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
-

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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Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 114

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 113! Our guest judge this week is Javi Marcos, a previous judge of the Supreme Court and one of the admins of http://lossietereinos.com/, the biggest web about ASOIAF and GoT in Spanish. He had a collaboration in the Special Edition of Tower of the Hand: A Flight for Sorrows.

A Flight of Links

- Maybe they found planet X
-Miami Dice: Star Wars Rebellion
- New "Tropes vs. Women" video
- Rewatching X-Files
- System Shock 3 is likely going to be a mess
- Complete Not-A-Blog resource
- 

ASOIAF meta

- Victarion
- Cersei's mental illness
- Double swap
- No One in Oldtown
- Secondary characters
- Stannis' sexuality
- Shireen burning
- Euron and the apocalypse
- The Prince That Rides
- Victarion, Aerion, Euron and sexual violence
- Disasters
- Cressen's responsibility
- Stannis sacrificing Shireen
- Highgarden's endgame
- Dany's crusade
- Stinky Steward
- Just war
- More on Euron
- Daemon
- Even more Euron
- Tywin as culprit
- Brown Ben Plumm and Tatters
- Aaaaand Euron
- Marwyn
- More about the murder of Elia and her children
- Morality and ASOIAF
- Aegon IV and Daeron II
- Daemon, bad king
- Advice for any
- Advice to Bittersteel
- Why do people survive Whitewalls?

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 113

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 113! Our guest judge this week is Kay, who is a member of the community who resides in Seattle with her escape artist black cat and ball-obsessed miniature dachshund.

A Flight of Links

- Wertzone reviews Fallout 4
-The price of Oculus Rift
- Hateful Eight and Max Max Fury Road, compared
- Impressive
- Getting out of the comfort zone 2016
- Who likes Nickelback?
- RIP Rickman 

ASOIAF meta:
- Jon Snow's arc
- The Faith's champion
- Robert's political accumen
- LF in the Vale
- Aerion Brightflame 
- Jaqen
- Bronn and Shae
- Aegon VI
- Sansa VII
- Murders prior to the Dance
- Harrenhal interim
- Lancel
- AFFC
- Edmure and Blackfish
- Big Walder
- Euron 
- The poisoner of locusts
- Bloodraven
- High Sparrow
- Shae
- More Shae
- AFFC and Feastdance

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 112

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 111! Our guest judge this week is Max, who first read the books in 2004, just before A Feast for Crows, and has been an avid reader of the series and Tower of the Hand ever since. He also works for a judge, so opinions come easy!

A Flight of Links

- Yathzee reviews Just Cause 3
- GRRM doesn't owe GOT fans anything
- Yay, space! NASA confirms mission to Europa
- Why isn't Marvel owning the games industry?
-Alyssa Rosenberg about apologizing
- A history of Martians
- Astronauts plea to Copenhagen
- This is beautiful
- Games of 2016
- Is Avatar better than we thought? No.
- Didn't know Youtube supports 360 videos. This one is cool.
- Why the British tell the best children stories
- Weird things about Uwe Boll
- Yahtzee's 5 best games 2015 
- Werthead reviews Jessica Jones season 1
- Deadwood will get a movie
- Lead Half Life writer leaves Valve
- GOT infos
- Yes I did

ASOIAF meta
- Brandon Stark
- Pycelle meta
- Why Jaime killed Aerys
- Defense of Tyrion's storyline, part 6
- Favorite quotes
- Hizdahr meta
- Should the Dorne treaty have been renegotiated?
- How Elia married Rhaegar
- Starks, assemble!
- Rickard and Lyanna
- Betrothals and deaths
- Did Aegon IV kill his dad?
- Sensitive Stannis 
- Gold, silver and currency 
- Daena and Aegon IV
- Daeron II
- Jorah 
- Qaithe
- Mollifying the Martells
- Elaena Targaryen
- Melisandre and Bloodraven
- Aegon and Maegor

Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 111

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 111! Our guest judge this week is Tim Upton, a criminal defense attorney from Dayton, Ohio. Tim was hooked on the ASOIAF world after seeing the premier episode of the HBO show. You can follow him on Twitter @uptowngbv

Podcast about the refugee crisis

If you're interested in politics, you might also be interested in the podcast I did with Marcus Roberts, who was served on the Supreme Court here twice now. We talk about the refugee crisis in general and the assaults at the Cologne train station of New Year's Eve in particular.

