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The biggest issue IMO isn’t the insecurity of the device but the company’s cozy relationship with cops. Ring is quickly turning into DIY surveillance state tech, in a much more obvious and provable way than other smart home appliances like Alexa.

I’m stunned that you think TLJ left no plot threads for the third movie to continue on from. It seemed pretty clear to me that the threads were all there: Rey as a new kind of Jedi, not beholden to the religiosity of the old order, while the force awakens in thousands or millions of “nobodies” across the galaxy.…

That article is very wishy-washy on how final JJ’s script for VIII was, and also admits that JJ and Johnson worked closely together and that many of the plot points in TLJ were known to JJ or in some cases even his own ideas. So I don’t think this idea that Rian Johnson came in and shit all over JJ’s immaculate…

Jesus this is so much better than what actually happened.

This is an interesting take. I strongly disagree that Johnson’s choices were ill considered or that he left no narrative legs for TRoS. But I also agree that in retrospect the root problem was that TFA was a terrible foundation to build a new trilogy on. It had exactly one interesting idea (Kylo Ren as Toxic Fanboy)…

Johnson doesn’t “walk back” TFA. TLJ doesn’t actually contradict or retcon anything that happens in TFA. It just answers the questions lef topen in TFA in ways JJ Abrams likely didn’t intend.

Re-fighting the same fight came directly from TFA and JJ. I agree that that’s the fundamental flaw in the whole trilogy, but you can’t lay it at Johnson’s feet.

Pure air-superiority fighters are arguably a less than great investment given how unlikely a first world power vs. first world power military confrontation is these days. But drones absolutely cannot replace their capabilities (yet). There are no drones with the payload, range, or maneuvering capabilities of a current…

Setting aside that this is a fantasy, you’re not necessarily allowed to lie in wait for people breaking into your home in order to kill them. If they threaten you most states’ castle doctrine will permit you to respond in kind rather than requiring you to retreat. But you can’t stalk and ambush them just because…

This happens way more often than “responsible gun owners” would have you believe. My father had a coworker who shot his teenage daughter with a shotgun (she survived with serious injuries). She was returning after sneaking out in the middle of the night to see her boyfriend, didn’t respond to the dad’s “who goes…

Yeah, this whole story reeks of “white suburbanite with a radically awful sense of what constitutes real danger.” The insistence that spying on a nanny is non-negotiable, but sleeping with a gun is a-ok, is in and of itself super weird.

As another commenter already said, stop-and-go traffic is an argument for mass transit on the congested route, which is proven and reliable tech, over trying to get unproven and buggy high tech cars working.

His germaphobia suggests he may have some OCD or OCD-like symptoms. But I think it’s just as likely that this is some fucking stupid test. Like, that it has to be two and a half because then he knows they’re actually doing the work to empty one or actively monitor rather than just placing two brand new ones down every…

The problem is that as much as the general public bitches and moans about being treated badly by airlines, they have also demonstrated with their pocketbooks that this is an absolutely acceptable practice so long as tickets are cheap enough. More legroom=fewer passengers per plane=less money per flight, and at the…

The warrant to plant the tracker doesn’t seem to have any issues, so not sure why you’d say a judge was a dumbass for granting that warrant. It was the cops using removal of the tracker as the basis for a further warrant that’s the problem.

Even accepting that there exists some justification for the weird, arguably misogynistic main-story choices, you can’t hide that shit in optional, supplemental material and act like that fixes the textual problems with the story.

This is an asinine comment regardless, but are you really trying to claim that the cutscenes in a Hideo Kojima game isn’t enough to understand the story? The dude has been making 30 hour movies with some gameplay interspersed for years.

It’s odd you would say that, because I thought TLJ did an excellent job of giving each of the main characters a really well realized plot all their own. Poe learning humility and patience. Finn committing himself to the Resistance. Rey and Kylo’s whole deal with each other and with their very different takes on the…

We agree that the sequel trilogy started off on the wrong foot with too much emphasis on plot and not enough on character, but I suppose we disagree about whether TLJ was able to pull out of that tailspin. I think TFA was a good movie, but you’re absolutely right that it treaded on nostalgia for the property and gave…