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  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldI'm confused
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    It doesn’t matter. He was a Sith and a force user, and after the Jedi were purged, he didn’t have to hide it anymore. He would, at least from the general public, but he was served by Vader, who was openly a Sith. Well, not openly Sith, Vader likely never used the word Sith, but he would use the force to choke a bitch.

    But prequels are often hamfisted in their treatment of character growth over a time skip. As in, they can’t have any growth or change at all from the end of the prequel to the start of the first movie, even if there’s 20+ years in between the two.


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    That’s the problem with prequels. They have to set things up, but cannot have any change or character growth, because then they’d fail at being a prequel.

    So you have pointless, this is how the thing happened scenes, when no one asked for them.

    Okay. rarely you’ll get a prequel that’s good, but those are story driven and often have no effect either way on the later stories except to add a layer of depth.

    The Star Wars Prequels, every single one of them, were not that. There was no coherent story in any of them. Just a bunch of “look at the thing” scenes.





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    Such an unnecessary scene. The scaring and decrepitness of Palpatine didn’t need explanation. Just say that using the dark side of the force is corrosive, and slowly kills the body.

    The same with Vader. It shouldn’t have been due to burns and lightsaber injuries, it should have been due to that same corrosiveness.






  • They also had yeast that they could get from the local brewer.

    And since bread was highly regulated, it was generally made by a trained baker, who used the highest quality flour they could get… which was still often very coarsely ground with the occasional bit of sand from the grindstones.

    But it was leavened, and had salt, because everyone could get salt. The stuff was everywhere. And still is.





  • The Factorio dev. I’ve heard he’s a shit person but not dove deeper into it.

    Edit; did some looking and yeah, he’s a shitbag. He claimed that Statutory Rape was a SJW term, and that teachers should be able to seduce their students as long as they weren’t violent.

    Then he used a dev blog to link to a racist misogynistic jackass, and when called out on it (The guy just wanted a disclaimer on the link) Korvex went on a rant about cancel culture and then tried to defend the misogynistic views, claiming that “maybe there’s a reason why there are so few women coders”


  • The FBI actually has a role they fulfil. They do it badly, and need massive reforms, but they do have a role. I’d even expand their domestic terror investigations. And re-open their office on right-wing domestic terror that was closed in 2009.

    The NSA should be the “keep other countries from spying on us” agency. They’ve instead decided that the best defense is an all encompassing offense. They need a reset.

    And the pentagon is the headquarters of the military. A sadly needed thing, especially with China and Russia being all imperialist these days. The only thing either country fears is an all out war with the US. Mostly because it would mean the end of most life on earth. (Some of the Southern Hemisphere would be virtually untouched, so it’s not all life)

    That doesn’t mean I want any of it in Trump’s hands again, but those three organizations do have roles that they should be fulfilling.