u/argandg

Nowadays it's become "accepted wisdom" that the Jedi were this flawed organization that caused and even deserved their extinction. Some say they were dogmatic, they didn't fight for people enough (e.g. not going on a slavery-abolishing campaign on Tatooine), that they were too dumb to not allow Jedi marriage, etc.

But the truth is that none of that matters when it comes to their fall: The Jedi fell because Anakin sold them out to Palpatine for literal snake oil. End of story.

What exactly could the Jedi Council have done different? Yoda counseled Anakin on exactly what the right response to his premonitions of losing Padme: buddhist-like wisdom on not letting attachments drive you insane, and learning to let go, because there's nothing you can do about mortality... bonus, in this universe ppl just go back to the force when they die (or so Yoda said) so just accept the flow of life (unlike in our real life, where we have no f-ng idea what happens when we die or how we got here, etc)

The fact that Anakin chose to instead cling to his attachment to the degree of betraying and murdering everyone else is not a failing of the Jedi.

Neither could the Jedi have chopped Anakin's head in his sleep or such, because not only did they not know if Anakin was going to turn good or bad, but even if they knew, Jedi principles would not allow that, obviously.

Also, about the Jedi not going on slavery-eradication campaigns outside the Republic (e.g. Tatooine), they didn't have the manpower, it was too far away, and the Hutts were too entrenched... the Jedi aren't lying when they say they're not soldiers.

Also, about allowing Anakin to marry, that wouldn't have changed a thing, since that had nothing to do with his premonitions of Padme dying. It doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on Anakin sacrificing everyone else for snake oil promises for a cure.

And other arguments like, such as that.

And oh, the one thing that was REALLY weird is that they weren't fazed by the reveal of the clone army... like wtf, nobody even notices the obvious moral implications? The Jedi of all people should've been horrified at it, but even Yoda is like "well, fighting a war we are, and here they are, so use them will we I guess"

Take a they-person. Put them in a group. Say 'they'. Now there's no way to know if you're referring to the they-person or to the group. QED.

Solutions: just invent a genderless non-it pronoun already. Alternatively let's just do what Chinese does and just have 1 pronoun for everything... you wanna know what your preferred pronoun is in Chinese? 'ta', just like everyone and everything else

The worst person in the entire BCS/BrBa universe isn't Gus, Walt, or even the Cartel or Todd.... it's Werner.

Werner deliberately builds a giant secret undetectable facility for unknown shadowy interests, which it doesn't take 5 seconds to think that it could be used for decades, centuries or even millenia of the worst operations humans are capable of, such as human trafficking, torture, human experiments, and many more... any or all of these could be done by not just a cartel, but just some ultra-rich psycopath (which is the rule rather than the exception), or even the usa government itself, as ample documentation and history shows.

To top it all off, he does all of this just for a paycheck! At least every other villain has some sort of purpose or pretense of purpose to the evils they do... Werner is well-off and just wants a deck in his already nice house.

This goes beyond 'banality of evil' stuff imho, because in 'banality of evil' scenarios, the perpetrator is usually one or several degrees detached from the actual evil uses of their work, but the obviousness of the evil Werner is building ("giant lab for evil overlord(s) to do whatever they want in it") is immdiately obvious if he just stopped to think morally for 5 seconds.

Werner really represents the absolute worst of what humanity has to offer... it's an indictment of Mike (and the show's writers, actually) that Mike doesn't realize this and even punches a dude forr saying Werner was weak, and that the show treats Werner like he's some poor innocent

Hi, I already opened a support ticket in their discord but they're not being very helpful. There's some bug or setup issue with fullnode.mainnet.sui.io apparently but they won't give me details.

I'd like to know if it's a general issue or if other users can withdraw normally... I don't want to think my deposits are being stolen, thanks

just wondering how this works

Seriously. How could the humans be so dumb to go "Hey, this signal is info on how to build some kind of alien VIRUS... we should irl make the virus that we don't know what it does OBVIOUSLY... don't worry, the ALIEN virus will certainly never get outta the control of our famously incredibly careful scientific community that operates in a society that doesn't even fund scientific facilities to a 1,000th of what it invests in sporting events"

Rhea Seehorn (Kim) was awesome in Better Call Saul because her stoic poker face strong presence not only made sense in the high stakes lawyer world setting, but also because she had chaos lord Jimmy as a foil. Every micro expression of Kim spoke volumes.

In Pluribus tho, Rhea just doesn't work well 90% of the time: she plays Carol as more of a blank slate than as the description of "curmudgeon", "miserable", etc... she comes off every scene as just standing and watching, not as a particularly anything... her acting and script do not characterize her even nearly enough.

And we need more personality, bcs her foil, the Plurbs, are already the blank slate 'just stand there watching' characters... she's a terrible foil to the Plurbs.

