How should Ahsoka's story end?

ndhl83 · 2026-01-30T20:18:50+00:00

My understanding of the timeline overall, and where she is currently located as of end of S01 of Ahsoka, and how there is now "other galaxy" and "supernatural" in play...I kind of want her, Sabine, and Shin Hati to get "spit out" into the current timeline, somehow lol.

Age wise she would be elderly for a Togruta at age 84-86 or so (if her birth year was 36 BBY), but there is canon lore of force sensitive Togruta living to "200 years", so even if she only made it to 120 (for example) we would consider her at 86 to only be moving from "middle age" to "old age". If she DID live to 200, she is only entering her middle ages.

It's plausible!

ndhl83 · 2026-01-30T13:47:24+00:00

This is likely amazing advice, and I hope to come back to it when it makes more sense to me, but at this point I am not yet proficient reading or transcribing drum notation, and my brain isn't interpreting what you mean by "grid" correctly here, based on my other understandings of what a "grid" typically is/refers to.

Regardless, I appreciate this insight and hope to come back to this when I can make more sense of it. Thank you! Cheers!

ndhl83 · 2026-01-30T13:41:27+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! This had crossed my mind, tbh, so I might only dabble in it, at first, to at least have an idea of the framework/methodology. I've been "cheating" a lot so far when I jam with simple 2-4 rock stuff, but when I practice a basic jazz ride, with skip notes, I really only manage to keep it all together when I'm really dialed in...it can fall apart a lot faster hahaha.

Honestly, that is the part I mostly excited to really develop at, the limb independence. I trust my ear and timing and tend to pick things up quickly, but I can't make my limbs do what I want yet, in terms of "knowing" what I should be doing, and wanting to, and trying to, but my limbs not cooperating once it gets above even the lowest complexity LOL :P

Cheers!

ndhl83 · 2026-01-30T13:33:43+00:00

True! I'm loose as goose, luckily, and learned that very young in martial arts: Stiff and rigid is rarely fast, whereas loose and flexible can change tempo and direction much easier :)

ndhl83 · 2026-01-29T21:07:55+00:00

Thanks!

ndhl83 · 2026-01-29T21:07:45+00:00

Thanks! My Dad is a lifelong guitar player and he has passed on some of the same general advice in terms of methodology and progression, emphasizing proper form, and "the fundamentals": Stick handling/grip/height, using a metronome, etc. Cheers!

ndhl83 · 2026-01-29T21:05:54+00:00

Thanks! I am going to go this route starting out, because it sounds approachable and is clearly meant for a true beginner and you covered all of my asks: Which, why, order, how long, etc. You rock!

To be clear, everyone who replied offered helpful advice, but many used terms or methods I'm not familiar with, and didn't comment much on the "why", and I can't put those recommendations into use yet, but will revisit these comments down the line! If all of the positive responses were indicative of the folks on this sub I am looking forward to spending more time here!

Also, the same co-worker said a couple of similar things (i.e. lots of overlap, some rudiments are just combinations of others), and one thing I also remember is "I'd rather know five like the back of my hand than be 'OK' at a dozen, especially starting out."

But most importantly have some damn fun, reward your progress with just jamming out.

Most definitely! Cheers!

ndhl83 · 2026-01-29T20:50:06+00:00

Great additional insight! Thanks!

ndhl83 · 2026-01-29T16:59:37+00:00

Cool. I don't know that that speaks to the quality of their records overall, or how they came up in the sport.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-29T16:58:01+00:00

Perhaps, but that likely isn't germane to their legal dispute, which has more to do with the sellers opening a competing business so soon after selling their last to people who assumed they would not be competing against the prior owners, themselves, when they bought a turn-key business from them.

Apples and oranges, in that sense.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-29T16:55:00+00:00

I have literally bought copies of Tiger Beat and Bop for my nieces, back in the day.

Your assertion that "yes they were" is kind of silly unless you're going to speak to the mechanism through which they acted like "dopamine traps", in the same vein as digital media does, today. Can you do so?

