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  1. Mustrum_Ridcully

    Star Wars The Most Overused Tropes?

    It kinda feels though like the writer(s) forgot that, too, because it is barely ever adressed (certainly not in the movies). It might have been even a good motivation for some Seperatist or renegade Jedi or something that sees the use of clone soldiers as abhorrent and evidence of the...
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    Star Wars The Most Overused Tropes?

    The thing with consent is that you can choose to give it or not. You have a choice. But it's suggested Droids generally don't choose, somehow they are innately servile and want only this? Is that still a meaningful form of consent? And the rationale of "they are programmed to be this way" -...
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    Disney Closing Star Wars Hotel

    It's been a while since I was there, but it was fun, especially for meeting all the EN World and CM people I knew. I did one of those True Dungeon thingies, which was fun, but not quite my thing because I am not really good at puzzle-solving. But traveling overseas to the US for it... I don't...
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    Babylon 5 animated movie in the works

    Cool. Are we there yet?
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    Picard Season 3

    That is a pretty meaningless exercise. Without the TNG characters, you can't tell a story about it, because it involves knowing how they used to be and where they are now, how they and their relationships with each other changed. That doesn't make it weak! Very likely if someone were to tell a...
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    Calvin Chess, or how one AI breaks the rules as it sees fit...

    I guess it's closer to Skynet than we'd like, inventing time travel and teleporting pieces in that don't exist into the fight. And .
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    D&D 5E (2024) Graze on a miss questions

    I think one way to look at the damage type is that you're using a weapon that is most likely going to deal piercing/slashing/bludgeoning damage. If a target has special protection against piercing/slashing/bludgeoning, certain things that would normally be dangerous strikes are a lot less...
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    Picard Season 3

    Yeah, it is entirely unrealistic for it to happen that fast, but hat said - IIRC, there are probably 1-3 TNG episodes where someone is undergoing some visual physical changes (like aging or turning into an alien) and it gets undone with nothing more than an injection of the antidote. No surgery...
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    EN World ranked 11,248 out of 15 million sites used to train AI

    Eric's Grandma will prove an important influence on our future machine overlords.
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    Picard Season 3

    I enjoyed this season, and the finale. It is satisfying to think the characters are still around, the D is restored for museeum purposes. I didn't mind Data's now-not-so-final death in Season 1, at least we got some time to dwell on the moment. But I prefer him alive, hopefully for many more...
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    Mando season 3

    I am not sure I entirely agree - the whole season was also about getting Grogu to "his kind" - the Jedi. Didn't they even have some force antenna apparatus in one episode to call the Jedi? So at least they strongly hinted that maybe the Jedi will come to them. That the Jedi comes might have...
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    Mando season 3

    Yeah, that sounds famililar. "Oh, right, if the players do it like that they can just walk past all that. Oops. I kinda feel stuff like that keeps my tension high as DM. (Though I am kinda more tense before than during the game.) I didn't really worry about that, but it is a honored tradition...
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    Picard Season 3

    It probably is. Even though some would argue that the invention of the Borg Queen (which was never alluded to before) in the movie changed the Borg for something less unique. Suddenly there is an evil "individual" steering it all, someone you can actually talk, reason, beg, argue or flirt with...
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    Mando season 3

    The reveal of the Gideon clones and his plan for them was a bit... well, pointless. Okay, here the are, let's blow them up, by the way, they were force sensitive, and now I am really angry that I didn't acutally send my troopers to hunt you down and instead decided to wait around so my enemy had...
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    Mando season 3

    It kinda feels almost like this is a trend in current movies. Maybe we're just getting old and the average movie and TV enjoyer has moved on. They just fill in the gaps, just as we fill in the gap between someone saying he's going somewhere and a cut later him being there. But now we just fill...
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    Picard Season 3

    Basically: They took the alternate-universe (Confederation of Earth) Borg Queen (played by Anny Wersching) that was defeated by evil humanity into the past. There she "joined" with Jurati (played by Alison Pill), and got a new outlook on her existence, and runs off. The events restore the...
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    Mando season 3

    I think the difference is that Luke really needed a tiny bit of help by the force - hitting a target of the size of the vent was something he already considered possible from personal experience... Rey really improvised a mind trick on the fly, and her skills of persuasion depicted before were...
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    Mando season 3

    Well, it's about the only other distinctly identifieable Trueway Mandalorian, if they want the audience to care about someone's death, the options are limited.
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    Visions Vol 2

    The first Visions was neat. As someone that is underwhelmed by most for the recent Star Wars stuff (except Andor), it is kinda "safe" entertainment. Not everything was good, but it has the advantage that if something wasn't to you liking, it won't matter for the Star Wars canon anyway. And if...
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    Picard Season 3

    In my head I try to envision a Section 31 show I would enjoy and fits the Star Trek ethos. I don't think that would be easy to pull off. It can't be just a power fantasy: "Hey, we have super-advanced tech, let's torture people, blow stuff up, and what not for the Greater Good (tm) completely...
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