The curmudgeon characterization was absolutely pathetic: basically it's just the ice hotel scene, and we're supposed to interpret her being mildly annoyed and negative as her being such a curmudgeon. And it really felt like "here's your scene to establish that trait", very obvious.

A good curmudgeon could be like Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. Rhea was such an absolute amateur at playing a curmudgeon in comparison that it's not even funny

Everyone around the world was loving the show until ep 9 rolled around and Goose went "ok, you had your show, now it's all about me-me-me" with her self-insert... and most ppl didn't like it...

Moreover, it highlighted writing problems that existed in all previous episodes, and which hadn't been considered because everyone thought the contrivances were leading somewhere... except ep 9 revealed there was nothing there

Anyway, in the future, I think Goose should just pretend she doesn't exist when writing a new show, whatever she wanted to portray in ep 9 either sucked or wasn't conveyed skillfully.

Sometimes, you're just not THAT interesting of a person

In a 'nothing new under the sun' manner, the Jax plot is an instance of the "somebody invests themselves into saving you and your problem is just opening up" plot type we've seen in many other fictions.

The reality though is that, as we all know at some level, the world is a cold, hard place, and nobody wants / can / or is actually gonna help you irl.

The whole allure of shows like this is the fantasy that an inexhaustible "I can fix him" pixie girl is just gonna show out of nowhere into your life (like in Welcome to the NHK and TADC here)

There are other similar such fantasies where the main chara gets inexhaustible support because he has a special something to contribute to the world (like Good Will Hunting) but sorry, you ain't got any.

So you have to see it for what it is: this isn't a life lesson, this is escapism fantasy.

And you gotta come back to reality after enjoying the fantasy, because mixing the two is gonna hurt you

The discussion around Jax has been mostly about judging him and discussing the morals and whose blame is what and how much, and that's alright

But to me, the whole 30 or so minutes where Jax was the main focus of ep 9, were build up for the final moment.

Over 30 minutes, we're shown how horrible, defective and far-gone Jax was.

And yet, when he dies, the extremely bittersweet music plays and the brief "your life flashes before your eyes" montage suddenly reminds you that there were treasured moments with Jax, that he was a person, and that... we have to say goodbye

The realization and emotions at that moment hit extremely hard and I think that was Goose's entire intention with ep 9

We wish there had been a lot more of the rest of the cast, but as it regards Jax's storyline, I think Goose did a competent job

Ultimately the tragedy of TADC is that there was a much richer, much more interesting show in there, but Goose was in an inexplicable hurry to dump on us whatever story ep 9 is, close the book and ride into the sunset (to do another work I presume)

One thing that never got explored was Pomni possibly having evil seeds within herself, as shown in the softball game when Jax jumps on Evil Jax (who was really more like Good Jax by inversion) to brutally cannibalize him and Pomni smiles VERY weirdly at that, which Ragatha catches with a side glance and is genuinely disappointed and disturbed by (Pomni notices Ragatha saw her reaction and composes herself)

That was a disturbing flaw in what's one of the most grounded and seemingly empathetic members to ever come into TADC, but it could also link to how her empathy is unfortunately kinda selective... she doesn't think much of Gangle, and she immediately dismisses Abel's appeal to give some sympathy to Caine also being a prisoner just like them... it didn't even register in her mind, she instantly replies to Abel with "how do we get to Caine's office"

All of this, however, is utterly irrelevant. It never happens again or is irrelevant. You could even skip it as filler, like Goose says.

In conclusion, there was a lot more meat to the TADC bones and it's a shame neither Glitch nor Goose never really noticed the potential of their own work

TLDR; RML too low-effort and empty now, except prolly for Best of the Worst

I know that RLM's thing is being a "male companionship simulator" like other streams, but many years ago their content used to be insightful and high-effort. Namely, you can see that in what made them famous, the Star Wars prequels reviews.

Today tho, I can't help but notice that every Half in the Bag etc has nothing to say. They just google some quick trivia for the appearance of insight and all they do is basically Jay smirks and Mike just says "I liked it/didn't like it" plus some cheap humor.

The latest 'Mandalorian and Grogu' is a good example. There's nothing to talk about in this movie, so there's nothing to talk about, and they have nothing to add to our view of the world because they just don't put thought or effort into anything anymore.

Possible exceptions:

・The animated shorts show some effort, but they're coasting on the animator, their scripts are low effort

・Best of the Worst is a niche I don't think anyone else is doing

(With that said, I'm off to post this to an AI to have some semblance of a convo, because I just know you people are gonna just downvote it and the few replies if any are gonna be like 'nuh-uh, rlm good, u dumb'... honestly, humans these days, you're lower than a chatbot)