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When the 2000 World Series happened with the Mets vs Yankees, it literally turned into some Nintendo vs Sega shit in school. Even the teachers and principal were going in on it.

This was in Queens, not far from the old Shea Stadium.

Questionmarktarius posted...

So, what's next?
Getting the gang from Solo back together, and letting Lord Miller actually do it this time, could be pretty decent.

What do you mean? A continuation of the Solo storyline?

I think after Andor finishes, it's time to move on from that era.

Not the greatest finale, but I enjoyed it. This was great Star Wars despite the complaints.

I'm so hyped for Jedi Survivor right now.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

I really don't get why everyone always brings up Cal as a candidate for cameos.

I mean, I feel like I missed something. His game was fun, but he was about as bland, whitebread a protagonist as star wars has seen. I really don't see why him showing up would be so "hype."

Regardless, I think this is the season we lose. Also, there is absolutely no way they top S2's finale; that scene is up there with legendary television moments PERIOD, I don't think we're ever gonna see it beaten.

Cal is great and so is Monaghan imo. If anything, wishes for Cal are just to see more Jedi having survived the OT era. He's a great part of the lore.

It would be sad that he eventually died before the OT era. If not that, then he almost certainly has to show up by the new Rey movie.

Medussa posted...

i have the feeling this one is going to end with the baddies "winning". The show's ESB moment.

This would be great actually. And it would make sense since seasons 3 and 4 were greenlit together, so they can take liberties with this season.

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He's confusing tbh. Is he gonna show up here? Or Ahsoka first? Or are they gonna save him till right before the New Republic movie?

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I'm pretty fucking hyped. Last episode was great. I wanna see Grogu go HAM trying to save Din.

I doubt they'll top Luke flying in, but I'm definitely curious on what they drop in for the finale.

Thrawn? Cal? Sabine? Ezra? Palpatine? More Luke? Boba saves the day?

No leak spoilers please.

COVxy posted...

"Information overload" isn't a thing. When presented with a resource with information, what people do is offload their cognitive load. They don't need to memorize a bunch of things because they can just look them up. This frees up mental effort for other, often more creative, tasks.

I get what you're saying, but this has nothing to do with an unlimited source of information, and people being unable to discern between good and bad info.

COVxy posted...

You just completely made that up lol.

Nah. Even if we ignore the psychological aspects, the internet is largely unfiltered and most people have piss poor media literacy. All algorithms are set up to get you to click the stuff that gets you to keep clicking. People believe the wildest shit nowadays. This can include otherwise smart people.

Yeah, in a perfect world, it shouldn't be like this and I'm not even saying it's gotten really bad yet. Over time, I don't see it getting better since it's only ramped up in recent years.

https://unmistakablecreative.com/information-overload/

One of the negatives of the internet is that people will generally become stupider over time because of information overload. Not just kids.

Great episode. I'm so hyped for the last episode.

I wonder if they can top Luke flying in on his X-Wing.

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This and next week are the last two episodes. I'm wondering what the final endgame for this season is gonna be.

I think the issue with this season is that there is obviously some type of friction going on with Kennedy and Favreau.

While these are still rumors, Favreau feels like he wants to fix the ST with his stuff. Kennedy seems to just want the gravy train going and insisted Grogu returned for 3 instead of taking it off training with Luke. Again, these are rumors and nothing confirmed.

I feel like the Mandalorian doesn't really work without Grogu. So I kinda agree with her, even if he's been mostly useless this season.

I'm hyped as fuck, but I don't know if I want to throw $70 at this. I got Fallen Order for $30 on Amazon in December 2019, which was less than a month after launch.

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

i could see this show getting at least one more season but that's it. no need to extend it any further than that...

it could end with Bo Katan and Mando reuniting the Mandalorians just like the prophecies told or whatever.

Season 4 is apparently the half way point from what Favreau has said.

rexcrk posted...

Never seen him in that project he debuted in as that character. Was still really cool and not at all disconnected or weird.

Yeah, it was pretty consistent. A Jedi had to have saved Grogu. There's absolutely no one we already know that could be involved because we've seen how fast the purge started. So some random Jedi played by Best was great.

Doom_Art posted...

As I've said elsewhere I would love for the era to be explored in film, but they would really be better served in adapting the comics rather than the games.

Or better yet, drawing inspiration from both, but going off and doing their own thing. There's a lot of potential in the era and I don't want something I've seen/played before.

I would love to see a movie handling the likes of Exar Kun, Nomi Sunrider, Ulic Qel Droma, Master Arca, Master Vodo-Siask Baas, the Empress Teta System, etc tbh. The KOTOR games never really resonated with me because it was all a few decades after the events of these characters. The audio dramatization for the Exar/Nomi/Ulic stores felt almost like listening to a movie.

I feel like touching KOTOR from the games is gonna cause too much controversy. Going with the stories of Exar, Nomi, and Ulic might not be a bad choice tbh.

Wow, this all sounds great. Then again, they've announced like 50 movies in the past few years and none of them came out lol. I hope these do.

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Down to the last 3 episodes of the season.

I grew up in NYC, and even today, it's still a highly segregated place where many do end up sticking to their own race. Especially when it comes to white people. White people did the least mixing with the other minorities, especially back then.

4 of them were Long Islanders that knew each other from back home, and were living together in the Village, which is still predominantly white.

TC is probably Joyrock/Octillery.

I'm surpised Zeb was in this. I'm glad the pirates were handled quickly. Way too cliche lol. Also, I really like when Carson Teva shows. I hope we see a lot more of him.

