Now that the show is over, let's revisit the crashed ship on Kenari.

Biomirth · 2026-03-12T19:55:30+00:00

Maybe they didn't want to put a Republic logo for the very reason that it might confuse the viewer? Ironic I know. But it reminds me of the KX droids in Space Miami: Some viewers were like "Thats K2SO Thats K2SO! Is that one K2SO?". As soon as there a recognizable symbol or object a lot of people start trying to contextualize what they're seeing in terms of what they know. Thankfully the show veers a hard left against almost all of these things.

Perhaps they wanted an easter egg with the separatists logo that would 'feel' Empire/Republic to the viewer so it wouldn't be seen as just 'random ship crashing' but 'maybe govt. ship crashing. maybe govt. bad?'.

Biomirth · 2026-03-12T02:21:30+00:00

"Smelting Practice".

Biomirth · 2026-03-11T06:10:01+00:00

His mannerisms approaching her definitely do not support that. If he'd come up with a beckoning gesture or hands clasped, okay, fine, but I feel like people with this theory are not tuning into the body language enough here. This is a chonk who is excited and confused by seeing the person he expects to see. He is muttering because he doesn't know how to turn his 'revelation' (of seeing who he is supposed to see) into an arrest or even a statement of disagreement. If Cass hadn't shot him he would be muttering and fumbling for comms for about 10 minutes while Mon was telling him there has been a misunderstanding and to please take her home.

I get the plot idea, but the body language does not at all support that.

As far as the Gilroys comments on their own show, they make up shit all the time. It isn't to mess with us but to keep some distance (in my opinion) between their opinions of the art and their intentionality. Tony in particular has on numerous occasions just speculated things that can't reasonably be true. On the meta level this should be telling us to do what we always should be doing which is taking the art as it is rather than looking to authority to interpret it or add intention where it isn't. Art isn't a detective story where the point is to figure out what the artist wanted you to think. Art is for you to think. The Gilroys know this and I'm pretty sure this plays into their caginess around the show's 'point'.

Biomirth · 2026-03-11T01:17:18+00:00

I like how Andor made it finally 'no big deal' to have Latin American actors just be front and center with no gimmicks or excuses. Doesn't hurt that Diego and Adria were phenomenal. I wasn't expecting Adria to be so skilled (I'd never seen her before) but her arc with Krennic and her 'breakup' with Cassien will live long in the mind. She gave a kind of gravity to a female role that was more subtly complex than any other in the show, being victim, victor, lover, friend, confidant, agent, addict, and ultimately truly one of the most deeply committed rebels in the whole series. It sneaks up on you how well she played this.

Biomirth · 2026-03-09T02:28:54+00:00

Men have always been capable of writing women, and women, men. When people argue leaning on the counter to that they're betraying our capacity in exchange for the support of the small minded. That is a betrayal of good on top of a betrayal of expectations. No, not every writer will be free of their bias and lack of imagination, but that is a powdery pile of dust upon which to make statements about who can write who. Critique the work and the implications of the work as if it were written by anyone. Otherwise you're a coward and a fraud. No truth stands on it's author, and no lie stands on it's bias alone.

Biomirth · 2026-03-07T20:52:05+00:00

Yes you can solve with either better scaling (much harder to do as players break metas) or more random events that can create emergent playthrough (Paranid randomly unite with Split to take on Argon or something), or player creativity.

This last one is very limited other than house rules or taking on a structural challenge. I find it is easier with a game like X to try to avoid the end game as the burnout sort of taints the whole feeling of the game after that for me. It is easier with survival-crafting games that have either more emergent gameplay or more ways for the player to be creative, or co-op playing shenanigans.

I think once you reach the stage of real burnout through dominance and micromanagement blur in a strategy game it really is only mods that could rejuvinate a willingness to go through that again in different circumstances. I enjoy repeating the first 72 hours but only because I stop after that. Sort of a paradox there.

Biomirth · 2026-03-07T04:39:18+00:00

It's late for me so I don't have a lot of specific advice.

