It’s that time of year again. I know money is tight but if you can afford to donate it would be ticketty you might have to boo it. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/briancombe-675316468d63d556c5569bbe?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=adhoc_FRPo_share_Payday_uk_varB&mi_u=34709664&mi_ecmp=adhoc_FRPo_share_Payday_uk_varB
Final Fantasy 2 on the GBA
Dagobah. The fire burns out in Yoda’s hut for the last time. Luke inspects Artoo’s repairs to the X-Wing.
LUKE : I can’t do it Artoo, I can’t go on alone.
BEN’S GHOST :Yoda will always be with you.
LUKE : You lying get! You told me Vader killed my father. (waves cybernetic hand) kinda sprightly for a corpse. Yoda just as he conked out mid sentence claimed there was another Skywalker.
BEN: You aren’t the first Skywalker to call me a liar…the other Yoda spoke of is your sister…
LUKE: Here you go again…I don’t even have a sister.
BEN: To protect you from the Emperor you were seperated. You only met her around the time you met me.
LUKE : Leia… Leia is my sister. Oh God we snogged we could have bonked. Why are you telling me now?
BEN : Don’t worry you are safe there. Threepio is your sister. We disguised her as a protocol droid. It was the only way to keep her safe.
LUKE: But… Her arm fell off on Tatooine, we just went back there and her eye got pecked out… On Cloud City she was blown to smitherines and Chewbacca put her head on backwards.
BEN: It’s a Skywalker thing. Eventually you all become more machine.
LUKE: Thank the Force I’m not into robots…sorry Artoo…so what now?
BEN: Nah pulling your leg it is Leia.
LUKE: I hate you!
BEN: Heard that one before too
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I figured you were just channelling the mad monk Rasputin.
Rasputin didn’t wear tweed.😁
I would cut from the tonsil tennis right to planet of the oil rigs. The awkward halt to the music has always been the sad trumbone of the scene.
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I’m good with the idea that the shuttle is coming from the opposite side of the DS2.
Yeah, and that would explain why you can’t see Endor from the throne room.
Luke can see the battle. In the battle sequences the moon is prominent as is the station. The battle is tiny little dots. Even if the tower is on the same side as the dish and close to it the battle would be bigger. The Blast from the weapon would resemble Starkiller base firing in TFA but green. The view would be more interesting.
Alternatively the tower could be nearer the pole of the station. That way Palps wouldn’t get blinded by the dish firing and the moon would be visible the battle would probably be visible too but not linear the view would resemble a cloud of ships. The rebels had to skim the edge of the shield to avoid hitting it and Lando moved the rebel fleet towards the imperials once the station was firing. Luke would see the rebels engaging the fighters in the foreground and star Destroyers in the distance,not a line reading left right on a single plane.
What the world needs now is better Donalds.
More temporarily sprang than freed then?
When Artoo restores Threepio’s memory Poe says, “Somehow Threepio has returned.”
The probe droid is something I had hoped someone would do. I couldn’t convince Adywan. I think it works well. Obviously the music cue would need to change.
For sequel continuity’s sake, every mention of Palpatine in the OT (until Jedi) is cut, as well as everything featuring him after the Yoda fight in RotS. The last piece is adding a “somehow, Palpatine returned” to the Home One briefing in Jedi.
Maybe when every character that has appeared before is featured again… “Somehow (fill in blank) has returned”.
At the end of TPM Mace and Yoda ponder which Sith was destroyed, The Master or the Apprentice. Pan right to Palpatine wearing a big top hat a monocle and a waxed moustache which he waggles while winking at the audience.
For months now I’ve been eating Natto for breakfast. I used to have it with a rice bowl but now I have it with a 50/50 rice and Quinoa bowl with vegetables, and Kimchi. It’s groovy.
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Rarely does a thread have a soundtrack and yet…
When the first Death Star is destroyed a large section lands on Yavin 4 during the medal giving ceremony killing many Bothans.
Thanks guys. I guess im hoping that people with old Myspace accounts will dust them off and use them. An older Internet vibe before it became fashionsble to hate again.
Strange as it may seem but MySpace isn’t entirely dead.
When Zuckerberg announced his removal of any pretense of moderation on Faceboot I started to look for something else.
I have replaced twitter with bluesky and I feel all the better for it but I couldn’t find anything Facebookesque.
I assumed MySpace was long gone but exists it does. It’s just very empty.
All the music feeds have gone, the people have gone but the site remains.
It might be fun to reactivate or sign up to colonise the space.
I’m using mine as an online art gallery at the moment. I could see it as a fun way of journaling or publishing poetry etc.
If doing the same or similar interests you I recommend you avoid the app. It is run by an ad company and every swipe and every four key entries will trigger an very long unskippable advert for rubbish phone games. Some were so long tgey had mini ads interrupting the maxi ads.
Use a browser with an ad blocker. Brave is a good example I guess. I was pleasantly suprised by the old school charm of it.
My edit has been on the back burner but occasionally game out how to address things I want to address.
Changing the podrace announcer was a dream out of my reach but with AI it would be easy.
This is not perfect (link good for 2 days) but it’s pretty good:
That’s brilliant.
Last night I had one of those classic, ‘dreaming that you wake up’ dreams.
In the dream I wake up and make my bed. I then go downstairs I walk to the far end of the hallway. The electricity is out so I am in pitch darkness. I suddendly bump into a giant but still unseen humanoid form. 7 or 8ft tall. The being shunts me towards the door with its body weight alone, it never lays hands on me. I try to talk to it but get no reply. Just being pushed along. In fear I wake up. Only I still havent really woken up. Im back in a house which is nothing like my real home but using dream logic I know it is my home somehow. I can hear loud electrical sparks from the garden. There is a work bench. A wired device that looks like cylindrical drill or an electrical screwdriver is overloading. I open the sliding glass doors to the garden and carefully switch off the powerpoint from a free standing console. For some reason the previously empty garden is full of covered workbenches and each has somebody working away with a handtool on some project. One guy, a Canadian with wavy white hair and a beard asks if I switched off the malfunctioning power point and explains that he had tried to earlier but he could get close enough. I then wake up with my alarm…or do I?
He might come back. We dont know whats going on in his life. I hope it’s nothing bad.
Is the bluesky account genuine? I noticed its not been used yet. If you needed someone in a B-wing Bingowings seemed an obvious choice😁 maybe I could change my name to Xingowings. Though I do look more like an Ewok at the moment.
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