My ass. Kamala Harris has been dead weight for the past four years and couldn’t do shit against Trump. She shouldn’t even be in the VP slot.

I don’t think the problem is the politization or “wokeness” of Star Wars, we’ve seen politics injected into Star Wars for awhile, it’s just this constant badly written drivel that they keep shoveling out. The problem is that in lieu of having anything well-written (apart from Andor), they’re rolling out the diversity card thinking they’ll get kudos for being “progressive” OR they’re adding this in knowing it’ll cause a nontroversy and then using that to defend the poorly written crap because obviously it’s just toxic fandom that doesn’t appreciate their “vision”. Adding diversity and being inclusive in our media is fine, we should be able to see other perspectives, but trash is still trash no matter how much diversity you add to it.

I get that it’s past the Skywalker saga and they’re literally wanting “A New Beginning”, but that is the most flaccid, uninspiring title I’ve ever seen. Even “Attack of the Clones” seems a step above this.

Of all the problems with The Last Jedi, Luke becoming a “defeated” old man seemed like the least of that movies’ problems. That was the one plot point I was willing to accept. Dude had a moment of weakness and got filled with self-doubt, it happens. The rest of the movie was trash, but that part was whatever, not a huge suspension of disbelief.

Cool trick, do houses and rent next.

Wouldn’t they all be aliens?

I appreciate that she wasn’t as sexualized as Crusher (if at all), it was pretty cringey in the first season.

It’s probably mostly AI-driven now. It sees the word ‘Not’ is spelled correctly, so it’s good to go.

That’s horrifying, reminds me of a Stephen King short story about giant cockroach things that basically end human civilization, similar-ish to The Road in a way (father/son story).

I didn’t quite like the Prequels when they came out, it seemed obvious that Lucas had been given way too much freedom and not enough people were there to rein him in on his stupider ideas. He got a bit lazy and too overly reliant on CGI, but the core idea of the Prequels still seems solid. It’s a story about the fall of the Republic, of the Jedi, of Anakin Skywalker, and of the rise of a dictatorship, of the Empire, all based on a few scraps of dialogue from ANH. It definitely created a distinct era from the OT, which was a hard act to follow for anyone, and it did a far better job than Disney’s drunken reign at the helm.

Lucas just really floundered on the execution of the whole thing, too many people thought he was a genius, and there wasn’t enough people around like Harrison Ford to push back with, “You can type this shit, but you sure can’t say it!” I liked one idea somebody had had to replace Naboo with Alderaan, to actually give the audience some sort of background as to what was lost, instead of the silly fish world that drove Sheev Palpatine to become an evil Sith Lord. Anakin’s turn to the Dark Side felt tacked on (much like in Game of Thrones with Daenerys), it’s apparently hard to write good characters turning evil in a believable way.

I went in expecting it to be bad (“Who the hell cared about Andor?”), watched the first two episodes and then sort of sat on it for a few weeks because it seemed so slow at first. Then I picked it back up and it was just awesome, it feels like something from a different era. It just builds and builds and it feels like an actual “mature” Star Wars story. It’s so goddamn refreshing given the string of trash that Disney has put out, actual good writing feels so rare now.

They’re so close to finding the question to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Oh shit, didn’t realize. I’ve been using if the whole time and had been wondering if/when another update was coming.

Possibly the most generic looking thing I’ve seen for Star Wars, even looks AI-generated, but who knows, maybe it’ll be good.

Let’s Lynch the Landlord

bad cough make head think no good?

Do any of these dragons happen to exist in dungeons, prefer wearing dark leather, use manacles and other instruments of torture, and make you refer to them as “the Dungeon Master”?

I’d think it would work into “the algorithm” somehow, either Likes or Comments probably tell them about viewer engagement, which I’m sure Youtube likes to see. So maybe it helps them show up in the ‘Suggested Videos’ feed (or whatever it’s called) on the right side of the screen. Anything that gets them more views probably translates to more subscribers and/or dollars or whatever it is that people are doing on youtube.

Can’t wait til they prove that stepping on cracks does indeed break your momma’s back through quantum entanglement.

I think we’ll have an environmental “9/11” moment fairly soon where a major American city gets flooded and the waters don’t recede and large parts of the city will need to migrate elsewhere. There will be a lot of handwringing, and news channels going, “How could this have happened?”, and stuff like that. Similar to Katrina I think, but it’ll affect more white people this time, so that’ll make it worse.

As for terrorist attacks, yeah that shit will keep happening, maybe not at the scale of planes crashing into stuff, but there will probably be significant, mass-casualty events I should think.