As for work arounds... Might be absolutely bonkers stupid and 1000% unreliable... But could you run a specific topic through something like ChatGPT? Lmao And uh.. hope Zander? doesn't break it...

That's above my pay grade. AFAIK, that all requires special extensions to Invision Community Forums Software, and they recently got rid of their ICS marketplace for 3rd party extensions. To make matters worse, there's a huge Invision Community Software updating coming down the pipeline, so it's not even worth exploring an extension for "ISO" if it's just going to be broken in the new update. But who knows... Maybe that new update will have built in ISO? I dunno.

@Darthe gave me the go ahead to post a follow up here regarding nested quotes. I just figured out how to do them properly. Step 1. Highlight The Original quote + The Text, and click "Quote Selection". Then as shown below, It'll auto nest for you. This should alleviate any concerns with anyone accidently screwing up quoting the wrong post in the nest and getting accused of cheating via manipulating the text in their quotes. That said, this method was only tested on Desktop, and It probably works like trash on your Mobile browser. If you attempt it on your phone and it doesn't work, or you can't delete the quote, you may have to enable "desktop mode" in your browser in order to gain some functionality in DM's post editor. And if DM is being particularly frustrating and won't delete a quote, if you have access to this button, , clicking that and deleting all the text in your post should delete it. Otherwise a "hard" reset is about the only thing you can do in your browser...

Dunno, but here's a cat.

10^100+ years from now, when we've reached Entropic Heat Death of the Universe, and the Last Star in the Universe has winked out of the existence, against all reason and logic, the last sound in the universe will be, "Barm's Fault".

Yes, but the entire point, is that Book Elaida abhors Darkfriends, the Black Ajah, Shadowspawn, and the Dark One. The believes she is doing the lights work, without realizing she is a pawn for the Dark One & the Black Ajah because she is blinded by her own pursuit of power. (Power Corrupts) IF they make her a Dark Friend in the Show, undermines that entire dynamic, and IMO it will become lazy writing. Also, they definitely need to lean into the power hungry corrupt Politician that really likes gold things, that wants to demolish part of Tar Valon to build their Palace. The timing could not be more Perfect for this plot line.

Everything you said, and to wit; If they Forgo the Dark One as an actual entity that's an actual tangible threat to reality itself, and instead make all of the villains human. Then we've entirely lost the plot. The Dark One needs to be an ever present threat in the background of the show, causing chaos, strife, and discord. Hence, the purpose of the bad weather that we've barely seen... and the spoiling food... Aye, but that's the end game of the series if you will. 😉

From my understanding, Jordan had a peculiar view on what was considered Ultimately Good and what was Ultimate Evil. He was pretty on the nose about it in the wheel of time. The Creator was Ultimate Good, and the Dark One was Ultimate Evil. He was also well versed on historical Dictators/Fascists, both in what they did, why they did what they did, and even what led them to do what they did, and why they believed what they did. I started Reading the Shadow Rising, (Tower Schism) back in the early 2000s. Back then, I read Elaida as Bush Jr. But had you read it back in 1992, you may well have thought it was about ol' Bill Clinton. If you read it today, you may well think it's about you know who. If you were British, you may well have thought it was about Bloody Margaret Thatcher herself! lol Ultimately though, in the books you have the Ultimate Evil (The Dark One), who has it's minions actively sowing disinformation. Spreading strife, and Division. Making sure all of Humanity cannot come together to Defeat the Ultimate Evil, because they're too busy fighting each other over stupid petty games of power.

If they make Elaida a Darkfriend / Black Ajah, that is an incredibly huge mistake. The entire point of her character is that she is NOT a Darkfriend. She is someone who believes she is right and doing things for the greater good. Yet, like other characters in WoT like her who think they are doing good but are actually doing evil, She ends up helping the Dark One more then she's hindering it.

What was your favorite sub-plot in the show? Mine had to be the rats, specially when the rat terrier came into it! And then...

I finished Episode 2 yesterday, and the main difference between the Season Finale of WoT and Episode 2 of "The Last of Us"... Is I was expecting that to happen. This was supposed to happen. I can't say if it was supposed to happen that soon, or in quiet the same way as I haven't played the Last of Us Part 2 (I've played the first game), but from what I've gathered from people who have played the game... Yeah, what we saw is basically what was supposed to happen. If anything they tamed it down. Most of the gamers are just mad that she wasn't swole.

