Some of the jokes will go over your head, some of the cameos will be meaningless, but overall I think the show stands on its own pretty well.

What didn’t you like about Andor? And if your answer is “I didn’t see it”, then why do you already have an opinion on it?

Where is the government when you need it

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”

Move along home!

The millennium falcon is essentially an old Cessna plane crammed full of equipment from a military jet, held together by duct tape, spit, and good vibes. It is constantly breaking down because everything from its armor, to its engines, to its power core was never designed for a ship that size. But when it does work, it punches WAY above its class.

The only unshielded ships are TIE fighters because it was cheaper to mass-produce them without them. Pretty much all other ships have shields.

Do you mean Starkiller base? Because the only planet completely destroyed by the Death Star was Alderaan, and it was in orbit around the planet at the time. Hardly light-years away.

Something, something, midi-chlorians.

There’s a lot of hand waving involved, but I feel like they’re at least fleshed out more than the wormhole aliens or the Caretakers.

The millennium falcon has a fuck ton of modifications made to it that actually make it a good ship. The issue is that it’s all slapped together redneck style so it’s very unreliable. Han’s claim that it’s the fastest ship in the galaxy is not actually that far off. It has a Class 0.5 Hyperdrive, which is the fastest hyperdrive in both canon and legends (with a few very obscure and circumstance-dependant exceptions, like the Jabitha and Aing-tii).

Umm actually, Star Trek takes place in the future, so Linus would be older. Duh.

Mariner in Lower Decks is far more immature and makes far more questionable choices, but she is a beloved character. I think Burnham’s issue is that she has the emotional stability of a high schooler. You can have immature characters, you can have characters that disrespect the chain of command, you can have characters who make lots of mistakes; but you can not have characters who have a mental health crisis every other week.

Discovery is like a Star Trek show if nearly every character was some version of Lt. Barclay; crippled by their own insecurities and forced to overcome them again and again without ever seeming to actually grow out of them.

They recently introduced a new format that has, in my opinion, fixed a LOT of the issues that have built up over the years. All cards are now legal (yes, even Pot of Greed) but they have a point cost; decks can only be 100 points. The most broken cards cost all 100 points.

It’s brought a lot of balance to a game that suffered hard from power creep and rules creep.

Well the reality answer is rules don’t exist anymore and they are just doing whatever the fuck they want.

The flimsy reasoning they’re using likely has to do with Michigan being a part of the Eastern Interconnection power grid, so what they do with their energy production affects a lot more states than just Michigan, so it makes sense for it to be Federally controlled. Only Texas has their own, independent, power grid.

Is anyone surprised by this?

I’m always amazed at the hoops some home owners will go through in a vain attempt to renovate an existing bathroom in their house, rather than just burning their house down and building a new one from scratch. It’s gotta be Stockholm syndrome or something.

Despite it being literally the biggest barrier brought up anytime someone suggests people should switch to Linux, it’s like you guys just can’t seem to get it through your head that literally 99.9% of PC users lack the technical knowledge needed to make the switch and find the amount of time and effort needed to learn how intimidating to the point that, yes, those “hoops” you mention are actually the easier option.

Imagine a house fire. Imagine that instead of directly fighting it, people are trying to organize a mass demonstration to show the fire that people really want it to just go out on its own.

And then when you point out that will accomplish nothing, that it’s entirely performance just to make the participants feel better, that time should be spent fighting the fire instead of dancing around the issue and trying to combat it by wishing really really hard that it would just go away, people respond with “Fine, I guess we just do nothing then! Is that better?!”

Here’s my prediction: In the grand scheme, nothing will happen.

The majority of the protests will be uneventful. In a few cities, police forces will crack back unnecessarily hard and a few protesters will be arrested, with most released after a day or two.

There will be a near media blackout of these events, eventful or otherwise. The administration will not feel any pressure, and within a month, everyone will forget it even happened.

This is what will happen every time a peaceful protest is planned on a weekend that inconveniences nobody.

What if he serenaded you with a traditional Irish folk song about Unions?

Anonymity online is going to die

At least that means sites won’t have the illusion of engagement when it’s actually just a flood of bots talking to each other, right?

…Right?

First time I’m hearing about the return of Digg, I’ll probably keep an eye on it