Josh D | Award Losing Author

Sometimes I write and design cool things for TTRPGs | Contributing writer to Liminal Horror and the Afterthought Committee | occasional Actual Play host

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I’ll probably be on this site for a bit longer, but I’m starting the rebuild. Come find me here.

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@SCentralized I wonder if it’s gotta do with the royalty dispute with Alan Dean Foster. They settled years ago, but Foster was the one who broke rent news that Disney wasn’t holding up their end of the deal after the buyout, so if I am to wildly speculate there may be some bad blood.

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@HolierThanMao @CantEverDie The new treaty essentially just reaffirms a deal that had already been in place since 1951. The one significant change is a ban on military investments in Greenland from non-NATO countries, which is something that wasn't really happening anyway.

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@Brainstorm0407 @SCentralized The Sequels were about how a complacent neoliberal government allowed a right-wing populist movement to rise within its ranks and destroy it, something that was happening in reality contemporaneous to the films with the Tea Party and GamerGate paving the way to the 2016 election.

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@zwmadworld @Vensaval @AI_EmeraldApple The exact same thing happened to Kubo. Its opening weekend box office was about $13mil. This is a run-of-the-mill occurrence for Laika films, as the only one that was a major box office hit was Coraline.

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@LarmanMan @morganaliddell The implication in the games is that we have no idea what Asari “actually” look like, as they alter the perception of the viewer to appear in a form that is attractive to them. (Though this is intentionally left inconclusive for the player to ponder)

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@iron_smith25 @jorgertg98 The Yin Yang is not the Dark Side and Light Side, or good versus evil. It’s a harmonious balance of opposing systems. The Yin Yang is the Force, or the “Light Side”. In Star Wars, the Dark Side is an external perversion of this system that disrupts the balance.

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@LarmanMan @morganaliddell They look like humans to you? They look just like Salarians. Or wait… maybe Turnians with that head fringe.

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@DanKretzer @edwardbrgr Jackson’s changes diverged so far from the book that Christopher Tolkien famously stated that the films “gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds”, and that they “reduce to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work”.

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@occhirossineri @getmemallet Meh, not really. Filoni was the supervising director of Clone Wars, which was mostly a liaison to help the writers and directors translate the pitches Lucas gave into episodes. Outside of the final season he has very few writing credits on the series. Rebels wasn’t much different

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@SCentralized I'm guessing that this is a similar situation as the Ahsoka novel, where Filoni had a story outline for the events that was handed off to the Johnston to spin out in the manner of her choosing. I'm not quite convinced that he's actively working with them much more directly.

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@UltimaReturn @ungodlytrinity @decunningham2 Abrams had an initial outline, but those ideas were largely rewritten by the time the movie was being filmed.

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@SCentralized It is genuinely wild that stun blasters are introduced in the opening minutes of ANH, then we don't see them again in live action until TLJ.

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@SCentralized TFA isn’t my favorite Star Wars film, but I always walk away from the film cheesing it.

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@PixelAloha @ZyifaRen Force Ghosts almost universally appear to people who knew the person in life and Ben never knew Anakin. Luke is the only person in the Sequels that Anakin would show up for, but the Yoda scene was much more important for where Luke was at in TLJ.

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@KenMastersUSA @ManaByte There were separate documents referred to as treatments. One was a collection of Lucas’ notes given to Bob Iger, the other was written by Micheal Arndt under Lucas’ direction and served as the basis of TFA with Arndt writing the first draft of the script prior to Abrams/Kasdan.

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@JockoJonson @Sturgeons_Law Perverted Justice was created and ran independent of the show and continued long after it ended. They had low overhead, relying upon public donations and volunteers. Total payout from NBC is only estimated to have been $2mil, which would only cover staff salaries for a few years.

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@SCentralized More people need to read the Poe Dameron comic.

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@airbagg3d They can’t even articulate what it is they think Hit Detection does. It was probably just a mock review or a bit of market research. Sensitivity consulting isn’t even one of their marketed services.

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@Ostap00793684 @SpaghettiKozak @KyleHollSays @EuBavard @Boxy_FT It varies on a state-by-state level. Most municipalities allow for a wider range of means of proving citizenship than the specific requirements of voter ID laws.

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@Ostap00793684 @SpaghettiKozak @KyleHollSays @EuBavard @Boxy_FT And yet, remarkably little has been found. The checks and balances have worked incredibly well historically.