Look at the drastically dwindling participation in Ukraine and even Palestine threads lately, this is the symptom of a lot of them facing reality and are doing typically lib maneuver of “pretend nothing happened and regroup on a new bootlicking position” and attacks on Yemen are the new position, especially juicy that someone finally actively attacked the US imperialists.
It don’t remind me of GoT at all except knight and the wooden man slightly resembling the Others, it looks like the purely adventure legend adaptation.
I really should watch House of the Dragon but, again, it seems like the atmosphere and aesthetics are too much like Game of Thrones and not enough like A Song of Ice and Fire (or this movie called The Green Knight).
But seriously, do people expected a TV show to be completely exactly the same with book? I never once seen any show which would do that, not to mention the book is still not even finished. it was written on the wall that if Martin don’t finish books the ending will be massively different than people imagined. What’s more, i think he’s not ending the book because the show recieved such heavy roasting and he did intended it to end like that.
House of Dragon does indeed iirc have some missing characters, but since the book is based on generally have less of them than GoT the loss is barely visible, unlike when they killed off literally half of the cast in sept explosion because it’s a fucking TV show and it was too wide. On a plus side, something that i very much liked in the GoT show, they also cut off the worst bush wandering parts of the book - entire Brienne expedition from book 4, and most of Bran, Arya and Daenerys random nonsense.
Also i know the book ending would be disappointing too for me, since what i love there is the politics and intrigue, and not the prophecy and adventure, for that i have thousands of other fantasy books, and it unfortunately come more and more to the front in books 4 and 5.
Population centres close to trade routes grow, and those that are far away from trade wither.
Funnily how even the worst western historians do know that in context of let’s say ancient Asia and Europe, but once the modern means of transportation appears it all turns into “moar profit”
Though i admit he got a shitload done. War in Ukraine, genocide support in Gaza, amount of warmongering impressive even for US president, nuclear brinkmanship closer to 12 than ever, etc....
No it isn’t. China announced milestone in space program, while US who yet again unilaterally declaring it a race, mets with significant and so far unresolved obstacle. Thus the title while maybe a bit grandiose, though in line with the role of the “morning post” publication (they aren’t supposed to deliver the scientific papers but short news), is proper.
Start of recruiting crew for major manned spaceflight project is a milestone. It is tangible progress.
US rocket do continuously fail to get off the ground since it observably didn’t get off the ground yet despite claims of being ready. Maybe you would like some spectacular explosion?
USA priorities (lemmygrad.ml)
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The United States resumed oil imports from Russia after a year and a half break (pravda-en.com)
Milei squanders the opportunity to join the BRICS (www.theguardian.com)
Once again Argentina will try their chances with the West. This time it will surely work.
The Green Knight | Official Trailer HD | A24 (Pluto: This two-year-old trailer reminds me of A Song of Ice and Fire and, because of that, I plan to watch it! Also, a bit of a sub-topic within the OP.) (www.youtube.com)
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Milei legalised truck wage system (www.elciudadano.com)
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Why China is STUPENDOUSLY Well Designed. (www.youtube.com)
Anarchobidenism (lemmygrad.ml)
Though i admit he got a shitload done. War in Ukraine, genocide support in Gaza, amount of warmongering impressive even for US president, nuclear brinkmanship closer to 12 than ever, etc....
"China Watcher" YouTuber uses an image of a US carrier catching fire then exploding for the thumbnail of a video about supposed Chinese Tofu Aircraft Carriers (hexbear.net)
In non Kissinger news…
Milei’s Conversion to Judaism Seals Pro-Israel Push by Argentina (www.bloomberg.com)
What the actual fuck? Onion again defeated by reality....
Lemmy Dot World scolds centrism's answer to genocide (lemmy.world)
They suck so much
Oh it's the Palestinians who need to forget historical grievances, got it 🙄 (hexbear.net)
Just move on from ongoing historical grievances, no biggie.
Is this technically a pro-Trump post? Like "unlike biden trump will stop arming either azerbaijan or israel but not both"? (hexbear.net)
*bravely* I wouldn't vote for Mussolini (hexbear.net)
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about? (lemmygrad.ml)
Toddler Economics (media.mas.to)
Lemmy is antichrist (lemmygrad.ml)
Apartheid made him KOM (hexbear.net)
the scare quotes don't make it any less factual, my homie (hexbear.net)
digging up a five year old good take to own the tankies che-smile
Most people saying this are transphobes anyway (lemmygrad.ml)
China on track to complete the building of 1000 schools in Iraq (english.almayadeen.net)
Giant leap for China in moon race as US rocket fails to get off the ground (www.scmp.com)