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The prequels are being rehabilitated because there's a generation of people who grew up with them as their Star Wars and now those people are old enough to post long and detailed internet rants about it. This is why high-budget franchises will never die and capitalism must be destroyed.
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Weird Al called this poo poo back in 1986 Well, I heard my friends really got in a mess So I'm gonna have to leave Yoda I guess But I know that I'll be coming back some day I'll be playing this part 'til I'm old and gray The long-term contract I had to sign Says I'll be making these movies 'til the end of time With my Yoda Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo-Yoda Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo-Yoda
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Jul 4, 2022 16:09
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Paradoxish posted:The prequels are being rehabilitated because there's a generation of people who grew up with them as their Star Wars and now those people are old enough to post long and detailed internet rants about it. The prequels are being rehabilitated because the Disney sequels make the prequels look almost reasonable.  The prequels were a complete mess, but they still had the excessive enthusiasm of their creator poured into them. He hosed it up, but Lucas had a story that he wanted to bring to life. Big difference from a late-stage capitalism content mill.
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Jul 4, 2022 16:13
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Jul 4, 2022 16:17
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is pepsi ok posted:I'll never forget being insanely excited for Episode 1, waiting in line at the theater, going nuts at the Star Wars fanfare starting up....and then I start reading the scroll and my eyes just glaze over as I have no idea what the gently caress they are talking about. it's obvious the trade federation is blockading that one planet and there's a droid army and spikey head man bad so a 3 year-old flies an airplane into a donut and then marries his princess babysitter which was a sin and so mediclorians.
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Jul 4, 2022 16:18
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Corbeau posted:The prequels are being rehabilitated because the Disney sequels make the prequels look almost reasonable. The real reason is because Disney isn't gonna pay 4 billion dollars for a six movie franchise and just give up on recouping their investment on half the content they bought. They need to get people excited about the star wars original streaming series that will take place inbetween each of the prequel movies!
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Jul 4, 2022 16:24
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https://mobile.twitter.com/tastesgoodtoeat/status/1543671936961724420
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Jul 4, 2022 17:04
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Corbeau posted:The prequels are being rehabilitated because the Disney sequels make the prequels look almost reasonable. It's fine, two things can be garbage in different ways without making one look better than it is. Dumb terribly written & acted garbage is not made better by cynical tickle your nostalgia centre so you buy more consumer tat garbage. Like, it's not as if George was trying to make some bold arthouse film, he didn't seem to be able to decide WHAT he was making, a kids film or something more about the politics and you end up with is a boring mess. Where as Episode 7 (only sequel I saw, the rest weren't even worth pirating) was just plain boring. Doesn't make the previous mess better, maybe more charming but being more charming than something absent of charm isn't really notable. Shouldn't have had a public holiday today America, so we could talk about number instead of uninteresting films
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Jul 4, 2022 17:04
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the prequels rule because they're left-wing agitprop
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Jul 4, 2022 17:22
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I'm headed to Iceland today. To set up my geothermal powered Ethereum mining company
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Jul 4, 2022 17:23
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Corbeau posted:The prequels are being rehabilitated because reddit is easy to astroturf
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Jul 4, 2022 17:25
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androo posted:Not sure if this was posted. Some choice quotes in here https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wars-come-to-the-suburbs All of those people are insane libertarian freaks who moved there specifically because there are no taxes or rules and they deserve the hell they’re building for each other.
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Jul 4, 2022 17:27
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https://twitter.com/dpa_intl/status/1543921384698662913
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Jul 4, 2022 17:48
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Never heard of anyone purposefully building/buying a house with no water supply by design. Thats some real demented poo poo.
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Jul 4, 2022 17:50
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the jedi council is basically pizza gate jeffrey epstein vatican and even though emperor palpatine is evil, he shuts that poo poo down so I dunno, vote
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Jul 4, 2022 17:51
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androo posted:Not sure if this was posted. Some choice quotes in here https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wars-come-to-the-suburbs quote:“We got two great offers in, and neither of them cared about the water situation. They believe that the county is not going to let five hundred homes next to one of the wealthiest cities go without water.” quote:Maricopa County yes, that maricopa county. the sheriff joe arpaio "i make prisonsers wear pink and eat moldy bologna" maricopa county. they think that county cares about people  
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Jul 4, 2022 17:54
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cat botherer posted:Never heard of anyone purposefully building/buying a house with no water supply by design. Thats some real demented poo poo. The developer deliberately juked water supply rules via lot division chicanery and the dumb gently caress buyers bought half million plus dollar houses there anyway and because they’re rear end in a top hat libertarians they’re incapable of coming to collective decisions that would fix the problem. It owns.
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Jul 4, 2022 17:59
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Egg Moron posted:the jedi council is basically pizza gate jeffrey epstein vatican and even though emperor palpatine is evil, he shuts that poo poo down so I dunno, vote the only evil thing the empire does is blow up Alderan, and that's an attempt to end a galactic civil war that's be going on for like 50 years. murdering the Jedi is nothing but good news for the galaxy
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Jul 4, 2022 18:00
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The_Franz posted:yes, that maricopa county. the sheriff joe arpaio "i make prisonsers wear pink and eat moldy bologna" maricopa county. they think that county cares about people I never got baloney, moldy or otherwise, when I was incarcerated by sheriff joe. that would have preferable to what we did get. don’t move to Arizona, tho, that’s a good point
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Jul 4, 2022 18:01
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learn 2 code sri lanka
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Jul 4, 2022 18:03
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The cities in the SW aren't going to run out of water (yet). First will be major cuts to agriculture, which will result in major dust storms developing and spiking respiratory ailments including valley fever. Then the cities will start to lose water.
