Eeexactly! That ‘dynasty’s’ been going on for so long, it’s narratively ridiculous and boring.
Don’t get me wrong, despite what my initial comment may indicate, I would LOVE to see something which goes in depth into The Force’s philosophy, its spirituality, but that foregoes Skywalker Lightsaber Fight™ by its very nature… Actually, no, acceptable Skywalker Lightsabre Fight™ in the original episodes, because those moments were used to punctuate.
Honestly, I always thought Star Wars would work as a Tales From the Crypt-style anthology, just pump out interesting happenings from across the galaxy as self-contained, 40-minute long episodes and put the meat on them massive bones! I bet one could pull off at least 3-4 12-episode series without even touching The Force.
It’s been discovered recently that leeches can jump, so it’s not as inaccurate now.
That self-portrait looks like the guy just came out of a meeting with my manager.
“Twist-o Eyeball-o!”
“Quick, fresh bubble, flood the market!”
We really need to get our shit together and pull a Revolution again… Our political system is in need of a good slappin’…
I knew it! That kitchen table’s ruining my life! And my hips!!!
FEAST ON THEIR IDEOLOGICAL FLESH!!!
“One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed.”
I want to know the specifics of how we got to the point where the statement above needs studies to validate it and how this has become news for anyone.
My loaf is bigger than your loaf, We take more drugs than a touring funk band.
SING IT!
My loaf is bigger than your loaf.
SING IT!
My loaf is bigger than your loaf.
SING IT!
Oh, yeah?! What’ your DPS (depressions per semester)?
Heeey! It’s not, like… JUST that, okay?! No, I’m not in denial, shut up!
Foreword: 100% my opinion
Short version: no.
Long version: [Darth Vader voice] NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
If anything, we’re not talking enough about mental health. I’m not referring to the tendency to ostracise neurodivergent people as “other” and the fervency with which neurotypicals are clawing at the concept of normalcy in order to convince themselves that they have stable ground beneath their feet, although both aspects are a symptom of the greater issue.
In my view, the prevalence of self-diagnoses, the confusion and misinformation around psychology and mental well-being, just as the two elements listed above, are a symptom of the fact that the entire domain is marred by inefficacy, ranging from predatory businesspeople who play us through fake sympathy and understanding in order to get us to click their product’s link and sign up to an expensive program which may or may not actually do us any good, to the overall difficulty of actually getting the help we need, to those who simply spread misinformation either with the intent of gaining ‘something,’ or simply out of blind incompetence.
We need to be aware of what is happening to us. We need to be able to discuss these things and actually reach a point of understanding, both of our situations and ourselves, as well as to understand those around us. The fact that those who are genuinely trying to reach the truth are frequently going down the wrong path is not a fault of the seekers, but a fault of the system. Referring to that point about hopelessness around the persistence of racism, the solution is clearly not shoving everything under the carpet and trying to ignore the situation because it makes us feel bad, it is precisely to stare right into its eyes, be constantly aware of the problem, and sharing that awareness with as many people as possible. Discomfort is the only path toward change and we should embrace it.
Can only give you my personal example:
I have a career in software QA, and I got into it because I personally believed in QA and its significance to generating good software for people to use. Hell, I even worked relatively low-paying jobs because it was compensated by job satisfaction.
Then enshittification took hold of absolutely everything, QA started being flushed down the turlet in the interest of cutting costs (and, I suspect, out of management incompetence and lack of perspective), and now it feels as though my passion got stabbed.
I still thoroughly believe in QA as an essential part of software development, I still try to do the best I can not out of dedication to a job, but to my principle-based belief that QA does more good than it does harm when properly performed. But I seldom have the context to be able to do that, instead being stuck with menial shit and/or rushed projects which don’t allow for a lot of testing.
Test your stuff, eat the rich.
“The Children of Asuryan haven’t received any new models since the 90s, y’know…”
Honesty, the most painful part of this is the dichotomy between the internet’s potential to become an evolutionary point for us and help us develop as a species, and the way we’re using it… We have the entirety of human existence digitised for our convenience and available at the push of a button and we just use it to terrorise and hurt eachother…
This must be the most 90s thing I’ve seen in a decade.
I… I don’t even know what to say anymore.