This might be a curious case where many people watched the whole thing out of spite. I quit halfway through but I know some friends that hate-watched and couldn't stop.

Noob Noob isn't a "real" Vindicator, he's a junior member or something.

Seriously, one of them was "make some three-pointers."

The Wall prevents White Walkers (supposedly); we know it doesn't stop wights because Jon had to fight one in Castle Black itself way back when. There was a brief mention of this in the episode but it was easy to miss.

I guess they want people clicking on more articles instead of getting lost in comments? But that's a dangerous game, since you need those diehard users in order to generate interest in the first place.

Doubtless there was some wordplay going on, but: "Mole" is an architectural term meaning "a structure used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway between places separated by water."

…Gawker sites have had the in-house "team" available for years and there still aren't basic, in-demand features like nested commenting. There clearly isn't the manpower or will available on the Kinja side.

Seriously, a local urbanism blog that I follow built a new commenting system themselves using amateur/volunteer coders, and they still included nested comments. It's such a basic functionality.

Yeah, I get that clickbait sells, but the "winners and losers" thing ported over from political coverage makes no sense applied to GoT. Is there anyone who watched the episode that is confused about who "won" or "lost"? Here's a hint: the winners are still alive, and the losers were killed horribly.

Seriously. Whenever I trek over to Deadspin or io9, I'm amazed they still have any commenter base at all. Following anything other than top-level comments is impossible.

The only feature of the old system that I miss is the notifications – when a new review of a show you follow was posted, for example. Other than that Disqus is overall an improvement. Kinja seems pretty awful.

You can find plenty of commentary at the time that 300 glorified the Bush Administration / Iraq War / "with us or against us" mindset.

Sure! Embassies are unique legal conceptions. They're certainly different in a lot of ways. This post has some interesting stories: https://pathtoforeignservic…

She's in a Broadway show these days, the revival of Marvin's Room

Yeah, I got what they were going for, but it seemed a poor example for the reasons you mentioned. Still, I guess the joke is that even among common Chinese names, "Wong" is about the most "obvious" one you could pick. Even something like Liu would be a little less commonly seen.

They're not technically foreign soil. That's basically an urban legend. Embassies can negotiate things, like following their home country's labor laws, but for the most part the laws of the host country apply just like any other building.

He didn't see the Euron wildcard coming, which is understandable, but it also exposed the fragility of his plan. Splitting your overwhelming army/navy into smaller forces was a risky plan that depended on a lot of moving parts going pretty much perfectly. I mean, a bad storm could have derailed things more easily than…

Well, for a few hundred years the Targaryens enforced peace via dragons. Not surprising that some houses would lose their flair for the martial. And as @pancakestocelebrate:disqus noted, the Lannisters poached their best commander.

Do you think even advanced Western governments today have any idea about every trade or investment major banks make? Some of them have traded illegally with regimes like Iran and Russia for years before getting caught (and paying modest fines), and there are assuredly many more deals that simply never see the light of…

I see Cersei as a mix of Tywin and the Mad King. She does have some of Tywin's cunning, but it's mixed with paranoia and cruelty. In the near term, she's waging war much better than Tyrion/Dany, though it seems inevitable that her crimes will catch up with her.