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On June 22 2011 09:51 MozzarellaL wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2011 17:38 Magus wrote:On June 21 2011 17:36 freelander wrote:On June 21 2011 17:15 NearlyDead wrote:
Your mention of dragon legs brings up something else I would like to discuss. I feel like baby dragons would be excellent eats. Somewhat like fried frogs but with a zestier, more spicy aftertaste. opinions? an expensive dish out of my budget Cue discussion on how much dragon legs would cost? One dragon egg was said to be worth enough to buy an entire fleet of ships, so in today's money, let's consider the cost of one US Navy carrier battlegroup. The aircraft carrier alone is worth about 12 billion USD, so let's say one carrier battlegroup = $40 billion. This is a distressed worth, since the dragon eggs in ASOIAF were petrified and unable to hatch a dragon. If the egg could actually become a dragon the worth would likely be two, or three times, as much, so I'll peg it at around $100 billion dollars for a dragonling.
I have to take issue with this... The difference between no dragon and a dragon is far greater than 2 or 3 times... Also, the idea of selling a dragonling breaks my heart .__.
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On June 22 2011 09:56 Dingotrold wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2011 09:51 MozzarellaL wrote:
One dragon egg was said to be worth enough to buy an entire fleet of ships, so in today's money, let's consider the cost of one US Navy carrier battlegroup. The aircraft carrier alone is worth about 12 billion USD, so let's say one carrier battlegroup = $40 billion. This is a distressed worth, since the dragon eggs in ASOIAF were petrified and unable to hatch a dragon. If the egg could actually become a dragon the worth would likely be two, or three times, as much, so I'll peg it at around $100 billion dollars for a dragonling.
I have to take issue with this... The difference between no dragon and a dragon is far greater than 2 or 3 times... Also, the idea of selling a dragonling breaks my heart .__.
But it would still be an egg, and have no guarantee of hatching, and then growing to full maturity. I think a 2-3x premium would be quite reasonable.
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Nooby question when is the next season suppose to start?
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On June 22 2011 10:06 elementz wrote:
Nooby question when is the next season suppose to start?
April 2012
@Crazyeyes:
I'm not sure but I want to say at least 3-4ish hours, at most 7-8ish hours. Hard to say because I took many breaks and it was throughout the day.
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APRIL 2012? 
that's forever away..
edit: I am mentally retarded.
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On June 22 2011 09:33 Ace wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2011 08:02 1Eris1 wrote:On June 22 2011 07:56 tofucake wrote:
Is it considered spoilers to mention that the first season was only like...3/5ths of Game of Thrones?
I expect a nice long series from HBO :D As someone who's read the book I'm confused by what you mean. Obviously they had to omit certain parts simple due to time constraints, but I thought they hit all of the major points, and ended right around where the book did. a lot of the background information, behavior of the wolves, foreshadowing of future events, and character relations that couldn't be shown on TV are missing. Makes a BIG difference if you want to read book 2 after watching the first season. Imagine a TV viewer's surprise when they find out about how the battle with Tyrion really went and why his character acts a certain way in Book 2? If you only saw the TV shows it would throw you off.
Thats what I meant mostly. Not everything could be put into the show, but I think they covered all the major areas, except for some of the battles, but w/e.
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On June 22 2011 10:07 GGTeMpLaR wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2011 10:06 elementz wrote:
Nooby question when is the next season suppose to start?
April 2012
QQQQ
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On June 22 2011 10:13 Wire wrote:
also, no joke travis is travis that wrote a song of ice and fire series??
if so why is his icon poker cards.. ._.
w...what?
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For anyone looking to read the books, it is definitely worth it to start with book 1. Even though the show is very faithful over all, there are enough changes and details left out to make it worth your while.
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There is an audio book which I found very good over the first book, not sure about the other books.
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On June 22 2011 10:01 MozzarellaL wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2011 09:56 Dingotrold wrote:On June 22 2011 09:51 MozzarellaL wrote:
One dragon egg was said to be worth enough to buy an entire fleet of ships, so in today's money, let's consider the cost of one US Navy carrier battlegroup. The aircraft carrier alone is worth about 12 billion USD, so let's say one carrier battlegroup = $40 billion. This is a distressed worth, since the dragon eggs in ASOIAF were petrified and unable to hatch a dragon. If the egg could actually become a dragon the worth would likely be two, or three times, as much, so I'll peg it at around $100 billion dollars for a dragonling.
