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Err, Cersei slapped Joffrey. She DID undermine him in public. And got told. Because she has far less power than she likes to pretend.


The thing is, like Laus said, she's the Queen Regent. She actually is the ruler, not the king. She should have been able to stop Joffrey from killing Ned Stark, but she wasn't. There's a reason that Tyrion and Tywin think she's an idiot for letting that happen; because she is.




Hating Tyrion for sending Myrcella away is actually another example of her being bad at the game. She blames him and wants revenge because he did this as a move against her. That's actually not the case. Tyrion actually did do it to protect Myrcella because he actually likes Myrcella and Tommen. And unlike Cersei, who did not have a clue about the danger surrounding the city(and within...) because she's not that perceptive, he knew she'd be safer in Dorne. If Cersei had better wits she would have understood this.


The move to have Tyrion killed was 100% spite, it was not a clever play by any means.

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Heh, he's still pretty good IMO. Went with The Law against him, he actually guessed Dr Horrible and BrianD, then for some reason went in the complete opposite direction and went for some cartoon thing for the third guess. The Law was in his list at the end though.


Guessed Freddie Wong in like a second.

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From: Erugios | #003

I think at one point we forget what little bastards we were when we were children, so when we see stuff like this it is shocking. But in reality, we were probably much worse.

Children are terrible

I would have been the kid sitting behind them thinking "those kids are so mean, why won't they stop"


I do regret that I very likely would have done absolutely nothing to stop them though.


If you really were like that, though.... It's good if people like you eventually decided "that's bad, I should be a better person and not intentionally hurt people like that" as you got older.... but kids that age know what they are doing, they are making a conscious decision to hurt someone, it's not a case of they just didn't know better. They are bad people. Being young doesn't excuse that.

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It looks very much to me that things would have been fine after the suspension if he wasn't so....well, insane.

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I read the last 4 days worth of twitters. Yeah this guy is insane and I don't feel bad at all that he's losing his career. I mean he makes it plain that he's an unabashed a****** and doesn't care what people think about that, but in return nobody is going to give a **** that he ends up on his ass.


The stuff with those Star Wars novels was kinda amusing though and that Val the 12th girl was pretty damn clever.

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From: KingButz | #038

From: TRE Public Account | #030

What kind of fraud is this supposed to prevent? Why does it only apply to digital copies?

Easy. Stolen credit card buys a digital copy of the game, and the farmer farms in the game for coin or auction house items and manages to sell them before getting banned for using a stolen credit card. Rinse and repeat.

This.



Does it kinda suck? Yeah, sure. Gold farmers and the idiot players that buy from them are the ones that caused this though. Not Blizzard. Honestly I think they need to take MORE proactive measures like this against gold farmers, not less.

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You have got to be joking. Cersei had no clue about the battle itself or what to do after.


She completely ruined the war effort by bringing Joffrey inside and destroying morale. This is because she wanted him safe. Except if the battle is lost (honestly it's complete luck that they didn't after that maneuver) Joffrey will be killed anyways. The only chance was for him to lead the army to glory and she ruined that.

She didn't want her son hurt. Except.... she was going to kill Tommen herself.


Complete idiocy. She doesn't have a clue what she's doing anymore.

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Ayuyu, seriously how do you exist.


It's like you are completely unable to accept that other people are not you and have different tastes, interests, and ideas

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I don't think Cersei isthat good at the game at all. She's willing to go to far greater lengths than Tyrion which makes her very dangerous, but she lacks one thing Tyrion has; empathy. She can't understand other people and honestly doesn't want to. This is crippling when the purpose of the Game of Thrones is to rule over people. This is something Cersei has completely forgotten and ignored. She doesn't care about the smallfolk. It'd be possible to rule very effectively over them with that regard, there are certainly other powerful people who could do very well while sharing that feeling (her father particularly). But it's not just that she doesn't care about their well being, she doesn't care about using or manipulating them. She thinks they are some collection of ants that are so far beneath her they don't matter, which is wrong. They are the kingdom.

The riot that almost got Joffrey and everybody else killed is direct result of Joffrey and Cersei completely neglecting the people.


Cersei even once said, "That's what ruling is. Lying on a bed of weeds, ripping them out before they strangle you in your sleep." That is a clear indication she is not a pro at the game. It means she understands that it's a dangerous game and you need to watch for threats and deal with them, but that's not a lasting rule. If all you are doing is killing and threatening everybody that crosses your path, you will end up being bested by them at some point. You won't inspire any loyalty or good will; all you do is make more enemies. It's a very poisonous approach and it's why she's not very good.

