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  • Its generally more up to date with newer standards and such than Debian, but it is by no means bleeding edge.

    Bleeding edge is generally bad unless you really need some specific thing for a specific reason.

    If your whole set up is bleeding edge then congrats, you are a basically alpha testing an OS.









  • Yeah, another part of the problem is that you cannot tell that you are hyperthermic and or dehydrated.

    Thats how you get the people that dance all night and then just die, or go comatose or pass out.

    Your body stops telling you wow, i am way too hot and wow, i really need water.

    Sort of like that rare condition where you literally cannot feel pain, and children with it will break their fingers because it feels weird.


  • Excellent point, I totally agree.

    We got a poorly written Holdo instead, closest thing to a strong older female character… I think she shoots a blaster… once?

    Only older woman doing action in a recent major movie I can think of is Sarah Connor.

    Brought back Ford for another Indi movies, that whole series with Liam Neeson, all of the Expendables movies, etc.

    But yeah, the voice and face morph tech was basically available, they could have used Hamil and Fisher for the lines and most of the acting (you know, CGI and/or stunt doubles for the more intense action scenes same as basically every actor over 50 other than Tom Cruise), just maybe de age their voices and faces a tad to be set more proximally after 6, and focus more on her training, grand tragedy of her and han and Jacen becoming Caedus…

    There is absolutely enough established lore there that could be worked into a trilogy focusing on the growth of Leia, showcasing a strong mother and warrior and diplomat/leader.

    It is honestly completely baffling to me still that they threw out the EU. Sure, not all the plot lines are great, but they could have gone in so many directions with it.

    I had always assumed the obvious problem with making a new trilogy would be:

    Ok, we have so, so much established canon to work with, what parts of it can we focus on or interweave and tweak a bit to tell precisely the kind if story we want?

    But nope, they just fucking binned it all.


  • A pity they already had the entire EU to work from and decided to obliterate it all… until they fucked up their own shit so badly they started bringing it back.

    We could have had another trilogy centered around an established strong female character.

    Mara Jade.

    Sure, mix and match in some new ideas to make it work better as films than novels. The idea of Finn (a defecting stormtrooper) absolutely works in this setting.

    But the original cast is too old for that time period!

    Well we’ve now seen that Luke can be portrayed reasonably well with another actor and face and voice changing tech.

    Have a whole trilogy set in basically the Mando/Asoka time period, but use the Mandalorians in a more adult story about the difficulty of establishing and maintaining alliances when the New Republic is young, the Imperial Remnant still exists, and now basically its chaos as various factions are picking sides.

    Thrawn can be the big bad, but his presence is barely hinted at in 7, makes his appearance in 8 and has a major victory, and is defeated in 9.

    You could even work in Boba Fett and Asoka! Maybe Thrawn sends Fett to assassinate Luke in 8 and he is seriously wounded or his new gaggle of Jedi trainees are fucked up, but Asoka helps Luke fend him off on the Millennium Falcon!

    But uh nope, instead we got A New Hope v2, A B and C plot clusterfuck with a side of break hyperspace and all space combat lore, followed by Duct Tape and Bullshit.





  • The 00’s internet had ogrish and bumfights.

    That shit was waaay more fucked up in terms of content, but it was also extremely niche.

    I have met tons of kids and young adults that act nearly identically to kik streamers or the more insane twitch streamers.


  • True, I can see the appeal of small Twitch channels where you have a reasonable chance of actually interacting…

    …but so many of the larger channels …

    1. chat is literally an overwhelming barrage of randomness

    2. so, so many streamers develop gigantic egos, and then get into fights with other similar people.

    Kik is even worse. While many of the popular people on Twitch have serious personality disorders, Kik seems to legitimately just be streams of gambling and the worst person you knew in high school being paid to commit crimes.


  • Well thanks for the explanation.

    I think Twitch culture is largely cancer so I never followed it.

    Never saw the appeal of like watching a Twitch stream for hours and hours.

    All the good moments just get clipped by the author or someone else and end up in a time respecting format on youtube anyways?

    So OLD.


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    Oh, so, ‘truthfully’ or ‘verily’.

    Welp. Sure, ok. Uh…

    How… wtf is the etymology on that? I have no clue how cap = lie.

    Last time I talked to a Gen Alpha I literally could not understand 70% of what they were saying. I look a bit younger than I actually am so I had to say look I’m in my 30s, talk to me like I’m a boomer.

    Then they dropped the lingo, after rolling their eyes and pouting.

    Hooooray for being old. And autistic. Now I’m going to pout.