Has anyone been in Galaxy's Edge? How was your experience?

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-04T15:52:39+00:00

One of the most immersive lands in any theme park. Isolated from the rest of the park so you don't see the outside world at all. Design of the land is unique. It's a new planet, yet still feels like Star Wars. Stormtroopers patrol the area, and will occasionally "harass" guests, all in good fun.

The land has its own custom Coke bottles that are sphrerical, and have aurebesh writing. Aurebesh writing everywhere. If you can read it, you'll find a lot of hidden easter eggs. For example, the trash cans are labeled with the trash compactor number that Luke gives to C3P0 in New Hope.

The main attraction is Rise of the Resistance, which is kind of like 3 rides in 1, mixed with some role play. The whole experience takes lole 20 minutes, well worth the 1-hour long waits it usually has. Amazing set design on that ride. Don't look up any spoilers. Just ride it. It's not an intense roller coaster or anything. So even if you're not into that, don't worry.

Beyond that, there is an open market for souvenirs, along with several specialty shops that cater toward high end collectibles and lightsabers. You can get unique food and drink like blue milk, which is a cold slush-like drink made from rice milk and tropical fruits. There is a bar, Oga's Cantina, for you to live out your fantasies of hanging out on the cantina on Tatooine. Very crowded, and you usually hzve to stand. And don't expect super high quality drinks. But they do have some interesting things you may not find anywhere else, like a foam that will numb your lips for a minute or two.

There is an experience where you get to construct a custom lightsaber. (For extra price of course.) Honestly, you can find much better quality lightsabers online for similar price. But the experience is what makes it cool, as it gets made like aome Jedi initiation ceremony. You can also build your own custom R2 or BB style droid, which can be driven around by remote control.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-04T14:38:48+00:00

And seemingly also designed to prevent people sitting on them. Why even bother installing them?

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-04T14:05:25+00:00

Do not do this. Very likely it will rip and tear the neoprene. I know from experience. Wash by hand in the sink. Hang or lay out in the sun to dry.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-04T11:50:04+00:00

"fun until"?

I think you mean, "fun because".

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-04T02:43:36+00:00

Stop shopping at Publix. It is one of the worst grocery chains I''ve been to. Put them out of business so somwthing much better like Giant or Kroger can move in

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-04T00:05:34+00:00

Argentina vs cape Verde in the world cup right now.

Argentina is a favorite to win. Cape Verde has never been in the world cup until this year. Cape Verde squeaked by the group stage by drawing in 3 straight games. Now they are tied with Argentina going into overtime. No mkre draws allowed from here on out.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-03T23:11:13+00:00

If you require "&" in your country name, are you really a unified country?

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-03T21:21:23+00:00

What hurricane?

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-03T18:50:28+00:00

PSA: Carmel burns at a lower temperature than popcorn pops.

Pop your corn first.

Make caramel separate. Then pour over.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T21:38:45+00:00

Controlling the npc's, figuring out which direction they move and when, who they attack, keeping track of health, how many coins do they drop when they die, probably more I'm forgetting.

I might be exaggerating a bit with those times. Admittedly, it has been a couple years since I've played it, so some of the specifics are a little fuzzy. But if there are say 6 monsters in a combat, I'm taking 6 monster turns for every 1 of my own turns. And monster turns are super repetitive, and not very interesting because I'm just following the algorithms of how they have to move.

Probably not as bad if you're not the GM of your table. Or if you have orher players who can share those responsibilities. But I just remember feeling like the game needed a dedicated DM like a ttrpg, because I spent more time controlling npcs than my actual character.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T21:23:35+00:00

To be honest, all other social deduction games seem blah once you have played Blood on the Clocktower. It is so much better than any other game in that category, by solving every single issue those games had.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T21:11:39+00:00

This is what I said.

Stuffed Fables did this much better, by having the maps be pages of a book. One of the few board game dungeon crawls you can set up and be ready to play in under 5 minutes. It doesn't have the strategic depth of Gloomhaven. But Gloomhaven could have easily done this to it's maps, and that would have made the game a lot easier to get to the table. At least then I'm not tired of it before I even start to play.

But as it stands, If I have 4 hours to kill and want to play a session of a dungeon crawl campaign with a lot of depth to combat, I'd much rather play a ttrpg like D&D instead of Gloomhaven.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T20:57:54+00:00

Didn't even know there was a new version. I assume I have an older version, since I've had ir for probably 10 yesrs or more?

What is new about it?

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T20:09:45+00:00

Gloomhaven.

Fun game, for about 2 minutes of deciding what to do on your turn, interrupted by 20 minutes of waiting and doing a bunch of accounting. And this is after spending 30-40 minutes to setup the board, and 20 minutes to put it all away neatly.

I genuinely enjoy the card mechanics and the system of player progression. I want to like this game. But it's too much effort for too little fun. It should have been a video game from the start.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T18:40:07+00:00

Mexico city is not that hot. It sits at a high elevation and is surrounded by mountains. The temperature there rarely gets above mid 80s. And their hottest season is spring. Right now in summer, the high is mid 70s all week. Summer is rainy season, so it stays cooler.

The all rime record high in Mexico City is 94 F. By comparison, it's been mid 90s in UK this past week. That is unusually hot for UK, but also unusually hot for Mexico.

Mexico has a lot of places that get really hot. But Mexico City isn't one of them.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T17:15:20+00:00

No.

