Careercow Rudy Hartmann / Rudolph Frank Pascucci III / The Dragon Demands / @ADragonDemands - Full-time Youtube N.E.E.T. Hates 'Game of Thrones.' Banned Wiki Admin. Wants To Be Game Of Thrones #1 Fan By Attacking Anyone Else Who Likes It.

[Lee Crabb]

I'm halfway through the hour long rant against Benioff and I feel like I'm losing touch with reality. Phasing in and out of consciousness, I went from disrespecting racist's opinions to sexiest man alive impostor.

Edit: He grew up without a dad. Ding ding ding!

 

[Adamska]

Rudy: will tard on about the Sea Snake being part Summer Islander, but is not remotely concerned that Rhaenyra may have been lionized despite her own antics and attitudes fairly correctly earning her a similar spot with Maegor the Cruel.

It's up there with him tarding about Sansa, but then blithely ignoring all the other horrid rape scenes in the book or ignoring the show missing key elements before hand. Or him tarding about Benihoff, but for no reason other than daddy issues ignoring Weiss.

What a clown.

 

[AnyballLecter]

I'm halfway through the hour long rant against Benioff and I feel like I'm losing touch with reality. Phasing in and out of consciousness, I went from disrespecting racist's opinions to sexiest man alive impostor.

Instead of hiding his Benioff rant videos, he should have put them on a new channel. A kind of ASMR that if you go to sleep to it, you are guaranteed to have sleep paralysis featuring a demon that is too over the top for H.P. Lovecraft. Solid business idea.

THE DRAGON TYPES​

So many college essay length posts on various sites. Curious to see him typing, it would be funny if he was slow with those chubby fingers and puts in 2 hours each time.

THE DRAGON DELETES FUCKING EVERYTHING​

His 5 year old reddit account has had every post and comment deleted. Happened July 25th. Gotta hurt given all the typing it entailed. Anyway, moving on ...

Todays Youtube community post.
Archive.

I'd like to "poll the audience"...what "news reporting", analysis, or essays (text or video) do you anticipate we will need for House of the Dragon Season 1? Accepting as a given that it starts with the Great Council at Harrenhal and ends with the Dance over Storm's End? I've put out tentative episode breakdowns before.

His English teacher should have slapped the scare quote habit out of him while he was still young and impressionable.
He uses double quotes for so many things and when it gets mixed in with discussing other people, you don't know when it is a correct quote. It's emphasis, it's whimsy, it's whatever.

One of my big things has been "we need to rebuild the fandom infrastructure we lost when the TV show went off the rails in Season 5 and the book fandom rage-quit"....problem is, the TV-fandom was similarly hobbled when many reporters rage-quit after Season 8. Nothing's left. I've just had some sobering behind the scenes discussions with a few reporters who I am in contact with...stressing how little mainstream news sites are interested in BASIC PROMOTION, basic coverage, for House of the Dragon.

The 'House of the Dragon' trailer is kicking 'Lord of the Rings: Ring of Power' ass online. However Rudolph is not happy and wants to do free promotion for HBO.

When did he become unpaid and unwanted public relations for Home Box Office?​

He hated them for Game of Thrones, and imagined himself the last true knight who would lead a rebellion against them. He was obsessed with the phrase from the movie 'There Will Be Blood':

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE​

He literally drank a milkshake outside the HBO offices in Manhattan and filmed it. Clip of it included in this parody by "the trolls from reddit who follow me around everywhere". It really happened and he posted it online with no context. Just some suggestive milkshake content in front of a HBO sign.

Forget "investigating what went wrong on the original show" - they've GIVEN UP on doing basic, token reporting on House of the Dragon. The only ones who WILL are ones who generally have a connection with HBO's parent company, so all is not lost. Entertainment Weekly's recent spread by Nick Romano was quite extensive, THR had a whole spread, but ON THE WHOLE, "the mainstream" really isn't interested in House of the Dragon now. Even all the post San Diego Comic Con reports are saying that the House of the Dragon panel failed to "wow" anyone (maybe they should have released the full trailer AT the panel, not online a few days before!)

Man, are you hyping this show or not?

So IGNORING Game of Thrones, even if nothing had gone wrong with it...we need to "promote and cover House of the Dragon" much as the book fansites will try to do. But Westeros.org is only one resource and can only do so much on its own. I'm terrified now that we won't see the level of post-episode breakdowns and thematic essays we USED to see from the likes of Business Insider and others.

By which I mean, Season 6 had the ironborn Kingsmoot, so mainstream news sites WOULD run articles on "this is what the kingsmoot is from the books, as a concept, and a little of its history".

UP UNTIL NOW, I was busy with work covering the FILMING News and Casting News. I do think I covered that reasonably well - hardly anyone was covering that. Then of course early 2021 onward I was a wreck from a pet death, then we were analyzing the second teaser in May (which was good)...then I shifted for a month to do that "state of the industry" series...which I've wanted to do for something like TWO YEARS and is vital context for the show moving forward.

Still, we're about to shift from "covering filming leaks and casting leaks" to "what thematic essays should we make, to explain things to a general audience?" - OR, theory posts. I'm thinking in terms of when I "surveyed the TV only mainstream youtube reactions to the second teaser"...and found out that MANY of them asked basic questions like "what time period is this set in?"

So...I'm trying to look ahead to Season 1. What are "topical" essays that would come up? Such as how Season 6 was "the Kingsmoot" or Season 3 was "what is Slaver's Bay and the Unsullied?" or something. Stuff that would HELP a mainstream audience with no knowledge of the books, but not just basic biographies of "This is Rhaenyra, her father is Viserys, he's the grandson of Jaehaerys". I mean TOPICAL things like "how their inheritance system works?" or "what are the Stepstones?"

Most of you have seen the season episode by episode breakdowns I've put together: we start with the Great Council at Harrenhal, end with the Dance over Storm's End.

