173 cm, so about 5’8". A little taller than most women I know, but shorter than most of the guys I knew (but then my school was full of people who were 6’+)
EDIT: Huh, apparently I already posted here.
Are you the daddy or mommy?
It seems the OT Discord is quite lively for The Cantina type of discussions.
A number of other forums have had the same issue; less posting in certain forum sections, but more posting on their Discord instead.
Discord is usually better suited for quick casual conversations, with forums being better for archiving longer form/ longer term conversations. With most people moving away from the latter and into the former, I can’t say I’m too surprised
On a Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of The RMS Titanic
It’s a good read, if a bit dry at times.
Probably not the silliest, but I love hearing the name Dud Bolt.
Not a big vent, but damn aquariums are hard.
Got some floating plants; forgot they’d be tossed about by filter outtake. Make ring to keep plants out of outtake, ring gets tossed about by outtake. Don’t even get me started on needing to get a reverse-Osmosis kit so I don’t have to deal with excessive hardness.
(also getting my ammonia up so the tank can cycle is harder than expected)
Gravel and rocks for an aquarium I’m setting up and a birthday card for my girlfriend.
I recently fell into a polyamorous relationship with a friend of mine. How did I get lucky enough to have two cute girlfriends?
More a minor frustration:
Just annoyed that sometimes I have a harder time focusing on things than I’d necessarily like to, and that it can slow down things more than it needs to (e.g. my Japanese lessons aren’t quite making the headway I’d want them to because of it)
Not the end of the world, just a nuisance.
The best part was seeing Luke again as a “Jedi”, and seeing the main protagonist being a girl (albeit an awfully written character).
And it is a shame she wasn’t well written. I liked the way Daisy Ridley portrayed Rey, and in a vacuum I’d argue she’s a good character. But everything about her is so underutilized, that at least in TLJ it felt more like she was there to be an earpiece for Luke and Kylo to vent about their problems than the central protagonist of the trilogy.
Nevermind that the films felt so disjointed that it wasn’t clear if she even had a character arc to go through.
Well, there’s plenty of us here if you need someone to talk it out with!
So much snow. So cold :c
hope everyone’s been having a good Valentine’s, whether alone or not!
173 cm, approximately.
A bit late to respond, but Oh dear. I’m glad everyone’s alright, but wow. My condolences for how that must feel to you
Had never heard (or even heard of) Twiki’s early season 2 voice until tonight.
I think it just ruined my life.
& I’m not even a big Buck Rodgers fan.How bad is it?
It’s a super-sweet, super-cartoony little boy voice.
I tried to find an example, but surprisingly nothings coming up.
Apparently the legendary voice actor Mel Blanc was replaced by a Bob Elyea. Fans hated it and they quickly changed it back mid-season.
OK I can see that feeling out of place for Twiki (even if I barely know anything about the series.)
GF sent me a variety pack of teas, and I’ve been having fun with them (though she still wants to hook me up with a proper Pu’erh cake)
Nothing particularly special, but it was a nice pack and I’ve been enjoying them.
Had never heard (or even heard of) Twiki’s early season 2 voice until tonight.
I think it just ruined my life.
& I’m not even a big Buck Rodgers fan.
How bad is it?
I tried to make some of these last night, but I think the tofu was perhaps a little too firm, so it didn’t blend right, and after 9 of them I gave up and remade it into a spaghetti sauce.
Whales are doing better: https://www.sciencealert.com/humpback-whales-are-doing-surprisingly-well-after-a-close-brush-with-extinction
Pop Culture Detective’s video The Case Against The Jedi Order highlights the problems you mention, but also comes to the conclusion that it was a mistake on Lucas’ part to portray them this way. But like I said, I believe portraying them this way was the point. Maybe the Jedi weren’t always this way, but after countless wars against Sith and fallen Jedi, the Order eventually became more dogmatic in an attempt to avoid that cycle.
At least for me, while that’s definitely the way it feels it should be taken, how it was received by the audience seems off. While I can look at it and go, “Yeah, if the Jedi have lost their way, it makes sense,” a lot of the fans I’ve interacted with, (and significant chunks of Legends Continuity) seem to have taken it as not just, “The way Jedi are,” but inherently part of the Light Side of the Force.
I’m of the belief that the films missed the mark on what they wanted Jedi to be, but that I can at least see what it was aiming for.
OK, but… why Maclunkey? Of all the changes they could have made, why that one in particular? Who was the executive that thought: “This scene is iconic, but you know what it’s missing? Greedo saying a gibberish word right before he shoots. Yeah, it’ll be like how in a Western they say Draw right before they shoot, but made more Star Warsy.”
If you believe Pablo Hidalgo, that executive was George Lucas back in 2012.
That makes sense. It’s a helluva tone deaf change, but that’s entirely within Lucas’s wheelhouse to have done.
OK, but… why Maclunkey? Of all the changes they could have made, why that one in particular? Who was the executive that thought: “This scene is iconic, but you know what it’s missing? Greedo saying a gibberish word right before he shoots. Yeah, it’ll be like how in a Western they say Draw right before they shoot, but made more Star Warsy.”
Jessie Combs, who helped with Mythbusters, at 36
We’re glad to see you here all the same!
Must say I like your new profile pic.
Giant octopus? Is that the infamous animated one where everybody gets off safely?
yes, yes it is.