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So disappointed with the way they chose to end it. It was ooc, unfulfilling and it was clear the show-runners want to be done with it anyhow and move on to their star wars project.

The Game of Thrones prequel has begun filming! Working title is Blood Moon, GRRM wants to call it The long night. It will be set in the long night when the wight walkers were defeated by the combined forces of CoTF, first men, giants, night's watch etc.

The formatting got a bit wonky. Sorry for that. I have edited it. I meant to say, when Tyrion tried to negotiate with Cersei, he told her that she wasn't mad, and that she'd always loved her children. He told her she should surrender for the sake of her child. Now how would Tyrion know about Cersei and Euron's kid when even Euron just found out about it? The director for the episode said that Euron wasn't the point of the scene, and that he wasn't paying attention, and that is why he didn't catch on. If they had to include that line, they should've just excluded Euron from the scene. If they had him in the scene and set up that conflict, it should have paid off. But no, it didn't, because the writers didn't want to. This season and the previous one has been full of these kind of conflicts. They set up a potentially interesting conflict and then it's immediately resolved by some stupid means/rationalisation. And it's not just that the timelines are rushed. As I said above, they have eagerly finished off entire storylines unceremoniously, they have rushed through and discarded interesting conflicts and games of political intrigue, and they have disregarded most of the other houses and the politics of westeros to rush the ending.

I'd hope they took decisions for the sake of story rather than subverting expectations. Arya killing night king was a cool moment, but Arya's arc was not about the white walkers, it was about revenge. They built up the night king for 8 seasons, then killed him off in the first real battle. Jon snow didn't pet ghost because costs, while we have Dany petting her dragons almost every episode. There were no consequences for Lord Glover's oathbreaking, the whole continent seems to be comprised of like 5 houses. There's almost no political intrigue except for Sansa telling Tyrion Jon's secret. Writers didn't have Euron catch on to Tyrion's 'you're not mad' speech's implications, and according the them, the reason Dany was surprised by Euron's magic ships was because she forgot about him despite being reminded of him literally a scene before. Hope the prequel's better thought out, atleast.

If you like the show, you'd love the books. Most of the best dialogues in the show come from the books, most of the good storylines too. Dany in particular is probably going down this path in the books too, but the show version seems too rushed after season 7 and 8. The characters and fates of many players in the show are so different, its probably better to call them different characters altogether. They should have taken up HBO on making more episodes to wrap up the storylines satisfactorily. There were some legit great character arcs, Theon and Jaime are the biggest examples. I would side with you about Dany. The earlier seasons were leading up to this, and i'm sure the books will still lead up to this too, but the lead up itself felt unsatisfying. This is a girl who was doing nothing but listening to her advisors in the last 2 seasons, chained up her dragons because one of her children killed a mireeneese child, was so hesitant about going against king's landing because of the people that would be killed in an earlier season just burned the whole of king's landing. Red Keep, I could understand, but she burned the whole city. This seems so rushed after what's happened in the last two seasons. They had the choice to extend the season, even get more (HBO wanted them to have more), but they rushed the season and the story arcs so they could get it over with. And you're right. I think Tyrion would probably be a better king than Jon. Jon in the show is a shallow reflection of his book self. Jon's not just supposed to be honorable, he's also pragmatic. They just made him a brooding figurehead with terrible battle plans. Just not wanting to be king doesn't make one a good ruler. Robert didn't want to be king. He was a good man at heart, but his actions cost the realm a lot, ultimately causing the war for 5 kings. The cinematography and acting are so good this season though. Dany's state when Tyrion meets her broke my heart. The shots at both Battle of Winterfell, and KL were beautiful. I didn't get the pale horse imagery (death rides it or something like that?), but it was awesome. I hoped they'd do the Dunk and Egg novellas. CoTF and White Walker take so much CGI they could half ass it, like they did with Jon and Ghost's goodbye.

This episode was a cluster fuck. Hate what the lazy writers and show-runners have done to GoT. Most fan fictions are better than what we're getting. And then actors like Kit come up and say they're the biggest fans and basically try to disregard critics. You're not, Kit; neither are the show writers if this is what they're coming up with for the finale of arguably a decade defining TV series. Jon snow's character was ass fucked, so was Tyrion, Euron, Stannis, Little finger, and so many others. Some people didn't watch the TV series at all. They had the right of it. If a series with this much money behind it could be fucked so bad, what hope do the others have I think it's a waste to theorise about the coming episode. The writers seemed more preoccupied with subverting expectations than actual storytelling. Jon will probably get the throne. He has the loyalty of the North, the Vale, and the river lands probably. I fail to see how his claim could help him now. I hope he's the one that kills Dany, not stealthy!Arya or some poison.

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I, too, loved kamikaze-ing lvl 1 planes Can you share them? I know that it used to be done, but I couldn't find any threads about it If you do that I'll have to type with my nose! Here's a couple more!

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Thanks! I'm not that creative haha. These just struck my fancy as I was browsing r/historyporn Here's some more! When all of the 12 enemy nations are staggered and anarchied by your alliance mates -- when you use level 1 fighters against a nation with lvl 10 planes --- When your nation's at 500 infra but gotta launch nukes to anarchy that dude

There are some great memes and propaganda pictures floating around in CN. I've never seen most of them. It's time to remedy that. Let's post CN memes and propoganda that makes us laugh! I'll start with some that I made myself When you don't have money to buy airforce but still gotta fight -- Oculus nations going into the pink senate war, circa 2016 -- Being a Kilo Master Sergeant be like -- Yehom keeping little orange nations in line and directing war, Black & White, c. 2016-19

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IIRC Buzzfeed used the clickbait to drive revenue for their investigative journalism, and the more serious teams. I haven't read many pieces myself, but I heard they were well respected. In the second article it said that their national news desk and national security coverage. They seem like important areas to cover. Digital age has been brutal to print media. I get almost all my "news" from Reddit, but that itself links to articles written by them. 15% cuts are substantial. It does seem like subscription is the way moving forward.