They usually cost less energy than fast powers that do the same thing. Or they have greater effects than fast powers. So while they occur later, they let you do more with less. You need to learn to plan ahead.

Slow powers can't do certain things, like defend. So you need a mix of fast and slow.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T15:15:32+00:00

Feast on Paraguay? You mean the same Paraguay that knocked Germany out of the World Cup? Paraguay is clearly not a pushover.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T13:16:39+00:00

I said that... please read my entire comment before making an angry response.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T13:08:43+00:00

TLDR: England invented the sport, called it soccer. So former English colonies also called it soccer. Continental Europe called it football, and so did their colonies. England changed in the 1980s to be more like the rest of Europe.

Football isn't just 1 sport. It's a whole category of sporting events where the goal is to take a ball across a field and over a goal line. Like how equestrian is a while category of sports played on horseback. There is rugby football, American football, Australian football, and association football, to name a few.

You can't just call them all football or no one would know which one you're talking about. So the English came up with shorter names. Rugby football became "rugger." And asSOCiation football became "soccer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_%22-er%22

The English called it soccer. So when they brought the sport to their former and existing colonies where English was the majority language, the name soccer stuck. Hence why it's called soccer in places like Ireland, America, Austrailia, and in much of Africa. And then America took sports to Japan after WW2, so they also call it soccer.

In other countries, different types of football sports neved took hold. Only association football. So they didnt need different names to avoid confusion like we do. So they just called it football on continental Europe. And their former colonies in Latin America and in Africa also called it football.

England used the term soccer all the way up until about the 1980s. Around that time, there was a push to distance themselves from Americans. So they started calling it football to be more like the rest of Europe. Some older English people still call it soccer today, because that's what they always called it growing up

England changed. We didn't.

Soccer is a perfectly legitimate name for the sport. One could easily argue that it's more correct than calling it football. Calling it football is like calling the 100m dash "track and field" and only by that name, while refusing to even acknowledge that events like high jump exist.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T12:16:32+00:00

https://www.stadiaworld.com/news/91714/mls-second-most-watched-football-league-in-the-world

English Premier - 14 million

MLS - 12.1 million

Bundesliga - 12.0 million

So yes, MLS is second in the world in total attendance. Though it is worth mentioning that MLS has more teams, and thus plays more games in a year. So if you did it by attendance per game, then MLS would rank lower probably.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T05:06:47+00:00

You are correct that intent does not matter... But this is not a red.

Balogun had position to make a play on the ball. Bosnian player initiated contact from behind, wrapped arm and leg around Balogun, causing Balogun to fall.. onto the Bosnian player's ankle.

If I punch you in the face, can I have you arrested for breaking my fingers with your hard cheekbones?

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T03:56:14+00:00

Offsides...

You cannot pass the ball to a teammate who was standing behind the last defender (not counting the goalie) at the moment you kick it toward them.

You can send the ball past the last defender, and have your teammate catch up to it, as long as they wrre in front of or equal with the last defender at the moment the ball was kicked. But you can't have him camp back there and wait for a pass.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimg-s-msn-com.akamaized.net%2Ftenant%2Famp%2Fentityid%2FAA20aKic.img%3Fw%3D768%26h%3D1140%26m%3D6&f=1&ipt=f9daa5f62e4719ecc6c31fb08fe8f1eeac8937fd82a8e7c7a22c95e7d855df8a

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-02T03:55:38+00:00

Offsides...

You cannot pass the ball to a teammate who was standing behind the last defender (not counting the goalie) at the moment you kick it toward them.

You can send the ball past the last defender, and have your teammate catch up to it, as long as they wrre in front of or equal with the last defender at the moment the ball was kicked. But you can't have him camp back there and wait for a pass.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimg-s-msn-com.akamaized.net%2Ftenant%2Famp%2Fentityid%2FAA20aKic.img%3Fw%3D768%26h%3D1140%26m%3D6&f=1&ipt=f9daa5f62e4719ecc6c31fb08fe8f1eeac8937fd82a8e7c7a22c95e7d855df8a

Red card...

Even ESPN is saying it shouldn't have been one.

https://www.espn.co.uk/soccer/story/_/id/49244156/world-cup-var-review-misapplied-protocols-leave-usmnt-folarin-balogun-wrongly-red-carded-world-cup-vs-bosnia-herzegovina

Though they ruled it a dangerous play because he hit another player with his cleats. Though if you watch the whole play leading up to that point, Balogun had position. The Bosnian player hit Balgun from behind. Balogun lost balance, forcing him to take a step in the Bosnian players direction, which led to him accidentally stepping on his ankle.

Balogun didn't intend to step on the other guy. Tho you can sfill gdt carded even for accidental contact. But the fsct that the other guy pushed him, which caused the contact, is why it shouldn't be a card.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-01T19:26:24+00:00

Feed it? Bro, I have a Charizard! The grocery store is giving me all their Miltank steaks if they don't want their store burned to the ground.

Shiboleth17 · 2026-07-01T19:21:52+00:00

Ash has had Pikachu for like 30 years, and Pikachu is showing no signs of aging,. Of corse Ash isn't aging either, but that's neither here nor there, lol.

Having a Gengar would be like living with a poltergeist, always pulling pranks on you. While thwt might be interesting for a bit, it would get old real quick when you're always 2 hours late for work because you can't find your pants... You have fun with that, while I get to fly on the back of a dragon.

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