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Post by jppiper on Mar 17, 2021 16:46:52 GMT
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Post by jppiper on May 17, 2021 14:36:21 GMT
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Post by jppiper on Jun 21, 2021 21:08:48 GMT
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Jun 22, 2021 0:01:53 GMT
Yeah, I saw that. Too many digs at the prequels. |
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Post by jppiper on Jun 22, 2021 11:33:49 GMT
stampidhd280pro and they need to stop complaining about them not having the used future trope
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Post by jppiper on Jun 27, 2021 14:24:55 GMT
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Post by Cryogenic on Jun 27, 2021 14:37:50 GMT
Social justice corporate banditry at work again -- probably. Can't go using the word "slave", anymore, now can we? Jesus. Fucking pathetic. |
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Post by Ingram on Jun 27, 2021 20:31:00 GMT
They're just a simple mega-corporate-conglomerate trying to make their way in the universe.
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Post by Cryogenic on Jun 27, 2021 21:13:10 GMT
Boba Fett's ship is called...
Slave I
You're Boba Fett's Starship?
I'm a starship and my name is Slave I.
Carry on.
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Post by eljedicolombiano on Jun 27, 2021 22:14:30 GMT
I think If that news had hit a couple years earlier I would have been quite angry about the name change (though I agree that it's moronic).
At this point however I've kind of given up on Star Wars at the helm of Disney- I think following George's advice of moving on is what's best for a lot of us.
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Jun 28, 2021 2:11:26 GMT
They should have called it Gay 1 for Pride Month. It would be a virtue signal win, and it would also be hilarious and true.
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Post by Ingram on Jun 28, 2021 3:31:21 GMT
In related news, for Indiana Jones 5 Disney will replace Indy's signature whip with a standard rope ...to avoid any historical connotations associated with a white man lashing others with a whip.
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Post by smittysgelato on Jun 28, 2021 4:26:38 GMT
Hahahaha @ the Slave I rename. In times like these, I like to take the advice of one of my all-time favs, Marcus Aurelius. Expecting a goofy corporation to not do goofy things is like expecting a fig tree to not grow figs!
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Post by Cryogenic on Jun 28, 2021 7:30:18 GMT
I think If that news had hit a couple years earlier I would have been quite angry about the name change (though I agree that it's moronic). I hear what you're saying. For me, I guess, it's kind of like death by a thousand cuts. I tried my best to tolerate some of their earlier decisions, alternating between criticism and sometimes defence/apologetics. But there comes a point when it feels useless to continue maintaining a cordial veneer over what they're doing. At some point, one has to throw one's hands up in the air, get mad, and start calling out such corporate opportunism, manipulation, spite, and sheer stupidity for what it is. Maybe I'm just turning into an angry old man shouting at clouds now. To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens: They make you do it with their Mickey Maoist collectivism -- and you know that's exactly what it is... ...especially when, in my case, I was banned from TFN on the 40th anniversary of Star Wars for complaining about Kathleen Kennedy's anti Slave (uh oh) Leia comments in this Vanity Fair article... ...and at the same time, a self-bragging third-wave feminist cancer cell took over the entire message board system, like setting up rules forbidding the bashing of the new Disney regime, literally two hours and fifteen minutes after I tore into her beloved Kathleen Kennedy. (Of course, no such rules ever existed prohibiting people from bashing George Lucas -- I wonder why???). Yep. Although, sorry George, but the more Kylo Ren/Sith-y side of me says Disney must be destroyed. This twisted social justice corporation -- which, by the way, bypasses employment law and pays its workers starvation wages (i.e., modern-day slavery) -- is the Death Star of modern culture. But like any Evil Empire, it tries to control language, and people's very minds, blunting their capacity for action, as it absorbs more and more of the modern entertainment industry, consuming every rival and anything that could increase their tyrannical hold (and profit margins), in sight. I do sometimes wonder why Lucas sold to them; and sometimes, I wonder about Lucas himself. If this is what he wanted, a sterilised, homogenised, desiccated franchise, where all the edges are sanded off, one by one, and anyone that dissents is immediately deemed a blasphemer/traitor and fired or excommunicated, then he's done an excellent job. He seemed to realise in the Charlie Rose interview that he fucked himself: "I sold to the White Slavers who take these things..." Yeah, George -- you did. And they don't even respect you for your accomplishments one iota. They're happy to steadily dismantle and erase anything the Leftist Hivemind deems problematic or "offensive" -- and then what is left to enjoy, tantalise, titillate, provoke, uplift, inspire? Shall we just get rid of "Wars" from the series title next? I mean, wars are pretty fucking offensive. It's a very triggering word. Territoriality, aggression, theft, mutilation. This is what I think of when I think of war. And kids being shredded to pieces. Disgusting. Erase it from the title immediately. I demand it! How dare you lexically appropriate something so dark, so foul, and turn it into a trademarked name and billion-dollar entertainment. I want it gone. Think of something else. Call it Star Adventures instead. What's that? You agree, Disney? You see!!! This is actually a very moral organisation. We can always put all our faith in corporations and trust them to do our thinking for us! Praise the Lord! Okay, so, in consultation with the mods on TFN (I only had to kiss about fifty rings and eat shit for five weeks and they "forgave" me for my heinous crimes against humanity), I've drafted up a new forum rule: Use of the term Star Wars is now expressly forbidden. Anyone using the term will be banned, their social security payments stopped, and they and their family (including any known collaborators suspected of using the term or providing shelter to the traitors) are to be sent to the nearest Disney-funded reeducation camp for an unspecified duration. Meanwhile: them/they/him/it/her/vey/ubervey/shewolf/shecrab/shoepolish and rainbow flags for everyone else. |
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Post by Ingram on Jun 28, 2021 9:56:34 GMT
Anyone using the term will be banned, their social security payments stopped, and they and their family (including any known collaborators suspected of using the term or providing shelter to the traitors) are to be sent to the nearest Disney-funded reeducation camp for an unspecified duration. I've been to one of those—faked my way in as a phony counselor. I was just there for the sex. Guys, I admit that now. I'm a monster.
