Russia: Genociding wildly
You: "We shouldn't get involved, that would just increase the violence."
The only language people like Putin and Hitler understand is violence, they do what they do because they think nobody will dare stop them.
InvertedParallax
joined 2 years ago
Yeah this is weapons grade stupid.
They'll never see the Hague, the whole argument that Putin and Xi are having is that laws should be enforced by strength of arms, and what're you gonna do about it?!?!
History never sounds pretty when it rhymes.
I'm sorry, that scene did little for me.
How many scenes have we had with jedi getting completely humbled by sith they didn't expect?
Yeah it was great seeing Jason destroy the Jedi. Jason? Yeah, that one hurt.
But he was also wiping everyone we were connected to, we lost the Jedi knight Vaughn the shirtless, as well as the greatest jedi in living history, padawan jecki the competent. It was an orgy and spectacle just to show that yes, evil dude is strong.
Afterwards, did it mean anything? He gave his monologue summing up the ending of Randianist philosophy the next episode, but we still barely had a motivation from him, he was just himself.
It had a lot of promise, but it was a series just to start a series and expand the franchise into the high republic.
They needed more. If you took Andor out of star wars it would still be incredible, if you took the acolyte out of star wars it would make even less sense.
Factories, refineries, oligarchs dachas, yeah pretty much.
Anand la shimpi, the founder, left almost a decade ago, and that seems to have weakened it a good bit, then we got YouTube channels like GN and we just blast them into out feeds quickly because we don't care about the specific numbers as much as a broad brush.
I remember 20 years ago when performance really, really mattered, but now things are so fast it's a difference you can't always easily see unless you're trying to run over 4k and the game is jokingly badly optimized.
The whole problem is that every piece of technology China gets is immediately used by the CCP to enslave them better, it's why they revolutionized omni-surveillance, tracking and biometrics, and their first and strongest application for AI was monitoring their population for anything they consider threatening to their control (ie freedom).
It's why everyone hates China and wants to see them fail horribly, but don't hate India in the same way as they're nominally democratic.
Don't support genocidal fascists and cry like they're the underdog, nobody in history killed more Chinese than the CCP, not even Genghis Khan.
Yeah wrf was that? Even the risc64 visionfive2 used usbpd properly.
It's 2024 and we live in a society.
It still wasn't good.
It wasnt bad, definitely not as terrible as the trolls and neck beards screamed it was, but it was all over the place.
Describe the main character? What's her motivation? They created a whole tragic backstory for her, but for most of the series her only motivation was to basically hang out with her old gang, maybe get back in, but that wasn't clear either.
They had an opportunity to tell a beautiful story, and the setting showed potential, the republic at the height of it's glory.
They overplayed their message, the Jedi order was both perfectly idealistic while also wholly corrupt. The witches suffered prejudice and intolerance, but also violently lashed out at anyone concerned for the wellbeing of their kids, who were basically being abused by a religious cult. Reverse the sexes: if it was a colony of mandalorian men who kept some force sensitive boys against their will how would that play?
None of it really went anywhere, huge strokes that hinted at epic scope and fizzled out. Flashbacks that revealed what was hinted at, but just answered questions without meaning. Finally, the few characters they actually tried to build up, they killed in one huge scene to feed the significance of their main villain.
So many post-covid scripts have this: they start with these beautiful themes and backdrops, but fall apart as the plot is meant to evolve. Almost all the MCU fell for this short of the spidermen.
It drew far too much hate, and it probably deserved a second season to pull itself together, but the first season was a mess.
You need to use those epic backdrops as a lure, to get viewers to be patient while you set up the internal character conflicts that actually matter.
Compare the elevator scene in andor, or just the heist episode to anything in acolyte, it's just not even the same league.
Keep it up till they pull out of Ukraine.
Hell, let's see if we can get them out of Russia at this rate, make the whole country a better place.
The first country the Nazis invaded was Germany.
Is that a show or something? Sounds like one of the old PBS ones I saw 20 years ago or so.
Also where the term "impale" comes from, the Pale was demarcated by poles hammered into the ground, and when you didn't like someone you killed them by jamming them on one of those poles.