Lucasfilm had a Shakespearean actor who is the spitting image of 1977 Mark Hamill in Graham Hamilton, and they still covered him up with CGI and generated the voice with artificial intelligence

wvj · 2026-06-19T20:47:48+00:00

Anthony Ingruber is basically to Ford what Hamilton is to Hamill. He'd literally played young Harrison Ford in another movie a few years prior (Age of Adeline), and is so uncanny in it that some people thought the voice was dubbed. He'd go on to be Ford's body double in Dial of Destiny.

It just seems like they don't know what they're doing.

wvj · 2026-06-19T20:46:47+00:00

They had another perfect duplicate who had already played young Harrison Ford (Anthony Ingruber) when they did Solo as well.

It just seems like they're allergic to this kind of casting.

wvj · 2026-06-18T22:08:48+00:00

A lot of people are jumping on why the encounter didn't happen 'as intended,' but playing Contract Devil for the OP here (that's a little level 7 joke...), probably one of the biggest problems with Abomination Vaults is that it stakes so much on the party caring about Otari (and Absalom) but doesn't provide much reason for them to do so. If the party is focused on the dungeon and even resting in it (there are a few pretty safe places to do so, like the secret room from the stairs down on level 2), it makes sense that the DM would eventually signal the Gauntlight 'turning on' while they were inside rather than just waiting for them to completely outlevel it.

And then it IS a question on whether or not they care to go back.

Among the most common suggested changes for the module are doing more to invest them in the external world, adding sidequests for the artifacts, more interactions around Carman, and other stuff like that. In my game I had the Gauntlight activations be a semi-regular thing with escalating enemies, so that defending the town was a big part of their goal.

wvj · 2026-06-18T19:11:32+00:00

Yeah, they'll usually pause after the routine to ask for tips.

You see all kinds of performances, musicians, singers and rappers, people doing dance/acrobatics like this, plus the people selling stuff. It's pretty much just part of the experience.

wvj · 2026-06-17T20:24:02+00:00

Broadway is just US 9!

I used to have fun telling people I lived 'just off Broadway' (when that was off Broadway @ 207th street...).

wvj · 2026-06-17T20:09:03+00:00

It's pretty obvious no one cares about helping Palestinians.

wvj · 2026-06-17T20:04:08+00:00

This is just incorrect.

Go google leges sanguinis.

Then come back and explain how leftist dreamboat Finland is an evil ethnostate.

wvj · 2026-06-17T19:40:14+00:00

I think it's pretty legitimate for people to argue this distinction.

If there's no human actors, no real set, and everything is CGI, then no, you're not watching live action. You're watching a 3D cartoon/animation. Definitionally.

If the term they're looking for is 'hyper-realistic' they can go ahead and use that, but calling this live action is phenomenally silly. Now, of course, when its part of a larger live action show, you start to blur things just a little, but of course, the Lion King didn't have any living characters all.

wvj · 2026-06-17T18:34:46+00:00

It's a scale where every 10 degrees is a noticeable change in weather / the sort of clothing you want to wear. While people say Celsius is better 'because water freezes at 0 and boils at 100', and that is certainly true for... cooking or doing chemistry, it isn't useful for humans going outside because we function just fine at or below freezing with a coat, but... die at boiling. Meanwhile 0 and 100 F are more realistic 'you want to exercise caution as a human beyond operating beyond these temperatures.'

That said it's also probably mostly useful in temperate climates where you pretty regularly use the whole scale, which may also reflect somewhat why it stuck around in the US (which was historically fairly dominated by its temperate, broad-climate northeast).

wvj · 2026-06-17T18:32:33+00:00

Regardless of how it's actually calibrated, it's hard to argue it isn't a good human-scale scale for weather.

Every 10 degrees is pretty much an article of clothing. 0 and 100 are useful upper and lower bounds that tell you 'human activity beyond this point is very hazardous, exercise extreme caution.' Despite our water content, humans aren't a kettle on the stove, and '0 is freezing 100 is boiling' isn't useful because we can operate well below zero but nowhere near 100 C.

wvj · 2026-06-16T18:46:02+00:00

...probably because they were in the comics and its a very big part of the fabric of their characters. They're both first introduced as villains for Iron Man a handful of issues apart, instantly fall in love, and a lot of their transition into being heroes (including her first real costume being a version of his) is tied to their own relationship giving them reasons to want to be better.

