ellie lockhart (she/they)

I’m gonna indulge just a tiny bit in posting LLM output to share this one thing

I think it’s that someone else in the thread has an account tag

Also, it decided that economists online would be mad about the realism of the Death Star and that the fans would invent several characters that weren’t intended by the show and force Lucasfilm to acknowledge them

It came up with a flame war about whether the protagonists sympathize too much with space Nazis

I’ve now asked Claude to generate a Wookiepedia flame war about this show’s canonicity

Note: I don’t actually think it’s super ethical to post raw AI output. what i’m sharing are my dumb ideas, which I’m also plugging into an LLM

I honestly really do think it just kinda does. Imagine that you decided to make a soup out of everything in your home. Potatoes, rice, drain cleaner, LEGOs, that turd you forgot to flush, etc. While our individual homes may vary, it will always be a bad idea. It will still taste bad.

Everything Dot Com will never work because different things fall under different categories and are used for different purposes.

Sort of encapsulates both her whole appeal to a certain set and why I hate her guts

That makes sense in the same way where Rogue One is The Guns of Navarone + The Dirty Dozen

Oh I see, it’s copying Office Space, but the money laundering is building the Death Star

What it goes with is that the requisition processs was an accident but it wasn’t in anyone’s interest to stop it because rejecting the request would have hurt their KPIs

I considered trying to write fanfic about an insurance claims adjuster who has to investigate claims relating to the destruction of Alderaan.

I never really got farther than figuring out that the protagonist would have an accounting droid named C-3PA.

I love Lower Decks for many reasons but one thing it's not is an ambitious show with interesting things to say via satire and comedy about the broader world and its ailments. I would hope a Star Wars themed workplace comedy/class satire would do better and be a little less of a running in-joke.

The Cantina *Figrin D'an cover of the office theme plays*

Andor but a comedy.

I regret to inform you that I asked Claude to write a workplace comedy about Star Wars and it gave me an absolutely hilarious story about the requisition process for the second (not first - second!) Death Star

We’ve succeeded with sober October 2/3 of the month so far and I’m totally seeing this as a baseball batting average.

Star Wars: Lower Decks

Star Wars: Lower Decks

would absolutely watch Clerks/Office Space/Waiting... or some other version of a workplace satire/comedy but in a Star Wars setting. Fun opportunities to use sci-fi to comment on class, corporations, capital, or social norms rather than war, imperialism, government, penal systems, propaganda etc.

the express cycle on the dishwasher helps us in our lives.

"Spiritually Israeli" with a hard K

Firelle Sparwn your skinny carmelnicrd macchiato is ready

"was Syril Karn doing police work the right way," thread closed after 112000 replies

Most youths are not antisemitic. A frighteningly large minority are.

should Starwarsbucks baristas have to write Syril Karn's name on their coffee cups

"fuck it, the message the world needed wasn't some complex thing about intergenerational trauma, it's that darth vader is bad

but also there's gonna be intergenerational trauma"

summarizing my point about One Battle After Another: I think Poul Thomas Anderson sees himself as a more sophisticated filmmaker than George Lucas and OBAA is him throwing up his hands and being like "ok you know what,it appears Lucas's version of reality is closer to true than my sophisticated one"

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

that's very important!! It's a part of the original trilogy that people overlook, and instead iconize OT yoda in particular as infallible when he was just straight up wrong

and it was luke's devotion to doing right by the people in his life that saved everyone