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@AlternateTimel2 @arsnl_con @girlbosswoman If you really believe this then why engage with the asoiaf community at all? The racist who wrote that caricature still lives and you engage with capitalism to his benefit lmao.
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@arsnl_con @_Defeatable_ @girlbosswoman The Dothraki culture in its entirety, of being a warrior culture of light calvary (w/o armor lmao) whose main source of survival is raiding and tribute is not only unrealistic but at best a Eurocentric caricature, or at worst racist propaganda
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Westeros is such a weird place. Art, clothing, culture-wise, they are 12th-14th century Europe. But warfare, economics, and cities are all 16th-18th century (just no gunpowder). And the way people talk, behave, their morals, etc., are all late 20th century.
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@arsnl_con @_Defeatable_ @girlbosswoman The hierarchy was not my criticism—my criticism is the Dothraki culture in itself is inherently unsustainable and a racist caricature of actual peoples of steppes. They view agriculture as a sin and survive mostly off of raiding and tribute.
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@83dollaroring can't tell if I want to get my masters after undergrad or join the Air Force/"space force"
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probably why military officer recruiters and engineering professors are fighting for the same goddamn people
there’s absolutely nothing aerospace engineers love more than straight up dying in fuckass ultramarathons through the mountains
Delta, Dirac@DeltaClimbs
I probably should have joined the military in my mid 20s I did absurd distance stuff in mountains on foot and mountain biking just for "fun" Only occurred to me much later how uncommon those tendencies are And how few people have ever in their life pushed themselves like that
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@captingvate @realGoodmanSaul @KingKongor GGG just needs to focus on making a good game and controlling inflation. The grey market is priced perfectly imo. For the less than the cost of your monthly Netflix sub, you skip the early grind and teleport straight to farming juiced t16s right out of the interlude lol
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Top player in China have dropped over several grand in USD to get everything maxed out including max roll Voices. Does one need that to clear all content? No. But no one will refuse the chance to just big dicking it to fill their gaping ego holes.
Consider there are people dropping 100K USD casually on some other mobile gotcha games, I’d say the RMT in POE2 is rather child’s play. GGG really should capitalize on this instead of whatever they have been doing, because to me they are just keeping one-eye shut. Might as well just start selling divines themselves.
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@DannyInsurance Idk stealing random public works items like traffic cones/barrels, street signs, etc is pretty normalized and innocuous in American culture.
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She keeps her job if she just takes the can with all the garbage I think. The dumping of all the trash on the ground was particularly shameful imo
Short Squeez@shortsqueeznews
BREAKING: The women who went viral for stealing a Knicks-themed trash can at the parade last week was identified as Angie Báez, a Director of DEI at JPMorgan. JPMorgan reportedly fired Báez after the video of her got millions of views on social media, and the firm confirmed today she is no longer with the firm.
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@realGoodmanSaul @KingKongor RMT to this level doesn’t even make sense. You can be basically bis with like 2-300 bucks.
A perfectly rolled mageblood with whatever legacies you want is like 100$ usd.
Chase gems like Garukhans are like 40$
Another 100 for insane rares
All content trivialized
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@ogata_takenari @KingKongor It’s real profit, not pad. But the gold cost is the limiting factor. You can flip 100div into 130div in under 60 seconds, but it’s going to cost like 8 million gold lol
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@KingKongor Can’t you literally just arbitrage divines to other currencies back and forth and pad this number
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@AlternateTimel2 @girlbosswoman They feed themselves with plot armor. My point was despite that it’s not hard to suspend disbelief in this case. iirc the Dothraki maintained diplomatic and economic relations with the free cities. They probably traded in horses and slaves. Headcanon the 40k down a bit and voila
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@_Defeatable_ @girlbosswoman Perhaps for some small sporadic cases—but for a population as large as the Dothraki, they can’t depend on raiding and pillaging alone. Khal Drogo had 40,000 warriors and “uncounted numbers of women, children, and slaves.” (AGOT, Dany II)
How do the Dothraki feed themselves?
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@KevinPendragon_ But none of them dispute that Glup of house Shitto existed and that’s the problem.
Just because the maesters were unsure about certain minutia doesn’t mean that the existence of entire characters and their plot lines are up to interpretation
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The characters in Fire and Blood are barely characters. Most chapters aee like "Glup of House Shitto was a hale and happy lad of 3 and 10. Beloved by some, hated by others, he was-- oh no hes dead now! Was his death natural? Was it murder? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
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@Bincedmeef @girlbosswoman @AlternateTimel2 The mongols were a pastoral society lol. Genghis needed horses, sheep, goats, cattle etc to sustain his military ops.
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@girlbosswoman @AlternateTimel2 Genghis Khan would like a word
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@AlternateTimel2 @girlbosswoman I can suspend disbelief for this. Nomadic societies aren’t a monolith - bands of parasitic raiders absolutely existed throughout history. But typically they needed some form of pastoralism, even if small. In turbulent times they would focus more on raiding but yeah
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@girlbosswoman GRRM writes nomads so bad it’s a caricature—he makes the Dothraki shun pastoralism and practice economic parasitism. But nomads irl were nomads not because they wanted to rape/pillage but bc they were shepherds who had to constantly move for their animals to graze land
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@_Defeatable_ @kacchixx A wiki article would be more accurate
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hard to be faithful towards a wiki article tbf
🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛@nonregemesse
I don’t understand why they adapted the Dance of the Dragons if they had no interest in even attempting a faithful adaptation
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@Fireandwater_0 @Jeeshadow1 @kacchixx They believed he did according to firsthand accounts of Laenor dueling at driftmark and losing. HOTD shows a witness see Laenor in combat, he runs to alert the guards and when he returns a body dressed as Laenor is in the fire.
It is at least plausible.
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@_Defeatable_ @kacchixx in universe history book from 200 years after the dance that is very explicitly biased and unsure of specifics*
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Not everything is up for interpretation and that’s the problem.
Good example: Laenor surviving. The maester writing f&b has no way of knowing the truth, therefore it does not break the canon.
Bad example: sources in f&b disagree on daemon’s relationship with nettles. But NONE of them dispute that she existed and claimed sheepstealer.
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@kacchixx Especially when it's a choose your adventure of what really happened
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During WW1 the Germans ran a bunch of communication wire to this meaningless, unoccupied hill and the French spent a month shelling the crap out of it thinking it must be a vital position.
Exposing all of their gun positions
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 JUST NOW: Police have detained yet ANOTHER leftist goon for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool These people need to be slapped with MAJOR federal charges Police believe he was ripping pieces of the blue sealant off the bottom, further damaging the pool
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What do these people tell their wives and family?
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@_Defeatable_ @lacshow @JoshInEncinitas Thats the day that deserves the MOST grace. People are figuring out their route to a new place of work, how they have to structure that morning routine etc.
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