What are "topics" which would come up in Season 1? Which we should anticipate ahead of time? Maybe themes, maybe concepts, maybe locations or characters. Because I'm starting to dread that...forget "criticizing the old Game of Thrones"....FEW news sites are even willing to cover HotD Season 1.

In many ways it feels like Game of Thrones Season 1 all over again: it was a silly little fantasy show that most mainstream news sites ignored. It only really got traction after Season 3.

We're in a bubble here, if you're one of my subscribers, watching every spy photo report or piece of casting news or watching summary videos of "who is Rhaenyra?"....but a WIDER audience? The only thing they know about this show OR the Dance of the Dragons is...they don't even watch the trailers! All they see are the clips of the show that appear in HBO montages during Westworld! I ran into a friend the other day this week, who shared all the criticisms of the original show...but asked "What is House of the Dragon? The first I EVER heard of it was when I saw it in an HBO montage when Westworld aired this past Sunday?"

I've tried to drum up as much interest in this show as I could, but...things are DIRE. We'll have to fight to give season one of Hotd BASIC COVERAGE...we're miles away from "addressing what happened on the first show". I don't think we'll even get the luxury of that until Winds of Winter comes out, bringing this to a head.

"I've tried to drum up as much interest in this show as I could, but...things are DIRE." Yeah, nice drumming dude.
"...we're miles away from "addressing what happened on the first show"." - so what's in it for you? Benioff is running around scot-free man!

But for now: what are topics you ANTICIPATE would come up as necessary topical essays/videos? Profiles, locations, concepts, etc. If you've read the Rogue Prince and/or Fire & Blood that would greatly help because you know what I'm talking about: from the Great Council to Dance over Storm's End....what are people/places/things/issues/concepts that are going to "come up" in Season 1?

Because we have a month left, I might be able to get a head start on them, and we'll WISH we had the time then that we do now.

EDIT - Current suggestions that are looking good:

- Inheritance law in Westeros

- The Lost Targaryen Generation (Jaehaerys & Alysanne's children) - I already wanted to do this

- The Stepstones (Location Profile)

- The Triarchy (faction profile)

- Flea Bottom (Location Profile)

- House Velaryon of Driftmark (general intro)

- House Hightower of Oldtown (general intro)

- The State of the Great Houses 200 Years Ago (mostly focused on "the Starks and Lannisters aren't important at the royal court at all, the Hightowers and Velaryons dominate at this time")

DRAGON DON'T CARE ABOUT GEORGE R.R MARTIN​

HBO looked at many options for a new show after Game of Thrones ended. One of them was about Valyria (a dragon powered empire where the Targaryens came from). The Dragon Demands leaked a bunch about it and has been obsessed with it ever since. People largely ignored it, including his heroes at Westeros.org. He was gutted.

Problem: None of the people making these shows in development had read George R.R. Martin's books. He had very little influence over them, and was . Eventually GRRM wins out, HBO signs a new deal with him, and the show they picked, 'House of the Dragon,' is very closely based on one of his books. So pushing for those shows is not really helping George.

The Dragon Demands is still pushing that Valyria show this week, saying they are setting it up in 'House of the Dragon' with easter eggs:

For some reason, a couple of reddit accounts care A LOT about it too. This is very high effort post, which is NSFW because of sex acts shown on the side of pottery:
LONG Reddit post - "Some details I've noticed in the new behind-the-scenes video"

These two accounts care a lot about Roman history and the Valyria show that never will be made:
reddit.com/u//Targaryen_1243
reddit.com/u/simplymatt1995

Fans or sockpuppets?

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

The amount of raw effort and attention to detail that The Dragon has put into fucking Game of Thrones(of all things) over the years is actually rather depressing.

The same amount of solid effort, more sensibly applied, could probably have got him a LL.M degree or equivalent.

On the other hand, "The Dragon" sounds cooler than "The Honourable", so forget it.

 

[Adamska]

The amount of raw effort and attention to detail that The Dragon has put into fucking Game of Thrones(of all things) over the years is actually rather depressing.

The same amount of solid effort, more sensibly applied, could probably have got him a LL.M degree or equivalent.

On the other hand, "The Dragon" sounds cooler than "The Honourable", so forget it.

It'd be impressive if he didn't get things wrong so often in spite of said obsession. That's what makes it even funnier.

 

[AnyballLecter]

"That manipulative clown Bryan Cogman"​

Bryan (right) was a writer and E.P. on Game of Thrones.
Elio (left) is the owner of Westeros.org and actively mods it.

NY Post profile of Elio:

"These fanatics know ‘Game of Thrones’ better than its creator"​

In that time period (2020) Elio is active there but the forum is very quiet, so he is very likely to have seen all these loony posts by The Dragon Demands.

The Westeros Elio &Linda tweets about Cogman being on a podcast, a mild tweet, and The Dragon unleashes the fire.

I do not comprehend why, after everything that's happened, Elio would think of Cogman as insightful about anything, or choose to interact with him. If you stopped reading news in 2015 and never listened to the Blu-ray commentary, you might still buy the story they sold us that Cogman is this wonderful, friendly, jovial guy, and on "our side".

When you actually listen to the Blu-ray commentaries, he's just an acolyte of D&D, openly taunting critics of the TV series in the same juvenile manner. He's not a real writer, he's a crony they hired up based on loyalty. They played us for fools.

I don't mean this as bitter criticism but general bewilderment:


If I was at a convention panel and suddenly Benioff & Weiss themselves were seated next to me at it, I wouldn't ignore the elephant in the room, but immediately start asking them obvious questions about drastic changes to the show, the major controversies like the Sansa rape or TV Dorne. Narcissistic abusers thrive, THRIVE, on the "politeness" of society, that people around them are unwilling to rock the boat and call them out.

