TCW is amazing! One of the best SW shows Lucas ever did. And Disney even came out with a season 7 to cap it all off. It really fills out what happened between episodes 2 and 3 
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My new favorite SW character is a character who was introduced in TCW. I am super excited on where the new shows/movies go.
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Pictured, why Arms is my favorite warrior spec;
I find that āTry That In A Small Townā song amusing because Iāve lived within the city limits of Chicago and Milwaukee, as well as suburbs outside of them, and rural parts of both Wisconsin and Iowa.
And can pretty confidently say itās rural folks who are piss terrified of coming to the city. The reverse isnāt really a thing. Iāve to convince my urbanite friends to come to the sticks not by soothing their fears of backwoods lunatics but by ensuring them itās actually quite pleasant.
Seriously my stimulation craving brain doesnāt do great in rural areas at length but you havenāt really tasted Wisconsin until youāve had cheese churds and ice cream freshly made from the dairy farm. Plus cows are neat. Iāve never seen a more unbothered animal. Just constantly vibing 100% of the time.
But getting your rural friends in the city limits is like pulling teeth. And under no circumstance will they drive here. Iāve seen a combat marine veteran pushed to the verge of tears because I just sorta figured a guy who drove an armored jeep under fire wouldnt be too flustered by parallel parking.
Kinda shows why NASCAR is only popular in the sticks. I donāt need to watch people driving at suicidal speeds while wrecklessly weaving between other cards. Thatās just called my commute.
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Just got back from seeing Oppenheimer in IMAX. Itās pretty good, I rate it an 8/10. Itās definitely worth seeing in IMAX for the sound quality, the audio design is fantastic and it goes great with the cinematography. Lots of good performances from the actors too, Florence Pugh and Matt Damon especially. Donāt see it with the family though, thereās nude scenes and that cuck scene was probably awkward for the actors to film too.
On another note, Iāve been seeing a good amount of movies in a few different theaters this year and for the most part I have not been getting great audiences. Itās not that the movies are getting interrupted by obnoxious people or unfortunate events happening, itās more along the lines of people being antisocial. There are some funny moments in Across The Spiderverse, and even though I saw that in a filled room there were no laughs from the audience during that movie at all, everyone was stone serious and it made me wonder if no one in that room was enjoying the movie at any moment. One theater in particular seems to get a lot of military folk, which on its own isnāt a bad thing, but itās the type who dress in tight fitting clothing showing off their muscles who look down on anyone who either doesnāt look like them or isnāt married to them, Iām at a theater trying to enjoy a movie not a gym where Iām being told to get a real job because Iām not an enlisted meathead. The theater I went to today was so packed that people had to move in lines through the hallway like a school and the bathroom looked like a factory conveyor belt, I donāt need to get dirty looks from this crowd Iām following just for trying to calmly get in and out of this building.
did you like Oppenhiemer? was it good?
Idc what anyone says the suburbs are the weirdest place Iāve ever lived.
Neighbor comes out with god damn vintage military grade binoculars that look they fell off a WW2 supply truck.
To scout the new adornment on another neighborās garage. A strangely photo realistic and splayed owl.
Which, yes, certainly niche as decorations go but A. Not your house and B. Go ask them if youāre that curious.
Why are we doing recon Gary? We gonna call in an artillery strike from the 101st Airborne Division? WTF is happening?
The internet just gets me sometimes. Forget Barbenheimer. The real mind trip is Barbie Runner 2049, thatās the real meta.
I challenge anyone to do this. Watch Bladerunner 2049 first because while it does do a great job of setting the scene through the male lens and setting up the main protaganist āOfficer Kā (I assume Barbie and Bladerunner 2049 exist within the same universe and this is Ken 2049 and āKā stands for Officer Ken.) This movie establishes that the main struggle facing men is not dystopia, itās lonliness. Men are lonely, but they have also lost the ability through Patriarchy to love real women they can only love a misogynistic fantasy, Joi. The movie doesnāt seem to want to solve this problem, in fact it doesnāt do any self reflecting on why men are lonely it just tries to pigeonhole women into this male fantasy, and when K is presented with an actual real life woman the story ends.
Who knows if K has self reflected enough to actually be able to love a real woman or if sheās actually interested in him, women are just objects after all, which leads perfectly into Barbie from the female lens, itās still a dystopia, but at least one that tries to identify and solve the problem of men are lonely. Hereās a great metanalysis to read before watching Barbie after youāve watched Bladerunner 2049 https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/evpwga/blade-runner-2049-sexist-misogynistic-mess
It the same movie just with less violence from a different perspective.
