No, I didn’t forget about it. But you’re pretending the comment I made after that doesn’t exist. It’s some pretty pathetic gaslighting, I must say.

I gave you two. Squeaky Fromme and Kyle Rittenhouse.

If you’re going to gaslight me, try harder.

Oh no, the US definitely has a gang problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs

Tarantino almost made a Star Trek movie. And it was supposedly going to be a remake of Yesterday’s Enterprise. I still don’t know what to think about that.

I gave you two actually. I can give you more.

You have a lot of anger over the people forced to do bad things for survival

Ah, so they are being forced. Thank you, that’s what I was saying.

By the way, the idea that the only way you can survive is die on the battlefield doesn’t make much sense.

The Enterprise D Technical Manual that Sternbach and Okuda released, which was supposed to be about as canon as it gets, says warp 10 is infinite speed. Go figure.

You do know you come off as insincere and condescending as fuck, right?

Sure. Apart from the specific times I mentioned where you do see it happening. And all the other times you see it happening.

And it still doesn’t make child soldiers either moral or excusable.

Pff. Plinko is not pachinko.

A friend of mine just came to town and purchased this ticket machine a couple of weeks ago because “it was only $100.”

He very excitedly texted me later to tell me it was full of tickets and tokens.

He’ll add it to his multiple classic arcade cabinet, his two MAME cabinets, his sit-down driving cabinet and his large collection of classic consoles.

He also coded an NES game about 10 years ago for the fun of it. Even put it on a cartridge. Currently, he’s working on a video pinball simulator in a pinball table format which will use rumble to simulate the feel of things like the ball hitting the flipper.

I have cool, weird friends. Some of them who have way too much disposable income.

I honestly think that, apart from maybe the slightly lackluster first couple of episodes, there is not a bad episode of Prodigy.

In fact, it’s too bad those first couple of episodes are what I would call the worst two episodes of the series, because people gave up and missed the rest.

If they’d just stuck around for a few more episodes, they would have gotten to the Kobiyashi Maru episode, which I honestly consider to be one of the best episodes of Star Trek period. The sound editing alone blew me away.

I don’t need you. I will never need you. You are not relevant to my life.

You’re not familiar with the success of this strategy to recruit kids

And you are? How did you become familiar with it? Or is this just a guess on your part?

That’s why it didn’t go over well. You needed to make it erotic to get the teacher excited.

It was absolutely amazing. And season 2 was almost like an additional season of Voyager.

And unlike Discovery, it answered questions Trekkies actually wanted answered- like what a Klingon scientist is like.

How many times did you write “blowjob?”

Your point:

If I were to go to a group of young, impressionable kids in a developed country where they are living comfortably, how successful would I be in recruiting them to be in a militia?

Apparently you answered your own question now: yes, those kids in that developed country would be successfully recruited to be in a militia. Or at least do a militia’s bidding.

Nah, never happens in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rittenhouse

And do tell me about Kyle’s tragic upbringing full of hardship.

I’m sure you know what your life is about.

What you don’t know is what my life is about, despite this arrogant superiority bullshit where you act like you know me.

Also, why the hell would I DM someone who has been hypocritical twice in this conversation and arrogantly and falsely psychoanalyzed me in the most condescending way possible about anything? So you can be more condescending? So you can get my life more wrong?

I know you think you’re the Flying Squid expert around here, but you don’t even know what my fucking pronouns are.

Have you ever thought about asking about someone’s life rather than assume you know what’s going on with it? I’m guessing not. Not necessary when you’re better than everyone else and know about them more than they do, am I right?

I have the whole restored trilogy they did. Really great stuff. As someone who has worked on the technical side of film-making, what interests me most is how the grain keeps changing in Star Wars, I’m guessing due to Lucas’ inexperience with a film project at that scale. Empire didn’t have that problem because Kirshner had a lot more experience. It comes back a bit in Jedi because apparently Lucas should have learned more.

Edit: Never mind, I forgot Lucas didn’t direct Jedi.

Too bad he never did.

IMO, the real reason Star Wars was a successful film was Marcia Lucas’ amazing editing. She really deserved her Oscar. Also, she told dumbass George, who was going to let Obi Wan live, how basic storytelling works. And then dumbass Joseph Cambpell decided George was the genius because he really fucking hated women.

Lots of children of rich, successful people join cults.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Fromme