3 murders and 1 disfiguration in 8 episodes. Ser Criston killed Ser Joffrey, yet Joffrey was a throwaway character with no development, and there was no epilogue to this whatsoever, entirely shock after 5 boring episodes with nothing but fretting. And Larys had his father and brother killed, but the arson was offscreen, and again these are throwaway characters that only appeared in that episode. Aemond lost an eye in a fight with Lucerys.

Did I miss something?

It's so economical, there's barely any story to it.

Warring houses off-screen. A war dragging on offscreen. The Sea Snake mortally injured off screen. All that is on screen is players worrying. It is worry drama.

> House of the Dragon packs so much into each episode Seriously? Besides torturing the audience through idk how many labor scenes, nothing happens. I'm sticking with it because GoT was so good, but HotD is dreadfully boring because, again, nothing happens. It is sooooo zzzzzzzz sloooooowww.. Every three or four episodes, there's a little action, like a minute or two, and that is it. And idk what to say about a style choice where the entire series takes place in darkness. I get it, no electric lighting, but even outside during the day the lighting is dark! What is this supposed to symbolize? The Dark Ages? It's absurd. But you think they pack a lot in every episode? Like what!? It's an hour of nothing but talk and intrigue with nothing whatsoever happening, then a minute or two of shock. I think they're trolling the audience, knowing that the GoT audience is going to watch, they're being stingy with stunts and s/fx. Count how many episodes where a dragon appears. In 8 hours, it's less than 2 minutes of a dragon on screen. I do have to admit, Vhaghar is the hardest working dragon in Hollywood, so maybe they can't afford an acceptable amount of screen-time.

I have. Both have shown 8 episodes. Both have excellent actors, wardrobe, hair and makeup, and sets. In one show, a lot has happened, maybe too much. There's action, there's progress in multiple storylines.. In the other show, very little if anything has happened. One is legitimate fantasy genre, the other is a soap set in the middle ages.

RoP contains absolutely no social commentary regarding racism being systemic in American society. There is nothing whatsoever woke about it. Amazon cast some black actors, racists can't handle it, and that is all.

Only the rigid among the fanbase is disappointed, not the entire fan base, and not even a significant portion. I do not consider Slashdotters discriminating, just bitchy.

But I am glad you mentioned HotD, because in comparison it is a dreadfully boring soap opera that apparently will never live up to GoT. It's supposed to be action fantasy, but the correct genre is fantasy romance intrigue. There is a trend that nothing really happens in any episode, except maybe in the last few minutes. Then, woosh, it's months later in the next episode. Seriously, are there any characters in HotD that you like? Or is it just that you dislike one or two less than the others. HotD is incredibly disappointing after GoT was so watchable.

Contrary to some RoP critics, all the characters in RoP are likable, they all have at least some interesting quality, especially a vitriolic Galadriel. I think RoP would have been fine as merely The Galadriel Show, with no other storylines, but that there are multiple storylines is just gravy.

Once I abandoned trying to reconcile RoP with Tolkien's work, I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a lot better than Jackson's work. My major complaint with LotR was everything was a close up, too many one shots and two shots, not enough wide shots, hardly any. There was less of this cheap technique in the Hobbit films, but still too much giant heads talking. RoP was shot with plenty of wide and long shots, so it didn't feel like everything was taking place in a phone booth.

The critics aren't very critical. They nitpick one thing they don't like, and repeat themselves through 5 paragraphs of redundancy. None of the critics in these comments are saying anything intelligible.

I thought RoP did well, squeezed their story into areas about which Tolkien didn't write. Though a lot happens in the Second Age, for most of it it is impossible to tell where characters like Sauron and Galadriel were exactly, There are just some waypoints of known location and action. So RoP took literary license and filled in gaps, such as the creation of Mt Doom and Mordor. They compressed the timeline massively, but once you get over that, it isn't terrible writing, it's just that it contradicts Tolkien in some places, such as The Stranger, who obviously must be Gandalf. Trouble is, Gandalf doesn't arrive in Middle-Earth until 1000 years into the Third Age, and arrives by swan ship to the Grey Havens, not by meteor to the southeast of the Misty Mountains. Gandalf never goes to Rhûn and says so, "to the East I go not." And his talent with fire came from Narya, the red ring, aka ring of fire, so control of fire wasn't an innate ability. These details can drive you crazy, so letting go of these kinds of details is essential. And maybe it isn't Gandalf. Though it does seem obvious, it really can't be for reasons. Everyone seems to think there were only five wizards, but Tolkien was ambiguous:

Of this Order the number is unknown; but of those that came to the North of Middle-earth, where there was most hope (because of the remnant of the Dunedain and of the Eldar that abode there), the chiefs was five.

