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spikethedevil posted...

Yeah this, WTF versions of Gen 1 did you have? @Tyranthraxus

The ones with the badge boost glitch, missingno, broken ghost types, and a level 7 mew on nugget bridge.

Considering Gen 1 is held together with chewing gum and a dream, the anime bullshit may as well be a tutorial

I still contend the Xbox has the absolutely worst naming "scheme" of all time.

The fact that the Xbox One, Xbox One Series S, Xbox One Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X all exist and are different platforms across different gens is ridiculous, and whoever came up with these names needs to be fired.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Hey now, Wheel of Time was badass.

The books were, sure.

I dont know what the show was based on, but it definitely wasn't the books.

Better or worse than the Wheel of Time dumpster fire?

LightningAce11 posted...

I dont get why this is become her main thing. Not Harry Potter, not fantastic beasts, just hating on and attacking trans people.

Shes a rich influential woman and this is what she chooses to do?

Not just transpeople. Specifically transwomen.

She believes super strongly in this sort of sacred, spiritual quality of femininity that women intrinsically possess. Looking back on her work, she basically always has. And she sees transwomen as essentially just men intruding and co-opting of this intrinsic quality. It's not just "men wearing dresses." It's men stealing and violating what it "means" to be a woman.

It's really disgusting, what she believes.

You know, I recall, some years ago, that she was really, REALLY opposed to fanfiction. On a fundamental level. It was one of her main motivators to create Pottermore, so she could dump more of her "notes" and things, to "correct the record" and take control back from fanfic writers.

... given that a solid 60-70% of the fanfic scene in general comes from people writing LGBTQ+ romance content, suddenly it all makes sense.

After what Amazon did to Wheel of Time, I have no faith whatsoever in Rings of Power.

Dreepapult posted...

The Bible also has small font size and double columns of text per page

Still a long book. But not nearly as long as the Bible

This. Word count would be a better metric. Doesn't look like ones's available for ink black heart, but the king James Bible is almost 800,000 words

Zikten posted...

as someone who actually watched the original dub, in the late 90s, it confuses me to hear a 2019 (I think thats when season 1 is set) teenager mention Sailor Moon. As if they would even remember it. That definitely was a line written by a person my age, and then told a kid to read it

I wouldn't necessarily go that far. Anime/manga is more globally popular now than it's ever been. The Magical Girl genre is still one of the more popular ones among children. And Sailor Moon is basically the Magical Girl Bible.

Hell, Sailor Moon manga gets reprinted pretty often, and tends to be front and center in plenty of bookstores'anga sections. It still shows up on a fair amount of promotional material. Hell, it's easier to find Sailor Moon manga on the shelves than it is to find most of Dragonball (outside of super, since it's still in circulation).

Delta_Force posted...

So either the good guys suck with cracking down on slavery or they were OK with it.

I love ragging on TLJ, but this I'll go to bat for.

Regime changes after s Civil war are a hell of a thing, even for small countries. It takes a hell of a lot of political and military weight to bring everything together. And the Empire/Republic was huge. Coruscant's population alone is in the trillions (no joke), and there are millions of inhabited planets.

The New Republic didn't have the empire's infrastructure. They didn't have the military might. They didn't have the numbers. And even if they did, again, MILLIONS of planets to bring to heel. This while trying to maintain that they are not a military dictatorship like the Empire was.

Even if child slavery was the tip top of their priority list, and they had specialized task forces dedicated to squashing it out, it's unrealistic to expect them to have it totally crushed. It's a hell of a big thing they're dealing with. It's easy to forget the sheer scale of the Star Wars universe sometimes, with how much story takes place on like 5 planets.

The real question is, in episode 7, why is it some small, scrappy resistance fighting the First Order and not the Grand Army of the New Republic.

Yeah, seems you're pretty justified, there. Entertainment choices notwithstanding, sounds like they've got some behavioral issues you're right to want to monitor.

