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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   4930 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 16, 2026

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To indulge in sheer schadenfreude-driven bitterness for a moment...

Good.

I loved Star Wars when I grew up, but right now, Star Wars needs to rest. The franchise needs to just lie dormant for a while. It's done this before - 1983-1991, for instance - and probably been better for it. Our media overlords should put it down and stop trying to exploit it.

Maybe one day there can or should be a Star Wars renaissance, but it is not happening now. Give it at least a decade of rest.

It really doesn't though. Maybe they should give up movies, but for whatever reason they never give the public (me) what it wants when it comes to video games, no matter how successful. For a period, up until around the late 00s, Lucasarts was producing some absolutely killer Star Wars themed games. And I don't think they've run dry the mine of both the storyworld of the Old Republic (which is just better in nearly every way from mainline Star Wars) or style of games such as the old Jedi Academy games. They just won't do them because it's not GAAS optimized slop. And when they do do something like an open world Star Wars game (killer in theory) they insist on wokifying it - but you don't have to do that.

I wouldn't read them, but probably you could theoretically do good books. Comics in the west are probably dead for a generation, at minimum, but if that weren't so you could theoretically do that too.

Anyway, there's still a Star Wars world at Disneyland, so I don't imagine they'll give up totally soon. It takes money to dismantle that thing, and anyways, it honestly looks cool. Speaking of, I heard they're finally giving up forcing the turd sequel IP line exclusively for Disney's Galaxy Edge and letting in nostalgia bait like Vader along with the joke that is Kylo Ren and the neo-Rebellion. Wise.

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