ReducedToRubble

TLDR; Sometimes you get ancient ships and don't want them. Ships decommissioned when in orbit around a spaceport should leave behind scrap that can be researched for tech boosts as if they were destroyed.

Long version

When I found the anomaly that gives you a few ships from an ancient civilization, I was immediately reminded of Distant Worlds. But Stellaris' take on this mechanic feels woefully under-designed compared to DW.

DW's ancient ships are larger class and higher tech making them objectively better than starter corvettes. In Stellaris larger ships are broken, the event can give you corvettes, they may be poorly designed, obsolete, or just not fit into your naval strategy.

GRRM chose an interesting way to describe abolition. What amazes me is that he published this back in 1982, and kept that nugget until ASOS was released in 2000.

Side note: I've been wondering about ASOIAF characters and their relationship to the Byronic Hero for a while, so it's amazing to see how heavily he invokes Byron in Fevre Dream. It makes me want to tinfoil.

A lot of people have been focused on other parts of this episode, but I wanted to draw attention to some very well-done subtleties in the Hound's section. In my opinion it was the best written, both on the surface and upon deeper examination.

The Mountain

In this episode, the Mountain is as good as dead. Qyburn says that he can bring him back but he will be changed. Cersei asks if this means he will be weaker, and Qyburn seems to imply that it will be the opposite when he says that the Mountain will not be at all weaker.

This is setting him up as Robert Strong. He'll be transformed by his death into something new at the hands of Qyburn's necromancy.

The Hound

In this episode the

What Coldhands is not.

There was a post a few days ago which argued against Benjen being Coldhands, because Benjen's eyes are light grey and Coldhands' eyes are dark. This stirred debate on the nature of Coldhands' resurrection and whether his eyes could have turned black.

Whatever your thoughts on Coldhands' identity, we know one thing is absolutely true from this: He is not a wight, because he does not have their blue eyes. While his free will would strongly suggest that he's not a Wight, this is physical evidence that he is something entirely different.

What do we know about Coldhands?

We know that he died long ago, and that he refers to Sam as a brother. He kills several of

People generally expect Arya to assassinate someone as part of her arc. She's a fan favorite, and her savagery has been cheered on because she's usually killing people who really deserve it. However, Arya's chapters with the Faceless redefine what it means to 'deserve' death, and she's shown a willingness to kill people simply because the House of Black and White says that they deserve the gift.

Martin, being Martin, will probably use this to play with our conceptions of right, wrong, good, evil, and break down standard fantasy tropes. He often likes to build up a hero just to tear them down with reality, and I think that Arya is going to be the case against the "assassins are badass and

I've been asked to make tuna noodle casserole tonight, but the problem is that I hate canned tuna. It's a terrible protein and really adds nothing to the dish in terms of flavor. Even updated "modern" recipes still use dry, flavorless tuna.

Any ideas? I'd like to retain the flaky texture of tuna so I was thinking that I could dice cod and let that bake in the casserole. However, that doesn't add a lot of flavor either. If there are any alternatives to them I would love to hear them.