sohois
9d ago
Enjoy is somewhat of a different experience than "the prequels are overall good". I enjoyed the prequels as a child and I expect I could rewatch them with my own children without complaint. They are certainly more interesting films than most of Disney's output. But good films? Nah
sohois
9d ago
Sorry but I can't take anyone seriously who believes this. There's a group of star wars fans who obviously like any Star wars content and have been suckered by memes and cartoons, but I doubt you'll find many who think the prequels are good movies. People can enjoy many terrible movies
sohois
10d ago
Secondly, Star Wars wasn't Rian Johnson's to destroy. On December 15, 2017, Star Wars meant something. On December 16, 2017, Star Wars was a joke
Does this post simply pretend that the prequels didn't exist?
By the time of TLJ, the past 5 movies in the Star Wars canon had veered from just about ok to downright garbage (technically there was that cartoon movie as well but I don't think anyone counts that). The series was batting 2 for 7
sohois
14d ago
Self-study? It's the same as any other language these days, grab your preferred app and go through all the lessons. Duolingo is shit for Chinese and I haven't really used many of the options myself, but I understand that DuChinese and HelloChinese would be good to get started with.
And the other thing about ubiquitous smartphones is that there really is no reason to learn hand writing anymore, because everything can be done with pinyin and copied if you have to write something.
sohois
16d ago
The BBC are establishment progressives. They do largely adhere to the status quo, except on cultural issues where they are invariably well to the left.
That one of their editors appears to be a bit of Zionist apparently had no impact on their fawning coverage of Hamas talking points, as demonstrated in the reply right below yours. It's a similar argument that Davie and Turness are both Tory appointments with conservative leanings; somehow it didn't prevent the BBC from this blunder, or the hundreds of Gaza blunders, or their "LGBTQ desk" somehow getting veto power over any and all trans related articles.
sohois
18d ago
I think you're overblowing the women's football stuff massively: you might ask who benefits from the addition of the Ethiopian league or the Romanian second tier or the myriad other tiny leagues you can rock up to as a manager. Adding women's football is largely a matter of expanding their database and I can't imagine it was some big programming challenge. Other than the dumb weight issue, I can't imagine any of their problems were due to women's football compared to the general engine change and their overall incompetence at designing a UI and graphics engine.
As for the why, then yeah I think you're correct:
idealistic projections of future female fanbases
Games like FIFA and FM have pretty much maxed out the male audience, so what better way to please growth hungry execs than promising a whole new female audience to exploit?
At least for FM, it makes sense because of the aforementioned matter of just expanding their database (compared to modelling hundreds of new players and new animations in FIFA, for example)
sohois
23d ago
As far as I can see, a couple of posters have taken issue with your claims around territorial gains for Russia, with no posters suggesting that Ukraine will turn around and reconquer lost territory.
sohois
25d ago
Was there a serious core of people who believed in a Ukraine victory though? And by serious, I mean people who don't solely read or work for the likes of NYT or BBC. Mottizens or similar. Outside of a hope that sanctions might eventually force Russia to the table, I would be surprised if anyone believed in a Ukraine military victory.
If by "Western Europeans" you're referring more to the governments than the people, I think the answer is less learning from history and rather the same as for every modern crisis: a large number of incompetent and completely bubbled officials, unable to deal with the complexity of modern life
Either that or they offer Korean BBQ and didn't bother taking the option off the delivery menu
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