Fuck me, really?

What the cinnamon toast fuck is wrong with that company? I don’t care if you’re fucking Bill Gates, when you spend four billion dollars you might want to … ya know … have a game plan and not rush a script out the door.

As succinctly as possible:

Disney paid a billion dollars for a franchise people cared about. It doesn’t matter what the franchise was or anything else, what mattered is that people cared and many considered it to be culturally significant.

Disney then made a trilogy without a long term plan other than “make a trilogy”.

The writing was at best lackluster, at worst laughable. Specific examples abound (“somehow, Palpatine returned”) but the major problems are that the core conflict of the middle film of the trilogy was contrived and the third film then had to scramble to cover the glaring, obvious problems. This writing issue eclipses other (still very serious) problems like a lack of character development with the main character, setups without payoffs, and trivializing or bastardizing supporting characters.

No, they just saw the comic that this is plagiarizing.

Did you wave goodbye to the handle as you flew off of it?

I’m just waiting for some dipshit to wander in here and talk about how we need to “examine the relationship” with food and start calling it something like “people fuel” or some other bullshit term.

Bro, you can’t say that to people. No means no.

They could do a time jump.

For a long time I’d get involved with confident, self-possessed women who started picking fights six months into dating because they enjoyed the catharsis. It took me three major relationships to find the line between “assertive” and “mean”.

It takes time and experience to learn lessons, and big problems rarely manifest early on in a relationship. Ignoring red flags is foolish, but misinterpretation happens.

It’s not that you can’t, just that you shouldn’t unless you really, really think about what you’re going to change and do your due diligence. Otherwise, whatever the system is doing and whoever depends on it could get screwed over when someone makes a fucky-wucky because they didn’t do their homework.

Human beings crave agency and usefulness, even the little humans and even in little ways.

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Folks like that make partisanship their whole life, they’ll always find a way.

You said a piece of media was non-partisan and they can’t handle that. They’re addicted to rage, so they’re trying desperately to inject partisanship into this thread.

While a serviceable film, part two was a much looser interpretation of the book. If you’re interested I’d highly recommend reading it.

I am outraged that - let me check my notes - the EIC of The Verge has published an article partially generated by AI.

And then everyone clapped

The greater good.

“The Jedi feel it’s unnatural, savvy?”

Former Civil War reenactor here. The lack of Union reenactors boils down to cost.

The Union army had specific uniforms and equipment that have to be represented no ifs, ands, or buts. That isn’t a problem if you’re a single person or a married couple but it gets prohibitively expensive for families with kids.

The Confederacy had a much more “bring your own gun” kind of approach to the war (given the lack of industry in the South at the time) which allows for greater latitude when it comes to equipment as you can see in the picture. This makes things significantly cheaper for families with teenagers that quickly outgrow their uniforms. My family portrayed Confederates for this exact reason. We could use five or six different colors of wool for our uniforms instead of two and the period accurate guns we could use saved a fortune in the long run.

Later on after all of us kids stopped growing we ended up getting Union uniforms (or at least coats in the correct dark blue) and “galvanized”. Yankees typically win on Sundays (when the crowds tend to be bigger) but having them win outnumbered 4:1 is a little ridiculous. When there weren’t enough Yankees we would put on our blue coats and get put as far away from the crowd as possible to bolster their numbers.

I believe they were in the mouth.