Mardoniush [she/her]

Alcohol tolerance.

Ooof, my general experience with Linux users is that if they say “works flawlessly” they mean 2 weeks of fraught driver installs and using commands taken from the necromomicon.

So I hesitate to think what “a chore” would be

Yeah if it wasn’t for gaming and the general setup headache I’d have switched years ago but I have 30 years of documents arranged using windows file system conventions and I’d rather not spend 3 weeks tinkering with sound drivers.

Yeah, I agree. I will say Beyond the Stars does a lot of heavy lifting and the love scenes are a admirable failure. It’s hard to show two damaged people who are bad for each other genuinely in love without the jarring stilted tone shifts. A better dialogue writer than Lucas (who isn’t a bad storyteller but is so visual it’s hard to fix) could have done it.

At least until the final third. Despite zombie Leia that scene of the ordinary rebels passing on the plans as Vader tears through them hits much harder now you know the rebellion grew via the same desperate sacrifice. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

If they just reshot the same scenes with the same actors now they’re more in the roles you’d probably fix much of the film.

Bunch of people delivering you cask wine.

They took down everything. The ISB is gutted and so is Naval Intelligence (Yularen was on the Death Star) Tarkin is dead, the Senate had to be dissolved because the energy project got out. The Empire has no choice but to rule by decree and it just lost its prime tool for that, a tool it spent 20 years on and burned at least 2 entire worlds for. Over a million soldiers, twice that of the entire population of Gohrman! And for nothing! The Imperial Political Administration is dead! After that it’s amazing the Empire doesn’t immediately spiral apart (though I suppose it does, since the Rebels are way more widespread now). The sudden uprisings in ROTJ suddenly make sense!

And they spent so much time hunting him et al that Yavin was built under their noses. I mean they have a Mon Calamari Cruiser in Rogue One! That’s like the Houthis rocking up with an Invincible-class Aircraft Carrier!

I remember people pointing out how the “Fulcrum” group from rebels was doing far more that the “Axis” group in Andor, but Luthen played the long game. And it’s clear the people who leave with Cassian are the last surviving members of Luthen’s spy network. They don’t like the Mothma Libs and they’re not mad enough for the Rhydo huffing Anarchists.

That said, the Rebel Alliance does expend 80% of its combat strength on it.

Anyway it makes its surrounding movies and series much better.

I suspect Mimbaan was a 9 way clusterfuck between the Empire, Republic rebels, Sepratist rebels, Random wierd space-trots, and 4 different types of localist fascist.

Hey, I’m someone who likes AotC despite its many flaws and I’ve never met a single person who does.

The only way I think they could sustain it is some kind of dense political drama, either about the collapse of the New Republic or the structural rebuilding needed after episode 9.

I mean Solo wasn’t exactly making fancy desserts on Mimban. And if you recall Cassian was with the rebels there.

I want to see that droid after Endor wearing more medals than Zhukov

Simple, state that they can replace workers with AI all they want, provided that they pay every worker they replace their full wage in perpetuity, indexed to the cpi. After all if Ai is so much more efficient and smart they’ll make bank over that increase alone!

This has been known since 2008 by marketers. Even Google employees outright stated it at conferences.