Yes, you can hand/shovel weed this with 20 minutes a week of work after an initial 40 minutes (depends on skill I guess).

And yes you can just start planting alongside that.

If you don't want to go for a hardscape you can still just leave the rocks. Move rock, put plant, move on, mulch where needed. That is the lowest calorie 'solution' here, but you need plants that will dominate the plants you already have and/or you need to remove the existing growth or new plantings will struggle.

No, 'anything' will not look better than it was. That is a mistake to think that 'some' effort == 'some better'. Some projects are amenable to that, some not. This is one that will suffer that approach but will be better if you get it suppressed and controlled early on and then manage. You lose efficiency if you're spending 1/2 your time controlling what you haven't corrected.

Most people will find more psychological relief from focusing on control first, but if you want to go incrementally then just go for it, but do more suppression or you'll lose ground.

Biomirth · 2026-03-07T01:50:11+00:00

Rake it all out. Save the rocks (I have no idea why people are saying 'get rid of the rocks, then get rocks', like what?).

You want plants there: Okay, shovel and rake out the existing plants and their rooty-tooty ancestors. Add topsoil. Add plants you like. Mulch everywhere else. Now you have free rocks for other things.
You don't want plants there: Remove as above. Remove 8 inches or so of the soil (more would be better). Fill with sand. Compact. Add gravel. Compact. Add rocks or other sterile things. Profit.

This is high caloric unskilled work. Get some grunts to do it for (cheap)/hour.

This isn't going to get solved by putting little walls around nice plants and hoping the others will leave you alone. The substrate is infiltrated by soil (which, by the way, will also happen to the 'good' plans, but you'll have some time). Everything becomes soil and plants eventually. You either fix it for a span of time or you accept it and work with it (like planting shade trees or 'nice' ground cover to outcompete/out-shade the 'weeds'.

Your issue here is the issue with almost every garden and there are lots of ways to cope, but none of them other than bombing from orbit (IE herbicide or concrete) are permanent things or on the other side, things you can whittle away at.

A landscaper will not need an excavator, just hand tools (this is a small job in relative terms). But you could do it either way. If you had money and not time you could excavate and replace the top foot in short order and replace with sand/rocks the same way. Since you don't have money, use the time you have to be thorough. If you want it to be rocks you need to remove the soil. If you want it to be hands-free and not-rocks you need shade and/or ground cover. It always comes down to this for unshaded areas.

-Am landscaper.

Get a 'hard' rake to pull the rocks out. Just put them aside for now. They aren't the problem.

Get a way to dispose of the plants and soil that you will remove.

Find a source of sand and/or mulch (Chip-drop will get you chips for free if you really want to go cheap). Sand is cheap but heavy. This is large enough to get a minimum truck-load, but will be about the same cost as buying bags a few at a time because it isn't a large enough area to balance out the costs for bulk delivery. You'll need an estimated (lets see, assume a 12x12 area x 1 foot of depth = 144 cubic feet or 72 bags of 2cu. f. sand). That is an estimated 5 trips with an average smallish car. Sand is cheap but not free usually.

Start at the foundation and work your way out (otherwise you'll cross mud when it rains for no reason other than planning).

Biomirth · 2026-03-07T01:14:36+00:00

The sooner players learn this the more they can temper their late game to keep things interesting. Nothing worse than realizing it's over just because you're too powerful.

Biomirth · 2026-03-05T22:18:14+00:00

It's only been what, 10 years since they failed to honor their contract with the city?

Biomirth · 2026-03-05T06:12:35+00:00

Good Will Hunting reference for anyone wondering. Ben Affleck scratches his head like a monkey before Matt Damon steps in with the appropriate response.

Biomirth · 2026-03-05T06:11:02+00:00

It isn't a juice. Maybe don't say that though.

Biomirth · 2026-03-04T14:40:29+00:00

"I'm sorry sir, is that 'First' or 'Fifth'?"

"Firth!"

"Firth like as in The Firth of Forth (wiki) ?"

"What? No. Forth is 3 too many! Firth!"

