There's no arguing about how TFA was a crappy rehash of ANH or how JJ reset everyone's character arc or how he killed off Han or made Rey into a Mary Sue/Disney Product or littered the TFA with his obsessive mystery boxes rather than establishing characters, themes & story or that he is responsible for setting the Trilogy up to begin with to be an unwanted soft reboot of the OT.
BUT I would argue had JJ followed through with the Trilogy (which he was reluctant to do anyways; KK had to approach him twice before he did TFA & was dragged in to do TROS) I'm fairly convinced he would've delivered a very bland uncreative Trilogy that would've been far less detrimental to the SW lore & narrative & would've easily been containable within its own era.
RJ wasn't set up by JJ. He chose to follow his own path entirely & even ignored many of JJ's ‘plot points’. Any decent director could've built on from TFA & spun it around to give a coherent & enjoyable SW sequel. But I can't same the same for TLJ.
- RJ decided to turn hermit Luke into the hobo nihilistic satirical Jake who almost killed his sleeping nephew which ruined Luke's character arc & has left Luke's duel with Vader being reinterpreted by RJ fans as Luke having always been 'sensitive' to the Dark Side, where his first solution to a threat is to always lose his temper & go psycho with his saber.
- RJ chose to have a fetish romance between Rey & Kylo which he expressed through his inexplicable Force Skype leaving JJ having to explain this creepy relationship through a Force Dyad that now in turn retconned The Rule of Two & Darth Bane.
- RJ chose to forego Rey's training under Luke & have her pick up ancient 'Jedi (encyclopedia) Texts' that told her everything from Force Healing (which should just be called Force Jesus) to the retconned Rule of Two that Yoda had 'misinterpreted' (even after meeting Darth Bane in TCW). So apparently they were page turners. Had Luke or Yoda even read them they would've realized everything.
- RJ chose to have his Holdo Maneuver that retconned how Hyperspace works along with his impossible version of Hyperspace Tracking.
- RJ killed off Snoke without any explanation, turned Hux into a fool & Kylo into a super emo who was wronged by is family leaving no established villain which no doubt led to 'somehow Palpatine returned' which in turn retconned Palpatine's entire death scene to some elaborate plot, Anak
I think getting rid of him is a very underrated part of this whole thing
Hello! As title says, my main problem are the Dungeons.
I'm lvl 20 and I can't hold the aggro of my party, this happened in Ragefire Chasm and Wailing Caverns so far. It's hard for me to hold the aggro when there is a group of mobs. If it's just one enemy (for example, a boss) I have 0 problems. I suspect that my rotation is a crap.
I'm following this guide for leveling, I switch to sword + shield on dungeons but I see no difference, I'm wondering if I should keep going with a 2H Axe all the way (because I do quest way faster in this way).
I do have macros to have some QoL like change to Battle Stance before doing a Charge, etc. But any advice will help me.
I also have a good Addons like Threat Plates or TellMeWhen with this String that helps me using Overpower (I wonder if there is any String to use Revenge aswell).
Some people told me that my mistake was choosing Arms instead of Protection, but even with Arms I kill enemies slowly while questing, I can't imagine how though will be with Protection.
My apologies for my English and I hope that you guys can guide me in the cool way. Thank you so much in advance and happy holidays!
i don't get a lot of emotional support at home, and after seventeen years, i'm starting to put the pieces together and realize that's probably the reason why i'm like the way i am. i get screamed at by my parents pretty much every single day for some reason or another. my stepdad has said to my face that he understands why my biological dad left and my mom calls me a failure on a regular basis. and, as if it wasn't the icing on the cake, my stepdad has been making disgustingly sexist remarks about women for pretty much the entire time that i've known him, and i'm just realizing recently that he's probably the reason why i have such severe internalized misogyny to the point where it's made me question my gender identity in the past and regularly causes me distress. they're both also probably the reason for the crippling anxiety, worsening depression, inferiority complex and attachment issues.
i just feel like everyone around me is doing amazing things and im doing literally nothing. i'm a junior and my gpa is below a 2, i have no life plans lined up for the next year even, i haven't even begun thinking about college and i don't have the slightest clue of what i want to do as a career. my days literally consist of going to school, spacing out for eight hours, coming home and shutting myself in my room for the rest of the day while i rot in bed and don't do anything productive. we had an assembly last week for football, and i remember seeing this guy who was part of the football team wearing a real customized football varsity jacket that you usually wear when you're like, the shit i guess lol, and i was just like, shocked that someone like me could exist in the same plane of reality as someone who had accomplished something that insanely cool. and then the cheerleaders did this fucking insane dance where did these cool spins like ten times in a row. i cant do anything amazing like that at all, and i'm not doing something with my life like they are.
it's so hard for me to peacefully exist during my day to day life because these kinds of thoughts are always in the back of my mind. i genuinely view myself as so worthless and not worth a single damn. i'm desperate for some kind of contact or connection with another person because i don't have a lot of friends, and how Im feeling right now is making me feel the loneliest i've ever felt. having a discussion about this with my parents is off the table and i honestly think im better off just waiting it out until
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C’mon Fiz, you gotta know this by now, Morris and RJ are the closers.
After 5 years of working different jobs, hating them, alcoholism and just sort of 'living' to live, I landed a job in October last year. It is an entry level inventory position but I was able to find joy in the new place I moved and the new job.
But as of less than 12 months working here, I was offered a promotion that oversees THREE PROVINCES worth of manufacturing sites and landed me with a Corporate title and the benefits that coincide with it. I'v never really enjoyed working, but the sheer amount of hard work and enjoyment I have gotten out of this and seeing the result of hard work pay off is insane.
This is a massive and life changing event that a few people I have shared this with don't seem to fully understand I guess. This is a 50-75% increase in salary, this is access to resources and contacts I will have access to forever. I am 33 years old and this feels like the first major accomplishment in my life that I feel I worked for.
And I honestly just need to share this with someone. Every time I think of this I want to start crying.
I’ve been reading your stories of seeing hallucinations and while I’ve been diagnosed for over 20 years, I’ve never really seen hallucinations or heard voices. But I do have a hard time recognizing faces, it’s like they move or something (it’s like their faces are liquid but their clothes and hair are solid) and I’m starting to wonder if that’s not technically a flavor of hallucination? I’ve learned to recognize people by their hair and shoes and voices. My neurologist says it could be that I was born with it, or it could be a result of several traumatic head injuries I encountered as a youth. Just curious if any fellow sza’s have had trouble recognizing people they’ve known for years in public or famous people out of context, etc.
>Monday's win over HOU was RJ Barrett's 50th career start. Per @bball_ref, Barrett is one of only five teenagers in NBA history to tally at least 700 points, 200 rebs and 100 dimes in their first 50 starts. The other four are LeBron, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony & Luka Doncic
Good company to be in if I do say so myself
Also, his eFG% is higher than LeBron as a rookie and just short of Melo & Kevin Durant's 1st years.
And then they never appreciate his high-effort but corny Halloween costumes!
