Cersei before becoming queen: blows up the central cathedral of the biggest city in the world to kill all her political enemies at once. Also causes significant damage to surrounding areas and untold civilian/peasant deaths.
Dany before becoming queen: blows up the rest of the city because bells feels.
To me, the funniest thing about this production isn't even that its franchise is already stone-dead thanks to the decline and ultimately catastrophically bad ending to Game of Thrones, nor that GRRM is involved with this rather than even pretending to still give a shit about the still-unfinished main series 11 years after the publication of its last book.
It's that the Dance of the Dragons (as elaborated upon in worldbuilding materials World of Ice & Fire and Fire & Blood, which Martin also shat out rather than work on the next installment of the main ASOIAF series) is basically everything people came to increasingly dislike about GoT, condensed and ramped up to 11. Among other things...
=====================Here be spoilers, for anyone who cares=====================
The core conflict pits two factions of extremely unlikable characters - ambitious usurpers, child-killers, rapists, sadistic war criminals, all-around unpleasant jerks, etc. - against each other for the right to sit on the world's pointiest chair.
Of these, we are meant to sympathize with the leader of the 'Black' faction: Rhaenyra Targaryen, the subject of the quote in the title. A casual adulteress and mother of multiple obvious bastard children who her partisans maintain is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne because her dad King Viserys said so, despite this blatantly contravening all the laws & traditions of the Seven Kingdoms. She will go on to sign off on war crimes, including the murder of her infant nephews and bloody purges of her enemies.
Rhaenyra's chief supporters include her uncle-husband Daemon, who resembles an Oblivion character in his portrayal by Matt Smith, and who is a ruthless warlord on top of being an all-around dick. Also the Velaryons, the family of her first husband (who she cheated on, but everyone was cool with it because he was gay), who have been made black in this show despite the paternity of their supposed children being a major complication for Rhaenyra's claim: in the books she had a little plausible deniability, not so on the show thanks to said race swap.
The other faction, the Greens, is spearheaded by Rhaenyra's half-brother Aegon II, a fat lazy slob who is nevertheless legally the heir to the Seven Kingdoms by every actual law & custom in the land. He eventually becomes a bloodthirsty, vindictive psycho after being severely injured in battle and having his sons assassinated by Rhaenyra's partisans. The true brains of the Green clique is Aegon's mom (and Rhaenyra's stepmother) Alicent Hightower, who can be best described as a sane Cersei (or IOW a moderately intelligent and immoderately ambitious scheming bitch, if you haven't read the books or watched GoT).
Aegon's chief supporters include Criston Cole, a knight who leads the Kingsguard (royal bodyguard comprised of seven elite knights) and was Rhaenyra's jilted ex-lover, and his middle brother Aemond, the most violently unstable & assholish Targaryen prince around who's also the rider of the most powerful dragon still alive. He & Aemond also had a third brother in the books named Daeron, who was one of literally three named adult Targaryen royals from this timeframe to act like a decent (even heroic) human being on top of being a badass and reasonable leader. (The others were Aegon's sister-wife Helaena, a body positive princess, and Rhaenys, a cousin of their father the old king who is also the token heroic Black) Naturally, unlike the diverse and good Blacks, the Green lieutenants are all vile white men and Daeron seems to have been written out of the show entirely - notably nobody has been cast in his role, unlike his brothers.
The story ends with the Blacks and Greens obliterates each other entirely. Like her distant descendant Daenaerys does in Season 8, Rhaenyra caps off her reign with a murderous rampage and an assortment of atrocities aimed at innocent people & hostages that turns just about everyone against her - in other words, setting the realm to the torch herself. Aegon takes his chance to kill Rhaenyra, then is himself killed (by a cast of second-rate characters including random lords literally named after Sesame Street characters) to make way for Rhaenyra's older surviving son with Daemon, Aegon III, to take the throne as a child. Also, the Seven Kingdoms agree to ban women from the royal succession unless all male heirs have died first, which seems like an eminently reasonable thing to do considering what the various powerful women of the setting (again, with like two exceptions) get up to over the course of the books/series.
