Game of Thrones Abridged #87: Jon II, ACOK

[@Lossandthepanda]

10 minutes of reading, 45 minutes of random mythology. Yep, its Schwifty

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Norse myths are definitely a lot of fun, the rope binding fenris was the footsteps of a cat, roots of a mountain, it's rad Only Tyr was brave enough to sacrifice his hand, Odin and Thor said hell no The best though is the jotun Utgård Loki, they have Thor and Loki compete in wrestling, eating contest, running, drinking, and they lose terribly in each one until later it turns out each challenge was weighted against them and they actually did insanely well, like lifting Jormugandr, wrestling old age, and drinking from the sea causing the tides

[@KaladinVegapunk]

There's a lot of other parallels, Jaime as Tyr, bloodraven as Odin, King Bob as Thor, freyr and Freya, rhaegar as Baldur, the beloved beautiful god of light struck down in his prime, theres parallels with a lot of the characters

[@iozefinanagy5922]

Schwift light-heartedly comparing mold/ ecoli to religion without a hint of malice 💀 What a madlad

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Bet Schwift had his fucking mind blown when he finally discovered that corvids (ravens, crows, etc) can actually talk.

[@btarczy5067]

Well, they can talk alright but I haven‘t heard about any insightful commentary or prophetic allusions from the corvid community... Yet.

[@ferrousallotrope]

Never stop doing these. I want it to go all the way to dance . And then to the new books when they come out (hopefully).

[@bryanwladkowski1236]

The loose interpretation of Fenris and Tyr was awesome

[@Kriegerdammerung]

The tangent about Tyr's hand was supreme

[@jonathana6298]

I miss ACOK-abridged. :(

[@Feminismisfornobody]

"One of the magical things is that ravens can talk" Um, my dude. Ravens can talk irl Unless you mean the magical thing is that in this world the things they say mean something.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Ravens always mean what they say, it’s just that everything they say means “gib food” if they approach you in public.

[@Shadowplay4Cats]

I was just thinking that. Glad someone said it

[@Spartacus114]

what did you think he meant, geez you are pedantic

[@theanarchistcook]

You want your pommel to be heavy as a counterweight to the long blade.

[@gothicusmaximus5697]

I believe the book notes that the pommel is heavy to compensate for the lightness of the steel, or something

[@camdude2000]

Thanks I always look forward to these

[@omarhasan2254]

Schwifty tangents have gotten so frequent that now I'm just listening at 1.5x speed

[@Shadowplay4Cats]

Me too. So happy someone suggested it. ACOKabridged would be unbearable without it.

[@Cookiielaad]

My god it’s alive

[@prof.cecilycogsworth3204]

So glad to see another video of this series!

[@TheMercyfulEmperor]

Palpatine's name was only added because of Disney. In the novel Darth Plagueis a big point was made about Palpatine "rejecting the name he was given, rather than the dynasty he was born into"

[@jamesporrell5687]

No no Schwifty, it’s not ‘castle privilege,’ it’s ‘knight privilege!’

[@infamousgamer767]

"this one's a short one" Hour long stream. Classic.

[@dawsonlievsay2965]

you have a really great memory, i respect that.

[@nicholemason6137]

The bit at the end about beating George and Winds of Winter didn’t age so well as I’m listening to this 5 years later and still no Winds 😅

[@majestichotdog1195]

please get some more of these out, we'll pay for the liquer

[@stephaniec9539]

i love these hehe something new to binge..

[@SnailHatan]

Lmao “8 feet across” “ridiculously large”

[@deffientllynotjalenbutler1736]

Fantasy has always been fond of the ancient and the lost

[@harpal-kalsi]

Fookin better be back b4 Xmas mayte

[@nikolay4101-s7r]

rip

[@bonbonvegabon]

You should look up the Chandelier tree in B.C, Canada that you can drive a car through. So many big trees on the west coast of Canada. I have a panoramic pic I had a stranger take of myself and 2 of my friends when we visited these trees in BC. We are standing by this monstrous tree and it took 3 pics in order to capture the entire tree, and the tree of us look like ants at the base of tree, thats how big it was, and we figured we would need another 15 people to join us in order to link hands around that huge tree. BC is filled with old growth trees that are thousands of years old and the evil timber companies are cutting them all down. The mid evil kings started cutting down white pines here in Canada in the 1600s to make ship masts for wartime since the uK cut down all their old forests in the stone ages. Canadians were told to leave the white pines for the Queen.

[@freyjan8069]

I love the exposition on Norse mythology, but who is this Jon guy mentioned in between? 🤔

[@ObiJohnKenobi67]

The later books actually comment that Sam has been losing weight

[@boostkopf2787]

Terry Pratchett tangent, I like it

[@mishi6693]

Alt Sith X

[@evancarlson5805]

Is Dolorous Edd the funniest character in the books?

[@QueenDaenerysTargaryen]

Dracarys 🔥🔥🐉🐲🐉🔥🔥

[@philippstromer8859]

Alt Sith X! :D

[@ikongodz5627]

Hivemind mentioned rahhh

[@TheRealLachlan]

2nd last comment. Phew made it

[@deffientllynotjalenbutler1736]

Says it’s gonna be a small episode is 50 minutes long my man

[@margaritaquiroga8712]

I have a question... why does this chapter have so many ads?

[@janmarkus4340]

#castleprivilege

[@samuelwatkins5145]

I really think this was schwift just giving it his best fuck off to the tangent haters, myself included. This was a terrible episode :(

[@maunokoivisto2808]

We dont live in a world where old isnt important. We live in a world where many believe that the old isnt important. The old is still as important as ever. Just because you are hooked on cocaine, porn, social media or some new ideology doesnt mean the wisdom of the old isnt valuable. It only means you are weak and the same weakness has always been in people. People have learned how to combat that weakness and they have passed the knowledge along. You just have to find it.

[@peterjoyfilms]

OK boomer

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@peterjoyfilms The OP goes on a tangent about old world wisdom and modern decadence. The divine herald of the ancient Greek pantheon descends from Mount Olympus with a message reading simply “OK boomer.” Feels good.