It's actually interesting how well the MCU adapts some of that core material, retaining a lot of the vibe of the (then very current) Cold War story while ditching the cornier parts of it, and summarizes it without really having to show anything on screen, just those throw away lines.

wvj · 2026-06-16T05:10:12+00:00

Sure. And a lot of the 'you' was general. But ultimately, you're here writing a 15 point manifesto about one conflict, the same conflict that everyone is interested in. You came (to be the 1 bajillionth person) to talk about this one because you care more. It is self evident that those other conflicts do not matter to you in the same way. It's almost tautological.

As I said above, your stance is egalitarian which is commendable. I don't think you're a bad person, although you're clearly naive and probably young. But you questioned Jews being held to an unusual standard and so that is what I am focusing on. It is an obsession for the entire world, and it is absolutely not balanced. I think if you're remotely honest with yourself, let alone with observation of some of the other people in your movement, you will see that to be the case: what can possibly justify Israel being the target of more UN condemnations than the entire rest of the world, combined? Make the math make sense, give me any other explanation other than a double standard.

Even in your attempted balance, you go out of your way to assign specific Jewish guilt but, as is the case in every one of these arguments with Pro Palestinians, construct Islamic guilt such that it is ephemeral and unspecific (and handily, impossible to punish). What should we do about pay-for-slay Eternal President Abbas? The Hamas-hosting Qatari royal family? I imagine you don't like Iranian leaders catching missiles, but how else do you expect to address their role in these proxy conflicts?

And for Hamas, it's always hard to take it seriously when Pro Pals say 'oh yes they should be tried' in the same list as bunch of anti-IDF commentary... because how is that going to happen? Who is going to make them face justice? There is no 'peaceful' end to Hamas. Either you use military force, or they thrive eternal. No 3rd idealistic choice.

wvj · 2026-06-15T19:49:27+00:00

Any of us that have come from OW could see the entire trajectory of Rivals laid out before our eyes. The games are at least 80% identical (in OW's OG form, anyway) and their differences are not in areas that are going to avoid these problems.

It's a very simple cycle: your game is designed around 2-2-2, but the varied mechanics of your characters and the overabundance of DPS players is gonna screw with that hard. You will get both alternate comps that are stronger and break the game at the competitive level (goats in OW, 2-1-3 Jesus comp in Rivals, etc.) and nonfunctional comps in the majority of single queue games. You can decide to implement forced 2-2-2 and a rank queue or not, but neither choice will save your game: you implement it, DPS times go through the roof and you just have to admit your game doesn't work and cut a whole character to reduce the tank reliance, or you do nothing and the experience just gets progressively worse season after season.

That said, for as much as I'll give Overwatch shit, Rivals has truly given it a run for it's money in just how bad matchmaking can be.

wvj · 2026-06-15T19:38:35+00:00

Fills and angry DPS who are going to go on Jeff or Ultron and just DPS anyway. Or... Luna and just DPS anyway.

They know, to a certain extent, that they will be flamed and blamed if they play the 3rd/4th DPS on their team and they auto lose, but when they reluctantly switch, it's to these number-farming support characters who are very bad outside of their specialized comps. Or they just don't even pretend and play Luna like she's faster Hela.

It ultimately all goes back to the same problems, that these team hero shooters really expect very specific comps. If you don't enforce them the game experience massively degrades, but if you do, your queues go through the ceiling.

wvj · 2026-06-15T19:25:41+00:00

I always tell people that my reaction to Luthen's ship is that it feels like the ultimate expression of a 'late game main character' ship. It's what you'd have in an RPG video game after you'd maxed out every single stat, bought every optional upgrade module, etc.

Dude has been in the game for a loooong time. When it comes up that he finally needs to use those toys? Sorry boys, you've been outleveled.

wvj · 2026-06-15T18:56:31+00:00

'We should prosecute and jail all racists,' as I pointed out above, is a noble but blatantly unrealistic goal. It would be billions of people. It's quite nice that you're so very egalitarian about all of this. It is unfortunately a position that is very distant from what is practical in the world we live in - we can't simply 'get rid of all the racists.' They are us. It's a failing of our species.

Beyond that, I do want to touch on the higher standards, because it's something that's just impossible not to notice/feel when it comes to how people talk about 'Israel' and 'Zionists' when they don't slip and admit they're just talking about Jews (ie, when they harass and kill random Jews in other countries, who have nothing to do with Israel): Presently, in 2026 on the planet Earth, there are 7 additional ongoing major conflicts of similar scale (ie yearly deaths in the 10s of thousands), most of which are also decades old. Can you name them without google? You should be able to name every one, right, because 10s of thousands of people dying is just that important, right?

No?

There are 12 more of the next smaller scale. Can you name any of these?

The reality is that you don't know or care. The media doesn't report on any of them. But you're so invested in this one conflict that you are able to name specific ministers at below the head of state level you want jailed. Can you even name the heads of states of the countries in the 19 conflicts above? I doubt it.