We're not going to casually pal around with these guys ever again, we know what they are, they cannot hurt us anymore.

its like a medical panel not speaking out when Elizabeth Holmes walks out onto the stage.

this is not a criticism but a sympathetic urging: stop letting Cogman play you like this with the shallow friendliness act. No, he’s not just a guy doing his job, much as all of us myself included wanted to believe that: listen to the Blu-ray commentaries in which he enthusiastically supported everything Benioff and Weiss did.

...I don't know I ....just ignore this post...I know Elio and Linda are “public” figures and thus are not as free as we are, but are under greater pressure to maintain public civility than us slobs. I wish the gloves could come off


I just want the lies to end

"I just want the lies to end"​

... his whole shtick is manufacturing controversy, over fictional rapes, stunts the producers do not oversee, 'brown women', black people etc.

Long (of course) rant by The Dragon Demands on Westeros.org includes Cogman insults.

"I'm an odd case..."

I'm an odd case...short version is that I actually WAS a books-first fan - a friend gave me the first book in 2005, when A Feast for Crows came out and I asked what the buzz was all about. So I'm from that later wave of Feast-era hype, but before the TV hype began. Sort of like the Korean War/Silent Generation …..in the United States, people usually think of the "Greatest Generation" of World War II being followed by the Baby Boomers in the Vietnam Era, these two big defining eras, forgetting that Korea was an experience unto itself for that middle generation). But I digress...

I'm an odd case because I was a Lord of the Rings book fan who on the whole really liked the movies, and thus had bad memories of all the bitter intra-fandom fights we had been Pro-Movie Book fans and Book Purists - purists whose demands were truly unreasonable for an adaptation.

So I walked into this naïve and young, assuming any criticisms of Seasons 1 or 2 were much like the unreasonably LOTR book purists I'd opposed 10 years ago. In short....I treated Benioff like the next Peter Jackson. Because their marketing department actively attempted to portray him to the public as the next Peter Jackson. How could we have known how much of the failure of the pilot was due to his incompetence? They hid that from us pretty well.

We didn't have enough "fandom infrastructure" then. Independent reporting. That manipulative clown Bryan Cogman leading reporters by the nose through their sets in Belfast to awe them with the set production, not pausing to say "by the way I'm literally a coffee boy they promoted to staff writer based on cronyism".

We need to rebuild that fandom infrastructure - a few YouTube channels have been making some strides, million-view criticisms and such - next time we need to hit the ground running.

In short: I had bad experiences with book-purists during LOTR even though I was a books-first fan then, and walked into this with those prejudices....combined, with that this IS NOT our fault, but HBO's fault, for all the nepotism, hiring someone truly as unqualified as Stephen Friedman's dilettante son who doesn't have a screenwriting degree.

Indeed, I was a vehement defender of the TV show....blindly...up until the end of Season 6, even. I complained, yes, but I was rationalizing.

You may find that surprising, given how vehemently I oppose Benioff now. That's WHY I'm so vehement: I used to actually defend him very strongly, but he played me for a fool and cuckolded us all. Now my rage horrifies even me.

TWOW will bring revenge. Justice. Fire & Blood.

I said after Season 6 that we had to smash down the whole TV hype fandom, smash it, break it, and reforge it into our own image again. No compromise, no peace in our time: this was a disaster and the guilty will be punished in the annals of history.

We'll win because we want it more.

Bit of an episode he's having here. Bet this was written after being up 36 hours.

Another rant about Cogman that climaxes in a dream of a confrontation 40 years from now.

I remember in the commentary how proud Bryan Cogman was of his take on the Broken Man speech in episode 6.7 (or around that) by Ian McShane. And you know Bryan....for a straight hour in this thing, he's pervasively giggling, jovial, and happy - EVERY god damned sentence punctuated with a chuckle, until you wonder if that's a psychological defense mechanism he's developed, or if he really is this happy-go-lucky lackey like that...

But the point is, he said how proud he was of it, and that it was "inspired" by the real Broken Man speech in the books.

And you're left wondering: why not just use the real Broken Man speech?

Obviously not the whole thing, the context had been shifted and simplified, to just "a random preacher who used to be a soldier conscript but it was horrifying and he feels guilty about it".

When I say "why not use the original Broken Man speech?" I'm asking simply "why not directly quote even one or two sentences from it, then change the rest to fit the context of the TV episode?

I worry about reading too much into what the hell was going on in these writers heads, and Cogman isn't the same person as Benioff and Weiss so it's hard to say....but did there really come a point around Season 7 where they got all possessive and self-consciously thought of it as more "their" creation, than George R.R. Martin's?

I mean it's almost understandable that, "we're going ahead of the current books, so this is dialogue I'm writing and not stuff Martin wrote"....if I was in that situation, I'd be desperate. Like...I'm not god-damned JRR Tolkien! I'd be trying to find every scrap of Tolkien's writings I can to use in a different context, before using my own original writing.


The Jaime actor remarked that D&D seemed noticeably a lot more "possessive" of the show starting in Season 7, even compared to earlier seasons. Totally beyond all book material - Season 6 wasn't really the clean break they acted like it was, as some plotlines were ahead of the books but others were not.

And on a certain level, I can see Cogman being "proud" in like...Season EIGHT, of writing dialogue he thought wouldn't be out of place in the books. If I was in his position that's what my goal would be - dialogue that would fit the books.

….even by Season 6....it seems like they were more proud of dialogue when THEY wrote it. Throwing out all of the Broken Man speech, only to then praise himself for writing dialogue "inspired by"....perfectly usable, pre-existing, finished dialogue?

