@korewadiego Because it isn't Word, and we're all in an abusive relationship with Word. For all its faults, it gives us everything we need, and LibreOffice doesn't quite.
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Art Markham
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@themrlostman @Kicksbuttson Exactly. It shows him as dangerous, ruthless, resourceful, cynical, sneaky etc. Not necessarily a bad guy, but someone who can mix it with bad guys.
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@Kicksbuttson Mattered to me; mostly because it makes Han a WAY cooler character if he straight up mercs the dude holding him at gunpoint, like it's an everyday part of life.
Making Greedo shoot first was a lame ass attempt to emphasize Han is a "good guy" when he's SUPPOSED to be roguish.
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I never understood why this was a matter of any contention whatsoever. Nerds spent decades debating this across multiple edits (thanks to Lucas) and it was entirely irrelevant, but it says a lot about the way people comprehend self-defense cases. It doesn't matter who shot first because Greedo had a fucking gun pointed at Han from the moment they ran into each other.
Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸@JerryDunleavy
It’s not murder to shoot someone who is threatening to murder you at gunpoint. Han shooting Greedo doesn’t prove Han is a scoundrel, it proves he isn’t interested in dying in some ratty alien bar.
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@james_rands It was still wrapped in newspaper when I was young in some chippies (80s, 90s in Cumbria), BUT there was always an inner, non-newspaper layer first - I think the same stuff they use now. Newspaper was then put round the outside, basically for the insulation layer.
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Do you remember fish and chips wrapped in newspaper? That was good wasn't it? Proper British takeaway. Walking to the shop with your Mam on a Friday night - it was either an affordable treat or a luxury few could afford depending upon who you ask.
Thing is...
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@hiraifone @4krustys @DrunkSuperman3 That's why it drags. You're waiting for them to speak, for a resolution to be presented in dramatic terms, and you know the scene can't get to a climax without it.
And that's also why all of the duels in the originals work well, even if the swordsmanship isn't very flash.
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@hiraifone @4krustys @DrunkSuperman3 This scene starts well, but it goes on far too long. I don't think there's any dialogue for 5 minutes, and when it comes it's silly.
The heart of any film duel is the dialogue. It's a battle of wills, a battle of ideas - the fighting should be just a visual metaphor for that.
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Revenge of the Sith is not better than Return of the Jedi. Revenge of the Sith barely makes any fucking sense. The Dude has one fucking nightmare, flips out. Believe the first fucking person that says he can save his wife. Dosn't do any research. Goes on a killing Spree. And then when his wife dies anyways and emperor clearly lied to him. He like "Sure ill be your bitch". Vader Redemption makes much more sense than that.
Star Wars Timeline (Ben) 🇷🇺🇺🇸@SWT_Channel
What Star Wars opinion you'll defend like this? I'll start:
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@bschasecards @DrunkSuperman3 Conceptually that's fine but it is not effectively portrayed on screen. It's hard to believe it as it happens.
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@DrunkSuperman3 He was groomed from birth by the most powerful sith ever. It’s a beautiful tragedy showing how loss can break even the strongest of us.
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@ilai48 @Globalstats11 Austria is just an anglicised form of Österreich.
Spain is an anglicised form of España. (A lot of Spanish people say "Espain" in English.)
Most Scots of course say "Scotland" because they're English-speakers.
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@Globalstats11 Austria- Österreich
Scotland- Alba
Jordan- Al Urdun
Spain- España
Croatia- Hrvatska
Montenegro- Crna Gora
New Zealand- Aotearoa
And there are MANY more 😅
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The only few countries whose name in English doesn't sound like the real name the local people use
🇮🇳 India - Bhārat
🇨🇳 China - Zhōngguó
🇯🇵 Japan - Nippon / Nihon
🇰🇷 South Korea - Hanguk
🇻🇳 Vietnam - Việt Nam
🇹🇭 Thailand - Prathet Thai
🇬🇪 Georgia - Sakartvelo
🇬🇷 Greece - Hellás / Elláda
🇭🇺 Hungary - Magyarország
🇩🇪 Germany - Deutschland
🇫🇮 Finland - Suomi
🇦🇱 Albania - Shqipëri
🇪🇬 Egypt - Misr
🇲🇦 Morocco - Al-Maghrib
Note: These are not the official country names, but the most commonly used native/local names used by local people in their own languages.
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@DAMendelsohnNYC That's really interesting. I know nothing about it beyond what you've said in this thread, but what about the idea that it's something like "unblamed"? So Zeus would essentially be complaining that others have let Aigisthos off, even though in fact he has much to be blamed for?
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...the impulse to use translation to smooth out or 'explain' strangeness in the original actually betrays that original: where Homer is murky--deliberately, I think, in this case--why "clarify"? I suspect my translation here is a minority stance, but it was fun to work out!
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#NightThoughtsOfAHomerTranslator, 4:
One of the most notorious "problem words" in the #Odyssey occurs in Book 1, line 29--the moment the action gets under way. Zeus complains that mortals always "blame the gods" for their ills when in fact it's their own deeds that doom them...
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@dimitripilled Not unless by "slop" you just mean "mainstream popular entertainment". Which is not what "slop" means.
