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Josh D | Award Losing Author
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Josh D | Award Losing Author
@Unenthuser
Sometimes I write and design cool things for TTRPGs | Contributing writer to Liminal Horror and the Afterthought Committee | occasional Actual Play host
Katılım Mart 2011
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@SCentralized Like even the “born of no father” calls back to the spiritual rebirth of the Campbell Mythic Hero, which gets entirely overshadowed by Anakin literally having no father.
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@SCentralized It’s interesting from the angle of “when darkness rises, light rises to meet it”, meaning the Chosen One is simply the Mythic Hero that rises in times of darkness, which would be emblematic of the themes of the saga. But that gets lost by treating Anakin as the Most Special Man.
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the Chosen One prophecy adds nothing to the saga unless it's untrue and pushes Anakin further toward the dark side because of the expectations it sets on him
Darth Thunder ⚡@XDarthThunderX
If you could permanently erase ONE of these from Star Wars canon, which one is going to the shadow realm? ❌ The Chosen One Prophecy ❌ Luke's exile on Ahch-To ❌ The Clone Inhibitor Chips ❌ Midichlorians introduced
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@HuntressSellia Those old playgrounds were mostly made with CCA-treated wood, which contains arsenic. This is fine for structures, beyond the tendency for it to leech into the ground, but the high action of a playground lead to the material getting chipped off and ingested. Most were torn down.
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These exist and are everywhere, the ones from your childhood have begun to rot because they're WOOD
Nostalgia Daily@nostalgia_
Never forget what they took from you
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@kelsburn3r @BlightsMageVll @108r5meme The devs hire a consultant for a specified purpose, the consultant weighs the opinion on the matter and consults the dev, then the dev determines if changes need to be made as a result. The dev is under no obligation to follow through on changes suggested by the consultant.
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@Unenthuser @BlightsMageVll @108r5meme So you’re gonna genuinely sit here and tell me that companies are paying consultants to just not listen to them? That’s why the devs themselves say that they work closely with her?
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i am so damn sure that she literally stands around and does nothing man. this fight is the epitome of stuck culture
Momus! 🏴 🇬🇧@Momus_47
>Anita Sarkeesian in the credits Yeah, no, fuck off and die.
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@sweaustin0 @SirSnipeyy The Bad Batch arc was nearly completed before original the cancellation. They even had preliminary animatics and the episodes were in a watchable state. They released them to the public. S7 made some minor changes, but they basically just finished the nearly completed arc.
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@SirSnipeyy those first 2 arcs are even worse when you look at the other arcs they had written and even storyboarded. they’re given 3 arcs to finish it off and that’s what they went with lol. i understand they wanted to show ahsoka’s life outside the order but damn
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Rewatching Clone Wars Season 7 and I’m sorry people overate the first two arcs so much, the first four episodes are just (really pretty looking) spin off bait
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@BlightsMageVll @108r5meme There is nothing here that mandates compromise must be made. Consultants give information, you’re under no obligation to do anything you don’t want to with it.
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@Unenthuser @108r5meme What if you just make what you want and don't worry about that, like at all? Just make your true vision without needless compromise?
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@BlightsMageVll @108r5meme Let's run with that logic and assume that it's what Sarkeesian actually does. What would a mock review of that nature provide? The irrational response one could expect to see online. What does that help a dev with? Being prepared if and when that comes.
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@Unenthuser @108r5meme Also, she not know for her "Good reviewing skills" That's insane, she's known to nit pick every single thing that could register as offensive to someone with as little as 2 followers and make censorship changes based on that foe outrage.
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@TodayinTor @SheevPalps66 @Wollivan It’s from Tatooine Manhunt. The adventure reuses McQuarrie’s concept art of the ESB bounty hunters that West End Games pulled out of the Lucasfilm archives, it was not commissioned specifically for the game. The analogs in Tatooine Manhunt aren’t even all together at any point.
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@SheevPalps66 @Wollivan Theyre the playable characters from a 90s tabletop game. Theyre all designed to be 'playable versions' of the ESB bounty hunters without the game using the same characters.
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Wait until fans learn these arent the Bounty Hunters from Empire Strikes Back.
O.L.M.D@ILikeWhatIBuy
Bounty Hunters Ralph McQuarrie #StarWars
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@BlightsMageVll @108r5meme An external consultant like Sarkeesian is likely either reviewing manuscripts to see if there’s something unintentional the devs missed or performing a mock review. Both of which are very useful and both rely specifically upon an outside eye.
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@108r5meme She sure doesn't code, that's for sure. I can't see any value she could offer that a common staff member couldn't address on their own.
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@righthandedpwr @RaithwallRover @brettgallman After being wounded by Mordred, Arthur orders Sir Bedivere to throw Excalibur back into the lake, signifying the end of his reign before he goes into exile on the isle of Avalon. Arthur’s struggle with the burden of the weapon is a common aspect of the myth.
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@RaithwallRover @Unenthuser @brettgallman Don’t recall Arthur showing snarky disdain for his sword or Le Morte d'Arthur subverting the audience expectations by drinking blue milk or dunking on an apprentice with nonsensical tricks.
