Yup! And honestly, most illegal things you might do accidentally are not spur of the moment situations, and frankly even in an imperfect system you’re unlikely to get the book thrown at you right away. There are abuses, of course, and stamping them out is an absolutely laudable goal, but if you want to set up a business, or think you’ve discovered a novel financial instrument, or (hypothetically of course) wanted to train an LLM algorithm on the totality of an absolutely vast corpus of information without the rights-holders’ consent, then if you can’t be arsed to get legal clarity in advance I have less sympathy for you and you’ve earned your consequences.

Only if they get James Gunn to do it, and only if they can find something eye-shaped to graphically pierce.

belaboring every little plot point to connect up to four

That would be one of the “new ones” I was thinking of, and they didn’t even do it well. Leia remembers her real mother, explicitly in the script, so Lucas just says, “nah… it’d feel cooler if she died in childbirth.” Make the nerds hand-wave something about the Force until I can rewrite and re-film Ep6.

Prequels were trash, but 3 was the worst of them.

TWO was the worst of them, IMHO, but you deserve credit for realizing that 3 is overrated and a saber battle with lava and a bunch of good guys dying just makes it dark, not good. It has every issue that 1 and 2 do, and adds a few new ones.

Dial back Jar Jar, age Anakin up 5 years, and accept that Liam Neeson is the lead, and you’ve got a halfway decent Star War.

Q: Why did Qui-Gon lose to Maul?

A: He was tired from carrying the whole movie.

Yes, but regardless, the real LucasArts Outlaws is on GoG.

OH MARRRRSHALLLLLLLL!!!

I like Rogue One, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why people love Rogue One. It’s a decent enough Dirty Dozen riff in a Star Wars Skin Suit, but it has terrible pacing, a story that didn’t particularly need to be told, unengaging leads (rewatch after Andor helps some but not entirely), and too much fan service. It’s nice that it allows some whisps of moral ambiguity into the Rebellion, and it’s absolutely saved by the climactic battle, but I do not get the universal and enthusiastic acclaim.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Episode 8 is better.

Bah. A dremel has no torque (by design). You need a Milwaukee Hammer Drill Arse-Whisk.

Only because it’s not wearing its aftermarket cooler.

I suppose it’s better than the lively fisting that a bolt-action would require.

lol, I didn’t want to presume, especially based on my experience with weak-ass European clothes dryers.

American dishwashers run very hot and use harsh detergents. Some dishes and cookware will state on their packing or even on themselves that they are not dishwasher safe.

Despite this, the sheer convenience of the dishwasher will make people ignore the warnings, and the objects retain their basic functionality just often enough that the meme can be an open-ended YOLO-like joke, phrased like parental encouragement, instead of merely mocking people who try it.

American Pie by Don McLean

Radio version or album version?

Other than them, though…

Christopher Lloyd, Kirstie Alley, Adam Driver, Robin Williams, John Goodman…

Fuck. It’s almost like it was a recognized – if admittedly challenging – career path.

I certainly didn’t mean to imply they’re actually incorrect, just that presumably working to fix it was part of their mandate, and the frank admission that they didn’t magically fix everything is kinda darkly funny.

I did particularly like this:

“We did not make this organisation insolvent, it was already insolvent,” the management committee said on Sunday.

Saying that in an indignant Australian accent makes it feel like it came straight out of some antipodean cringe-humor sitcom (FYI “Fisk” is pretty good!).

Cue the Australians laughing in Ute.

I don’t remember exactly what I ordered, but it was from an independent shop and I think I picked the middle out of five options. I’m going to give it the full three weeks, but the narrow intermediate distance band, the swimmy effect on the near band when I move my head, and the dead zone in the lower corners are all very irritating.

The prescription itself seems spot on; it’s just how the progressive is laid out. It’s on me for not realizing that aren’t just sort of linear, but it is — well — mildly infuriating.

For the record, I’m very myopic, -2 and -4.25, with a fair amount of astigmatism, and +1.75 near. My last pair had like a +.75 but I don’t recall the same issues.

Fair enough. I think it’s also pretty annoying that Doctor Strange there looks like somebody just gave him a handful of ass pennies.

Looks like it’s back up, but the TL;DR is pediatric orthopedic surgeon who lived in Vermont. He was a team doctor for the Pittsburgh Penguins NHL club before that. He was a pilot who rebuilt a plane from the ground up and also built kayaks. It’s unclear from the obit if he built the one in the pic or merely modified it, but it mentions the “internet famous” picture with his dogs. You never know of course, but he seemed like a decent and interesting dude who at least knew the value of hobbies.