Because the only reason he’s rebellious is because she didn’t tell anyone the plan?

There are plenty of legitimate criticisms out there for TLJ mixed in with the handful of bigots and the people who are upset about Luke. I mean, no one seems to like the casino or Holdo plotlines.

To prevent a goddamn mutiny that ended up getting her entire army killed?

I’d go a step further:  why would she tell any subordinate who didn’t need to know about the details of a strictly “need-to-know” secret plan?

...that’s not how military command works.

To (long) quote Film Crit Hulk from his latest essay: Poe: At the start of the film, Poe is still the brave hotshot pilot from The Force Awakens (who didn’t even have an arc at all in the last film, nor anything to really do, but that didn’t seem to bother these complainers…

Dameron doesn’t need to know the plan, he’s not involved in implementing it. He’s a fighter pilot. As for “nobody would make him an officer”, well, look around- they’re not spoiled for choice, this isn’t the US military, it’s a tiny resistance force.

I’ve come around on the casino plotline. The first time through, I felt like the shots of those giant racing chihuahuas storming through the casino was a little too weightless in the way many CGI sequences are (but most of the CGI sequences in The Last Jedi were not this way, making it stand out). But on re-watch, I…

More could have been done with the casino but it’s still an entertaining sequence, I feel. Holdo’s story is key to the whole theme of failure in the film- neither she nor Poe make the most optimal decisions and perhaps some of the disaster could have been avoided, but we see why they don’t trust each other and why…

I definitely see where you’re coming from. I enjoyed Andromeda but can see why people were upset about it. However, the outrage of the most vocal detractors was vastly disproportionate to the quality of the game. Sure it was buggy, but so was the original Mass Effect.

Halo enemies 100% get smarter. On harder difficulties they pretty much always dodge grenades, always duck behind cover when their shields pop, always grenade/flank if you camp behind cover too long.

I think I am content with the 2007 Star Wars: Battlefront 2. It has all the same features and no lootbox system in sight. Plus it has Steam server support now!

Something the military learned a long time ago was that you don’t have to see eye-to-eye with a person, in order to trust them, and you have to have trust to accomplish a goal. That’s why all of basic is about conditioning you to see nothing but the goal, regardless of your peers’ faults. They meld you into a cog,…

Which is why the Bethesda option is a bit more genius at this point. Skyrim has made them a ton of money from the initial release, the re-release with added graphics, DLC, an upcoming VR iteration, and finally the Creation Club. Fallout 4 also has made money while being limited to single player.

Requisite comment: I love reading about Eve, but god damn I never want to play it.

Exactly! Reality is so much more interesting than GamerGate's "good vs. evil" version of it.