We’ve definitively found the world’s least bad neoliberal

Trump in his 50 cent era

I liked the new Thrawn books a good bit, but I’m at the point now where my curiosity is with the Chiss Ascendancy itself and I want a story about it directly instead of Thrawn’s navigation of his relationship to it and pacifying the Empire to its existence.

Star Wars needs new societies to explore and I think both Mandalore and the Chiss Ascendancy are great places to do that in interesting, novel ways.

Exactly. I haven’t read enough of old Legends content to know about the Chiss Ascendancy in any real level of detail, but my tiny hope for new canon is that it provides more interesting storytelling foundation like Andor (and to a much lesser degree Ahsoka) than the other Disney content.

The further away they get from Lucas’ work the more experimental the writing groups get (Dr. Aphra comics are a good time and The High Republic era has at least been novel albeit I feel it’s dipping in quality currently).

I recognize Star Wars is slop, but I just hope they feel more empowered to try things rather than tell/re-tell “safe” stories.

This is why the dating system should have been based off of the most recent time a palpatine clone was killed. That way every 3 years the galaxy is resetting its calendar

Andor is the single best piece of Star Wars media ever created and it isn’t especially close

In canon the original trilogy starfighters are substantially better than prequel trilogy technology but it’s largely because the imperial war machine kicked up and prioritized weapon’s research and capital class fighter development/production over basically everything else (even lying to and then forcibly working research groups regarsing energy research that was really only meant to ever power the death star). This is the father of Rogue One’s protagonist’s plight if you’d forgotten. The empire also used tons of slavery and various dealings with regional feudal lords for mass raw resource extraction and the expanding colonization and resource extraction is what was fueling the entire war economy.

The core imperial worlds (and only really the aristocracy within them) were really the only beneficiaries of technological advances. The further you got from the imperial core the more explicit the relationship became “You and your planet exist to fuel our colonial war machine. Get in line or die.”

In both new and old canon it’s explained the Emperor basically backed the wrong camp (Grand Moff Tarkin) who decided having a superweapons and slow, large battleships, the Death Star and Star Destroyers/Super Star Destroyers respectively, were more important than a much, much greater quantity of better equipped and defended fighter group (the tie defender project).

I apologize to anyone reading this for me knowing it but I’m also glad to answer more questions if anyone is curious.

Looks and sounds good to me sorry the response hasn’t been good

She did an incredible job of hiding/deflecting from her hate cult. I had to tell so many people about it back in 2020 and all of them were amazed it wasn’t reported on more

I kind of hate you for making me aware of this because now I have to update the emulation thread

Just one more sanction bro I promise this one is gonna work

Her foreign policy component of her speech was to the right of Joe Biden

That will be like the first target after hard military targets because it’ll be the goal of future beachside settler communities

I can’t be convinced the US Secret Service isn’t the TSA-effectiveness parallel for high-ranking US officials after the first shooting. They can’t even handle German shepherds in the white house

Like the private meeting they had scheduled with Walz where his aides cancelled it after people said they weren’t interested in telling him their stories because they didn’t want to be used as a sobbing-grieving minority prop for Walz to get a photo op with and instead wanted to discuss actions and pressure he could apply as governor?

Fuck all of these people eternally

Why wouldn’t you just make a box at this point? I don’t understand

Thank you everyone here for both shit and effort posts if I don’t make it through the nuclear bombings and fallout. If I do I will try to spread as much knowledge about post-bombing electronics and how to emulate on them as I can.

It’s got big Chapo yahoo podcast ambush energy but I’m hoping the results are the same

Just wanted to also echo that sentiment. Using a nvidia card and after the Nvidia 555 driver update things are almost perfect on Wayland for me. Keep an eye on future nvidia updates because I’d say your near-future decision is almost here from a software standpoint

I’ve wondered if a consideration of the strike delay is to inflict maximum economic damage during the period through air space closures, general uncertainty lowering internal Israeli economic activity, and skyrocketing insurance costs.