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That’s how I do YT. The good creators usually have a consistent release schedule. The really top tier ones may only release every few months, but by only browsing subs I’m sure to catch them.

I’m seeing a lot of judgement on pretending Santa exists vs being 100% truthful with your kids. I don’t think either way is a bad way, but don’t judge others if they choose to pretend Santa is real.

With that being said, I do agree that if you are going to go with the Santa story, when the kid asks if they are real you should be truthful.

I just went through this with my 9 year old. She just came up one day and asked me if Santa was real and I told her no. There were a lot of follow up questions and it made her realize the tooth fairy, Easter Bunny, etc were the same situation. She asked me why we pretended Santa was real and I explained for us it was nice to see the magic that they felt from a stranger being kind just for kindness sake.

For me personally, I think it’s a good lesson for kids to begin logically questioning their world and what they’ve been told.

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I legitimately don’t 😂

I enjoyed Ahsoka mainly because it built on the more fringe themes from Clone Wars and Rebels (the witches) and continued the Rebels character’s stories. I agree though that the choreography was pretty stilted. Maybe it’s a side effect of filming in the infinity stages they’ve been doing most of these shows in… lower budget, or maybe less room for standard camera angles, who knows.

I had to Google Ad Astra, that’s how little it had an impact on me, lol. I remember seeing it in theaters, and the moon cowboy chase, but that’s about it.

Tendi has a main account that’s all emojis and an alt where she’s a masterful troll and manages to end all online arguments with the other side crying in shame.

I tried to listen to the audiobooks after watching the show. You’re definitely right, the show knocked it out of the park.

I like that they ended it, but hope we get to see the story pick back up somewhere in the future. So many plot lines to continue exploring.

I’m like that a lot too with anything in space, but Star Wars clicked for me when someone reminded me it was fantasy in space, not science fiction. Ahsoka really leaned hard into the fantasy and keeping that in mind helped me with suspension of disbelief.

In other words, Star Wars technology is so different and advanced, we might as well consider it magic and not question when it goes against our normal understanding of physics.

My favorite recurring joke on Lower Decks is the Tamarian crewmember’s response to random situations

I wonder if they’re repackaged due to not meeting certain quality control thresholds, but still technically useable

Some games need huge QoL updates. I’d like to see a balance of backwards compatibility along with the ability to toggle QoL settings. Give the player a choice to play OG or with modern QoL mechanics

I remember wanting to play one of the Ultima games so badly on an old Win95 PC, but the game wasn’t fully compatible and would play at like 5x speed. I see so many people reminiscing about how great the games were back in the day and it makes me a little sad I couldn’t figure out the issue at the time.

I’d be all for a remake just so I could experience the stories.

Adam Savage has a very similar story meeting Robin Williams on the set of Bicentennial Man and getting a essentially a private show from him for a few minutes. Robin Williams was an amazing human being, flaws and all.

Have you been watching Ahsoka? I personally feel they are at least trying to take the story in the direction you’re talking about. Sabine has next to no force powers, but is taken on as an apprentice by a former Jedi, there’s another former Jedi who is framed as a sith but still holds attachments to his former life (didn’t go full Darth Vader).

THANKS DODGE!

If you haven’t, take some time to read 1984. It’s a fairly easy read and this thread will make a lot more sense. Also, there’s a reason it’s a timeless classic and referred to so often - Orwell hit on a lot of prevalent themes authoritarians like to use. Once you know how to identify them, it’s easy to see when someone is using something like double speak (consciously or subconsciously)

Pretty good. It has about 5 power levels for different scenarios (carpet, upholstery, curtains, etc) with the lower levels being super quiet. Even at the highest power level, I wouldn’t worry about bothering anyone by vacuuming another room.

I bought a Miele a few years ago and don’t regret it. Best vacuum I’ve ever owned. It is bagged, but in my opinion that’s better than bagless. I owned a few bagless vacuums over the years and they all have the same problem of excessive dust generation when emptying. You don’t have that problem with bags.

Solving the problem once and for all!

Musical episodes always take me out of the immersion of the show because I’m always trying to figure out who’s actually a good singer and who was severely auto tuned to compensate.

I will say that overall I enjoyed the episode. The Klingons had me rolling, and I really liked the psuedo-science explanation for why everyone one was singing.