FaceDeer

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

<Sighs, peeks into the thread to see if there's even the slightest bit of actual scientific discussion, sees exactly what he expected instead, leaves.>

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 32 points 1 year ago

After he finishes bombing Rafah flat, of course. One must focus on priorities in a crisis.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 65 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Evidently most of the fandom needs to have it beaten over their heads a bit more blatantly than that.

Another thing that would have been helpful is if it was made clearer just how monstrous the Ewoks actually are. There wouldn't be as much shame to the Imperials for losing against them if people had only internalized a bit better that:

  • Ewoks are strong enough that they can haul Redwood-sized logs up into the canopy to build deadfalls, using only crude vine ropes and muscles, and do it quietly enough that the nearby Imperial garrison didn't notice.
  • They are stealthy enough that an ordinary hunting party can sneak up on an elite Rebel strike force (including a Jedi).
  • That hunting party was hunting a 3-meter-tall boar-wolf, by the way. Ewoks hunt these routinely.
  • Endor is full of predators like that, and despite that the Ewoks let their children wander the forest on their own. Upon being confronted with an armor-clad alien wielding a blaster weapon and riding a flying machine, one of those lone children thought to himself: "guess I'd better kill him." Leia helped, of course, but the Ewok couldn't have known she would.
  • One of their literal gods, personified in the form of a physical avatar before them, ordered the Ewoks not to burn some people alive and devour their flesh. The Ewoks hesitated for half a second and then resumed piling the firewood with a jaunty song. Gods are spiffy and all, but don't get in between Ewoks and their cannibalism.
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"They fly now" is a similarly atrocious example given that they've been flying for decades, just not in any of the main trilogy movies yet.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

even if it demanded Simone Biles levels of mental gymnastics to save Carrie Fisher's most emotionally resonant moment from ROTJ

I don't think it's "gymnastics" to imagine that an orphan toddler might end up with some false memories of what she imagines her mother was like.

What I'd rather have had as a tiny change to "improve" the situation would be to confirm that Palpatine used some kind of Dark Side alchemy to drain Padme's life to keep Vader alive, I really like that notion. Wouldn't need to be with dialogue, even, just have some kind of scene showing Palpatine meditating and channeling something.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bitcoin's base protocol is never going to change, it's become a fundamentalist faith.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago

And they also dual-licensed most of the 5e SRD under Creative Commons as part of the "oh crap we didn't expect everyone to be mad enough to actually hurt our bottom line" drawback from the OGL debacle.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago

It's just a matter of land management. Many of those grassland areas used to have other large grazing animals on them, so as long as the cattle herds aren't bigger than those old herds it should be sustainable.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 38 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Gallium wants a word.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends who they're attacking.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 27 points 1 year ago

Those all sound like pretty awesome projects in their own right, though.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

Do you think people in non-capitalist societies only eat the healthiest of foods?

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