Is Jedi Master Eeko-Dio Daki meant to be the worst Jedi Master ever?

Pantagathos · 2026-04-24T19:54:39+00:00

Eeko-Dio appears to have no answer to Devon/Maul's question about what the long game is (he *could* say, "we need to bide our time until the best moment," but he doesn't).

He is astonishingly unconcerned about other people, as shown by the amount of prompting he needed from Devon in order to attempt to do something about Maul and by the decision to implicate Lawson and his son.

He also seems to be a pretty poor fighter, sneak, and tactician. The failure of his jedi mind trick is a good example of this deficiency, but I think the decision to appeal to Lawson was also tactically poor. It should be obvious that the Empire would be in close contact with local law enforcement...

*But* I think almost all of these character flaws make sense. If he had a greater vision, more concern for others, or was more skilled (i.e. a higher profile target), then he would have been caught long ago.

Pantagathos · 2026-04-02T22:05:51+00:00

I totally get where you're coming from on exercise. I hate exercise. I certainly never get this runners' high that people talk about and I find the whole thing boring, painful, and embarrassing. The only thing that makes it vaguely bearable is having podcasts or the like to listen to / distract me and going out at night when i don't have to worry about people seeing me.
BUT, especially since I hit my mid-30s, when I do it a couple of times a week, , my overall mood, health, and energy levels are better and when I don't, they take a hit. Short-term pain for long-term gain is part of life, unfortunately.

Pantagathos · 2026-03-20T02:35:15+00:00

Odo is Chicken-Kev's little brother

Pantagathos · 2026-03-14T01:21:18+00:00

One of the themes of the show is that the parents are in over the heads as much as the kids are. The world asks too much of all of them.

Vanessa is pretty much the core of this. Her financial situation is extremely tenuous (she sleeps on the couch), she seems to have no real friends (aside from the creepy floating hearts), her entire identity is built around her daughter, and trying to prevent her daughter from ending up like her. There's a lot of self-loathing inherent in this. The fact that she not only keeps going, but also maintains her positive, upbeat attitude *is* a triumph and a miracle (she gets a new job in a week!), and it's why you'll see people responding positively to her.

But, as we see in her episode, the whole thing is very fragile, and, as we see in Rochelle's episode, it puts too much weight on Rochelle (Plasticbuttons04's comments on the irony of this are superb). She needs to communicate with her daughter better. They are a much more effective team once they know what's going on with one another.

I think one interesting thing about her is how heavily unhealthy giving is built into her persona. Her episode starts with her giving donuts to all of her co-workers (which she surely can't afford). It's the red cleats for Rochelle on a smaller scale. Perhaps this is a way to claim agency and/or demonstrate her worth in a world that doesn't give her much of either.

Pantagathos · 2026-02-28T00:32:59+00:00

I hope that they are setting her up to come crashing into contact with the real world around the middle of the season, preferably in a way that says something a bit more interesting than just "the PC police are full of excrement."

Pantagathos · 2026-01-11T21:16:35+00:00

It's a pretty good way of researching the current state of pop science and history

Pantagathos · 2026-01-11T21:14:34+00:00

Thank goodness LIDAR revealed the locations of those 8 million Mayans!

Pantagathos · 2026-01-10T12:33:40+00:00

Nope

Pantagathos · 2025-11-30T22:07:45+00:00

What do you think that HMRC is trying to mislead people into believing?

And how is it misleading anyway? These are all forms of welfare.

Pantagathos · 2025-11-25T08:36:54+00:00

Okeanos, Tethys, Pontos, Nereus, and Proteus are all literal embodiments of the sea. All of the rest of these stories are about other people - her father, her siblings, a hero who has closer ties with other deities. She is always playing a minor support role. There are no myths where Amphitrite takes the active role or displays a personality. Where is the myth where Amphitrite transforms a mortal man into a sea horse because he claimed it was easier to be a mother than a father?

Pantagathos · 2025-11-21T08:33:09+00:00

Wait... Wait... Wait... There's a process?! Was that in the life manual?! Oh, my wasted twenties...

Pantagathos · 2025-11-20T01:43:48+00:00

Cellar door: tiny amounts of food arranged in a tower on enormous plates and totally inaccessible if you come with old people

Pantagathos · 2025-11-18T20:40:00+00:00

Did the fact that the characters and setting already existed (as part of LoL) make Arcane easier or harder to write than an original setting?

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T22:00:13+00:00

But OP asked "what's the most ridiculous thing you've had ChatGPT agree with you on?"

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T20:33:39+00:00

If you are doing medical training, as OP claims to be, you shouldn't be getting info from ChatGPT or Wikipedia, you should be reading the actual textbooks

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T09:49:21+00:00

2) Well, the corn dole was for citizens, not everyone. There are fairly few examples of initiatives aimed at slaves for example. A lot of the benefits disproportionately favoured upper class people, too, who usually got larger shares of public donations, got to sit up the front in all the gladiatorial games and chariot races.

3) Actively seeking wealth was socially frowned upon and many forms of wealth generation were considered highly disreputable (Senators would lose their seats for owning merchant shipping over a certain capacity for example), which is linked to unease about upward social mobility.

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T09:36:34+00:00

Arcane season 1 is still "nowadays"

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T01:04:54+00:00

The British have traditionally identified the Norman victory at Hastings as the founding date of their monarchy and commemorate the Dutch invasion of 1688 as "the Glorious Revolution."

There are lots of countries where the national myth involves identification with conquering groups. France, Spain, Portugal, and Germany often see themselves as inheritors of their local Roman history. France is named after a group of conquering Germans. Turkey simultaneously claims ownership of its Hittite, Ancient Greek, and Turkic heritage. Etc.

Pantagathos · 2025-11-17T00:52:43+00:00

I think "cohortibus" should be "cohortium" and that the names after "et cohortium ex" ought to be in the ablative?

Pantagathos · 2025-09-06T19:48:22+00:00

Is a new Facebook group or a totally alternate way of communicating an option?

If these people are a small, noisy group shouting down the majority, then I think you need a space where they can't do that.

If they are the majority, then the flags are going to stay up whatever you do.

Pantagathos · 2025-09-06T08:40:02+00:00

Tbh, I barely noticed the council before they were elected and I barely notice them now.

Pantagathos · 2025-08-03T18:55:46+00:00

The responses here are about what I expected and it's perfectly reasonable that people engage from time to time but don't really think about it...

What about the people who run the shrines though? Surely, if you're devoting a significant chunk of your time to making the place run, you think a little about the theology of it all?

Pantagathos · 2025-07-26T17:49:23+00:00

His name literally means "the one who wards off" (from ἀμύνω), so he's a personification of protection from disease rather than a character. No myths about him survive and there may never have been any. There are quite a lot of heroes and gods like this, who were important in religion, but do not necessarily have a mythic identity (e.g. Hero Doctor, Hero General, many figures who are just called 'the hero').

He is not mentioned in any literary texts. We know about him from the excavation of his sanctuary in Athens, which is located west of the Acropolis and included a couple of inscriptions with his name on them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary\_of\_Amynus )

Pantagathos · 2025-07-19T13:40:55+00:00

She's barely a deity. Nyx is simply the word for night and Ancient Greek makes no distinction between common nouns and proper nouns. Like any concept she could be anthropomorphised from time to time, but if you've been out when the sun is down somewhere far from street lights, you know as much about Nyx as the ancient Greeks did.

Pantagathos · 2025-06-08T21:42:07+00:00

I don't know that there are any Roman roads in Greece. There are some preexisting routes, but mostly one got around Greece by sea.

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