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Fuck a duck. This is always how I find out about shit like this. Damnit. I was all ready and have time now to do my yearly summer download spree…

I guess 1337x?

Edit: Added the soundbyte that expresses my frustration:(

I thought it hit super hard in release order but I get the argument for timeline lol

Definitely in chronological order of release as the other comment says, but make sure to find the despecialized edition fan re edit which brings the high quality changes to the resolution and sound, but leaves the movies as they were originally shown without the terrible edits from Lucas in the late 90s.

Also, feel free to skip all of the sequels. They are nonsensical and self defeating with every successive installment. I gave the episode 7 a pass on their rehashing of the original and was excited to see a female hero taking up the mantle, but 8 and 9 just undo any positive or coherent story/message structure that could have spun from 7.

Edit: Do not miss Rogue One or Andor. I’d watch those after the prequel trilogy and in order of release too

Be the change you want to see:) Really, though, it’ll take all of us calling these out.

I recommend the new Indiana Jones. Mostly bludgeoning fascists. Very cathartic.

Cambodia. Genuinely the nicest, and most helpful, people I have ever encountered all throughout the country. I was told about their general friendliness before, but was blown away by actually seeing it firsthand.

For the most part, yes. For the parts that are a no, they are going to be really unhealthy and chaotic relationships. It definitely depends on the person, but this can be a very challenging social dynamic. It sounds pretty chaotic and I am not sure how many people would be able to deal with that day by day.

To your last point, emotional communication is always tough and it’s really hard to piece things together to get your thoughts across when tensions are high. I think that coming from a mindset of refining and explaining, to yourself first and then to others, why you feel a certain way or did a certain action could be a good start.

Additionally, a lot of people do not respond well to “tough love”. I would argue that for the majority of scenarios, it’s one of the least successful ways to go about showing support and care for someone else. Setting clear and respectful boundaries is one thing, but providing only conditional support is a great way to tank a relationship and have someone distrust you. I think it’s also helpful to unpack why you feel you need to act that way with people you care about. For me, that took a lot of work (still does) and goes back to my relationship with my dad (which has its positives and negatives, a lot of which we’ve worked through over the years).

One of the most important ideas I’ve come across with communication is that you should ask yourself if your actions are helping you meet your goals in the conversation. If you really want to build a strong, trusting, relationship with someone, that’s going to look wildly different to the actions you would take if you really want to distance yourself from someone. And if you mess up with how you presented yourself or how you meant to come across, address it as soon as you possibly can. Clear communication is key and being clear with yourself and your goals/wants/needs/preferences is the start of that.

Hope that helps lol good luck out there. There’s a lot of happiness to bring to the world if you work toward it.

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For the most part, yes. For the parts that are a no, they are going to be really unhealthy and chaotic relationships.

Similarly, Tom Kha has always been my go to cold/hangover cure. It’s immediately refreshing and I always feel physically better after eating/drinking it. The spices, ginger, and coconut do some heavy lifting for sure

Depends on the flavor. It isn’t sour in and of itself, but I have had some pretty sour flavors of saltwater taffy.

I also was a big fan of the blue sour punch straws but am not sure if they changed their flavor over the last twenty or so years lol it seems like a lot of sour candies have so that may be something to watch out for.

Lol yeah I rarely biked past sunset, tbh and used public transit quite a bit after dark, so that makes sense. Still think the less cars, the better.

Mistaking the bump for flashing high beams is the most common and serious problem for me. I keep thinking people are trying to get my attention with their lights. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve pulled over to make sure I didn’t run over some kind of debris I didn’t notice or check my tires or signals just to realize it was probably just their lights. Flashes and signals are for communication on the roadway. If everyone’s lights are flashing any time there’s a divot or crest in the road, we can’t effectively signal to each other.

I’ve also noticed that this level of brightness is absolutely shit in fog and stormy weather. Nobody can see fuck all.

I wish we didn’t have this problem to begin with and would greatly prefer to bike or bus to avoid this altogether, but since I moved out of the city, that is not a viable option.

So… Do this with Halo 3 and Reach and this was basically my college unwinding experience. So many teams battles lol

Nintendo’s been way too busy in this scene for too long a time for that to be the only reason. I can see that such a leak wouldn’t help, but they’ve been pouring money into these cases for years and have really ramped it up in the last five or so

The delisting is what gets me most (and we’re dealing with that in basically every media catalogue from film/tv to games).

Well, that and the blatant cash grabs I see with rereleases that end up being console specific and basically unsupported like with the cases of the Wii store and basically every iteration of their online stores since.

I played Wii and eventually Wii U with buddies for smash but am glad I didn’t own the systems. I know one of my friends gave a lot of money to Nintendo multiple times getting classics like Pokemon Snap and other nostalgia buys on multiple systems.

My most recent experience with Nintendo was borrowing a buddy’s switch to play Breath of the Wild back around when it came out. I’m pretty meh on their new content and by the way a lot of their recent releases were received, I’m not super interested. Might bug someone to play the Pokemon Arceus one which seems kinda cool, but that would be the extent of my interest and it’s not really nagging at me, anyway.

My main gripe is that they seem to be doing the bare minimum with their IP (with little innovation in the field/botched releases) and wasting money/resources on what I see as frivolous, shortsighted, lawsuits in the name of protecting their property as well as corporate heavy production that ends up with forgettable and formulaic games.

Maybe I am now become old, but I don’t care to see the most recent iteration of the Pokemon, Zelda, Mario, or Smash Bros sagas and am perfectly content with replaying N64 to GameCube classics in those series. Probably doesn’t help that I went to college with a bunch of friends who hung out and played Project M with some Halo 3 or Reach sprinkled in for variety lol.

I getcha, just have not been stoked about Nintendo’s continual deathmarch against the hydra of emulation.

I honestly think it’s more of a waste of money than it’s actually worth and the publicity of taking down emulation sites is pretty bad for them (especially when they take down ones which deal with largely abandonware or really old games, like Vimm’s lair did).

Without getting into the debate over the ethics of piracy or anti consumer practices, jumping into the fray by aggressively litigating and making a splash like Nintendo and Sony seem to focus on likely hurts their bottom line and certainly hurts their reputation with consumers.

Lol it’s like Nintendo just wants to back itself into a corner and waste away with its IP. Jeez. I honestly have no desire to purchase anything from them anymore.

I still emulate a solid amount of their games I’ve had for most of my life because I don’t want to wear down my old hardware.

They haven’t gotten a cent out of me since the GameCube, though, so I understand I’m probably not going to be their target audience anymore.

Edit: Mobile, *its not “it’s”

It isn’t ironic that they are revolting people, though…

Are you me?

I hope someone is writing this novel already, but there’s definitely some gold in a story featuring witness tampering and faking DNA signatures for recently deceased witnesses to take the stand.

I’m out of Dresden Files novels, so this would definitely scratch my urban fantasy/magipunk itch.

Oh, there are far worse things than death.

Lol seriously, though, I’m sure we’d come up with something. Humanity is remarkably inventive when it comes to punishments. Thankfully, now, some of us are at least talking about better ways to make them fit the crime.