Supposedly you should empathize with the characters in the books, not too differently from the way you would real people in real life. Especially in a soapier narrative like this. You're analogy has just as many holes. GRR Martin isn't playing a game with you. You are reading a narrative. I deem it: No better.

Why would I possibly care who's going to be the next President of the United States if everybody dies eventually anyway?

I think that's exactly it. He's not a terrible actor by any stretch of the imagination, but he needs a really great script, and some of his line readings in GOT still come off not that well delivered (but I blame a lot of that on his accent).

-1,000 points for using the wrong "it's."

I don't think that's actually the case. Looking at the website, it looks like these are screen caps from the series, and if they couldn't get it without foreground characters, they included them. This one almost looks like it could have been a part of the background, but many of them have characters in motion that…

I'd recommend piling the bodies of anybody who would type "Billburg." (Excluding me just now.)

Also, good fucking luck eliminating NYC and having no one notice. The New York metro area economy (which is anchored almost completely by NYC) is equivalent to the 12th largest economy in the world. You are so completely ignorant and obviously clouded by anger toward people who rightfully understand the importance of…

You are obviously trying to be a jerk, and on top of that, you're just dumb. It's only a joke to idiots like you. Nobody thinks that Sandy was the worst natural disaster to hit America or even in the top ten, but it was huge and deserving of attention.

Dude, no, just no. The joke is Some Guy on the Internet saying "So you're saying that anything below the median price house should be condemned? That's half of the houses in the country!" and then I said "And all of those houses are in the rust belt." I'm not saying it's a good joke or a funny joke, but your fucking…

Dude, if they were shooting only white people, this would already be on CNN. Also, saying "white people will be the minorities in the US" is incredibly stupid. I'm looking at a projection right now from the census bureau and even when white people dip below 50%, they will still be the largest racial group. It's not…

Wow, you are so obtuse it's painful. Try reading what I said again. At no point was anyone talking about San Francisco (you can scroll up to see the entire conversation from the beginning starting with Micah). Micah said the article isn't talking about the minimum salary to buy a home, but the minimum salary to buy a…

I don't know who or what you think I was responding to, but I was responding to "So you're saying that anything below the median price house should be condemned? That's half of the houses in the country!" (hint: it will say after the commenter's user name which user they are responding to). It was a joke, and the joke…

And all of those houses are in the rust belt.

Calm down. I doubt anybody in the entirety of the United States would think that England is the same latitude as Georgia. That's a huge exaggeration that weakens your argument. I think most people don't study latitudes on maps and think about it general in terms of weather without understanding how climate works,…

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Well fortunately there is an intermission.

"Not suitable as a substitute for Star Wars, Star Trek, or other space opera media." Yeah, uh, I think I found the error here. If you went into it (or still think about it) in the context of a space opera, you won't be able to enjoy it. They aren't attempting to reach the audience in a similar way at all. I know it's…

I always thought X-Men WAS the girly comic. And I don't mean this as a slight against the comics (because claiming something is for women is not an insult). Obviously for the most part, comics and most media transcend gender, but X-Men with its soapy plotlines and large cast of females badasses would be the superhero…

I'm thinking definitely you are safe after noon, but I would bet it's sun-rise.

Gotta nuke something.