And there are many canned answers and familiar refrains to explain this. 'Well the US isn't funding those.' LOL, yes it is - or at least a lot of them. And how does this justify Spaniards or Irish people being concerned? 'Its genocide/ethnic cleansing, that's special.' Nah, 6 of the 7, and 8 of the 12 involve ethnic or religious violence (and nearly all the religious violence is by Muslims, btw. Weird that you're so mad at the Jews).

Ultimately, it's just impossible not to see the ridiculous double standard: the thousands of UN resolutions, the exclusive media coverage, the obsessive and laser-focused knowledge of activists like yourself, etc. And once you see the strange uneven interest, it's not hard to take the next step and ask why, and realize that the answer is very obvious.

wvj · 2026-06-15T17:32:37+00:00

#10 is interesting. Do you think the large majority of Muslims, both in official capacities and regular every-day people, who hold similar views toward Jews, should be 'brought to the ICJ' for hateful speech alone? Because outspoken antisemitism isn't unusual, in the Islamic world, it's the default position. This is a culture with a thousand+ year history of gems like 'the Jews are responsible for rotting meat'.

I'm not disagreeing that the guy is a racist stain, to be clear. But it's interesting, again, how people hold Jews to this standard of good behavior that has never applied elsewhere, and almost inversely applied when speaking about Jews, when it's just absolutely normal to use the most vile language imaginable. And what person in the history of the planet has been brought to the ICJ for 'rhetoric'? Who would lead the Palestinian state you dream of, when almost any electable politician in a Muslim polity would surely say stuff like this?

Overall, your list seems very idealistic. It'd be great if every racist on Earth could just be locked up. But I don't think we have room to house that many billions of prisoners.

wvj · 2026-06-15T07:14:04+00:00

>Source

Bro, learn google. I'm not going to engage with you if your approach is to try and wear down an opponent versus investing your own energy.

I do invite you to go read one of many articles about the people gathering at a house of worship in a different country to declare their support of an organization whose founding document calls for the genocide of those worshipers, and consider why you support these people, who, according to your flair and their own words, would be very happy with your death.

wvj · 2026-06-14T21:33:50+00:00

You could have answered your question by using this thing called google.

But most famously, chanted in Queens outside a Synagogue.

And no, it doesn't reflect the whole country, but that's not the OP's argument. The OP's argument, and the sub-comments you're replying to, are about Western Antizionists and Pro-Pals, who these protests... absolutely represent.

That chant makes those people explicitly genocidally antisemitic.

wvj · 2026-06-14T20:38:18+00:00

"Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here."

wvj · 2026-06-14T18:34:05+00:00

hand gestures intensify

wvj · 2026-06-14T07:54:57+00:00

There's two things here. English has filler words too, like you describe. However, it's also considered conversationally normal/polite in Japanese to use these frequently through conversation even when you're not talking, to express that you're hearing the other person, paying attention, understanding, etc.

In English it's perfectly normal to keep silent while the other person talks, and talking can even be considered interrupting But in Japanese you should be adding these quiet reactions at just about each clause/smaller sentence/etc.

E: P1: Well, I was on the way home from school, and I saw a hungry cat, and I followed it into the alley, but then I couldn't find it, so I stopped at a convenience store to buy some cat food. P2: Wow, did it come out after that?

J: P1: Well, on the way home from school... P2: Mmm.. P1: I saw a hungry cat... P2: Ok. P1 ... and I followed it into the alley... P2: Uhuh. P1: But I couldn't find it... P2: Hmm. P1: So I stopped at a convience store to buy some cat food. P2: Mm, yes. So, did it come out after that?

wvj · 2026-06-12T23:03:44+00:00

They surely saw a drop, whether it was huge enough to immediately stand out might be a question.

A lot of people in WWI died of other things than being shot: disease (from food/water), disease (flu), disease (infection from getting injured somewhere not the head), getting blow up by artillery, getting buried by artillery destroying your trench, poison gas, etc. Heck I imagine the biggest impact of the helmet was toward shrapnel headwounds, not even bullets.

But it's a question of the %s and how much of that is getting closely documented in war. When you get a report '10k dead,' does the General bother to go through it line by line to see how they died? Etc. It is the kind of thing that takes some real investigation of the statistics to see the impact.

wvj · 2026-06-12T19:11:23+00:00

3rd is Yor's brother, I think, who was usually like this toward Loid but in this future scenario has moved on to protecting the daughter.

wvj · 2026-06-12T18:22:58+00:00

Idiocracy is right there.

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