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Jul 4, 2022 18:04
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/the-water-wars-of-arizona.html another great article about the water situation in arizona. one of the biggest consumers of groundwater in the state is actually saudi arabia, who buys land to grow feed for saudi cattle, pumps out absolutely massive amounts of water from non-replenishable aquifers to grow alfalfa and then moves on when the aquifers are drained and collapsed i guess you're also supposed to feel sympathy with the family they use to humanize the situation, but... Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:All of those people are insane libertarian freaks who moved there specifically because there are no taxes or rules and they deserve the hell they’re building for each other.
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Jul 4, 2022 18:05
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Rutibex posted:the only evil thing the empire does is blow up Alderan, and that's an attempt to end a galactic civil war that's be going on for like 50 years. murdering the Jedi is nothing but good news for the galaxy the interrogation methods used on leia were legally justified by a memo written by darth vader's lawyers
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Jul 4, 2022 18:06
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Dustcat posted:the interrogation methods used on leia were legally justified by a memo written by darth vader's lawyers john yoo]: plus a droid did the torturing which means no person can be legally held responsible
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Jul 4, 2022 18:08
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The article takes the tone that people who got there 20 years ago are hapless victims of a world changing in ways no one could have foreseen. gently caress that. Even at first glance modern desert living is aggressively unsustainable, and choosing to ignore that fact 2 decades before others doesn't make them any less culpable. They just decided that while the overall process was terrible, nothing terrible would happen to them personally. Turns out believing you're the main character won't protect you from becoming a shrivelled carcass in the desert.
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Jul 4, 2022 18:10
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Lol @ Arizona and their inevitable doom. The only issue is that they will migrate other places and be annoying there, potentially by me
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Jul 4, 2022 18:12
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Rutibex posted:the only evil thing the empire does is blow up Alderan, and that's an attempt to end a galactic civil war that's be going on for like 50 years. murdering the Jedi is nothing but good news for the galaxy the emperor is basically trump, just a guy loving life and hungry for approval, surrounded by nefarious self-serving sycophants
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Jul 4, 2022 18:13
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ERMPO!
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new job opportunities in gangs of people on motorbikes robbing water hauling trucks, extreme mad max vibes
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Jul 4, 2022 18:17
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if arizona needs more water they should just pray for it and make sure they're doing everything possible to make god happy
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Jul 4, 2022 18:18
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A Bakers Cousin posted:Carl Winslow was transferred to LA to work a desk after being considered too hot headed and gun free for the Chicago police department after shooting his neighbors son 142 times with his department issued revolver. and they only transferred him because after Carl had fired the first 36 rounds, he drove to Walmart, bought a carton of ammo, then went back and shot the guy another 106 times
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Jul 4, 2022 18:19
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androo posted:Not sure if this was posted. Some choice quotes in here https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wars-come-to-the-suburbs lmao this article is amazing. gently caress all these shitheads who just had to live out in the middle of nowhere because they couldnt deal with an HOA
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Jul 4, 2022 18:19
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actionjackson posted:new job opportunities in gangs of people on motorbikes robbing water hauling trucks, extreme mad max vibes the breaking bad train scene but instead of methylamine it's water
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Jul 4, 2022 18:19
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ma i married a tuna posted:The article takes the tone that people who got there 20 years ago are hapless victims of a world changing in ways no one could have foreseen. gently caress that. Even at first glance modern desert living is aggressively unsustainable, and choosing to ignore that fact 2 decades before others doesn't make them any less culpable. They just decided that while the overall process was terrible, nothing terrible would happen to them personally. Turns out believing you're the main character won't protect you from becoming a shrivelled carcass in the desert. Future environmental storytelling development
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Jul 4, 2022 18:20
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Nice and hot piss posted:Lol @ Arizona and their inevitable doom. Everyone likes to poo poo on AZ when NV, CA, NM, CO, UT are all in the same situation. If you cut out the agriculture, cities would be sustainable for easily another century if not more.
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Jul 4, 2022 18:21
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KaptainKrunk posted:the prequels rule because they're left-wing agitprop No they aren't. Agitprop is intentional & deliberate. Eisenstein, Brecht, Ken Loach. George Lucas is not a socialist, George Lucas is a multi-billionaire Hillary booster, he's not exactly a likely candidate for being a Marxist-Leninist. poo poo, google Star Wars agitprop & the first result I got was someone trying to claim The Last Jedi was Maoist agitprop. When a movie is as empty as the prequel trilogy you can stare into the void & see anything you want if you squint your eyes hard enough.
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Jul 4, 2022 18:23
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SirPablo posted:Everyone likes to poo poo on AZ when NV, CA, NM, CO, UT are all in the same situation. food has no intrinisc value
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Jul 4, 2022 18:23
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SirPablo posted:Everyone likes to poo poo on AZ when NV, CA, NM, CO, UT are all in the same situation. an awful lot of wells are going dry right now in the california central valley and there's no additional outflows from reservoirs to spare for irrigation because of the thousand year drought, californias agricultural industry might only have a couple more decades left
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Jul 4, 2022 18:24
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DrPossum posted:food has no intrinisc value Gotta get lettuce in January from somewhere.
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BraveUlysses posted:gently caress all these shitheads who just had to live out in the middle of nowhere because they couldnt deal with an HOA tbf, dying of dehydration might just be preferable to dealing with an hoa
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