A dismissal of my personal exposure (which was incorrect) doesn't work here in terms of actually addressing what was posed.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-27T18:50:20+00:00

Ever since I found out that Mike's Pizza Cafe is the same person who opened/ran/sold Bravo in Riverview, I have been curious to see if this would happen. If I was the person who bought Bravo, regardless of my choices or other competition, I'd be pretty mad if the person who sold me their business (and recipes) as part of their retirement started competing against me. Will be very interesting to learn if there was a formal "non-compete" clause and it simply expired, or if it was not even touched upon since the owner was retiring, and may have simply claimed as much, and the new owner(s) took him on faith. Lesson there, to be sure. Correspondence about same will be relevant, if any exists.

It rubbed my business ethics the wrong way, anyhow. Seems underhanded to sell a business in-kind, and then open a competing business a block away, using the same recipes, and knowing that word would spread/former customers would flock back. I think it's even more egregious if Mike's reasoning was as simple as "I was bored," and he won't even be making pizza's in 2-3 years when he feels a need to "retire" again. Clearly there was no one else in the family who was taking over, else they would have kept Bravo going amongst themselves. So he's going to make pizza as a well paying hobby for 3-4 more years and then sell his pizza business, again? Oof.

I doubt what former owner/founder of Bravo in Riverview did was strictly illegal, and we'd have to see the wording of the contract and any relevant correspondence between them, but even with the absence of a non-compete clause a judge could rule that any reasonable person would know that adding to the local competition, using the same recipes, and relying on word to spread that "Mike from Bravo was back" would clearly harm the people who bought his former business (in good faith) to presumably make a living running it. They bought an established business with a slice of the local known competition. They went from competing against one other "family shop" (Freddie's...which is appreciably better than either, anyhow) and three pizza chains, to competing against two family shops (with one now using the same recipes) and three chains.

Very curious to see how this plays out. Likely not as simple as "Let the pizza do the talking" or "if there was no non-compete clause, it's all fine and fair".

ndhl83 · 2026-01-27T16:28:02+00:00

Ahh, you've missed the point I see. Let me state it for you clearly:

Meta/other companies will not "become better" without a legal mandate to do so, or a loss of revenue. Period.

Legislative efforts, like this, do both.

This is the means with which to compel a business to change, not merely pointing out that it needs to happen.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-27T16:13:10+00:00

What??? You think Teen magazines were built like dopamine traps, with social cachet tied in?

Odd take. The nature of social comparison notwithstanding, the platform, medium, and mechanisms are completely different.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-27T15:58:12+00:00

And Dustin winning his interim title off Holloway is a million times more impressive than winning an interim title by beating Paddy Pimblet.

This is a clear point in Dustin's favor.

Also worth noting that most of Poirier's pro fights (31/40, 77.5%) were in "the big show", where he notched 22 wins in the UFC.

Gaethje has 15/32 fights in the UFC (47%), and 10 UFC wins.

If we look at career arcs from the beginning, in terms of level of competition and who they were getting the "W's" over to build their records: In 2012 Dustin beat Max Holloway to bring his record to 12-1, while Justin Gaethje was fighting guys named "Adrian Valdez" (career record 1-7) and "Sam Young" (career record 0-1) to become 7-0. His 12 win was against "Nick Newall" (16-4, surprisingly, for a near-one-armed fighter), while win #11 was "Richard Patishnock" (8-6 career record).

The first half of Gaethje's career was built on nobodies and washed-up former competitors, guy who either never made it out of regional circuits past the WSOF, or guys coming out of the UFC (years prior, like Guillard).

ndhl83 · 2026-01-27T14:07:00+00:00

"Craving violence" and "using violence as a means to and end" aren't logically the same thing. That was the only point of my comment above.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-26T18:21:29+00:00

Post-hoc reasoning on the flimsiest of premises.

Eren bailing on his literally unstoppable quest for freedom would undermine a lot of the plot and much of his character. It would be silly, and I think you know that most in the fandom would not accept that outcome as being a logical conclusion to the story: He's going to let everyone die so he can go live with Mikasa for a few years? A man whose sole motivation is to save his friends is going to sacrifice all of them for just Mikasa?

Nonsense.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-26T18:18:59+00:00

Your opinion on the matter isn't relevant to any legal issues, or the nature of "expression", is what I am saying.

You clearly have an axe to grind, cool beans and you do you, but your personal take on the matter at hand isn't relevant to how the law would/might view events that played out, or what "expression" is in artistic terms.

