I recently rewatched it to see if I would come away with a different feeling, but no, I agree with most of this. I didn’t know about the nepotism, but that tracks.

Sol was the worst. His motivations were creepy, his emotional attachment and paternalism to Osha was unhealthy even for a non Jedi.

The more the story of Osha’s “kidnapping” was fleshed out, the more frustrating the whole thing became. Sol was selfish, presumptuous, and motivated by personal feelings.

The big lightsaber fight was devastating. It was incredible action and for sure some amazing cinematography, but

was a huge swing that was a bit too blunt of a tonal switch for me. But I get why they did it, it had impact.

Came here to mention MC Solaar. His talent is mind blowing.

Composers write the music, musicians play the music, and conductors wave around a stick to keep the musicians playing the composition at the right volume and tempo, and to make sure the different sections of the orchestra (the different groups of instruments) come in and out at the right times.

Try coordinating all that without a conductor and it’d be a crazy cacophonous mess…

Fun fact, if you’ve ever watched a string quartet performance, the first violinist basically conducts the other three with their body and bow while playing. Most people have some natural tempo, but keeping multiple people on track usually requires visual queues and well-timed breathing.

Not unprecedented, but still very strange, doesn’t make sense to me either.

From the article:

North Carolina is one of a handful of states that allow jilted spouses to sue for “alienation of affection” to seek damages from a third party responsible for the breakup of their marriage.

It’s very weird to me that some states let spouses sue a third party for their partner’s infidelity. Sinema is clearly a morally bankrupt asshole, but this guy cheated on his wife.

I think they suck story-wise, and are quite lazy with the overall plots, but they’re gorgeous and innovative, and have surprisingly good acting for the shit those people must have to go through, so I’ll continue watching and rewatching them even though I still think they suck. The visuals and world-building are what keep me coming back. It’s a very weird franchise, but it makes sense that people have such a love/hate relationship.

Get rid of the human characters and make it all about Pandora and it’d be pure gold IMO.

It’s been so long, but I remember loving the Black Widow and the…Interceptor? Getting myself in the perfect position to just absolutely wreck the other side felt so good, especially when stealthed in the Widow. Again I’m having trouble recalling specifics, but I remember the matchmaking being incredibly solid which is why the game was so consistently good. Sometimes things were lopsided, but more often than not it was was good balanced fun, while still being challenging.

Yess! I put a huge number of hours into this game. It had such satisfying mechanics. Haven’t thought about it in a long time, but one of my favorites.

Same. If I find myself spacing out at my desk and don’t have anything scheduled, I’ll hop over to the couch and lay down for 15 or 20 minutes. Even if I don’t fully fall asleep, letting myself drift puts me in a much more productive mindset when I go back to my desk.

Though I don’t worry about making up for that time, since I assume everybody else has their own little remote work cheats to get through the day.

It’s oddly gratifying when users consistently live up to the custom red flag tags I’ve assigned them…

Seconding this. Japanese cinema has this style figured out. A great recent example is Perfect Days. It’s a gorgeous slice of life film with a small but excellent cast. The main character is played by Yakusho Koji (a pretty famous Japanese actor) and he barely has any lines. There’s very little dialogue in the whole film, but it tells a tight and coherent story.

Yeah, he’s a bigot. Everything he says, the way he snidely talks about underrepresented groups, the disrespect he shows his own family, all done with a glib goading smile that begs for outrage.

I’m not sure why the author felt the need to sanitize Trump’s antisemitism at the same time as illustrating Vance’s, especially when he pretty much describes them the same way. Vanity driven by fear of turning away supporters vs. political cravenness for fear of losing the base. Don’t see much difference when it comes out as hatred for minorities.

Trump has always struggled to denounce anti-Semitism, whether asked to comment on Kanye West or the tiki-torch carriers in Charlottesville. But that always seemed a product of his vanity; he couldn’t stand to speak ill of acolytes. Vance’s refusal or inability to denounce anti-Semitism is more craven—and therefore more disturbing. He’s clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid.

I’m one of those people who have been clamoring for a way to prevent me from constantly losing my place, and this is not what I had in mind. But if it works it works, and I’ll be happy to have any solution. The issue for me is constantly mis-tapping the Posts button, sometimes with the side of my palm, sometimes when reaching for buttons further away. It happens every day.

A simple solve would just be to give us the option to change what the Posts button does. We already have lots of great ways to customize those buttons, why not one more? I don’t want the Posts button to scroll to the top on first tap and then take me to the communities tab on the next tap. The combination of those behaviors is why I keep losing my place. If the Posts button has to take me out of my feed, then I should always have a way of getting back to the same spot. At the very least, when I tap back into the Home feed it should put me back where I was in that feed (or give me that option). Popups are fine I guess, but I’d rather have a setting.

My ideal behavior: scroll my feed, tap Posts button (on purpose or by accident) end up on list of subscribed communities, tap Home, resume scrolling where I left off. If I want to scroll to the top of my feed I’ll tap the top of my screen (sorry android people) since that’s the default way to do that. The Posts button shouldn’t do something that the OS has a built in behavior for.

Also, I’m on the latest iOS version and don’t see this option in settings. Has it not been rolled out to iOS yet?

It’s a summary of multiple articles, and doesn’t explain how it wrote the summary. Breaks the community rules (rule 1) for sure, but also just a very confusing way to post multiple articles at once. Just pick one source, and post that directly.

Edit: I looked into it. It’s slop:

Kagi News reads public RSS feeds of thousands of (community-curated) world-wide news sources and utilizes AI to distill them into one perfect daily briefing.

Those wings are awesome. To echo some other comments, your style has noticeably evolved and gotten really cool. I love this one: the framing, the color scheme, the angles, those badass wings. I can totally still see the unique style that oozes from your other simpler drawings, but with all this extra detail it’s even better.

The average utility bill for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers increased by about 67% over the last five years. (source)

I can vouch. My PG&E bills in 2020 averaged around $70 a month, now they’re regularly over $170. No change in my consumption habits. If I’m mathing correctly, that’s more than a 100% increase for me.

Not Safe For Work is a warning so if you’re browsing at work you know not to click on a link that might embarrass you if people are looking over your shoulder. It’s not about nakedness per se, but is more about what’s acceptable to look at in front of others in a professional setting.

I hope you wanted a serious answer…

The issue of accidentally losing your place in the feed is very common, and comes up here pretty frequently. I’ve posted about it and commented on multiple other posts about it. It’s super frustrating and affects me many times a day, but it doesn’t seem to phase the devs or at least is not a priority for them. They really have to change the behavior of that button, it’s getting a bit ridiculous at this point.

I get what you’re saying, and I accept that reality for most of us here who already understand these things. But blaming consumers for corporate surveillance is not a good way to get corporations to stop surveilling consumers.

I’m not sure how Epic internally finances these giveaways, but this may be the only way to play it without supporting her bullshit?

Agree though, this is a hard sell, even free.