Anyways, here's a poster of the hit movie Mulan.  |
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Post by Alexrd on Jun 28, 2021 10:50:05 GMT
Slave I, the latest victim of Disney's vandalism. Reminds me of when they censored slave Leia. But people will continue to financially reward these decisions. Either through Disney+ subscriptions or actually buying the products advertised with the new trademarked name.
Wait until they change the Death Star into Spherical Safe Space.
"You're Boba Fett's Starship™?"
"I'm a person and my name is Anakin."
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Post by Cryogenic on Jun 28, 2021 11:04:36 GMT
Slave I, the latest victim of Disney's vandalism. Reminds me of when they censored slave Leia. I touched on that above. As soon as I called that nonsense out on TFN, the original thread -- for discussing sundry matters pertaining to the new films and the new direction of the franchise -- was locked, and a new one with rules (written by a self-proclaimed third-wave feminist) was quickly opened to replace it. Everyone was deliberately herded into a safe space. Because women are like, so brilliant, and so amazing, and just so damn right 100% of the time; and nothing they say or do, least of all when they identify as a feminist or an "empowerer" of women, let alone when they are presiding over a franchise that claims to enshrine diversity and female empowerment, can ever be criticised. Enlightenment values? Free speech? Freedom of conscience? We don't need those anymore. We have social justice now. Unfortunately, yes. Even the idea of using a platform like, ugh, "Disney+", fills me with cringe. Hey, man! I used that joke already! You're stealing all my best material!  Okay, Alex, maybe I ought to let you off -- that's the best one yet!!!  |
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Post by Alexrd on Jun 28, 2021 11:16:57 GMT
My bad, I posted without reading the ongoing conversation. I've just realized you guys were already talking about this crap. As for the Anakin joke, great minds think alike.  |
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Jun 28, 2021 11:19:29 GMT
It really is as if GL's "white slavers" remark hit somebody really hard.
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Post by Cryogenic on Jun 28, 2021 12:10:13 GMT
It really is as if GL's "white slavers" remark hit somebody really hard. Ooooh! Good point! But bear in mind, Kathleen Kennedy already bashed the look (and indirectly: the concept) of Slave Leia in 2016: web.archive.org/web/20160209074900/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/02/kathleen-kennedy-hollywood-producer(BTW: I don't know what's going on with the original link. Only some of the article is displayed, so I've had to use an archive link instead). This is the reason there are both feminists and so-called "sex positive" feminists in the world today. Kennedy appears to be more of the former kind, resembling more a controlling Nurse Ratched-like figure. Their worldview is basically: Women's sexuality must be controlled, and when women appear in sexualised ways, they are only lowering themselves to the patriarchy (at best), or else they are being made to do it by evil, leering, exploitative men. Men are allies only in so far as they implicitly agree with this perspective. It's a New Victorianism. Here is where feminists and Islamists strangely agree: women should cover themselves, and they should feel ashamed (or worse) if they don't. Then, in 2019, it emerged that Disney may have told staff not to use the word "younglings" at their new Disneyland attraction, Galaxy's Edge: www.fatherly.com/news/disneyland-star-wars-galaxys-edge-younglings/The source is a tweet from Jenny Nicholson: Disney denied this had taken place, but in light of Kennedy's moralising remarks above, and now this "Slave I" thing, you have to wonder if something was said to staff -- and that they just backtracked because of bad publicity and how much the attraction was already failing to draw in the punters (because, like most things Disney, it's overpriced crap). Honestly, the "Slave I" thing is so ludicrous, I'm now ready to believe anything. It's sort of like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" in reverse. I'm like: Really? Really? Really? Okay, damn, REALLY!!! What stupid decision have you got for us next, Disney? Also, as I said on Naboo News at the time -- WTF??? You have a theme park whose main attraction is a "smuggling run" simulation inside the Millennium Falcon, but the word "youngling", of all things, is where you draw the line? Or as Bob Jones and Slicer87 pointed out, stormtroopers or "First Order nutroopers" are walking around all over the attraction, and you can even buy cuddly stormtrooper toys, which is a bit a like selling Nazi figurines to kids. But "youngling" is a bad/triggering term and shouldn't be used? Just because some younglings are killed by Anakin -- who turns into the uber-marketable Darth Vader -- in a prequel movie? We need South Park to mock the ever loving shit out of this crazy censoriousness. |
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