๐บ๐ธ Future Voivode of Appalachavania ๐บ๐ธ Flag respecter. John 14:6. Mountain Dew-fueled Geospatial Professional by day/Comms nerd by night.
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Delay on adding the fifth stack. Todayโs build disengaged the system keyboard, which was interfering with the fillable reports. Created internal keyboard, locked the boot sequence down and stabilized the interface instead. A lot of debugging but the current build is rock solid.
Outlander Systems ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
What everyone in the replies should realize is that in 50 years, the prequels will be what is discussed in art classes and circles, not the OT.
This is true RIGHT NOW. The prequels have 10X the cultural penetration in the internet age. It will only get more drastic with time filtering.
The complaints will be studied as well as an attempt to understand the minds of yore, like Twain taking down James Fenimore Cooper.
The cringy romance will be understood straight because the context of what "cringe" is will be forgotten, as will what the standards for convincing acting were in the early 2000s. More technical criticisms will mostly be viewed from a historical perspective - that some viewers of the time expected certain structures from films.
The OT will be viewed as an important transitional work, while the sequels will be mostly a footnote, good fodder for a student essay on corporate decline but not much artistic interest.
You may gnash your teeth as you remember for the billionth time how much you enjoyed ESB on VHS on your shag carpet living room on your CRT, eating sugary cereal while your divorced mom ignored you, but those feelings will be filtered out by time once you are gone.
The future will belong to Lucas's capstone work, the prequels, because the present belongs to them as well.
Back-to-back generations of people uncomfortable with sincerity and earnestness; completely superficial and pathologically self-conscious. Their sophomoric irony culture rotted them to their very core. Future sociologists will study this and provide a coherent explanation.
Outlander Systems ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
The Star Wars Prequels are cinematic masterpieces and I really don't care what miserable curmudgeons think about them. I'm sorry that the storytelling was too intelligent for you and there weren't enough superweapons being blown up by hekkin' rebels.
Growing up as an OT guy, when the prequels dropped, the takeaway is that the BBY era, like our own, was but a shadow of the high-culture that came before it.
We didnโt know that the OT was actually post-apocalyptic, and fallen, until the prequels.
Culturemogged/10.
Unquestionably.
Literally Homeric in its long-term cultural implications.
Anyone arguing the contrary is revealing themselves to be grotesquely unsophisticated, spiritually uncomfortable, Reddit-level slopsuckers.
The lack of gutter-tier, profoundly unserious 4th wall humor is pure millennial repellant. Thereโs zero irony in the prequels and millennials are innately too pretentious to approach anything earnestly. They canโt help but reveal themselves.
Champ really told on himself.
Dรฉclassรฉ, uncultured he-bitch.
They fail at being epic operas even more than they fail at realism. The writing and acting is mostly flat and boring. Same goes for the cinematography. Thereโs nothing operatic about it. Epic perhaps in theory but certainly not in execution. You guys have created a version of the Star Wars prequels in your heads (a version that sounds pretty interesting, if only it existed) and have grafted it onto the actual films which in reality fail at whatever they were trying to do, unless they were trying to be verbose, clumsy, wooden, and bland.
Itโs very clear to the rest of us that the people trying to rehab the Star Wars prequels are just nostalgic for something that they enjoyed as kids. Thatโs fine. I have a nostalgic attachment to some crappy 90s movies like Independence Day for example. It came out when I was 10 and at the time it seemed to me like the greatest cinematic achievement in history. But then I grew up and I can now see that Will Smith punching an alien and saying โwelcome to earfโ is not a high point of western art. And thatโs fine. Itโs stupid but I still remember it fondly. You donโt have to try so hard to intellectualize some dumb bullshit you liked when you were a kid. Itโs okay. It can just be dumb bullshit, which it is.
Every ounce of social capital this guy built, burnt on the pyre of Millennial Midwittery.
Helluva hill to die on.
They fail at being epic operas even more than they fail at realism. The writing and acting is mostly flat and boring. Same goes for the cinematography. Thereโs nothing operatic about it. Epic perhaps in theory but certainly not in execution. You guys have created a version of the Star Wars prequels in your heads (a version that sounds pretty interesting, if only it existed) and have grafted it onto the actual films which in reality fail at whatever they were trying to do, unless they were trying to be verbose, clumsy, wooden, and bland.
Itโs very clear to the rest of us that the people trying to rehab the Star Wars prequels are just nostalgic for something that they enjoyed as kids. Thatโs fine. I have a nostalgic attachment to some crappy 90s movies like Independence Day for example. It came out when I was 10 and at the time it seemed to me like the greatest cinematic achievement in history. But then I grew up and I can now see that Will Smith punching an alien and saying โwelcome to earfโ is not a high point of western art. And thatโs fine. Itโs stupid but I still remember it fondly. You donโt have to try so hard to intellectualize some dumb bullshit you liked when you were a kid. Itโs okay. It can just be dumb bullshit, which it is.
Real.
I canโt even prepare for the apocalypse, because I have my own personal apocalypse at the house with my insurance company. Just scraping by is like pissing into an ocean of piss.
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Tired of seeing decent families that work hard struggle.
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Goal is to keep everyone happy and accessible. Iโm personally happy with acoustic interface on a UV-5R, but Iโm willing to concede Meshnerds want functionality. Thatโs a lower priority, but weโre going to add it to the layer stack.
Within 36hr of project initiation weโve completely blown Rattlegram out of the water with a better waveform and enabled inherent cache clearing with automated SALUTE reporting and standard ICS forms. Fifth interface layer will be added to tomorrowโs build.
