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  1. 1 hour ago, Hellraiser97 said:

    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.

    TFA until recently, TFA was widely praised on release but I came out of the theater angry I got sold essentially the same product.

    Gilroy has made an open case against memberberries, directly telling modern writers that the Star Wars toybox is not something they should abuse, I hope they learn.

    1 hour ago, mdmost said:

    The numbers for Mando are double and triple that of Andor. Maybe that was the highlight of Disney+ but the subscription numbers are still high for it. The Star Wars TV show returns are trending downward since season 3 of Mando. Lucasfilm is done with TV after Ahsoka season 2.  There's just no profit in it. You just have to enjoy the special unicorn we got that is unlike most Star Wars fare. We won't see its like ever again. 

    linux, you want it to be one way

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    It was #1 in ratings for the week of release, its complicated because they are tracking minutes watched and they were 3 episodes but not everyone watched them in one sitting either, its definitely complicated but good data still.

    Again Andor was by far the most torrented show over the past few years, its finale peaked at 110k concurrent, Shows like House of the Dragon was 100k, Severance is at round 75k, even if you keep it to Star Wars Ahsoka was like 30k and Acolyte was 20k and Strange New Worlds 20k

    https://televisionstats.com/

    Very interesting tracking tool. Even with piracy Disney doesn't regret getting the most hotly desired property, had the trends held, they could have gotten away with putting it in ABC.

    Honestly it was on a fast track to mirror Breaking Bad, it was slow ratings at first, but by the time Last season rolled around it was the biggest thing on TV. To do that in two seasons is impressive.

     

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  2. I still don't get it

    I would demand that they ban all movies if it meant all TV shows were like Andor, not just Star Wars.

    Of course it is an irrelevant wish, at the end of the day the auteur is the only sure fire way to guarantee quality, money helps of course and Disney will not open up the pocket book for just anyone anymore. But yeah I will sure as hell hope they have quality and writing in mind first and foremost before they tackle new movies, The memberberry era was put down quickly by South Park. Andor buried it.

     

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  3. On 6/28/2025 at 10:09 AM, mdmost said:

    People are going to be annoyed by everything going forward if they keep using Andor as the standard when Star Wars has been more like Ahsoka than Andor for most of its existence.

    Too late, I am way past being annoyed by everything, we need to put feets to the fire for people to create great television, and yes pointing to Andor should be the best way to do it.

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    3 hours ago, Parliament said:

    It’s also a rare case where the 2nd episode is better than the first.  TNG always had trouble sticking the landing.

    I did not watch it live but if I had to wait 4 months for the Best of Worlds part 2 and saw... that I would really be pissed.

     

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  5. 45 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Seems important.

     

     

     

    This is the future buckle up, elections delayed when dear leader is unpopular, elections when he starts a war and spaghetti forgive wins it. Most likely after extreme handouts like during covid. Elections cancelled after he has totalitarian power.

  6. 4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Point of order, birthright citizenship arose under the 14th Amendment in about 1870, not the 1789 timeframe of the original Constitution and Bill of Rights.

     

    More specifically there was debate in the senate about it including immigrants and yes they clearly said as it was being written that it did include immigrants like point blank.

    If SCOTUS modifies it in any way it is quite literally a coup.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Texas Fight said:

    Was the mom in the US legally when she had the baby? 

    It does not matter all non residents were part of the EO.

    "(2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth."

  8. I mean don't you have to join a class action? even if free (considering there is no payout in the end I doubt it) aren't there time frames? so to get relief you have to hope you are not deported before you are able to join a class action?

    We no longer have rights, those have been replaced as jump through hoops. I can't wait for the interpreations of right to life, you can only sue once you are dead.

  9. 21 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

     

    You're not understanding what the Japanese mindset was.

     

    Through a non-Japanese lens if you see you've lost you cut your losses and surrender.  Through the Japanese lens if you've lost the fight you don't surrender, you keep fighting until you die. What's more they don't even define winning and losing the same way everyone else does - they might lose the fight but if they die honorably it's a victory.  It's the bushido way. 

     

    They were never going to let the Emperor, a living god, be toppled.  The Emperor was never going to surrender because he saw they had lost the fight.  He, and the Japanese people, needed something extraordinary to change their minds about 1.) what losing IS and 2.) what reaction they should have to it.

