Smeagolicious

Smh, should be counselor Garak. Bashir will get lonely otherwise :(

same vibe, need laser monis though

Oh if China is using "AI" to steal secrets, tech, IP, what have you, then uncritical support lol

In the ideal world yes. IP is a fuck but under a capitalist system I still think artists should be able to sell their work and not have it used by machine learning programs to undercut them without their consent. For industry stuff? I don't really care but I think individual independent artists having some IP control under this absurd system is slightly better than just fucking them all over entirely.

Edit: the copyrighting words, concepts, and techniques shit has to stop though

Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path.

Idk I think Nas'hrah has a good head on his....well he has a good head anyway

I prefer the laid back Jjaro method of "whoever we see first is the leader I guess"

I GM a lot of the newer FFG SWRPG and my friends & I joked about it and the Mandalorian straight up stealing characters and setpieces from my campaigns lol

Edit: the early rebellion might be my favorite setting for the rpgs for the reasons I said above. It's a lot of fun to play the no-glamour no-glory agents of the revolution ngl.

Which I think is cool! I just hate to see them compared and given recognition over more "traditional" genres because of popularity. It's honestly like comparing apples and oranges. The offstage mechanics are their own hugely exploitable portion of gameplay that aren't really reflected in the likes of Street Fighter or Tekken etc. and deserve recognition, but damn did I get salty about people trash talking SF in comparison to smash, or for derivative platform fighters like Multiversus 🤮 winning at TGA (tbh a pointless award but yk) over beloved series.

I think that's reasonable - I kinda enjoyed it for being a grittier contrast to the spectacular and fun OT adventures. With Rogue One and Andor I get the vibe of what the resistance to the empire could look like to average grunts without fancy space swords and magic destinies. I definitely wouldn't want all the SW films to be like them (in the hypothetical universe where SW films were good anymore) but I still enjoyed em for what they were.

Solo is much more like the over the top heist movie you mention but it has its own host of problems, not the smallest of which is the ridiculous "lol sjw" droid's rights activist character.

I can see how some people didn't enjoy them for being too much fanservice but I just sort of excuse the OT references (aside from the dumb out of place bit character cameos) as what the ground level war would look like during the same time period as the other movies. Red Letter Media was going off about "ATST ATST! STAR DESTROYERS!!!" and I'm just sitting there like, yeah, they'd have those in the empire's military lol. It's established world material that I didn't find too egregious.

The Vader scene though? 100% fanservice and I'll cop to that. I can enjoy little a fanservice as a treat tho, but just as an occasional hint of flavor on top.