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From: pjbasis | #005

After finally reading it (and loving it) I decided to give the anime a spin, and it was probably the best example of how to adapt a manga into anime form I've ever seen.

I agree with this post, but I wonder, you watch the sub or the dub?


The anime is rpobably the best example of how to adapt a manga into anime, but the dub is the absolute best example of how to localize a series and still retain what's good about it and simultaneously improve it for the target audience.


Dub > Sub > Manga

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Heh, I went to the doctor and it actually is a swollen lymph node.


She was like, soo... do you have headache, fever, earache or something? Normally this happens when you have an infection, it's another symptom. She was utterly confused that besides this I'm completely fine.

Told me to come back if I do get sick soon so I can get some anti biotics.



You've always had it?


I find it rather annoying. Not painful, but very uncomfortable. I hope it goes away =O

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D:

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Appeared a few days ago. IS IT CANCER?




My thinking is no. I've been sitting at this table my computer is set up in a very weird way, I have my chair turned completely left so I can put my feet up on a another chair and talk to my brother who is also in that direction, with my head completely turned right to look at the screen. This has been a bit strainful on my neck but overall I've found it to be rather comfortable.


So yeah, since the lump is on the right side of the back of my neck (basically right where my neck turns to view the screen) I figure it's from all the strain from doing that a lot for a few weeks. I figure it's some kind of knot or something?



You guys are all doctors and **** right, what should I do about it.

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Hard to say, health is a very misleading number. You can have 40k and die immediately to everything or have 20k and be very tanky, with how effective life modifiers from talents, resists, and armour work.


http://rubensayshi.github.com/d3-ehp-calculator/#intro



My effective health on my Witch Doctor is about 170k (actual health is around 35k) and act 1 is a joke damage wise, but I still get slapped around in acts 3-4.

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Sooo realo


How do you feel about stay at home dads


If the mother works and supports the family while the dad is home to love the kids, is that better, worse, or the same as a stay at home mom?

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I don't think it's a bad thing if a woman wants to be a stay at home mom, but I definitely don't think its a bad thing for women to be able to have careers if they so choose.



As for my own situation:


Parents divorced when I was about 13. Dad was a truck driver that was often away from home. Nearly 100% certain he cheated on my mother constantly. Also spent all our money on stupid **** and avoided paying bills because he's an idiot.

Mother worked constantly to support us. After the divorced my brothers and I lived with her. Saw my dad on weekends and stuff.


Honestly I've always considered myself to have been raised by my mother. I still see my dad every now and then but I really don't like him very much.

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I am the solution

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God I love her.



Didn't think she was that popular here, great taste B8.

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From: Uglyface2 | #060

Erugios posted...

What exactly is wrong with "coming out" being a coming of age thing, Uglyface?

It just bothers me that this is so celebrated, like it's a good thing when it's really just a thing. Saying that you're gay gets nearly everyone to slap you on the back and say you're great, while being me means... well, I'm sure you can work that out from the last couple of pages.

I'm just saying that this isn't a bat mitzvah. It's a guy telling his dad, "Hey, I'm sexually aroused by men." It shouldn't be as big a deal as society makes it out to be.

It bothers you? It's not exactly celebrated. The fact is, most people in our society are at least a little homophobic. Some parents are extremely intolerant of their children being gay and will seriously cut off all contact, and kick them out if still living with them. Some will say they are disappointed, not do anything to exclude them but that still hurts. Some will be fine and accept their children as they are.


Even if you are pretty sure your parents will be cool with it, it's still scary coming to them with news that may change their view of you.


So naturally, people tend to be supportive of someone coming out to their parents, because it is kind of a big deal. Being upset about people being supportive of another person doing something that's honestly kind of scary is... .at best very bitter.

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From: yoshifan823 | #039

vcharon posted...

Hey, here's a word of advice yoshifan: Stop arguing about this topic on this board.

I know. I'm almost as dumb, because I think that with enough common sense and shame, these guys will change, when they need a lot more than that.

....Change what?


You said that the concept of the friend zone is flawed, then went ahead and described exactly how it happens, even saying it happened to you. Is it unhealthy? Maybe. But it's a thing and it exists, there's really nothing flawed about the concept. It happens to both guys and girls. It may happen to the people on this board, but it's not an issue that's unique to board 8ers or somethign.

Soooo I honestly have no idea what your point is here.

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I think Affix's are a great creative way to keep things difficult and interesting. I'm already sick to death of the abilities the Skeleton King, the Butcher, and Siegebreaker throw at me after doing them so many times, but every time I find a champ pack (that I don't outgear aka act 1), it's a new set of abilities that I have to figure out how to beat.

