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― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
that risk looks p good, more balanced layout than this terribly conceived planet we call earth. nothing obviously overlarge and overexposed like hopeless asia. i guess the reach and riverlands are a bit surrounded.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
altho i see now there are 2 boards, curious.
theme monopolys otoh are just mystery to me
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
ya was thinking the risk one might be interesting via the new layout
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
i like that the railroads are the houses and chance is valar morghulis.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
"pirates of the caribbean risk"About 1,830 results (0.76 seconds)
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
I might Ask The Maester if a giant has ever been turned into a wight. Maybe Wun Wun or whatever his name is will get to squish a few white walkers before they turn him blue.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
i might ask the maester about some personal health issues
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
wight giant surely just a matter of time
― ogmor, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
A better "ice dragon" gif: http://gfycat.com/VelvetyDecimalFirebelliedtoad
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
special effects on this show leave something to be desired
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
they certainly do if that is supposed to be a gdamn ice dragon
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
lol seriously it just looks like a piece of tarp flapping in the wind
― Roz, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
That's just silly, if they had ice dragons, why would they need an army of the dead? Now, a zombie ice dragon, then we'd be talking. And instead of breathing fire (since that would make no sense), it could breathe a special chemical that disintegrates clothing. Though mostly on women. Also, it would feast on the most delicious of meals. Ice quail fragrant with ice garlic, with crispy ice skin cooked to icy perfection, dripping with ice juices, served with a frosty flagon of ice wine, drawn from the finest ice barrels north of the wall.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
I love the mythology of Myth II but I never played the original
― 龜, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 10:22 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i loved myth II, i played the shit out it, i wanna play right now
― gbx, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:32 (nine years ago) link
breathless nerdlingers screencapping this like it's L O S T ffs
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
nerdlingers be nerdlingers
― Hell Books (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:34 (nine years ago) link
gbx i challenge u to an online match
― 龜, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link
dorfs only
― gbx, Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
JinC GRRM parody always funny
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
ice dragons traditionally breath electricity iirc via my old monster manualgod i wish i still had that. i think i have the pdfs somewhere
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
― gbx, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 9:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
If you get your hands on a disc you can install and play using the 1.8 updates here: http://tain.totalcodex.net/mythii
― Evan, Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:11 (nine years ago) link
Just to check, we're discussing the possibility that Game Of Thrones, if it had an ice dragon, would be coy about it, y/n?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 June 2015 08:43 (nine years ago) link
You serious? This is a series that introduced two very existential threats - an army of magical snow zombies and dragons - and has literally kept them either locked up or off-screen for the bulk of the show while people doof around in Dorne or talk tiddliwink politics. I'm curious to see if this past ep has backed the series into a corner. After such a massive display of force and unbeatable evil, how can they simply shift back to mundane political machinations and expect that to hold our attention? At the same time, you can't have a snow zombie dragon battle every episode, either. It's kind of Walking Dead syndrome, all or nothing, with "nothing" meaning people in a room - sometimes sitting, sometimes standing - glaring and talking and for god's sake, no blinking. Never blink! Anyway, this show has much better writing and acting than Walking Dead, so at least the talking is compelling, but in terms of big picture I have no idea what they're up to. Keeps it interesting, at least, even when (as has been this case most of this season) it has not been terribly interesting.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 June 2015 11:47 (nine years ago) link
― Evan, Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:11 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
I still have my original discs lol but no disc drive and I'm on yosemite?