That said... not to criticize your mom, but giving a 3 year old a hundred dollar bill to run around with is a bad idea. Like... no 3 year old has anynconcept of what to do with it, or how. If anything, should have gone to you, with whatever stipulation that it go to something fun he wants. Let him hold onto the money when he's old enough for it to mean something.

DeadBankerDream posted...

I don't think the Holdo plot was handled very well, but I don't understand championing Poe just running around and doing as he pleases because he doesn't understand the machinations of his superiors. Considering the very start of the film had him almost destroy the entire rebellion by sending them on a suicide mission, against direct orders, to gain one insignificant victory because he didn't have the brain functioning to let a tasty looking morsel pass him by.

If anything that just confuses the message even more.

Poe is demoted because he ignored the best interests of the Resistance, pulled rank on the bombing fleet, ordered them into a suicide mission, which they blindly obeyed, and pointlessly sacrificed the entire bombing fleet.

Holdo meanwhile, steps up, orders the entire crew into a suicide mission, wantonly pulls rank, demands they blindly obey, appears to ignore the best interests of the remaining Resistance, and (ad best Poe can see) pointlessly sacrifices two out of three Resistance flagships.

Outside of not blindly following orders, it almost reads like the opening fight was a lesson well learned.

AceMos posted...

lets look at things from HER perspective

a soldier with a known history of disobeying order some one who just that day got chewed out by the suprem commander

(also wasnt he thrown int he brig i forget)

a soldier who was DEMOTED that very day for his dis obeying orders

wants you to give him information when the only plan is so specific it has no margin of error

would you tellt his soldier who for as she knows HE could be a spy (and dont try to counter this with our out of universe knowledge of the guy)

or he could fuck up the plan by grabbing a star ship and charging off for another shot at being the big hero like he so desperately wants to be

even telling him you have a plan could mess up this nigh impossible to work plan she has

If it was just Poe, it would be one thing.

It's not. The ENTIRE ship gets behind Poe. Her own bridge crew, who have been in the same room with her while she was organizing everything, gets behind Poe. Her ENTIRE crew thought they were all about to die, pointlessly, without even trying to save themselves.

Even divorced from Poe, she was a bad leader. You're commanding people in a hopeless situation; if nothing else, you need them to fucking trust you.

AceMos posted...

the entire rebels tv series

rebel leaders are given only need to know information

hell hera did not even tell her own crew things

And every single time, they do the "omg, how can we trust you if you don't trust us" arc. Every single time. And the secret keeper ends up apologizing.

AceMos posted...

yes but you are taking things out of context

anakin did not follow orders and sure he was the big hero

but plenty of times he got good soldiers killed by doing this

your over simplifying a complicated thing

what if luke decided to ignore orders on the death star run and chase after vader

would that be a good thing?

I'm not saying that every order should be ignored, or that authority figures should inherrently be distrusted. Blind distrust is no different than blind trust.

The series always about not blindly rushing at things. Anakin gets plenty of blowback when he gets people killed. Ahsoka has an entire arc dedicated to ignoring orders just to puff her own ego. It's not about obedience or disobedience. It's about being smart AND wise. Good orders always have a good reason to be followed.

Holdo gets blowback because she gives characters nothing to consider. Every scrap of evidence shows that they're all going to die, and when they do, the resistance dies with them. In the face of literally dying in vain, she doesn't inspire them, doesn't give them anything to rally behind, gives them no hope, gives them no reason to trust her, and tells them all to fuck off. It's poor leadership. It's not like Poe was alone; like 3 people on the whole ship stood with her. Yhe ENTIRE rest of the ship helped with Poe's mutiny. The bridge crew in the same room with her for the whole movie turned on her. Any way you slice it, she did a piss poor job getting her crew to trust her, or believe she had their best interests at heart.

AceMos posted...

id like to remind ppl that even in the OT the rebellion had plans and did not tell every one things

in fact the rebellion keeping secrets even from each other was how they operated

Name once.

