Yes but I prefer ice 🤭

Man, than is hella political XD

Oof, either bad take or typo. You meant 'gin and tonics.'

my wife is very pretty (this one is less opinion than fact)

the single greatest fictional weapon ever invented is the lightsaber

As much as my heart wants to agree with you, my brain is objecting that it's the Death Star

Considering all the Kyber crystals that went into that thing, it's basically a ginormous planet-skewering lightsaber anyway

I was going to suggest The Peacemaker, but in practical terms it's probably the worst, given it's slightly indiscriminate action and effect.

I agree on cinema. Still love the massive at McGuffin that is the Green Lantern Ring.

And wish the stodgy-ass Jedi insisted on extremely formal sword-fighting styles, like Kenobi v Vader, because the Jedi were obsolete assholes.

As long as you don't count the weirdo Kylo Ren with the Lightsaber Laser sputtery guard part, anyway

It is sometmes a bummer to me how much this is true We'll never make something better and it will always be locked into one particular thing At best people will always think "yeah you stole that from star wars"

In a world in which the Holtzman shield exists?

Sir, can I take a moment to talk to you about our lord and saviour the Klatchian fire engine?

Thought that was banned in a few hubward countries and using it could get you excommunicated or sainted by a dozen religions...

For your consideration, Iain M Banks’ lazy gun?

He was not lying when he said it was an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

I was always fond of the TR-116 Sniper rifle from DS9. a regular projectile rifle, modified with a scope that could see thru walls, & had a small transporter built in so that, when fired, the bullet would be beamed to within an inch of the target, meaning you get a point blank shot from a mile away

Special Shout out to the Cerebral Bore from turok 2. imagine a gun that fired those balls from the phantasm series. where you fired, the projectile would seek out the head of your target, drill into their brain, spray it everywhere, then exploded and blew their heads off.

My favorite.

Thinks about it. The only serious competitor is the Ring of Power.

cucumber water is bullshit either give me actual water or commit to a soda or juice of some kind, none of this “hint of flavor” shit

This. If I have to re-read the container, because I can't tell what flavor it was supposed to be, it didn't have a flavor.

*LaCroix has entered the chat* FIRST OF ALL, HOW DARE....

I’m not a huge fan of drinking anything, and particularly not plain water. If I want to stay hydrated, floating a little cucumber or fruit in a pitcher of water helps me to keep drinking. Something about the faint taste of something good helps. But YMMV, no worries.

cucumber goes in pimms, not in water

Okay so, if you are charging me for it yeah, but I don't mind those jugs of water with cucumbers (or lemons or strawberries or whatever fruit or veggies that have high water content) floating in it that are free to use and often self serve.

Homeopathic soda.

baseball is the best sport for Remembering Some Guys, huge roster sizes and you can even Remember Some Guys from the 1920s

brent abernathy

and when you remember one of those guys was named "Urban Shocker" it makes your entire day

an enormous amount of parenting advice is bullshit, simply because “this works for my kid” is far less universal than we’d all like it to be

Even much advice from the professionals can be included in this. (Not *all* of it...)

The only parenting advice should be "Get to know your kid, and know what works today will not work tomorrow. Enjoy the adventure."

I think advice shaped like this (eg in a book) would be great: Here are 10 very different strategies for problem X, including how easy/hard it is to (a) predict whether it’ll work for your particular kid, (b) actually try it, (c) tell whether it’s working, and (d) stop/recover if it doesn’t

also you never really know if it worked for your kid until they're in their 20s anyway. short term success doesn't guarantee long term success

Have you tried 'insert very specific thing that happens to work because a very unique set of circumstances' it's like the kanami code for children.

Like weighted vests, some kids it works like a magic charm like some dragon ball z containing the kids power level type thing and other times kid is just like nope no weight in fact weight is evil.

Particularly annoying for the parents of picky eaters. “Have you tried -?” “YES"

i have one kid who will eat anything and the other who was at constant risk of turning into a giant chicken nugget. fortunately they're both adults now and so they can do their own meal planning

I’m similar. The judging from other parents, suggesting that their picky habits are your fault for “not introducing a range of foods early”. I tried, and he would have starved himself to death rather than eat them.

there are other franchises with awesome, iconic ships but Star Wars is the king of spaceship design and it’s not particularly close

The 4 seconds rule is likely the most precious gift George Lucas gave to the 5th art.

none of which make aerospatial sense, but this is still correct

Star Wars clearly exists in a galaxy far, far away, where space isn't a complete vacuum, so aerodynamics is important.