Tl;dr Martin and HBO have elected to adapt a part of the former's worldbuilding that is guaranteed to either piss off woke feminist watchers already mad that their heroine Daenaerys turned out to be a fairly realistic portrayal of a SJW handed ultimate power, even if the way it happened was insanely rushed (if they stick to his source material), or the people still naive enough to keep a flame lit for The Winds of Winter and/or to count themselves a part of the ASOIAF fandom (if they deviate to 'update' the story for 'modern sensibilities', even though Martin first published it in 2014).
Either way, I look forward to the fallout of GRRM basically Picarding his work at least as hard as Patrick Stewart did Picard and TNG.
It’s time to come to terms with the fact that Msm is produced specifically for suburban women and their male partners. They used to throw dudes a bone every now and again but that’s now an act of speech violence or some shit
I'm worried about dark souls because its the least SJW thing in existence and yet theyre trying to pander to SJWs with the stupid body type thing. And since dark souls is always successful, the devs will take it to mean that everyone is wholly onboard with removing sex just to pander to the mentally ill .01% of the population. This could be catastrophic since once subversives gain a foothold, they dont stop subverting until the property is dead.
Unless they reveal that everyone are in fact genderless golems in universe the body type thing feels completely inorganic and forced in.
I don't think he gets kickbacks but I'm not sure. I'd be interested to see if it was a one time payment or if he has any sort of royalty deal due to his name.
Regarding the body type issue, I only ever saw two threads about it on the subreddit, from your typical "uwu look at me I'm NB!" type morons, as opposed to the constant posts and praise cyberpunk got for chick's with dicks where dudes were taking hours to get their makeup just right. Maybe if more people were frothing over it, it would be seen as some glorious thing to emulate but I don't see it happening in this case. It's beyond being overshadowed imo.
Plus, it seems it has more to do with localization with Bamco than the actual dev, but who knows
A long while back, I made a self-post here about struggling with boycotts, and the many conflicting motivations one might have for buying or not buying a given game
I'd love to read it. Epic going to my shitlist has really left me with very little.
I was thinking about making a deep post about politics, boycotting and the sacrifices made to stay ideologically pure, but I think people would hate it. I might just write it and dump it on my own community just to have it down. It's something I've been thinking about a lot since I finally stopped playing Fortnite.
Really, I've given up so much to avoid funding my enemy, and I don't mean that in a blind product loyalty way.
I'm blessed with friends who will stick around even though most of the things we did together have been whittled away, but I feel like I've changed as a person. Everything I grew up with got taken by feminists, everything I did to stay somewhat normie and have a connection with people I haven't known forever got taken.
Part of me wonders if they've won just by me reducing my hobbies to next to nothing to fight them. But at the same time, if I keep funding them to keep myself happier, I'm a traitor to my cause, no better than a male feminist.
you once wrote an email to a company about IWD or some other feminist holiday
It was Epic. They rolled back my recent transactions into Rocket League after that game went woke.
It's a weird feeling to put them on the same list as companies like Google where I would cheer if their HQ fell down.
Leave it to Bamco localizers to screw everyone over.
As a digimon fan, I'm initmately familiar with them bending over backward to groups who dont care about whatever they think needs changing to begin with.
If I were Bamco of Japan, I would fire the lot of them and start over.
He apparently did the background world building that happens before the game starts. Could have said it was done in collaboration with John Doe and nobody would be the wiser.
Why would they? Whatever money he got from FromSoft has long since been spent on fried food and black prostitutes, whatever fat fuckery he’s involved with now has no impact on what has been the only decent AAA release this year.
Very rich, considering the two women gunning the hardest for the Iron Throne in the original series brought the most ruin to the realm
Cersei before becoming queen: blows up the central cathedral of the biggest city in the world to kill all her political enemies at once. Also causes significant damage to surrounding areas and untold civilian/peasant deaths.
Dany before becoming queen: blows up the rest of the city because
bellsfeels.Yaaas, queens. Slay! 🔥
To me, the funniest thing about this production isn't even that its franchise is already stone-dead thanks to the decline and ultimately catastrophically bad ending to Game of Thrones, nor that GRRM is involved with this rather than even pretending to still give a shit about the still-unfinished main series 11 years after the publication of its last book.
