I think The Empire Strikes Back is a genuinely good movie even if the real intended audience is teen boys. And the rest of the films range from shit to ok. And The prequels are the kind of bad films you wish were better instead of just hating them, science fiction epic on the slide of liberal democracy into fascism with the jedi as the revered yet ultimately harmful milquetoast liberals would have been significant piece of popular culture but nah, apparently. You can see this with the Darth Jar Jar theorizing which hit upon something real (even if fans took it so edgily) too: I genuinely think Jar Jar was meant to represent 'wu wei' (a concept in Chinese philosophy) which could have been really interesting thing to see, but no-one could have gotten that out of the movies.

Also: please take the money away from billionaires.

But I must add that from the viewpoint of optics, it's hella good that the Crewniverse is extremely, almost painfully, obvious with gay romance now. Maybe it's a bit odd that marriage is a big deal now to alien gems, but given the attempts at censorship and they're-just-friendsing, it's megagood that denial just flat out isn't possible.

5. The Question

I felt somewhat that like with Now We're Only Falling Apart, I'm clearly not the target audience, guessing very early on that this is an episode about remaining individual in a relationship (which doesn't really speak to me as an individual) and getting closure. Falling Apart was about Pearl getting insight into what her relationship with Rose was (which I also felt like I knew) and also closure. This is not to say that I didn't enjoy the episode, it's just that I didn't get that much more insight into the characters than I already had, but I'm sure kids don't mind and given the awkward scheduling, probably benefit from repetition.

Honestly, I loved that Greg saw some use here and that he has relationships with gems outside of Steven. I think lesser shows would forget about those or make him into a buffoon. Amethyst as a horse was hilarious and the more western comic with more realistic presentation than the show itself was pretty great stuff. But I do wonder what Pearl and Sapphire talked inside.

Also, I've noticed that this show has a genre pastiche for everything. Now it had its own western episode! What's left, honestly?

4. What’s Your Problem

Very good episode, imo. Hardly any action besides talking, but I think the Crewniverse managed to make it compelling by attention to the manner of delivery. My favorite crystal gem keeps changing and now it's either Pearl or Amethyst, the latter reaffirmed based on this episode. She took real leadership here in a healing manner, which I suppose really is what the show wants to take us from it.

I mean it's basically one of the most obvious aspects of the show, but I love how the set up of three "moms" keeps delivering. Pearl has very teen problems despite being the most conventionally mom like, Amethyst can be mom-like in a cool big sister way or behave like a cool big sister. Garnet feels a bit aunt like to me.

Off topic, but still related: do you remember the strawberry fields back in an early episode when the Crystal Gems went off to investigate the ruins of a temple? It turns out that strawberries flourish in a sandy soil and sand is nothing than fine grained quartz. So basically it's an ancient battle field, it's the Verdun or Somme of the Gems. Fan theory? Very much.

3. Now We're Only Falling Apart

The lore dump continues! Nothing too surprising, in fact I'm feeling that this batch of episodes sorta ought to be watched as a kind of a TV movie.

This is a jump, but I can't help but think of Bismuth. She was right.

The video in the article rules!

No problem! You might enjoy the author's blog as well: http://mcmansionhell.com.

This finally gives an explanation what the weird room decor was all about, I never could arrive at an idea.

It's just a weird smash of different meme cultures into each other

I sometimes use the even more indirect method of finding books on topic and then downloading them on libgen.

My late commentary: honestly I kinda agree with the teens that using Google for research is a pain. IDK but I feel like there's some glut of irrelevancy that has been creeping up there with bad info driving out good in the search results. Increasingly it feels like a weird yet quite powerful Unix tool, controlled with a text string and adjusting a lot based on the results. I hope better stuff comes along.

I mean going by the Wikipedia definition

Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any effort designed to prevent the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media, usually for copyright reasons.[1]

I would say it probably does qualify as copy protection of some sort, but I think a point was to use more easily prosecuted trademark law against less easily prosecuted piracy.

I stopped celebrity shaming back when Britney was doing bad.

ok but why are Final Fantasy games so full of weird shit honest question!

This is cool as heck

Hey, its form folllows function to the teary end!

I "like" the genuine posts about how it's impossible to leave the platform because of careers and also it's difficult to participate on the platform because it's a cesspool.

yo this was good.

Definitely 90% of the abuse you hear about on Tumblr is fandom related.

Reading this is pretty curious because I sorta drifted onto Tumblr not for fandom but because it seemed like it was like the non-discussion parts of Reddit without the shit, or rather, you could filter out the shit somewhat effectively. When I was starting to use Tumblr, I liked Reddit most for its nice places for "porniverse" (great pictures of whatever from architecture to animals), learning focused subs from /r/askphilosophy to /r/languagelearning and some humor. The first and the last things were pretty well served by Tumblr and still is, but I think the leak of energy out of Tumblr has been noticeable.

And the alternatives to Tumblr have gotten better from my perspective. As much as I don't really like a lot of Instagram bullshit, it's probably the better platform for finding aesthetic pictures when you just have an acute need to see a field of cosmos flowers and Twitter seems somewhat less dysfunctional in the end and it's actually possible to interact there.

Tumblr is pretty much the first platform I've used for fandom and that usage has really decayed something fierce much like the article says. There really is something on the structural side of the service that causes much of the issues. The privacy options don't make much sense especially if you're creating a blog that's meant to be visible to non-members. Which is sad, because I'd love to have a little blog that's easy to set up and trivial to run for uncomplicated content, without the expectation of much social media engagement or setting or some Wordpress shit.

cool

Wow this is like an impressively shitty solution, but I might use it myself if the need arises.

My title was 100% an oblique reference to the game just to see whether anyone noticed!

I love the bird pic, so delapidated yet there's an onion of hope and a birb friendo.