Superweapon VII

Spartacus01 said:

Superweapon VII said:

Spuffure said:

Sorry if this is too political (however it’s really not to start a debate) I said it before, but I really feel like I have no idea who to believe and who not to. The internet has made so many political ideologies present, I don’t know whether or not I should be left or right or centre or something else. Who is right? Who is wrong? Am I a bigot and don’t even know it?

Fuck tankies, fuck fash, and fuck liberalism, too. Libertarian socialism FTW.

I could be defined as a Tankie. Lol.

I’m not one of those guys who stamps everyone under the Leninist/Marxist-Leninist/Maoist umbrella a tankie. I’m not a fan of any of those strains of Marxism, but I don’t like demonizing individuals. So long as you’re not a Grover Furr-type Stalinist, I’m content to agree to disagree.

Spuffure said:

Sorry if this is too political (however it’s really not to start a debate) I said it before, but I really feel like I have no idea who to believe and who not to. The internet has made so many political ideologies present, I don’t know whether or not I should be left or right or centre or something else. Who is right? Who is wrong? Am I a bigot and don’t even know it?

Fuck tankies, fuck fash, and fuck liberalism, too. Libertarian socialism FTW.

fmalover said:

As someone who’s had the misfortune of being one of those losers who can’t get laid in their personal lives, I lament the fact that the term “incel” has become synonymous with “bitter misogynist virgin who blames women for all his problems”.

Especially galling when you know that the OG incel was a lovelorn woman who created the community in the hopes of helping others suffering the same predicament.

Star Trek: Picard (Season 3)

I haven’t watched Seasons 1 & 2; everything I’ve seen/heard/read about them convinced me that the lunatics in charge either don’t understand or don’t care about the spirit of Trek, so I avoided them like the plaque. But I heard different about the third season. Of course, I heard the same about Strange New Worlds, and watching the first season of that, I found it juvenile crap. But after watching the RedLetterMedia reviews, I decided to take a leap of faith; if those jaded hackfrauds could enjoy it…

So yeah, I loved it. Very, very much. TNG was never my favourite Trek series, but I always felt that for all its flaws – and I do consider it very flawed – its heart was mostly in the right place. And I always felt that the TNG films did the TNG crew dirty (including the overrated First Contact). Season 3 of Picard, I feel, rectified most of the damage those films did. I wasn’t completely satisfied. There were lots of references to the Dominion War, but not a single DS9 character could make an appearance? And

SPOILERS

The Borg Queen just had to be included. I hate the Borg Queen.

But overall, I was more than satisfied.

9/10

Vodo-Siosk Baas in the greatest Jedi of all time. He took a stick to a lightsaber fight. Mad respect.

dgraham414 said:

Because DoomCock says so

How anyone can take a person who dresses up as a robotic blow-up doll and calls themself “DoomCock” seriously, I’ll never know.

JadedSkywalker said:

Was watching Rise of Skywalker And i’m still confused by objects being teleported from one location to another. For a series that is totally fake and make believe with space wizards i couldn’t suspend my disbelief. It just breaks the canon laws of the Star Wars universe which they’ve been doing since Force Awakens. Things like […] Force Skype, astral projection.

Now I’m absolutely no apologist for the ST, but Force Skyping and astral projection both appeared in Legends material going back to the '90s, so they’re not without precedent.

I left a burning effigy of Stalin on Grover Furr’s doorstep.

That upscale really brings out the layers of pancake makeup on Mark Hamill’s face.

Spartacus01 said:

Superweapon VII said:

Unironic love for the PT must be countered with unironic love for Battlefield Earth/Manos: The Hands of Fate/Plan 9 from Outer Space/Reefer Madness/Robot Monster/The Room/etc. It’s the only way to bring balance to the Farce.

What about minding your own business and not paying attention to what people like? And I don’t say it in a provocative way, I’m saying it seriously. The same goes for the PT fans who are constantly criticizing the ST fans. Why can’t people just mind their own business and let others have fun with what they want?

I likely made that post when I was in an extra surly mood and/or drunk. Pay it no mind.

Spartacus01 said:

If the Force did not exist, the inhabitants of the Star Wars Galaxy would have experienced not even half of the wars they experienced through Galactic history. The Force is the real problem of the Star Wars Galaxy. The more I look at the Saga, and the more I realize that this is the case. If Kreia had managed to extinguish the Force and make everyone insensitive to the Force, then the Star Wars Galaxy would have been much better for the next millennia. Sure, some of my favorite characters would never have been born, but it would have been worth it

I’d say unsubtle creators who treat the Force like superpowers and Force users like superheroes/villains are the real problem.

I just watched Moontrap (1989) for the first time. This movie’s apparently regarded lowly, but I quite liked it. The ending was executed a bit weakly, but I still felt it was was well-made overall. How wrong can you go with Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell as the leads?

It’s just late-stage capitalism working as intended, bra.

of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

Is- is that Yaldabaoth…?

It is indeed.

Beetlejuice is not a good movie. I read the original darker script, and while I still have quibbles with the writing, it’s still stronger than the final movie. Every major change made was for the worse.

[accidental double post]

Sideburns of BoShek said:

I kinda like the second one, actually. At that point in time, Luke was still dangerously close to falling to the dark side. Yoda would’ve been smart enough to realize it’d be a faux pas if he tipped Luke off about those 50-100 Jedi, only for Luke to join the Empire and go on a little Jedi hunt afterward.

Humby said:

Superweapon VII said:

Darth Tremor said:

The issue is Ahsoka. I like her, but Vader’s line, “when I left you I was a learner, now I am the Master,” indicates Vader was never a Jedi Master as Anakin.

Or a full knight for that matter. Just another bit of OT continuity Lucas either forgot or ignored when writing the prequels.

I’ve always been of the mindset that we fans can often take dialogue too literally. This is a case of that for me. After 20 years of experience, a medical doctor would certainly acknowledge that they were still a learner in their first few years out of med school, even though they may still hold the same title. The line is just meant to establish the dynamic of the characters in the scene, it’s not meant to be expository.

To make the case for this particular topic, you’d be better off using Obi-Wan’s line to Luke that Vader “was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil.” Because that IS meant to be expository. But for me personally, even that is vague enough to allow for some wiggle room, as many young (and even older) professionals in the real world have pupil/mentor relationships with others in their field who simply have more experience.

I think we often need to give character dialogue the freedom of having been generalized, abbreviated, obfuscated, etc… because that’s just how humans communicate. We use shorthand, we leave out unnecessary details, we avoid painful discussions. And it doesn’t always paint an accurate picture of our experiences. Just my 2 cents.

I actually agree that fans tend to take dialogue (and text crawls, for that matter) too literally. I’ll just balance that with an observation of my own: fans who like the prequels often refuse to hold Lucas to the same standards they hold any other SW creator to. If Filoni contradicts the Clone Wars multimedia project, it’s a great sin. But if Lucas contradicts the EU, or the OT novelizations, or the OT itself, in roll the appeals to ad hoc retcons, headcanon, and George’s Vision™. After so many years of this crap, I’m at the end of my rope with it.