The ones with power and money are gleefully taking advantage of it.

Warren Buffet came close, by virtue of investing in stocks based on the quality of a company’s product and the brand loyalty of their customers. The sad thing is this was considered a novel and innovative method of investing and didn’t really catch on despite him becoming a hundred-billionaire through this strategy.

They gave Phasma just enough character development to be hated, so I don’t think that will happen. The other two were blank slates that the audience could imagine doing cool stuff if they’d lived, but Phasma was shown to be a coward and hypocrite long before her death.

That petri dish is going to need a thorough cleaning.

There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Maul is the Boba Fett of the prequels - immediately jobbed to the heroes in the film, but fans liked him based purely on cool factor so the EU pulled an “only mostly dead” and brought him back. 99% of his character and plot is in supplemental materials like the animated series.

Man, I miss Alzward’s comic. I wonder if he’s written any new ones since the last time I visited that site.

*checks subreddit*

… Nope, fell into financial distress and moved on to drawing porn since it pays better. Huh…

It wasn’t for nothing! I’m sure Meta generated tons of patents they’ll use to stifle anyone else in the industry who tries to innovate.

It’s probably too late and part of the culture now. Things like this have to be slapped down immediately before they take root, but Valves moderation is infamously terrible.

You have excellent taste.

Adagio for Strings intensifies

They’ll have to pry Star Wars Empire at War from my cold, dead fingers.

Some herbivores might have survived as domesticated livestock.

Though if they tasted like chicken, all bets are off. We’d probably do to the poor bastards what we did to silphium.

The greatest thing he’s done is kept Valve a private company. He’s not beholden to shareholders constantly demanding that the line go up at any cost.

Funny how he’s still fantastically wealthy. It’s almost like treating your employees well and providing a quality product to consumers is a viable path to success, and selling out isn’t actually necessary to become rich.

Oh no, not again!

But seriously, was there a Parasite Eve reboot I missed or something?

Though there’s a bit of a delay counting to and back from 21.

:P sends its regards.

It’s called helicoptering and it’s a sacred dance!

Just note that despite looking similar to peas, the pods are inedible.

Replace “unilaterally” with “without just cause”. Most regimes at least pretend wars are in response to events rather than naked greed and ambition.

They kind of tried with Venezuela with manufactured claims of a drug empire, despite everyone pointing out they shared zero evidence. For Greenland - an ally - they’re not even bothering with a pretext beyond “maybe we’ll need it someday”.