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19 hours ago, Ms Blue Jay said:
Canada is 35 million people. The Greater Toronto Area alone is 6 million people. I don't judge New York City by the actions of one, let's say, lifetime New Yorker who is now the President. It was a mistake. A lot of people have apologized. There is even a movement now for Raptors fans to donate to Kevin Durant's charity as an apology.
We're getting there.
https://ca.gofundme.com/hey-toronto-help-support-kd039s-charity-foundation
5k in one day isn't too bad. Hopefully we can make it to 25k.
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That one hurt. I really wanted to win, and after Kawhi went Kawhiborg in the 4th it seemed like it would happen.
Still I'll console myself with the fact that the Warriors only really won because they won the 1st with KD in. The Raps fought Golden State to ties in the 2nd and 3rd and won the 4th, just not by enough.
Also I have to feel there was some Karma in play here. A lot of Raps fans were delighting in KD's injury, it feels right that they didn't get to celebrate on the same night where they showed so much ugliness.
I have confidence my Raps will stay undefeated at Oracle and close this out in 6.
Stay hyped Toronto, but hopefully also a little bit more classy after this event. North Over Everything.
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31 minutes ago, MVFrostsMyPie said:
Cheering because an opposing team member got injured on the court? Real classy, Toronto. Jeez, your desperation for a win is bringing out the ugly.
I know right?
People in the bar I'm in cheered. Real ugly look, and I'm just mortified.
Please know we aren't all classless jerks.
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KD upgraded to questionable after (allegedly) practicing today.
But various reports say the Dubs were not on the floor long and Durant was on the floor the least of any of them and entered the floor with a limp, and left icing his calf and ankle. The media was asked to leave as soon as he took the floor and did not get to see him practice (if in fact he actually did.)
Gotta wonder if this is just some gamesmanship from Kerr, but it doesn't seem as if that's gonna work against the Kawhiborg and his band of robo-dinosaurs.
Very interested to see if KD plays in Game 5, and more importantly just how much he plays.
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Amazing game by the Raps, weathered the early storm by the Dubs and then Kawhi and Serge Ibaka of all people just took control in the third. I really expected Klay and Curry to assert themselves in this game and take it, but very pleased to see it break the other way.
The Raptors are one win from the NBA Championship.
THE RAPTORS are ONE WIN away from the NBA Championship.
THE RAPTORS ARE ONE WIN AWAY FROM THE NBA CHAMPIONSHIP.
Stay freaking hyped Toronto. North Over Everything.
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3 hours ago, DrSpaceman said:
The owner that shoved Kawhi deserved what he got, but it really was not much of a "push", from what I saw in the video.
But then I am a Pacers fan still bitter over how the NBA handled the whole Brawl in Detroit. I realize Artest never should have gone into the stands, but that was at least 80% initiated by the Pistons and their fans, plus their shitty security, and the piss poor refs at the time. Yet the league pretty much gave them a pass and blamed it all on the Pacers, ruined their season over it. Had they taken a harder stance at the time, told teams to control their fans and told the fans to stop acting like idiots, they wouldn't have these problems.
That was Kyle Lowry and not Kawhi Leonard, understandable mistake though, both are great players for Toronto whose initials are KL.
It wasn't that much of a push, but like you allude to with the Malice at the Palace, the issue is that fans feel invincible out there. Whether it's pushing a player or screaming expletives at them, or throwing a drink. Fans know that in that moment the player can't do anything, and the worst thing that will happen to them is getting kicked out (unless of course Ron Artest decides to march up there and kick some ass). If Lowry fights back the way Artest did he likely gets suspended for the rest of the NBA Finals.
The league needs to protect their players from that kind of scenario and I think they did a pretty good job here.
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3 hours ago, Chaos Theory said:
I think the point of the story is that the people we see and get attached to on tv aren’t real people and often our anger when they disappoint us get amplified because of it.
That's probably one of the points. One of the others (IMO) is the ethical nature of using a person's image after death. Obviously in this sense it was horribly unethical, since Aunt Catherine was cartoon step-mother villainous.
But more to the world we live in, stuff like using Peter Cushing's image in the movie Rogue One, or having Tupac appear on stage at Coachella as a hologram. Sure the owners of their estates can sign off on it, but would they have really wanted it? After all Catherine (despite her cartoonish step-mother villainy) is Ashley O's next of kin and probably would've been the heir to her belongings if she were to die. When you inherit a famous person's work, do you actually own their image and can you make said image do whatever you want?
Side note: The Bubblegum Pop version of Head like a Hole has been stuck in my head since I watched this episode. I'm super pleased Nine Inch Nails was ok with Black Mirror Bubblefying their song.
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Curry is a freak. Too bad for the Dubs they expect him to score 70 points instead of just 47.