It's a dream I have that one day, on the scale of forty years, Cogman is stupid enough to go to a live convention panel, a roundtable with other writers, who are actually willing to not just "vocally disagree with him" but SHOUT HIM DOWN and call out what he's saying as the stupidity that it is. (Like, I have a mental image of Cogman giving that idiotic speech he's given in 3 or 4 interviews, about how "great writing doesn't need dialogue, just actors faces with their eyes emoting"....I have this mental image of a Harlan Ellison type scifi author at the same panel not putting up with bullshit "decorum", but turning and angrily shouting down Cogman, like a writing teacher scolding a child. I can see it so clearly)

The Dragon Demands You Re-up His Meds​

2013: He had long conflicts with this user DRAEVAN13.
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It's mostly about The Dragon unleashing the fire on people for small mistakes. Big long back and forth.

They tried to vote him out, and he starts believing DRAEVAN13 was sending trolls after him, in a paranoid delusion.

"I became convinced that you were sitting around finding fault in my actions every day after the recent vandal attacks against me, after which I went nuclear. Something about someone not only using vulgarity, but derogatory sexual slurs, really set me off. I was suspicious why they came onto the wiki barely a few days after I survived that vote."

"Well I apologize, but the explanation is this: due to my panic about the massive task of working on my thesis (the culmination of three years of work)...around last September I intentionally stopped taking my prescribed anti-depressants."

"So when I was acting so irrationally and filled with rage this past fall, it was because I was medically in an unfit mental condition to edit."

He went off meds for 4 months.

Apology and Explanation​

I was behind these past few months due to my thesis, which was very frustrating work; I finally finished a few weeks ago and I've been catching up ever since on the edits and fixes made when I couldn't devote full attention to the wiki. Thankfully, just in time for the Season 4 premiere. Though there are larger ongoing tasks I didn't get to (a complete rewatch from the beginning of Season 1...)

Anyway, I feel I need to apologize to some of you on here and provide an explanation I was reluctant to reveal:

As you may remember, I was getting really irritable late last fall, Draevan13 pointed out this bad behavior, and there was a vote over whether my Admin rights should be taken away (which I survived). Then in a fog of frustration I demanded that Draevan13 be banned (which didn't happen). Also I'm really upset, in hindsight, at how acerbic I was towards QueenBuffy during the vote over my Admin rights.

Well I apologize, but the explanation is this: due to my panic about the massive task of working on my thesis (the culmination of three years of work)...around last September I intentionally stopped taking my prescribed anti-depressants.

I grew afraid that they were making me too bleary to devote my full concentration on the problems in my thesis. And arguably they were, but the price of renewed focus was mounting agitation at minor things, until I was practically going nuclear. The way anti-depressants work, for that matter, isn't just like turning on or off a light switch: it takes days or weeks for the levels to gradually increase or decrease in your body, depending on how much you take. Last September I quit cold turkey, with no attempt to wean myself off gradually (even that have eventually left me agitated)....the result being that more and more left my system as weeks and months passed, until by November-December I was ready to explode.

So when I was acting so irrationally and filled with rage this past fall, it was because I was medically in an unfit mental condition to edit. Combined with the extreme stress of a thesis deadline. That's not me. Frankly, given how much I was exploding in real life as a result, I am surprise I even maintained as much restraint as I did on here.

I've sporadically stopped taking them at past times (which probably led to some of my prior, lesser outbursts) but never for as long as four months.

The following is similar to how Dexter became a serial killer in the show:

As to why I have been taking prescribed anti-depressants for some years? Well, watching my medically diagnosed psychopath father repeatedly beating my mother to a pulp in front of me when I was a toddler did not exactly leave me with a cheery disposition.

Did the doctors recommend he blame Benioff for all that?

At any rate by Christmas Break I was with my family and I was having random grumpy outbursts about the thesis (plus being four months off anti-depressants I was kind of nuts). They realized I had obviously stopped taking them (I didn't tell them because they'd have tried to stop me and force me to take them). But they instead begged that I wasn't acting like myself and to start taking them again. Sort of a moot point because by then my thesis was mostly finished. So I started taking anti-depressants again, and while I don't have quite the same level of extreme focus anymore, at this point I was just copy-editing and tidying it up, so the heavy work was behind me anyway.

The irony...it's like Nash in A Beautiful Mind when he keeps trying to stop taking his medication because he can barely focus when he's on them. When I'm off the antidepressants my mental focus is incredible, but it leads me to becoming irrationally frustrated, angry or depressed at seemingly minor things. Brilliance and madness, both halves of the same coin, a crazed father as family legacy, living on the sufferance of others after...ever wonder why I'm such a hardcore Daenerys Targaryen fan?

Fact check: The Dragon Demands does not have a beautiful mind and his only accomplishment is meticulously document 'Game of Thrones' and cyber-stalking David Benioff.

So at this point, I've been taking anti-depressants again for three months and have no intention of ever stopping. I hope you feel that my behavior has been more "rational" these past three months and more befitting of a Wiki Administrator.

I hope you appreciate that I am deeply humiliated by revealing this private information, however, I realized that objectively, you guys would have no idea why the heck I was lashing out like that last Fall, so I think I really needed to provide you with the explanation that I was medically not fit to edit at the time because I stopped taking anti-depressants.

I look forward to working with you all in Season 4.

(Please delete this comment once you are finished reading it and respond on my talk page if you choose; I don't want it showing up in Google search).--The Dragon Demands (talk) 22:38, April 6, 2014 (UTC)

Take a look at his contributions tab in 2015 April 5/6/7 - he's doing

12-16 hours a day on the wiki.​

I don't want it showing up in Google search.

I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.

Westeros.org, Rape, Prozac, Attacking Bryan Cogman​

Six years later he is still talking about being medicated. Back on Westeros shitting the place up.

...."well they invented a Sansa rape, but maybe they'll suddenly get better again in Season 8 to at least pull off the White Walker subplot well?"

I understand though: I was in denial throughout Season 5.

