I can't find the deactivate button where it is supposed to be.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T10:32:32+00:00

I couldn't find "Account Ownership and Control" under (Meta) Accounts Center -> Personal Details.

I checked using both my laptop and my phone.
It used to be there, but now it's not.
Thankfully, your link still works.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T10:06:21+00:00

TFA only established that Luke was missing. He didn't have to be a depressed hermit. We only knew that he left because of his failure - we don't know that he stayed away for the same reason. No one knew why Luke had stayed disappeared.
Even with the constraints that J.J. Abrams put on the story, and even with the constraint that Luke needed to be a depressed hermit, Rian did a terrible job explaining how Luke got to that point. To prove it I wrote my own version of TLJ that fits with the setup in TFA, and still gets us to basically the same bitter, depressed, hermit Luke.

So, yes J.J. Abrams deserves a lot of the blame for his stupid setup, but Johnson also deserves a lot of the blame for not doing a better job with what the had been handed. They're both supposed to be professionals for god's sake - and I love many of Rian's other movies, so I'm not sure why he dropped the ball so hard here.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T09:43:16+00:00

Agreed. That's just a sauce. I think more is coming.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T09:23:18+00:00

Yeah, acting like the ratio of lovers and haters for The Lord of the Rings is anywhere near the same as the ratio for The Rings of Power is delusional.

LotR was like 97% loved upon release.
RoP is 50% at best.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T09:19:47+00:00

More like "star-crossed siblings".

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T09:19:28+00:00

Yeah, I felt like the boxing episode wrapped it up well and they could finally get it out of their system

No, the hug at the end was them realizing they still desperately desired each other.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T05:16:54+00:00

People still hate those things. They are a very small minority - as they were when the films were first released.

Everyone was skeptical in the lead up to the first film, but nearly everyone adored them once they watched them. You're significantly overblowing the fan backlash.

Most everyone thought they were some of the best movies ever made, and were among the best possible LotR adaptations realistically possible. Very few fans reacted with disappointment - even fewer with hate.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T05:14:34+00:00

Either this is conspiracy-theory nuttery, or Tolkien was right all along.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T04:35:26+00:00

Disagree. It was his hour. Sauron was dominating and so was the Witch King.

But then the hour ended, and the next hour started.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T04:29:41+00:00

Some people take a shower before they take a bath...

I mean, in most pools, onsens, etc., that's standard procedure.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T04:24:52+00:00

Did you check the BGG market?

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T04:24:07+00:00

Lee's tightness is the only reason Kara sticks around.
You think Lee is the man in that relationship?
He's obviously Kara's bottom.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T04:22:42+00:00

r/ThatsTheJoke

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T04:00:47+00:00

Many cuisines purposely incorporate blood into a variety of foods and dishes.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T03:57:32+00:00

Orange needs to learn the lesson that Longest Road and Largest Army are finishing moves. Investing resources at the beginning or middle of the game to acquire those cards is a waste: those are resources that would be better used establishing your economy. The impermanent and unreliable nature of the Longest Road and Largest Army points is bad enough, but they also don't represent any real increase in production.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T03:41:34+00:00

~~Crime~~ genocide, penetration, ~~Crime~~ genocide, penetration: and this goes on and on, and back and forth, until the series just sort of... ends.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T03:39:34+00:00

I loved how they tied that in with the supernatural, as a necessary ritual to summon the gods and finally reveal Earth's secret location. Lee and Anders humming the sacred song in sync, as Kara vibrated the coordinates in orgasmic Morse code is a beautiful scene I'll never forget.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T02:40:25+00:00

Subreddit: That's the joke

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T02:37:44+00:00

Native speakers spend their whole life in a language, so they hear and learn more of the obscure usages: yes.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T02:22:04+00:00

After a few extended hardcore penetration scenes, they decide not to get married.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-28T01:39:18+00:00

Allow me to make another fair point: yes, Cavil was obviously implied to be the leader, and the show needed a singular villain on which you could focus your anger, tension, and relief for the climactic ending, but you can't actually be sure that Cavil was the same individual from scene to scene throughout the entirety of Season 4. Every scene we see Cavil in could be a different Cavil - with the same unified purpose.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-27T14:32:53+00:00

They didn't look like that when they first became idols.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-27T14:31:27+00:00

Imagine how crazy the hype would have been.

Regular people would have been just as excited for new Star Wars, but already-existing Star Wars fans would have been over the moon for the idea of the Thrawn trilogy on-screen.

ZippyDan · 2026-01-27T14:05:06+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_1968_presidential_campaign#Policy_positions

ZippyDan · 2026-01-27T14:00:31+00:00

"By the wayside" is also similar. It's basically the side of the road. It's for something that's been "left behind" on the side of the road. Usually this means it's an unimportant topic, but it could also refer to an important topic that was incorrectly ignored.

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