My boys are holding tight, and got home court back. Great performances from Danny Green, Serge Ibaka, Fred Vanvleet, Kyle Lowry and as always Kawhi.
Very interested to see if Durant and Klay are back on Friday, and if so, in what condition.
2 Wins Away Toronto. Stay hyped. North Over Everything.
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49 minutes ago, nikma said:
But that's the point. D&D introduced the Night King in S4 (the first season they wrote afer that big meeting with GRRM) because GRRM gave them no information about the way WW will be defeated in the books, so Night King became that plot device.
If GRRM had any idea about WW's defeat in the books, we would get that in the show.
I'm not sure this is the case.
Several times D&D have known where a story is going and have decided to just go their own way. Lady Stoneheart was supposed to be a thing, and that was supposed to set off a confrontation between Brienne and Jaime. Instead they decided to just have them meet and fuck in the North. fAegon was supposed to be a thing, and he is clearly supposed to have a confrontation with Dany at some point. Instead they just decided to extend Cersei's storyline to a season of her drinking while pregnant and looking out a window.
I don't think it's unreasonable that George told them his plan for the White Walkers and D&D just decided that it wasn't compelling or feasible for TV and they were gonna go their own way.
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7 minutes ago, Eyes High said:
Remember this from the EW cover story from November 2018:
QuoteAuthor George R.R. Martin, whose series of novels forms the basis for Thrones, had revealed to the duo the broad strokes of how his Song of Ice and Fire saga secretly ends, including a description of an epic final battle that’s been teased from the show’s very first scene.
At the very least, we can conclude that in the books there will be some sort of final showdown at Winterfell that results in victory for the living.
I'm not saying there won't be a battle at Winterfell, it's a central location in both the show and the books, and obviously a place of significance.
I just doubt it'll be a "kill the boss, win the game" type of battle.
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15 hours ago, nikma said:
And again, if he knew how WW will be defeated in the books we would've seen that in the show. There was no reason for D&D to ignore that.
It's because they changed this storyline.
D&D introduced the Night King, George never did, and he doesn't seem likely to. When you introduce a main powerful antagonist there needs to be a confrontation with him, and when he's defeated most of the time that signals victory for the good guys.
George doesn't really write that way, a big bad villain embodied in one being. The White Walkers/Others in the books don't feel like they have a directed purpose or actual tactics. Whenever we see them they are much more dispassionate and unfeeling. They don't leave cryptic marks in the snow with dismembered bodies, or smirk at the good guys or posture by raising the dead in front of them and in the end I doubt they will show up personally to dispatch their enemies because they are like "delicious cake" sitting in front of them when it's a huge tactical disadvantage to do so.
The White Walkers in the books are different then the White Walkers in the show in so many ways, so I have to imagine they'll be defeated in a much different way. Personally I'm expecting a less then complete victory for the side of humanity in the books, the Others will be pushed back, but not entirely eradicated like in the show, and therefore there will be a reason for Jon to rejoin the Night's Watch instead of D&D's moronic reasoning that "Bastards need a place to go too."
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Well my boys are at least not getting swept. I was honestly worried they might wilt under the bright lights and the Dubs would just steamroll them, but they came out hot and won a game 1.
It feels like the Warriors underestimated the Raptors, they focused a lot on Kawhi, and did indeed limit him, but Gasol and Siakam were allowed to just run the show when they doubled Leonard. Danny Green was left open a surprising amount as well. It really seemed like the Warriors were daring the Raptors supporting cast to take and make their shots, and they did.
Hopefully the Raps can keep it rolling in game 2, they gotta win at least 2 while KD is out to stand a chance I think.
Stay hyped Toronto, North Over Everything.
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On 5/27/2019 at 10:00 PM, saoirse said:
I watched it over the long holiday weekend. It was great sort of background tv - I didn't have to devote my full attention to it? Plus Dave Annable was having a hella good time with his role, and I really kind of enjoyed Renee Zellweger's performance too.
I found Louis Herthum really good - a tough role to play in this, but I thought he did a great job. Jane Levy wasn't as good as I would have liked, but she did fine, IMO. And I really liked the actors who played Lionel and Kevin - they kept my attention when they were on screen!
This is a great descriptor.
I kind of half watched it while I was busy doing some work, it really didn't feel like it was worth my full undivided attention. The C plot with Lionel, Marcos and Kevin was the most engaging part IMO. They felt like the most real and relatable characters.
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On 5/24/2019 at 11:36 PM, ursula said:
Can someone explain this to me? Because I've seen this brought up and I've never understood it.
In the TV show, Dany locks up Xaro and Doreah, feeds her enemies to her dragons, executes her own loyalist, forces Hizdahr to marry her and kills his "innocent" father. She needs Tyrion to tell her not to kill Jorah for spying on her.
