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@sha Is that really better: meta.stackexchange.com/a/345088/186472 ?

Welcome Dalija my charm ;-)

@YaakovEllis ??

@πάνταῥεῖ ??????????

@JourneymanGeek Well, I wanted to chime him in for that particular case.

Might be a bit of a drag if we do it all the time

Maybe we should get a community faq up based on all that and just use that as a reference

Then Yaakov et al can edit if details need to be corrected

@Journey A dupe already was proposed, and a second one as well after @sha decided to reopen. It seems to be a special case.

I certainly won't do that all the time :P

@M.A.R. FYI, giving the book a second chance:

Where did you get? Finished all the books?

@πάνταῥεῖ just my opinion, yes. Won't keep fighting it if a mod will step in.

SO guidance on asking questions is working extremely well, don't you think? twitter.com/dalijap/status/1238774473148583942

@ResistanceIsFutile LOL!

How to guide a herd of idiots?

Put an idiot in front of them:

npr.org/2020/03/13/815605519/…

Seems we're doomed ;-P

Haven't you been for a while?

@JohnDvorak What exactly? Being the idiot in front or being doomed?

doomed

So you're referring about my ridiculous suspension?

Ooh the new quotes look cool

@πάνταῥεῖ You mean US is doomed...

@πάνταῥεῖ Is it better to be in front, or is the view better when you follow?:

@Rob It's quite normal to look at assholes when you'tr folloein anyone.

@rob Sorry for the typos ... But I am sure you'll get what I meant,

At least you're assured of a steady supply of gas.

I must assk you to leave, Rob

^LOL

@πάνταῥεῖ looks like there isn't anything for me to say on this

@YaakovEllis OK, that's what I wanted to hear ;-)

Someone edited the Tags recently for Android and iOS to explain that both Apps are defunct, and linked to @YaakovEllis' answer - so if askers use the correct tags and read the Tag Wiki they will see their answer.

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou A Storm of Swords is the bestest book so far

I'm in the middle of Book Four, and I can't help but not give a shit what Cersei thinks of herself, or who these Sand Snakes are. Just give me more Jon Snow, dangit.

Or Tyrion. Especially Tyrion.

It's probably a perspective thing, like "there are more sides to the story" blah blah, but no, making Cersei a POV character hasn't improved what I think of her a tiny bit.

It has just made the chapters burdensome

It's still GoT, there's still the captivating writing, but this world did not need any more worldbuilding anymore. You have a dozen great characters, just go on with them and stop soap opera-ing everything

The Catelyn POV chapters were still sometimes tiresome as well, she being an idiot sometimes and doing the opposite of protecting her son(s). Close to the end they were really poignant though, and I enjoyed them immensely

This is much worse. Cersei brings no other feeling than contempt in me. She's not pitiful, she's not all that smart, she's blind to things everyone else sees, she burns her fingertips in self-pity and takes off an arm for compensation, she's just . . . she's just that person you would never make a POV character.

She's not even a villain in a fantasy story, just the background terrible character that would do terrible things. An Arys Targaryen, for all I care.

In the portrayal of arseholes, there are sometimes also very profound mature messages entangled within. I'm watching the final episodes of Breaking Bad these days, and what Walt has become and the world surrounding him being affected by it is the perfect example, how the oh-so-holy family of Walt use the same type of justification to find leverage to hurt Walt. It's, simply put, a message of "bad people don't grow horns on their heads, it might even just be you". It's not even that about Cersei.

She's not even worth being a cautionary tale.

One good change, though, is Jamie

He's lost a hand and grown two eyes

Er, this is awkward

Should I go on with my monologue, because it's terribly echoing in here

Sure, go ahead, I'm all ears. 👂

@Sha say something cringy

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou That's not cringy, it's just a lvl 3 dad pun

Sec, Bibi is going to speak

Oh wait he won't say anything new

He'll surely rant about being hunted by the media, as he always do, and maybe mention the Corona for few seconds.

What did you expect?

@M.A.R. Theon lost his manhood and became a man.

Corona comes to help keeping the nation up :-P

Bibi is just the same kind of idiot like D.J. is for america.

@πάνταῥεῖ I think we are far more dependent on China, US... software and services, but tangible goods, without China we are history. Good that they are recovering.

@ResistanceIsFutile Hmm, well thought. I agree. Seems it shows up at many corner cases of this crisis., and we never thought about it because it was just regular business.

US is so afraid of change they are rather electing all kinds of Bozos... I though Donny would be proper wake up call, but they are on their way to elect another Bozo...

An uneducated and dumb nation?

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou Apparently not.

I unfortunately can't tell any better for my country.

Same here

We're all doomed :-(

Since beginning of time... nothing much has changed...

That's why we've been thrown to samsara.

Why did we ever step out of nirvana and got here?

beats me ;)

@ResistanceIsFutile Love is one possible answer my dear ;-)

makes sense

@ResistanceIsFutile Regarding the many reincarnations of Buddha observed it seems to be an essential thing.

I guess I got lucky with that essential then

@ResistanceIsFutile Be blessed!