    And they did not "let the Emperor, a living god, be toppled." this is what is so damn stupid about the Nukes debate, you posit a Japan that would never unconditionally surrender, if nukes were not dropped.

    But nukes were dropped and they STILL surrendered WITH conditions. Hirohito was allowed to stay.

    That is as terrible "art of the deal" as I have ever seen, and it is STILL defended without that second thought.

    Once again the decision had nothing to do with WWII it had everything to do with the Cold War.

  10. Spurrier WISHES he could cause as much terror and fear as big bro causes Aggie. No amount of "Citrus bowl without UT" smack can compare to the generational trauma inflicted on gomers. 

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  11. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    Kind of strange to get fixated on civilian deaths from nukes specifically in WWII - incendiaries and manufactured firestorms completely erased whole cities just as readily. The nukes were just more efficient, but we very successfully killed 100,000 and dehomed 1,000,000 in one spring night in Tokyo 1945. Just with HE and incendiary. 

    The strategic bombing of Japan was a far greater cruelty than just dropping Fat Man and Little Boy. It took longer than nukes, but it killed civilians dead just the same. 

    The great game changer of nukes is that one plane carries the equivalent destructive power of 334. Or more

    There is a level of overrating the Nuclear bomb, maybe it was propaganda to excuse so much money spent (afterall the bomb just HAD to be dropped despite objections by the Manhattan project scientists).

    A) there weren't that many, only 3 at most for a very long time, and two were used

    B) Required air superiority because only bombers could deliver them, and you don't want to risk that if there is air patrols.

    C) lastly kilotons are not megatons as mentioned the potential to kill was way lower

    That said nukes really became the end of humanity threat during the hottest moment s of the cold war.

    A) tens of thousands of nukes

    B) ICBMs that could deliver them anywhere in mere minutes

    C) Hydrogen bombs in the megaton range.

    I am guessing this is where the confusion comes from, conflating one with the other.

  12. 3 hours ago, Texas Fight said:

    Bro. Take the loss and move on. Japan didn’t surrender before Nagasaki or Hiroshima. 

    But then again they did not surrender before the Soviets declared war in between both bombs.

    At the end of the day historical consensus that everything that happened after the surrender of Germany was less the conclusion of WWII, but the beginning of the Cold War.

    All of the ramifications

    The US dropping nukes literally on the day the Soviets promised to enter the war,

    Japan feeling betrayed by the Soviets, led to them siding with the US 100% after Truman allowed Hirohito to stay.

    the Soviets invading Manchuria and giving it to Mao as a the springboard to win the Sino civil war

    The Soviet capture of pyongyang and US landings at Inchon, dividing Korea.

    All of it was Cold War related. That was the calculus.

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  13. 3 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    There were plenty of credible analysts saying that Netanyahu was supporting Hamas as a boogey man to justify the shit Israel does. I believe that although I can't put my hands on the sources. I just recall them as credible. Bibi is a monster and he's fighting to stay out of prison. I'm persuaded that he did wish for an attack from Hamas to take the heat off of him and let him seize Gaza.

    The Gaza campaign is that of a monster. That said, I would strongly doubt a story that Bibi knew how inhuman the Hamas attack would be. 

    Anyways, that's how I remember it. 

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

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  14. 6 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    Good luck with that.  Kamala trying to appeal to the center right anti-trump is the only thing that kept the election from being a bigger blowout.

    No, working class people pivoted to MAGA, in 2016 it was white working class, in 2024 it was ALSO hispanic working class. At this current rates the black working class is headed there as well.

    Worrying about bigger blowouts is irrelevant and inexcusable when we are talking about losing to Orange Hitler. Anybody that went "lets minimize losses" instead of "win or we all die" in 2020/2021 needs to be evicted from the party for incompetence.

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  15. 4 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:


    the reason being is the entire NY Democratic Party is full of corrupt grifters. Which is why they all lined up behind corrupt grifter Cuomo. If Mamdani cleans house and makes marginal improvements in NYC’ers lives that is going to have wide ranging impact nationwide against the old guard democratic machine. 

    NYC mayor is notoriously difficult to break out of, none of them went on to do greater things after it, their most famous mayor, Time magazine's person of the year. turned out to be the biggest loser in all of politics, a fluffer for the the orange idiot. There has to be a pattern somehow that NYC really is the A&M of political careers.

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