The Thrawn book trilogies are probably the closest I’ve found to Star Wars being sci fi. There is a specific focus on real world physics in a way that is very absent from everything else Star Wars especially when they write about space battles. Only things that stay firmly fantasy and require that suspension of disbelief are, of course, the Force and Thrawns preternatural ability to read an enemy’s battle tactics from their species artwork

Fuck, is that why?

God this twerp needs a wedgie, like full on cartoonish over the head flailing about in the halls wedgie

Increasing social security taxes would be very unpopular, increasing the age for retirement would be very unpopular. There’s no way to reduce the amount of money social security costs without pissing a lot of people off.

The obvious solution to the problem is to make more citizens out of people who want to work here and benefit from everything our taxes pay for. Even aside from how much they would be paid (which should be a fair honest wage) the taxes off the top would go up faster than social security costs as long as people kept coming in and costs stayed stagnant

I’m with you on some Sith definitely going HAM and leaving just pieces but I don’t think Maul himself would he’s more of an assassin

Or aerosolized cooking oil if the house is open enough or possibly vape residue if they vape at all

I had the same thought for a while, then I started playing dnd and subsequently DMing. Now any extra mental bandwidth I did have goes to solving open-ended people problems my players give me while we’re playing.

Side benefit is I’ve felt more empathetic and patient with people since starting because I have to constantly put myself in a character’s head when we’re role-playing. I imagine that makes one seem more personable and cool to be around possibly helping with the unemployment too

You houseproof the dog at that point

Fell off the stage during a fight scene at 85. What a mensch

Why does a larger loop mean better results?

On one hand I want a series of hurricanes to rip across the state making florida a barely livable swampland for a few months to perhaps shake people out of apathy and get the property investors out of the fucking housing market down here. On the other I’d like it if I could insure the imaginary house that I can somehow afford after I win the lottery please…

Meanwhile Netlfix shoves the piles of smoldering abandoned IP they wasted millions on behind them like “nothing to see here folks!”

Daily

Oh sure servers do cost money but Google wants to have their cake and eat it to with the creators that make people actually want to use the site despite all their bullshit. Changing standards of what is and isn’t not acceptable coming from the top has made every creator dance and squirm to escape the very real eventuality of having weeks of work mean nothing. Google doesn’t respect the people making the product they are selling so I refuse to respect the bill they try to send me

Eat Pray Shit

Okay sure we can do that but you are now fully liable for any and all negative effects known and unknown related to the burning of fossil fuels in perpetuity, cool?

They at least tried to patent the Tears of the Kingdom Zonai manipulation mechanic if I remember right

Sounds like somebody hasn’t gotten laid in a few decades

Sentencing is July 11th, we’ll know tomorrow

Dnd sessions, always fun to have props