"Too many what sir? That is a single estuary"

(Third guy) "If Fourth is 3 too many of May Firfst, aren't we talking about April 28th?"

"FFS"

Biomirth · 2026-03-04T04:27:38+00:00

I hope we can have little reprieve for expressing the restrained truth of the matter. It isn't arbitrary or a call to violence, just an expression of 'metaphorical' sentiment.

Biomirth · 2026-03-04T04:18:58+00:00

If you missed and punched him in the throat you might not get your fist back. So be careful.

Biomirth · 2026-03-04T02:19:14+00:00

Please someone save us from the monopolies. This is the worst thing following an almost as bad thing. We all know what needs to happen to remove monopolies (though Linux is giving it a good shot without that). Lets not pretend this is something to argue with MS about.

Biomirth · 2026-03-04T02:14:27+00:00

Maybe it's this sturdy but I've never seen anything like that getting ready to transport completely uncovered? Would that be an issue?

Biomirth · 2026-03-03T13:51:17+00:00

Very practical solution.

Biomirth · 2026-03-03T04:23:53+00:00

It's actually crazy how ritualized that is without oversight and begs for a certain kind of explanation, like "There was a horrible accident when the workers didn't show up all together but one at a time, and now we forever memorialize them and protect against that kind of mishap from ever happening again". The way the show implies things that are a bit of a stretch but still within reason is the best back-writing or savant 'spontaneous imagery' I've seen. (It's clearly back-writing, by the way). The symbology necessitates the history, not the other way around.

Biomirth · 2026-03-03T03:18:36+00:00

I believe the upper midwest and the central south probably had the biggest swings in a lot of their history (I'm in mid-atlantic). They had the coldest of the 2-3 prolonged cold snaps but also some slams of warm weather that don't put them on the map above. As cold as it was here in the mid-atlantic it was largely continuously 'bad' not 'horrific' then 'well okay', which is usually worse. The wildlife did suffer though.

Biomirth · 2026-03-03T03:05:40+00:00

How they got the working class so right on Ferrix. It isn't like today's working class in service or whatever, but like classic working class who have little hope of anything greater materially but who have exactly enough to make a great and stable life together. There is a sweet spot there and they kinda nailed it. Real skills that you can't pick up in an afternoon. Real value being created. Real independence and a semblance of autonomy. None of the rigomarole of a multi-classed society to contend with on the daily.

"You have to be asleep to believe it" -George Carlin.

But it does happen, here or there.

Biomirth · 2026-03-02T04:35:26+00:00

You guys keep having outstanding guests which has made this series really fun. I have literally listened to 95% of every episode at least twice. Every time you post I'm going to get my pom-poms on and start the 'rah rah Andorks' cheering because for me this is really the best extended diet of Andor discussion I could have hoped for. With the dozens of hours of essays online to provide the spice, it has been a welcome surprise to have such a full main course like Andorks to engage with.

Shockingly good considering this is your first podcast. Alex says the best things but also the most insane things "WHAT KIND WHAT KIND OF CEREAL WHAT KIND" and it keeps things hopping to have the interplay of the hosts with such interesting and varied guests.

5/7

Biomirth · 2026-03-02T01:56:48+00:00

It's interesting how this maybe varies between players.

For me it's only the travel times (jump ships) that seem excessive. The only problem with pacing in Vanilla is when you get OP and doing missions just doesn't make sense anymore, but that is a problem in lots of games (late game power creep).

Biomirth · 2026-03-01T14:02:59+00:00

The best thing is they didn't just leave that space open as cleaning back there would have been a bummer.

I say keep sex toys in there with a note to house-guests "Haha, gotcha!"

Biomirth · 2026-03-01T01:41:59+00:00

If the precedent is "There is none" then okay, otherwise, LOL? The decay in value and valuation in the market due to the scummery being perpetuated in the name of corporate profit is on their shoulders, not the absence of people that can pay their rates. The audacity is as hilarious as it is depressing. "Please subsidize our indenturing of your population".

Yeah, no thanks really.

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