DuracellEnergizer

FreezingTNT2 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

idir_hh said:

RogueLeader said:
I think it would be cool to get an Old Republic story where we see opposing Jedi philosophies come to a head, not in a violent way, but where we see Jedi debate on the nature of the Force and the dark side. Maybe some Jedi see the dark side as an evil that needs to be purged, where others see it as an aspect of all life that needs to be understood.

That would be great to watch, they can probably pull inspiration from early church history with their theological and doctrinal difference, councils etc .

Too complex and cerebral. People just want white hats and black hats whacking colour-coded glow sticks together.

FTFY (Fixed That For You)

If “sanitized” = “fixed”, alrighty then.

Anakin Starkiller said:

I feel so lonely having never had a girlfriend. At my age most people are sexually active while I’ve never even kissed someone. It’s not like I just want a relationship to not feel left out, it’s that I want one anyways and everyone else having one makes it feel so much worse. I don’t get involved with incel communities since they’re a bunch of misogynistic fatalists (to varying degrees, but even r/incelswithouthate has a pinned thread for members who killed themselves, so I don’t feel at ease there). I always try to have a positive outlook on life, and while I do what I can to focus on other things for the time being, after a while you can’t help but let your thoughts drift back. It’s not really something you can indefinitely ignore. I’m alone and it hurts.

I can empathize. All too well.

idir_hh said:

RogueLeader said:
I think it would be cool to get an Old Republic story where we see opposing Jedi philosophies come to a head, not in a violent way, but where we see Jedi debate on the nature of the Force and the dark side. Maybe some Jedi see the dark side as an evil that needs to be purged, where others see it as an aspect of all life that needs to be understood.

That would be great to watch, they can probably pull inspiration from early church history with their theological and doctrinal difference, councils etc .

Too complex and cerebral. People just want white hats and black hats whacking colour-coded fleshlights together.

Goddammit.

"Jack, listen. Maybe we can cut a deal."

"Jack? Jack is dead, my friend. You can call me … Joker."

"And as you can see, I’m a lot happier."

Another pet theory, which isn’t really mine since I stole it from others: Picard never left the Nexus. Every Trek series and movie released after Generations is set in a pocket universe where Picard is the Gary Stu action hero he always secretly wanted to be.

Best aspects of this theory? Kirk isn’t really dead and DS9 remains in-continuity.

rocknroll41 said:

StarkillerAG said:

Mocata said:

rocknroll41 said:

$1.073 billion at the moment. Hopefully it at least ends up making more than Joker (which ended its run at $1.074 billion).

Why?

I guess he hates Joker.

Nah, I just think it’d be embarrassing if TRoS made less money than an r-rated film that wasn’t even released in China.

Embrace schadenfreude and be free.

"At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge."

ray_afraid said:

Cool! I always like it when someone’s odd

DominicCobb said:

Rian is some sort of diabolical maniac whose sole purpose in life was to give fans the middle finger.

TRACEY COOK

Put Kit Fisto in leather bondage gear and make his lightsaber hilt phallic shape.

That used to be my reaction to 60+% of the inane fanficy junk the EU dished out. Then the corresponding area of my brain burnt out.

♪ A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night ♪

♪ Just to sprinkle star dust and to whisper ♪

♪ “Go to sleep, everything is alright” ♪

DuracellEnergizer said:

BOOKS

• The Adventures of Superman (George Lowther)
• Amerika (Franz Kafka)
• The Avesta
• The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• The Castle (Franz Kafka)
• Catching the Big Fish (David Lynch)
• The Complete Stories (Flannery O’Connor)
• The Conquest of Bread (Pyotr Kropotkin)
• The Courage to Be (Paul Tillich)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Dynamics of Faith (Paul Tillich)
• The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
• Gravity and Grace (Simone Weil)
• Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
• The Historical Jesus (John Dominic Crossan)
• In a Glass Darkly (Sheridan Le Fanu)
• Jesus, Interrupted (Bart Ehrman)
• A Key to Whitehead’s Process and Reality (Donald W. Sherburne)
• The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Leo Tolstoy)
• The King in Yellow (Robert W. Chambers)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (Nikos Kazantzakis)
• Leviathan Wakes (James S. A. Corey)
• Process and Reality (Alfred North Whitehead)
• The Trial (Franz Kafka)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)

COMICS

• The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1 (John Romita Sr. run)
• Batman (Doug Moench/Kelley Jones run)
• Astro City (Kurt Busiek)
• Devil Dinosaur (Jack Kirby)
• Doom Patrol, Vol. 1
• Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth (Jack Kirby run)
• Spider-Man: The Death of Jean DeWolff (Peter David)
• Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt (J. M. DeMatteis)

fauxK disc

Anakin Starkiller said:

lay the Bat

Link to thread with TROS spoilers.

Broom Kid said:

pretty imp

pleasehello said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Mocata said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Mocata said:

Vader’s redemption kind of comes out of nowhere. But it doesn’t matter unless you expect a fully realised villain, with many facets and deep characterisation. The Empire might seem like fascist super state, but meaningful comparisons to real historical figures are not really appropriate. It’s just Star Wars.

All the more reason why Trek is the superior Star franchise.

Maybe once, not so much these days.

Difference is modern Trek doesn’t retroactively ruin what came before. At least not for me.

Have you seen the new Picard show?

The newest ST series I’ve seen is DS9.

Probably explains a lot.

Mocata said:

I mean the artwork is nice, people are good at what they do. But on the other hand it’s only just far enough into the past so they can stick with the same SW aesthetic.

Let’s be honest. They could’ve set this 4000 years in the past, and they’d still stick with the same SW aesthetic.

"‘Winged freak terrorizes.’ Wait’ll they get a load of me."

Mocata said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Mocata said:

Vader’s redemption kind of comes out of nowhere. But it doesn’t matter unless you expect a fully realised villain, with many facets and deep characterisation. The Empire might seem like fascist super state, but meaningful comparisons to real historical figures are not really appropriate. It’s just Star Wars.

All the more reason why Trek is the superior Star franchise.

Maybe once, not so much these days.

Difference is modern Trek doesn’t retroactively ruin what came before. At least not for me.

ray_afraid said:

The clip didn’t Wow me, but looked ok.
However, after seeing photos of the full suit, I’m Wowed.
It’s Wowingly awful.

Indeed.

Sad that there hasn’t been a semi-decent live-action Batsuit since 1992.