Because the only one that comes to mind for me was Rogue One, where the rebellion secretly gave Cassian a kill order for Jyn's dad. And... yeah, that wasn't portrayed to be good, either. Nor was the rebellion high cmand shown to be in the right when they gave Jyn the order to roll over and die, before she "rebelled" for the battle of scarif.

and I suppose during the Clone wars, the jedi and clones alike were very big on the whole :follow orders, we don't need to explain ourselves" approach. And look what happened to the careers of all in sundry.

Ricemills posted...

it's even more ridiculous that you're comparing this to Auschwitz, since the rebels are not ordered to do some atrocity.

I'll concede that that one went too far.

However, I stand by my point. I don't know if you're familiar with the Clone Wars series, or the Bad Batch series, but "Good soldiers follow orders" has straight up become a recurring tagline showcasing how awful that mentality is.

cjsdowg posted...

He was still in the chain of a command, a squad leader and a officer .

In fact, given how few of theme there were at the time, he was likely basically 3rd in the line of command, at worst, by then. Even with his demotion.

Most of their fleets were blown up. Other squad leaders all died in the hangar. The entire high command save Holdo was killed in the meeting room (save Leia, who was out of commission). The other two commanders went down with the other two flagship.

Like.... Poe was pretty much it, by then.

cjsdowg posted...

Finn was wrong to counter Phasma. She out ranked him and you have to do what your leaders say.

For real, though.

And yes, the rebels/resistance ARE supposed to "rebel." They are scrappy, creative, tight knit, and value each other.

There's a reason why they're contrasted to the empire. The "blindly follow orders, you're cogs in a bigger, more imporatnt machine" attitude that literally reduces its people to Stormtroopers, whose names are NUMBERS, is uniformly portrayed as, you know, a BAD thing.

Ricemills posted...

that's what soldiers expected to do, yes.

but hey, they're rebels of course they would rebel :v

And it's ridiculous. That's how soldiers end up guarding Auschwitz, or getting slaughtered with Custer at Little Bighorn.

"Blindly follow immoral or suicidal orders" is ridiculous. Pulling rank is far and away the absolute worst style of leadership in existence.

lderivedx posted...

I think he did the right thing initially. It's once he knew the plan that he fucked up.

I stg people didn't watch the same movies I did.

He literally didn't know the plan until they were all on the escape pods.

He managed to get a glimpse of half the plan, before the whole "hope" speech. And the half that he saw was doomed to get them all killed. And when he asked for more info, instead of reassuring him, Holdo tells him to fuck off and follow orders.

lderivedx posted...

He didn't blow up the station. Palpatine and Vader were irrelevant to whether the Rebel fleet succeeded.

He didn't know that. That is out of character knowledge.

Fr his position in the throne room: the shields were up far later than they were supposed to be. The fleet was getting mowed down by the superlaser. The strike te had been intercepted by the entire 501st. The fight was all but lost.

He wasn't watching what was happening on endor on screen. Lando and the rest didn't get in to blow the thing up until well into Luke getting electrocuted.

That's literally the whole point of the scene. Even with his back totally against the wall, and everything on the line, Luke chooses to do the right thing, because it's the right thing to do.

lderivedx posted...

Poe nearly got everyone killed because he couldn't keep his mouth shut. That's not "the right call."

So that's the message? Blindly and unquestionongly follow unknown, condescending authority figures, even as they lead you into the jaws of doom, calling you a moron all the while? Because there's a nonzero chance they might be right?

Brilliant.

lderivedx posted...

Luke really wasn't in a position to know he could quite possibly prevent a genocide in the original trilogy. This situation seems like a very reasonable one to have him question his morals.

The Empire had reconstructed a planet destroying superweapon, amd it wa fully operational. The plan to destroy it was in shambles and doomed to fail (so far as he knew at the time), and he was the only person left with any capacity to stand up to the big bad bosses (no, leia doesn't count, because there'd be nobody to train her, and now the empire knew about her and would gun for her). And he threw away his weapon.

How much closer to galactic genocide and total doom do you need to get?

