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dagthegnome 10 points ago +12 / -2

I'm 5'11, which is the shortest height for a man. You might be thinking, "no, that's average," but it's not. Guys who are 5'10" or 5'9" are "average," depending on the country. But when you tell people you're 5'11, all they hear is you're not 6 feet.

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dagthegnome 8 points ago +9 / -1

It's too late for a lot of other countries. The UK for example is already more than 20% nonwhite, and another 30% of the British population would vote to continue mass migration anyway. Even worse here in Canada. And that's if the powers that be didn't just cheat.

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dagthegnome 4 points ago +5 / -1

I think the Yuuzhan Vong were the original subversion: a concept that had no place in Star Wars, inserted into it anyway by a bunch of proto-woke 2000s degenerates so that they could feature all of their weird fetishes in a bunch of YA/kids books.

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dagthegnome 4 points ago +5 / -1

5 with BNW is a vastly superior game to 6.

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dagthegnome 11 points ago +12 / -1

OG Star Wars merch does still sell pretty well. Not just toys and collectibles but also media. The sales of the Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor games as well as Battlefront are proof that the brand still has some life to it.

But I'm not convinced that reviving the EU is the best way to restore good storytelling in Star Wars. The early EU stuff was great: the Daley Han Solo novels, the Zahn novels and the comics were fixtures of my childhood. I re-read the Young Jedi Knights books so many times that my copies fell apart and I had to get new ones.

But the whole thing really went off the rails with the NJO, and I don't see how reviving the EU would put Star Wars in a better place when audiences will eventually have to put up with the Yuuzhan Vong and Darth Caedus. Frankly, neither of those storylines is any better than Rian Johnson at his worst.

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dagthegnome 12 points ago +13 / -1

Just make some cartoon cars go fast and you'll print money. But no, the ESGtards won't finance it unless it reinforces tHe MesSAgE.

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dagthegnome 4 points ago +5 / -1

1 was a good roguelike run-through game, but it got repetitive after a while. They went open world with 2, so you're not just running through the same levels over and over. It's better.

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dagthegnome 3 points ago +4 / -1

Everspace 2. Indie game funded by a kickstarter: really well done.

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dagthegnome 9 points ago +10 / -1

Indian teenagers driving 18-wheelers are already a growing menace on Canada's highways.

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dagthegnome 1 point ago +2 / -1

I don't have that problem, and I've had the same phone for 5 years. Perhaps I just lucked out.

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dagthegnome 3 points ago +4 / -1

In my experience, the motherboards or peripherals in most smartphones start to fail before the batteries due to programmed obsolescence. I've never had to replace a phone because the battery stopped working: always because something else went wrong.

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dagthegnome 4 points ago +5 / -1

Is the $10.5 mil a deliberate reference to the Omar Khadr case? That kid got $10.5 mil for permanently disfiguring Dan Crenshaw so I should get the same for being permanently disfigured too?

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dagthegnome 4 points ago +5 / -1

We could coach it with the dialogue from every Samuel L. Jackson film. And Chappelle's Show.

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dagthegnome 2 points ago +3 / -1

The problem is what happens to their stock price every time they do admit it, even tacitly. The market tends to overreact when execs come out and openly say, "We released a product that is going to lose money." Investors treat that shit like it portends the apocalypse.

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dagthegnome 23 points ago +24 / -1

My favorite is the period in the 2000s where mainstream pop culture acknowledged that women were too weak to handle a sword properly against a male opponent, so their solution was to have all the women shooting bows and arrows instead.

From Hunger Games to Keira Knightley as Guinevere to the Huntress to Alison in the MTV Teen Wolf show, there was a good 12-year period where every girl hero had a bow. Never mind that the upper body strength you need to properly shoot a bow, especially a longbow, is even greater than what you'd need to handle most swords.

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dagthegnome 9 points ago +10 / -1

The thing is the US is right next door, so it's the go-to comparison. Every European country has better universal health care than Canada, and they're paying significantly less per capita for it, but Canadians are endlessly propagandized with stories about Americans having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars out of their own pocket for cancer treatment. I know it's not true, but most people up here believe it. As much as they bitch about the Canadian health care system, the follow-up is always, "But at least we're better off than the States."

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dagthegnome 16 points ago +17 / -1

Maybe, but really it's just a smear piece designed to play on the prejudices of the smug Canadian middle class

Canadians are inculcated from elementary school with the idea that we're just better than the States, and so the establishment will often try to deter Canadians from supporting ideas they dislike by dismissing them as American ideas being spread into Canada by Americans.

Obviously no actual Canadians would want to protect their kids from LGBT indoctrination in schools, or want to have the right to a say in their own children's education, because here in Canada we understand that the government and the experts know best, and anyone telling telling you different is obviously an American subverter who wants to take away your world-class free health care.

You'd be surprised how well it works.

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dagthegnome 6 points ago +7 / -1

Please open bobs and vagine

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dagthegnome 11 points ago +12 / -1

Doomcock will be releasing 50 videos on this in the coming weeks.

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dagthegnome 22 points ago +23 / -1

My point is that I'm not going to get banned for saying it here.

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dagthegnome 2 points ago +10 / -8

There is no God.

Come at me, Dom.

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