Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

That's why like 99% of internet content is barely-edited Let's Plays or stream highlights.

for me personally the youtube algo is podcasts talking about other podcasts. it's annoying af.

Did you say "for me personally" and "podcast"??

nerd

More 2h editing that same 1m40s of video but its becoming closer to what I had in mind when I first thought about this.

Just frighting to think I already have close to 6h of recorded gameplay ready to be edited...

Finally saw 50 shades of dumbledore today and was behind the times so only saw fantastic beasts one and two yesterday

Wasn’t bad; Worth seeing but not worth full movie theatre priced asap seeing

I thought it was a hot mess. In fact the entire series has been a hot mess. I’m glad that they’re clearly not planning on making any more given how they spent the last 30 minutes just tying up as many piss poor storyline threads as they could with no real consideration for pacing, mood, theme… or really anything that constitutes good cinema.

it was rly bad

I didn't think special effects movies had to be good, just the effects had to be.

I think that's why everyone went to see it despite it being panned by both critics and audiences. In our society we vote with our wallets, and our wallets have spoken: MoAr AwFuL hArRy PoTtEr MoViEs, PlEaSe!

Budgeted at $200,000,000, it grossed $280,000,000 on its opening weekend.

I wanted to like, I wanted to like them all. JK might be a problematic piece of human trash, but I grew up on Harry Potter and love the world.

It's the same reason why I'm not sure how excited I am for more content exploring the Avatar (the Last Airbender) universe. A cool idea when it's self-contained, but it starts to fall apart as you dig deeper. ATLA did a great job of not dwelling on the hows and whys of bending and the interactivity between the spirit and material worlds. Then LOK came along and revealed some inconsistencies with the rules, but again not enough to ruin anything. Fans want more answers to questions, but each answer is going to raise further questions.

Harry Potter is the same, but even worse. At least DiMartino and Konietzko put thought into their universe before writing the story. Rowling made everything up as she went along, which can only carry a universe so far.

Here's a good example of what I'm talking about: No one writing Star Wars ever bothered explaining the logic behind FTL travel until Last Jedi made it canon that it shot you in a straight line with unbelievably high magnitudes of kinetic force. Answering that one question brought a million others to the surface, the greatest of which being: Why did no one ever think to weaponize that before?

I mean there's a lot of reasons (even if what your assertion is would be accurate, it technically isn't) but tl;dr most ships moved around in a 3d plane, and didn't sit still. Aside from the fact that it would kill everyone on board, etc. The better question is why didn't the other ship have their shields up.

edit: also well, TLJ sucked ***. The entire sub/side plot is irrelevant, the overall plot is silly, and they took the trilogy down a dark path that they only barely managed to unfuck partially with ep9. RJ is a moron.

Yeah but it's dropped off a lot after that. It wasn't a Last Jedi plummet, but it's not doing well. It stands to be their least profitable film of the three. I doubt they make another one.

Not if you added the engine to a missile, or simply left a droid behind to steer the ship.

I bought a vegetable cutter.

I hope it works as well as im thinking it should do

/shrug

It's a bad movie. I pretend they aren't real. Just like the nonsense that is DB Super.

If you jump to hyperspace right into a ship with it's shields up, you die. We don't recognize that trash in TLJ. That trilogy isn't real. It didn't happen.

lol agreed

My point though is that the further you dive into a fictional universe, the more rules are going to get exposed. And if those rules aren't consistent (often because no one bothered to make them up until they needed explaining), things start to fall apart.

I'll give that it looked cool on the big screen but overall was dumb the more you thought about it.

The trash in the Star Wars universe was there from the beginning.

Remember it is supposed to be 1930s era pulp SF brought to the late 20th century screen. So it has inconsistencies.

Spaceships banking into turns like aircraft because it looks cool was just the start....

But yea, I saw it opening night and was totally blown away inconsistencies and all.

What if the '60s Batman had the technology and budget of 2022's The Batman lol

Having all the silly bops bams etc makes it awesome

(they replaced penguin and riddler but left catwoman.....)

Also have you heard of this brand new thing Elon Musk invented called Twitter, what the *** is this timeline. Hold on to your *** fellas it's about to get even *** weirder.

How in the world did Elon ever singlehandedly decide to develop and code an entire social media platform all on his own like that, amazing! He's so talented, what a literal god.

What a legend.

Invented electricity
Invented the automobile
Now he's invented social media

I can't wait til he invents the pedestal so we can place him upon it

I would not want to have my name associated with the inception of social media, let alone pay money to do so, and doubly so for Twitter >_>;

You're not a sociopathic megalomaniac though.

Yall talking about how unrealistic the tech is in the movies about space wizards?

That's what you think!

Naw. Talking about how it's hard to give a crap about what's happening to the characters when you can't wrap your head around the rules because the rules keep changing.

And the rules keep changing because no one expected a movie about those aforementioned space wizards to go this far.

Everyone had their own thoughts about how Pokemon got sucked into Pokeballs, but we've gotten to a point where they ran out of ways to keep things interesting so they tried to explain it. Now instead of it being a fun little mystery that we could chalk up to "science mumbo-jumbo", they tell us it's the Pokemon themselves who each have the power to shrink at will. That's just canon now. Just like now it's canon that you can blow up an entire fleet of enemy ships by putting a warp drive in a missile and accelerating past light speed, and that The Force is caused by bacteria in your blood. How does any of that make sense? It doesn't, but it's canon! Welcome to fandoms of series that go on long past the rules established by their creators!