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  1. Just finished book 1 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Absolutely hilarious. As usual, I'm listening to it rather than reading, and the narrator is just top notch. Really makes it even funnier.
  2. Yeah, I struggled with it too. WAY too much setup for me. I enjoyed Books 2 and 3 a lot. I think I actually may have skipped booked 4. I have it on Audible, and it says finished, but I think I might have accidentally marked it finsihed. There was a lot going on in Book 5 that I didn't remember. I read the Game of Thrones books largely that way. I ended up getting Calibre and stripping the DRM from the checked out books so I could finish them.
  3. Looks like a good old style action movie. IN
  4. Pumped for this. I am curious to see how they handle Ryland's resistance to the mission. It seems from the preview it will be different than the book, but maybe I'm not remembering it well.
  5. The time to bring it back was 1996. Rickey, Shon and Priest in the backfield with James Brown at QB.
  6. Thanks for the explanation! I enjoyed TFA, but I quickly realized it was a total rehash of ANH. My brother absolutely loved it and we had many debates about whether they should have done somethng original.
  7. The streaming era really is a difficult thing to quantify and compare over periods. Side note, what doe the "memberberry era" mean? I vaguely remember the South Park episode, and I googled it quickly, but didn't get the relationship to Star Wars.
  8. Those numbers are pretty surprising, though it certainly confirms what you said in many ways.
  9. She knows a lot of stuff outside of the Death Star plans. It's a prison and prisons always have corruption. Part of the manifesto is about how hard it is for the Empire to control everything. It's a pointless risk to let her live, much less be around anyone else. Cassian had just said he was going to walk away when she left. He had a right to know about the baby. Said it above, but it's just a pointless risk. She knows a lot of stuff that isn't about the Death Star too. As for her motivation, she's been burned by the Empire. She feels she did nothing wrong. That's all the more reason to snitch.
  10. If she was in solitary, it would make more sense I think. I can see the punishment of imprisonment being worse than death, and a good bookend to her story, but she's clearly an intelligence risk with everything she knows just outside of the Death Star. Going to have to disagree on Krennic. He doesn't hesitate to murder Erso's engineers. Tarkin is certainly even more ruthless, but Krennic is keen to immediately blow up a full planet, not just Jedda city.
  11. They actually were already building the second one before the first was completed IIRC. And it must use different power sources/fuel since they made such a big deal of needing all that stuff for the first one and not being able to find enough.
  12. Thanks. That definitely explains that part of it, but it still seems that Perrin would have been in jail. It's not like the Empire is known for leniency.
  13. Yes it was but she deserved it.
  14. I'll go the other direction, audiobooks where the narrator makes it worse. 1) Jefferson Mays on the Expanse and Capitve's War. Some may like it, but the way he draws out certain words, the whole cadence, drives me nuts. I largely still listened to the expanse but I nearly turned off The Mercy of Gods. I'll be reading the next one. 2) Dick Hill - the Acacia trilogy. I read somewhere one some list that this was a really great series, so I decided to give it a try. I don't know where Hill is actually from, but he reads it in what seems like an over exaggerated attempt at a middle ages English accent. It killed me. Maybe I'll read the remaining two books, but I barely mnmade it through the first one. 3) Scott Brick - The Shannara Chronicles - dude just gets WAY too excited and over emphasizes things. I enjoyed the first book, bit desipe having bought a couple of them, I haven't been able to listen to anymore.
  15. That's a good take Rimbo. I just binged it this past week. Agree with most of what's been written about Syril. Really a great character and added a lot of depth to the show IMO. The first three episodes were killing me, even if I got the point of what was going on. While I really did enjoy the show, a few other notes/questions: 1) I don't get the scene with Perrin at the end - After her speech, Mon Mothma is a fugitive, public enemy #1. Yet a year later, Perrin is just partying around Corusant at the end, banging the crime dude's wife? They would have locked him up 5 seconds after that speech and probably exectured him shortly thereafter. Am I missing something? A shot of him in a jail cell makes more sense. 2) Dedra - It's so incredibly important that the Rebels have no information about the Death Star that in Rouge One they send out Vader to recover them from the Rebel command ship and as a last ditch effort they vaporize the Sacriff base and thousands of otherwise just normal Imperial personel, while Dedra's incompetance is what leaks the Death Star existance in the first place and all she gets is prison? Given Krenik's propensity to pretty much kill anyone and everyone that doesn't perform adequately, and Tarkin's too, that seems highly unlikely. Her before a firing squad at the end would have been more accurate. 3) Bix is a selfish cunt. Assuming of course that baby is Cassian's, which it seems is implied, after going on several times about making choices and even scolding Cassian for not making his own choices, she denies him the right to make a choice about whether he wants to help raise his kid or keep fighting? All because some Force healer thinks he has a destiny. Screw her. That was for Cassian to decide, not her. And why go back to Mina-Rau? She's illegal, no visa there, and while it HAD been 8 years since the Imperials came around to do an inventory when things went to shit, there's no guarantee they will wait another 8 years. Seems she should have gone elsewhere. But again, she's a selfish cunt so screw her.
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