HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

i don't know where in the world you'd be seeing BB shirts and merch and not GoT, the latter is everywhere.

i can see a "superhero" film, maybe one of those "Thor" movies, in which you'll see an "easter egg" for GoT fans. a white walker or a dragon hanging out in the background of a scene.

that continent at the bottom right with all the trees? that's in northern canada. in 2026 there will be a short-lived FX cop procedural set it Toronto involving some of the descendents of iron islands

I still see lots of Los Pollos Hermanos and Heisenberg shirts and stickers and stuff like that. I'll keep an eye out for GoT stuff.

Only people I see wearing GoT stuff are basic tourists in times square. Only people I see where BB stuff are basic teenagers and 20-somethings everywhere, and cars with heisenberg bumper stickers. Def more BB merch where I find myself.

What's not to love

https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/sorry-ladies-im-in-the-nights-watch-t-shirt.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

The map is so unimaginative. He wrote a story about people that are north and south of each other, so it's just this pillar that caters to that exact relationship. Then when he thinks about Dany's journey from across the see and way out east... let's see here's some water separating the two (check) and here's a big long log shaped landmass that extends to the east (check). Perfect!

sea* wtf autocorrect?

i don't know where in the world you'd be seeing BB shirts and merch and not GoT, the latter is everywhere.

― nomar, Wednesday, September 6, 2017 2:27 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

come on down to albuquerque, bud, there's BB stuff everywhere

Well, yeah. But isn't that also where GRRM has his inter-dimensional amusement park? Or is that Santa Fe?

I see way more GoT throne t-shirts than Breaking Bad t-shirts. It's not even close.

Where do you live?

Well, yeah. But isn't that also where GRRM has his inter-dimensional amusement park? Or is that Santa Fe?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, September 6, 2017 3:03 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you're talking about Meow Wolf, and the House of Eternal Return, yeah, that's Santa Fe. he's also got his own movie theater up there (which is really good!)

The map is so unimaginative. He wrote a story about people that are north and south of each other, so it's just this pillar that caters to that exact relationship.

It's way worse than that. Westeros is basically just a mirrored version of Britain.

what...what formation of landmasses and sea would be sufficiently imaginative?

I live in montreal xxxp

Maybe Breaking Bad just didn't have the same impact here as it did in the states, I dunno. Game of Thrones is about as popular as I've ever seen any television show get.

http://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-06/26/2/enhanced/webdr09/enhanced-buzz-9475-1403765364-27.jpg

I always thought fictional geography and especially place names is one of the things that Game of Thrones particularly excels at.

what...what formation of landmasses and sea would be sufficiently imaginative?

may i present a conceptual map of nu-westeros
https://i.imgur.com/z6tZkZK.jpg

what...what formation of landmasses and sea would be sufficiently imaginative?

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, September 6, 2017 4:53 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's a big wonky L shape that to me doesn't feel like anything but conveniently supplementary to the characters and their dichotomy. Too easy to draw in excel! There's plenty of more organic map shapes from other fantasy stories or games etc. GoT one just seems lazy to me. I'm a dork about maps and settings.

Beautiful KM! Looking forward to the story about the 7 unique characters that are all journeying to Centeros to claim the throne!

but first, they must gather resources, build up their populations, and unlock the outer branches of the technology tree

are there inns along the way where they can restore their health?

The GoT world map kind of reminds of medieval-era world maps where some places are pretty detailed while other more far away places are a combination of approximations and guesswork which results in big blocky continents. Something like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Martellus_world_map.jpg/640px-Martellus_world_map.jpg

clear out some dothraki encampments for a little extra coin to speed rush those granaries

There must be some dumb 'where in Game of Thrones world would you like to be from?' quiz out there. I'd probably go with Tarth - warm yet detached. Or Dorne because it has a place called Planky Town.

Well obviously I'm from some backwater whose bannermen were on the wrong side in the civil war and then I moved to Kings Landing to work for the government

That's the only reason I can explain (anecdotally) seeing Breaking Bad related t-shirts and merch and stuff around but nothing GoT related (yet).

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, September 6, 2017 12:23 PM (yesterday)

GoT merch and stuff is all over etsy, like you can probably find a t-shirt that says in GoT font, "Mother of" just about every dog breed you can think of. zulily.com had a themed shop of women's fashion that was inspired by GoT ... granted, I don't personally see anyone wearing it, but I also don't see pro-Trump signs/merch where I live either.