It's the "quick and easy path" lesson that Yoda harped on about for two movies. Luke rejected the quick and easy path, right to the end. That was his whole character arc. Nearly murdering a child over that same "quick and easy path" Is a full on undermining of the entire point of his arc.

Proto_Spark posted...

Though there was nothing Star Wars as a whole could do with Luke that would leave fans happy.

I see this excuse all the time, and I do not accept it as a valid defense. While it true in that various fragments of the base would be upset regardless. that does not give carte blanche approval to openly fly in the face of his entire 3-movie character arc.

The man surrendered himself, unarmed, to the most evil and dangerous people in the galaxy, because he believed so strongly in the tiny fragment of good that remained in just one of them. He conquered his rashness and anger in one moment, where he throws away his lightsaber. "I am a jedi, like my father before me." That is literally putting his darker impulses to rest. And through it all, he never loses his unwavering desire to save EVERYONE. Not just his friends, but everyone he possibly can. After ignoring everyone's warnings in ESB, and after falling for the empire's trap, nearly getting his friends killed, learning that Vader was basically exactly like him, and getting his shit hopelessly kicked in, his response is not to say "well, fuck it. I suck; better give up." He dusts himself off and keeps going.

Saying that some years later, he even CONSIDERS cold-bloodedly executing his teenage nephew in his sleep over bad things he thinks might do is patently absurd. Saying that his response to failure is to straight up leave everyone, friends and family alike, to die or be enslaved, is ridiculous. This isnt character flaw, or regression. It's straight up character assassination, apropos of nothing. And saying "well, people would be upset either way" is not a defense of character assassination.

Subverting expectations isn't inherrently a bad thing. But to everyone saying TLJ gets points for at least trying "something" I heartily disagree.

KOTOR 2 is a good Star Wars deconstruction, and it pulls no punches. It goes in on the Jedi, the Sith, the Republic, the Force itself, and it pulls absolutely no punches. The game is downright scathing at times, but you know what it does? It gives solid characters to get behind. It makes arguments to get behind. It's a narrative that you actually want to engage with, one way or another. And while it's a deconstruction, it's a deconstruction that's constantly SAYING something.

TLJ doesn't do that. Everything it deconstructs is done purely to diminish its value, nothing more. Rey's backstory is thrown out, but not because it's actually saying anything about Star Wars' "destined lineage" trope; it's just to say "yeah, it's not important, dummy." Yhroqojg oit Snoke with no explanation of who he and the First Order even ARE isnt clever; it makes us feel like weve wasted our time oj abpointless sidetrack. We went into TLJ with questions, and instead of answerong, RJ just said "fuck your questions" and gave nothing else.

The grand plan of Finn, Poe, and Rose fails almost purely to be mean spirited. People are bad and will betray you, arms dealers are oppprtunistic, and trying to seize your own destiny is stupid. Blindly trust authority. Whoopie. All of the emotional highs that make Star Wars Star Wars are undermined basically just because. And regardless of Johnson's INTENT with Luke, it's obvious that the writing just doesn't pan out - it comes across as a wholesale diminishing of a character a lot of people cherish, and it doesn't do anything to replace or rectify those shattered feelings. The whole movie is a nihilistic treatise on pointlessness and meaninglessness, and whatever "realism" arguments you throw at it, that's fundamentally not what Star Wars is supposed to be.

Tl;Dr - if you're going to throw out a setup and go with the "deconstruction" route, you need to actually replace the thing you're tearing down with something meaningful. Deconstructions aren't just about tearing down the thing that people love.

If anything, Nickelodeon is way more responsible for this opinion than CN

Priere posted...

That all kinda went out the window with Kenobi

Did lead to my favorite Star Wars moment though

It didn't though. Vadernever went to Tatooine; all his encounters with Kenobi were on other planets. Only Reva and the Inquisotors did.

What DID actually throw it out the window was one of the very recent Vader comics, where he goes and force chokes the shit put of Jabba for info about Luke after episode 4, before he hires Boba Fett.

