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It's fairly well implied that the great families are strongly involved, but at the same time there are too many Sons of the Harpy for it to be just them. Although they are all rich, and therefore able to hire killers. There's also a theory that the Green Grace is the Harpy herself.

It was still off then? I was trying to get on nine hours before you posted that. It's on now though

OK prediction time: Cersei's arrest plays out like in the books, and Pycelle and Kevan do come in to start running the country surprisingly well in her absence. But then Ser Loras demands a trial by combat and the faith's Champion against him is Lancel Lannister - who Loras squashes in seconds. So when Mace Tyrell arrives back from Braavos all shook because Ser Meryn died, he's confronted by an angry 'Your son killed my son, and now you must pay' Kevan Lannister. And then Varys kills Pycelle, because he would be the only possible stabilising influence. Also one of the Sand Snakes shows up to take Doran/ Oberyn's place on the small council because Doran wants to disrupt the KL power base as well. And Myrcella's wounding will have happened by now as well (but I'm not sure by who; Not Darkstar because he won't be in the show. Shame. The two great rogues have both been written out. We want our Euron Crow's eye and we want him now.)

I used to watch this show where Rachael Leigh Cook was playing an FBI agent. It was really unrealistic, she kept arresting these sleazy bastards and not one of them ever tried to hit on her character even slightly... or even mention that she's too good looking to be an FBI agent and she should be a model or an actress or something. Even though she looks exactly like Rachael Leigh Cook.

Petrol had 'Participate in an Air Race' AND 'Fly under a bridge in an Air Race'. So I showed him the one called After School, where you've got to squeeze a Besra through a gap a Titan could fit through. I had Bike Race, Steal a Military Vehicle, and Kill 20 players. Unlike everyone else on the board, I only killed one person with the Lazer I took from Zancudo. I got the rest of my kills in Deathmatches. I'm the one Mercenary in a world of Psychopaths (I'm also the only wealthy person. GTA$ 8.7 million at the mo). I might be the only active player in the crew who hasn't completed the Psycho killer award (for killing 100 players who have 100% red dots... I'm never in Freemode long enough to rack those up).

In the paper last week, they said that between guys who're in the last year of their contract, and guys with escape clauses in case of relegation, QPR are losing 14 players this off-season. 14!

Was there ever a character in cinema history who seemed more likely to give something up and say 'Never again', and then go back to it almost immediately... than Tony Stark? I mean, we've never seen him quit drinking (or smoking), but you just know...

Tom Cleverly then, whatever the fuck his name is. The guy all Man United fans thought was a pile of shit and the reason the whole team was playing badly.

Paige's parents are both Wrestlers and Wrestling promoters (and trainers, for that matter) and she literally* grew up at Wrestling shows. She's also been a pro-Wrestler herself for nearly ten years. * Literally literally. Not figuratively literally.

Tim Sherwood must be a managerial genius. He's made Nathan Cleverly into an actual footballer!

Hopefully Uncharted 4 would address that but Neil Druckmann has already said that he won't make the story 'grimdark.' So it really defeats the purpose/tone of the reveal trailer. In my mind, Uncharted 4 would have to have Nathan Drake face having killed hundreds of (albeit shady) people and it finally weighs on his conscience. But story-wise, Uncharted 2 is better although it does have a few unexplainable sections. The irony there being the three people you named (in the spoiler box) as him killing are the only three people in the game world who he didn't actually kill (well the first one he basically did, he knocked a destroyed helicopter off a boat and a chain attached to it wrapped around the guys foot and dragged him under; the second one he failed to try and save him, when trying to save him would have just killed them both; the third he was actively trying to save their life, but they weren't strong enough to pull themselves out of the quicksand. I played through three again (on Hard) because Achievement Hunter. It's very hard to get 30 kills with the Dragon Sniper when you only encounter one in the whole game, and it's right before one of those checkpoints that takes your weapons away. Often you've already had to kill almost everyone before you get near the corpse with the gun you want. Will Uncharted 4 have them discover a long-hidden priceless historical artifact, only for them to then be forced to destroy it because it was originally hidden to save the world? Because that would be a massive departure for them.

I was always going to make one that said "Kings of Leon: I'm with the pigeons" but I never got around to it.

