Game of Thrones Abridged #57: Tyrion VII, AGOT

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[@Svalbaz]

Coming from a post-GoT world... when Alt says ‘subverting expectations’ hits differently

[@jovial.milieu]

Hahha *I knoooow* and when he talks about Jamie's blond hair getting darker through out the seasons I'm like... Oh dear summer child, wait till you see Tyrion's hair in season 8....

[@tenderistheday]

The episode with Bronn's "you wouldn't know him" joke was written by GRRM, so he was the witty one all along :) Anyway, great Schwifting, as always.

[@RiciB13]

I loved that scene, everytime rewatching the series I have a large smile on my face :D

[@Ghostwalker2061]

"You wrote 'G'day,' and you threw it at your best mate." LOL!

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

The most Australian sentence I’ve ever experienced. Just missing a gratuitous “cunt” worked in there somewhere.

[@JordanStar7]

Flement Brax is swelling with pride right now 🦄🦄

[@miketrujillo3677]

Flement on my Brax til i swell with pride

[@Kriegerdammerung]

Shenanigans, antics, high jinks, skulduggery, mischief, capers, tom foolery... I loved it!

[@maryf.sikorski8802]

Love how you grind the younger generations . I was there . Gives me smiles w the references references 😅

[@Mimi-57]

I enjoy your tangents, it's nice to listen to the story with what I believe is a great deal of humor and an excellent knowledge of language. I don't know you personally but I am impressed with what I believe is a great deal of intelligence and a witty imagination, reminds me somewhat of Tyrion. Fan of Alt Schwift X and Alt Shift X.

[@rikkeholmberg]

Mimi GoTFan I agree. Intelligence wrapped in humor is what makes this channel great. And the voice of course. I would listen to him read from the phonebook.

[@avengercannon]

Going for less tangents but it feels like all tangents lol

[@deffientllynotjalenbutler1736]

Tyrion he literally just introducing his friends to his dad and it’s so fucking cool

[@catathielemann3239]

My dearest Alt, I'm almost sleep deprived, and I blame you. I also blame the lovely #schwiftysquwad, and my addiction to everything Alt related. Have nice day, girls and guys :)

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

The depiction of quasi-democratic systems in ASOIAF is usually pretty faithful to how that stuff developed in its earliest stages. Cossack bands, Romanian and Italian communes - all democracy started out as direct-democracy. Oligarchy and representation come later, usually with some struggle - but direct-democracy has an expansive presence in places in between kingdoms and out of the way locales, it was often a matter of sheer practicality. What worked and was easiest to implement and run stably for a small and/or self-contained community. From this democratic ideology would eventually form as a rhetorical method of defending the organizational system from encroachment - but at its basest nature democracy is pragmatic. The ideologies which enshrine and endeavor to define the concept of democracy are the true artifice, but democracy itself is a natural outgrowth of human social development. It is from this base form of democracy that the legitimacy required to develop oligarchs and eventually monarchs begins to accrue, a long process usually spurred on by the growth of the polity, which creates the impression that a firmer hand is required to administrate and oversee this burgeoning polity. More growth, the more centralized control seems like the path of least resistance, and the cycle repeats until any democratic roots are either relegated to an historical curiosity or more-likely forgotten entirely, considered an organizational necessity and little more unless the concept becomes idealized and integrated as a facet of the culture (Athens being the preeminent example, and even then they found ways to reconcile their attachment to the concept of democracy with centralization of power within the hands of a privileged section of the populace). My point is that it doesn’t take long for even the Mountain Clansmen of the Vale to get tired of clubbing each other to death when they can pool their efforts and resources and relegate disagreement, power sharing, and labor division to a set time and place where the headache of disagreement is preferable to the headache of blunt-force trauma. Hobbes had a lot to say on the inherent violence of the State of Nature, but I’ve always considered it a failure of his not to realize that the true “State of Nature” doesn’t last long once a minimum of two human beings meet for the first time and start making small-talk. Civilization is all downhill from there.

[@ultimatefattie9022]

I love your train of "thought"

[@samanthalexx]

Thanks Alt Shwift X giving bomb ass content to binge while being sick for the last week. Couldn't look at any screens because of the terrible skull pain. Lol. So this was great entertainment! Happy to part of the #SchwiftySquad!

[@Spartacus114]

17:00 Schwifty thinking he’s a genius for inventing the concept of glue

[@btarczy5067]

We have to be clear about the difference between dwarfnapping and dwarf napping. May sound the same, may look almost the same written out but they are still very different.

[@ViciousOS]

Seven hells, if you sedate the dwarf to dwarfnap him, both terms even look similar as they happen!

[@thenickseditious]

why not do one or two live streams a week and one or two pre recorded shwifty vintage

[@KlaraL-_-]

Oh, another great episode! Thanks for reading the chapter :) I didn´t know about the deleted scene where Tywin fishes...

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

Man I've been waiting since the Prologue for you to make a Bojack Horseman reference hahaha

[@ritapramos]

Im a fan of the Goat Tangent!

[@Tracks777]

Brilliant work! Keep it up!

[@jeremyfisher42]

Oh the days when game of thrones had only 6 seasons

[@user-vb4fs6wb4s]

Great episode!

[@enigmas00]

17:40 congratulations folks we have just invented something that is sticky.

[@ihavenomouthandimusttype9729]

1:00:37 On the contrary, hunting was a mark of the nobility. The hunting of a stag was especially noble. However, the actually preparation and cooking of the animal would be done by a servant. Nevertheless, it would not be unheard of for a noble to skin and disembowel his own kill: for Tywin it represents his masculinity, authority and pragmatism that he would enjoy preparing his own kills.

