"I’m going to need your badge and profiling notebook.

…and the ankle one."

My favorite scene in Criminal Minds is when one of the heroes notices that a person fits the profile for the episode’s kidnapping villain.

That’s it, guy fits the profile. No screams from inside the house. No suspicious behavior. The justification for exigent circumstances is essentially “it appeared to me in a dream.”

The hero picks up a potted plant to smash his way into the house and somebody else says “We have to wait for a warrant!” to which he replies “THERE’S NO TIME!” and jumps through the glass window into the house.

Insanity.

Backface soft armor also catches spall, which can be very dangerous itself. Even ceramic plates can have a danger of ceramic shards. I believe modern ESAPIs, XSAPIs, and such modern plates are designed stand alone, but original SAPIs carried a warning that their rating was only in conjunction with soft armor.

…please…

I’m currently the “subject matter expert” on a nightmare project by having been exposed to it the most without going mad.

And here comes the NSFW demon fan art!

It’s notable how identifiably the gun on the page is drawn as a KSG. Outside of “gun focused” comics like The Punisher, comicbook guns have a habit of being wonky unidentifiable models.

I need this magnum thread tape for my monster pipe.

I’m only but one person.

They found me on the men’s room floor.

Mas was inner circle with Palpatine, Orn was more of a cowardly hanger on.

I don’t actually know what happened in any version of canon, but I’d imagine Palpatine would want the building demolished for sure to erase a visible Jedi legacy. Maybe put a giant Clone Wars memorial up celebrating “true” heroes of the war like various Republic officers killed and imply they would have supported the turn into the Empire as so many of the surviving ones did.

Creepy blue guy who is always hanging around Palpatine.

Nothing at all?

Perhaps they are going for a tone of heroic escapism, or fantastical drama over gory and downbeat “realism”.

If you really just want to see heroes maiming people it’s been done. Invincible, The Boys (show and comic). Even back to the 90s there were comics like Stormwatch that centered on the premise of “realistic” consequences of super powers.

It gets me thinking. Tech literate people are the types to install blockers, and would be the same type of people both motivated and knowledgeable about how to switch browsers. On the line of thinking it seems like it is just going to drive them away from Chrome. Tech illiterate people remain unaffected since they are getting ads anyway.

But then on the other hand, if someone is tech literate then why are they even still using Chrome? Does such a person value whatever advantage Chrome theoretically provides over their ad-blocking?

I am on a similar wavelength, but harsher as the plots and film structures of the prequels are also just no good. The prequels are bad. I have trouble putting myself in the headspace of people who genuinely enjoy them as films.

As terrible as I think they are, the fact that Lucas clearly had passion and love of the universe he created did give them a flavor which is missing in the sequel films. While the prequels failed at being coherent films, they succeeded in creating a whole new era in the Star Wars universe that was ripe for other people to come and tell stories inside of. The prequel era feels so different from the OT, but at the same time is undeniably proper Star Wars. Other creators came in and built so much there. The strength of those other creations are actually why I think some people have convinced themselves to re-examine the prequels.

The setting of the sequel era is just so bland and lifeless. There is nothing there which was set up by those movies really for other creators to get passionate about and flesh out. The Mandalorian wedged itself between OT and sequel era to get some stronger tie in with the OT, but really there’s been very few stories set firmly and entirely in the sequel movie era, and none that anyone seem to care about.

I haven’t watched Rogue One in a good long while, but I remember it feeling rushed and disjointed. It was a visually beautiful film which seemed like it had ideas that had been muddled with by the powers that be forcing re-writes. I think I read afterwards that was the truth, but I actually could sense it just during my viewing.

Andor seemed like it reached the potential the Rogue One was aiming for. It keep the great visuals and designs, while really fleshing out the ideas.

I would say for a fresh watch, Andor first and Rogue One second will probably create some needed investment in the character that isn’t contained in the movie itself.

It’s raining again.

I thought he was just getting fat.