Bacon - Nuff' Said...

pikpikcarrotmon on My daughter died at 5:30 this morning. Is six hours long enough to wait to cash in on the karma, or should I wait until tomorrow?

2012-02-08T20:05:30.246888+00:00-0700

Absolutely. Reddit is becoming a fucking obituary and pet cemetery. That's not news, not funny, not interesting. It's just depressing. I feel bad for these people and their situations but I really don't care that much and I wish they would stop hanging up their laundry on our apartment building. I downvote every waah cancer post I see now. It's not that I'm heartless, it's that I just don't care and we have subreddits for coping with this shit.

pikpikcarrotmon on For the love of God, why did I buy an HP Photo-smart printer?

2012-02-07T18:13:26.734673-07:00-0700

Considering that you can get a Brother 435/835 for $100 or less, an Epson Workforce 635 for $65, an HP 6500A for $100, or if you go $50 more, an 8600A... you can have much, much better in the inkjet category and not have a plastic piece of crap that takes a single color cartridge. Fairly certain that Canon's offerings in the same class are better too, even though the ink is a bit more. What you're forgetting when it comes to ink price is ink capacity. Sure it's only $10 for a Kodak black cartridge, but it only has a few hundred pages (at 5% coverage). Lexmark's offering in the same category has 550 pages for $5. The Kodak inkjets are lower quality than basically everything in their class, they don't have separate cartridges for colors, they have low capacity on the ink, and they're flimsy plastic garbage. You're lucky that you haven't had any problems yet - almost every single Kodak we've ever sold came back to us as a damage or return.

pikpikcarrotmon on For the love of God, why did I buy an HP Photo-smart printer?

2012-02-07T17:04:15.544493-07:00-0700

If you'd ever seen one of their printers in person you wouldn't be recommending them. They are almost comically terrible. The build quality is worse than Lexmark.

pikpikcarrotmon on Book recommendations similar to ASOIAF?

2012-02-07T16:13:56.360774-07:00-0700

At the very least, Dune. The sequels are their own monster but the first is definitely one of the most important works of fantasy/sci-fi ever written and you can see reflections of it in almost anything in those genres written since.

pikpikcarrotmon on Corsair Graphite 600T goes white

2012-02-07T14:33:09.265803-07:00-0700

I have it too. Mid size my ass, this thing could eat my other mid size tower! Still, it's glorious and I love it.

pikpikcarrotmon on When did they start issuing uniforms?

2012-02-07T14:26:11.882565-07:00-0700

I see the fashion police are stepping up their game.

pikpikcarrotmon on This is Pat. He's currently on his third and final tour in Afghanistan. This weekend was his son's fourth birthday.

2012-02-06T16:45:38.157425-07:00-0700

I think someone is a little touchy and completely missed the joke.

pikpikcarrotmon on This is Pat. He's currently on his third and final tour in Afghanistan. This weekend was his son's fourth birthday.

2012-02-06T12:59:07.248833-07:00-0700

Not to be mean or anything, but hasn't your friend ever seen a war movie? Never, ever talk about your family, hold up a picture of your family, or send a message home to family while you're on camera, and especially not if you're on your last tour and going home to see them soon.

pikpikcarrotmon on Harrison Ford In Early Talks For Ridley Scott's new Blade Runner

2012-02-04T17:18:45.843276-07:00-0700

Scumbag Ridley Scott: releases director's cut of classic movie changing the ending, makes sequel that follows original

pikpikcarrotmon on I was just told 'alcohol weakens glass,' by a salesman. What's the most ridiculous thing a salesman told you.

2012-02-04T16:04:05.094893-07:00-0700

That's just silly. I work at a place like Best Buy as a tech, we charge $99 for a setup, but ours is killing the junk, installing all software the customer buys or brings, setting up a printer, making the restore discs, and transferring all their crap from their old computers. I shudder to think how much Best Buy would charge for that.

pikpikcarrotmon on Damn it, L.A. Noire!

2012-02-04T01:24:15.991723-07:00-0700

It's like OoT was the direct sequel to Zelda II.

pikpikcarrotmon on Jon Snow and TWoW (spoilers through ADwD)

2012-02-03T17:25:52.114265-07:00-0700

Stannis is the brother of Robert, related to the Targaryens through their grandmother. He has the third strongest claim behind Aegon and Daenerys.

pikpikcarrotmon on Pre-release subscription bonus packages announced.