― 龜, Thursday, 4 June 2015 12:09 (nine years ago) link
Our hero GRRM the Warrior makes a good but also terrible case for the sexual violence in Game of Thrones:
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/03/george-rr-martin-thrones-violence-women?hootPostID=fd755821de73a6dbf75a0649e2b7bb1b
"I'm just the author and creator here. Who am I to argue with 8000 years of fictional history? Everything I've put in my books fake-happened already, so to excise or change it for the sake of contemporary sensitivities would be to do an injustice to fake historians everywhere. That women walked around with no tops on while fighting ice zombies and dragons let alone bearing the oppression of a stylized patriarchy where women are second-class citizens (except when they're not) is part of the fake historical record, and to re-write those female characters into more equitable scenarios would just not be right. You have noticed my fake attention to other fake details, such as fake food and fake geography and fake shadow cats roaming the forests? Well, multiply that by 1000 and you understand the task set before me. My hands are tied by the binds of fake truth."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
He is kinda right, that it would be wrong to sanitize history. But if he wanted to show people on the margins of the power-structure, I feel like he could skip at least a couple of the rapes, include a non-noble character, and tell the same story.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
LOL, sanitize history. That's why I said he made a good but terrible case. This is not the middle ages, this is his fantasy version of the middle ages. It is about fake people doing fake things. He can tell the story any way he wants to tell it, but the issue I and others have had is that the show has often relied on sexual violence as a lazy/shocking crutch rather than explore other, possibly better ways to convey the same horror/drama.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
he seems very much not entirely serious about that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
I agree. But. It's a fake history based on real history, as is most fantasy, and there's a clear tendency in fantasy to makeup the fake history by making men less like violent assholes. But there's countering that, and then there's using sexual violence as a crutch while still claiming to be countering that.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
u guys just go ahead and write that fan fiction youre dying to already, except not itt
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
What is the fake history to real history ratio of this show?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
60-60. Art can be like that!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Thursday, June 4, 2015 8:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
If you can get get it installed with an external drive you should be alright. I run on Yosemite too.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
the only remarkable thing about game of thrones is that it's a true-to-the-grittiness-and-nihilism-of-real-history fantasy series. quite literally the only remarkable thing. without the dark violence it's just dragonlance w/ zombies.
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderlust_%28Dragonlance_novel%29 <-- Dragonlance with zombies
― DJP, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
lol ok, so without dark violence it's just dragonlance w/out kender
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
― Evan, Thursday, June 4, 2015 10:47 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sorry I should mention that you only need the disc to install iirc. I know for sure you don't need it to run the game itself beyond that.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
imo the big thing that sets it apart from the genre norms is its focus on politics economics and so forth which is also very gritty dark and lurid, so the violence is of a piece with that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
plus the violence itself is more realistic than some hero narrative show where nobody just gets knifed in the back, regardless of era
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
Jacqueline Carey also does pretty deep political intrigue in her fantasy, only instead of "gritty realism" her trappings are "increasingly uncomfortable BDSM" (at least that's how Kushiel's Dart felt, never read the sequels)
― DJP, Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
politics sure economics eh not so sure about that
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― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
After such a massive display of force and unbeatable evil, how can they simply shift back to mundane political machinations and expect that to hold our attention?
Because we've been watching these characters for five seasons and we're invested in them now?
It's been established virtually from the start that most of the characters are fundamentally petty-minded and fiddling with the apocalypse round the corner, I'm not sure this episode changes much from that point of view. Of the main political players, Stannis is the only one who really seems to get it, but then again some of the Wildlings didn't seem to get it until this episode.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Stannis is no different. He only assisted castle black due to the red priest lady influence. Otherwise he's still just trying to establish himself as king.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
No, duty
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
I'm disappointed in everyone's lack of long-game ambitions. Clearly Stannis should be angling to become zombie snow king of the north.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
he has the crazy-ass red-haired sorcerer mistress pedigree...
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
I feel like there should be more magic in the show. If the people of Westeros know that magic is real, there would be a huge subculture who were all about that magic. They would easily be more powerful than the Sparrows. Plus, can't they bring people back to life? Seems like the family in power would capture some people who could bring their loved ones back to life.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
i think there have been indications that there wasn't much magic for a long time (coinciding with all the dragons dying) and now it's slowly beginning to reappear
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
yup
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link