Iāve recently discovered AIs doing playthroughs of videogames on YouTube and itās darkly hilarious. Coincidentally, the playthroughs Iāve found are of games Iāve been playing on the computer I got last year, Fallout New Vegas and Detroit Become Human. During the questionnaire with Doc Mitchell, the AI associates house with target because āit may have unfriendly people who are unwilling to share their suppliesā, and enemy with stab because āa knife is silent and conserves ammo, thus I always carry one with meā. The AI profusely thanks Doc Mitchell for his help and refuses to steal from him by expressing not wanting to dissapoint him, then decides to blow up two people behind a house with a grenade launcher because they have loot that he wants. This AI is both friendly, ruthless and deadly which is kinda scary.
Then in Detroit Become Human it gets meta, because itās AI playing a game about androids, with it being a separate AI for each character. The AI had Kara become deviant since its goal is to protect Alice, which is something of a conundrum. Connor chases the deviant instead of helping Hank because Hankās ingame survival percentage is 89%, but says that itād only save someone if their survival percentage were below 30%. Markus explaining his actions is exponentially more sympathetic than what the game portrays on its own because now weāre hearing his inner thoughts and are being explained in detailed about how much he cares about his values instead of just being shown shallow reasonings for what he wants. I havenāt watched all of this playthrough but Iām very curious if it will reach a point where the characters have conflicting goals, because somehow a choice will have to be made on who to play as.
I understand the need to have people in education take mandated training. I just wish it wasnāt so boring. Currently watching/listening to videos on bloodborne pathogens and trying not to fall asleep while doing so.
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Hey Rhakari wasnāt I replying to you the other day saying I wanted a SW sandbox game? This just came up on my Twitter Feed. Star Wars Outlaws is possibly going to be an open world SW sandbox game.
Itās everything I want. Smuggling, building a crime empire.
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Yeah it was and that sounds like a ton of fun actually. Thanks for sharing, Iāll definitely check it out when Iām home 
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Iām waiting for the crowds to thin out before seeing Barbenheimer. On the onehand Iām thrilled to see theaters thriving again and am completely delighted that box office records are being smashed not by some big budget franchise movie, but by a non-linear semi monochrome introspective biopic and a meta feminist reinterpretation of a sixty-four year old doll.
But Iāve become way to spoiled by catching movies in mostly to completely empty theaters. Last flick I saw in a packed house was that Indiana Jones movie and idk who decided it was a good idea to serve booze at theaters but the viewing experience was not enhanced by a drunk two rows ahead of me who decided now was a good time to play duck mothering PokĆ©mon Go.
Still though with the success of these decidedly atypical movies and the artistās unions strike Iām cautiously optimistic we could see another Renaissance for American cinema. Which letās face it has been pretty stagnant for awhile now.
As in the 1960s you had a similar situation both with SAG and WAG striking simultaneously but also with old reliable Hollywood staples like Western and Musicals bombing. Which lead directly to the 1970s which Iād argue was the best decade for American filmmaking. Just an explosion of autuer movies like Easy Rider, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Jaws and oh this small little film you mayāve heard of called STAR WARS.
The 2020s have basically been a hellscape thus far but if thereās any silver lining here itās that weāve the conditions to create another landmark era for artistic excellence.
Because what those brain dead beancounters that for some ungodly reason run every single industry constantly fail to understand is that the only formula for success is a well made product. And you need talented people with economic security and creative freedom to get those.
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Heck yeah.
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Nothing sums up how wild the 2020s have been than the US government basically admitting aliens are probably real twice now.
And everyone just sort of collectively going;
āOkay? Look pal I got A LOT going on right nowā
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2023 is validating my sleep paralysis demon alien abduction experience.
Ok but are the aliens hot?
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Iām assuming you are asking me based on my experience. They look like people but communicate telepathically and I think they are from the future.
Yeah, they are seemingly nice. Itās very much like Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach. Where people from the future come to us in the present as aliens trying to warn us of our impending destruction if we donāt change our ways.
So in TES IV Oblivion the PC starts the game in prison for an unknown crime. Weāre never told what landed them there.
But if you talk to Falanu Hlaalu, the Dunmer shopkeeper of the potion shop in Skingrad, and ask her about herself sheāll explain she canāt return to Morrowind. Then ask what the penalty for uh, romantic relations with a corpse, is in Cyrodil.
And the PC can reply with;
"āIs it the first offense?ā :
āLetās assume ānoā.ā
āThen itās at least 500 gold.ā:
"Thatās nothing compared to Morrowind. Thanks."