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I can never express in words the overwhelming regret I have, at how many fellow fans I tore into as the show fell apart. Book fans I mean, from 2012 peaking in 2015 as it became clear Benioff and Weiss weren't doing the books but gaslighting us. Given that I couldn't yell directly at them, I yelled at everyone else, here and elsewhere.

On top of this by 2015 I was struggling to finish my master's thesis and my 18 year old cat was dying, so on the whole I acted like a complete jackass to everyone around me. While I finally swallowed my pride and started taking anti-depressants in 2011, there were prolonged periods where in desperation to finish my thesis I'd stop taking them for months at a time ( sort of like in "A Beautiful Mind", when he stops taking medication because they make him so bleary he can't work - but the medication is what kept him from going insane). At least after my sister's first child was born in 2016 I've been taking them full time and never stopped again - terrified of "falling off the wagon" again and frightening them. My productivity isn't nearly what it used to be, but on the balance I won't get through this by hitting burnout again.

I...don't think I was the only one, at least, judging from all the forum fights on saw on the episode by episode sub-threads

In the end the other ASOIAF book fans are all I had to take away from this. I don't know.

Edited December 7, 2020 by The Dragon Demands

He scares his family when he goes off meds and is not safe to be around his little nephews.

However in 2014 he was back on his meds never to go off them again, and it was late 2014 that he attacked Werthead, as described above. So he can't use meds as an excuse and he never stopped raging at people right up to Summer 2022.

Further down the page, he is depressed and still ranting about Cogman.

Bryan Cogman played us all for fools. He wasn't silently suffering through this the way Deborah Riley or Miguel Sapochnik were; watching all his behind the scenes clips, he is PROUD of their writing decisions.

So that's what leaves me depressed now, REALLY moping around: not that Cogman fails upwards, but that even now, after everything that happened....people STILL cling to the belief that he was a brilliant writer who knew what he was doing. He was a PRESENTABLE writer, with good source material!

Cogman was initially hired as the 'keeper of the lore' who double checks stuff in the books. That must make The Dragon vewwy vewwy jelly-welly!

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

The Dragon Demands deleted a bunch of videos for some reason.

https://archive.ph/wnYJk

He also lost his admin privileges after making a fool of himself after trying to disagree with a journalist and getting btfo’d. Perhaps that’s why he’s deleted a lot of videos.

https://archive.ph/FKamt

 

[AnyballLecter]

The Dragon Demands deleted a bunch of videos for some reason.

Some of them were videos that were linked by some folks on Page 2 of this thread.

He also lost his admin privileges after making a fool of himself after trying to disagree with a journalist and getting btfo’d. Perhaps that’s why he’s deleted a lot of videos.

That is described in more detail in the original post on page one of the thread (last section of the OP). Just saying to spare people the eyestrain of reading screenshots of reddit threads.

Linda Antonsson: Modern Day Prometheus​

This lady is co-owner of Westeros.org, quite spicy, and someone the Dragon Demands kisses up to. Her bluntness clashes with his pandering to political correctness, but so far he has been able to play both sides without getting caught.

From the George R.R. Martin & fans thread:

Thread needs more about Martins Fanboys and Fangirls.

Linda Antonsson of Westeros.org​

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Pretty cool people. Bet you've never been photographed on a roof looking epic and fantastic?

Her and her pet Mexican, Elio Garcia run the Westeros.org site, and they have co-authored books with GRRM. Her views fit in with Kiwi Farms on a lot of issues, but not with the Twitter crowd.

That is where the potential drama could come from - they have a book coming out in October 2022.

There was a largely ignored petition to shame her in 2012.


Article calls her disgusting:

"GEORGE R.R. MARTIN, COME GET YOUR PEOPLE"​

Linda rejects gender ideology:


She doesn't like forced diversity in the new show 'House of the Dragon.' A reddit /r/ASOIAF moderator and Linda have a brief Dance of the Dragons on Twitter.



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Prod her and you will get a spicy response:

Will drama accompany their book?​

They have a new book:
"The Rise of the Dragon is an upcoming book by George R. R. Martin, Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson describing the history of House Targaryen from Aegon Targaryen's conquest of Westeros to the civil war. "

It's like Fire & Blood but a coffee table book summary of the events rather than a novel. She says GRRM didn't write it:
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So ... will the hype about the new show and the new book (not really by GRRM) be derailed by outrage about her views?​

White Knighting Time​

She rarely replies to his tweets but he spent years liking, replying and retweeting the Westeros.org twitter account.

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Archive of defending Linda.

... Benioff & Weiss ... Those are the real enemy now.

Sicko.

He has deleted some of those tweets since that archive was saved 4 days ago, so he is CLEARLY editing his online footprint and knows it was a bad look. To be clear: just this week, he went back a year to find those tweets and delete them.

His lost cause was the Valyria prequel that got scrapped. Linda & Elio made fun of it, and he was devastated:

In response to HotD news, he still has a chip on his shoulder about it in 2021:

Archive.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Unemployed man nearing 40 makes food from a Game of Thrones cookbook in his parents kitchen:

He mogs the actors at a panel over what fictional wine they prefer:

I archived some videos since some were deleted earlier. If any of you need help with video archiving, just pm me.

How old is Arya Stark in Her Sex Scene from Game of Thrones? I am disturbed by anyone who is sexually interested in Arya Stark.

Honey Biscuits and White Bread

Honeyed Chicken

Quick Guide to Wine and Other Drinks in GoT

He's mocked relentlessly on /r/asoiafcirclejerk which exists to poke fun at the people who act like they're better than tv show watchers because they read the books.

They take a lot of screenshots but often don't archive. It seems they had a userbase crossover with iswintercoming.com before it died. It sadly was not archived as much as I would like...

