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  • The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.

    I’d say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.

    Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to “man and baby go about their day.”

    If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.


  • That was such a wildly stupid move. They lost a hundred million dollar lawsuit, and also inspired the hardware hacker geohot to breach the PS3s DRM for the first time. The same DRM they had crowed about for 3 years for being “unbreakable.” I’m pretty sure he breached it in a week.

    Turns out all the nerds just left the PS3 alone because the “other OS” option that shipped Linux with it let them do all the things they wanted to do with the PS3 already, things they bought the $800 console for. Things that sold more consoles!

    They burned goodwill, lost hundreds of millions in a lawsuit, lost console sales, lost their anti-piracy talking point, and all for what? To remove easy Linux access for a few thousand niche users who were doing cool shit like making clustered super computers.

    Sony had people turning their gaming consoles into SUPER COMPUTERS and instead of shouting to the rafters about how rad they were and basking in some reflected glory, they decided to fuck with them instead.

    Idiots, but not a big surprise from the “let’s hide rootkits on audio CDs” people.