Well, if you remember the beginning of TDR, what did Rand do? He solo'd his way to the Stone of Tear, basically on a murder hobo rampage, with Moiraine and Company in hot pursuit. The Aiel found him there, as he declared himself with Callandor. So... it's possible they could do still do that plan with Rand just going peace ya'll. And Moiraine, Lan, Egwene and co chasing him to Tear where they'll inevitably run into a bunch of White Cloaks holding Perrin captive...

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I'm not sure, but I believe this is still referencing last weeks Nielsen chart, as that references this article from last week, April 17th. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nielsen-streaming-top-10-adolescence-wicked-severance-ratings-1236372005/ That, or they just had earlier access to this weeks stats in said article, so I'm just a week ahead on my stats because I've already seen these stats since April 17th. Either way, the real test for the show's Nielsen stats is going to be the week of March 24-30. I think that will more accurately capture people who aren't catching up on the first 3 episodes they may have missed the prior Thursday, in addition to watching the new episode that current weekend. It would also capture people who have actively just heard about the season (episode 4), and returning to the series, and binging it through to episode 5. Assuming episode 4 is able to maintain the #7 spot, or surpass it, then it's going to see if it can sustain that for the rest of the season, or how long until it drops off before the Finale.

'twas reminded of something, and figured I'd mention it here. DM has been gaslighting me lately when it comes to post order. I've noticed on a few occasions, that I'll post something in reply to someone, and it'll go something like 9:49pm Me: 9:50pm Them: 9:51pm Me: 9:52pm Them: But when I refresh, even if I've been refreshing to view new comments... It will reorder it so it's 9:49pm Me: 9:50pm Them 9:50pm Steve: 9:51pm Them: 9:51pm Me: 9:52pm Them:

Sorry to intrude, but I was quoted / tagged here. I had to quote the original comment into the post, and then manually drag it into the post to make it nested. I have no idea how to make it do that automatically. *Also note, because it's not automatic, quote mistakes are highly likely and could be seen as a form of cheating in Mafia games?* For instance, after I was tagged, I realized after the fact, I had accidently quoted the wrong quote when I nested that!* So to get it to look like the above, I take a post like this and click quote Then I find the text he quoted And highlight -> Quote Selected Your text editor may look like this Move the Grip into the body of the text. You can skip the drag step, if your text editor prior was editing text inside the first quote, and it would add the quote inside the quote. This may or may not work on mobile with limited success...

Isn’t that the whole point of Rand as a character? The struggle between those two halves? Did we even read the same books? Just to chime in here, but I thought it was fairly obvious that scene was a nod to Rand starting his "list".

Siuan used it to confirm Elaida wasn't a Darkfriend. The confusion is, how did Elaida believe Siuan was still a Darkfriend after that? If she truly believed she was a Darkfriend, then Siuan should have killed her then and there, or let the shadowspawn kill her. So either A) They're making Elaida a Darkfriend, which completely under mine's her entire arc B) They're really making her a special kind of dumb for her to not break the 3 oaths when she claimed Siuan was a Darkfriend. or C) The Writer from Episode 8, didn't review the Writing of that episode and see how those two scenes may have potentially conflicted.

Now, I know this season wrapped filming in March of 2024, but I do feel like it was a missed opportunity on Rafe's part to not make a bigger deal about the Red/Blue Divide in the Tower, and the literal war that happened over Siuan's deposing. There's just something soo elegant about having Elaida being this power hungry Aes Sedia that's infatuated by gaudy gold things, where she makes some truly moronic decisions while in power, that's ironically timely right now.

Can't wait until they get 10 seasons, and start exploring CTE.

It's like I said, I'm expecting a total dumpster fire... and I'll watch it anyways. lol

https://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kw=fisher+king & https://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kw=land+and+the+Dragon+are+one The Dragon is one with the Land, and the Land is one with the Dragon.

In the show, the memories were already inside his head. In the books, the memories were the ones they already stole from others who had been within their realm, throughout the multiverse.

Bummer

WWTB12S, What would Tom Brady's 12" Sausage do? This is why I try not to peer too deeply into the Zander.