"Everybody is a product of rape", comes right out of the radical feminist playbook which believes that any vaginal penetration is rape.

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-secures-one-of-the-top-grossing-re-release-weekends-in-cinema-history

Disney should just stick to re-releasing the old stuff until they can manage to get their shit together. (They won't)

Quote from: Ratman_tf on April 30, 2025, 08:20:29 PMhttps://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-secures-one-of-the-top-grossing-re-release-weekends-in-cinema-history

Disney should just stick to re-releasing the old stuff until they can manage to get their shit together. (They won't)

I laughed so hard at this. 20 year old RotS does better than any recent Disney releases, and costs them nothing more than the distribution.

My family got the Disney Channel in like 1984 (Z-TV, Falls Church VA)

I watched this like 25 times:

Oh Andor...

Remember when Annette and Frankie were enslaved by Pee Wee to make craft?:

Good Disney

If only there were other franchises that offered a similar experience to Star Wars and weren't canceled or driven into the ground by corpos.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 01, 2025, 09:48:24 AMIf only there were other franchises that offered a similar experience to Star Wars and weren't canceled or driven into the ground by corpos.

That's why so many are turning to anime/manga. They didn't bend to Woke and aren't afraid of ending stories when they're done (vs. the American corpo tendency to drag them out as Deadpool put it "until you're 90.").

There's still a lot of dreck to sift through (because 90% of everything is crap), but that's better than the 99.9% crap that is American media.

Quote from: Chris24601 on May 01, 2025, 10:43:29 AM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 01, 2025, 09:48:24 AMIf only there were other franchises that offered a similar experience to Star Wars and weren't canceled or driven into the ground by corpos.

That's why so many are turning to anime/manga. They didn't bend to Woke and aren't afraid of ending stories when they're done (vs. the American corpo tendency to drag them out as Deadpool put it "until you're 90.").

There's still a lot of dreck to sift through (because 90% of everything is crap), but that's better than the 99.9% crap that is American media.

I don't understand why. Hasbro owns the Star*Drive IP, which could easily stand on its own against the likes of Star Wars and Mass Effect. Instead, they decided to make Exodus, which is so alien to the conventional space opera experience that I doubt it will really catch on. The whole time dilation aspect alone is gonna kill most conventional plots, because the entire reason that FTL exists in fiction is because most people agree that realistic stories involving time dilation aren't fun.

Despite some dated aspects when it comes to stuff like virtual reality, the SD setting has never been more relevant. Earth is currently on the brink of world war and civil war. SD takes place in 2500AD after a century of war has devastated the local bubble and stellar nations are forced to unite for survival while still nursing grudges. And now they've made first contact with two different imperialistic alien empires. Plus, it has stuff like space cowboys, space samurai, genetically engineered lion men and jedi mind knights.

How many other sufficiently detailed space opera settings are there? 

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 01, 2025, 11:11:45 AM

Quote from: Chris24601 on May 01, 2025, 10:43:29 AM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 01, 2025, 09:48:24 AMIf only there were other franchises that offered a similar experience to Star Wars and weren't canceled or driven into the ground by corpos.

That's why so many are turning to anime/manga. They didn't bend to Woke and aren't afraid of ending stories when they're done (vs. the American corpo tendency to drag them out as Deadpool put it "until you're 90.").

There's still a lot of dreck to sift through (because 90% of everything is crap), but that's better than the 99.9% crap that is American media.

I don't understand why. Hasbro owns the Star*Drive IP, which could easily stand on its own against the likes of Star Wars and Mass Effect. Instead, they decided to make Exodus, which is so alien to the conventional space opera experience that I doubt it will really catch on. The whole time dilation aspect alone is gonna kill most conventional plots, because the entire reason that FTL exists in fiction is because most people agree that realistic stories involving time dilation aren't fun.

Despite some dated aspects when it comes to stuff like virtual reality, the SD setting has never been more relevant. Earth is currently on the brink of world war and civil war. SD takes place in 2500AD after a century of war has devastated the local bubble and stellar nations are forced to unite for survival while still nursing grudges. And now they've made first contact with two different imperialistic alien empires. Plus, it has stuff like space cowboys, space samurai, genetically engineered lion men and jedi mind knights.

How many other sufficiently detailed space opera settings are there? 

It doesn't matter. What you seem to have missed in my statement is that American media is totally enslaved to the Woke Mind Virus.

They won't put out good sci-fi/sci-fantasy because THEY DON'T WANT TO. They want to push "The Message" and good sci-fi (which tends to promote rationalism, egalitarianism and meritocracy) is anathema to that message (constant struggle between oppressor/oppressed, feelings over facts, promotion by race over merit).

Once you understand that Woke is a suicide pact for Western Civilization you'll understand why it is impossible to find good media from Western society. They want you to be as miserable as they are so you'll hopefully just give up and die.

So stop depending on media to provide you with fulfillment. Make your own stuff and share it with people. The love you have for your creations will make it far more enjoyable even if flawed than the most finely polished misanthropy coming from the Left Coast.

Star*Drive has cool stuff? Just take and run with it. You can find the d20 Modern SRD complete with all the d20 Future material (i.e. Star*Drive with the serial numbers filed off) and Urban Arcana with a quick internet search.

In fact, here... d20 Modern SRD.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 01, 2025, 09:48:24 AMIf only there were other franchises that offered a similar experience to Star Wars and weren't canceled or driven into the ground by corpos.

Mass Effect had a brief period, until the shitshow of ME3...

The Expanse was pretty damn good hard science fiction and wasn't any more insufferable than recent anime offerings and was American.