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TLOK even pokes at it a bit in season 2 when Tenzin is talking with Aang about how he feels like he’s not living up to what Aang was. “You are not me, and you should not try to be me. You are Tenzin.”

Kanan shows the other side of what the Jedi should be, as a sort of knight errant who just does whatever needs doing and shares their wisdom with whoever will listen.

TLOK’s problem was that Nickelodeon wouldn’t renew the show each season until the last minute, so they couldn’t really plan multi-season arcs. The first season also had the number of episodes changed several times - first it was going to be a movie, then a miniseries, then Nick ordered it expanded to a twelve episode season, but it was still going to be a one-off until it was too late to change the ending. And then the final season had a sudden budget cut, hence the clip show episode. If Nick just gets out of their way and lets them do their thing, the new show will probably be good.

IIRC, she said it was wish fulfillment on her part, with Hermione standing in for JKR and Ron being like someone JKR liked when she was younger.

If we’re limited to just one, Musk. Trump’s unlikely to live another ten years, and Vance doesn’t have the money or popular support to be a threat without riding Trump’s coattails. Both also have pretty minimal impact outside of the US. Musk has global influence, at least another thirty years ahead of him, and enough money that very little short of death or being placed in a high security prison would hurt his efforts.

My parents tried to teach me how to use a manual transmission, but I simply could not get the timing down no matter how much I practiced.

The old cars were also designed in such a way that you had to understand how the thing was constructed and functioned in order to make it work. Nowadays, I only barely understand how shifting gears works mechanically and drive an automatic. Modern cars do much of the work for you, much like modern computers.

I several times explained age ratings to grannies looking to get GTA for their grandsons, and I haven’t ever worked at a real game store.

Literally the opening scene of the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr9roMoMT1Y

Which is weird because BOTW’s UI is the worst part of the game. Soooo much scrolling through item lists.

The lack of historical accuracy also isn’t due to a lack of research, but a deliberate style and tone choice, as demonstrated at the very beginning of the movie when the trumpeters play We Will Rock You and the crowd claps and stomps along.

You can even see Obi-Wan give Han a kind of, “What do you think we are, idiots?” look after he says the line,

Generals also took the base construction and resource harvesting systems from Blizzard’s games. The entire game feels like it should have been named ModernCraft or something instead of C&C.

Going the other way, Warcraft 1 and 2 used used a left-justified UI that was very similar to the one C&C used, but with elements that would evolve into the StarCraft and Warcraft 3 UI.

Guy couldn’t handle the sudden fame, iirc.

I still play games with look inversion because controls were so unstandardized in the '90s that what we currently consider inverted was the default on a good number of games and that was what I learned. I didn’t even go to the modern stick layout until Halo 3 was out, and that mostly worked because I thought of it as WASD + mouse mapped to sticks.

My current distro also uses pipewire and I’ve had no issues. I haven’t even needed to configure anything. I originally went to Linux when my XP install died and I couldn’t afford a Win7 license. I was happy enough with Win10 to migrate to that when it came out, and now that Microsoft is forcing people onto Win11 I’m back to Linux as my primary. Pipewire and Proton really took Linux from ‘good enough’ to ‘actually quite nice’.

I have no idea why Pulse is so bad. During my last foray into Linux, I created a shortcut for killing and restarting Pulse and pinned it to the dock. I also replaced all my game shortcuts with scripts that reinitialized pulse, then ran the game, then reinitialized pulse again when the game was closed.

Possibly to differentiate from the trans women, who were mentioned immediately prior?

I’m guessing one of them is a hexbear admin and the other is a troll.

They’re pretty bitter when you’re young, but your taste buds usually become less sensitive to it as you age.