i just finished the bad batch arc of the final season of clone wars, so i only have the final arc to go, and it's just incredible to me how fundamentally more important to the fabric of the ongoing narrative to star wars that show is when compared to the prequel movies themselves

it just has literally everything the actual prequel movies lack: drama, emotional conflict and stakes, characterisation and emotional growth and change, action, adventure, sweeping romance, heartbreak, fucking... Story.

i just think it's a useless place to put such negative energy, and i say this as one the all-time Being Mad Online champions

walking away from it all and painting your lil guys is what it's all about, fundamentally

me too brother

me too

i promise you whatever new space marine box just got announced is far less important than the pile of unopened boxes you have from five to sixes that are still waiting to be painted

i personally think that the perpetual content machine that gw has turned itself into pretty much sucks front to back, but the way the community treats whatever new thing just got released/announced as the Only thing happening in warhammer is uh

goofy. go play some warhammer, you'll feel better.

i really wasn't that sold on the trailer, it felt too focused on dicaprio being a goofball, but my dad really wanted to see and by god

they really got me

and they say 40k has lost its satire.

You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.

were to be around him at any time for any reason due to his habitual sexual harassment and assaults. Frank Miller released one of the most savagely Islamophobic comics of all time, HOLY TERROR, and still works with DC. There are pedophiles, war criminals, confessed sexual predators on staff.

While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.

stealing the throne, HOME, and the already noted CHVLR are at the top of my list for solo games

i also have gamma wolves and lancer, both of which i haven't played but love flipping through

it's almost like george lucas, despite his supposed critiques of the american empire, still fundamentally believes america has a manifest destiny in colonising the hearts and minds of every people of the world

but it makes me wonder how many american children were exposed to a cartoon that very out loud said that the guys that you like and read as the american empire are simply and purely good no matter what and the "foreigner"-coded "bad guys" want to destroy your way of life for no reason...

now, the glaring answer here is that the prequels were clearly written, intentionally or otherwise, with the notion that palpatine has read the script of the movies he's in and things have to go the way they do for him to "win" and thus the separatists are a sockpuppet to use war to create an empire

obviously, it's been noted that practically every frame of the prequels, particularly the phantom menace, features some racist caricature in the form of an alien species, but that's the extent of the thinking.

there's simply no attempt at exploring what a separatist state actually wants in the end.

to the war crimes factory that is only described as "evil," "treacherous," and "sinister" in the opening voice over.

it's insane to me how lucas spends no time in the films exploring what the separatists could actually want and in the cartoon, they're suddenly a vaguely islamic-coded terror state