Some day you’ll realize that giving this much of a shit about what fictional characters are white is just weird

Lmao you fucking numbskull

Iirc, he’s not even Papa Palpatine’s real son - he’s a separate three-eyed mutant who claimed to be Palpatine’s son as a way to grab power post-Endor. The real Palpatine’s son was also a three-eyed mutant, but his third eye was in the back of his head, and his name was Triclops.

I guess people aren’t very subtle with what they name their kids in Star Wars.

? I think this is directed to the studios. It’s not like the average person is typically represented by a gold-hoarding dragon.

I mean, reparations for Slavic folks sounds reasonable too? As does reparations for anyone who suffered slavery or genocide at the hands of another, currently-extent nation.

Thanks! It’s based on what I experienced/freaked out over during a panic attack I had while intensely high.

Wouldn’t spawn camping be if they were in the NICU or something? This is more like griefing.

Totally fair! I hope we get a nice board of that style regardless!

I always liked the idea of top-level comments being exclusively in-universe, and out-of-universe comments have to be replies to other comments!

Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.

For those who aren’t familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don’t necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective (“George Lucas didn’t decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later”) are against the rules, though there’s some allowance for media that’s super-meta and can’t be answered otherwise.

Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think “Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?”. Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.

The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.

I’m sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I’m still looking for them!

I’d been a redditor for about 14 years, if not longer (I was a sophomore in high school, I believe, and I’m 30 now). I’ve been using 3rd party apps for about as long as they’ve been around. I tried the official app once a few years ago and really disliked it compared to the experience from things like Baconreader and AlienBlue.

The fact that the apps are dead is obviously shitty, but I decided to quit Reddit because of what the API changes represent - the inevitable descent of a capitalist enterprise into full-bore profit extraction. In my view, that’s not going to work for Reddit, which seems like an inherently unprofitable enterprise. Any changes that will drive revenue will also substantially hurt the things that makes Reddit useful and fun in the first place.

More ads? That actively degrades the experience. More monetization of little digital badges? That’s not going to be enough to generate the revenue they want, and it’s incredibly stupid anyway. Paywalling subreddits? That will kill the entire site in a heartbeat.

Ultimately I just don’t think Reddit even can be profitable to the degree that corporate overlords want it to be. Either it’s going to die quickly, or it’s going to gradually get even worse, dying slowly.