I like my porn to be less faschy and more flashy.

Yup, I’ve been seeing more and more people straight use AI results to support their arguments.

The reference to dead things in water is definitely about white walkers and the hardhome shenanigans.

But I do see the sacrifice happening, feels like such a significant plot point and very earned for the story so far. But I wonder who’ll do it. Stannis is all the way near winterfell.

I’m not sure exactly what will happen but watch these 2 locations.

I’d love to …if we had the books 😶‍🌫️

Davos is consistently shown as probably the most rational man in Westeros with the best head on his shoulders. It’s out of place for him to act erratically, hypocritically and against the wishes of Stannis.

But he had lost so many of his sons, that would change any man’s constitution. It’s a deeply traumatic event.

Davos recognizes during the battle that it was lost due to A) wildfire and B) the chain boom that Tyrion set up. Neither of these would indicate he should be mad at Melisandre for some reason.

True, I don’t remember it well enough. But, stranger things have happened, people look for things to blame after traumatic events even when there’s no one to blame.

I’d say we can’t expect him to be perfect. Though I suppose, it could be possible. I’d have to read it again.

Davos is middle aged, very comfortable with his identity, very secure in his family and loyalties. He is probably the hardest type of man to manipulate in this way until he goes through destabilizing grief.

Hmmm, True that.

But, like you said GRRM likes to repeat themes and such. I don’t see how insinuating that Davos may have been possessed affect the story line in anyway. But I suppose, that’s where Euron’s plot could come in.

He sails to the Three Sisters, speaks with the Borrells about their 5000 year old fishy-person mark, goes to the Merling Court of the Manderlys (also definitely merling hybrids, anytime you see fat cannibals be on the lookout). The Manderlys even drop hints to Davos about Frey Pie and their cannibalism.

See, now that part does make a little sense. I always thought those chapters felt like a different story. Why not skip to the Manderlys, why linger on the three sisters, right? (it could have been an effort to expand upon the world building, but story wise, it still feels weird)

I guess you’ve convinced me that there’s something going on with the Davos plot. If Martin truly meant it, it would be interesting to see. I wonder what’s the skagos storyline going to be like and if Rickon will have something to do with the Deep ones. The skagosi are also known to be cannibals right? I wonder if there’s a connection between them and the deep ones. Some sort of feral mixed form of worship of the old gods and the deep ones.

Oh Wow, I am pretty sure in the 100 sq km of where I live, I am in the top 10 game of thrones weirdos, but I have never heard of this theory - specifically the part about the “Sentient Meteor” and “Bloodstone Island breaking the arm of Dorne”. That said, I like this part of the theory.

I know they did that, but I always thought it was limited to only a very few people.

Aeron Greyjoy

Ehh… The dude’s a misogynists as well, did the deep ones program that in him too or leave that in? People change after near death experiences, I am sure Martin is playing with that rule. But I can still see it.

Davos Seaworthy

That is an interesting… speculation - https://tenor.com/view/interesting-speculation-the-terror-republic-of-play-gif-14806095

See, this one is just not believable.

He wakes up delirious and with an immediate driving compulsion to kill Melisandre, even though she had nothing to do with the deaths of his sons

People aren’t rational beings. He, of course, wouldn’t hurt his liege lord, but a foreign woman influencing your lord? She’s the perfect scapegoat for his monkey brains at that moment. Dude lost four sons, he has to cope with the fact that he willingly let them all go into battle for a man whose odds of becoming the king are very low.

It seems his personality change was the most minor and temporary, possibly because he drowned the least badly.

Also because I don’t like this fact. ‘Least Badly’ is not the modus operandi of the gods in ASOIAF. The magic in ASOIAF is cruel, weird, erratic, costly and full of mockery. I don’t think deep ones would just leave him like that. And I don’t think martin meant it and if he did, I’d chalk that up to “overwriting”. Though, he’s good at avoiding that. (so far)

That’s how GRRM writes, he repeats the same themes over and over with slight variations.

Sure there are aspects to this that I like, but I think it too often veers into the territory of “He is the chosen one” or “My brother is actually cold hands or the hound is the grave digger” for my tastes. The way GRRM executes the chosen one story line is the most interesting one out of all the other authors, but it still is a chosen one story line. I like things to be less connected, that gives the world a sense of massive scale and depth.

Thanks for the videos, I have something new to binge.

Hey I’ve read the books (Yes, I am obnoxious), but I don’t remember any time when he was possessed by sexy underwater cuthulu creatures to kill melisandre. He wanted to murder her of his own fully concious accord.

Please explain.

Yes, as far as I know, it’s a big deal for ADHD folks.

Donations I believe.

Learning how to learn is so important. I only learned that as an adult.

I do go to the real source first. But sometimes, I just need a very simple explanation before I can dive deep into the topic.

My brain sucks, I give up very easily if I don’t understand something. (This has been true since way before short form content and internet)

If I had to say how much I use it to learn, I’d say it’s about 30% of the total learning. It can’t teach you course work from scratch like a real person can (even through videos), but it can help clear doubts.

I agree, I’ve been traumatized by the system. Whatever I’ve learnt that’s been useful to me has happened through the internet, give or take a few good teachers.

I still think it’s a good auxiliary tool. If you understand its constraints, it’s useful.

It’s just really unfortunate that it’s a for profit tool that will be used to try and replace us all.

I understand that. I am careful to not use it as my main teaching source, rather a supplement. It helps when I want to dive into the root cause of something, which I then double check with real sources.

I have difficulty learning, but using AI has helped me quite a lot. It’s like a teacher who will never get angry, doesn’t matter how dumb your question is or how many time you ask it.

Mind you, I am not in school and I understand hallucinations, but having someone who is this understanding in a discourse helps immensely.

It’s a wonderful tool for learning, especially for those who can’t follow the normal pacing. :)

True

But it is also be true that the insight “most people loose ADHD by adulthood” is in itself kind of flawed as people can develop coping methods which can mask the ADHD. If there’s a significant people complaining/reporting then, it would be something to look into.

People are more open about having adhd into adulthood as compared to in the past where it might have been seen as a childish thing and hence undesirable to report. And not a problem enough to report it to someone who could help with that.

These are assumptions based on personal and shared anecdotes, so I guess you could still argue what you said is right.

Are spectra.video and lethallava.land special? Idk about them.

Also didn’t mean to diss you, just that, I as a new person to lemmy would have avoided them. There’s a mix of rational and irrational fear for weird looking links in me.

The domain names don’t seem very inviting.

Hey only @ml and @hexbear are tankie right? World and ee aren’t tankie are they?

Oh right.

That actually sounds like a great idea. However, I feel like that won’t be enough to stop countries from wanting to ban fediverse platforms outright(if they decide to do so). I even read a news article talking about the how the current US administration doesn’t like Wikipedia because they are spreading “propoganda”. Or like how thy are trying to force change in independent universities by cutting their funding.

Photopea! Browser based and almost as good.

Though I am not a professional.