VindictiveJudge

When you’re fighting human, sure, but our mane probably evolved before we were our own greatest predator.

People punish because we’re fucking animals, we feel jealousy and rage and bloodlust. An AI would not. It would do the cold calculations and see no potential benefit to harming anyone on that scale, at least not for those reasons.

That’s a hell of a lot of assumptions about the thought processes of a being that doesn’t exist. For all we know, emotions could arise as emergent behavior from simple directives, similar to how our own emotions are byproducts of base instincts. Even if we design it to be emotionless, which seems unlikely given that we’ve been aiming for human-like AIs for a while now, we don’t know that it would stay that way.

Speaking of chess, you might be able to argue that some old RTS games are puzzle games when playing campaign, such as the first Command & Conquer. You often have very limited resources, the AI will do specific things at specific times or with specific triggers, and you’re often given specific constraints, like a time limit or keeping a specific thing alive. In this case, though, it’s mostly because the AI is so primitive that almost every action is scripted in advance for that specific map.

That’s about the extent of her French, though.

It helps to think of your hair as essentially being a mane. Remember, lion manes also expose their forehead.

The movie had some other solid stuff. Rey has a natural affinity for the dark side, but that she chooses the light in spite of that is what makes her the hero. Similarly, Kylo is a natural with the light but chooses the dark. The dark side also isn’t evil so much as it is playing with fire, which was a popular interpretation in the old EU. Rey and Finn are also given actual motivations instead of just pinballing through the plot. Whether the motivations actually work is a different question, but the fact they had no reason to be there in TFA really bugged me.

I do still think Rey and Kylo should have traded sides in the throne room scene, though.

IT’S BEEN TEN MINUTES, WHERE IS THE ART?!?!?111?!?1

What about the pigeon poop?

Well, most of the time, anyway. Biology is far too messy for that to be a hard and fast rule, as it turns out.

I think it’s a reference to Lucas editing the movies to account for later released ones.

Actually not. Just not as funny as it sounded in my head.

That would check out. Have you seen how many heavy metal bands are composed of nazis?

No, but he wanted to.

The Jedi Order always implodes due to the council gradually becoming terrified that their knights will fall to the dark side and turning draconian. Someone rebels and takes the whole thing down, usually with Sith help. The survivors get a much healthier world view, then eventually rebuild the Order in a more enlightened manner. Then the Order decays and implodes again. The Jedi seem to be at their best as a philosophy rather than as an organization.

Also forgetting Stephanie Brown, though she did have the shortest tenure.

Galactic population also would have been right back where it was in, at most, a few centuries. It was a stopgap solution at best. And his comics motivation wasn’t anything noble; he just wanted to bang Death and thought omnicide would turn her on.

Starkiller Base can move. It can only fire the main gun once before it needs to relocate and consume another star.

The Death Star’s main gun even runs on kyber crystals, making it likely an actual fork of lightsaber tech.

Tractor beams have limits. You would probably need a fleet of Cubes to tractor the Death Star.

Stars have been demonstrated to be too much for a Cube’s shields, so that strategy is out. Interestingly, Federation shields consistently hold up longer in that scenario. It’s likely the Borg favor a low energy but high efficiency design that’s good at neutralizing specific energy bands or something, but can’t handle all of them at once. The Feds, on the other hand, just make super tanky shields.

But yeah, if the Death Star doesn’t manage to kill it with the main gun before it gets within transporter range, then the Cube wins. Even a single drone will compromise the station. The Empire’s best bet would be to have Vader on board and close enough to the infection to get there before a few hundred crew are assimilated.

A Star Destroyer might have better odds simply because it does have shields, but the Borg are routinely shown transporting through shields anyway, so who knows.

I think the real problem is that they were using virgins for a fertility festival. They should get that one couple that has fifteen kids but can only keep track of two at a time.