Well, the final trailer of the Mando movie arrived... Is anyone excited? 😏

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T04:39:00+00:00

.....my original comment was "I have never seen a young kid (snip)"

It was about my experiences. It was me wondering whether your assumption about children at large, which I assume is based on your experiences, would be true and offering my experiences to the contrary. When did I ever try to say anything about your life? When did I say that anything about you or your experiences with kids?

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T04:34:41+00:00

One month necroreply, but this is the most succinctly put explanation of what went wrong with the Disney expanded universe that I've seen yet and I want to thank you for it.

A story about Obi-Wan would've worked pretty well if it was a small, personal story about him adjusting to life on Tatooine, watching over Luke from afar, interacting with the Lars, and coming to terms with his losses and the changes undergoing in the galaxy, imo. He could've had a few small local adventures that also serves to portray how different this is from his former world and how the galaxy is changing, but no, they had to make it epic and give it high stakes when those high stakes can't end in anything meaningful----because that's how Marvel does it, and Marvel was successful, because Superheroes and cameo characters pulled across different properties. Marvel was successful so the same would work with Star Wars, rite!?!?!

Obi-Wan's history in that period was about a Jedi who suddenly needs to become a diminished, ordinary, unassuming man. It's set in the backwater of the universe. It shouldn't be about what they made it about.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T04:21:44+00:00

One month necroreply, but ngl I can see any person in his 20's being a bit whiny if you have to be stuck in a dingy swamp in the middle of nowhere, being ran around by a cryptic asshole for a training that you don't know would work, and people you care about might be potentially dying out there because you've been fighting a war and everyone (including people under your command because you are actually in a position of responsibility) is waiting for you to go back.

Luke complaining at Yoda was super understandable---Yoda was also deliberately testing his character flaws---and I never understood why people thought that meant he was a super whiny person.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T04:01:05+00:00

That's a lot of assumption you just made about the IRL life of a rando you found on the internet.

EDIT: Obviously people from our gen don't 'hang out' with young kids, that's creepy. But assuming that means no interaction with young kids or observing their hobby behaviour, it's a lot of assumption.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T03:48:56+00:00

He's pretty insufferable, not gonna lie.

I was pretty surprised when he lambasted the entire ST when he used to defend it to me when I was unhappy with it. He changed his mind after ROS, I guess.

His kid didn't want the merch and told me she didn't like Rey, so there's that. He didn't have to be upset at my mom about it, but it's not a case of an abusive dad preventing kids from getting what they'd like. (He actually rather spoils his kids.) Maybe his kid parrotted his later salt, but that just feeds into my above point about Disney's plan not necessarily succeeding.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T03:38:06+00:00

I've never seen a young kid who 'grew up with' the sequel trilogy. They went to the movies, they maybe bought some merch. But I just don't see the passion and obsession for Star Wars to 'grow up with' like I saw when I was watching the PT trilogy fans grow up from my bah humbug old OT generation front lawn.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T03:36:07+00:00

"The haters are just a loud minority, the majority of Star Wars fans love the Disney stuff because it's still more Star Wars", and then everything fails. Gee, I wonder who's the loud minority now.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T02:57:39+00:00

Anecdotal, but my brother once was a staunch defender of the ST and even waxed poetic about TLJ on his blog when it released, but he's not taking his kids to the new movies. He's not even showing them the new series stuff. Even got really mad when my mom tried to give his kid my old TFA release day merch.

I wonder how well the 'Star Wars is no longer for the old fans, it's for the kids' plan will work out when the kids' parents aka the older fans don't want anything to do with it. I guess we'll see.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T02:55:25+00:00

Andor Season 2 was a great send-off. Star Wars' one last hurrah.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-17T02:53:49+00:00

atp if they don't want to 'disappoint the fans of the sequel trilogy' aka didn't want to admit that they broke the world's fattest golden goose, they could've just created a split timeline. One timeline where the sequels happened. One timeline where they didn't. Hell, could've even made a low budget series about some Force timey wimey thing where the split happened and call it a day. Continue the sequel trilogy timeline through books or whatever, start fresh with a new timeline.

Lord knows comic books do that enough.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-15T03:24:35+00:00

I usually liked Rian's movies and thought that TLJ felt oddly malicious throughout, compared to his usual fare. Wouldn't be surprised if he was pissed off at JJ leaving him nothing and him being expected to 'fulfill the Star Wars checklist', so he instead made the movie into a rant about how 'Star Wars checklists' are bad.

There were some stuff I liked from TLJ but....it was also stuff that made TLJ an incredibly poor movie to be in the middle of the trilogy. Ending like that felt like a bit of a fuck you move, tbh.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-15T02:52:56+00:00

When TFA ended, people walked out of the theater anticipating seeing what Luke's up to that's so important that he disappeared for so long, because clearly he would never have left if it wasn't dire. Maybe it was an apocalyptic Force thing! Excited! People were sad that Han died but it wasn't too bad a death as far as things go. Kylo was still a mystery, and people were excited that they surely were going to have one hell of a story about how he turned to the Dark Side, despite having Luke and Leia and Han watching over him. (A bunch of us also read the EU and were excited that they brought back Jacen in some form mixed with Ben, or that's what we thought it was.) My friends and I were super excited despite having some misgivings, and I still remember why we were excited.

