I buy my Apple stuff from third party sellers, because it tends to be WAY cheaper. Apple products do tend to be expensive, but they’re really no more expensive than any other high-end equivalents (and for the record, PC gaming is an entirely separate category that Apple doesn’t compete in).

So that just leaves the…

You know, I was thinking about this in a non-tech way the other day, and I kind of ran circles around myself. With clothing, I’m super brand loyal, but it’s about laziness—Levi’s, because they’re cheap and they fit, Calvin Klein for dress clothes because they’re the only ones that I know fit me well, Vans because,…

I think you’re on to something here that I didn’t get a chance to address in the article: the whole “ecosystem” play that every tech company is going for these days.

Yup.

It’s not just being loyal to a brand anymore. If you want any of your devices to work with each other or to realize all of hte functionality they offer, you kind of have to stick with one brand.

Han still walks out of the bar not a giving a single fuck about having just killed someone.

^*^ does not understand characterization.

I see the force ghosts (and always have) as the embodiment of the individual’s preferred state. It’s like self-image. Most of the Jedi we see appear as we last saw them, because they’re happy with the lives they led. Anakin, on the other hand, does not want to be the man he was after he turned, so he’s the man he was…

On the other hand, the model work guys should be proud that their work is good enough that it took decades for CGI to replicate it. Seriously, I like the CGI retreads. They add something to the scene, though I always will remember the original model version.

It all goes back to Obi-Wan’s “point of view” speech.

I guess part of it is how you choose to acknowledge how force ghosts work. Do they return as they appeared just before their death, or is it a solely light side related thing? Hayden being there implies that it’s essentially the moment someone turns to the Dark Side that is the cutoff point of appearance. Shaw’s…

That’s definitely a major problem—at the very least the theatrical cuts should be available. Not every change to the SEs was loathsome, but the lack of an alternative absolutely is.

Not every shot in ANH is replaced with CGI, there are still several original model shots (the Trench Run itself is largely left as is, for example)—and they are still credited in the end credits, as they always were.

He’s right though. The Special Editions made the movie a lot more enjoyable for many of us.

You’re a brave man, James Whitbrook.

Rough crowd *losens tie*

I think he/she knows that but is just having a laugh...I hope.

Please tell me that you’re aware that the amount we spend on space exploration and actually, even interesting science, is not even a minuscule drop in the bucket, of the entire budget of the entire world?

NASA is correct.