Obviously I know the stuff *exists*. Everything exists on the internet. Just like you, I've not seen anyone wearing it, but unlike Donald Trump, Game of Thrones is not a regional phenomenon. You'd think something of that level of popularity and cultural prominence would be a bit more visible outside of HBO promos.

Definitely see more BB t-shirts than GoT, but more people have GoT action figures, bobble-heads, board games etc. I think it's the types of merch the shows' different genres lend themselves too more than anything. I'd say GoT is more popular overall - BB feels like more of a cult, albeit a very large one.

It's because BB is cool and people could feasibly pull off a Los Pollos Hermanos t-shirt or whatever whereas wearing a GoT t-shirt immediately makes you look like a massive nerd.

No question that GoT is the bigger international phenomenon.

We weren't able to make our annual pilgrimage to the local Renaissance Fair this year, but when we went last year I was surprised at how little Game of Thrones stuff I saw. Or at least, how little explicitly Game of Thrones-y stuff I saw. (Most of the stuff is implicitly Game of Thrones-y.) But yeah, I didn't even think of action figures and bobbleheads and the things people collect. I'm sure that stuff proliferates, but more privately.

TeamWalt = alt right
TeamDany = antifa

wearing a GoT t-shirt immediately makes you look like a massive nerd.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 September 2017 13:33

I thought it would be like Marvel t-shirts, pretty much anyone will wear them unless they really don't like the stuff.

I think Marvel/comic book shirts have (frighteningly?) shifted over to simply being in fashion. Like, Captain America shields, like the Superman S? Just icons that people like on shirts, like an alligator or polo player or something. I'm not sure what kind of GoT shirt people could rock that wouldn't look like some tacky white camo with howling wolf against a snow capped mountain shirt.

The sigils would make good t-shirts especially House Onion.

Marvel t-shirts I see ordinary people wearing most are the ones with 60s-70s-80s art.

people who wear Los Pollos Hermanos shirts probably have a lot of crossover w/people who are into The Chive.

Definitely see more BB t-shirts than GoT, but more people have GoT action figures, bobble-heads, board games etc. I think it's the types of merch the shows' different genres lend themselves too more than anything. I'd say GoT is more popular overall - BB feels like more of a cult, albeit a very large one.

― chap, Thursday, September 7, 2017 7:13 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah also ppl feel like nerds in GoT clothes whereas BB has this kind of ~badass~ quotient but i don't think this is any measure of relative popularity, game of thrones is way way bigger

tolkieny technical* term for dragons that don't breathe fire = COLD DRAKES so that's the cameo in S8 E1 sorted

*yes yes to be supersupertechnical tolk didn't state cold drakes breathed ice merely that they didn't breathe fire (also killed dwarves so dinklage beware)

Meantime

Jon Snow Must Know Something: Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Are Engaged! https://t.co/UZU6RfCLKZ

— People (@people) September 26, 2017

aw

yay <3

Great on screen chemistry between those two in the series

<3

http://cdn01.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/harington-wedding3/kit-harington-rose-leslie-wedding-photos-04.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgY5QoZU0AACoMC.jpg

I didn't realise her Dad was an arsehole Tory before - though I guess I know they were rich/aristocratic, so I shouldn't have been surprised.

Aberdeenshire...

From BMC Injury Epidemiology: Death is certain, the time is not: mortality and survival in Game of Thrones

Of the 330 characters that were included, 186 (56.4%) had died by the end of the study period. All but 2 deaths were due to injury, burns, or poisoning, with the majority being caused by assault (63.0%) or operations of war (24.4%). The survival time ranged from 11 s to 57 h and 15 min, with the median survival time estimated to be 28 h and 48 min. The probability of surviving at least 1 h in the show was 0.86 (95% CI 0.82 to 0.89). The analyses revealed worse survival for characters who were male (P < 0.001), lowborn (P < 0.001), had not switched allegiance during the show (P < 0.001), and who featured more prominently in the show (P < 0.001). After adjusting for other factors, whether or not a character had switched allegiance during the show and how prominently a character featured in the show were revealed to be independent predictors of death.

The mortality risk is high among characters in Game of Thrones. The probability of dying within the first hour after first appearing on screen was about 14%. By the end of the seventh season, more than half of the important characters had died, with violent deaths being the most common by far. The probability of survival was worse for characters who were male or lowborn, who had not switched allegiance during the show, and who featured more prominently. There is great potential for preventing violent deaths in the world of Game of Thrones.

Heh, occupation type is coded as silk collar / boiled leather collar instead of white collar / blue collar