeters into the brain of the second trial participant rather than the 3 mm to 5 mm depth used in Arbaugh's implantation.

deathbysnusnu posted:

The neurolink stuff is by far the most ghoulish poo poo musk is up to. All of the stupid dick riders getting viking funerals in their 100k memecars is just karma, but tech bro grifting people with quadriplegia is a special kind hosed.

deathbysnusnu posted:

The neurolink stuff is by far the most ghoulish poo poo musk is up to. All of the stupid dick riders getting viking funerals in their 100k memecars is just karma, but tech bro grifting people with quadriplegia is a special kind hosed.

moist turtleneck posted:

drat no flag

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1792075461843140900?t=6dyExQDqNBM50mFdS6s69A&s=19