The introduction of Thrawn to the contemporary canon isn’t really “recent” - it happened roughly eight years ago.

Did you sleep through the mass protests of 2020? Racism is not a solved problem, bro.

For the same reason society “continuously forces” you not to chuck babies out the window, not to kick dogs in the stomach, and to say thank you when someone does you a favor. It's social pressure to meet the baseline of not being a monstrous asshole.

This feels like a pitch made at least 20 years ago. “You know, Japan! With the big eye cartoons, and the sushi, and the sumo wrestlers!” What a weirdly dated and boring collection of broad stereotypes.

One funny wrinkle about this catchphrase is that when the Clone Wars cartoon first started, they tried shoehorning this phrase somewhere in EVERY EPISODE, but quickly seemed to realize that was overkill and stopped.

Congrats on being stupid enough to think that both the center-right democratic party, and the Republican party (who ran the state for roughly a decade in the 00s-10s) are somehow ‘far left’ ,🙄.

::opens packet of troll food::

The fantastic A More Civilized Age podcast also did a visit to the Star Cruiser a few months back, and their takeaway was very similar to Nicholson’s. A giant rip-off, and largely a failure at being an ‘interactive experience,’ that would still be a rip off if it were actually successful AND cost half as much.

Congrats, lame dudes who bellyached about women in Ghostbusters! You’ve gotten your wish: the so-so 80s action comedy you love so much has had its carcass hollowed out to house another boring-ass, interminable ‘cinematic universe’!

Why would a leftist support an evironmentally destructive, labor-exploitstive, hyper-capitalist enterprise?

Truly an argument made by someone who can't spell single-syllable words correctly.

Based on the review, it seems about on par with the original, which was fun, but was no great shakes in the visual design, writing, or acting department.

The breathless tone of this piece reads like ad copy for OpenAI.

FWIW, the (mythic, to be sure) immaculate conception did not involve “Mary, Joseph, and a manger,” either. It just involved Mary’s parents fucking and some paperwork shuffling by the Almighty.

There’s a second secret sound, too, when you hold the button down on all four controllers.

It’s supremely weird to describe a system that 60% of people find preferable as a “Nightmare” in the headline. Classic G/O Media click bait strategy, I guess.

This ‘article’ feels pretty much like ad copy for this device. It’s wild how there is zero interrogation of the claims being made about this device or the LAM models it uses.

Considering how readily humans waive constitutions and human rights laws the moment violence is considered justified (see the ongoing genocide in Gaza), I don’t really see these principles as much beyond performative.

Or complaining when Star Wars (a movie ABOUT WAR, explicitly written as a critique of American imperial warmongering) ‘has politics forced into it.’

On the other hand, how many times have cops killed benign mentally ill people while claiming in their reports that the person they murdered was a violent, dangerous, criminal?