The World of Ice and Fire? Came out last November time. It's good. And by everything that happened before the pilot, it's thousands of years of the history of Westeros, with the lead-in to and aftermath of Aegon's conquest (and basically the 300-odd years leading to the start of the books) in great detail. But nothing about Summerhall, because the Maester who's writing it assumes everyone will know that. You can put a lot of it together though. It was something to do with Dragons, lots of people including the King died and Rhaegar was born at the same time. But I think GRRM is saving it for Dunk and Egg episode 9 or something. Supermebve: I couldn't find the 'Rhaegar was the best at everything' quote, but I'm sure it's in there somewhere. Although from skimming through the Daenerys chapters you do get the sense that while Viserys thought Rhaegar was a living god, Barristan and Jorah were both kind of in the 'He was good not great' camp. As far as people who haven't read the books guessing at R+L=J, watch the guy in the grey shirt from about 36 or 37 minutes: [/youbute]

nb: In the books when we find this out, it's not Littlefinger telling Sansa, it's Jojen telling Bran. There's more stuff too, about a Mystery Knight who saved Jojen's Dad from some bullies, rode in the tournament and won a few rounds, and then disappeared. This is mostly to set up the readers to think of Jojen's Dad as the eyewitness to history. In season one, where Sansa hears the story of how the Hound got burned, Littlefinger tells her. In the book, the Hound himself tells her. And Rory McCann did his screen test doing that speech: Better, isn't it? EDIT: Don't you just love that the Bolton's Maester is called Maester Walken?

I was about to refute that with book quotes. But this is the wrong thread for that.

While I was out at the Polling Station, someone posted an election leaflet through my door. So that's One Lib Dem leaflet, one UKIP,one independent, nothing from the Conservatives, and seven from Labour. They really want this seat back (2010 was a bit of an aberration; It was Labour for decades before).

It seems that the way you unlock some of the Chrome rims (for free) is to do a lot of Captures... there's one for winning 50 captures, one for dropping off packages, and one for killing guys who are holding packages. So... we need to spam some captures at some point. Achievement Hunter! The other ones unlock by doing LTS's. But I can't really be arsed with those. We could do a load of Snipers vs Stunters or Snipers vs Jets I suppose. Although if you do LTS's as a best of seven series, and you win the series 4-3, have you won one LTS, or 4 LTS's? Nobody knows.

GRRM said on his blog that after season 2 started, he was having lunch with a top HBO executive, and said HBO guy told him they wanted the show to run ten years. So even if they do the book ending, that might not be the ending ending.

I thought Harley Quinn's patented blunt instrument was a bloody big hammer, not a baseball bat?

Not excited at all about Batman vs Superman... still haven't seen Man of Steel, because I thought the trailer made it look rubbish, and I'm pretty much down on Snyder as a Director anyway. He fucked up Dawn of the Dead, he managed to excise all subtlety and restraint from something as unsubtle and unrestrained as 300*, and he made it abundantly clear that about 80% of Watchmen went far over his head. Haven't seen Sucker Punch because I thought it looked like he was trying to make a porno without the sex or nudity. So not really looking forward to his stuff. Whereas with Civil War... even if they fuck it up, they can't fuck it up that much. The cast is so strong and inhabit the roles so well that even if you give them a terrible script with a stupid plot, they'll still be able to make something watchable out of it**. And I don't think they'll give them a terrible script with a stupid plot. I think they'll give them a really good one. * And despite including dialogue stressing the importance of always maintaining formation in a phalanx, he had them breaking formation and going for solo hero combat moves within seconds of first engagement, even though that's the one thing that would have lost them the battle... pillock. ** Like Iron Man 2!

Then again, popular opinion in Westeros before Robert's Rebellion would have put Rhaegar Targaryen at 1a, behind only Barristan. And then Robert killed him in single combat. And now, Grey Worm's new single:

We had a guy like that last night, where it got to the the point where you almost wanted to let him kill you, just to see what the score was. 25-3 at the end I think. And then I checked and he was level 6.

Well, Mayweather's boxing is a very European style, and the mainstream American sports fan who doesn't follow boxing but will watch the super-big fights, is on some level expecting them to be like something out of a Rocky movie. And is disappointed when they aren't those crazy slugfests with KO finishes. The thing with high level technicians in just about any sport is, it takes an educated eye to appreciate the subtlety. And Mayweather's very good at drawing uneducated eyes...

Yeah, people who just watch the show and don't read the books have totally missed that the most interesting character in the story has been dead for 20 years. Who's left to dispense the Rhaegar knowledge now? Bran's super tree flashback machine?

As far as books about the WoS-era go, The Wrestling by Simon Garfield is a good start.