In the RotS novelization, Obi Wan actually says that, based on what he knows of Vader/Anakin, Tatooine would be the safest place for Luke. Reason being that, after what happened to his mother, combined with his post-vader desire to isolate from all sentiment related to Anakin Skywalker, Vader would never set foot on Tatooine of his own free will, ever again.

Seems as solid a reason as any. Too many personal demons he wants to hide from, there.

ChocoboMog123 posted...

Is catching pokemon so difficult that a masterball is going to be the difference between winning and losing? In that case, how are 10 potions not P2W?
Actual event pokemon are a larger issue than any amount of ingame items. Nintendo could announce a $100k "Immortal Bundle" that came with every TM, 100 masterballs, and a Pikachu hat - it still wouldn't come close older gen Wish/Seismic Toss Chansey.

You could argue that that many masterballs would completely trivialize roaming legendaries.

I personally , however, would not call that a bad thing.

Northlane posted...

I think this easy qualifies as the worst preorder bonus in the history of video games

No, that still goes to the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided "Augment your pre order" shit. Or the Fallout 76 debacle where they lied about what you would get.

But this is a damn good attempt.

Edit: now that I think about it, it's nowhere near the worst. Ubisoft still regularly spreads different, not-overlapping content across 3 different versions and 5 different retailers, making you need to use a spreadsheet and order multiple copies in order to get everything.

This is worthless, but relatively benign.

IdiotMachine posted...

Middlemen of what exactly? I can't comprehend your logic here.

Ok, so follow me, here.

If the renter is spending months to years paying the landlord's down payment, and the renter is paying the landlord's property taxes year-on-year, and the renter is paying for all maintenance fees regardless of whether or not they were used or needed, and the renter is paying all costs of their move out, as well as the outstanding costs incurred by other renters...

what, exactly, was the landlord actually good for? Other than being rich enough to double the purchase offer, turn around, and flip the place? And throwing extra fees in, ticketmaster-style?

IdiotMachine posted...

......? Landlords provide a service at risk: by giving you a place to live in exchange for monthly payment without (i) a massive down payment to buy, (ii) no obligation to you to maintain the property, and (iii) leave whenever you want. Hell, you could trash the place and the landlord would be responsible for the bills to clean it up. Sure, you can get sued for this, but what's the likelihood that someone who will trash up a place can ever afford to repay the damages they made?

The alternative is for you to go buy, which requires everything in my 1st post and doesn't give you the flexibility to just leave.

No, they don't. They act as a middleman while passing all of the costs down to you. That down payment is paid for with your rent. The damages are paid for with your rent. Even if those damages never happen, you are paying for them on the off chance they might in the future, or did in the past. Plus an extra markup, because the landlord's goal is not to break even.

Landlords are not renting at a loss, or even to break even. Period. Any "risk" they assume is intrinsically offset by the nature of the business. They are MAKING money, 100% of the time. You, the tenant, are still paying for every single one of those "risks." The best you can say is that it's a deferred payment plan structure.

A structure that would not be needed if you just owned the place, as all those markups and extra expenses would be in your pocket instead of the landlord's. You could afford the down payment if you weren't spending months to years paying for theirs.

That's the point. They are middlemen who offer nothing but lack of ownership and higher prices.

HolierThanMao posted...

people mistakenly think housing is a right rather than a commodity

they also don't realize that tons of renters are complete scumbags that will destroy your property without a second thought and that being a landlord is actually kind of a nightmare

With how much people seem to complain about it, makes you wonder why they don't stop.

Almost like all those sweet, easy stacks extorted from the desperate more than make up for the headache.

Like I said. There's not a landlord alive renting at a loss.

Because in the end, tenants end up shouldering all those costs, anyway. Every last one of them is passed down, at a markup, no less. It's just distributed to make it more "palatable." The only difference is that you have nothing to show for it on the other end, and you're still paying maintenance fees even if nothing breaks.

"shouldering the risk," "property taxes," "maintenance," none of it hold up, because there's not a landlord alive who's renting at a loss. They're worthless middlemen artificially inflating prices to line their pockets.

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Duragon Bo-oru!