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They are gettin ready to take on the Big D in hardcore mode right now.



THIS IS THE RUN

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From: RappinHobo9292 | #448

So I just found this theory on another board

Well ****



From: Pirateking2000 | #445

naw Amon is totally THE GURU

Pirateking was right.

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Power Hour



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Aang
Ezio
Gino
Reno
Lloyd

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http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/63128513

i thought that was THE RUN


But then in like the last half an hour he bombed horribly and went from 4 minutes ahead to 5 minutes behind somehow.

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I need to get me some Changmail.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/chaingmail

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So I joined to observe, no idea what was going on. Things in that middle window were moving so fast I couldn't see ****.



I heard a ton of sound effects from Worms games though.

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Bit of book talk about Theon

The best part is that I think he'll handle future Theon better than anything so far. I think his features will translate very well into Reek.

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FL - The Seventh Vision

Kurt - Man Tales

Cata - The Moon of the Pirates

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Bold Prediction:

The firebender that killed Amon's parents and burned his face is Roy Mustang.

He also killed Bolin and Mako's parents and Asami's mother. All at the same time.

Just snapped his fingers and everything ignited.

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If you've seen Berserk its exactly like that, the first episode is from later on when the main character is a total badass then the second episode flashbacks to when the character is a total nooblet.


I think you watch episode 1 after episode 17

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Why the **** are you guys talking about that dumb chick instead of the Brian Banks thing?

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UP

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Koala - No Vision

Anri - The Secret Women

FD - The Woman's Dragon


Not sure what happened here!

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From: junk_funk | #010

Weak episode. Shame.

Also, disappointing that they say "we're under a big delay because the last episdoe is SO BIG and SO LONG", and then they release another ten minute episode.

False advertisement.

should report them to the better business bureau

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Ytterbium - Diamond Serpent

Crazyisgood - The Burning Savior

mcflubbin - Flames of Healing

Orochimaru - Slithering Birch



.... Orochimaru's turned out pretty accurate O_o

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So wait, is the cat gone or did it come back?


If you lost their cat then I guess they do have a right to be pissed, even if kicking you out is a bit extreme. If the cat literally did come back then I dunno what their problem is. I'd move out at the first opportunity with crazies like that anyway.

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Anyone else?

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Yeah, there are tons of people that are willing to pay money for stuff in game, they are the ones buying stuff for $250.


Do you know why so many people get hacked all the time in this game and in WoW? People (even in these topics) keep blaming Blizzard for it, but it's because legitimate players are paying the gold farmers that did the hacking for all the stuff they stole.


Hopefully these players will just use the RMAH now and hacking won't be so profitable anymore. If that becomes the case, they'll just stop doing it (unless they figure out an easy way to break through authenticators)

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You can make gold just playing the game, I often just full clear act 1 with a lot of gold find gear and make about 600k + drops.


I think they nerfed the pots so you don't get quite as much anymore though.


But yeah, it's a market. People make gold in the game, buy something they want on the auction house. The seller of that item then buys something he wants on the auction house. If I'm on my Witch Doctor and I find a good monk item, I put it up on the auction house, somebody that wants it buys it, then I use the money to buy a good witch doctor item. Whoever I bought the witch doctor item from then goes on to buy something he wants.


There is a gold sink as the transactions continue on and on, but people continually make gold from farming etc and that easily outpaces the transaction gold sink.

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nice job going to the wrong place LOL

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A
B


I have an accounting diploma and degree, graduated in december. Currently work in a fast food place.

I expect to start at an accounting firm come September as an accounting technician.

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I wish Jinora was a few years older and part of Team Avatar. I was actually hoping she would show up and help Lin, but I was pretty disappointed by what happened. I mean these chi blockers routinely take out Korra, Mako, and Bolin, and were wearing down Lin, but just stood there and got taken out like a bunch of bowling pins?


It woulda been cool to see Jinora show up and show some degree of competency, but all 3 showing up and wining because the chi blockers suddenly forgot that moving is an option was lame.

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I'm honestly amazed you can't see the other side.

I can obviously see that the Equalists are going to far. But I can also exactly why they are doing what they are doing. They have a clear goal that they are fighting for and yes, it is sympathetic, that's why it's a revolution that people are buying into. It's not unrealistic that there is massive support amongst the common people for the Equalists. Sure, there are normal people that don't support them (Like Asami), but if Republic City was real life, yes, there would be widespread unrest against benders.

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From: CeraSeptem | #067

You know, I think it really comes down to one very simple question.