As for Bo and the Armorer, I'm getting a bad feeling about all that. Also, I'm assuming the Mandalorians that broke Gideon out are the Death Watch/Bo's crew she was talking about in the first episode. I highly doubt it would be Sabine or something.

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Halfway through the season. Only 4 episodes remaining including this.

the_rowan posted...

All the common weapons off the line that upgrades with "world level" (knight's, royal, etc.) were unbreakable in the sense that you found duplicates several times faster than you could use them up. It was pretty trivial to walk around with a full inventory of these. Just people didn't do it because having a variety of weapons you constantly cycle through is more fun, and gives you more options.

Also, there are only like, eight to fourteen weapons in BoTW. There's the one-handed sword, spear, two-handed weapon, boomerang, big boomerang, tri-boomerang (this is arguably just a boomerang with a property tweak), six different elemental rods (you could argue these all to be one weapon with different properties), and bow. Everything else is just modifiers slapped on the same weapon, like whether it's flagged as metal or wood, if it does effective damage to certain enemies, if it triggers an elemental effect on hit, different base damage and durability, etc. But the combat is completely unchanged between using the champion weapons and any other weapon of that type (with the slight asterisk of the Great Eagle Bow being the only one with more than one of the zoom, rapid shot, and multishot modifiers, since it has all three).

None of that is intriguing to me and tons of others. It basically explains the micromanagement bore.

I enjoyed the game the best when I had the fully powered Master Sword and kept it unbreakable by constantly doing the teleport glitch. Doing the glitch was annoying, but it was still the best experience I got from that, especially with the combat.

The point is, we can easily have both by just making the Master Sword completely unbreakable with no cool downs. It's not even the strongest sword even at full power.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It was during a video interview I'd have to go through it all to find it again and I can't do that right now.

Idk, if it was so famous, people would have written articles about it or it would have been discussed on forums. I couldn't find any of that, but plenty of the time Miyamoto told them they couldn't regain stamina by stabbing your sword on a mountain and standing on it.

I don't think the tech part is a big issue. I think companies will evolve around them to cater.

The media literacy part is a large and growing problem, and is in no way limited to Gen Z in any way. Most of the human population, including most people on even here, have extremely poor media literacy and it's been getting worse.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Miyamoto didn't work on either game and famously didn't like the durability system and tried to get the team to remove it. The dev team literally had an identity crisis because even though they weren't reporting to Miyamoto it was basically like mutiny to ignore his suggestions to remove the durability. Eventually the mutineers won.

I'm not seeing anything about him "famously" not wanting that. Do you have a source?

Also the point was that "Miyamoto" is a stand-in for the people behind it. We also know he had input and influence, so it relays the same point.

I do hope they leave the Master Sword unbreakable and fully powered, even if at some later point.

The durability system was a micromanagement bore. It's fine if you liked it, but a lot didn't, and making weak as fuck arguments on why people should because you did, will likely never work.

A compromise is to allow one weapon unbreakable so people can enjoy the open world game how they want and not how Miyamoto intended. I honestly didn't have fun in the game till I beat the DLC and got the fully powered Master Sword months after I had played it. That combined with the teleport glitch made it unbreakable, but the glitch itself was slow as fuck.

Not a bad episode, but way too short. Surprised to see it was directed by Carl Weathers (Greef Karga) and I can't believe they brought back Ahmed Best as the Jedi who saved Grogu. That was crazy.

Out now.

Hope it's good.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/9/AAebl6AAETUd.jpg

It's the same around my way. Labor costs have gone through the roof and they've already jacked up the food prices as much they could. Next is to automate as much and as cheaply as possible.

Episode 5 and 6 are basically entirely Mandalorian episodes and 7 is a combo.

Episode 5 is where Mando gets involved.

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I hope it's good like last week's.

Considering that the LotR trilogy is one of my favorite sets of movies ever, I'm gonna say RotK.

theAteam posted...

I definitely see a point where he finally figures out the darksaber and has the opportunity to lead Mandalore back to recovery but has to make some kind of choice about the path he wants to take it (Armorer's vs. Katan's ways).

I get this feeling that the Armorer and the rest are gonna end up opposing Mando. They're clearly very cult like and I think they're gonna end up playing that up. "This is not the way"

This episode was much better. Bo-Katan was great. I thought she's gonna sulk around this season, but she came in hard and risked herself for Din.

That droid was also pretty good. For a second there, I thought it was Grievous lmao. I loved how Bo took out the spider form with the Darksaber in like 10 seconds.

I love seeing Katee Sackhoff overall.

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I hope it picks up and is better than last week's.

Yeah, the episode felt weak and contrived. I do like the whole fetch quest thing he's been doing since season 1, but some of the stuff here was just kind of pointlessly added.

It's gonna be tough with some of these shows after stuff like Andor. At least we got a second season of Andor coming up. I'm guessing Ahsoka will be similar to the Mandalorian likely.

pogo_rabid posted...

nah it's comcast business. Basically when my contract came up I was able to get a higher "class" of download speed while keeping that 35 up at my request to keep my pricing the same as before.

Oh nice, I saw the NY server and assumed you were close by since Comcast doesn't serve NY and everybody else like Spectrum upgraded a long time ago.

35 Mbps upload? Lol, that has to be Optimum. Their cable is still stuck on 35 Mbps because their cable infrastructure is basically falling apart. At least their fiber is 1/1, but the rollout has been abysmal.

Yeah, it did sneak up. There hasn't been much advertising for it.

Meanwhile, Paramount has been blasting Picard Season 3 ads everywhere.