Love y'all as well!!!

The idea that a successful rebellion and coup detat of the empire wouldn't have ended with a massive purge of the imperial officer class and its wealthy collaborators sounds like the most liberal brainwormed shit imaginable to me TBH.

Like ok sure: it makes sense to me that within the new Republic you would probably have influential figures who successfully downplayed their involvement and/or up sold what they could contribute to the new government enough that they were given a pass after renouncing the empire. I also believe and like the idea that many of these individuals publicly renounced the empire but either privately still agreed with it ideologically or straight up didn't have an ideology beyond maintaining raw naked wealth and power.

.... but FFS I simply just do not accept that you would be comfortable saying that shit out loud in public on the fucking floor of the senate. Privately half jokingly saying it at one of your corellian wine tasting parties or whatever is one thing...but these guys should/would be terrified of getting tarred and feathered out in public or having their career ruined because they are exposed as imperial apologists.

Yeah your right of course. I don't disagree it's perfectly in sync with current continuity... I just really don't like it.

I fucking hate that episode because its complete fucking bullshit that basically suggests the rebel alliance and the fall of the empire was basically meaningless and robs the original trilogy of all meaning and significance.

This is a kinda weird thing to fixate on I guess but I feel like I would be way more hyped up for this game if the main character kept the hat on or something. Their silhouette is just so boring to me and its oddly killing my interest in a game I would probably love in terms of gameplay.

Yeah, 100% recognize I am privileged to be able to do it. Not everyone can...but by God I wish everyone could.

I have absolutely done this and fully encourage everyone who has the ability to follow suite. The best part is I got a fucking productivity spot bonus two weeks ago. Seriously: fuck the cult of work. Its all bullshit. Live your best fucking life comrades!!! I play hookie all the time to go see my 9 year olds school events.

I've been to a few tournaments including Evo last year to compete in Street Fighter 6(excited to go again this year). Gotta say I went expecting con funk but everyone was smelling kinda fresh. Seems like the FGC got the memo to shower in the hotel and stocked up on speedstick.

Then....coming back it hit me immediately. Some of the foulest B.O. I've ever experienced and it was coming from two dudes I was sandwiched between on my 3 hour return flight back. The minute the flight took off they both pulled out their switches and booted up Smash Bros. I hate to stereotype...buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut......

I would argue that it's quite reductive to suggest that having 'higher wages" is more to lose than being able to have "whatever sort of relationship they want".

I think it's accurate to say that men tend to perceive themselves as having more to lose than gain under feminist liberation...but i would argue that perception itself is based on falsehoods steming from patriarchy.

Misandry definitely isn't a systemic issue but I feel the need to push back to say: men are systemically oppressed. The whole point of the concept of patriarchy is that while the form is different both men and women can be both oppressed and oppressors under it. Part of the entire reason why MRAs are completely full of shit is that basically all of the issues they are concerned with, to the extent that they are real issues, (ie family court) can all be traced back to patriarchy and capitalism.

Honestly the older I get the more sense this stuff makes and the more I appreciate this. Life is too short for loading screens.

As someone who has and will continue to argue for games as art: it is a huge embarrassment and indictment how most companies treat their own legacy IPs. Like when a studio rereleases a crown jewel film like Lawrence of Arabia its assumed that they'll treat it with the legacy and respect such a title deserves and spare no expense opting for a full restoration with the latest technology. Often they'll even try to pull in the original director or cinematographer to sign off on it and make sure everything is as it was intended.

Meanwhile you have shit like Sega releasing Sonic Origins as a complete buggy mess with fans left to try and salvage it and them delisting every other port. Shit like this is just the icing on the cake for how little they actually give a shit about preserving any of this stuff.

The saddest/most hilarious part is that the people whinning are completely ignoring the fact that Yasuke seems to be less "main character" and more "costar". It seems like you have the option to play as a Japanese Shinobi for the overwhelming majority (if not entirety) of the core game if that's your preference. I guess they probably still view that as pandering though. Lord knows there have never been female assasins, lol.

I wonder if this is the same type of person who has said and believed: "Adolf Hitler would have been remembered as a great man if it weren't for the Holocaust."

I don't know what the timeline actually looks like but its gonna be both funny and sad just how many people screaming "TAIWAN IS A COUNTRY" anytime the words Chinese Taipei get whispered just straight up evaporate when the inevitable happens. Its hilarious how literally none of them have any clue why they give a shit about what the region is named.

My S.O. posited this question to me and I choose the bear also and am surprised people here are pushing back against it.

Granted: if I'm lost in the woods I might have a different answer but assuming I know where I am and I stumble on a bear it's incredibly statistically likely the bear is just minding its own business and isn't gonna get involved in my business and I can probably scare it off if it starts to approach me easily enough.

If I encounter a strange person I'm immediately wondering what their reasons for being there even are. Sure: they might be the same as mine....but maybe they aren't. Impossible to say for sure. The bear is a known quantity. It's supposed to be there. I and the other person in the woods, generally speaking, aren't.

Have been a young naive computer toucher and can second this. It is a thing. Often the company owners just want to drag you along and feel like ballers for the night. Its fucking painful and I'm so happy I'm remote and established enough I don't have to play along anymore.

Only thing I know for sure is that this is an absolute banger.

I think for me the horrifying thing and threat is less that AI can scramble together enough noise to make this and more that we might move to a world where an actual human being feels no need to do so. Art is a human endeavor not because human beings need to consume content but rather because human beings I believe have a need to create things. Where does this leave the artist under capitalism though when someone can just spit these out of a computer?

I agree with the take that this is a call to arms to decommodify all this shit. Upholding copyright law is bass ackwards and a complete deadend.

Yeah...TBH this seems more like either:

A) The thing that caused them to expedite something they already wanted to do.

B) This is less the quiet part out loud and more the thing they are allowed to say out loud in public. Like its more palatable and acceptable to call this the "end hamas grooming act" as opposed to the "Facebook and Meta relief act".

I think both are probably actual motivations that overlap.

Street fighter vi. The game has basically consumed my life. I'm currently wrapping up a weekend at a tournament.