ragepaw

I never got cigarette. More notes of a dog's rancid ball sweat.

You are completely discounting accidental racism. Every person at every level involved could have had no bad intentions and still have the sum total be so.

All that said, you didn't mention the actual problem with the movie that led to the commentary... total shitty dumpster fire levels of writing.

George Lucas has always been clear that a major influence on Star Wars was old serials like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. You know what was extremely common in those old serials? Racist stereotypes for villains and racist stereotypes for side kicks, also often cartoonish buffoons.

Again, not saying he was intentionally racist, but with the lack of quality writing skills, it's clear he fell back to tropes from his favourite stories from his childhood. Those tropes usually horribly racist. A better writer could have done better with those tropes.

Stores that put perfume counters in front of the entrance so you get slammed in the face with an overpowering wall of smell.

It misses a major point.

Feel awful... get blazed... still feel awful, but care a lot less.

That's what my wife does. She only started consuming in her late 40s. Even if it doesn't help the symptoms, it's a lot easier to not care about them when you're giggling.

30 instead of 21 if I remember right.

That sounds an awful lot like a planned terrorist attack. Why aren't they being arrested?

As a minor example supporting a lot of what's in that article, my wife went out to hang with a friend of hers, and I hung out with a buddy for a couple of hours. When she came home she asked me how he is, and I said, "I don't know, I didn't ask". She seemed shocked and can't understand why I say we don't have those kinds of conversations.

That's why I stopped using those sites. The only reseller I buy from now is Humble Bundle, but most things I just buy direct from the Steam Store.

Every modern hard drive will park platters when not in use. It will not reduce lifespan to leave it do its thing.

But there could be other reasons to turn it off.