That’s how the franchise started, no?

I’m an LA native, and I have to say...while beautiful, somehow this mod makes everything feel almost nothing like LA. It’s too gritty, the colors too high-con...it looks like New York, or Tokyo, or something.

It’s a third season! I wish people would just call it that.

It’s a third season! I wish people would just call it that.

Noq, 9 AM, though? That’s prime territory.

SuzukiX-90.

Now’s a good as time as any for me to ask, days before I make the upgrade from Xbox 360 to PS4, if my username is any good. tomjoad2020ad...conjures images of a tasteless post-apocalyptic Grapes of Wrath reboot? Maybe? I dunno. Should I change it while I can?

They should do a little rebranding and instead of “Made With Unity” have a splash that says like “A Unity Access Project” or something else that has a nice ring to it but which signifies a different product category.

Yup. Everything you said. And before anyone trots out the hoary old “it’s just a popcorn movie” excuse, consider that the first JP is the perfect example of why that axiom is a needlessly self-defeating expectation to have.

I’m thinking the latter. I enjoy the ambiguity...gets my imagination spinning.

So far, “Vader,” “Lando,” and “Kanan” have been exceptionally strong. “Leia” was pretty good, but slightly undercooked. And then this one and the main “Star Wars” comic are less exciting to me — basically, the ones that go whole-hog into the psychology of characters in side-stories seem so much more fertile,…

The current run of Marvel comics are (apart from being really well-written in their own right) doing a great job of blending mythology and artifacts from both eras to create that cohesion.

I’m not so sure Lucas was a great editor. The editing in A New Hope is often credited to Marcia Lucas, his then-wife. And the editing in the prequels is often surprisingly poor. However, he is a great executive producer with a sense of macro vision. His *ideas* for the prequels are all really cool, just executed…

The Vader from IV and V *is* the lie — a front, a facade, an angry bulldog hiding the broken shell of a man behind a mask, and deep down, he knows it. Coming close to using Luke as a pawn to overthrow his old master and being rebuffed was the beginning of the end of him. That angle is what makes Vader an even more…

Is it safe to say this means Opus does not suspect other diesel manufacturers have been pulling a similar quick one?

This is dickish, but it’s also an example of why in my opinion there is no other choice for a set top box that makes as much sense as Roku. As a tiny independent company that’s focused on selling hardware, the big warring tech gargantuans have no reason to fear them, and that means users get access to almost…

Am I missing something here, or have I spent too much time working in the Santa Monica media industry? Nothing about this press release seemed indecipherable or even that far out of the ordinary to me...

How so? There’s only ever been one canon reset. Compared to a lot of stuff out there, I’d say they were remarkably consistent from the Zahn era up to the reset.

Then again, Anakin coming to that conclusion sort of is exactly what made him join Team Dracula — the Jedi Order claims to be above personal gain, but is demonstrably involving itself in partisan politics a dogmatic view of things that is frustrating enough that he starts to listen to Palpatine in a way he otherwise…

Re: “Outclassed by a Grocery Store” —

Heh, I’ll never be a completionist. To me, I really appreciate games that load up their world with so many side-quests and shaggy dog narrative tracts—not because I want to do all of them, but simply because that makes it all the more real for me. I find myself bored with games that are too linear, as I feel like I’m…