It's that the Dance of the Dragons (as elaborated upon in worldbuilding materials World of Ice & Fire and Fire & Blood, which Martin also shat out rather than work on the next installment of the main ASOIAF series) is basically everything people came to increasingly dislike about GoT, condensed and ramped up to 11. Among other things...
=====================Here be spoilers, for anyone who cares=====================
The core conflict pits two factions of extremely unlikable characters - ambitious usurpers, child-killers, rapists, sadistic war criminals, all-around unpleasant jerks, etc. - against each other for the right to sit on the world's pointiest chair.
Of these, we are meant to sympathize with the leader of the 'Black' faction: Rhaenyra Targaryen, the subject of the quote in the title. A casual adulteress and mother of multiple obvious bastard children who her partisans maintain is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne because her dad King Viserys said so, despite this blatantly contravening all the laws & traditions of the Seven Kingdoms. She will go on to sign off on war crimes, including the murder of her infant nephews and bloody purges of her enemies.
Rhaenyra's chief supporters include her uncle-husband Daemon, who resembles an Oblivion character in his portrayal by Matt Smith, and who is a ruthless warlord on top of being an all-around dick. Also the Velaryons, the family of her first husband (who she cheated on, but everyone was cool with it because he was gay), who have been made black in this show despite the paternity of their supposed children being a major complication for Rhaenyra's claim: in the books she had a little plausible deniability, not so on the show thanks to said race swap.
The other faction, the Greens, is spearheaded by Rhaenyra's half-brother Aegon II, a fat lazy slob who is nevertheless legally the heir to the Seven Kingdoms by every actual law & custom in the land. He eventually becomes a bloodthirsty, vindictive psycho after being severely injured in battle and having his sons assassinated by Rhaenyra's partisans. The true brains of the Green clique is Aegon's mom (and Rhaenyra's stepmother) Alicent Hightower, who can be best described as a sane Cersei (or IOW a moderately intelligent and immoderately ambitious scheming bitch, if you haven't read the books or watched GoT).
Aegon's chief supporters include Criston Cole, a knight who leads the Kingsguard (royal bodyguard comprised of seven elite knights) and was Rhaenyra's jilted ex-lover, and his middle brother Aemond, the most violently unstable & assholish Targaryen prince around who's also the rider of the most powerful dragon still alive. He & Aemond also had a third brother in the books named Daeron, who was one of literally three named adult Targaryen royals from this timeframe to act like a decent (even heroic) human being on top of being a badass and reasonable leader. (The others were Aegon's sister-wife Helaena, a body positive princess, and Rhaenys, a cousin of their father the old king who is also the token heroic Black) Naturally, unlike the diverse and good Blacks, the Green lieutenants are all vile white men and Daeron seems to have been written out of the show entirely - notably nobody has been cast in his role, unlike his brothers.
The story ends with the Blacks and Greens obliterates each other entirely. Like her distant descendant Daenaerys does in Season 8, Rhaenyra caps off her reign with a murderous rampage and an assortment of atrocities aimed at innocent people & hostages that turns just about everyone against her - in other words, setting the realm to the torch herself. Aegon takes his chance to kill Rhaenyra, then is himself killed (by a cast of second-rate characters including random lords literally named after Sesame Street characters) to make way for Rhaenyra's older surviving son with Daemon, Aegon III, to take the throne as a child. Also, the Seven Kingdoms agree to ban women from the royal succession unless all male heirs have died first, which seems like an eminently reasonable thing to do considering what the various powerful women of the setting (again, with like two exceptions) get up to over the course of the books/series.
=====================End spoilers=====================
Tl;dr Martin and HBO have elected to adapt a part of the former's worldbuilding that is guaranteed to either piss off woke feminist watchers already mad that their heroine Daenaerys turned out to be a fairly realistic portrayal of a SJW handed ultimate power, even if the way it happened was insanely rushed (if they stick to his source material), or the people still naive enough to keep a flame lit for The Winds of Winter and/or to count themselves a part of the ASOIAF fandom (if they deviate to 'update' the story for 'modern sensibilities', even though Martin first published it in 2014).
Either way, I look forward to the fallout of GRRM basically Picarding his work at least as hard as Patrick Stewart did Picard and TNG.
Yes.
holy lolol. matt smith looks like the discount brand witcher in that pic.