The Falcon. The Firespay. The Blockade Runner. The Hammerhead. The Star Destroyer. The EXECUTOR.

I had a friend who thought the Executor was pronounced like “executive” instead of “execute” and we never let him live that down. “Darth Vader’s executive transport ship?!”

Why wouldn't the word be pronounced like it always is? Executor is one who carries out instructions, like the executor of a will. Executive is the same riot.

All posts about grammar, usage, or spelling, will contain some errors.

True. I like a lot of entertainment franchises but when I'm buying new doohickeys for my office, Star Wars stuff always beats out everything else.

Star Wars ship design is so good that they can take a slice of pizza in space escorting the AT&T logo and make them instantly iconic. And TIE Fighters? Who thought that was a good design? How does it work that well? INSANITY!

I love that, at least in the old canon, TIE Fighters were well known for killing their pilots in atmospheric flight because of their ridiculous design. A skilled pilot could take out pursuers by just performing a hard juke and if the TIE tried to match it'd go into a death spiral.

Indeed! I think Rogue One had some TIE variants that weren't capable of space flight and deployed only to ground garrisons? Nice touch, that.

sound design plays a big part in it too you know the TIE scream, you fear the TIE scream

Man spitting out damn truths here, you all listen and learn.

I thought Battlestar did a nice job

Basestars, Cylon fighters, and Vipers are all S-tier, and Galactica herself, Raptors, and the civilian fleet are all at least good.

Also ground vehicles:

Iconic Star Wars ground vehicles and no AT-AT or AT-ST? They set the entire theme!

Star wars might not always be great cinema but of all the sci Fi universes it has become the most cohesive

The most iconic Star Trek designs are all variations on a single (strong) theme, but Star Wars ships all have their own thing going on while still looking like they belong in the same world

The Bird of Prey is quite iconic as well.

It is a good and distinctive design; I don’t think I’d personally rate it as high as something like the Star Destroyer, but it’s just a matter of taste.

Star Wars also has the advantage of an almost infinitely more successful toy and video game lines as well.

the people who designed those ships gave us a rare instance of something having both quality AND quantity and I will always be grateful for that

platforming sections in games that are not designed to be platformers are almost universally terrible and should not be added

Similarly, if your game was not built as a racing game, your vehicle physics are awful and you should not ask me to race with them.

Turok did it well especially with the Nightdive remaster.

Prime example of a rule that should absolutely be followed until you are good enough to know that for creative works there are no rules, just very strong suggestions, some of them surrounded with electrified barbed wire

sure im a demigod armed with weapons that can slay The Elders themselves but some dipshit level designer felt jump puzzles were necessary 140 hours in

you didn’t like that part of god of war either huh

Add to this forced stealth sections in games that up until thst point had none at all. Biggest offenders are the spider-man games on ps4/ps5

you don’t have to have great range to be a great actor if you’re good enough at a specific type of role see: Reeves, Keanu

“we need an insufferable asshole for this role, get me James Woods”

Boris Karloff loved being typecast because it was a tacit admission that he was the best in the world at the role he always played.

True for singing too; see: Dylan, Bob

I also just think it’s sincerity for specific actors. I don’t think it’s a hot take to say that Meryl Streep is Meryl in every movie. Same affectations, minimal tweaking for characters. But she is that character and the character is her. There are few actual actors who morph completely.

in-n-out is good, actually

As an East coaster, it is all meaningless to me.

It's good but not as good as the persistent lines/wait would indicate.

If In-N-Out really wasn’t that good, we’d be seeing another chain be the comparison used. But no one claims a burger is better than Whataburger or Shake Shack. They always try to claim it’s better than In-N-Out.

playing sports is really good for most kids

The one exception to this I've always held is The Old Republic, where heavy platforming was involved with some "collectibles" because it was funny to watch friends fall repeatedly.

counterpoint: fuck the Makeb datacron to hell

Lmao, i mostly remember the tatooine hot air balloon or whatever it was one where if you fell you had a serious wait

College football for the same reasons

One of my favorite things about baseball is how it's 150+ year history of being a major sport means that major events from, say, the '70s (turf, Reggie/Fisk homers) seem relatively recent, whereas in basketball or football, events of similar impact ('72 Dolphins, ABA) feel like eons ago

In England, both cricket and soccer have similar length histories and corresponding Remembering Some Guys features.

Replay of Fisk's home run still hits pretty hard, and I wasn't even there for it (they said, Remembering Some Guy).

Pretty partial to the BFG-9000 myself

*clears throat*

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