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Cappn

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I like vidya games, plastic trash, movies and animu. Generally friendly! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CappnRob/streams Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/CappnRob/films/ Backloggd: https://backloggd.com/u/Cappn/games/

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Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 2m

i cant help but feel this is a very small out of context quote but at the same time it is kind of a depressing thing to hear come from miyamoto especially given Nintendo has their own archival museum now? part of me wonders if this is more about how old games get "left behind" culturally.

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 7h

Miyamoto explained why Nintendo has made a serious push into making movies:

“Games eventually stop running when newer versions come out, but films remain forever.”

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Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 6m

Including Mario is Missing but none of the other dubiously official third-party edutainment games and instead including Lost Levels and Mario Land is unhinged behavior lol

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 8m

I actually rewatched ESB'94 recently and kind of gained a new appreciation for the look of windowless Cloud City look even if i still think the SE revision is better looking, but it was wild seeing how bland of a living space it would be when you can roam around it as a 3D space.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 11m

This is a purely tangential thing, but I was replaying the Gamecube game Rebel Strike and it has bonus levels based on scenes of the movies, and the escape from Bespin one is based on the pre-SE release which means the whole level is running through white corridors without any windows lol

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 13h

its perplexing. These are kinds movies, theyre meant to be understood by kids! I was a kid, I understood that 1: the heroes were keeping a low profile and 2: watto is a cheating asshole. like its not that hard to understand. and its always the "media literacy is dead" types making mistakes too!

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 23h

It could've been possible for an entourage to travel to Tatooine to buy Shmi her freedom, but the fact it didn't happen means there must be some reason why. No time? Difficulty allocating the money? I can see the possibility, but I can also see it isnt weird that it didn't happen too.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 23h

After the events of the movie the Naboo court probably could have done this, but the question then becomes, would they do that? A republic world being found hiring hitmen to shake down backwater traders is an ugly look, and those optics do matter in the republic.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 23h

Huh, so it is. 100% aluminum? So even the buttons and shit? Who the hell is this meant for lol

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 23h

yeah what the hell, what's different about this one??

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 23h

My unhinged watch order is OT'94 (the final release pre-SE), then the PT, then OT SE as kind of a rewatch bonus with context to see how things changed :)

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 23h

The ST is "woke" in the same way a company changing its social media logo to a rainbow every June is "woke".

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone else think the Star Wars sequel trilogy might just have been too woke?

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

lol you're doing god's work with these posts, i just made an angry screenshot rant to get around text limits (and also I'm too lazy to grab and edit movie footage).

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

it's like asking why in the real world the UN Peacekeeping Forces don't go to fuckin' Thailand and liberate the human trafficking of prostitutes.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

Because 1: they probably are, when they can do so and 2: in a galaxy of trillions of trillions of people, an ascetic order of like 1000 dudes isn't going to systemically dismantle evil societies that don't even acknowledge the legitimacy of the "good" government's existence.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

almost as if stories go through drafts, and thus ideas change through them!!!

also like, how is this hyperfixating on the worst ideas? Han Solo isn't this in the final product! You're disproving your own point!

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

I think some crude concept art for it exists? But yeah, it was a CONCEPT lol

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

Popular social media poster makes a funny but misinformed post about a movie plot point and the subsequent reply chains drive me insane with how many people are missing the point, or simply don't remember things, or just don't care, to the point I need to screenshot rant to get it out of my system.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

This is forgetting that the heroes on Tatooine are trying to keep a low profile and killing a salesman over a slave dispute isn't that. Best case scenario, Quigon gets drawn and quartered by Jabba and the Skywalkers get sold to someone else, and the rest still somehow have to repair the damn ship.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

What's really funny is later Last Jedi would go and say the same kind of shit in so many different words and people would eat it up. "You expect me to go out there with a laser sword" or however it goes - its the same idea! You can't just brute force justice no matter how much we wish it could.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

Ehhh kinda. Tatooine is outside the jurisdiction of the Republic, it isn't like the Jedi have the logistic power to go and deal with every crapsack world like it. But the congestion of justice tied up in bureaucracy is very salient in TPM regardless, with the senate scenes discussing Naboo.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me exactly what reflects poorly on a man trying to save a mother and child from slavery? Quigon only fixed the dice roll because Watto was using loaded dice to try and screw Quigon over from even freeing just Anakin! The fuck else is he supposed to do here??

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

And like, the movie literally says "Tatooine is just as dangerous as being on a Federation world" with the ONLY caveat being "the Hutts don't know who we are". Killing Watto over a slave dispute would've made attention they couldn't afford.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

The money from the race winnings combined with selling Anakin's pod was not enough to cover the cost of both the ship's parts and two slaves, the movie explicitly says they don't have the cash needed, because the kind of currency they have isn't good there! Everything is riding on winning the race.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

This whole thread of replies makes me actually fucking mad like I feel like I'm losing my mind the movie ADDRESSES ALL OF THIS

Like the fuck did they want Quigon to do, murder Watto on the spot? Yeah that'd been badass but then good luck getting off the planet with that kind of heat on you.

Cappn @cappn.bsky.social · 1d

It's almost certainly a grift. I see lots of games in DVD cases (ie PS2) sold without manuals, and its clear they're just intentionally leaving the manuals out on purpose to drive the prices up of the ones that do have them.