Yeah that’s a great point. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars did an amazing job expanding and legitimizing the plots and characters introduced in the prequels.

Agree with your comment mostly, but I think the prequel apologia is catalyzed by all the kids who watched when they were less than 10 years old becoming adults a decade ago, and remembering them through the rose-tinted lens of nostalgia.

In the prequel heyday Lucasfilm absolutely deluged the world with toys and cross-marketed products, those kids were surrounded by it and of course watched the films, saw the cool parts, and didn’t understand enough to see that the films were very flawed from an adult perspective.

Yep. All that to save what… A fraction of the wages of one person local?

Seems pretty backwards to me.

Dude that is intense.

In Australia we have pretty high standards but nothing like that… To my knowledge. Haven’t sat an exam for quite a while.

Trying to pass it off as ‘bro they just want a place to have a nation’ is an extremely biased and antiquated perspective.

Zionism encompasses many beliefs, those of the current Israeli government are revisionist Zionism that are intent on Israel having a much larger area as its homeland - including taking/destroying and colonizing all of the Palestinian territories and invading and taking areas other countries, by force. There is also a lot of overlap with the belief of an ethnostate amongst most popular Israeli Zionist leaders, apartheid policies, and state-run genocide. None of which were stated as initial goals of Zionism ~125 years ago when it began.

I get that.

Personally if it’s single player and I don’t want to support the authors urgently, I can wait.

So for HP I was happy to never buy it, then I saw Epic give it away and i thought… Oh. Well, I guess that works.

Ive played several games on Epic.

I don’t get this attitude for single-player games. If its free… Why the heck not.

Oh right you need people to see your game achievements on Steam?

That’s literally it?

Did people not get over the Achievement Hunter phase a decade ago and just start enjoying games?

Biofuels are one of the dumbest forms of renewable energy because they require an enormous amount of resources (land, water, fertiliser, etc).

Your spoiler tag did not work.

My eyes, they bleed.

But I appreciate that at least you tried.

Who would own Howarts Legacy on Steam when Epic gave it away free for a whole week…

Tired of this dystopian show. Can someone change the channel already?

I hear the US has ~400 million civilian-owned channel-changers.

The NYT haven’t changed. They’ve been aligned with corporate greed and neo-conservative goals and attitudes for at least 40 years. Yes you can find individual articles that don’t, but editorially they always have.

Though they always presented their image as ‘social liberal progressive attitudes’ and ‘fiscal responsibility with social support’, if you look at their actual reporting track record they’ve helped manufacture consent for almost every US war of the last 30+ years, and have consistently sided with the desires of whatever government is currently in power and fiscal conservative attitudes throughout.

Yeah just block em dude. I enjoy your comments. Including this one.

There’s a fair percentage of people I’d say are mentally ill or at least like you say… Seem to be constantly experiencing the worst day of their lives here. I just block them and move on with life - I’m not their therapist.

My experience of Lemmy after blocking just 40 or so users, (and shit communities that I don’t want to see posts from) has changed greatly for the positive. Don’t let them drag you down, there’s plenty of room here for reasonable opinions.

Yes. Solely because the USA is steering far away from a Star Trek future of combined global efforts to advance humanity in cooperation into space, preferring instead to advance billionaire space playthings and defund all science research.

The EU is the new horse to back.

Up likely, due to perceived scarcity as some is damaged / destroyed.

Not having to commute and be at a workplace for an additional day is massive though.

Next step lets work on that 40 hours, because almost all of the rest of the world has on between 36 and 38 to account for legally required lunch and breaks, and the current push is to even less (~32-35) for 4-day work weeks.

Welcome to 19th century workers’ rights, Nepal. Glad you finally made it.

Yeah this is the wildest overvaluation I’ve seen in ages. I’ve never heard of them, seems like most people here haven’t.

OpenAI must be getting pretty damned desperate to turn the AI narrative to do this.

That’s an old iphone from the 80s.

“Privatize the profits, socialise the costs” may as well be Amazon’s corporate motto by this point.

I feel for sellers who are faced with a slowly shortening list of alternatives to sell their products via to get as wide a customer base as possible, and feel pushed onto Amazon by its ubiquity. It’s a shit service for sellers.