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One time the lawyer I contacted turned out to be a former tenant of the landlord who was trying to bully us. She actually lived in our house about 10 years before us. She went beyond a fuck you letter and full-on sued him pro bono. This was in like 2018ish.

Aside from all the racism disguised as "staying true to the lore," I think the reason a lot of super nerds don't like the show is that they find nitpicky things they don't like, but rather than just shrug them off and enjoy the show like I do, they get hung up on every detail not being identical to the books. I think they forget that a lot of those super nerds probably got introduced to the world of middle earth THROUGH the movies, and the movies changed all kinds of little nitpicky things, omitted characters, etc. Only now they have 20 years of pent up nerd rage. As soon as the show was announced, they couldn't wait to start going "well *actually* ..." the whole time.

"everyone hates lawyers until you need one." I've gotten out of a couple tricky situations with landlords by simply lawyering up when the landlord thought they could bully me into paying them more money or doing whatever they want.

I took it as she wanted to take ownership of her death. She said she wanted to die a dragon riders death or whatever it was. That doesn't answer how she escaped the room, though

The whole nationalist angle is such a grift, and I'm sick of people falling for it. Anti-globalism simply isn't a viable stance and hasn't been since...well, since the war. The genie is out of the bottle on that one, folks, and has been for quite some time. You might as well run on a platform of trying to go back to feudalism. Ain't happenin, cuz.

Another crucial character moment with Daemon that was left conspicuously ambiguous this week. I'm looking forward to seeing where his character goes.

I've never been able to get down on raw oysters, except one time where I picked one at low tide and raw dogged it on the spot. That was good. I don't know if they just rapidly Degrade as soon as they're removed or something

Voodoo donuts in Portland used to make a Nyquil donut way back in the day before the FDA was like "uh... Bro." I don't think the Nyquil was cooked, though, I think it was just injected, like the filing had Nyquil or something. They also had a toothpaste and orange donut at one point, if memory serves. And one donut with Midol.

I know enough to know who he is and he got in trouble for something or other, but I don't follow sports enough to know what it was.

A nitpick I have that doesn't actually affect my enjoyment of the show but I do notice it: why do all the Elves look different ages? I mean it's one thing for Elrond to look slightly younger, but Galadriel is literally older than the sun. Why does celebrimbor look so much older? That's one thing I liked about the movies. With the acception of Arwen, who they made look younger for story purposes, all the Elves don't look particularly young or old, which helps sell the fact that they're different than everyone else. Given that resentment towards Elves is a storyline in the show, you'd think they would take the same approach. Again, it doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the show. Last episode was the tits

I love crab, but it's also a pain the ass to eat. Swordfish is probably my favorite. It's my go to meal on my birthdays since I can't really do steaks anymore

I usually only comment on a youtube video if I feel like I can add something that wasn't in the video. Or, on rare occasions, if I just want to say "great video" or something thereabouts. Very rarely will I ever engage with someone who's being a twat, or just trash a video for being wrong. Those are generally dead end avenues and not worth the energy.

I don't think I've ever eaten a taco completely sober, and by extension every taco I've ever had is the best taco I've ever had. Actually not true, I went to a place with my brother a while back that suuuuuuuuucked. It was disappinting. However, any halfway decent taco joint, get a few beers in me and those tacos will go from a 7 to a 10 real quick.

I've definitely enjoyed the show more as it has developed into a sitcom. Not everything has to be about everything.

He's in the LOTR books. Tolkien never explains that much about him. Tom is Tom. He's not in the Hobbit. He's clearly a being whom the Ring has no power over, though I don't think it's because he's *more* powerful, just that his power is a different kind of power. He's an odd character. He's only in 2 chapters in Fellowship and only mentioned again twice throughout the rest of the series. Once during the Council of Elrond when "what if we just give the Ring to Tom?" Is brought up as a solution (the answer is "he'd probably forget about it), and the other at the very end of the story when Gandalf says he wants to have a long conversation with Tom before he sets off for the Undying Lands.