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funniest thing about LAST JEDI discourse is when people criticize its depiction of Luke as "subversive" when he's basically just become Yoda, upholding Lucas's mantra of the movies rhyming like poetry
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@TheOtakuJock @sharintaint @daveleedwnundr She didn’t even completely leave the company either. She just stepped down as Lucasfilm’s president. She’s still going to be hanging around for a while in a producer role.
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@sharintaint @daveleedwnundr And then she didn't leave until recently.
Crap rumor from a parasite that will sell out anything and anyone for a buck. Even his original positive feelings on TLJ.
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Ahhh source G&G… the same people who told us Kathy Kennedy was getting sacked in 2017.
Best of Star Wars@bestofstarwar
RUMOUR 🚨🚨: Disney to remove the Sequel Trilogy from the timeline so they can resume focus on the OT characters. "If true, this would be one of the most dramatic franchise shifts in modern Hollywood history." This would genuinely be INSANE. Highly highly doubt it would happen though. Via: @GeeksGamersCom
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@MagnetoPK @sybauna @WuTangDan10 @grizzlikesfilm It’s easy to assume, but there has never been any direct indication that Abrams or the other writers even knew what Dark Empire was ahead of time. “Evil sorcerer coming back from the dead” isn’t exactly a unique concept and we know from the Prequels Palps was seeking immortality.
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@sybauna @WuTangDan10 @grizzlikesfilm Could that be where they sort of got the inspiration from for episode 9 for sidious but switched it up a little bit?
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Phew I’m glad Palpatine died in a DEFINITIVE FUCKING MANNER AND IS FOR SURE 100% DEAD WITH NO WAY TO COME BACK
grizz@grizzlikesfilm
#nrw Return of the Jedi (1983) 2nd Viewing Dir. Richard Marquand
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@UnlimitedApathE @AesirAesthetics @veryappalled That's just how short story collections were published back then. The individual stories were often printed in zines and newsletters first, then collected together once enough had been written to fill a book and named after the best received story of the batch.
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@AesirAesthetics @veryappalled It’s so funny how the writer literally gets bored by his own paranormal premise like half way through and decides “fuck it I’m gonna write romances about gallant bohemians instead” and it’s literally NEVER addressed or mentioned. Just the book you were reading 180s into a dif one
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reading the King in Yellow is one of the classic mistakes
Kieron 🌿@luftschlossser
big couple of years for media inspired by The King in Yellow. i've got to read this book ASAP
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@TheBuddah101 @AesirAesthetics The Carcosa and Cthulhu Mythos were primarily authors just building off of each other's work through short story collections. The King in Yellow is one of the very base concepts that got it started, so it's not particularly remarkable compared to what would build off it.
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@AesirAesthetics I know normies ruin books all the time (blood meridian is good but normies made it lame) but is the king in yellow actually bad?
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@M_BobRyan @dpmanwithaplan @lukeisamazing The main beats of TLJ might as well have been pulled straight from the pages of Hero With A Thousand Faces and L’Morte d’Arthur. If a writer can’t find a way to continue onward from that, that’s their problem.
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@Unenthuser @dpmanwithaplan @lukeisamazing Or part 2 of your trilogy could not throw a grenade into every storytelling beat of part 1, which stands out as objectively bad storytelling so long as we don’t allow ourselves to be negatively polarized into defending it by chuds running an astroturf campaign on rotten tomatoes.
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they didnt change anything in response to backlash. Ep 9 was bad bc Bob Iger demanded a 12/2019 release, 18 months after firing the director, and bc they couldn’t stick with any idea. all the Rey Palpatine stuff was added 3 months before release due to bad test audience reactions
Kyle Potter@kpottermn
The absolute worst part of The Last Jedi is that the childish backlash to a genuinely good film led directly to The Rise of Skywalker, which is an absolute abomination of a movie.
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@M_BobRyan @dpmanwithaplan @lukeisamazing It’s like saying you can’t end a trilogy in a satisfying way when Han is frozen in carbonite and the Rebel fleet has been scattered at the end of the second film.
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@M_BobRyan @dpmanwithaplan @lukeisamazing The magic of storytelling is that implication becomes a very useful tool. The movie starts in the thick of it, using Poe, Finn, and Rey together helping people out, where the other Resistance members are used to show a greater information network. You can sell that in an hour.
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@M_BobRyan @dpmanwithaplan @lukeisamazing Hour 1: Poe and the Resistance covertly help planets resist the first order.
Hour 2: The FO lashes out in an attempt to crackdown, struggling to maintain its loose grip.
Hour 3: Kylo Ren is crumbling apart, Rey “defeats” him without ever raising her blade.
Hits ‘em all.
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@Unenthuser @dpmanwithaplan @lukeisamazing It is not possible to execute that in a ~2hr three-act movie that also discharges all the other narrative obligations of the conclusion of a trilogy. Part 3 is not for major character intro, world-building, and tension gathering.
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@M_BobRyan @dpmanwithaplan @lukeisamazing It would not be a deus ex machina if that was the main plot of the film and not pulled out of fucking nowhere to save the day. The idea itself works just fine, especially as a thematic resonance with the end of TLJ, it’s the execution that was lacking.
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@Unenthuser @dpmanwithaplan @lukeisamazing “Spiraling and erratic Kylo Ren” is barely more engaging or original than “Palpatine Returns” and “rally the regular folk of the galaxy” is literally what happens in TLS and it was rightly derided as an absurd deus ex machina.
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