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  • As much as i dont want to be the adult saying this to youth. And i won’t be outwardly cynical enough to actually say it to anyone. It is really funny when i know that’s how i felt in my youth, and i know how i feel in my mid-30s. It’s creeping up on me. Tapping me on the shoulder. Wondering why i am still pretending its not there, and no matter how hard i fight and cling on, i am still falling into the realisation that i can’t be a kid forever.





  • This reminds me of my giant turd analogy.

    Basically, there is this giant turd, its enormous, biggest thing you’ve ever seen Everyone is fighting and climbing over each other to touch thia turd. The more of your body that touches the turd the more you own.

    At the bottom, people are barely getting a tip of their finger through the crowds to touch the turd, some cant touch it at all. They are poor or homeless.

    As you move up the turd there are people with a whole hand on the turd, they are coping, they get by, pretty average amount of turd to be touching.

    Some people have two hands on the turd and they do pretty well, quite well off.

    Then theres those who are whole bodies in the turd, they are rolling in it, they have some put away that others can’t touch. They are set for life.

    But then, you look up, and its jeff bezos, elon musk et al. Sitting on the rim of a giant toilet seat in the sky all taking a massive dump…

    Its a shit analogy but its accurate.

    I guess it would be more concise to say the mega rich are eating chicken whilst the rest of us fight for the scraps that fall off the table.






  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldtoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.worldWoooosh!
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    From what i understand, the creation of the OT was a complete mess, and no one knew what the reception was going to be. I think it’s fairly clear by the massive change in quality and budget between new hope and empire.

    It’s fair to say Star Wars became popular when the OT was released, but it didn’t start that way.

    Boba fett had an unreasonably small role in the OT. Watching them again just last week, i was surprised at how little screen time such a memorable character had.

    I can’t really argue with the darth maul thing. The double bladed lightsaber was a huge deal at he time. Everyone wanted to be darth maul when play fighting. Although he was introduced and killed in one film. He was brought back but much later.

    I guess the point wasn’t really that Star Wars, specifically, was nishe, but more that disney only care about making profit and will forego a good story in order to do that. Making something that would have maily appealed to nerd culture into something bland that appeals to as many groups as possible.

    So i would still argue that without disneys influence, that the star wars ST would have been a much smaller, and likely much higher quality end to the series.



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    In the sequal trilogy the actors all forgot that lightsabers dont have the weight of broadswords.

    It was terrible. Disney just doesnt get lightsabers.

    Ahsoka was the first time i saw lightsabers being used properly and although it was still a bit cheesey in places, and despite what people say, i genuinely like the series and thought it did a decent job of expanding on the rebels tv series and setting up for something new.

    I just wish it wasn’t so disney. They make everything with the products they indend to sell afterwards in mind and everything has to be light and fluffy. They just need everything to appeal to as large an audience as possible. Cant they just cultivate something nishe, or multiple nishes and make money from each nishe individually instead of making everything generic and bland?



  • I’ve had a look into it, and it doesn’t work if you try to do it mathmatically. You always need more than 3 gos on the seesaw.

    There is a solution in the replies to my original comment that is the actual solution, and it works every time and is much simpler than any grouping method.

    It involves assigning a letter to each person and then aligning that with a grid of positions “left” or “right” or “none” on the seesaw. Over the three rounds. So, person A is on the right all three rounds person b is on the right for 2 rounds then on the left for the 3rd round.

    You end up with a list of 12 patterns that do not repeat or mirror any other pattern like “LLL” “LLR” “LRR” “LR-” etc. Then you do all three rounds and compare the position the seesaw was in with those patterns.

    If the seesaw was down on the left 2 times the down on the right the third time then you look for which person had that pattern in this case it was person B. So they are the one with a different weight and they were heavier.

    Equally, if the opposite pattern occurred. It was down on the right 2 times, then down on the left for round, then that is the opposite pattern of person B and does not occur anywhere else, so it was person B, and they were lighter.

    person:  A B C D E F G H I J K L
    
    round 1: L L L L R R R R — — — -
    
    round 2: L L R R R — — — L R L -
    
    round 3: L R R — — L R — L L — R