[@PabbyPabbles]

I'm reading World of Ice and Fire and it kinda blew my mind that the Mountain Clans are actually (actual real spoiler below) descendants of the First Men just like the people of the North, had castles and stuff in the Vale, but were at ground zero of the coming of the Andals a few thousand years ago

[@skullshapedbox]

Ugh oh man, your live streams are so frequent now!! i can't keep up 😳 #imisstheschwiftysquad I will be there for the next one. And i guess i have to figure out what Discord is!

[@rikkeholmberg]

Thank you for another great episode, Alt. Vintage Schwift. Just the way we love you. (Freaking out a bit realizing that my comment got acknowledged, but trying to play it cool 😎) #goattangent.

[@michal22011]

Again Mr Shwift came up with this fictional anegdot with him being born in 30's and write in stone plate:) love it

[@AnorhiDemarche]

I dunno if the camping tip bit was in reference to my comment but regardless I feel really listened to and I appreciate it. It's nice.

[@Austrocylindropuntia]

Bring on the Schwift Hikers Guide to the Galaxy!

[@MrTauren1996]

Mr. Altman, I'm glad you've decided against the lord of the rings, it's a wonderful piece of literature but not alt-schwift friendly. I'm glad you're considering American Gods! I'm more excited about American Gods than The Dark Tower, but no matter what you choose to recommend next I know I"ll buy it'll be the next book I buy on Audible. (I hope you get sponsored by them because people like you are the only reason I buy books on audible! thank you for bringing the human element to great literature)

[@faisalkamal4319]

Starks they're pov characters - Tyrion he drinks and he knows things

[@Boyzby]

I've only seen the first 4 seasons and listened to all your videos and the abridged series to now, so I may be incorrect in my assumption, but it makes sense to me for Tywin to butcher animals himself. He gets his hands dirty and loves having control. Dressing a stag or gutting a fish to eat is both of those things and is practical.

[@waynehickey9830]

I hope you haven't watched past season 4. Best to leave it unfinished and continue the books rather than be disappointed with the decline in production quality from season 5 onwards.

[@Arensi]

I MISSED IT DAD WTFF???

[@ajae...]

Sometimes you tell stories like my mother, who I have to consistently remind that things like the perfume the driver was wearing at the time a pickpocket was arrested on the bus is not an important element of the story.

[@jaymeshh]

lol i was born in dunedin thanks for the shout out mate ;)

[@Mofi357]

Sounds like a pair of underwear

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

While I do understand LOTR is very long, I was oddly under the impression ASOIAF is much, much, much longer.

[@praiha]

It used to be long, but due to inflation it is now considered very short for a fantasy series

[@miketrujillo3677]

I'm pretty sure asoiaf is bigger than lotr and the bible

[@chukadoo1871]

"...reservoirs of resentment." golly goddamn

[@waynehickey9830]

Alt I forgot that horrible theory about humour until today, I am deeply unhappy to have been reminded of that humour killing theory

[@XenosSavior]

Sounds like when you were a boy in the 30s you crushed packs of Marlboro Red, just like Batman haha.

[@FinestSeven]

1:18:41 .. N'wah? Lannisters are dark elves confirmed?

[@betteryou7hanme]

You fetcher.

[@avernvrey7422]

Yeah, Caesar had epilepsy, and history certainly doesn't remember him as a good military commander...

[@Shamman_komanch]

I felt like dark tower was a mess. Maybe I didn't understand it. It was year's since I read it.

[@faisalkamal4319]

Dragon fire dosen't melt towers - Alex jones

[@domlittler8656]

I'm all for more books, personally I love American gods and I think It would make good schwift. Now while I love Hitchhikers guide I don't think it would make for quite as good schwift as it's already a comedy and the tangents might not work with and comic timing of the writing and all that.

[@NostalgiaChubby]

poll says no Dark Tower...I'm doin' this then...if that's okay with you schwiftmaster

[@Mofi357]

Bill Hicks Confirmed

[@myr7455]

lord of the tangents

[@MrCuddz]

Did you just call Kevan "Yellow-Bellied" Lanister an N'wah?

[@whatsit101]

hilarious goat physics

[@justincoutts8748]

theres a guy in vegas that looks like ..... (shit) zach galyfinakis(?) and he made 240k a year posing for photos and going to parties. he just "retired" because he was being coerced into using a life threatening amount of drugs VALET

[@den-uo3yz]

schwift u sound so different in the old days

[@faisalkamal4319]

Justice for Kevin lannister

[@simondalefjeldstad888]

As much as i like talking about alex jones i sooo fell off what we are talking about at this point xD

[@kasperbmathiassen]

Valet!

[@hayleya.439]

My brother's name is Kjell (pronounced Chell) and his daughter's name is Kjella (Chella) 😅

[@Menno_3]

Gekko tape!

[@adipsous]

Resentment Sleet.

[@colmbarrett3333]

Well, I've read the Dark Tower, so I'd rather that... it would be significantly less soporific than Lord of the Rings anyway...

[@RandomAnimeFighter]

Yeeeeehaw

[@thenickseditious]

OMG AMERICAN GODZ PLZ

[@joydoe7938]

'Let's not talk about politics' - *LIKE*

[@GeekFurious]

If there's no blatantly racist chat with the n-word splattered throughout, then what is the point of even watching this video?

[@EvelynDayless]

Why give us the option of voting for LotRs if you never had intention of doing it :| We should have a runoff election between the ones you'd actually do lest we end up with the Trump of abridging options.