I wish for more than one upvote to give when nerds lay down lore like this.
Great post, this is why I read the comments lol
Judging by every female run country, just lighting everything on fire would be a better outcome than giving someone who's ruled by emotion power.
If you put a woman on the throne the realm would pretty much torch itself.
omg is this funded by the DNC in 2016????
Yes, because we've seen what tends to happen under female leadership and it's frequently worse than losing a war.
Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
You're literally better off being nuked than ruled by women.
Probably why Biden isn't scared of starting WW3.
Gotta hand it to them. The mongoloids they found to play the women in this certainly look like the products of sister fucking.
Looks like trash,
yes, and?
Those are some good men. They would rather destroy it and rebuild then allow women to ruin and corrupt it.
It’s time to come to terms with the fact that Msm is produced specifically for suburban women and their male partners. They used to throw dudes a bone every now and again but that’s now an act of speech violence or some shit
Now let's see if anyone here has the spine to boycott Elden Ring.
I'm worried about dark souls because its the least SJW thing in existence and yet theyre trying to pander to SJWs with the stupid body type thing. And since dark souls is always successful, the devs will take it to mean that everyone is wholly onboard with removing sex just to pander to the mentally ill .01% of the population. This could be catastrophic since once subversives gain a foothold, they dont stop subverting until the property is dead.
Unless they reveal that everyone are in fact genderless golems in universe the body type thing feels completely inorganic and forced in.
I don't think he gets kickbacks but I'm not sure. I'd be interested to see if it was a one time payment or if he has any sort of royalty deal due to his name.
Regarding the body type issue, I only ever saw two threads about it on the subreddit, from your typical "uwu look at me I'm NB!" type morons, as opposed to the constant posts and praise cyberpunk got for chick's with dicks where dudes were taking hours to get their makeup just right. Maybe if more people were frothing over it, it would be seen as some glorious thing to emulate but I don't see it happening in this case. It's beyond being overshadowed imo.
Plus, it seems it has more to do with localization with Bamco than the actual dev, but who knows
I'd love to read it. Epic going to my shitlist has really left me with very little.
I was thinking about making a deep post about politics, boycotting and the sacrifices made to stay ideologically pure, but I think people would hate it. I might just write it and dump it on my own community just to have it down. It's something I've been thinking about a lot since I finally stopped playing Fortnite.
Really, I've given up so much to avoid funding my enemy, and I don't mean that in a blind product loyalty way.
I'm blessed with friends who will stick around even though most of the things we did together have been whittled away, but I feel like I've changed as a person. Everything I grew up with got taken by feminists, everything I did to stay somewhat normie and have a connection with people I haven't known forever got taken.
Part of me wonders if they've won just by me reducing my hobbies to next to nothing to fight them. But at the same time, if I keep funding them to keep myself happier, I'm a traitor to my cause, no better than a male feminist.
It was Epic. They rolled back my recent transactions into Rocket League after that game went woke.
It's a weird feeling to put them on the same list as companies like Google where I would cheer if their HQ fell down.
I want it but I cant afford it and the "Body Type A/B" thing feels like faggot pandering to me.
I'm definitely never buying it at full price.
From what Ive seen that was a Bamco decision, I think the jap version has male/female still.
There’s a mod on the nexus that takes it out, which is surprising considering how much modnexus bends over backwards for trannies.
Leave it to Bamco localizers to screw everyone over.
As a digimon fan, I'm initmately familiar with them bending over backward to groups who dont care about whatever they think needs changing to begin with.
If I were Bamco of Japan, I would fire the lot of them and start over.
Did George R.R. Martin have any involvement? It just seems that they put his name in there for $$
He apparently did the background world building that happens before the game starts. Could have said it was done in collaboration with John Doe and nobody would be the wiser.
He wrote all of the dialogue for the character Blackguard Big Boggart.
Why would they? Whatever money he got from FromSoft has long since been spent on fried food and black prostitutes, whatever fat fuckery he’s involved with now has no impact on what has been the only decent AAA release this year.
Same reason I'm suffering not getting F1 22 even though I bought the game every year it was available since F1 06 for the PSP.
It's principle.
Yes. You should loan it to Lindsay Graham.
Take away his dildo collection unless he uses it.