It’s Anakin’s Lightsaber. He chose the Kaiber Crystal. He designed the weapon and built it. It is attuned to him. Plus, Kenobi never used it. Anakin on the other hand, used it everyday for 3 and a half years, longer than even Luke used it.

How did personal politics get involved in this? Right-wing, left-wing, both have equal chance of being whiny babies or noble creatures.
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I haven’t watched the video (I’m at work and I am not allowed), but in the thumbnail for the video she seems to be holding it darn close to the blade, above the switch that would…

So if I disagree with the re-naming (which, to me, serves no purpose) it automatically makes me a right-wing misogynist? Hmm. That’s annoying.

I’m still a wee bit wary of them making that particular lightsaber a ‘legacy’ weapon like Excalibur. When Obi-wan gave it to Luke there was dramatic resonance because it was his dead father’s; part of what made Vader chopping off Luke’s hand such a subversive, shocking, and unpleasant moment was that - on top of the…

My interest waned after the first two sequels, but this is the first positive review I’ve seen. And now I’m intrigued. Drat.

Yes, we should all stop watching movies. Let’s all go back to cave drawings.

TBH I’d rather have more of these movies than more Transformers.

To be fair, this is also in the first book. Wu wants the next “batch” of dinosaurs to be tweaked to look more like the old 1950's dinosaurs because that’s what the public thinks dinosaurs look like.

Not even headcannon! Actual cannon. Henry Wu has that conversation with Simon Masrani in World. They never straight up say feathers but Wu says they aren’t making real dinos just theme park animals.

In my Jurassic Park head canon, John Hammond’s scientists genetically engineered their dinosaurs not to have feathers because that’s what the public thinks dinosaurs looked like and he was giving the public what they wanted.

It’s more accurate to say that all of humanity is capable of monstrosity than to apply the label to one gender or another. If you believe that one minority has a monopoly on a negative behavioral trait, you might be a bigot.

I can’t lie. I used to follow AICN fairly regularly circa 1997-2000 or so, because he did get some decent scoops back then, like the LotR reveal, and there were a couple of decent writers working for him (at least they had a better grasp of grammar, and a reluctance to rely on orgasm/bowel movement metaphors). But the…

I FIGHT FOR RICHARD BASEHART!

I recognize only one ‘bot with that designation:

Sure thing, bruh. Stay woke!

“You don’t think what this guy did was offensive? But what if you did something completely different, don’t you think that would be offensive?”

Yeah, I’m an asshole, dealing with self-righteous “look how woke I am” morons does that to me. But I understand exactly what’s going on. Someone got offended by an innocuous freaking personalized license plate and, not having any pearls around to clutch, decided that the government had to be called. Like I said,…

And your comment is a classic case of “Going with the narrative” because fuck thinking about this issue beyond what you’ve been told to believe.

I don’t think it’s a big deal to give up the plate

Does that really mean that being offended should result in the people who offended you being restricted? If you offend your neighbour, do they get to restrict your behaviour if it’s otherwise non harmful? If it’s just words?