2012-02-03T02:20:44.947781-07:00-0700

I'm somewhat less enthused now

pikpikcarrotmon on GRRM and death. (spoilers through ADWD)

2012-02-02T17:08:22.086283-07:00-0700

Confirm, following the Quentyn pattern.

pikpikcarrotmon on GRRM and death. (spoilers through ADWD)

2012-02-02T15:09:07.670186-07:00-0700

True, but my point is that at the moment, he is *not* dead. Maybe not dead ever, maybe not dead *yet*, but right now, he is not dead. He did not die in the chapter, and whenever that happens, GRRM does it for a reason.

pikpikcarrotmon on GRRM and death. (spoilers through ADWD)

2012-02-02T14:55:37.497743-07:00-0700

Use a > at the beginning. >The death of important characters like Ned... looks like this: >The death of important characters like Ned...

pikpikcarrotmon on GRRM and death. (spoilers through ADWD)

2012-02-02T14:51:06.311524-07:00-0700

The letter from Ramsay, and also the chapter he gave us from TWOW could take place before his defeat.

GRRM and death. (spoilers through ADWD)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:08:06 -0700

I was thinking about all the Jon theories and realized that, ignoring all evidence within the text, him being dead is simply not GRRM's style. Any character of importance who has stayed dead died "on-camera". I can't think of a single one who didn't. Even characters who were mortally wounded did not die until they were "on-screen" again. Robert, Renly, Drogo, Ned, Robb, etc. all died unquestionably right where we could see them. On the other hand, Ser Gregor took deep wounds from a poisoned lance to basically every soft spot on his body, but he didn't die at that exact moment and here he is again. Quentyn, too, did not die in the chapter where he was melted by dragons. He died later in one of Barristan's chapters.

I believe this is not only a coincidence, it's a rule, and furthermore, nobody dies in their own POV. I can't think of a single example that betrays this rule - an important character dying where we can't see them and being confirmed as dead. To me, this means that Jon must be alive, otherwise GRRM would have shown us his death. Similarly, to me this confirms that the Hound is the brother on that island, that Gregor is Robert Strong, and that Syrio is at the very least alive (I'm not sure I buy the Syrio = Jaqen theory). And I don't think anyone believes that Ramsay killed Stannis.

Are there any characters I've forgotten who actually did die in their POV (besides those in prologues and epilogues), or who died where we couldn't see it happen and have been confirmed as dead?

EDIT: Who's going through and downvoting all the comments? Is that how /r/asoiaf treats discussions? Maybe I should go back to /r/gameofthrones.

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pikpikcarrotmon on Just finished Dune... Loved it Thought its ending was fantastic. Is it worth reading past the first book?

2012-02-01T00:42:52.227115-07:00-0700

Really, the only general consensus I can find among Dune fans is that the first book is fantastic. 2 & 3 flow naturally from 1, but seem vaguely inferior to me, while 4 is truly completely different from the first three. I personally loved it, but I can see where it would put someone off. No matter what, you have just finished one of the greatest triumphs of the human imagination and it won't retroactively be any worse if you choose to read onward or not (as long as you ignore Brian Herbert's tragedies).

pikpikcarrotmon on Okay, so what SHOULD Dany have done in A Dance with Dragons? (spoilers, DwD)

2012-02-01T00:15:40.280431-07:00-0700

Yes, but at least Xaro had ships. He had a way out and she picked the guy who had control over one group of rebels in a single city.

pikpikcarrotmon on Okay, so what SHOULD Dany have done in A Dance with Dragons? (spoilers, DwD)

2012-01-31T16:25:18.340574-07:00-0700

She seemed pretty keen on marrying for power, in which case Xaro was still a better choice than Hizdahr. Really though, I think if she had continued on the warpath instead of parking at Meereen her enemies wouldn't have had so much time to prepare and she could have cleaned out all the slavers. Instead she sat in one place and let her enemies surround her.

pikpikcarrotmon on Get it together, China

2012-01-31T16:16:29.256104-07:00-0700

How the heck did two teams lose to them?

pikpikcarrotmon on Get it together, China

2012-01-31T16:13:51.368676-07:00-0700

Like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L25nR1_EIEs) guy? I mean look at that title. His face has that title on it.

pikpikcarrotmon on My favorite passage from ASOIAF [FfC SPOILERS]

2012-01-31T15:42:52.178981-07:00-0700

Jaime has no loyalty to his children, though, and didn't even like Joffrey. To him they're incidental. And at the end of AFFC, we see him realize the truth about Cersei and change his mind.

pikpikcarrotmon on What's the point of not using characters' actual names for POV chapter titles? (AFFC and ADWD spoilers, I guess...)

2012-01-31T15:37:08.369701-07:00-0700

Boiled leather and surcoats