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I already posted the Stanford report on the costs on both ends of those. The costs are only extreme because spacelift is still in the late soyuz/falcon 9 paradigm of space access costs. DOE spends $18 billion of its own budget on nuclear waste and congress appropriates an additional $40...

Did he really direct/write/produce free guy?

Stellaris passed it recently but I have a couple thousand hours plus in Distant Worlds 1. Pretty stoked about the sequel. I hope they didn't water it down too much to make it more accessible. It was definitely one of those things that was more of a hobby than a "game".

They don't need to want me, they absolutely need my money. They have a fiduciary duty to grow their stakeholders' earnings. If they know, as they must, that "subverting expectations" in a property as colossal as Star Wars in order to appeal to the tiktok generation turned out to be a...

Yeah we are. That's why it borders on corporate malfeasance. Those 18-35's nowadays don't watch genre fiction. The only market for this shit that earns any money is the same aging cohort of Boomers and Gen-Xers who grew up with D&D and Conan and Tolkien. That's why all the hot shit is 80's...

All those critics only gave it a good score because word got around that "anti-woke" people were brigading it. Amazon's WoT show is objectively shit. They're already circling the wagons for this wokefest...

She'd get it. not gonna lie...

It's almost as if the studios are trying to ramp up their roster of female BIPOC showrunners.

Imagine the feet on black hobbits.

It's not about the risks, it's about the opportunity. The DOE already has around $58 billion dollars for managing the estimated 80,000 tons of nuclear waste that already exists. That's money being spent every year, as we speak, even after decades of budget cuts. The proposition of yeeting...

Those are different discussions. The old MIT/JPL discussions about it dedicated 10-15% of the total mass budget to risk mitigation to keep the payload secure in case the rocket blew up (usually, suspend the material into something solid), and an additional 20-25% of the payload as pure...

I think space observatories are just the first and most obvious use case for super cheap access to space, but there are legit applications we haven't come up with. One thing that came up was nuclear waste disposal. Stanford has the budget for domestic nuclear waste disposal at around $58...

Also the Starship presentation started at 8PM CST: New SpaceX animation for the current starship configuration:

Every tried making patterned plywood stuff from Michael Alm? Super easy to do, just repetitive and kinda tedious. I made a couple nightstands with it that have held up. Baltic Birch edges would probably warp too much as a tabletop/countertop unless you pour epoxy over it though. He...

Yeah I liked her in The Society but I could tell she had asian tiddy syndrome. That pic was just from the article I linked. I think they chose one that most closely resembled the animated char.

Starship driving costs down would disrupt that calculus quite a bit. How much would they be able to get up there with starships with the money spent on JWST? Beyond just costs, the payload volume and launch tempo with starship really open up the sort of missions into things we can't even begin...

Hopefully Chow worked even more closely with Filoni then. I'm less worried about Andor since Rogue One had a ton of Rebels ideas brought to live action too. Not just Chopper and the Ghost but Saw Guerrera himself were all from the animated shows. Tony Gilroy and Gareth Edwards wrote the...

Yeah I figured Sabine would be in her mid/late thirties by Mando's time. Rebels ends like what 5 BBY?

Unlike Ezra, I don't see much similarity with Sabine's character model and her voice actress Tiya Sircar. Maybe the complexion? I'm curious why they didn't book her for the Ahsoka series. She's been pretty active in TV, so maybe she was just busy but who turns down Disney+?

Musk is probably gonna have to build them an observatory on the far side of the moon with all the butthurt he's due to stir up with starlink.

The remake is due out soon but the original Firestarter with Drew Barrymore hasn't really aged as well as I thought. I also remember enjoying the Damien series, though they would go on to beat that dead horse over and over. 80's horror was pretty solid. Remake trailer:

Well, Lucas and Filoni talked about it in public, at a comic con panel or something, back in 2017 so they can at least say they had this planned out long before the multiverse craze kicked in.

The thing with the skeptics of that theory, myself included, is they would need to either hand-wave or change the way Ezra saved Ahsoka if they don't bring the World Between Worlds into the live action canon. As mentioned earlier, it's already explicitly canon, but you'd have to sell that to...

A billion cash with that cast? That's corporate malfeasance dressed up as social justice.

I was holding out hope for it. No idea why since they splurged so much money on WoT and got nothing but hot garbage. Curious what the budget for this show is in comparison.

Mostly by bringing it into a live action show, I suppose. Ahsoka's owl and the loth cats were already in Mando. They could stick to simply bringing even more Filoni characters into live action (like Embo, the charactor Filoni himself voiced) or they could go all the way to the World Between...

This other Amazon series had amazing stills too. Maybe it turned out decent. They definitely had the budget.

Aaand that's a nope.

Sabine Wren is confirmed for this show. She'll be played by Natasha Liu Bordizzo: https://deadline.com/2021/11/star-wars-ahsoka-natasha-liu-bordizzo-sabine-wren-disney-plus-rosario-dawson-1234877527/ So the actress looks waaay younger than Rosario Dawson, looks even younger than the Sabine...

It would be pretty mind-blowing if they use the Obiwan and Andor shows as vehicles to further canonize Clone Wars and Rebels ideas. If they actually do that, it would put to bed all the stories about the factional civil war within Lucasfilm. Although I suppose it would still make sense that...

It's billed as a limited series, IE: one short season so he's probably in all of it. I'm guessing we won't actually see too much of Tattooine except for intro/outro stuff and that most of the show will be about Obiwan's youth and his time with Anakin. Hayden Christensen's casting has already...

Starship stacked with mechazilla: The NASA Spaceflight stream has a timelapse at the end.

Nine-year-old me would be insanely hyped about that episode. Mid-forties me is spoiled on Rogue One. I don't know if Favreau can ever successfully reconcile the expectations of the younger Clone Wars/Filoniverse fans and the original Star Wars Trilogy fans, who want to feel the same...

Bacta tank?

It's a great episode. If you don't care enough to follow the Mando storyline, then you won't mind spoilers: If you don't think that's worth an hour of your time then yeah skip it.

I really liked the early days of Eureka for that reason. The sense of losing xp and delevelling added stakes and tension to the game that I hadn't felt since creeping through Old Seb or Karnors or in FFXI. Likewise, that's why Baldesion Arsenal is probably my favorite raid experience in any...

I got the feeling that was more to get her out of the way to avoid a rematch with Cad Bane, whom she already bested in Bad Batch. They should've wrapped that part of it up at the end too. If anyone would've wanted to make sure Cad Bane was really dead, it would be her.

Jane Campion's been the darling of the fem-auteur arthouse crowd for years, they've been waiting for her to make any kinda movie to give her the Oscar for since she got stiffed for The Piano. Don't be shocked if Power of The Dog sweeps its lanes, considering Hollywood today vs the mid-90s...

Yeah on the con panel where the unaired duel footage was shown Filoni said it was the canonical explanation of how Boba got the dent in his helmet too.