also… blurring his name was really not necessary; he’s so proud of this that a screenshot of his reddit comment about it is still his pinned tweet four years later.
Got to love how this douche nozzle completely forgets that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon fucking existed and what they were responsible for. (that’s not even mentioning that fuckstick Henry Killmonger)
Oh yeah, there’s no chance that Lucas could have been thinking of America as the evil empire back in 1975… 🙄😒
Fr? I always had the impression that the Empire was somewhat inspired by Nazi Germany and the rebels were the resistance. Some of the helmets imperials wear in SW are kinda sus.
Palpatine’s personal guard is the Praetorian Guard (they wear red uniforms). Stormtroopers (mostly white uniforms) are named after the german Sturmtruppen (literal translation), that’s WW1 stuff, not WW2 and has nothing to do with the SS.
George L. really doesn’t seem to give an F about changing the names, as The Praetorian Guard was the imperial guard of the Imperial Roman army that served various roles for the Roman emperor.
George RR M. At least made York into Stark and Lancaster into Lannister.
I think when it comes to text people need to just include something to denote sarcasm or irony. You can’t read tone properly in text. Books can add color in the form of adjectives but outside of silliness we don’t add something like “he/she quipped sarcastically” into our own comments.
I think full adoption of the /s would be prudent for online discussions and comments with people that don’t know you personally.
Although it would be hilarious to add “I said, dripping with sarcasm” to the end of statements.
You don’t need tone for sarcasm, because it can be inferred from context. Check out British (“dry”) sarcasm.
Announcing your sarcasm is like explaining your joke. If you need to do it, you’ve failed, and it falls flat. At that point, it’s better to just not be sarcastic in the first place.
There can be vast differences in reading comprehension and contextual tone recognition.
As an easy example think of the many degrees of neurodivergency.
Secondly, British sarcasm and indeed a lot of British communication in general comes from the intention to be deliberately vague, so as to bake plausible deniability in to the responses given.
It can be inferred, but it’s not a guarantee.
That being said this guy seems to just be a prick trying to walk back something that blew up in his face.
I’m quite familiar. And in plain text it’s often lost on those that would benefit from understanding it. In some contexts it doesn’t matter. In others it does. Sometimes clarity is more important than whether or not it falls flat.
(as i wrote last time this was posted here)
he followed up to simultaneously say he was joking while also doubling down 🤦
https://xcancel.com/theronster/status/1538239717032042497
also… blurring his name was really not necessary; he’s so proud of this that a screenshot of his reddit comment about it is still his pinned tweet four years later.
and it's also his twitter bio now:
Ah yes. The classic “lolololol I was just kidding and you fell for it lolololol” excuse.
Also, ironically, he means “I was being sarcastic”, not “I was being ironic”.
What an insufferable cunt. It’s because people like him why people hate nerds
Got to love how this douche nozzle completely forgets that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon fucking existed and what they were responsible for. (that’s not even mentioning that fuckstick Henry Killmonger)
Oh yeah, there’s no chance that Lucas could have been thinking of America as the evil empire back in 1975… 🙄😒
What a twat
Fr? I always had the impression that the Empire was somewhat inspired by Nazi Germany and the rebels were the resistance. Some of the helmets imperials wear in SW are kinda sus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9Jq_mCJEo
I mean both can be true, story inspired by Vietnam war, visuals inspired by Nazi Germany
And now America looks like Nazi Germany.
Makes sense to draw inspiration from Vietnam. That war must have been a very bad period for Americans.
Not nearly as bad as it was for the Vietnamese.
The stormtroopers were a Nazi paramilitary force. So there’s that.
HitlerPalpatine’s personal guard is literally called the Stormtroopers (in German Schutzstaffel, better known as S.S.)Edit: read zaphod’s comment below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9Jq_mCJEo
Palpatine’s personal guard is the Praetorian Guard (they wear red uniforms). Stormtroopers (mostly white uniforms) are named after the german Sturmtruppen (literal translation), that’s WW1 stuff, not WW2 and has nothing to do with the SS.
George L. really doesn’t seem to give an F about changing the names, as The Praetorian Guard was the imperial guard of the Imperial Roman army that served various roles for the Roman emperor.
George RR M. At least made York into Stark and Lancaster into Lannister.
Lucas isn’t great at naming stuff, though.
Yeah, clearly.
Dropout - All Star Wars Characters Have Stupid Names
He might be referring to the Strumabteilung or SA.
deleted by creator
I think when it comes to text people need to just include something to denote sarcasm or irony. You can’t read tone properly in text. Books can add color in the form of adjectives but outside of silliness we don’t add something like “he/she quipped sarcastically” into our own comments.
I think full adoption of the /s would be prudent for online discussions and comments with people that don’t know you personally.
Although it would be hilarious to add “I said, dripping with sarcasm” to the end of statements.
You don’t need tone for sarcasm, because it can be inferred from context. Check out British (“dry”) sarcasm.
Announcing your sarcasm is like explaining your joke. If you need to do it, you’ve failed, and it falls flat. At that point, it’s better to just not be sarcastic in the first place.
If you want to act like a dumbass even ironically, you don’t get to be mad at people treating you like a dumbass
There can be vast differences in reading comprehension and contextual tone recognition.
As an easy example think of the many degrees of neurodivergency.
Secondly, British sarcasm and indeed a lot of British communication in general comes from the intention to be deliberately vague, so as to bake plausible deniability in to the responses given.
It can be inferred, but it’s not a guarantee.
That being said this guy seems to just be a prick trying to walk back something that blew up in his face.
I’m quite familiar. And in plain text it’s often lost on those that would benefit from understanding it. In some contexts it doesn’t matter. In others it does. Sometimes clarity is more important than whether or not it falls flat.
you’re being sarcastic here, right? /s