This. Please NOT Sana.

No— because, again, it can control gravity, whereas the planet can’t.

As you may have heard, a real-life supervillain has put Gizmodo/io9's parent company through some shit.

It seems to me that if you have a giant moon-sized battlestation, you want to screw up a planet, AND you can control gravity, then you don’t need to fire off a superlaser to destroy a planet.

This. Somebody wasted the entire teaser thread the LAST time arguing that this proved it was Vader’s Star Destroyer, failing to note that the Imperial I and II models very much remain canon.

No, it’s actually the most important point, and I too wish you had made it in this excellent post.

THANK YOU, that’s indeed the very best line in the film, can’t believe it was left out.

Oh, sweet child. Life is going to be sooo difficult.

EVERYONE cares about the box office, or ought to. Hollywood makes what sells, and as long as crap sells, they’ll keep making it.

2014?

Excellent to hear— I loved that book, just totally blew my mind in the best way. High school history portrayed the fall of Rome as a binary event, one day here, one day gone, whereas Wickham explains how it was a period of transition, and the successor powers sought to *emulate* rather than *replace* Rome. More akin…

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It’s not a joke to make death threats against someone under Secret Service protection. It’s— wait for it— a felony.

... and vice versa.

But see, that’s the fatal flaw with this advice: nobody wants to hang around drunk people UNLESS you too are also drunk.

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Not a single Gawker author would celebrate clitoridectomies, feet binding, forced pregnancies, sexual slavery, or any other form of patriarchy, yet at every turn the hijab continues to elicit “You go, girl!” For every woman who has the freedom to wear a hijab, there are countless others who have no choice at all,…

This line is funnier if the FRAKKIN’ PHOTO IS INCLUDED. Geezus, Gawker, Kinja is the worst.

Wait... how many cupholders are there?

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