glarg.bsky.social
Forever a rando.
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Yeah I don't mean to suggest it's that great, just the one time I can think of when Star Wars had any real interest in a post Emperor Palpatine empire and what that might look like. As opposed to TFA and the 'basically it's the Empire again' schtick, etc.
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The Thrawn trilogy stood out among the admittedly mostly slop that was the EU for just this reason. I do think there are more creative things they could do at this point than just a straight adaptation of Thrawn but also, that would be miles better than what they have put out so far post RoTJ.
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I'm one of those "it's fiction literally do whatever you want" people. However, one of the silver linings of Star Wars being so narrowly interested in one part of its universe is you could absolutely do whatever you want and handwave away any objections with "it's later on" or "it's somewhere else.
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I'm thinking it's just this as usual.
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I don't think that's unreasonable or conspiracy-brained at all. While we do live in the nothing matters era hypothetically it's in the public interest to know who has given money to the incoming president.
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I think it's an issue with the traditional 3 act structure where your hero needs to have a low point but they don't want to do a boss fight where it's literally impossible to win. Though I don't think a good solution is (as you've described) typical boss fight followed by cutscene asskicking, etc.
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lmao he blocked me for pointing out he has in fact, been insisting no one criticize democrats
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"not what anyone is saying" It has been your every post so far to insist no one say anything critical of democrats.
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Probably preaching to the choir but the whole business model relies on grievance. They can't start producing videos like "we won, everything is cool now" so it's a constant search for something to be upset about.
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I think that's been oversold a bit but it does have a dishonored-lite vibe. Much smaller more linear areas though, you're largely trying to get from point a to point b, etc
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Yeah, I don't think it's a good move to be clear but Sanders has done this sort of thing repeatedly. Where he says "oh I'll help you help the American people like you claim you will" and (I think) he thinks it'll be some incredible own when they inevitably fail to follow through.
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I think this gets at the real problem, Jedi aren't boring the way they've been utilized outside of some of the movies are largely boring.
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Yeah, this seems to happen in jrpgs a lot.
First half: intriguing world with complex issues, fighting against longstanding systems of oppression.
Second half: Magical bullshit.
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Karl Malone (at number 5!?) is even more hilarious to me since the rest of the list is at least defensible. Like a really good non-sequitur
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Love to see the dumbest people who are never right about anything all together in one article
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Yeah I like the guy generally but I don't really need to see every dumb shit take from Conor, chait, etc.
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Nosferatu has the Mona Lisa thing going on where it's not as great a work of art as its reputation but was instead boosted by outside circumstances. Mona Lisa got really famous for being stolen, while Nosferatu has the whole 'ordered by the court to destroy all copies' etc.
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I watched Beetlejuice somewhat recently (after watching the musical with a mutual friend of ours) and I was surprised how much time nothing is happening in the movie. And how little time Beetlejuice himself is in the movie. Which is to say, the musical was better.
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Now you gotta rank them! The masses demand content
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I would think even the Biden Admin really wants aid to continue, even as just a fig leaf. But also, as has been made repeatedly apparent, the Biden Admin isn't actually willing to do anything meaningful about it if Israel just says 'no too bad.'
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The anime apparently had some production problems: gizmodo.com/uzumaki-anim...
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There's that line about liberals "Opposes every war but the current one and supports every civil rights movement but the current one" It describes this cohort extremely well and certainly trans people would qualify as a part of the current fight for civil rights.
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Funny to complain about a lack of tension when if you express even the mildest criticism about dems you'll get some people shitting themselves at you. If you say Harris winning is vastly preferable to Trump, you'll get a different group of people shitting themselves at you. Something for everyone!
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Outer Worlds is my go-to example (one of many) of a work that can do something like anti-corporate critique but can't imagine a better world beyond that.
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This is like the old Carlin joke about driving. Everyone I block is an annoying troll who deserved to be blocked, everyone who blocks me just couldn't handle how extremely cool and right I was.
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Well also you were pointing out how Chait's garbage illustrates the Helldude's point, not that Chait is the most significant person around or anything like that.
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Potentially a weird connection to make on my part but much like the new to bsky stuff this is basically the same thing, when people got 1k followers for the first time and lost their minds. There are some people granted the tiniest iota of power and their brains melt right out of their ears.
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Usually this comes up with 'media literacy' but just in general, given public education and all that people today are probably on average more intelligent than ever...which is probably more insulting to humanity past than complimentary to humanity present lol
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I would guess it's because her racism got aired out on a mainstream place like MSNBC. Sort of like when Tucker Carlson would have to fire one of his white supremacist writers every so often. It's only bad for them when people find out about it.
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Apologies, 'this person' was more about how I don't know you personally, certainly not meant to de-gender you my sister in solidarity.
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imho there are just, a whole lot of people of all kinds across the whole political spectrum who are just functionally unable to distinguish between people who annoy you online and things that actually matter.
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Right, there's a contingent of people on here who simply think the gravest sin of all is suggesting the democratic party may not be absolutely perfect in all respects. A good example of this here where they scream at this person for the mildest of criticism.
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I absolutely think it's fair and even correct to criticize Harris/Dems about immigration and israel-palestine but there is no issue, not a single one, where Harris/Dems are not preferable to Trump/any Republican
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Well fwiw *I* thought you were dead from grocery store sushi until you posted.
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Yeah I agree, Taibbi and Williamson still suck ass of course but top 3 unbearable? When Berenson, Domenech, Moynihan, etc. are all on here? Also maybe not the worst people on the list but in terms of purely unbearable Silver and Yglesias together should rank higher imo.
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Whenever this scenario comes out, where one points out the sort of crowds they are hanging out with you'll get all the usual spiels about "guilt by association" and whatever. But I can't recall a single time ostensibly good people hung out with the awful like this and it turned out well.
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The screen name feels like 50/50 on being ironic but then the actual bsky name of jimmyfallonfan is well, probably not a bit lol
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Well as mentioned I think it's easy to bounce off of, as I initially did, but once I grasped what it was doing (like so many games in UFO50) it was a lot of fun
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Excuse me sir it's October 6th, where is the horror movie for yesterday!?
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Similarly I sometimes think, I'm almost 40 years old, what is the republican policy passed in my lifetime, as in the last 4 decades, that I'm supposed to be forever grateful for?
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One of the specific joys I've had after giving every game at least one try is initially bouncing off a game, trying it again and really digging it after spending more time on it. Like Pilot Quest, or Rock On! Island
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Exemplified by this tweet that's lived in my head for the past ten(!) years.
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This and vote scolding discourse are both downstream of the same deluded idea that people who annoy you online are important in some way beyond the part where they annoy you online. Posting on twitter or yelling at people on Bluesky are things you can do but they are not in any way significant.
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Putting aside everything else, man is just absolutely addicted to gambling lol
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Remarkable in that it's to Coates' credit he puts up with this shit so skillfully and how predictably awful most of our mainstream media is on this issue.
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Somehow still funny as it is now
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Thing is either way I'm just going to block that person. Whether sincere or satire that's just "Dumb asshole" or "Dumb asshole who's bad at comedy"
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The venn diagram of pundits who endorsed Adams, defended nuzzi, and is among the worst political writers alive is not quite a circle but it's close.
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It's entirely besides the main point but Jilani describing himself as a "human rights oriented person" made me laugh.
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A lot of what I'm going to broad-brush as the 'centrist reactionary' crowd really showed their collective asses about the protests and their supposed neutral principles of free speech. They were always full of shit of course but that really laid it bare.