@estherzelda0514 new doesn't nesscarily mean good tlj is an awfully written film
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Devlin Hecker
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Fun fact: Lucas liked The Last Jedi, unlike the installments that Abrams directed. The reason is simple, and revealed here—he wanted something new. Further, the crap that the worst and most negative fans pile on Rian Johnson for Luke Skywalker's arc? That was heavily based on Lucas's own original ideas—a broken Luke in self-imposed exile, haunted by a betrayal of a student, cut off from the Force, and acting as a mentor to a young female protagonist only reluctantly.
Hottest of takes here, but Rian Johnson was simply one of the best directors we ever had on a mainline Star Wars installment, and the fandom is full of childish idiots that should have been ignored. He has the originality of Lucas, respected his vision, and is innovative and the master of his craft. He managed to get more emotion out of the actors for Rey, Kylo, and Luke than Abrams ever did, and his special effects were interesting and spectacular. The throne room scene in particular was truly great.
That more people do not appreciate what Johnson did is because they are philistines. He should have been allowed to direct and write all three installments. Somewhere in an alternative universe, people there got to enjoy a sequel trilogy that wasn't childish and derivative trash. I'm jealous.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Bob Iger on George Lucas' disappointment after seeing The Force Awakens: "He didn’t hide his disappointment. ‘There’s nothing new,’ he said. In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to him to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, ‘There weren’t enough visual or technical leaps forward.’ He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars. We’d intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticizing us for the very thing we were trying to do." Was George right in his criticism?
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@TheBlackHorse65 they are bad far better than whats come after though (rop), similar to the sw prequels
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We were too soft on it; these films are absolute abominations.
Tolkien World@TolkienWorldG
Were we too harsh on the Hobbit Trilogy?
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@RevengeofCave I don't like people crapping on the og they really do give him alot of good new shit in the remake though probably one of the best things about it
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@CurtMills Wilson, not nearly enough people despise him i dont even think hes underwater with Republicans one of the most loathsome politicians of the twentieth century
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Who is the most overrated president (not current)?
Top -- though potentially not accurate -- candidates would seem to be: Washington, Lincoln, TR, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Obama.
Views?
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Curtis Yarvin is catching up to David Graeber, who deployed his “Bullshit Jobs” thesis in 2013.
Curtis Yarvin@curtis_yarvin
More accurate to say that AI will reveal that there is no American economy. Americans do not work. When we stopped working for Covid, nothing happened. Our tangible goods are made by overseas slaves. Our tangible services are performed by imported slaves. Great paper, read it
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@Anc_Aesthetics i can never fully buy into this explanation Tywins introductory scene in the show is completely new and its great
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@J1NX3D4LIFE the idea that they started this conversation is hilarious
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Critical Drinker, Asmongold, Nerdrotic, Grummz, and these anti-woke YouTube grifters has done irrepairable damage to gaming discussion. We could be talking about level design, environment, game mechanics, and stuff that's actually about, you know... GAMES. But no, it's shit like this.
Senator_XK@Senator_XK
@videotechuk_ what's up with that big monkey nose, there are millions of beautiful Latin girls, Tomb Raider is an example, a British accent and that could also be Latin you know exactly what im talking about, Lucia is a dude without the hair and R* is just following the ugly agenda
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@27khv I feel like this persons real issue is that alot of these pieces of media portray Russians as human, like the idea that Anora is Russian state propaganda is beyond hilarious
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This conspiracy theory falls apart the second you look at timelines.
Trump won in Nov 2024.
Anora was filmed Feb 2023.
Idiotka shot summer 2023.
Ponies was greenlit mid-2024.
Only Vladimir started after the election.
These projects were in motion long before the US election. Film and TV don’t turn around on political trends in a few weeks, development cycles take years.
Ania_In_UA@Ania_In_UA
Is the sudden surge in media aimed at subtly and insidiously rehabilitating russia's image a coincidence? I think not.
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@SpencerFernando @CoopTory and trust the Carney administration?
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Conservative MPs & influencers should stop trusting the Trump Administration. spencerfernando.com/2026/01/27/con…
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@crowthDOJ what's funny is that even in 2009 no major US game studio would have approved this outfit only the Japanese who bless there hearts were/are relatively unaware of dumb American racial politics would have given this the go ahead
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you guys won and yet still bitch and moan constantly, 2009 was 16 years ago, no fucking videogame will ever look like this ever again thanks you and yet you're here crying wah wah wah
Miss Alice 🇵🇸@AerithsSeat
Absolute insanity that in 2009 you could put your only African main character in this costume in a game set in Africa and everyone on that dev team nodded their head and said "this will age great"
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@JJ_McCullough they're anti red state America but the liberal party takes basically all of its cues from progressives in the us
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It's kinda nuts for people to claim the Liberal Party was somehow pro-America before Trump came along. I will admit Justin was less anti-American than most, but anti-American rhetoric, and pushing fear of the US to voters, has been a huge part of the party's appeal for decades.
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@ThatchEffendi this is a mind bogglingly simplistic explanation of such a great show
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wow if only there was good art about a crazed and hubristic empire sending men to die in a pointless, incompetent and dumb arctic mission
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@reddit_lies its really crazy cause the showrunners expressly said in an interview lately they don't want the show to lean in one direction or another too far politically
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Someone needs to write a study about why every subreddit eventually devolves into leftist political posting.
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@TheDirect because the writers gave the character everything she wanted still terribly written
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Sophie Turner says that she was one of the only GAME OF THRONES actors happy with their character's ending:
"No one else was really happy with their ending."
(via thedirect.com/article/sophie…)
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@pissvortex Yarvins been making these same points for over a decade
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“None of our ideas are working. I guess Deng Xiaoping thought was correct after all”
Trump’s second term is so bad it actually made horseshoe theory real
Curtis Yarvin@curtis_yarvin
New substack, after far too long:
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@Son_of_Mars_III I think this isn't giving Jamie's arc enough credit or even the work done to flesh out the other lannisters
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The number one reason to love AI is that all of the worst people hate it
ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ@pot8um
if you use generative ai, especially for art, i am • better than you • judging the fuck out of you • pointing and laughing at you • gonna kick your ass and you are • uncreative • unoriginal • untalented • a thief • a climate fiend • not to be taken seriously
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@joeroganhq it's not fans fault Disney fumbled his character
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Star Wars actor John Boyega says the movie franchise's fans have an issue with a black person being in the lead role.
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@estherzelda0514 Britian is objectively less religious today that it was a hundred years ago, group child rape is objectively more of a problem stop protecting your religion
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Immigration is a stand-in for the real problem that the far right cannot admit caused the Grooming Gangs, because it points right back at them.
The problem is violent misogyny justified by traditional values. People straight up don't take rape and crimes against women seriously.
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
The grooming gang scandal is used as the main argument against all immigration, but they fail to mention that Northern England's textile mills specifically sought out men from one of Pakistan's most rural, uneducated and "traditional" regions.
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@varadmehta @ScottMcConnell9 Yarvin's discussed this its because while Bezos owns the post he does not ultimately control it
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How is this crap still being published at WaPo after Bezos’ editorial changes?
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
“Actually, DEI was designed to benefit white men” is a headline that would never make it through the editorial process at any halfway-honest paper. Embarrassing.
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