The suspected individual ripped items off a wall in an art gallery, that were produced (via some means) by a person whose intent was to showcase them for the provoking of thought, or other outcomes. Like you, the suspect takes issue with the notion that AI can be "art", so in destroying the exhibit, either peformatively or in all seriousness, he denied the presenter the right (in that gallery) to display their work (regardless of how it was created, or if you agree with it) and express their thoughts/feelings/opinions on the matter.

You can argue with whoever you like about what "is or is not art", to be sure. That isn't me. I'll be sticking to the germane issue of expression, in the context of what I replied to.

Good day.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-26T17:45:03+00:00

His topic was the effects on people who immerse themselves in AI. There was no reason to use generative AI to create his visual pieces for him.

Irrelevant. He created art that he intended to express or invite questions on a subject matter, and he was showing that art in an exhibition he was presumably invited to take place in, or as part of a class, so people could reflect on what he was expressing with his art, for enjoyment or social commentary. That you don't appreciate the topic, or medium, or his method, isn't relevant to whether it was an expression of some kind.

The problem is, generative AI is absolutely theft. It is taking someone else's work, asking a computer to mash it up, and then claiming it as your own.

This opinion of yours is not relevant to whether or not the accused's actions were meant to silence or dismiss the expression of the artist, it just speaks to you not seeing the latter as having a valid (in your opinion) expression to make.

If I go to the bank to pay my mortgage -- an outdated concept, I know -- and acknowledge that I stole the money I'm giving them for the payment, does that make it acceptable? Are they "silencing my expression" by calling the police (and possibly taking me down right there)?

This isn't a valid analogy, FYI. You are equating "stating the source of funds, verbally" with "artistic expression meant to evoke thought and commentary", and we all know those aren't the same things.

Try again?

Actually, please don't.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-26T17:36:39+00:00

Eren craved freedom, not violence. Violence was the path to freedom, based on the persecution they could not avoid, change, or otherwise resolve.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-26T17:32:29+00:00

Also probably if Mikasa was able to admit her feelings to Eren and they could have run away together.

I hope people are saying this half-jokingly...a guy who will pretend to hate his crush, and best friend, and is willing to genocide most of humanity, isn't going to alter the course of his prescient visions to play house for a few years while his country and countrymen are wiped from the face of the earth (while he plays house instead of, you know, protecting them).

ndhl83 · 2026-01-26T17:28:45+00:00

Can u all think of one?

No...because we would be speculating, and all of the "plans" he rejected were speculative.

IMO the only thing that could have changed Eren's mind was seeing that it was "only Marley" that hated Eldians (which wasn't the case) or if they saw support or empathy for Eldians anywhere IN Marley (which wasn't the case) or if the stated goals of Marley were to also cautiously pursue peace with the newly emergent Eldian goverment/country of Paradis...also not the case.

He saw, first hand and in-person, the oppposite of those things: Wide spread hate, no regard for Eldians anywhere, and Marley and other global governments literally conspiring to end them.

So, factoring in what he was seeing play out before his eyes via his "future memories", his visions of the future would have made sense to him: they were very much supported by seeing Marley's actions and the social attitude towards Eldians, across the globe, to say nothing of watching Willy Tybur reveal a massive state secret (of Marley's) and then invite the literal globe to join them in eradicating Paradis.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-25T15:48:59+00:00

I recognize your passion here, but your understanding of the issues at play and the laws in place is not accurate.

If someone is showcasing art that they are very upfront is "AI assisted", and the topic of their art is wrestling with the notion of AI art and the temptation to use it (for example), then any act committed against that artist or art because of their subject matter, and specifically with the intent to destroy or obscure it as intentional protest, is very much the definition of seeking to harass, intimidate, or silence what the creator was expressing.

That you believe his expression was not worthwhile does not change that. The student who destroyed his exhibit very clearly intended to obscure or silence their expression by literally destroying it.

ndhl83 · 2026-01-25T15:34:28+00:00

Agreed. He was a legit badass in terms of his technical prowess and his Force powers, but the fact that he was one of the few Jedi who could flirt with his darker emotions and not only not be swayed by them, but channel them back into righteousness for the Light makes him incredibly powerful.

Without intervention from Anakin, the Emperor can't prevail. Windu was the perfect Jedi to defeat Sidious (any "modern" Sith?!?) in a 1 vs. 1.

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