RavenFellBlade

joined 2 years ago
[–] RavenFellBlade 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While this is true, I'm not sure how the Ewoks were meant to accomplish this. Star Wars toys were already the definitive market success via the action figures, vehicles, and players.

While that Ewok Village playset was certainly popular, it wasn't half as popular as the Falcon or the newly-introduced B-Wing.

I don't think that decision was about marketing toys explicitly. I think it was about skewing the age interest and toy marketing younger, though.

[–] RavenFellBlade 1 points 2 years ago

I am so looking forward to this!

[–] RavenFellBlade 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I was almost done with the game before I realized you leveled up in camps and inns. Game went from really hard to pushover easy in 5 minutes.

[–] RavenFellBlade 2 points 2 years ago

I'll happily pay for Sync Pro again. It was by far the best value-for-cost I've ever gotten out of an app, and my most used app on my phone.

[–] RavenFellBlade 1 points 2 years ago

Panromantic Demisexual with occasional bouts of hypersexuality.

The hypersexual moments are more infrequent as I age.

[–] RavenFellBlade 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not having any issues with it, either via a website (sh.itjust.works and kbin.social, if you're curious) or using Connect on Android. Connect works pretty well, but I really am looking forward to having Sync's interface back in my life!

[–] RavenFellBlade 1 points 2 years ago

I eat a 5mg indica/cbd hybrid edible, then take a sizeable "quicker picker upper" hit of Sativa off the vape pen to get things going. Gives me a good, energetic high without getting the paranoia that then gradually shifts into a mellow and relaxed body high. Depending on my state of mind, the effects of the edible may be really subtle, or I may end up taking a little weed nap after about three hours. Any more Sativa, or higher edible dose, results in making it too hard to concentrate on anything fun and I don't enjoy myself.

[–] RavenFellBlade 7 points 2 years ago

Here's my example: I subscribed to Paramount Plus explicitly for Star Trek content. The week I subscribed, they pulled all of the non-Abrams films. So I got to watching other stuff. Eventually, they brought all of the films back. Cool, right?

So I finally get around to Prodigy, a show made for Paramount Plus. Two episodes in, and it vanishes. No announcements or warnings that that show was just going to disappear. It's gone. Because "it wasn't popular enough". A show that only existed on that one platform was pulled off of that platform with absolutely no other legal way to view it. Content that I specifically signed up for that platform to see, and now I can't... legally. Yo ho, yo ho, me hardies.

[–] RavenFellBlade 1 points 2 years ago

I'm sorry you aren't loved enough. It can be very hard to go so long without knowing the touch of another human, and you've clearly gone a long, long time if you think this is an appropriate interaction. I'm not angry, I just pity you.

[–] RavenFellBlade 1 points 2 years ago

Go! Go! Rettsu go!

Shinku no Mafura!

Raida Janpu! Raida Kikku!

Kamen Raida, Kamen Raida, Raida Raida!

I can hear it in my head. Love that show!

[–] RavenFellBlade 9 points 2 years ago

I'm learning a lot about that. I find it refreshing to be on a platform built around ensuring both the safety and visibility of queer voices. While parts of Reddit definitely felt that way, recent history has made it very clear that that's subject to change, and Reddit is swerving aggressively right.

[–] RavenFellBlade 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I feel like this question might be missing a bigger picture: What's going on with the Internet?

Facebook/Meta, Twitter, and Reddit are all owned by people in the US. We've seen in tbr past few election cycles that Twitter and Reddit in particular were vitally important to progressive movements in the US, while Facebook largely sat by unperturbed as their platform was used to plaster right-wing disinformation in every corner of the internet they could reach. Now, as another election cycle is gearing up, we see Twitter and Reddit doing things that make NO SENSE for a business, but make PERFECT SENSE if you were a MAGA nut trying to take over or dismantle a successful progressive platform, at the same time as you have Meta moving to infect and corrupt the one significant platform that offers a great alternative to both Twitter and Reddit.

I'm not usually a conspiracy minded person, but the more I think about it, the more I conclude that this is the only explanation that can make any sense of Elon and (fuck)u/Spez deliberately imploding their platforms. When you factor in that both of them seem to also be encouraging right-wing provocateurs to return to their platforms while wholesale silencing any progressive dissent... this is a coordinated assault meant explicitly to tamper with the US political system while also driving right-wing fascism abroad.

Do NOT allow Meta access. At this point, I'm not sure why the license doesn't explicitly blacklist specific bad actors like Meta from using the ActivityPub software in the first place.

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