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Comment Re:I'm just not interested in more Star Wars (Score 1) 81

I will note that you apparently believe that fans of SW and ST want to have something they loved torn down and destroyed.

Come on, don't do that. This narrative that somehow the new stuff is retroactively ruining your childhood, that it's specifically designed as an insult to your fandom... That's toxic.

Last Jedi is a good example of that. Some people complain that Luke isn't a Marty Stu anymore, he's not just waiting to be unleashed and go defeat the First Order with a laser sword. That would have been a terrible movie. How unsatisfying would it be that all the Rebels needed to do was find the guy who saved them last time, so he could do the same thing again. It would also prove again that the only people who matter are Skywalkers, everyone else is just waiting for them to resolve their issues.

The whole point was that everyone in the Rebellion matters, they all contribute, and The Force isn't just something that a few privileged people can use to shape events on a galactic scale. Rey is revealed to be nobody special at all, just someone who has the opportunity to do something meaningful. Then they blew all that up by writing a movie that was supposedly based on "fan feedback", and it was the worst one of the lot. Undid all the interesting ideas from TLJ.

Probably one of the worst examples of fans ruining a franchise. It's never really recovered. Andor was only good because it ignored all that stuff, didn't have any Force stuff in it, just ordinary people trying to make a difference, and not because it's the right thing, but because the Empire hurt them and the people they care about.

Comment Re:the "core fans"? (Score 1) 81

That list just proves the point. Finn isn't trying to beat her, he's trying to diffuse the situation. She can't fly the Millennium Falcon better than Han, in fact the first thing she does is crash it into the ground. At no point does she ever demonstrate particularly good piloting skills, unlike Luke who goes from shooting womp rats to taking down a heavily fortifies Death Star in about a week.

I can't be bothered to go through every point, and I'm not disputing some bad writing decisions, but she is in no way a Mary Sue. She is no way the equal of Kylo Ren either, who dominates in his fight with her in the first movie. She never beat Luke in a 1-on-1 fight either, that simply never happens in the movies.

Comment Re:I'm just not interested in more Star Wars (Score 1) 81

But "Star Wars: The Last Flop" lost the thread. Instead of a plot that was even more epic and had even more galactic significance, it just doubled-down on the family drama and kind of lumbered around, getting us nowhere new.

Not entirely true. We got improved light speed tech that could take off from inside the loading bay of a freighter and stop right above the surface of a "planet".

Comment Re:Real programmers don't document (Score 1) 68

Yes, and no. Decent programmers should be able to read "Normal" code; code that is clear, concise, and well structured. And then you have code that was written in reality; and then grafted on; and then "refactored"; etc.

Which leads to an interesting question: if all of this code was "reviewed" after each iteration, how'd it get so badly warped?

Comment Re:Windows? (Score 3, Informative) 38

Well, first you have to be stupid. That covers about 80% of the human race in some form. Second, you must be technologically incompetent. And then, you must be in awe of Microsofts dominance, while having no understanding of the abysmal (and getting worse) product quality they deliver. I would say that for the time being, this may be a product they can actually sell.

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