Though, if I had to guess (minor book spoilers if you want to avoid them)

I've even seen some people say the CGI is bad and I'm like... are you high? Nonetheless, there are some valid criticisms with the show. Galadriels character, for one. And I don't even mean that from a lore perspective, just that she's straight up been an unlikeable rube so far and I feel like we are 5 hours in and still haven't been given a good reason for rooting for her. Though her line from the last episode about "becoming undistinguishable from the evil she's trying to fight" or whatever it was actually hints at character growth, so I was glad to see that. And I'm still apprehensive that the reason they haven't introduced Celeborn yet (if they put him in the show at all) is that they're going to try to give galadriel some love triangle plotline in a later season, and I'm like "please, dear God, no."

Supporting anyone and everyone as long as they weren't even sniffing communism is something the whole world is going to be paying for for a long time.

I'm kind of up and down on the show as a whole, but every episode I have a moment where my jaw drops and I go "oh, shit, I guess that's where $450 million went..." Is it the best show ever? No, but it's an insanely high budget fantasy series, the likes of which we'll probably never see again. On that merit alone, I highly recommend it.

Definitely. Cortez didn't conquer Mexico with 500 conquistadors, he conquered Mexico with the aid of all of the other people of Mexico who hated the Aztecs more than they hated the Spanish. Which, again, Cortez was going completely rogue when he did that. And I don't mean that in a "the Spanish did nothing wrong" way, like it was a very happy accident for them, but Cortez basically "Leroy Jenkins'd" Mesoamerica.

Any inaccuracies in that post are entirely due to my writing that straight off the dome, the story itself is 100% true and the fact that there isn't a movie about it is mind blowing

Here's a fucking doozy for your buttholes - did you know that Cortez had no authority to conquer Mexico? That was extremely outside of the purview of his mission, he wasn't sent to claim new land for Spain, he just decided that's what he wanted to do, because he was a complete ass. He basically retained power through a technicality (the myth about him burning his ships didn't happen) and he was not supposed to do, like.. any of the things he did. Also he thought California was a mythical land of Amazons and gold. So yeah, Cortez was a piece of shit and that's fun to explore. Also I am almost certainly a direct descendant of Cortez. Not that that matters.

Also if you want to look into another Russian who single handedly thwarted nuclear Holocaust, look up Stanislav Petrov. Dude is a legend. That happened in 1983.

Honestly, the more you read about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the more you believe we are in the multiverse where we are the only universe that DIDN'T land in nuclear apocalypse. There are times when it feels like a coin flip. Like maybe JFK was sick one day, or Arkhipov had an IBS flair up, and boom, we're all dead.

Here's one: the Cuban missile crisis. Considering it's the closest we ever came (so far) to nuclear apocalypse, and considering JFK secretly recorded every meeting and those recordings were fairly recently declassified, it's a truly fascinating subject. However, I'm not here to talk about JFK (though he is a hero in his own right. Most of his military advisors wanted to launch a land invasion of Cuba, but they had no idea that the Soviet Union had secretly sent tens of thousands of troops to Cuba over the previous months and any US troops on Cuban soil would have walked into a trap that would have led to us not being able to talk about this today), I'm talking about Vasili Arkhipov. So, a compromise to the land invasion of Cuba (again, shout out JFK), the US decided to blockade the island. A few Soviet nuclear subs evaded the blockade. I think there were 9, but check me on that. These subs could not surface for oxygen for days. These men were starved, tired, oxygen-robbed, delirious, and armed with nukes. On one such submarine, there were three officers - the captain, a political commissar, and the lieutenant commander Vasili Arkhipov. They hadn't surfaced in days. They could barely breathe. It was like 110 degrees inside the craft. They had had no contact with Moscow. For all they knew, nuclear war had already begun. The captain and the commissar wanted to launch a nuke at... I don't know, Miami or wherever they happened to be. To launch the nuclear missile, they needed all three officers to agree to launch it. Vasili Arkhipov is the only one who said "no." This man is the reason we are breathing. This man saved the entire world. He died of cancer in 1998, probably due to his exposure on nuclear subs, but also potentially due to his massive balls, it's impossible to say. So yeah... Cuban missile crisis. It really was a countdown to Armageddon and people didn't know how close it really came to being so. It came down to one man, and his name was Vasili Arkhipov. Really, the whole thing once JFK's recordings were declassified is a fascinating rabbit hole to go down. @Commissar SFLUFAN it's right up your alley