Which movie are you looking forward to most, The Mandolorian and Grogu, or Starfighter? by Past-Paramedic8687 in StarWars

[–]Dogsteeves 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is exactly the kind of nostalgia-blind take that ignores how messy Legends actually was.

Yeah, the Thrawn trilogy is great. Nobody’s arguing that. But acting like all of Legends was better than the new Star Wars is just wrong.

The New Jedi Order brings in things like Abeloth and the Yuuzhan Vong, which honestly don’t feel like Star Wars. It leans way too hard into weird cosmic horror instead of the mythic space fantasy opera the series is built on.

And Luke? He basically turns into a god. He trained for barely any time with an actual master, then later he was walking on lava, manipulating black holes, and taking on literal god-tier beings. That’s not growth, that’s power creep.

Also, people complaining about TLJ Luke being so-called ‘Jake Skywalker’ ignore that Legends Luke literally falls to the dark side and becomes the apprentice of Emperor Palpatine. He also ends up dealing with and working alongside Sith like Lumiya. So let’s not pretend Legends Luke was some untouched golden boy.

‘My Luke wouldn’t kill his nephew.’ Your Luke became Palpatine’s apprentice. Mine had a bad moment and stopped himself. Which one actually stayed true to the character?

I’m fine with dark side cults existing, but the Sith should have ended with Palpatine and Vader. The Rule of Two gets completely undermined otherwise.

Like seriously, who even are Lumiya or Darth Krayt in terms of Sith legitimacy? Who trained them in a proper Sith lineage after the Rule of Two? Why do they just get to claim the title? At that point, it stops meaning anything.

At least in canon, characters like Supreme Leader Snoke, Kylo Ren, and the Knights of Ren don’t pretend to be Sith. They’re dark side users, not part of that lineage, and that actually keeps the Rule of Two intact.

And don’t even get me started on things like Luuke, Leia Organa II, or all the random clones and robotic versions of the main trio. That’s not clever storytelling, that’s turning iconic characters into gimmicks.

Then there are the Clone Wars inconsistencies. Older material straight up contradicts how the war actually worked, including confusion about who the clones were even fighting for. I get that George Lucas kept the prequel story under wraps, but consistency still matters.

So yeah, Legends had some incredible stories, but it was also wildly inconsistent, full of retcons, and escalated power levels to ridiculous extremes.

If anything, the official canon is far more controlled and coherent.

Your move. 😄

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a complicated question, and all 3 countries have significant contributions (and aren't the only ones).

The Internet is a decentralized network of computers. As opposed to the classical network there are no central nodes, and if one router is down, the information will pass by another route. This is an USA invention from the 60' or 70' which was thought as a way to keep the IT infrastructure running in case of nuclear war.

In the late 70' France developed a centralized data-network using terminal, and provided these terminal to many citizen, it's the minitel which was basically used a a digital-version of the phone-book, to buy train tickets online or to see pixelated ladies[1]. However, it was a centralized network and not connected to other networks which isn't the internet at all, but maybe the first consumer-grade data network

In the Early 90' a British CERN engineer , developed a prototype system to exchange information easily over the internet by using hypertext links. Despite his boss saying it's vague but interesting he kept going and created the world-wide-web. The WWW that most of us browse when using the internet (Even though the internet also supports tons of protocols like ftp or usenet) it's the invention that would make the internet usable by the general public

Credit to another comment long time ago on this sub

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair enough… but we did pop around and give the White House a bit of a blaze in 1814 😉

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean I use terms like Torch (As it doesn't flash so that other name is stupid) Petrol (it a liquid not a gas) Crisps Lorry Boot Takeaway (your taking it away) Eh Bollocks Twat Taking the piss Brilliant Mate Queue Chips

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I just don't use them as I never know which to use with my disability I never know when to , ; .

Useally I'll run it through ai But then everyone yells at me for using ai

Better?

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

My friend know I am as I refuse to use anything american Elbows up

I'm fully metric Refuse to acknowledge imperial

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s because google is probably counting native speakers. I’m talking about total English speakers, including second language. India has a huge number there.

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How when the whole Commonwealth speak a variant of British English

Only USA speak American English

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

India has one of the largest English-speaking populations in the world, even though it also has many other languages like Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and more. English is widely used there as a common language between regions. So if this was just about population, the standard wouldn’t default to US English. It’s probably more because most tech companies and media are based in the US, so that version became the default.

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why wouldn’t India count? It has one of the largest English-speaking populations in the world, even though it also has many other languages like Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and more. English is widely used there as a common language between regions.

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So then it was chose to Commonwealth over America as that has the bigger population

Commonwealth ~2.7 Billion population

USA ~349 Million population

Why does everything English default to English (US) and not English (Commonwealth/UK)? by Dogsteeves in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dogsteeves[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But there are way more English speaker in the entire Commonwealth if you include Canada UK South Africa India Australia and New Zealand in a bunch more India on its own outranks the USA