None of these happen in the books. Instead in the books, Dany is ineffective because she's not ruthless enough. On Selmy's advice, she practices the Westeros method of keeping highborn children as hostages (Theon) but she's made friends with all of them and can't bring herself to harm them. She is personally treating plague victims in the middle of a siege, manages to maintain a frenemy relationship with Xaro, has managed to keep all her Dothraki inner circle (except Doreah who died of starvation in the Red Waste) alive. She was willing to forgive Jorah until he made it impossible by not apologizing and trying to "Nice Guy".
And that's not even talking about how animated and lively book!Dany is. The show pretty much dropped this after season 1. Book!Dany isn't stately or aloof. She laughs, plays, jokes around. (It helps that unlike the show that killed off all the POCs, all her Dothraki friends are still alive.) Selmy found it hard to believe she was Daenerys Targaryen because he was expecting someone more regal (exact words). She's intelligent and a strategist. The show gives all Dany's ideas and thoughts to the (white) men around her to articulate. Needless to say, Dany threatening Qarth - a stupid ridiculous arc - never happened in the books.
And if that's too much to go over, compare her first ride between books and TV. In the TV show, she's under attack and Drogon sweeps in to save her. In the books, Drogon is the one who's lured in by bloodshed and starts attacking people... Dany vaults over the barricade to put herself between him and his victim (saving Tyrion without realizing it) and whips an angry dragon (he's mad that she tried to chain him up) until he backs down. She rides away with him because he's being circled around to be killed. As someone on Tumblr described it: that was a straight up superhero moment for Dany and the TV show turned it into a damsel being rescued.
So yeah, when people say that the books write Dany as less sympathetic and the TV show play up her hero side... I've gotta to ask and excuse my French but what the heck are they reading?
It's because in the books everyone wants Dany to be ruthless and effective. Book Dany is smart and passionate and willing to give up everything for peace, including her own happiness, because that is what a good ruler would do. She tries things and they don't work because she has never ruled a city before, and she doesn't realize who can be trusted and who cannot.
But many fans complain that she does little in ADwD but govern and moon over Daario. Never mind that ADwD is Dany's most important arc, and where she is actually discovering what type of ruler she wants to be, the majority of readers just don't care about that because all they want is fire and blood and tits and dragons. "Get to Westeros Dany!" they scream as they are forced to read another chapter about Dany hating Hizdahr and lusting after Daario without picking up on the subtext that is trying to be laid down.
So they gave them an effective, ruthless Dany in the TV Show, someone who smites her enemies with the powers of a god, and forgets them just as quickly, never thinking about them again. This Dany doesn't really deal with failure ever, because when she fails she just kind of moves on with no consequences and no regrets, new allies falling in to replace the old ones who died, new resources falling in to replace the ones she squandered. Now people see her and she's cold, and ruthless and borderline psychopathic. She's hard to identify with and easy to vilify. It's a shame, honestly.
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The most exciting part of this show was realizing that the local anchor at the end who reports on
SpoilerAnne's death
was Perd for Parks and Rec.
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2 hours ago, Umbelina said:
OK, I will give you that one, except? Ned sees the honor in the man he beheads, and if he had listened to him further?
He doesn't see his honour though. He sees his madness.
From the show
QuoteBran: Is it true he saw the White Walkers?
Ned: The White Walkers have been gone for thousands of years.
Bran: So he was lying?
Ned: A madman sees what he sees.
Show Ned thinks this guy is coocoo for cocoa puffs. The white walkers haven't been seen in thousands of years, and he doesn't believe him. He doesn't think this guy is honourable in the least.
From the books
Quote"In truth, the man was an oathbreaker, a deserter from the Night's Watch. No man is more dangerous. The deserter knows his life is forfeit if he is taken, so he will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile" ~ Bran I
Book Ned trusts the deserter even less. An oathbreaker would do or say anything, and is among the most dishonourable men. He merely feels as though he owes it to him to hear the man's last words and to look him in the eye if he's to sentence him to death
Quote"If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, perhaps the man does not deserve to die" ~ Bran I
Also it should be noted that the Others have been gone for 8,000 years.
Quote"You listen to too many of Old Nan's stories. The Others are as dead as the children of the forest, gone eight thousand years. Maester Luwin will tell you they never lived at all. No living man has ever seen one." ~ Catelyn I
I think you're holding Ned to way too high a standard here. If you were a cop in this day and age and I told you dinosaurs ate my friends would you take that seriously?
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20 hours ago, Umbelina said:
That was the least of his idiocies.
I could not stand Ned, actually thought he was the most unbelievable character in the books, and on the show.
It always bothered me that the entire series kicked off because of someone so completely unbelievably stupid, and it took me a while to get past that nonsense and go with the story.
From the moment he killed that guy who was bringing IMPORTANT INFORMATION for the entire Kingdom and for the North of course, the place Ned was duty bound to protect, until each and every idiotic decision he made in KL?