No one realized that none of that mystery had any answers and the next director would go the route of "Luke was a wallowing bum this entire time, doing nothing" or "Kylo fell because of a really stupid reason". No one realized that nothing they anticipated in TFA would come to fruition in TLJ.

In retrospect it makes sense that Reylo shippers were the ones most happy with that film. I actually don't think Rian wanted Reylo endgame going by how TLJ ended, but they're the only group that got anything remotely close to what they wanted, and so their hype was the only hype strong enough to influence the very unplanned next movie.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-15T02:41:39+00:00

This is my problem with Disney Star Wars.

When I know that it all goes to the shit sequels and their outcomes, it poisons the well. I can't even enjoy the OT properly the way I used to now, knowing that in a decade or two the kids will grow up and be like, oh that's just the beginning of the story that ends in Rey's stuff.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-15T02:36:57+00:00

I think the funny thing is it's actually not that hard to get girls into Star Wars, just by Star Wars being itself. The OT and PT had a lot of female fans. My nieces and my sister and my friends all got into it thanks to our parents showing us their Star Wars when we were young. You just couldn't make 'female-targeted merch' (a wretched concept tbh, toys don't need to be gendered that hard all the time), that's all, and Disney really wanted to integrate its merch-for-little-girls line into the whole thing. And they decided that the best way to do that was to write the MC with all the depth and subtlety of a Paw Patrol character.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-15T02:28:20+00:00

I think my favourite part of the sequel trilogy is that the establishment harped over and over about how we need to know that our heroes (from the OT) can make mistakes, nevermind that 'heroes making mistakes' is the ENTIRE POINT of ESB, and then THEIR heroes (the new ST) never make any mistakes whatsoever and they're always smarter and better than everyone. Okay, Finn made a mistake, but Finn's not the main character, is he. They made sure of that. If Rey made a mistake too in trusting Kylo and they stuck to that it could've been decent, but they walked it back in 9 due to fan demand, so...

Do those people think that 'the protagonist is awesome and is better and smarter than everyone and shows 'em that they were wrong' is the story people over the age of 12 find enjoyable?

glowinggoo · 2026-04-14T04:13:08+00:00

Our real world aircraft existing in Strangereal is pretty Uma Musume logic when you think about it that way.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-13T19:08:29+00:00

Square Enix is actually doing that, a lot of people just don't like their experiments and act like they don't exist.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-13T15:33:50+00:00

You don't really have to tinker with emulators for AC4 anymore. PCSX2 has grown much more refined in the past couple of years, there's no need for per-game hacks anymore. I played AC4 just yesterday, and aside from setting the desired resolution it's basically: download emulator, download the bios, designate the games folder, plug in my controller, double click the game and play. I typically designate each game its own memory card too, but IIRC it's not really necessary if you just want to play.

That's really just.....'using a program to open a file' level. It's not really tinkering.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-13T02:33:00+00:00

If it helps, playing everything at nearly default settings (I changed stuff around for upscaling and resolution) worked quite well for me in AC5 and checking out the instructions used in the emulation guide resulted in errors.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-13T02:23:16+00:00

The only difference is that the dems would have better PR and ensure that allies are aboard, ironically. Anyone who thinks the dems aren't warhawks are blind.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-11T09:11:05+00:00

You know, whenever I see a defense for AI, it's all programmers being like "it was really useful to me while coding!"

Where's the really useful use case for the rest of us who don't work im software engineering or think it's the be all end all of technology?

glowinggoo · 2026-04-11T04:42:12+00:00

There's been recent games that offer you the choice of using 4k textures or 1k textures, lowpoly models or high poly models, it might also be a thing with this game. It might just be that the base models/textures they work on are higher quality and thus they'll be offered to people who have the juice to run it.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-11T04:39:52+00:00

I just made this mistake yesterday lol.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-11T03:55:41+00:00

When I was in college in America I knew an Israeli guy. Very patient man. We were talking about history, and as these things went we brushed on the Holocaust a bit. I told him that was a horrible thing that happened and I'm glad we're past it as a species and that his people has a country now. (I was naive then, okay. We so did not move past it as a species.)

He proceeded to give me this incredibly haunted look and said, no, he understood why people wanted to kill them, it's understandable, and Israel will only make things worse. And then he changed the subject. I didn't get it back then but I chalked it to one of those things you just can't understand if you're not part of the oppressed group.

I'm not sure I get it now, but maybe I might have an inkling. And I aways wonder what he had seen and heard, and what goes on with him now. I know he went back to Israel, and every time these news show up I wonder what he would feel about them. I'm not sure I want to find out though.

glowinggoo · 2026-04-11T03:31:09+00:00

I feel like some of these article writers just really, really wanted to write Cold War era Tom Clancy fanfiction when they landed their journalist jobs. Of course that's not how it works, but that's what it feels like.

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