Hear no WW2

“I don’t have time” is universally understood shorthand for “I have taken on obligations that prevent me from being able to do this, whether by direct personal choice (I chose something incompatible), indirect choice (e.g., my school or career path temporarily or permanently reduces my free time forcing me to ration…

My first thought was “It has never been a less awkward time to be a Star Wars fan”. Because never has it been more socially acceptable to love the shit out of some Star Wars. There are blow up stormtroopers in my freaking grocery store. There is a cardboard wookie at the entrance to target that makes wookie noises as…

I don’t know, actually. Revan’s centrality in the recent SW: TOR xpac is something that greatly widened the audience’s memory of him.

I’m a pretty big Star Wars fan. I consumed the Dark Horse comics, many of the novels, and so on.

Hardcore Star Wars fans are the worst. Worst than anything Lucas did, worse than the prequels, just the worst. I want to care about Star Wars like I did when I was a kid. I want to be exited about this new film, but then some butt hurt dude on the internet still whining about Anakin opens his mouth and I'm all, nah…

The work isn’t being erased, you can still go read it. As it is it’s never been high canon to begin with, the movies are above everything.

Remember when everyone use to hate on PS1 era graphics.

Agree with the anti-pirate sentiment but I think you have the cause flipped. Group psychology: it’s less about potential consequences, and more about barrier to entry. People (as a broad average) just follow the path of least resistance.

The same sort of high standards we don’t expect from a post on Gawker media.

You guys really want to see us suffer huh?

The intentional humanoid design holds it back. It's entirely possible to design a robot that can make coffee faster than a human, but I guess it wouldn't look 'cute' enough.

Could they BE any more digital?

The dogs are invading!