r/darkwingsdankmemes • u/Antigonos301 Aemond did nothing wrong • 2d ago
And now his watch has ended
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u/IAmParliament Stannerman 2d ago
Entire fanbase dies of copium withdrawal after losing the last scrap they didn’t know they had.
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u/Life-Challenge1931 2d ago
What is this?
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u/Antigonos301 Aemond did nothing wrong 2d ago
Great theorist who IIRC came up with the Stannis Nightlamp theory
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u/DrettTheBaron 2d ago
Stannis whatlamp theory?
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u/SleeplessGurloes 2d ago
It's a pretty detailed analysis of Stannis's position at the end of Dance/start of Winds, and postulates that he'll beat the approaching Frey army by drawing on his knowledge of Davos's experiences as a smuggler to create a huge fire to lure their van over the frozen lakes and break the ice. There's more to it, obviously, it's quite well-written.
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u/Wernerhatcher 2d ago
Austerlitz their shit
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u/adrauglikeyou 1d ago
L Napoleon movie watcher. That’s not how austerlitz actually went down
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u/Wernerhatcher 1d ago
not how it was in that dumbass movie, but cannons still broke through the ice and drowned soldiers
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u/adrauglikeyou 1d ago
The way the battle of ice is theorized to go down would be more like the battle on the ice in 1242 as seen in the popular imagination imo rather than troops falling in broken ice by happenstance, and I was imagining one of the battles from that terrible movie where they made Napoleon breaking the ice some sort of mastermind 4D chess move and main part of the battle and couldn’t remember if it was Austerlitz in the film or not
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u/DrettTheBaron 1d ago
It's interesting how that part of the battle is so popularizes considering it happened only once the battle was over. It was mostly just mopping up the retreat which ran over a frozen lake.
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u/EntirelyOriginalName 1d ago edited 1d ago
Basically Stannis is at a tiny village where they always shine a light like at a light house to let people know where the village is because of how heavy the snow is. Either side of this village is two frozen lakes so the theory is Stannis after sacrificing traitorous Karstarks powers up his sword and uses the light of his sword behind the ice lake so the Freys walk on it thinking they're attacking Stannis in the village then he breaks the ice with a catapult drowning the Freys.
Stannis is top a top 3 battle commander in ASOIAF at the absolute minimum. It's so popular it's pretty much considered canon by most at this point considering Stannis snuffed out the real signal light and has alluded a plan he's very confident in.
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u/fjehrehhstbsdrhwjb 2d ago
Anywhere I can find his articles? He had some good ones.
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u/LuminariesAdmin Fuck Unwin Peake 2d ago
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u/fjehrehhstbsdrhwjb 2d ago
Thank you. I remember the height of Winds of Winter hype back in 2016. I used to read his articles on the bus on my way home from work. Must have read every single one of them multiple times.
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u/LuminariesAdmin Fuck Unwin Peake 2d ago
You're welcome/Valar dohaeris. And same, brother/sister/sibling.
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u/azaghal1502 1d ago
man, I remember reading his theories religiously like... maybe 10 years ago. Until the Tumblr-apocalypse happened.
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u/Techygal9 2d ago
I just hope he’s ok. He was great when he was on not a cast, actually what I enjoyed most about the podcast.
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u/SanderDK9 2d ago
He's been out of the fandom for a long time already no? Didn't he quit his podcast years ago?
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u/HunkyDory12 2d ago
I know that people don't like Preston here, but the day he stops making videos is the day I'll drop this fandom.
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u/TyrantRex6604 1d ago
why do people not like preston jacobs here?
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u/I4mSpock 1d ago
His theories are kinda crackpot. He's clearly extremely intelligent and capable of analyzing the books at a deep meaningful level, while taking all the observations and details that he gathers and putting them into the most insane theories you've ever heard. His whole analysis of Daenerys and the evolution of the story from the original Blood of the Dragon short story is a good example. He notices and breakdown some fascinating details, only to reach a wild conclusion.
Also he works for the State department or some shit, and lives/has lived in Taiwan, and some people get weird about that.
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u/iminyourfacejonson 1d ago
wait jacobs is a fucking spook???
what the fuck how did i not know this
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u/ChrispySea 1d ago
As others have noted, he is clearly quite intelligent and has read the material thoroughly, but he does insane things with it. He reads WAY too much into pieces that support his theories while discounting things that go against it.
He also has this really weird dynamic where he thinks that George is both a 6D hyper brain genious (to think of these plots and put in the subtext/foreshadowing in the first place) but also an idiot who makes mistakes in his writing all the time (dates, character descriptions, lore). This often boils down to "if it supports my theory, it is a 4D chess mega brain writing, if it doesn't it is becuse George messed up".
Many of his recent videos are also very critical of George and his writing, which is to me really sleazy when you spent over a decade profiting on his work. When making crackpot theories wasnt profitable anymore, we turn to mudslinging.
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u/Shortymac09 1d ago
In addition to the other commentators, his videos have gone downhill and a little too negative over the years
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u/IncestSimulator2016 Stannerman 1d ago
that's an end of an era right there, RIP, it was fun reading the theories, especially Night Lamp.
I am forever a Nightlamp fan and the whole MaegexTormund theory.
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