I love the self-deluded nature of this guy, especially since his actions to try and brigade people more relevant than him are finally coming home to roost. The pathetic attempt to LARP also really sells to me how pathetic he truly is too; truly the actions of a doofus who is desperate to pretend he has more going for himself than he actually does.

The cherry on top is he's right to shit on Benihof and Weiss for their decision to speedrun the books and their later season ideas, but he emphasizes the dumbest elements. Tard screaming about Sansa getting raped for days on end just from recordings alone loses a lot of steam given what happens in the books to quite a few women. A better complaint would be "Good fucking job in snipping Griff and the Golden Company's arc from the books you dumbasses, have fun with struggling with what the fuck to do in later seasons".

Nice palate cleanser of a thread TBH. It's been a while since I've just enjoyed retards in a fandom.

I don't know much about him but he's quickly becoming one of my favorite cows. If I had an autistic neckbeard bingo card, I would almost have a blackout with this dude.

This is an unmodified slide from one of his 2019 videos.
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I don't think we read the same things lmao. His sex scenes are so awkward...

It'd be impressive if he didn't get things wrong so often in spite of said obsession. That's what makes it even funnier.

He knows more about GoT than I do, but watching him get embarrassed by a journalist is freaking hilarious. His attempt to state that the Jon Snow thing wasn't happening, then for it to be confirmed by GRRM himself, who then goes on to praise the same journalist, is absolutely hilarious. It's even funnier since GoT is his autistic obsession and he got blown the fuck out.

 

[AnyballLecter]

The Dragon Demands Low Point​

February 2022 he put out a channel update. It's 1:48 long, so for file size reasons here is the audio. It's just him talking to camera, no slides, just a long pity party.

- He talks slow, with little energy
- His cat is ill
- Umemployed
- Babysitting nephews
- Massive overshare
- Needs to keep channel alive because it is his only social outlet - "I'm in the comments sections on youtube all the time it's how I meet people"
- Self reflection
- At 1:08, he brings up Werthead fight from 2014.
- At 1:17 Theranos and Elisabeth Holmes comes up.
- On the power of being a wiki admin: "we're the arbiters of reality ... that when we say it it's a fact"
- Other topics include David Benioff, Sansa rape

"Channel Update - Omicron Slump, Why This Channel Exists & Long Term Goals From a Self-Described Fool"​

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Below is an automatic Youtube transcript, but it cuts out at 1:37, so it's most of it. If anyone wants something to do while listening to the audio, it would be appreciated if you could reformat it into sentences and paragraphs, fix any speech recognition errors you notice, and possibly type up the missing 10 minutes at the end. Or just reply with any quotes from highlights (lowlights really, it's that kind of video) and their timestamps.

The transcript is an attachments to to post length limits.​

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

White Knighting Time​

She rarely replies to his tweets but he spent years liking, replying and retweeting the Westeros.org twitter account.

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Archive of defending Linda.

Looks like The Dragon is trying to get his willie wet. Born to simp.

Also, big LOL at him comparing himself to John fucking Nash.

"The Nobel Prize for 2035 in the new categories of Wiki Editing and Otaku Lifestyle are both awarded to Dragon Rudi Hartmann!"

 

[AnyballLecter]

Since 2012, there were red flags, but they made him an admin anyway and let him drive off Werthead.

The Dragon Demands/Pre-Administratorship Archive

gameofthrones.fandom.com

I've blocked you for 24 hours for incivility. Please assume good faith. It is unacceptable to insult another user no matter how you feel about their edits. e.g. this edit.--Opark 77, June 1, 2012

I apologize, it was late and I was frustrated and my patience had long since worn thin on this; I should not have given LovelyChrys this tongue-lashing (which is why I then started a forum post to ask for input on the problem; but I should have deleted my original complaints). You yourself have (more officially) just posted a warning on her talk page about the exact same issues; wacky choice of quotes and a lot of image rule violations. I was angered at the recidivism of it, as a persistent problem. I should have gone straight to the Admins. I'm sorry you think I need a cooldown period but okay. I'll come to you with these complaints next time....also, and this is kind of embarrassing...I'm sorry for my harsh choice of words. You see..."you know you're watching too much Farscape" when you start using Farscape swear words. You know, "dren", "harpooda", etc. So while I shouldn't have said anything...they say "trollop" so often on Farscape that I didn't realize it was an actual word (a synonym for "strumpet" or "harlot"). I thought it was like calling someone a scruffy nerf-herder. Ack. Well I should really leave it to the Admins to deal with this. I'm sorry but it was just that as someone who takes the whole "making a guide to Game of Thrones" thing seriously, the repeated requests to write fanfic or treat images like a private tumblr blog ("my lil dwarf"?) were really starting to grate on me.

I should probably also mention this, much to my chagrin: yesterday I was at a function preparing for my sister's upcoming wedding, to pick what food and drink the caterers would serve. Part of this involved sampling their wines...I'm actually a teetotaler, but I made an exception being that it was for a wedding and all. Needless to say I am "quite unaccustomed to wine" and came home after drinking something like 8 to 10 glasses in rapid succession. I fear it "went straight to my head" and I was more than a little tipsy while adding these comments last night, for which I received this warning. I'm sorry, I rarely if ever drink.

I hope this leaves no long term damage.--The Dragon Demands, June 1, 2012 (

Forget about the wine stuff, this soy boy blacks out on Hi C.

