When the galaxy is made to feel that small, when we keep revisiting these already-established nexuses of characters, Jedi or otherwise, that scale in the background fiction doesn’t carry the weight it should, and remains forever in abstract.

Just give us a fucking phone/tablet mount. It saves you money, it saves us inconvenience, it’s a win-win all around.

Fair enough, I hadn’t seen any quotes from the ref. If that’s what happened that’s what happened. He’s the ref. It just doesn’t look like what happened in the video.

He already did more than a good job

That’s been my mission since SWC ‘23. Blitzed through Clone Wars, Rebels, and just finished the second season of Bad Batch.

Not sure if serious or not, but Lars Mikkelsen voiced Thrawn in the animated series. That’s why they’re using him.

From other articles I’ve read about this, the Ref heard him snoring which is considered a verbal tap

This was a white belt match?

Facebook should put its money where its mouth is and give all of its employees Quest headsets to collaborate “in person” in the “Metaverse”

I honestly forgot YouTube Stories were still a thing. But regardless, I’ve engaged with YouTube Shorts a lot more than I thought I would. I don’t plan on ever downloading TikTok or I actively avoid IG Reels (let alone anything Facebook has copied recently), but I’ve been enjoying YouTube Shorts.

Gizmodo trying to justify/defend their current editorial stance on new technological developments after claiming to be a tech blog for the last 20 years.

I don’t know how much will change. Linus is just appointing a new CEO to over see operations, but he’s still the owner, I can’t find anything stating there are any other stakeholders, so he’ll be the boss of the CEO

Oh boy, I can’t wait for Gizmodo to start churning out pontifications on how AI is bad actually.

This. So much this.

And no Critter is surprised.

“We haven’t already decided on a hire.” It’s a fact that companies often post “ghost jobs” that don’t actually exist. It’s also a fact that sometimes you’re being interviewed for a job just to provide cover for the fact that the company has already decided who they want for a particular role—or has possibly already…

I’m not a lawyer so take this with a Crait-sized grain of salt, but:

Here’s an author that wrote a great, strong gay character who was a great teacher that never groomed any students

Is your GTI scuba certified for Open Water?

My first and only Mac personal purchase in the 2010s was a refurbished 2011 MacBook Air that I bought in 2012.