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Do people realize that Star Wars is also slop
Chapter House@ChHouseBooks
The best pop culture was always downstream of high culture. Meyer, George Lucas, and the original writers of The Simpsons drank from deeper waters. Now, pop culture writers are exclusively consumers of pop culture and the water has become much thinner.
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@TriggeredB00mer @OPaladins2 Kind of.
They're clearly organised and so on. But they are "striking from a hidden base" and have just won their first victory. Leia is an imperial senator, secretly siding with the rebels. So it isn't really like North v South.
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@OPaladins2 Part of what Disney missed with Star Wars is that what the Imperials called rebels was called the Alliance to Restore the Republic. It's much more akin to the American Civil War where there were clear sides with uniforms, etc.
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I just finished watching A New Hope.. if I am entirely honest that was the first time I watched it all the way through. I caught basically both halves before but never sat down to watch it all at once.
A few notes.
1. Feels like nobody really treats the Rebels like they're treated here, like damn this was an actual army, uniformed soldiers with real ships and such. After years and years of Star Wars Rebels, Rogue One, Andor, etc. where it feels like they're all just partisans, it's odd.
2. This is a very funny movie, funnier than I remember it being. Han menacing Luke about Leia later in the film had me dying.
3. It can be very cheesy, but it was a fantastic film. Reaffirming my beliefs that people who say Star Wars was always slop or something of the sort are full of it.
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@busab92323 @OPaladins2 It's a great film. If you dissect it too much it's hard to say why, but it just has so much spirit.
In more detail - it's fast, the dialogue is fun, the characters are great, and you get a great sense of this exciting world, without ever getting lost in reams of exposition.
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@OPaladins2 I'm convinced that A new hope's supposed theatrical popularity (with people supposedly lined outside and watching the movie ten times) was an early case of manufactured viral marketing.
I mean it was an okay movie but not that great
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@Bougainvillefan In the UK, shops, offices etc. have AC, but the point is that most people don't have it at home.
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Can i know where the myth of "europeans don't use ACs" came from?? Theyre literally everywhere here in Italy and even when i went to Paris in 2024 my hotel and the bars had It too, maybe it's something only in northern Europe idk
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Can't wait for Europeans to discover modern technology
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@leemhutchinson @jamesblack1986 This is grey area, I think. In technique terms it's a volley.
But what if it has already bounced two or three times and you still hit it in the air? Not sure anyone would really be calling that a volley.
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@jamesblack1986 You're half right. A half volley is struck whilst the ball is rising immediately after a bounce. A volley is struck as a ball is falling downwards. Whether the ball has bounced once, twice or not at all is irrelevant. This is a volley.
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The amount of folk in the comments saying it's not a volley but a half volley is frightening. It's neither.
Match of the Day@BBCMOTD
Jude Bellingham with an outrageous volley in Real Madrid's final La Liga game 😮💨
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@jamesblack1986 Agree. A half-volley is striking it just after it bounces - a specific thing.
But I've come across this before - people thinking once bounce makes it a half-volley regardless. I wonder where it came from? It might have reached critical mass and now be very hard to correct.
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@RKlaverkamp @420Guichard @SeriousWizardry @VitoComedy Right. But we're talking about whether there are lots of inconsistencies in the original trilogy, and I think there aren't many.
Lucas did create a number oddities like this when he wrote the prequels. The droids as well. But a slightly different question.
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@artmarkham @420Guichard @SeriousWizardry @VitoComedy Yeah but it is still in the series. George just didn't have it fully planned yet
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Why were AT-ATs marching up a narrow cliff? Was that explained at all?
Padme’s Order@PadmesOrder
can we all agree how cool this scene was
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@RKlaverkamp @420Guichard @SeriousWizardry @VitoComedy The birth was not in the original films, of course.
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@readstarwars More alien. That's a very relatable and human facial expression on the modern one.
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I will forever be curious what this would have looked like on screen in 1977
JP the Jedi@JediJamesP
From unused concept art to a fully realized character that got to finally appear on the big screen. Nothing is forgotten in #StarWars!
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@420Guichard @SeriousWizardry @VitoComedy 1. Luke asks him in RotJ. So it's explained in the films, even if the reason is poor and annoys Luke.
2. Obi-wan doesn't know! Yoda tells him in TESB: "No. There is another."
3. Inconsistency between the original films and peripheral stuff is not the fault of the original films.
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@SeriousWizardry @VitoComedy Why didn’t Obi wan tell Luke his father was an evil robot Sith Lord or that women from the hologram is his twin sister or how come Chewbacca never mentioned he fought alongside Jedi master Yoda in the clone wars
Especially when Han says he doesn’t believe in the force
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@llallawg I also thought that when I was younger. Until about a minute ago, in fact.
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@matpolloy It is made clear especially with C-3PO that they are designed to serve humans, and that is the background for C-3PO's whole personality. He talks about his masters. They get bought and sold.
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Lmao this is not true at all.
Droids are not designed to serve humans. That’s why the Droid Gotra literally exist within Star Wars. A droid rights group in-universe.
But as always you make it well known you don’t know anything about Star Wars outside the prequels.
The Mighty Dud Bolt@mightydudbolt
@matpolloy @JasonSokol3 @NnaniTopaz @mobfighter63 Droids aren't people, and Star Wars doesn't try to say they are. You should not be cruel to droids, but droids are programs designed to serve humans.
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