too expensive
If true, it sounds like other penny-pinching Lucas stories I’ve read through the years and decades. Skimping on 2-3 million for a film that cost 32 million to make, and was all but guaranteed to make over 300 million at the box office anyway.
Then probably patted himself on the back for being so astute.
But do you know where the action could have taken place for the same type of texture, but with so much better impact?
Lucas supposedly intended to visit Chewie’s home planet of Kashyyk for the '77 film, but didn’t have the budget so he rewrote it out of the script, and didn’t get there until '05 with Revenge Of The Sith… unless you count the Holiday Special, which one shouldn’t.
So imagine that instead of the Death Star V.2 being built in orbit around that Endor forest moon, it’s on the Wookie homeworld, with Chewie stepping forward as a combat leader among his people, Han fighting side by side with a Wookie platoon.
Now imagine a 1983 Kenner/Mattel toy line of Wookie warriors, with their crossbows and lances and booby traps for stormtroopers and such. Considering the cuteness overload we got instead, what a missed opportunity.
Imagine being such a failure as a human being that they drag others down the hole they’ve stubbornly dug for themselves.
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
Madlads material right here.
This reminds me of something…
What are we going to build?
A PAYWALL!
Who’s going to pay for it?
META!
The best people. Just terrific hackers or coders or whatever they’re called. Biggly.
Damaged narcissistic minds, misfiring alike on all goddamned cylinders.
My hearts hurt and my eye is broken.
…or that da ruthless librul snowflakes are coming to take your guns away and turn your masculine christian baby boy into a girl.
Meanwhile, these very same assholes cheer when their orange dictator throws immigrants’ children into cages. Their personal nightmares are just in their minds. Yet the nightmares they create are very real.
Rage bait that could be a direct copy and paste from yesterday’s rage bait.
Also so many “meme” posts romanticizing depression and hopelessness, sometimes my r/all feed was full of these goddamned things, at least one or two per page. Like some bot farm pushing for a particular type of apathy and passive nihilism.
Broken people breaking things.
Throw money around recklessly, regard your broken self as some great lord of a realm, treat people as your slaves, then fiddle with little pet peeves in utter ignorance of how and why they work, watch a cascade effect spiral out of control, blame anyone and everyone but yourself.
This is a right-wing pattern. Look at the orange cock holster and the bullshit he was fixated on while squatting in the White House. The mind of a petulant child.
Reddit looking like Tik Tok, which is looking more like Facebook, which wants to look like Instagram… and what’s that over there? Oh look, it’s Twitter, spooning glue with its’ hand and putting it in its’ mouth.
Meanwhile, here in the Fediverse I’ve been seeing a lot of impressively creative memes. I don’t know if they’re originating here, or if they’re copy-pasted from elsewhere, but I’m comfortable here where memes are concerned.
find a way to make that crappy investment somehow profitable
With this sudden, reckless implementation of shit, alienating more and more of the very user base that gives the business its’ value?
He’s created a cascade effect that didn’t need to turn into an avalanche, at this point he’s just piling one half-baked idea on top of another, and another, and another.
Unless the petty goal is to turn that place into a toxic right-wing playground, which in turn… what does he gain from that, exactly, in case it works out and has a societal/electoral effect? Lower taxes and less oversight, so he can do as he pleases?
Occam’s Razor suggests his mind is broken by stress, willful lack of sleep and social media addiction - the attention of millions of both haters and worshippers - incompetently “getting high on his own supply” like Tony Montana, and went into this convinced his shit doesn’t stink. And now flailing at the lack of success and here comes A.I. with its’ scrapers.
I think he can’t keep proper track of reality at a level where things don’t break. This is one of those “sleep machismo” idiots who hasn’t had a proper, healthy sleep in years and years. With the stresses he has brought on himself, plus being a willful lightning rod addicted to the attention of millions of people - both the haters and worshippers - his mind is in some sort of late-stage erosion.
What a wasted opportunity of a man. What an embarrassment.
Many people relied on Twitter before Dorsey left the company and have been stuck there, out of the blue they became hostages to the idiotic whims of a sick man who hasn’t had a healthy night’s sleep in what seems like decades, a mind eroding into dust.
I prefer to feel empathy for these people. As with Reddit, this whole thing is a grotesque charade with plenty of collateral damage.
Sounds like a blast! /s
For the uninitiated, it’ll make the David Lynch version make sense in comparison.
EDIT: Get Peter Greenaway instead.
Also Thufir.
Imagine that… fooling a mentat. Unbelievable.
The man seems to have some Broadway musical background.
Shaddam Corrino IV, The Padisha Song And Dance Emperor!
I have never, ever posted a picture of my kids online. I’ve sent a handful to family and friends via messaging apps, but only ones that are naturally flattering, and that is as far as it goes.
As it turns out, my overwhelming hunch that this is the only decent, respectful course of action in the mindless social media age, seems to be correct.
I love my kids, and I respect them as people, as individuals with a right to privacy at any age.