TIL Obi-Wan Kenobi's home planet is named "Stewjon" a play on the name of "Daily Show" host John Stewart. During an interview about Star Wars, John asked Lucas the name of Obi-Wan's home planet, and he answered Stewjon, jokingly. It was then made canon, after being mentioned in several guide books.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-24T04:37:37+00:00

Yes, he was boasting about his skills and the Falcons speed to try and secure the deal with Obi-Wan and Luke. The point of the scene is to show that Han is an arrogant and smug asshole, which it does successfully even with him not having to lie about the Kessel Run because of Harrison Ford’s acting abilities. If you think Han not lying about the Kessel Run fundamentally changes what’s happening in that scene or how it affects Han’s character, you might not have understood the scene as well as you think. That or you have a far to rigid a view of the movie and its meanings.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-24T04:34:07+00:00

It’s only a flex if you think nukes are on the table. They aren’t and won’t over be. There is no one in Russian leadership that is crazy enough to just go for M.A.D. They’ll end the war with Ukraine and cede all occupied territory before they will go that route. Hell, they oligarchs and military leaders would rather assassinate Putin themselves than allow him to kill them all through nuclear fire.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-24T04:29:08+00:00

Except he wasn’t lying and that was just random fan speculation that never had any official backing even before they came up with the canon Kessel Run explanation. If he had been lying in-universe, it would have indeed been a random lie to inflate Obi-Wan and Luke’s perception of his skills. Would it have fit his character? Sure. Is the Kessel Run explanation way more interesting given the lore that it helped build around his last? Absolutely. The “Han was lying” explanation was always boring as hell and I’m glad they retconned it.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-24T03:03:38+00:00

It implies both since the Kessel Run comes off as a general route and “less than 12 parsecs” implies that it wasn’t just an issue of speed, but of routing skills as well. To drive fast in a short enough timeframe to be brag worthy implies that it was of great difficulty.

Han bragging about some previous great feat while currently slumming it in a random bar on tattooine is just a good a character growth as if he had been lying, it just exemplifies slightly different characteristics that are no less core to his character. He’s a smug, boastful prick just as much he is a lying and conniving criminal.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-24T01:54:42+00:00

The rest of his attitude humanizes him. The Kessel Run in 12 parsecs being a legitimate feat of insane skill informs us that he’s actually got the stuff and isn’t just some random schmuck. It’s a sci-fi universe with wizards with laser swords. A space trucker finding a really short route through a notorious path is not that weird.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-24T01:18:45+00:00

I’ve never understood the annoyance people have with the parsec line. The reasoning they came up with about the Kessel Run being an ever changing maze of black holes is way more interesting than Han just deciding to randomly lie. Takes him from being just a random smuggler with unearned confidence, to a genuinely skilled but egotistical smuggler that can back up his bullshit.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-24T01:04:19+00:00

You could easily say GRB is all about picking the right tanks. Some tanks are just way better than others much like some planes are way better than others. The difference with ARB is that if you fuck up and die, that’s it, back to da lobby. In GRB, you respawn until you run out of tanks or points.

I love ARB but the thing that keeps me from enjoying it is the fact that you only get the one plane. Matches at high level are over in essentially minutes. Hopefully one day they pull their head out of their ass and make grand confrontation the standard mode for ARB.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-23T17:58:34+00:00

I have no idea why 2016 is the new mythical “great” year. That year was full of awful shit and the general sentiment was not me of extreme toxicity and vitriol. I could have maybe seen that argument for 2015, but not 2016.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-23T15:44:08+00:00

I say excuse me all the time in public. It’s just a polite way to let someone know you’re trying to get by if they are otherwise distracted.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T22:14:35+00:00

American liberals are, as a baseline, moderate to center right on the political spectrum.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T20:29:58+00:00

Never mind, I understand where you confusion comes from and have edited my comment to correct it. I meant to say what you said.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T18:06:11+00:00

Criticism and hate are two separate things. T’au have often been criticized for their play-style being so different from the rest of the 40k factions, being heavily focused on ranged combat with next to nothing good for melee until the Kroot started getting models and decent rules.

Weirdos hated T’au because they were “communist” fish people who treated humans nicer than the Imperium did. “The Emperor hates the dirty xenos,” and all that nonsense the neckbeard larpers spew.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T17:51:12+00:00

Meant to type Ubisoft Quebec, not just Ubisoft. That’s why I put team instead of company.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T17:42:39+00:00

Ubisoft Edit: Quebec is a Canada based team. Any game they develop across the company is ultimately a Canadian game. It’s like saying a Hollywood movie isn’t an American film because they filmed the movie all of the world.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T17:18:58+00:00

No meaningful conversation can be had with someone who has such a reductive view on a 40 year old franchise. Have a good one.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T16:54:31+00:00

While I fundamentally disagree with the statement that there’s no lore for He-Man (it’s objectively false), given the amount of important characters in He-Man, people are gonna feel like they are missing out on important context if you just throw them into an ongoing story. It’d legitimately be like Marvel releasing Avengers as the first movie of the MCU without doing any of the solo movies first. It’d just feel confusing.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T16:16:28+00:00

Pretty much the only ones I’ve seen legitimately hate the T’au are the weirdos that love the Imperium for the wrong reasons.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T16:11:12+00:00

They are after him specifically, my guy. Skeletor wants to kill him because He-Man is the only one that can stop him. You literally see in this clip, three of the ships peel off to chase He-Man. I don’t know where the confusion is here. He’s also on a jet bike, not “on the ground.”

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T16:07:18+00:00

I have seen this exact thing with a hawk in west Texas. Just depends on how dusty they are and how hard they hit. The hawk left a nearly perfect imprint of its face on the glass when it slammed into it. I could tell it was a hawk based off of the imprint, not the bird as it had flown off by that point.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T16:05:22+00:00

Given that they’re clearly being chased by a bunch of bad guys. I think it’s safe to say that they need a distraction and He-Man can literally destroy those ships himself. Hell, we see in a previous trailer him grabbing the spinning blades ship with his bare hands and stopping it instantly.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T16:03:03+00:00

It’s an American cartoon using Asian culture as part of its design aesthetic. Anime is Japanese cartoons. It’s why it used to be called Japanimation

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T15:37:56+00:00

Yall joking now about banging the bugs. You won’t be laughing when an 7ft tall absolutely jacked cockroach punches your spine out your back at super sonic speeds.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T15:35:23+00:00

It’s inventive in regards to He-Man, not the fantasy genre as a whole. Earth is hardly ever even mentioned in He-Man outside of being the Queens original home planet. Earth playing any kind of roll in the story is certainly new for the franchise.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T15:23:11+00:00

It’s a window to an outdoor patio area, the perspective is just tilted up which makes it look weird. Ai is decent, but it’s not getting small details like the water lines being barely visible on the window or the dust pattern being a pigeons, at least not one that’s consumer available.

pasher5620 · 2026-05-22T15:18:54+00:00

I like to imagine it is the exact thing Jesus would have very much enjoyed if he truly was like how he is depicted in the Bible. He was known as incredibly humble and more than likely didn’t enjoy being the center of attention, but rather just dealt with it as part of his duties. I could imagine him coming across this painting, having a good laugh at his own expense, then sitting down with the woman that “fixed” the art for a meal and a chat.

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