A Flight of Links

- Atlas of Ice and Fire
- Walking Dead Michonne review
- Why are games random?
- Skinner boxes
- The problem of Rise of Tomb Raider's story
-R rated Batman v Superman
- Pacfic Rim 2 greenlit
- Sound design at Blizzard Entertaintment
- Movement in sandbox games about superheroes
- D&D movie almost greenlit
- Finn Jones playing Ironfist
- X-COM2 interview
- Wertzone reviews XCOM2
- Better Call Saul 2.1 review
- Masters of Orion gets a reboot
- Yahtzee doesn't like XCOM2
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ASOIAF meta

- Sansa VIII
- Alleras
- Harrenhal
- Rhaegar
- Dany and prophecy
- Jon
- Dany's children
- Dany's children, once more
- Euron 
- The Others, more of them, fricking more of them 
- Darry heirs
- Moaaar Others
-More on evil antagonists

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 118

Thursday is court day! Sorry for the delay. 

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Question Call: If you have any interesting questions, please tell us!

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 118! Our guest judge this week is Michael, a member of the community who also serves the court as a clerk, checking our questions and helping us with keeping it all straight, for which we are immeasurably grateful.

Supreme Court news [UPDATE]

Today, we faced kind of a dilemma: we didn't have a judge for next week's ruling. We're now in for well over 100 rulings, and it's hard finding new people. So we wrote to practically everyone who did an opinion for us, asking them whether they'd like to participate again. 

Well, what can we say? It's three hours later, and we have judges scheduled until mid-August, including some new ones. This community really is the best, and I want to thank everyone for taking part in it and helping us out. 

If you're feeling really creative, we could also use a new badge of questions. We're not running out for a month or two, but many questions we have are hypotheticals, which aren't kindly received everywhere. So, if you have something you wanted to know for quite some time, or something that you would like to see discussed, please, leave us a comment or drop as an email or tweet. It's much appreciated.  

Thanks everyone, and stay awesome. 

Stefan and Amin

UPDATE: We're now in mid-October, booked out. Wow. 

A Flight of Links

- Is Jupiter a vacuum cleaner of the solar system?
- What we learned from the Chelyabinsk meteor
- Not sure anyone wants to see this, but please, go ahead
- Yes, that thing is funny
- Have to admire the technique
- Wertzone reviews Deadpool
- Firewatch review
- How Blizzard manages Hearthstone with its community
- New Half-Life expansion
- XCOM2 review
- And another one
- Long-War-Team is working on its own strategy title
- XCOM2 mods
- StarCitizen preview
- Samurai short movie from The Raid director
- The problems of Assassin's Creed. I agree. Check out the AC tag to read my expanded thoughts on this. 
- Fortified review
- Hail Caesar! review
- Pride and Predjudice and Zombies review
- XCOM 2 expansions
- XCOM 2 mod review
- Political Machine 2016 review 
- Fargo season 2 review
- Yahtzee reviews Gravity Rush

ASOIAF meta

- War of the Five Kings unavoidable?
- Did Stannis intend to attack Claw Isle? 
- Littlefinger as a kid
- Bran
- Tywin and Ned
- Jaime's final confrontation
- Aurane Waters, expansive essay
- Barristan
- Bran
- Rickon
- Arianne
- Loan
- Stannis
- R+L=J
- Jon Snow's death
- Night's King
- Feastdance editing
- Theon and Aeron - similarities
- Defense of Tyrions ADWD storyline, part 8 and conclusion
- Moaaar dragons
- Patchface
- Pink Letter
- Skagos chapters
- Asha
- Loras
- Wyman Manderly
-  What if Theon took the black
- Doran
- Arya X 
- Existential victories
- Robert Strong
- Arianne
- Languages
- Alayne I
- Bolton's curse
- ASOIAF TNG
- Euron
- Faceless Men and the Doom
- House Peak
- Olyvar Frey
- Tyrek Lannister

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 117

Thursday is court day! Sorry for the delay. 

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Casting Call: If you want to be a judge, please email us! 

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 117! Our guest judge this week is Jack Crowly, an avid outdoorsman, studying in Montana to be a wildlife biologist.

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 116

Thursday is court day! Sorry for the delay. 

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Casting Call: If you want to be a judge, please email us! 

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 115! Our guest judge this week is Spandana, a 23 year old Hardware Engineer working in Bangalore, India. She started reading the books after watching the first two seasons of the HBO show AND finding out who Jon's parents actually are. Her favorite theory is the Grand Northern Conspiracy who she believes is around 60% true and 40% wishful thinking, but immensely enjoys it nonetheless.

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 115

Thursday is court day! Sorry for the delay. 

Welcome to the Supreme Court of Westeros! Every week, three pressing questions from the community will be answered by the esteemed judges Stefan (from your very own Nerdstream Era) and Amin (from A Podcast of Ice and Fire). The rules are simple: we take three questions, and one of us writes a measured analysis. The other one writes a shorter opinion, either concurring or dissenting. The catch is that every week a third judge from the fandom will join us and also write a dissenting or concurring opinion. So if you think you're up to the task - write us an email to stefan_sasse@gmx.de, leave a comment in the post, ask in the APOIAF-forum or contact Amin at his tumblr. Discussion is by no means limited to the court itself, though - feel free to discuss our rulings in the commentary section and ask your own questions through the channels above.

One word on spoilers: we assume that you read all the books, including the Hedge Knight short stories, and watched the current TV episodes. We don't include the spoiler chapters from various sources in the discussion, with the notable exception of Theon I, which was supposed to be in "A Dance with Dragons" anyway.

Casting Call: If you want to be a judge, please email us! 

Please note that our new ebook is up and available on Amazon, collecting the first 60 rulings and the best comments in one place. It's only 5,99$, so what are you waiting for? 

And now, up to ruling 115! Our guest judge this week is Talha Naushad, a professional researcher working in the middle east. When he is not working, he is dabbling his wits in contemporary history and politics and immersing himself in all things concerning A Song of Ice and Fire.

A Flight of Links

- HoI4 finally has the feature I've been wanting since forever
- People's history of Marvel 
- Gaming AI predictions
-  Legacy of the Void review
- Yathzee reviews AC Chronicles

ASOIAF meta
- Tormund
- Roose's curse
- The song
- Cersei vs. Tyrion
- Cersei v. Patriarchy
- A Defense of Tyrion's storyline 7
- Bloodraven
- And one
- Ned and Jon
- Jaime
- The Greyjoys
-  Littlefinger's teachings
- Dany's arc
- The Dawn
- Barrowton
- Impoverished nobles
- Edmure defending the Riverlands
- Daenerys V
- Royal debt
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