Opark 77

gameofthrones.fandom.com

Inactivity​

I apologize for my recent inactivity. Yesterday I was in my Angevin Empire lecture, and last thing I remember is we were discussing the exchequer rolls under Henry II, when apparently I choked on my soda and lost consciousness; falling backwards, on my way down to the floor I hit my head on the wall behind me. They said I was convulsing, but eventually I came to and felt fine, indeed I thought I'd just dozed off. Anyway I got back from the hospital where they ran CT, X-Ray, and blood tests to make sure nothing was wrong. Nonetheless, should I be afraid to fall asleep or something?--The Dragon Demands (talk), October 4, 2012

"I hope the tests show a clear and treatable cause for your collapse." --Thanks, though actually I know why I passed out: I just choked on my drink and couldn't breath, plain and simple. I was just worried that "my noggin took a floggin" as I hit it on the wall behind me as I fell down, but the head scan said there was no damage, so I'm good to go.--The Dragon Demands (talk), October 10, 2012

2020 - depressed Dragon returns from long absence.​

This is pure sadness. He freaked out before the ending of Game of Thrones, and made a half assed biography of David Benioff, which was a mix of weakly supported slander, and an over-share meltdown. He was afraid the hype would leave the show triumphant.

Then when Season 8 proved controversial, he gets depressed.

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https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/User_talk:The_Dragon_Demands?oldid=430284#Reassembling_the_components_in_the_correct_sequence

Reassembling the components in the correct sequence​

"Really, it's just a question of reassembling the components in the correct sequence" -- Dr. Manhattan, after being torn apart atom by atom...then learning to reassemble himself, one atom at a time.

After the Season 8 finale I was so stunned and horrified that I'd just stare at the wiki on my computer screen, not even know where to begin handling this mess, and after a long time not write anything.

That went on for the past six months.

Now with the awful Long Night pilot canceled, and a Fire & Blood Targaryen prequel ordered to full series...it turns out that "we're not out of history just yet".

It is sick to compare being unhappy with a TV show to actual abuse:

I've made so many mistakes on here, treating other people. I liked what Lindsay Ellis said in her review of Guardians of the Galaxy 2: when you're the victim of an abusive relationship you can't get away from, like an abusive parent, you tend to fight with other people who are your fellow abuse victims, because you cannot possibly fight back against your actual abuser, i.e. Thanos was the abusive father of Gamora and Nebula, who they couldn't fight, so the two sisters just tore into each other constantly - the only person they could vent their frustrations against.

Since like....Season 4, on here, I was tearing into other wiki users all the time on here: the world as I knew it was falling apart, with Benioff and Weiss doing these preposterous things (it got really bad starting at the end of Season 4, when they cut out Tysha and Lady Stoneheart, and at that point I started freaking out). I was a fool desperately trying to regain some sense of self-control.

I only realized what was truly happening after season 6, when I saw down to watch the DVD commentaries...and realized just how much of a fraud David Friedman (Benioff) actually was, and how they duped us all.

I like to think I tried to be more mellow about things from season 7 onwards, in terms of yelling at other people, because I realized we were building a house on sand and it would never be what we'd hoped it would be, "Game of Thrones" was already a failure by season 6.

Here he seems to think his weird childhood is relevant, and brings up Werthead:

A long time has passed since then, the full realization of what happened hit, and instead of responding to it with what is best in us I ended up responding with what is worst: like when my abusive biological father was beating up my mother, and I'd pervasively get into petty arguments with my mom and siblings. Saying insults to each other that we didn't mean, but which still actively haunt me to this day. Because it was the only outlet we had!! But now we know what we really going on, how much we were lied to, how much of this was just petty nepotism putting two frauds in charge. Since 2016 not a day has gone by that I didn't inwardly grieve at stupid arguments I got into with the other admins here, particularly Werthead - we should have stood together and I ended up wronging my brothers. Real brothers. In terms of thoughts and opinions lining up. But like with my biological family, when we kept being subjected to inexplicably awful treatment by an abusive power figure we had no recourse against, I ended up turning against my own ...trying to grasp some imaginary level of control. The real target was the abusive charlatans who stole everything from us. And if I get destroyed, I want to do it standing next to my brothers (and sisters). I want to be on the side of the angels again, or at least die trying.

It is very insincere, as you can see from the Werthead episode write up here, it wasn't rage, it wasn't Mr Pascucci or David Benioff at fault - it was a power grab.

In Babylon 5 terms, I started out as Season 1 G'Kar, and I fear I'm turning into Season 5 flash-forward Londo Mollari.

I screwed up, and I do not deserve forgiveness; I hope there's some understanding at least, that we were all in a bad situation and I know that now.

But much has changed since 2016. Much and more. All the research I put in to nailing these bastards, going over their old interviews and DVD commentaries that the quislings at pro-D&D news sites didn't bother to report on (openly admitting they rewrote roles based on actor favoritism, openly admitting they invented the Sansa rape to show off the actress, and more). We now know where to direct our rage and our retribution.

Don't write so much and then lean on 1990s TV scifi to explain yourself.

We are all of us stronger than David Friedman. The A Song of Ice & Fire series is stronger than David Friedman. George R.R. Martin is stronger than David Friedman.

With what strength is left in me, I'm going to try to rebuild. One edit at a time. I want to do it with everyone else who believes in GRRM. Everything we've lost we will take back.

Really, it's just a question of reassembling the components in the correct sequence.--The Dragon Demands November 10, 2019

Why is this vendetta acceptable? The whole wiki is freakshow for not questioning that.

Nice to read some acknowledgement that your behaviour was challenging in the past.--Opark 77 April 21, 2020

i.e. too long, didn't read.

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

This man's writings read as if his entire education and experience of life are derived from trashy American pop culture intended for the lowest common denominator.

How does this sort of individual find himself studying (what seems to be) Medieval European History at university?

I'm also genuinely curious about how he knows about a mathematician like Dr. Nash, whose work was done in the 1960s(not sure myself).

Spoiler: Powerlevel

The only reason I know about John Nash is my sister talking about mathematics, which she studied. He's not exactly a well-known figure in the field despite the Nobel Prize.

Also, when you taste wine you're supposed to spit it out so as not to get drunk. I call BS on the "oh, the wine went to my head" story.

