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@screenrant "It's not Luke's story anymore." No shit. But if this is true, then why was so much of Episode VIII structured around Luke and a *new* character arc written for him?

"I said, 'aren't we gonna have a moment where all three of us get together and raise the roof, it'll only take thirty seconds.' And JJ said, 'well, Mark, it's not Luke's story anymore.' I said, 'Star Wars wasn't Obi-Wan's story but Alec Guiness had a crucial commitment, you know...' Anyway, nobody listens to me." - Mark Hamill. 🎬 screenrant.com/star-wars-mark…

An actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it… GIFS ONLY

@The_Hellenist Yeah, that is absolutely not what John means in the passage you've cited. He's urging his readers to turn away from worldly things and temptations of the eyes and flesh. He's not demanding that his readers "destroy the world.". Here's the next verse:

Wearing a cross necklace is a public declaration that you hate the world and want the Jewish god to destroy it. These are the people who rule America.

@AgainstAtheismX Under divine command theory, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with murder, rape, or theft. If the divine forbids you to do it, these things are wrong. If the divine commands you to do it, these things are good.

Under Atheism, there is nothing objectively wrong with: Murder Rape Theft Think about that.

@FinancialPhys Because bankers in the run up to the Great Depression were saints.

The FBI investigated Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) for potential communist propaganda because it portrayed bankers negatively This work of art aged like fine wine …and bankers have gotten far worse

@sciencegirl A toilet.

What’s missing

@TheCinesthetic It's the first time Wendy sees actual spirits in the hotel!

That brief shot of the man in the bear suit in The Shining (1980) might be the most inexplicably terrifying moment in the film.

@peakhobby @MatrixMysteries Because they're wholesale fictions. Big insurers only pay 10% of what the provider charges, so the provider inflates the pre-discounted bill by insane proportions to get more money from the insurer. Why tolerate 90% discounts? The big insurers can pay big claims.

@MatrixMysteries Why is it always medical bills that are the most absurd bills?

An American goes to the ER for high blood pressure. He’s there less than TWO hours. No surgery. No scans. The bill comes back at $41,297 — even AFTER he’s paid his FULL out-of-pocket max. This isn’t healthcare — it’s extortion.

@NothingIsArt Yeah, whoever did the caption and the art here needs to read the Book of Acts again.

@TheCinesthetic The Phantom Menace. Despite its flaws, it was still indisputably a Star Wars movie. It was George's galaxy far, far away. The sequels, by contrast, have either been derivative (VII) or just plain dumb (VIII and IX).

What sci-fi movie was criticized when it came out, but you thought it was awesome?

@TheCinesthetic Big Trouble in Little China.

What’s a great movie that completely bombed in theaters but found a cult following later?

@BRICSinfo Pretty sure Jesus doesn't agree with you there. Pretty sure Jesus would say that Putin's been behaving like Satan's faithful servant.

🇷🇺 President Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev says "Russia is fighting against Satanism."

@mistressdivy Grumble, grumble.

Prove to me you’re an old gamer in one sentence. I’ll drop a like if I’m convinced.

@sw_holocron @SPACEdotcom Not only is the Last Jedi a D, the movie backed Rise of Skywalker into a corner where it would have been hard to be better than a C (Rise of Skywalker is an F). The Last Jedi is just a wretchedly stupid movie.

Disney-era of Star Wars Report Card, according to @SPACEdotcom • The Force Awakens: A- • Rogue One: A • The Last Jedi: A • Solo: C • The Rise of Skywalker: D- • The Mandalorian: A • The Bad Batch: B- • Visions: B+ • The Book of Boba Fett: C • Obi-Wan Kenobi: B • Andor: A+ • Ahsoka: C+ • The Acolyte: C+

@SandyofCthulhu Yeah, Rey was certainly not the big problem with the Star Wars sequels. No pre-planned story arc, worse writing than Lucas in parts, and a willingness to contradict the earlier films (including VII) really made the sequels (VIII and IX in particular) suck.

@rasmalai Ruby

@HMBohemond And at the end of The Last Jedi, the entire Resistance fits aboard the Millennium Falcon, with room for porgs, too. Ryan Johnson didn't understand the concept of a larger movement that you're only seeing a snapshot of at any given moment.

No, it's worse than that. The "Resistance" is a small paramilitary force pretty much entirely funded by Leia. The New Republic's first act was to demilitarize itself down to just a single fleet that defends the Hosnian system. The system they moved the capital to for some reason after taking Coruscant. "They took out the Republic" was a literal line, because their entire military was contained in that one system which Starkiller Base destroyed. The writing for the Sequel Trilogy is the most asinine, nonsensical slop you can imagine and the more you dig into it, the worse it gets. It completely justifies the Empire's actions in the Original Trilogy.

@BarronTNews_ That's... that's not how percentages work. Percentages are always relative to a *starting number.* Go from 4 to 5 - 25% increase. 5 to 4? 20% decrease. Lutnick knows this, but has to humor his idiot boss and so makes up this horseshit to try to make sense of the stupidity.

ROBERTS tries to play math police “If you cut something by 600 percent the company pays you” Lutnick doesn’t blink If a drug was $100 and Trump drives it down to $13 The OLD price was 700 percent higher $13 would need to jump 700 percent just to reach the old scam price Same facts Different framing One result Drug prices are being OBLITERATED Big Pharma is panicking The media is nitpicking because they hate the outcome

@visegrad24 Fuck him. Occupy Kaliningrad Oblast, then hold a hastily prepared vote on whether or not the residents want to be free and autonomous from Russia, and then, voila - no longer Russian territory. Do the same shit that he does, and fuck his empty threats.

BREAKING: Putin says that if NATO countries start a blockade of the Kaliningrad region, Russia will start a full-scale war in Europe “If threats to the Kaliningrad region are created, Russia will destroy them. Everyone must understand and be fully aware that such actions will lead to an unprecedented escalation of the conflict, taking it to an entirely different level, up to a full-scale armed conflict,” Putin said.

@dalepartridge @PeteHegseth Which (or whose) Christianity? In my church, it's a sin to commit murder, so Pete's policy of killing people on putative drug boats before arrest or investigation is distinctly un-Christian. Never mind the absurdity of a Christian ceremony held by the War Department...

This is Christian Nationalism. Why would any Christian not want more of this? Praise God for @PeteHegseth