“In many ways” includes “in no legal sense whatsoever”.

That’s why the Treaty of Tripoli is so interesting - passed the Senate unanimously, was signed by President Adams, and included this:

Human: what is immoral?

Dude, you’re wrong. Large blocks of quoted texts can be formatted in italic. When you do that there is no need for quotation marks. You might want to spend some time studying Butcher’s Copy-editing bible before hassling someone for something so iffy. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/su…

40.000 people die each year in motor vehicle accidents in the US. Nobody cares.

My thinking: “Oof, casting Shadow? That would be tough, unless it was someone like Jason Momoa. Oh. That was easier than I thought.”

It’s been a while, but in the book, he wasn’t trying to steal a dragon, but trying to prove himself to Dany, right?

GREAT ODEN’S RAVEN!

A civilisation can stand for thousands of years without advancing significantly in technology; Mesopotamia and Egypt are a proof of such a thing, not to mention that the Neolithic culture lasted for around 100,000 years unchanged. There is no predetermined technological path that says it has to advance at a certain…

I only got through it through audiobooks, ADWD and AFFC are about 40 hours iirc

I’ve always enjoyed it a lot, but then again, I’ve always read it as a sarcastic jab at Stephen King’s run of NYT bestsellers - setting up a perfect triumvirate of stereotypical Stephen King heroic characters in the first half , only to start brutally ripping them to pieces at *exactly* halfway through the book. That…

Ramsey Bolton, will you stand up please.

The ending in DA2 is even worse than the ending in DA:I. It’s absolute rubbish and relies on characters acting insane for no reason and features two dull boss battles, one of which reuses assets from DA:O DLC because Bioware had to shoehorn in an extra boss for some reason.

That was certainly the theory - but that illusion didn’t last the 2nd playthrough when it turns out that things happen the same way regardless of what choices you made.

This instrument is misnamed. An “astrolabe” is a flat circular instrument with a movable sight. This device is more properly an “armillary sphere”.

I dunno who decided this thing was an astrolabe.

Pretty much all of the flak Arya got though was from the Septon and Her mom really. Both summer southerners. Also both Seveners. The rest of the flak was from Sansa who was sort of spoiled kinda.

Counterpoint - I actually like the fact that “the Others” are so downplayed in the books. After all, for most in Westeros “The Others” are a fairy tale and the Wall is little more than a penal colony where thieves and murderers are sent to die in the forgotten wastes of the North. Only a few know the real threat to…

Yeah, I hate the show’s version of white walkers (the retreat was good though). The way I pictured them when I read the books was creepy-ass beautiful pale people (like Evil Legolas, I guess?), not this craggly CGI-looking nonsense.

I think he would be great as Shadow from American Gods.

Do, do you have any idea how much we would have to mine to do that? If we as a species were capable of mining the moon to the point where that could possibly even happen, we’d have become a full fledged Type 1 Civilization already.