Since computer science is a subset of mathematics, and mathematics is not engineering, why would it be?

Oh, good, at least someone here knows that software development is not computer science, nor is a computer science education remotely required for a programming career.

There are two kinds of drivers for LED, those that use constant current, and those that use pulse-width modulation (PWM). Constant current is more efficient, but PWM is less expensive. The vast majority of LED lighting uses PWM drivers, and that is what you are detecting. PWM is annoying at best and harmful at worst, will cause migraine in some people even when it is modulating fast enough that it can't be detected.

Sure, except the Years of the Tree and most of the First Age is covered in the first 10 minutes of the show, so not skipped, summarized. All that is skipped is maybe the last part of the First Age and most of the Second Age. IOW, 15,000 years were not skipped. No more than 3600 years is unaddressed, and this is a conservative estimate; the true number is less. So, like, yeah, if you're going to talk trash maybe you should, like watch like more closely, or whatever.

So, yeah, like, I mean, you're like, I mean, completely off there. It isn't like 15,000 years being skipped. Like, I mean, yeah, it couldn't be, like, more than like 3600 years. But whatever, or, like, yeah.

FYI, antitrust laws prohibit conduct by a single firm that unreasonably restrains competition by creating or maintaining monopoly power. The distinction you wish to make does not exist. If Apple has vigorous competition, then there is no monopoly or antitrust.

Apple still has under 14% of global marketshare for personal computers. The issue can not be here, as Lenovo, HP and Dell all individually have more marketshare than Apple, and Windows hold's 75% of installs.

Apple recently reported they have finally breached 15% of global marketshare of the smartphone market. Apple was leading the market by 2021 for the first time, but their position has slipped past Samsung's marketshare, which is now nearly 22% of global marketshare

So it appears Apple has vigorous competition.

Unsatisfied AppStore developers can complain and sue all they want, maybe the courts will swing their way, maybe not. I think it is a hard sell, being that I can't successfully sue Dollar General for refusing to sell my better mouse trap. It isn't my store, nor is it it's own economic market, because the market it participates in is retail sales. It is the same with the AppStore, no matter how popular Apple devices become, the AppStore itself is not an economic market; the market is software, and no one can say Apple is dominating the software market. So, as a perceptive commenter above posted, The DoJ investigation is a big nothingburger, because the accusation of antitrust is invalid on its face because Apple is not the dominant seller in any of the markets it participates in, thus Apple can not be a monopoly, and since Apple is not a monopoly, Apple can not use monopoly power to unreasonably restrain competition.

In point of fact, smoking tobacco does not cause cancer. Smoking anything is unhealthy, and smoking causes emphysema, but cigarette smokers only started dying by the millions after the 1950's chemical revolution. What is in nearly all cigarettes is not tobacco, not really. It is basically half tobacco and half additives. Among the additives are 303 known carcinogens. That is what is causing smokers to die of cancer, not tobacco. The US Surgeon General report on tobacco smoking reveled that pipe smokers, smoking natural tobacco, had astoundingly different death and cancer rates, proving what was causing smokers to get cancer was not tobacco. During US v Big Tobacco in the 1990's, it was revealed how cigarettes are made, and what goes into the product, and it led to a verdict against them, but the bazaar practice of transforming tobacco into a deadly and addictive product was allowed to continue with the settlement eventually being forgiven. Kind of unfortunate, and the result is tobacco is unjustly vilified, lost in the details.

They're not the biggest targets; they're low hanging fruit.

That's not eccentricity. He exhibits enough symptoms of narcissism publicly for a positive diagnosis. But this is not exceptional. It would be very weird if he wasn't NPD. Since Putin will assassinate rivals, I'd appreciate it if Musk would STFU, because eve with his NPD, he is still somewhat of an American asset (not a national treasure, mind you, just an asset.)