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1.) Misusing words is dangerous; the right tries to CONSTANTLY redefine words to suit their needs, as does the left. If it's about something as serious as fascism than yes I'm going to call it out because it risks making the word meaningless (sort of like how "SJW" has been twisted into a ...

Lucas has the right to make changes; some of them even are legitimate. Others however have no reason for being there or drag the product down. Elfdart seems to have a "Lucas can do no wrong" mentality. The guy gets a lot of unfair flak but there are plenty of things to criticize him for.

I think the complaint here is that we weren't allowed to say no, and the ways we say yes are, to Fenix, worded badly, in ways that give Zenos validity he doesn't deserve. As if the writers want him to be seen as having validity. Maybe; I don't particularly mind not being able to say no. The guy DID...

Indeed, utterly selfish.

The whole thing about a lot of ubermensch wannabes is that they want to force their wills on everyone and never ever compromise. Zenos being made to actually compromise to get what he wants was a nice subversion of that

Pretty much. Some of the changes absolutely SHOULD have been made (again, cleaning the rancor scene up), others were just detrimental (we didn't need that asinine musical number in Jabba's palace.)

Hilariously enough even people who long denied global warming (Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Penn Gillette) have grudgingly come around to accepting that it's real, so I'm not completely devoid of hope. We're going to get our ass kicked but I don't think civilization's doomed just yet. And even if it ...

Over time, I've stopped really caring about the various revisions made, and started to just treat them as different iterations of a singular piece, because it's not as though a new version stops a previous one from existing. People got emotionally attached to the ANH 1977 release, before Lucas upgr...

You really don't look at the authors though. In fact you've gleefully ignored what the authors actually say when it contradicts your own headcanon (hence your refusal to acknowledge aspects of the Warrior of Light's character, or that Zenos is actually entirely right about the fact that there is a ...

Some of the tech fans could be a bit pedantic and or arrogant, but at the same time again a lot of the hostility was that THEY had grown up with certain numbers, and they didn't want to see them cast aside. It's like how lawyers and judges don't want to see their case decisions overruled even if the...

It kinda ruins Han's development. His whole arc is growing from a selfish rogue to a much more selfless hero. Having it be self defense undermines that, largely because it feels Lucas was worried "oh I don't want people to see Han as "gasp" a BAD GUY so I'm going to change it to make...

There's another problem. The WEG games misread the novelization about how the executor was a size and never bothered to correct it; a lot of fans and writers grew up with and or were heavily involved with them. Pablo Hidalgo is probably the biggest case; when you really get down to it his hatred of ...

Shamus Young made this point. George Burns lived to be 100 even though he smoked like a chimney. Doesn't mean smoking is healthy for you. The Sequels fell into the trap of "oh we don't really have to plan things out, the OT got lucky when they winged it." Except a.) The OT was never meant ...

I'd say that we've been pushed closer and closer to the wall over the past few decades rather than actually against it.

First off you're falling into the trap that a lot of people fall into, namely by diluting the definition of fascism to the point it's utterly meaningless. Fascism has a VERY specific definition (the key part is that ALL people forgo individuality and submit to the will of the state; there is NO indi...

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/10813698/HandofThrawn45 They're basically the writers attempts to wrap up the loose ends Legends left while also righting the ship from the more mean spirited and grimderp that the final books coughcruciblecough had devolved into; more specifically Vergere is revealed to...

Rogue 9 wrote: ↑2022-07-23 10:31pm Pass. He's a minimalist moron.

That seems to be common. It's also silly. Legend of Galactic Heroes is a smaller scale yet even at it's weakest the factions are able to pull out just as many ships.

It kinda ruins Han's development. His whole arc is growing from a selfish rogue to a much more selfless hero. Having it be self defense undermines that, largely because it feels Lucas was worried "oh I don't want people to see Han as "gasp" a BAD GUY so I'm going to change it to make ...

The thing about humans.....we're quite resilient and we can do a lot when really pushed (look at the modern sewer system; that cost a LOT of time and effort and public will yet they got done and are now accepted.) If humanity's back is ever to the wall I fully expect a lot of them to really throw th...

You really don't look at the authors though. In fact you've gleefully ignored what the authors actually say when it contradicts your own headcanon (hence your refusal to acknowledge aspects of the Warrior of Light's character, or that Zenos is actually entirely right about the fact that there is a ...

To an immortal being 1000 years is the equivalent of last week. Those scars take longer to heal. And the ensuing war sure as hell didn’t help either. What scars? I'm sorry, are you applying knowledge you gained later of Migard's story that was nonexistent in ARR to this current argument? Cuz it sur...

To an immortal being 1000 years is the equivalent of last week. Those scars take longer to heal. And the ensuing war sure as hell didn’t help either.

Again, you lock into what you believe and dismiss anything else as wrong even if the counter evidence is as subtle as a sledgehammer to the nuts.

As the world burns more and more I think people are going to take notice or at least be more open to considering it. We can do a lot when our back is against the wall

I do think people will be motivated to put more effort into space travel and colonization of other worlds if only out of self interest.

Pretty much; the warrior's proven themselves physically. Do they have the strength of character to do the right thing? Midgardsormr has ever reason to be skeptical given when mortals have done to his children (i.e. King Thordan and his descendants). The only reason he's giving the Warrior of Light t...

<been fighting proto-gods, armies, ancient world-destroying mecha, et al since hitting the ground running> "LOL IMMA TEST YOU." Thing is, it's even worse before the rework to the MSQ because before that it's heavily implied that outside the echo stopping you from being tempered*, the only...