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D-Ray Kenobi

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  1. I watched it the other night, I am kinda conflicted about it but still loved it. (Spoilers ahead.) To me, the basic idea of what it's trying to say is that a woman is trying to assert herself and her own independence outside of a man's influence. At the beginning, she's created by a man. A man is telling another man he has his permission to marry her and take ownership. A man offers her a way out of that to go on her adventure, but on his terms. As she matures, she starts realizing she can make her own choices and eventually takes ownership of her own life and kind of puts all these toxic men in their places. I loved all that, but I honestly felt a little awkward having to sit still with a bunch of scenes that realistically should have gotten this movie an NC-17. I get it that you have to show her owning her own sexuality, but to me it just was so over the top about that that it felt like it eventually detracted from the point. You can show a scene or two and then just leave the rest to the viewers imagination. I get that. And maybe it was intentional to make the audience a bit uncomfortable with that, but it just didn't work for me personally. Overall though, I still really enjoyed the hell out of it and totally get why it's a Best Picture nominee. Emma Stone absolutely rocked that role, you totally end up rooting for her to take that agency and ownership and she comes out on top in such a satisfying way at the end.
  2. I liked it a lot! I kind of feel like the first Captain Marvel took itself a little too seriously, this one didn't and had more of a Guardians kind of vibe to it. But I do agree that the look is a problem. I though way of shooting stuff in the Volume was cool at first during the first season of The Mandalorian, but I'm so over it. It makes TV and film feel so cheap, and it's so easy to spot when they're over relying on it. This was really cool in spite of that though. I loved that basically every major character in this, heroes and villians, were all women. It didn't beat the audience over the head with it like in the last movie either.
  3. I liked this recent season a lot, but there's a lot holding me back from saying that I loved it. The biggest problem for me is that it can't decide if it wants to be its own thing or be True Detective. There's a lot of little beats that tries to tell the viewer that it's going to be the polar opposite of Season One, but it still simultaneously makes a ton of fanservice callbacks that ultimately lead to nothing. The plot is pretty cool and is a great mystery, but there's a lot of little complications that make for a lot of little plotholes. For example, the tongue on the floor still makes no sense as there's no real (or at least clearly explained) motivation for anyone to have done that. It's almost as if someone decided that would make for a great hook in the first episode, but they never really got around to fully expanding on that for the story as a whole. This whole thing feels like HBO wanted to fill a date with an IP and they rushed a creator to get them something on that pre-determined date. Another script draft could have really pushed this from good to great.
  4. We're all getting old man, I've had some stuff crop up too. I've ran pretty regularly for close to ten years now and it's starting to take a toll on one of my knees. When I bend over, I can hear it stretching like some elastic or something. The other one doesn't do that at all. I kind of want to go get it checked, but I just have a general distrust of the process that would probably send me through a labyrinth of a dozen different specialists and bleed my insurance dry.
  5. Picked up the new whip this weekend. ⚡️
  6. Basically some acronym soup regulative branch insisted that Tesla oversells the automated driving system (which they totally do), and they're being forced to tighten up the restrictions that they put on drivers. The new software update will completely take away the feature for a week if it catches you not responding more than twice. I've got the basic automated steering on mine and not the fancy stuff. I've used it pretty often on clear highways and interstates or stop and go traffic, but I don't really trust it in other instances.
  7. Haven't been here in years, this seemed like a good place to update where things are at these days for anyone who doesn't do Zuckerbook. Last month marked my five year anniversary working at NASA. Technically I'm a contractor, but my center is a fairly chill laid back one where there's barely any real difference between that and a civil servant. I finally moved from internal comms and project management to public facing comms with the uncrewed craft department this last summer. The big project in 2024 is going to be the Europa Clipper, it's a ton of fun amusing and bewildering kids and big kids alike with the possibility of weird purple alien sharks underneath the icy crust there. There's of course a fair degree of government bureaucracy, but it's tolerable and the rest of the job is a blast. I travel a ton with the new gig. Enough that it's a ton of fun, but not so much that I'm gone from home too long. I'll be in NYC and DC right after New Year's, anyone feel free to hit me up if you'd like to hang.
  8. Trading in my 2018 Model 3 for a brand new one next weekend. Their CEO may be a gargantuan douchenozzle, but the other 99% of everyone in the company managed to make the best car I've ever had.
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