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20 votes
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Ahsoka doesn't really work
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
I just finished this show, having waited for it all to come out before getting into it -- other Disney+ Star Wars series taught me the lesson that they are much better binged than watched week to week and I was not wrong.
Spoilers below
The endless references to a children's animated show that I have less than zero interest in viewing really drags it down, which is why my main take away as per the title is that it doesn't really work. Most of the premise of the show is finding Thrawn and Ezra -- two characters you have no way of knowing about unless you watched that cartoon. Yet these two characters are constantly referenced and for some reason important, but you're never really sure why.
It kind of works with Thrawn because there's a mysterious villain type of thing going on. But Ezra? Why do we miss him? Who is he? What did he do? Almost none of my questions are ever answered, even after we find him! Aside from simply being told by other characters that he is important, I am never told how or why. Nothing they say or do makes me care about him. They don't show me anything that makes me want to get emotionally invested in him. And no, I am not watching hundreds of hours of cartoons to understand the context. That is simply too much.
This show is in a very strange place between obviously trying to cater to a large audience (it is a Disney property after all, so $$$), but it simultaneously can only be fully understood by extremely hardcore Star Wars fans. I consider myself a fan. I have watched all live action movies and shows, even the laughably bad stuff like the Boba Fett and Kenobi shows. That they intentionally mix together animated and live action storylines though -- especially with any context lacking -- is a major misstep.
I like the Star Wars universe a lot. And while a lot of it is entertaining, it feels very bad to feel left out. It would be different if it was a small cameo or name drop once in a while. But the main storyline gets impacted by this, and it just kind of leaves a sour taste after finishing it.
I was decently entertained and it had some very good moments, particularly the Baylan and Shin duo was intriguing -- which is ironic as I understand that they are among the only original characters in this show. Regurgitating old canon is not the way.
7/10. Entertaining but unsatisfying.
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How the Yale unions took over New Haven
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What Israel should do now: Israel’s current approach is clearly wrong. Here’s a better way to fight Hamas — and win.
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Some call us ungrateful middle-class feminists – but this is why women went on strike in Iceland
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Highly inappropriate book covers
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Serj Tankian announces memoir 'Down With the System'
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
5 votes -
President John F. Kennedy's "Peace Speech"
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New York Red Bulls maintain the longest active playoff streak in pro sports
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
6 votes -
Encrypt. Now.
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Palm oil - The good, the bad, and the oily
8 votes -
First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality
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Gardeners of the northern hemisphere, how did it go this year?
The growing season here in southeastern Australia is just kicking off, so I'd love to hear (and see!) your successes and failures, what you will repeat and what you want to change, what your...
The growing season here in southeastern Australia is just kicking off, so I'd love to hear (and see!) your successes and failures, what you will repeat and what you want to change, what your future plans are, etc.
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Cities: Skylines II | Official release trailer
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Should I stop flying? It’s a difficult decision to make.
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Norway's $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, on Tuesday reported losses of 2.1% in the third quarter, as all asset classes fell in value
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The rich and famous are dominating podcasts and I don't like it one bit!
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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker
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Fraud, abuse, fingerprinting, privacy, and openness – Why my bank is fingerprinting me and why that's fine
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How often do you 100% games/in what circumstances would you try to?
I just got my Spider-Man 2 Platinum trophy and was looking through my trophy list, I wonder how many people will also obsessively chase the 100% or Platinum trophy and under what conditions. My...
I just got my Spider-Man 2 Platinum trophy and was looking through my trophy list, I wonder how many people will also obsessively chase the 100% or Platinum trophy and under what conditions.
My personal favorite 100% achievements recently and why:
Slay the Spire - I dumped almost 500 hours in this game and finally got Eternal One last year, it was an incredible journey and I definitely feel myself getting better as I play
God of War Ragnorak - I'm a lifelong God of War fan since the originals and getting through this game was definitely a journey. Finishing the final final boss was incredibly satisfying
Resident Evil 4 Remake - Another one of my personal favorite games of all time, I grinded a week for 50 hours to grab this over about 4 or 5 playthroughs
Spider-Man 2 - My fastest platinum, not too difficult but very satisfying (I do love Spider-man though lol)12 votes -
California DMV immediately suspends Cruise’s robotaxi permit
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I've been looking into self-hosting, what's the best cost-efficient option?
