i do prefer the theory that it’s just a fifth fundamental force, with no inherent good or evil built in. which is why i like johnson’s nod to the fact that anyone can pick it up by themselves, rather than being trained for years. you’d still probably need training to focus properly but it’s not about “powers”, more about reading the world. less harry potter magic, more discworld magic.

there are certainly moral and immoral uses of a power like that, just like there are moral and immoral uses of… magnetism.

as for the more hard sci-fi stuff… eh. star wars doesn’t hold up to scrutiny like that. it’s a pulp space opera, sword and sorcery in space. a lot of the eu tried reeeeeally hard to lean into the science fiction aspect, but it really doesn’t work imo. i was really enthusiastic about shit like the space ship layout as a kid, still have all the “essential guide” books, but the fact is that nobody thought about that stuff when creating the world like in 90s trek, it’s all just rule of cool. once i realised that my interest sort of waned.

lise is very consistent with the “speech-lines” from what i can see, but maybe there just wasn’t room. you’re right.

about your second point: the text outside the speech bubbles symbolises background noise, e.g. friday i’m in love is playing in the room.

i expected like… a generic file or media organiser. but no, it’s literally designed just for porn. til.

right, that’s what i’m saying. what they did with the blurring of lines in tlj could have gone even further. what if there is no “light side”, it’s all just puritanical bullshit by a bunch of dried-up space monks that unilaterally decide what’s good or evil. they’re basically thought police.

oookay.

the main thing was that while jj leaned heavily on the ot, johnson took things from the prequels. say what you want about them but at least they continued the story rather than rehashing it. of the top of my head, the most interesting thing they weave into the narrative is the possibility that the jedi and sith balance thing was based on a complete misunderstanding of the force. this ties back to not only the eu but also episodes 1-3, and opens up the gray jedi and force-witch paths again, not to mention that it basically retcons midichlorians. they also tried getting rid of the prophecy crap, which didn’t make sense to begin with.

housing

i much prefer where rian johnson was going, even though the main plot was meh. he left so many open plot threads that tied into the old eu that they could have used, but then jj went back to his first idea.

i think he is looking at the meme which you are inside

whoof

good save.

so you stated with complete confidence something wrong that you could have looked up in two seconds?

it’s '86 for the record.

unless you’re using your pc as your router that’s not really the same thing

okay, but i will only pay $120 because that’s when my country’s “high cost protection” will kick in and the state will foot the rest of the bill.

so torn between “you’re right, you don’t” and “well actually the mars rovers all use a redundant hardware and consensus algorithms for error correction so…”

you’ve successfully disabled my terminal knowitallism!

i don’t want to use more than one remote

i have a locked-down android tv dongle from my isp so i really wish i could cast from my jellyfin server, but then i looked at the setup guide and instantly ran out of spoons.

i’ve flipped between sony and lg for my past three phones (which is a period of 14 years at this point), and been forced to use samsung stuff for work. the main difference i’ve found is that not only is samsung hard to switch from due to their walled garden stuff, they’re hard to switch to.

personally my experience with anything samsung is that it’s locked down to hell so i don’t know how useful dex actually is. the idea is neat though, wish someone else did it.