Rowling has explicitly stated that she considers support for the HP franchise to be support for her and, by extension, for her transphobia. Given that Star Wars is now firmly in Disney’s hands and has been in the hands of many other people, it would be harder for Lucas to lay claim to the franchise in the same way.

Imagine making the movie “Real Steel” and saying “Nah this super hero crap is beneath me”

If Cardi were still drugging and robbing men, yes, that would be worth a mention. 

hmmm, interesting comparison, although I think that George Lucas explicitly selling the franchise to Disney (he still gets royalties??) could hypothetically softer the impact a lot more. It would amount to Disney doing some damage control, and further emphasizing how separate GL is from SW, I think.

Just read the article dummy, it’s not clickbaity at all and is a thoughtful exploration of the issue

as if anybody has to jump through your hoops to have an opinion

I mean look either they say that and get guff form you or they *don’t* say it and some other person or persons complain about how they are mentioning Lily without bringing up her anti-vax statements. You could, you know, just let it go.

Bizarre take, because there’s nothing wrong with being a prostitute

It would be nice. There isn't a single Star Wars property that isn't directly connected to Luke Skywalker. *Yawns in Shyriiwook*

Star Wars seems to benefit from a long hiatus between movies. TPM and TFA each made the most money of their respective trilogies. The anticipation is built into the experience. When they tried to make it like an MCU thing with Rogue One and Solo, the numbers started to go down.

Yeah well, that’s also how the stock market works. The only thing that moves a stock price is people buying and selling it, and what influences that is heavily manipulated. The only thing this WSB nonsense has really done is reveal all the supposed “market intelligence” for the smokescreen it was.

I’ve been a pretty big Destiny player forever. I’m looking forward to most of these changes. But I have to wonder about the accessibility and approachability of one of my favorite games when a list of “big changes” is composed almost entirely of stuff that is utterly meaningless to anyone looking into the game for the…

I like to assume that you at least get the number of fingers right?

As an artist, I can relate to having trouble drawing fingers. They’re weird.

Konami fumbling the PES series into an early grave has to be one of worst own goals in history. They would totally have been swimming in money by now. Probably would have got Silent Hills too, maybe?!

I hope the fans don’t latch on to Sophie as the one to blame, especially if she’s just been professional about the music the whole time.

“What I’m bothered most by all of this hate and policing streamers and calls for boycotts is all of these people are so happy to jump on forums, TikTok, etc. and announce that they don’t support the game and anyone who does is a bigot.”

So that’s the part of the discourse that bothers you, and not the transphobia? Some…

It would certainly make the “wayward weather balloon” story more plausible.

So the big “accidental” balloon fleet is next, right?

The Genshin Impact fandom being toxic? How unexpected.