Yeah, there seems to be a problem with sci fi movies and tv shows targeting the lowest common denominator and shitting on the franchise and fans.

I don’t think that’s true. I don’t think the Star Wars fandom is unusually toxic; I think the issue is that it’s unusually visible. I understand even the most wholesome shows and movies to have fandoms that can be exceptionally toxic.

I’m still waiting on the mea culpa I guess. From the media I mean. Just like with the ME3 ending, sites like these kept stoking the fires, then reporting on the fires and then complaining about people who engaged.

Part of it is on the corporate executives behind Star Wars. They really, really played up the nostalgic aspects of Star Wars, when marketing TFA. You can’t treat the franchise as something special, and then also get mad at fans when they hold it to that same standard. Star Wars is closer to something like Lord of the…

Here’s the question: Aside from the fact that marketing told us, was The Last Jedi a Star Wars movie? IMHO, it was too much of a deviation. (Especially for a part 8 of 9 of supposedly a cohesive overall story - ep 9 will decide how that turns out.)

But it’s not the same.  JJ Abrams kept the spirit alive and clearly set up plot threads for an overarching story.  Then Rian Johnson came along and said, “Fuck all that.”  And we got The Last Jedi.  

Oh god it’s hideous. 

Gross

Here are some less dark pictures.

But driving a F150 around is not fun now and not fun back in 2003. In fact I would say 95% of commute driving is not fun, even in a ‘fun car’.

In spite of people decrying inflation, I think most of us are still making a similar wage to what we were in 2003, so inflation is kind of irrelevant in this instance. Point is, I would’ve lost $9.25 per 100 miles in an F150 for 2003. I’d lose $13.80 for the F150 doing 100 miles today. Add in that most people suddenly…

Wouldn’t it be more accurate to factor in average wages? They have not risen at the same rate as inflation.

And of course, we’re driving more trucks / SUV’s than ever, and with the vehicle fleet larger than ever, we are becoming an ever-larger oil consumer. Yes, we’re producing oil in the USA and Canada, but (earthquakes and polluted water from the fracking that makes that possible removed from consideration), oil is still…

If only Harley had a sub-brand that would be interesting to the youths...Maybe one that sells sport bikes, and stuff that isn’t just wannabe choppers for the middle manager who needs something loud enough to make him feel better about his ED, but whose wife won’t let him spend enough money to buy a Vette, or build a…

It’s hard to separate the company from it’s base for me. All I can think of when I hear Harley is the modded exhaust, 120 db pieces of shit that the owners of insist on cruising main drags on at 3mph revving them as they sit in traffic. They can all suck a bag of dicks.

It kinda just seems like they don’t care... This has been the obvious solution for them for what, like 10 years?

Why is everyone putting this on the front of their cars?

Goddammit. Disney gets to make whatever story they want, I get it, but this is not the story I want. I’m not interested in a Luke that wants to sever his connection to the Force. It flies in the face of everything he did in the OT and who he is.