Marcus Roberts is Director of International Projects at the polling company YouGov. Previously he worked in progressive politics for parties and think tanks in Britain, Europe and America. He tweets as @marcusaroberts.

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The Boiled Leather Audio Hour 44

A Year of Ice and Fire with Elio M. García, Jr. and Linda Antonsson

Prepare for a guided tour of The World of Ice and Fire! The co-authors of George R.R. Martin’s ambitious sourcebook for A Song of Ice and Fire — and longtime friends of the podcast — Elio M. García, Jr. and Linda Antonsson join us to talk about the book, which hit stores in time for the holiday season one year ago. Beginning with a look back over TWoIaF’s reception over the past year, our chat ranges from a discussion of fanfiction to the influence of Lovecraft and Howard; the way using in-world maesters as narrators shaped the writing; the material left on the cutting room floor to avoid spoiling future stories—and the stuff inserted to lay the groundwork for them; and, of course, what’s up with the Deep Ones. And we close with the big question: Are there future collaborations on the history of the setting in store?

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Additional links:
Mirror.
Our first episode on the book.
Our roundtable discussion of it with Steven Attewell and Amin Javadi.
Sean’s Rolling Stone piece on the book.
Sean’s essay on the Deep Ones.
Stefan’s Tower of the Hand piece on the book.
George, Elio, and Linda’s promotional appearance in Stockholm.
Previous episodes.
Podcast RSS feed.
iTunes page.
Sean’s blog.
Stefan’s blog.

A Flight of Links

- Review for Hateful Eight
- Bran aging problem in GOT
- Christopher Nolan makes a movie about Dunkirk
- Anita Sarkeesian reviewed Star Wars
- And this review is positively brillant
- Tolkien and the new Star Wars
- There were female fighter pilots in "Return of the Jedi"! 
- German article about the ratings failure of Deutschland 83
- The case against colorblind casting
- How Ken Burns would tell Star Wars
- The radicalization of Luke Skywalker
- Why Sarella will rule in Dorne
- Shavepate meta
- Why Barristan will die
- Why Pullman is great
- Was Tyrion at the Blackwater a war-criminal?
- More Deep-Ones-meta
- Is Cersei heartbroken?
- Why would Dany hate Illyrio?
- Additional ASOIAF epilogues
- Poor Quentyn about Star Wars
- A Defense of Tyrion's storyline part 5
- Great expansion on the Southron Ambitions
- Poor Quentyn's five least favorite chapters
- Petyr's strategic thinking
- A better Dornish treaty
- Dornish numbers
- Conquest of Dorne
- Ideal number of children
- Mandon Moore acting on his own?
- Tywin melting down Ice
- Tyrion XIV
- Bad news from GRRM concerning TWOW 
- Yet another Star Wars review
- First stills from the Assassin's Creed movie
- Shavepate meta
- Arya meta
- Why the rebellion in Dorne
- Minecraft is still a thing
- The Witcher 3 best game ever
- Why are all AAA games about Dads now?
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Supreme Court of Westeros, ruling 110

Thursday is court day! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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 110! Our guest judge this week is Romain Thirion, who hails from France. He is 30 years old and a journalist, currently working for a magazine called Après-Vente Automobile and its website, www.apres-vente-auto.com. It's a professional review about automobile aftermarket, economic analysis of the business of spare parts and repair. Years ago, he wrote music reviews for a Metal website called Nightfall In Metal Earth. He's a big fan of George RR Martin's writing, loves it beyond ASOIAF and his first take on GRRM's work was Fever Dream. Then, he started reading ASOIAF in French, before definitely switching to English because the French translation is so pompous that it makes it, from AGOT to AFFC, a nightmare to read. "It's an assassination of Martin's clear and natural style, which is entirely focused on storytelling, not on petty using of a sophisticated lexicon.

A Flight of Links

- Tyrion  XIII
- Sansa VI