I have to take issue with this... The difference between no dragon and a dragon is far greater than 2 or 3 times... Also, the idea of selling a dragonling breaks my heart .__. But it would still be an egg, and have no guarantee of hatching, and then growing to full maturity. I think a 2-3x premium would be quite reasonable.
Not only are dragons extremely rare, they also give you the potential to become the most powerful person alive.
I think money is out of the equation, if people actually believed that the eggs could hatch.
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I mass watched the whole season, and I loved the show. I loved it so much that after I saw the last episode, I went out to my local bookstore and bought the first two books. I'm about halfway through the first book, and I love it so far.
I was really surprised how loyal the show stayed to the book.
Anyone who has not read the books yet, go do that right now! So far, I'm liking the book > show.
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They are the only 3 dragons in existence, so its only fair they are worth 1/3 of the total money in the world 
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On June 22 2011 11:24 SpectralFremen wrote:They are the only 3 dragons in existence, so its only fair they are worth 1/3 of the total money in the world
I believe Ser Jorah called them "priceless" =S
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On June 22 2011 11:24 SpectralFremen wrote:They are the only 3 dragons in existence, so its only fair they are worth 1/3 of the total money in the world
I see what you did there.
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On June 22 2011 11:24 SpectralFremen wrote:They are the only 3 dragons in existence, so its only fair they are worth 1/3 of the total money in the world
Hahaha, nice. I particularly like your signature as well....
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On June 22 2011 11:35 Rembot wrote:Show nested quote +On June 22 2011 11:24 SpectralFremen wrote:They are the only 3 dragons in existence, so its only fair they are worth 1/3 of the total money in the world Hahaha, nice. I particularly like your signature as well....
Thanks  . I posted a recording someone made of the Rains of Castamere in the spoilered thread if your interested in having a look.
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On June 22 2011 07:42 1Eris1 wrote:
You might want to change rank 7 a bit, not all of those characters or their positions have been introduced yet
Done.
On June 22 2011 05:04 D10 wrote:
Heres a scale of status in Westeros I found cool and wanted to share.
8 King of Westeros (ruling a whole continent... not joffreys case)
7 Great Khal, Ruler of major Citystate/Freecity, Hand of the King (disputable)
Pre-unification, the kings of 7 kingdoms should be status 7.
6 Warden of <insert here Direction> (Starks, Lannisters, Aeryn and Tyrell),
Major Khal, Ruler of a citystate, I'd go ahead and put the heads of the Great Houses there, after all, they are heirs of kings.
5 High Septon, Lord of a major house(Tully, Greyjoy, Martell, Frey and Redwyne), Khal
4 Lords of major Bannerhouse ( Boltons), minor Khal, Member of the
small Concil, "average" nobles, who are not especially powerful, but have enough land, etc, to be powerful.
3 Lords of an avarage Bannerhouse ( Umber, Karstark, Clegane), Great maester, (Gregor Clegane, falls here, Petyr Baelish would if he only had his lands), landed knights and the least wealthy and powerful noblemen. Commander Mormont would fall here if he was not in the Night's Watch.
2 Guild Masters, Landless knights, both hedge knights and those directly in service to a noble. Note, though, that you have to be able to afford the cost of living to claim most of the benefits of Status, so many hedge knights will effectively be somewhat lower, Baelish is an example of this.
1 Hedge Knights, Maester, Septons, wealthy small folk.
0 Smallfolk, Men of the Knight Watch
-1 Unfree/poor Smallfolk, Clans of the Moon
-2 Whores,
-3 Slaves
-4 Outlaws, Wildlings
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On June 21 2011 17:46 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
Wow guys really, they are reptiles with wings, tails, and breath fire
spoiler please...already saw they were wyvyrns instead of dragons but didnt know they breathed fire....
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On June 22 2011 12:31 FFGenerations wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2011 17:46 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
Wow guys really, they are reptiles with wings, tails, and breath fire
spoiler please...already saw they were wyvyrns instead of dragons but didnt know they breathed fire....
Well to be fair theres numerous mentions to that in the first book, so one could assume one who watched the first season would be aware of that.
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