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WWWwombat

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  1. IIRC, it's a common but variant spelling, but seeing as the English drop their R's and often pronounce A's with the tongue towards front of the mouth, the pronunciation ends up being about the same.  Don't know about Scots/Irish as they tend not to drop their R's.  Maybe someone from the British Isles can weigh in.

  2. Anyone play any of their stuff?  I love strategy games and I'm kind of in a love hate relationship with them because of their unending DLC trains for Europa Universalis IV and Crusader Kings II (although I think Holy Fury might be the last for CK II given the scope).

  3. Presumably only teams in the top division would be eligible for the playoff bracket that eventually leads to the Superbowl, but the bottom league could have its own playoffs that then have a bearing on promotion.  In the English football (soccer) system for example, the top 2 teams in the table for EFL Championship (the second highest division) get promoted to the English Premier League automatically, while spots 3 through 6 have a playoff to decide who gets the last promotion spot.

     

    The cool thing about this kind of system imo is that you could extend it indefinitely to lower and lower level teams so that theoretically a team from the middle of nowhere could eventually make it to the top.  Or the Browns could go all the way to the bottom and people in Cleveland (who haven't already) would become Steelers fans when it came to the top league.

  4. That point of Dom's about the 3-way split is a good one, although I don't know why it's an indictment of Brandon so much as TOR.  The structural issues severely lessened the potential for eucatastrophe, which is a very important part of epic fantasy.

  5. Yeah, BS just didn't get Mat.  I also didn't like how daft and un-Aiel Aviendha seemed when he wrote her.  In Brandon's defense, though, I think he got much better at writing Mat by AMoL.  Regardless, there is no question that Harriet made the right decision wrt the outriggers.  It is what RJ would have wanted.

  6. Gitara's foretelling was spoken in the present sense and with a great degree of urgency.  She actually dropped dead the moment she had finished uttering it.  That suggests to me that Rand's birth was, at the very least, extremely imminent.  Also, given Tam's account from his feverish ramblings in EotW we know that Rand's birth took place very shortly after the end of the fighting in the Aiel War.  As others have pointed out, it's rather immaterial whether or not the foretelling actually took place before the birth or during it.  It was still knowledge that Gitara couldn't have known by any normal means and is therefore a "foretelling" as that is what spontaneous, spoken prophecies made by Aes Sedai are called in the Wheel of Time.

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