They could definitely take their relationship in a couple of different fucked up directions. Syril would be extremely easy for her to manipulate so that could be an interesting dynamic, or they could crush him to the point that he actually snaps and goes full Psycho on his mom or kills one of Dedra’s professional…

I watched a film called “Dogs Don’t Wear Pants” on Shudder this weekend about a guy who got into being choked by a dom after nearly drowning, and some of that same Dom/Dog energy was palpable between those two on this episode of “Andor”. I could definitely see that happening to a much lesser degree on this show.

A. It was the first multi-publisher launcher, and having ONE central hub for your games is fine. Launching a launcher FROM YOUR LAUNCHER is the problem. That and publishers trying to force you to abandon your launcher in favor of their thing.

Ubiquity - and it allows you to add non-steam games very easily. And offers a greater level of control than any other launcher. Lots more reasons.

It was first, or at least very early, and widely adopted for broad PC platform. Similarly Steam wouldn’t get a pass if it only launched Valve games, I would assume.

There does seem to be SOMETHING twisted going on between them. She was clearly brought up short by his passion. Yes it’s creepy and degrading, but let’s face it—sometimes that’s just kinda hot (I mean, they ARE on the dark side, after all).

‘I’m a 40+ oldster on the internet! I’ve won! I’ve decreed that ALL Star Wats properties shall be as well-written and beautifully produced/acted as Andor, regardless of tone!’

Not to mention torture of Princesses, murdering Luke’s adoptive parents and setting the bodies alight, massacring Jawa’s and executing subordinates simply for making an on-the-job mistake.

Fandom ends when investors feel their money is being fucked with.  Considering the stock price, the smart money has already headed for the exit.

I hope someone reported Smigo to the state’s licensing board.

It’s also worth mentioning the level of leveraged debt that Twitter will now take on with interest payments of around $1bn (according to the NY times) a year. Slashing costs is going to be the only way to even break even. Musk, like most smart-ish rich dudes leveraged Tesla equity to fund part of the deal also. So the…

What goes around comes around. Facebook was mostly just status updates because we didn’t have camera phones, and then we had twitter which was also just status updates when facebook starting becomeing more about photos and vidoes. And instagram was just photos, which Facebook already did. And snapchat was just nude-y…

This is the stupidest possible take.

I remember way way back when Twitter was just getting popular and I remember saying it seemed lame because it was basically Facebook* but just the status updates and my opinion has never changed.

*this was back when Facebook was fun. Posts started with “[Your Name] is”, you poked your friends endlessly, and it wasn’t…

Wait, so TSLA shareholders are paying for developers to go work at the privately owned Twitter?

I smell a well-deserved class action lawsuit by the TSLA shareholders.

It’s a social network with a relatively low # of active users, but that journalists make ultra-influential by reporting on every tweet, like, or retweet that a couple individuals make.

Have you even watched the show? It still fits the themes of Star Wars and has excellent writing. There are also still plenty of other things you could watch if you want a fluffy fun Star Wars story.

It’s such a vast galaxy that there’s room for all kinds of stories within it. I imagine a Star Wars universe where there are the Trilogy films, which are the large, wondrous epics involving a handful of players, and then there are one-off projects, that are maybe fun adventures, silly comedies, grisly horror, serious…

The IP is literally entitled “Star Wars” and is about fighting a fascist/imperialist regime... this is literally what’s been going on the entire time, it’s just never been given storytelling space because of the movies’ myopia in tying the fate of billions of lives to like a dozen people

Star Wars has always had an undercurrent of grimness. A whole planet was obliterated in “A New Hope.” The whole of the prequel trilogy is literally about the Dark Side prevailing and ends with children literally being slaughtered.