(FLOSI'S Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

[Boba Ben]

I want one... R5-D4 comes tomorrow or the next day and I know he'll just piss me off as I'll be thinking "I could'a bought Kylo!"

R5 is pretty cool too, though.

 

[ZE_501]

have you felt it?

There's been an awakening.... I want a HT Kylo Ren.

Just Rey and BB8 fot TFA and I'm good. Probably customize a helmet for her.

 

[furystorm]

have you felt it?

There's been an awakening.... I want a HT Kylo Ren.

No!

 

[jimjimmyjones85]

have you felt it?

There's been an awakening.... I want a HT Kylo Ren.

 

[King Darkness]

My Kylo arrives today

 

[FLOSI]

So far no Kylo purchase or Rey PO. I'm hanging tough... To quote NKOTB.

 

[King Darkness]

 

[EVILFACE]

So far no Kylo purchase or Rey PO. I'm hanging tough... To quote NKOTB.

My man.

Zero TFA stuff here

 

[King Darkness]

My man.

Zero TFA stuff here

 

[Darth Waller]

My boner arrives today

Enjoy!

 

[ZE_501]

My man.

Zero TFA stuff here

The reason I want Rey and BB8 is more aesthetic driven. Star Wars originals I want for the obvious reasons; they're classic.

Something about the scrappy looking female paired with a diminutive robot appeals to me on a more general sci-fi level.

But as the hype wears off I don't feel I need to represent the ST characters -- I really enjoyed TFA, but it's not classic OT, woven into my childhood and popular culture.

I'm partially nostalgia-blind, but compared to the marketing machines of today, the way SW worked its way into cultural consciousness seems almost quaint and organic by comparison.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

I'm definitely getting Old Man Han, but Rey has been calling for me. I must let her in!

 

[ZE_501]

[...]I was radical in my youth, but never a social theory zealot. I simply had an aggressive disdain for society's limits and artificial structures that were either ignorant or ambivalent of the harms they did to those in the margins.

When I was younger I shared that "aggressive disdain" you describe, but it was on a more personal level and my social outlook wasn't as well-developed as it is now.

At this point in my life, I'm equally distrustful of either side seeking to impose values on the whole, and my respect is reserved for those who rise or fall on the merits of their own minds.

I've had more than my share of run-ins with those falling on the far left of the spectrum. Invariably I've been shocked by their aggression, hate and what I might describe as a misguided will-to-power. Social engineering always ends in tears.

My preference for an intellectual meritocracy isn't shared by society at large, unfortunately, and we both know untempered intellect by itself can (strangely) be a blunt instrument. Lots of moving parts.

What has become apparent to me is that those who dispense with inclusion as a value are much less likely to categorize threats to their status by demographic. They can understand the world according to the values any given individual can offer, and they see group politics for the inept chicken-**** sycophancy that it is.

I concur.

I wish everyone could get past the need to rely on external perception of their worth.

That particular human failing is sadly amplified in this particularly bad cultural moment.

Let me know the next time you see that crap around here. I can promise one hell of a show.

The poor moderators.

I ignore most of the juvenile garbage I read, but there have been a couple of times I've been moved to respond. Even so, I've "kept the safety on" so to speak. I don't believe certain things should go unanswered -- ever. But there are limits to dealing with anonymous cowards on a toy forum.

I know what you mean ZE. Alot of that crap in TFA threads, which is why I've stopped reading.

Like the guy that said he wasn't a racist, he like Finn but he was just to...you know...not black...Urban for his tastes.

Yeah, that one set me off. That was Trenken.

Unfortunately I see and hear alot of that stuff everyday. It seems like people are very eager to see themselves as victims persecuted by someone else and they are caught up in trying to point the finger at what everyone else is doing wrong.

Yep. False dichotomies rule the day.

 

[jimjimmyjones85]

 

[ZE_501]

 

[FLOSI]

My man.

Zero TFA stuff here

I do want it though... All of it.

I'm definitely getting Old Man Han, but Rey has been calling for me. I must let her in!

Luke will be really, really tough for me to pass on....

 

[IrishJedi]

Oh *those* were the silly parts?

Yeah, I heard about that putrid nonsense, too. I'd just already given up on the comic by the time they got around to that.

In a way, they ARE a fun read. Because they absolutely read like a 12 year old is playing with his action figures and making silly stuff up as they go. But that's also the problem: This nonsense is now CANON.

 

[FLOSI]

 

[Boba Ben]

I still don't have Luke or the Sandtrooper yet. Jakku Trooper make come first on my agenda.

 

[user 1190]

That was awesome.