At what point does it become okay to hunt down and terrorize an entire demographic of people, most of whom have not and would not do anything particularly wrong to anybody?

Maybe it's just cause I have a moral compass, but I go with never.

Moral compass? More like you lack the ability to look at perspective. Look at it from the perspective of Amon and the common people that support him. How would many of them view benders?

Should Amon just be a crime fighter and look for bad benders and only take their bending away? That was certainly one route he could have gone, but he sees the problem as bigger than that. It's in the attitudes of the benders, the way they look at everyone else. There are good benders, sure, but the way Amon sees it, benders genuinely think they are better than other people.


I think one very interesting thing is how depressed the people like Tahno and the metal benders got after they lost their bending. They certainly have a right to be; they had this amazing power and now it's gone. But, what happened to them exactly? They became just like everybody else. They were no longer special. No longer are they better than the common man. And that depresses them.

Was it really fair for them to be so much better than everybody else just because they were born that way? Amon doesn't think so.


As far as we can tell, Amon's end game is just to make Benders like everyone else. He's not killing them, he's not destroying their lives. He isn't tearing their arms off or something. He's putting them on even footing with every other person in Republic City.

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Obviously there's the issue that "okay, is his group any better than benders?", that doesn't change the fact that he is right about bending giving people an advantage (I mean I just said that his methods are questionable), but there's no doubt that benders have abused their before before, are abusing their power now, and will in the future.

The Equalists think this is wrong and want to stop it. Many of the common people agree with this and it's easy to see why. The entire start of this is you said they have absolutely no point. That is completely wrong, and if you can't understand that than I really don't know what else to say to you.

Who knows what Amon's end game is once he finally eliminates bending. Maybe he plans to rule the world himself. If so, then yes, he'll obviously be just as bad as any other power hungry bender. Maybe once bending is gone he'll call it a day because all he truly wanted was equality. Who knows.


You keep saying "oh well because SOME benders are bad that means ALL benders are bad?" That's the gray area. I never said Amon is right and he should take everyone's bending away. I'm saying he has a point about bending being dangerous and that people abuse it, which is proven time and again. You are the one that says he has absolutely no point and have no moral stand point because of it.


I mean let's not forget, you said this.

From: CeraSeptem | #054

Any moral tension about whether or not the Equalists have a point is already pretty disappeared.

They clearly do have the point. Are they extreme? Yeah, probably. That's pretty much exactly what moral tension is. If you can't see that you have no idea what you are doing.

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Your example of abuse of his power is removing Tahno's bending?


Tahno was the perfect example of a corrupt bender taking advantage of the system. Cheating to get ahead with his bending to lord over others, Amon made him a public example.


He planned to remove EVERYONE'S bending, and Tahno was a great publicity stunt to get his message across because he embodies what is wrong with bending.

You say he attacked a stadium full of innocent people like he blew it up or something, the only people that got hurt were the police officers that got knocked out, and Tahno's team that got their bending removed.....

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I made that up "in my ass?" Which part?


That Tarrlok was abusing his power or that the way Korra intended to wrest power from him by just beating him up with bending?


Tarrlok even said it when Korra came to visit. You know what she said to him? "Don't you see? You're doing exactly what Amon says is wrong with bending, you are using your power to oppress and intimidate people."

Tarrloks response? "And you don't? Isn't that what you came here to do? Intimidate me into releasing your friends?"



And he's exactly right. Korra planned to use her bending to make him release Mako, Bolin, and Asami. This is a battle for leadership between benders. That's what the war with Aang was about too. The Firelord was the strongest guy around and intended to use his power to rule the world. Before long, another powerful bender will come around to do the same thing (hell, Tarrlok literally JUST showed up to prove that). The common people are powerless to stop such people.


The point of the Avatar is to keep such people in check. But Korra failed against Tarrlok and Aang let the Firelords have free reign for a hundred years.


Seems perfectly legitimate to desire this cycle of power mongering benders be stopped. Whether you think he's doing it the right way is one thing, but there's no doubt about the legitimacy of the idea that bending is too powerful.

As you say, it's pretty ***ing obvious.

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Tarrlok was getting out of hand with his policies, but how did Korra intend to stop him?

By going to his place and beating him up with her bending because she disagreed with his policies. It just ended up turning out that Tarrlok was stronger.



Oh yeah that's real different.


I mean the outcome of this was literally "whoever is the stronger bender wins and gets to decide how the people are treated."


Maybe Korra is a good guy and will treat them well, maybe not. Either way, Amon sees this as bad and it's very legitimate.

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