What no historical materialism does to a mfer.

She released some recipe books too. All the former BA crew are still doing stuff, I think Babish and them use the same crew and editors sometimes as well, some overlap at least.

1. George Lucas mentions Vietnam as an influence

2. Fascism is clearly represented as well

3. Star Wars is not a politically consistent universe or critique

4. It’s a typical story arc where the antagonist is an amalgamation of things that were considered bad at the time

5. It’s Star Wars so I ultimately don’t care that much

George Lucas said Vietnam inspired the writing, and communism in American pop culture was synonymous with basically every “bad” thing.

I think with Disney and a lot of companies now it’s more obvious that they are consciously trying to “look good” vs Star Trek was a lot more genuine and authentic with it’s intention to include these things, and it was challenging status quo back then whereas today it’s very mainstream (which is a good thing). This is also what I think is (sometimes intentionally) misinterpreted with the “woke” concerns from the right, cause criticizing the company for morally branding themselves can be legit, but only if the actual idea of including and respecting people isn’t lumped in with it. A legit issue with these huge companies that exploit workers is how they commodify their visibly “diverse” employees and claim the virtue for themselves rather than all the effort it took from workers to actually be treated with dignity. Amazon may very well be welcoming and inclusive but they’re gonna fight their diverse employees when they want better conditions and pay. DEI doesn’t erase the inherent conflict between employers and employees.

It does take a bit of practice let not gatekeep here /s

It’s just based on what other’s have said about the Vietnam allegory but it’s also whatever, I’m sure Lucas’ wasn’t thinking of it as a primarily political mission to produce Star Wars, since it’s very much a standard plot with your usual archetype characters and roles.

There’s a similar fan take on Lord of the Rings too which is interesting.

Very interesting! I knew the Vietnam thing but I’m not into Star Wars.

Yeah it’s not actual communism but more like a reflection of the fears of communism in pop culture from the time when it was written in the late 70s. Comment was a bit inprecise but amended.

Star Wars is literally space conservatives rebelling against the galactic communist (1970s US propagandized version of invented communism-fascist aesthetic*) empire…

Firefly is to an even greater degree, like libertarian Browncoats rebelling. I love the fan fic take that the Alliance were the “good guys.”

Thought this was gonna be a Bill Maher meme at first.

Okaaay NEW RULE

Yeah that’s exactly it, MSAA isn’t too bad but FXAA makes edges look pretty blurry. Temporal anti aliasing is also really blurry looking sometimes but gives the impression that the edges could be crisp.

Same one I ordered for my new build, 4060 ti 16gb oc. Hope it can last as long as my current build I’ve had for over a decade with minimal upgrades.

I actually prefer the crisp edges without as much post-processing effects sometimes. Source engine games look great to me, just minimal crisp and clean geometry. I find a lot of modern graphics distracting, but it depends on the game. I do love really pushing graphics for a game like Skyrim.

I just ordered parts for my first build since 2011. I’ve had my Sandybridge i5 at 4.5ghz most of this time… until the fans died and it overheated, replaced the fans and it was fine, brought it to 5ghz somehow so it could live out its last days in glory, it’s been two years. That’ll do pig, that’ll do.

Oh also Linux can be great at audio! I have two raspberry pi based devices specifically dedicated for music which run puredata and supercollider, both synthesis engines. One uses Lua scripts as its presentation and development layer with a Foss community around it, the other is similar but more puredata “patch” based. Incredibly interesting musical applications, so Linux is really at the heart of what I do.

When it comes to recording and “production” though I really rely on Ableton’s workflow because it’s very conducive to “live” creativity and there is very little in the way to get basic ideas down. And gaming is simpler still on Windows, as are many other mundane tasks that become forum-diving exercises on Linux. The only machine running windows is my main desktop because of this. I work on computer systems all day and at home I just want that machine I don’t have to think about and just does what it does. Windows is shitty for many reasons but it fulfills that for me. Laptop and everything else is all Debian all the time, with the exception of my routers and switches. The first computer I ever built when I was 11 was initially Fedora before trying many distros so Linux is truly my first love. Windows is just better at certain things still, sometimes I just wanna be user.

I use Audacity and Reaper as well but Ableton Live is special in how the workflow is, also Ableton does seem to run in Wine, but not VST plug-ins which are key.

Gaming for me is mostly fine on Linux, it’s running Ableton with standard plug-ins that doesn’t work, surprisingly. Basically the only way I can run my own hardware for a music rig is through Windows. Also the odd thing like “run this firmware update utility” for various devices, then you’ll have to go forum diving where people have tried all the workarounds to realize the workaround is just “use winblows.”

I’m a mixed environment sysadmin for almost 15 years so Windows doesn’t bother me as a product as much as others, I don’t like Microsoft’s business practices, but I can pretty much disable anything I don’t like on Windows Enterprise. Like they are compliant with security regulations regarding critical infrastructure, as much as people justifiably rant about privacy concerns they try and force on to end users, but you can get around a lot of that with the same old commands. Our isolated environment isn’t sending data to Microsoft or anything from our workstations for instance, and this traffic is heavily monitored and audited.

Yeah look up disabling edge through group policy, it’s quite easy and will be reapplied on every boot and login. Try finding the powershell command for everything too because you can save as a script and rerun it anytime as needed. There’s a “Reclaim windows” script on github that does a lot of this and you just have to comment/uncomment what you want done.

Repeat after me kids:

Debout les damnés de la terre, debout les forçats de la faim…