I host a couple of very small websites for personal stuff and a Foundry server for my weekly RPG. Not exactly resource-intensive. And I've been paying for webhosting for a while for it, and it...
I host a couple of very small websites for personal stuff and a Foundry server for my weekly RPG. Not exactly resource-intensive. And I've been paying for webhosting for a while for it, and it just feels unnecessary.
I always figured when I finally decided to do it, I'd just grab a Raspberry Pi and go to town. But they're... weirdly expensive. The Zero 2 W is sold out everywhere, they have insane resale prices, and you still need to essentially buy the 'kit' first time to have most of the stuff to set one up. So is it worth it?
I've been toying between that or just grabbing an old server off craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for $25-$30 and just going to town from there. What do you guys recommend?
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Roger Goodell’s bald servility to NFL owners has made him filthy rich
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Old pinball machines are amazingly complex
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
9 votes -
Toyota inks deal to mass produce solid state EV batteries with 932-mile range
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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
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It’s not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
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Meta accused by states of using features to lure children to Instagram and Facebook
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What we know about the explosion at the hospital in Gaza
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Even the French are giving up on arthouse films. Is this the end of a cinematic era?
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Crunchyroll is giving away some free seasons to stream for a limited time
Link for the lazy... https://www.crunchyroll.com/ Free first seasons of returning shows: SPY x FAMILY The Rising of the Shield Hero Heaven Official's Blessing The Faraway Paladin The Saint's Magic...
Link for the lazy... https://www.crunchyroll.com/
Free first seasons of returning shows:
- SPY x FAMILY
- The Rising of the Shield Hero
- Heaven Official's Blessing
- The Faraway Paladin
- The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent
- Girlfriend, Girlfriend
- HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima
- GOBLIN SLAYER
- Arknights
- Umamusume: Pretty Derby
The free Halloween lineup I see on their website:
- Blood Blockade Battlefront
- Blue Exorcist
- Corpse Princess: Shikabane Hime
- Deadman Wonderland
- Ghost Hunt
- Hell's Paradise
- Hellsing
- Hellsing Ultimate
- Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU
- How to Keep a Mummy
- Is this a Zombie?
- Junji Ito Collection
- Kemono Jihen
- Mieruko-chan
- The Case Study of Vanitas
- The Vampire Dies in No Time
- Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
- Tokyo Ghoul
- Trinity Blood
- ZOMBIE LAND SAGA
I'm pretty sure this is different from the FAST platform TV channel partnership they announced. Rather, these are time-limited free streams they're giving away direct on their website. I haven't checked if they're also available on their apps, but I would assume so.
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US pedestrian deaths are soaring. Is it time to ban right turns on red lights?
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Kansas City receives $15 billion in federal funding for mobility and infrastructure projects
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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Estonia-Finland pipeline explosion – what's the evidence that the damage was deliberate?
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Gotham Awards nominations: ‘All Of Us Strangers’ tops movie list; Ryan Gosling gets ‘Barbie’ nom with budget caps removed
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The poster’s guide to the internet of the future
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Personal aviation is about to get interesting
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Have you learned a foreign language as an adult? What did you find effective?
I would love to know of your experiences. I do speak multiple languages, but was lucky to learn them through immersion as a child. I would be super interested to know how people learn languages...
I would love to know of your experiences. I do speak multiple languages, but was lucky to learn them through immersion as a child.
I would be super interested to know how people learn languages (with a goal to speak them fluently) as an adult. What techniques worked? What techniques didn't? Do you have any funny stories (perhaps miscommunication anecdotes)? Was it worth it? Or your things generally in relation to language-learning!
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90% of women in India are shut out of the workforce
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Major study claims to identify the root cause of obesity: fructose
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The Pirates trilogy is pure bliss
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Denmark leads the Women Peace and Security Index 2023/24, scoring more than three times higher than Afghanistan at the bottom of the scale
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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The region at the heart of Germany’s economic stagnation
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Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him.
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Japan uses blue instead of green on traffic lights
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