oh my God that is a specific reference that I haven't thought of in a decade and change

sure, and Sheev Palparine is a Snidely Whiplash cartoon villain

that's not a bad thing, he's almost as fun to watch as Ian McDiarmid is obviously having playing him, but he's only multifaceted in that in the prequels he pretends (badly) not to be evil and in the OT he just hams it up being evil.

& I can buy Vader as a fallen hero who serves as a warning to how Luke might himself succumb to darkness, I do not for a second believe that Sheev Palpatine succumbed to shit he is loving every second of being as evil as he can possibly be for no reason except how much he fucking loves being evil

didn't SVB already go tits up a couple years ago when these techbro dorks talked themselves into a bank run? and got a bailout then too?

among the (many) reasons it didn't work was that they obviously wanted to replicate Luke's RotJ arc but the two cannot compare

like, "am I doomed to repeat the sins of my father" isn't the same as "the sins of my grandfather whose son (my father) was a good dude who didn't repeat his father's sins"

It's too late. They already put "Sheev Palpatine FUCKED" into the canon they don't get to try and weasel out of it that easy

Attack of the Clones was not a good movie but I'm sorry it was not TRoS-level bad

While people who work for them get written up for taking too long on the shitter or being late to work because their bus just didn't show up

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Politics," i holler as i overturn my borough's nightmare ai christmas mural and turn the Boxing Day into the Shit Unboxing Day.

I feel like if you want to make air travel an event don't make the highlight of it taking off your shoes and belt to walk into a scanner so a government employee can see you naked

The guy really did everything to provoke it, you can see the video of Aldrin trying to just walk away while the dude keeps on harassing him and blocking his path and getting in his face until "one-hit KO from a 72-year-old" was the only possible outcome.

kinda, yeah

gonna be entirely honest: when it's stuff like this, "remake the movie I like" or "bring back Coke with cane sugar" or whatever entirely personal thing that really shouldn't merit Presidential attention, I feel like he's doing what I as Some Asshole would waste time on if I somehow became President

wondered the same, & looking at Google it seems he's picked it out as the site for "Praxis," the same "autonomous city-state where nobody makes billionaire techbro geniuses brush their teeth or go to bed" that every rich mediocrity who read Rand in middle school wants to make.

I feel like there's a range between what Rogue Traders and the like get up to, how most Assassin Cults are basically just running around in fetish gear, and then the Hive World laborers getting mandatory weekly 20 minute population maintenance sessions

"I made a lot of money on cars/ cartoons/ letting people share cat pictures/ cars again, clearly this qualifies me to set up the model society which will lay out the road map to utopia for all humankind. with a big asterisk after that 'all' because I am, spoiler, very racist"