 

[AnyballLecter]

This man's writings read as if his entire education and experience of life are derived from trashy American pop culture intended for the lowest common denominator. How does this sort of individual find himself studying (what seems to be) Medieval European History at university?

School in the daytime: Obsessed with media in his free time? He may not really get humor and such and such that normies engage in, so he just blurts out movie quotes, even at inappropriate times.

I'm also genuinely curious about how he knows about a mathematician like Dr. Nash, whose work was done in the 1960s(not sure myself).

There was a movie where he was portrayed by Russell Crowe, so Nash got some popular culture awareness off that. Also a lot of reporting back then about game theory. I bet a lot of neurodivergents felt '... this is literally me, except I get no recognition for my genius.'

Like how edgelords identify as The Joker or characters from Hannibal Lecter stories such as

... THE GREAT RED DRAGON.​

It's not a Game of Thrones thing. It's an impotent power fantasy.

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

characters from Hannibal Lecter stories such as

... THE GREAT RED DRAGON.​

Shit, I quite forgot about that book Red Dragon. Duh.

Here I was thinking his name was some obscure Game of Thrones allusion which only "true fans" would get.

 

[AnyballLecter]

From the GRRM thread - Relevant to our boy, but also a little tangential.

This is a good thread to debate this, seeing we are a mix of 1) show-haters and 2) people who get the unrealistic expectations for the show and the flaws of the books and 3) people who are both.

The Dragon Demands (whose fair and balanced comprehensive biography can be read in this thread) says that the media do not want to report on the new Game Of Thrones show, House of the Dragon, due to the ending of the main show. We have seen how this guy wants to turn everything into an indictment of the show runner, David Benioff. Therefore, I suspect he is covering his bases so that if the new show fails, he can blame the dude for a flop he had no involvement in. My opinion is all that is happening is there is only so much the TV sites want to cover - until the show gets an actual audience.

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What do you think? How much coverage of this show have you seen compared with Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power or Sandman?​

https://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.p...gon-flood-gates-open/page/21/#comment-8827026
Copy & paste. Question:

I saw your post on YouTube where you said something about how you know some reporters who don’t want to cover the show. Why not?

Answer:

Oh I'll talk more about this later but it's not a spoiler or leak it's just...

I talked to one freelancer journalist I know (and then some others who said the same thing)....who said that they're having a REALLY hard time pitching articles to mainstream TV news sites about House of the Dragon. NOT even "comparisons with Game of Thrones" or "what went wrong with Game of Thrones" articles. I'm talking basic, "hey, can we do a character profile article on Rhaenyra and Alicent to introduce new viewers?"....they're getting shot down. News sites are doing the most simplistic, bare-bones reporting on "there's a show called House of the Dragon" and then copy-pasting the same description template, but - for the most part - putting no effort into it.

MOST of them expect House of the Dragon to fail, and have decided there's no interest in it....even though, objectively, there are analytics showing that say, IMDb's site traffic rankings officially listed it as the most anticipated new show of the year, OVER Lord of the Rings prequel, Sandman, or Star Wars/Marvel projects. Simply looking at GOOGLE TRENDS, a readily available tool, there are charts showing how much more it's being searched online than those other shows.

Nonetheless, MOST mainstream news sites are...still so bitter about Game of Thrones that they "rage-quit".

Which is annoying for us: They wouldn't report on how the show was going bad from Season 5 onwards, BRUSHED OFF our complaints about the Season 5 abandoning the books....then when Season 8 was rock bottom bad....they didn't turn around and go "let's analyze what went wrong". These aren't people who analyze things - if they did, they wouldn't have stayed hyped after Season 5 and ignored our warnings and complaints.

YES there are a few exceptions with news sites that have relationships with HBO like Entertainment Weekly or Hollywood Reporter but....most aren't promoting this at all.

It's an odd mirror of how no one wanted to report on Game of Thrones Season 1 in the leadup to it in 2011, because it's "just a silly fantasy show".

These conversations I had with reporters about the behind the scenes bias against House of the Dragon were....were sobering. Made me realize how much of an uphill battle this show has.

THE DRAGON DEMANDS ANSWERS​

A fan podcast will be interviewing one of the show runners - Ryan Condal - for the new show, 'House of the Dragon.' Asks people for question suggestions.

This is not somebody he is angry with, bear that in mind. Fuck, if she doesn't mute or block him, she is the Buddha incarnate.

I gave up screenshotting this shit, but anyway, so just use this twitter search query to see how much this poor bitch got tweet stormed by the twerp.

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

I gave up screenshotting this shit, but anyway, so just use this twitter search query to see how much this poor bitch got tweet stormed by the twerp.

Looks like he got asked something or got into a discussion. The last tweet in the series is this linguistic masterpiece:

 

[Tallynduke 359078]

THE MAILED FIST OF THE WIKI!
A bit of deep wiki-lore for y'all. Back in 2014 a poor aspiring wiki editor by the name of Chvyalthan stumbled upon the Game of Thrones Wiki. Innocent and naive Chvyalthan wanted nothing more than to contribute to an encyclopedia about his favourite show; I mean, that's what a wiki is, right? A group of fervent (chronically unemployed) fans, coming together to pool their knowledge? WRONG! Chvyalthan almost immediately ran afoul of everyone 's favourite Wiki-Nazi-in-Chief. The following are a few choice quotes to demonstrate just how big a demented fucknut our Dragon is.

Looks like he got asked something or got into a discussion. The last tweet in the series is this linguistic masterpiece:

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Pretty sure that's meant to be his attempt at a hilarious Simpsons reference. Quoting film and tv is his substitute for a personality.

 

[AnyballLecter]

The following are a few choice quotes to demonstrate just how big a demented fucknut our Dragon is.

Your quotes about that are missing from your post.

 

[AnyballLecter]

Who will answer the call?​

https://twitter.com/BlackDreaD9/status/1555181097209810946