You want to do your duty and show off your morals for your kids, dumbbell? At least LISTEN to the dude before chopping off his head, and you know, check out his information either before or after that.
Dude was a fool. Unbelievably idiotic, honestly, how did he live to be middle aged without a brain in his head?
He did listen to him, but the story was patently ridiculous.
If you met someone who had killed a bunch of children and then said he did it because they were evil devil children who would bring about the fall of man, you would absolutely prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law, or call him insane. You would not say "Oh gee, maybe he's right, we better investigate this devil children theory."
Now I'm not trying to compare desertion to child murder, in the severity of possible offenses, I'm just saying that claiming the White Walkers killed your friends at the beginning of GoT is equivalent to claiming demon possession in our own world. Both are things that should be dismissed summarily.
Benjen, the First Ranger, doesn't vehemently contradict Ned or chastise him when Ned refers to talk of the White Walkers as "madness." That should tell you how unbelievable the threat of the White Walkers is at the beginning of the series.
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20 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
Jeff's ex wife trying to take his dads guitar to sell it right after his dad died really did seem pretty cold, especially as the whole divorce was apparently her idea.
It also isn't accurate according to the law.
Inheritance is seen as separate property (even in an equitable distribution state.) As long as he didn't spend any of it on assets they own together (and he couldn't have since his dad just died), or specifically put it in both their names (and why would he?) he would have sole ownership over all of his dad's wealth and belongings that were willed to him (assuming his father willed it directly to him and not to both of them) and she would have absolutely no rights to it in the divorce.
Also if she was dumb enough to take it to court the judge would have no doubt have ruled in his favor, since divorcing someone right after they come into a six figure inheritance is quite clearly a cash grab, and that inheritance was never shared marital property.
But after the Kid as President episode I don't rely on the Twilight Zone to do any research to make their stories make sense.
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4 minutes ago, Drogo said:
She saved all of their asses, and they didn't trust her because she wasn't a Northerner. They didn't trust her when they first laid eyes on her, they didn't trust her long before KL.
Luckily the North doesn't care about whether Sansa has actually done anything for them aside from putting leather on armor or whether she hid shaking behind her father's tomb while innocents were killed in the Battle of Winterfell or whether she jeopardized all their lives by poking dragon queens when there wasn't any need- they only care that she's a Stark.
And they ware right. Dany was crazy town banana pants.
As poorly executed as Dany's heel turn was from a writing standpoint (and it was very poorly executed) the fact that it happened validates Arya and Sansa's reaction to her wanting to rule them.
They didn't trust her because they didn't know her, and she turned out to be violent and volatile and capable of just unspeakable horror.
Sansa's antagonism of Dany was probably over the top and unwarranted, but her resistance to being ruled by her was obviously prudent, she was going to lock the Northerners and all of Westeros into a never ending war.
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7 hours ago, Constantinople said:
Not if they adopt the same What have you done for me lately? attitude that Sansa and Ayra adopted toward Daenerys.
That's not really the attitude they adopted with Dany though, she did a lot for them lately. They more just didn't trust her because they didn't know her.
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2 hours ago, Advance35 said:
I think Sansa will do fine. Dany making Gendry Lord of Storm's end to cement his loyalty was something Sansa was doing in Season 7 (or trying). She wanted to reward the most loyal houses with the spoils of war, while Jon vetoed that at the time, I imagine there is some new property Sansa will be deciding what to do with. Rewarding and elevating those she feels she can trust and who will help rebuild the North after recent loss.
These are choices she will get to make, something that would likely be out of her hands if Dany were still around.
The Boltons of the Dreadfort were obviously extinguished by Sansa herself
The Umbers of Last Hearth were wiped out by the Night King
Lyanna Mormont the last scion of House Mormont of Bear Island as well as Alys Karstark the last scion House Karstark of Karhold were killed in the Battle of Winterfell, extinguishing their houses.
So yeah, Sansa has a lot of appointments to make, and that will help her to have a tight hold on loyalty in the North.
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31 minutes ago, benteen said:
I've felt for a while that Pod probably would have been the best choice for Sansa based on the surviving cast of characters. A legitimately good guy from a lesser branch of a more noble house, wouldn't hurt her or dominate her and could fight in her name. He's loyal to those around him as well.
Although by the end of the show, he has many powerful friends in Tyrion, Bronn and Brienne.
Show Pod, sure. Also added that he's apparently the best lover in the Seven Kingdoms, so good that the whores won't take his money.
Book Pod not so much, he's a teary eyed squire who can barely swing a sword. Although he does have a sharp memory.
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KD announced what most of us suspected. He did rupture his achilles and has undergone a successful surgery.
Looks like we're gonna have close to a full season without him, that's a shame.
Here's hoping he comes back better, faster, stronger. The game needs him.