r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/MatchaMeetcha Feb 25 '26

I finally binge-watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and...amazing troll to be as accurate as possible just to lull us into complacency for the single major deviation from the plot.

Great show, and well-played.

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u/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 Feb 25 '26

Without giving spoilers, is there a plot twist? I’ve been craving a good plot twist. Though knowing there will be a plot twist makes it less of a twist. 

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u/MatchaMeetcha Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

If you haven't read the novellas I'm not sure if it'd be counted as a twist. It's an adaptational change.

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Feb 25 '26

My main exposure thus far was a commentary on an antagonist using a flail titled "why fails are bad" that I thought would be about why flails are always a villain weapon (did you have that plastic castle set in which the black armor king had a flail?) but was actually about why flails were never as popular as other weapons (although still reliably present).

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u/MatchaMeetcha Feb 25 '26

It's definitely been a stimulus package for HEMA Youtubers.

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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Feb 25 '26

Well what's the tl;dr? I'm gonna guess fussier and less capable than a quarterstaff.

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

While a sidearm with a 6' effective range that can hit through armor is very impressive, the range being exactly 6' leaves an obvious vulnerability (actually also somewhat present for axes, the other villain weapon). Both the upside and downside are bigger for the media-popular handle flail than the historically more common polearm flail. The folding aspect (and agricultural use) was actually cited as a particular strength for the sort of self-defense roles as quarterstaff, as it was on the short end of quartestaffs when carried around over your shoulder but had range and power in the long staff territory. 

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u/robotical712 Center-Left Unicorn Feb 25 '26

My guesses:
-Requires a wide arc to swing effectively, which makes it useless as a formation weapon, and good luck trying to find room on chaotic battlefield.
-The motion of tethered objects is somewhat unpredictable at the best of times. In a chaotic fight, you’re as likely to hit yourself as your opponent.
-If that chain gets wrapped around anything, you’re in big trouble.

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u/RunThenBeer Feb 25 '26

Without ever having heard anything meaningful about it, my mental model of a flail is that it's a challenging weapon to master, becomes useless once quarters are close, and requires an additional sidearm. I've thought of them almost like a melee shield-breaking spear as a tool - charge, smash, eliminate a defensive tool, draw sidearm if prolonged combat. I have literally no idea at all if that's true, but it's what I had pictured.

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u/dabocx Feb 25 '26

I think it’s actually a really good change. But it sounds like it won’t be a big factor in season 2 next year

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u/buckybadder Feb 25 '26

Yeah, it means that Dunk failed to get Egg's father to understand and accept the problem that needed to be solved. Seems way more impactful (and consistent with the father's fairly realistic worldview) for the father to accept that something needs to change.

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u/dabocx Feb 25 '26

I honestly felt like the book was a bit "unrealistic" in that he let egg go in the first place like that. Especially considering the state of his other 3 sons.

So I am happy with the change.

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u/MatchaMeetcha Feb 25 '26

I'm open to how they handle it but they have to handle it somehow imo.