I wonder if there’s a master list of the WEG additions to the universe that have been made canon again in the new Star Wars canon.

Well, actually, not only does this movie make Sabacc canon again, it’s established the new canon for what Sabacc is. Worth noting that your complaining about Sabacc also kinda invalidates your own claim about “non-stop fan service.”

Uh, the books published since Disney took over, Clone Wars, and Rebels have all been considered canon from the beginning. Also the comic books. All of them have been first approved by a Star Wars story council of sorts, which works to keep everything fitting together properly. You might want to read up on it: http://st…

If you refuse to pay for it, don’t watch it. If you want to watch it and don’t want to pay for a copy or a ticket, wait for it to show up on the streaming service of your choice.

no meat-eater is now ignorant of the fact that their food once lived, breathed, maybe nuzzled its kin in a blood-soaked slaughterhouse

I am extremely familiar with alignment, having played the game since early 2nd edition. Good and Evil in the game are absolutes, not relative. Everything is measured against those absolutes. If you believe that only the actions are measured, then the ends will always justify the means; you can justify torture as a…

Sure it is. Setting aside that there is no indication that any side is evil in the above scenario (I didn’t see any alignment detection going on, did you?), the combination of action and intent mark such an action as Neutral Evil. You are embarking on a course of action without regard to the rule of law (Neutral)…

Ah, the Neutral Evil route.

I’m going to disagree, because that theory is based entirely on location, rather than true currency: labor. Land doesn’t merely exist in a useful state, it must be molded into a useful state through labor. Food does not merely exist, but must be created through labor. Homes require labor to build, labor to furnish,…

You live in a city, don’t you?

I’d been struggling with this myself recently, actually. It’s surprising just how few tools there are aimed towards organizing digital clutter. Currently, I’m using LaunchBox, which was originally developed as a front end for RetroArch, but has added Steam library support and the ability to import other games that are…

Not even then, really.

The number one issue facing current dialogue is that everybody treats everybody else with contempt. You never get anything done that way. This isn’t about “winning,” it’s about finding the best possible solution, and that’s almost never at the extremes of the debate.

I think you’re still treating systems as factions, which I’d like to point out is silly, because (as I’ve stated elsewhere) pure systems just don’t work. Having factions leads to conflict, when the proper approach is to find the point in the middle that works most efficiently, which is technically not communism,…

Actually, capitalism is the belief that competition would be upheld inherently by fair play and lead to a bright, shiny, rosy future for everybody. It’s every bit as much a dream as communism, and for the same reason: greed. Don’t blame the system, blame the people exploiting it for themselves.

That’s pretty much the flaw of communism and socialism in a nutshell, they cannot effectively work alone because they rely too much on a purity of human nature that just doesn’t currently exist. It’s the flaw of any pure system, really: pure systems rely on predictable actions, and people are not predictable in the…

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: pure systems do not work. It doesn’t matter if it’s communism or capitalism, they do not work because they do not account for human nature.

Best case scenario: this is a cold open to a JLA television series that covers the events of Rise of the Supermen from the point of view of the JLA. Mostly because that particular plot needs a long play time to be compelling.

Yeah, it’s worth putting the whole statement in perspective. People forget how high the cost of living actually can be if you don’t live in a depressed area (for example, a million dollars doesn’t go as far in Seattle or New York City as it does in, say, the rust belt), and that’s just surviving, not “living…

Which is what everyone who ever had a windfall has done, and not spending it all at once.