Was that aspect of this part of the story good? No, it had flaws.

Was it worse than having a super-ultra-duper-mega Death Star reset all of the progress from the entire franchise by blowing up every single republic planet with one multiple shot from across the galaxy? Also, no. Not by half.

I left Force Awakens feeling defeated by Star Wars. We’re not allowed to have character growth, we’re not allowed to ever have the universe move past the empire, everything has to stay in this permanent state of always at war because that’s the brand and everything in the universe that tries to be different gets pushed back into its little box.

And the scenes in Canto Bight and with the cracker said that out loud. That it’s all war and it will always be that way as long as the people selling the war are making money. It was different and it felt different.

And then Disney came back with Rise of the Skywalker and pushed it all back in the box and did everything it could to walk it back validating everything it had to say.

So, yeah… despite its narrative flaws with pacing it was pretty brilliant and spot on. And it’s weird that it bothers you more than any of the bizarre pacing and character crap in the other two movies. It’s all bad storytelling, why is the bad story telling that has something to say the part that bothers you the most?

%1000 this. But even for all the bad things about Canto Bight, it had something to say about the Star Wars universe and how we should feel about the way Disney intends to use the property and that was crazy clever.

Thank you, from now on that’s what I’m calling it: X-create, x-created, and x-creating all over the Internet.

We were all on vacation! In Poland!

It truly baffles me that anyone at all is still on the platform formerly known as twitter at this point.

Interesting how Maher shows how much closer he is to being Ben Shapiro than being someone worth paying attention to.

Wingspan, Tiny Epic Galaxies, Dune Imperium, Tiny Epic Pirates, Firefly, Fluxx, Love Letter, Dominion, Tsuro, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Let’s Summon Demons, Carcassonne.

My wife and I are absolutely loving Wingspan right now. Some of the others we really enjoy are:

Competitive: Wingspan Tiny Epic Galaxies Tiny Epic Pirates Firefly Dominion Love Letter (any variation)

Co-op: Stars of Akarios Hellboy Tales from Red Dragon Inn

I’ll be honest… I don’t either. Same, river otter. Same.

That’s about the only age it was right for 🤣

Oh! I remember playing this! I will say that even back then it was very one note in its humor and lacking in depth. I was very disappointed with the shallowness of the end product.

I don’t think I’d dislike it if they gave me like 5 to 10 minutes depending on the size of the puzzle and what I’ve done. I definitely hate how fast it is. It’s like, Jesus, give me a minute or being told what do do after it’s already blatantly obvious and you’re trying to figure it out.

Still my very favorite meme.