60 mins, 15 incline, 4.8 miles per hour, 4-5 times a week.

I've recently added a 45 pound weighted vest to my regimen, but can only muster about 30 mins with it, so far.

Me too

DipDipDiver posted...

Statues do not inherently have historical value. Many times they are just decorations, even if they are of a historical figure. Ironically, those statues being torn down and vandalized as a form of protest gives them historical value they didn't have before, which is why some of those destroyed statues are displayed in museums just as they were left.

Dude, most of those statues were erected by actual, literal Klan members in southern governments after troops withdrew from the South and their new government to started passing Black Codes and "vagrancy" laws to re-enslave black people.

They absolutely have a very palpable historical value and purpose. And a ton were erected post 1950 and indirect response to the civil rights movement. Recent enough to hardly be considered "historical."

Worthless for me. Family was too rich to qualify for federal loans, but too poor for the school, so I got stuck with private loans.

Still happy for everyone this will help.

See, righties? This is how that works.

DoesntMatter posted...

she won the popular vote though

And they would have won the electoral vote too if they picked someone even marginally more likeable and decent at campaigning.

Sweeping safe, major Democrat population centers for the popular vote doesn't win the game.

MajesticFerret posted...

Let's keep it real here: I have never met someone who is feverishly prolife other than hardcore evangelicals and evangelicals have been brainwashed to hate Dems so much they would vote Repub no matter what, so it boggles my mind why they would bother catering to them at all. Makes more sense to pretend they'll do anything about it, complain dems are standing in their way, and not lose the moderate vote while moral posturing is all it would take to keep hardcore evangelicals in their pocket

Elected officials know how to play that game.

The problem is that they put those same evangelicals on the Supreme Court. Those people don't have to give a shit about re-election, and are free to disregard all political sense and just go full on ideologue

legendarylemur posted...

Why do you think so?

"Only 10 U.S. presidents have been previously defeated in their quest for another term."

Historically, it's something that literally only happens once every 20 years on average (and it has been ~24 years since Bush lost to Clinton). We just had a losing incumbent, so yeah it's just not happening

We historically haven't had our voters of a particular party this ideologically fired up, polarized, and involved as we have recently.

The incumbent advantage is contingent on the voter base being disconnected and disinterested, and the opposition party not putting up much of a fight because they're biding time till the next cycle. None of that is true right now. Just like none of it was true in 2020. Republicans are frothing at the mouth and on the warpath, right now.

I have no faith that it will turn out well either way.

Ajiri posted...

So who do you guys want the Democrats To run then? It cant be Biden or Kamala, that is an auto-lose for Trump.

it might have to be Gavin Newsom

I'll be honest, I'm pretty sure AOC is the only person they have right now with the energy, vision, passionate support base, personality, and gusto to adequately stand up to a Trump bid, eight now. The extreme has to be met with the extreme.

Plus, not to put too fine a point on it, but she is factually pretty good looking, and ridiculous as it is, that does play a factor in a lowest common denominator popularity contest.

Too bad the establishment party hates her fuckin guts.

The biggest hurdle I see is that, after Roe was overturned, the narrative of Democrat voters immediately switched to "Why the fuck should we bother voting for you, when you never deliver and just make empty promises over and over?"

Which... is a very, very valid point of criticism for the establishment party. A lot of what we're dealing with now is a result of having a ton of stale, limp, weak, corporate loving career politicians in office. Biden being a chief example.

The issue is, while we should ABSOLUTELY demand better, the reality of the situation is that this kind of narrative and mentality tends to result in lower voter turnouts, which results in republican wins. See: Hillary 2016. Voters simultaneously despise the rights while growing increasingly disenfranchised with our slightly-less-right left.

The right is fired up, mobilized, loud and proud, while the left is still firmly plugging its nose. And the negative discourse is only going to keep that going, and a disaffected voter base is a weak voter base.

The worst case scenario isn't DeSantis or Trump running again. It's the democrats trying to force Biden again. If he's the frontrunner in 2016, it's over. We lose.

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