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magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
12hr ago
So the case with the 15yo sex worker sting was not an activist judge, but simply a judge applying the law as it is.
There's actually an interesting question there: if something is not legislated, but a judge sets a precedent (particularly without apparent basis), is that "the law"?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
12hr ago
Hillary's comment was aimed at Bernie, not Trump, though.
SSCReader
12hr ago
Except that wasn't the plan. The plan was escaping on cloaked ships while the First Order chased the larger ones. But because Poe sanctioned Rose and Finn's mission who brought back a slicer who betrayed that plan to the First Order, plan A was shot. Hyperspace ramming was the hail mary.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
12hr ago
How do you know of this cousin but not reversed? Why don't you reach out? I have many distant cousins who I've only gotten to know in the last few months, it's a rather nice experience!
sohois
12hr ago
A quick Google bought this up immediately:
The franchise has raked in an estimated $46.7 billion, with merchandise sales at an estimated $29.057 billion.
So not quite 90%, but still a majority of earnings.
Whether this means Disney has made profits or a return on their initial investment I don't know, although some of the other Google results suggested merch was still bringing in around 1b per year for them.
Tree
12hr ago
and then the vampire bad boy and the werewolf bad boy fight over me while I sit there and wait to be taken by the winner, and the vampire wins, but the werewolf is okay because he finds someone else, then the vampire marries me
You’ve got Wickham/Churchill/Willhoughby/Henry Crawford as the werevolves to the vampires Darcy/Knightley/Ed Ferrars-Brandon/Ed Bertram.
magic9mushroom
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12hr ago
Because I'm not familiar with any of the Baltic states having "dissolved."
They got invaded and conquered by the USSR, and then the USSR-including-them dissolved.
TIRM
13hr ago
That last one was shockingly bad. Confusing how they could make such a thing. I almost recommend watching it just to feel baffled at every turn. It is a unique movie experience in that sense.
cjet79
13hr ago
Awesome videos. I'd seen the amazing cultivator simulator one. And it is part of what makes me think this genre has untapped potential.
I had not heard of The Matchless Kungfu. It does sound of potential interest.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
13hr ago
Sam Hyde has some advice about this.
And that would be…?
(I mean, this is totally vague — you don't even have a link — how is it not "low effort"?)
ThisIsSin
Liberty has an anti-privilege bias
13hr ago
There is a reason Fluttershy is the most popular of the mane six.
Since when? If we accept the sheer number of works involving a character as a proxy for popularity, and look at Twibooru, Fluttershy is in third place (nearly tied with Pinkie Pie, at 295K and 291K respectively), far behind Twilight Sparkle (1st, at 410K) and Rainbow Dash (2nd, at 318K).
It's completely different from a man, who can be nice, safe, reliable, and still end up completely overlooked.
Rather humorously, the same dynamic is true for Worst Pony Applejack (227K), behind Rarity at 247K.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
14hr ago
Man, I didn't think anyone else but me has read those. Yes, this was my absolute favorite series when I was a kid.
I also read the series as a kid, and while it wasn't my favorite, I enjoyed it.
I also haven't seen anyone mention the book that was my favorite read as a kid — enough I wore out my first paperback copy and had to buy a second — which also had a female author and was first in a fantasy-with-some-SF-elements (some might call it the other way around) series (not to mention more than one less-than-good film adaptation by Disney): Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
(I still get a chill rereading the passage when Meg finally sees IT.)
Lizzardspawn
14hr ago
Every wartime economy is planned economy. Make what you want out of it.
Glassnoser
14hr ago
If they're getting something in return, then it's not a subsidy.
Glassnoser
14hr ago
This seems backwards. By their nature, private businesses tend to be focused on the long-term, since their value is equal to the net present value of all future cashflows from now until the end of time, whereas governments tend to focused on the short-term, since they just want to win the next election.
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
14hr ago
Hmm. In the case of Tarkov, the game just got continuously worse. Content came out at a glacial pace, the AI oscillates from aimbot to Helen Keller with an HK every six months. I would play the game if there simply was anything to justify it, such as a new massive map or other content of similar scale. I also refuse to play it solo, so I'd have to build a new social network of like-minded gamers to enjoy it.
The Warhammer branch of Total War killed my interest in the historical titles. They just seem so... boring, when you have tanks shooting at dragons. I played the hell out of those historical titles back in the day to boot.
I've been chasing the dragon on both for a while.
Might I suggest a return to Skyrim? You can't take a shit without one attacking your outhouse.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
15hr ago
with very long-term focused horizons like governments.
Is 4 years really that long?
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
15hr ago
First, one must move out of Somalia or Inner Mongolia, or at least unstick one's self from the nearest toilet. There are 1.4 billion of us in India, and even sex-selective abortion hasn't prevented half of them being female. You might find a sample near to home, we seem to get everywhere.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
15hr ago
If LucasFilm wasn't run by idiots, they'd have caught on and the Obi-Wan movie would be a Yojimbo pastiche with spaghetti characteristics instead of the tepid and lame saturday morning cartoon the tv show ended up being.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
15hr ago
It's also annoying because women aren't exactly better at writing men. I've seen some truly awful caricatures of what women think men are like (mainly from books my wife reads, and then asks me "is this accurate"). Yet the "men writing women" complainers act like this is a uniquely male offense. They don't seem to understand (or perhaps don't want to understand) that it's simply hard to get in the head of the opposite sex.
pigeonburger
15hr ago
"The Mandalorian" worked because the female appeal was Pedro Pascal plus baby Yoda (and I understand the female lead was not actively terrible in a Girlboss mode, so of course Disney bounced her for badthink) while having enough of the SW lore to appeal to the guys.
I like to think it worked because it (well, at least the first 2 seasons) was a freshly brewed batch of the original Star Wars recipe. Instead of reheating in the microwave the same old moldy batch of samurai/western (same thing) tropes with pulp sci-fi trappings from the originals like Disney did with the sequels, Jon Favreau took the recipe but made it with fresh tropes. Western/samurai tropes that were not part of Star Wars yet, starting with the premise taken straight from Lone Wolf and Cub.
They would have to do something really extreme, like declaring all the Disney content non-canon and hiring George Lucas to oversee a new sequel trilogy (while not directing). I'm honestly not sure even Andor should be part of the canon despite how good it is. Even Lego star wars is more tonally consistent with the overall property than Andor is.
I'm not saying Lucas is some kind of genius but there needs to be a clean break and delineation between Disney star wars and the property going forward, things are that broken. Alternatively the quality of the content needs to be close to Andor level but that is obviously unrealistic and if you could guarantee that you wouldn't need to buy IPs in the first place.
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