I don’t care what people say, the most important historical event in my lifetime was the discovery and release of the lost Steely Dan tape containing The Second Arrangement

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  • The show excelled at creating tense situations where you would worry if the characters will survive (except for the child soldier planet episode), but the characters were generally not engaging enough for me to really care. The kids all were obviously going to survive because Disney wouldn’t kill kids, but if they were adults or droids then that would be better at delivering tension for the audience. Jod was the most interesting, but his true malice couldn’t shine with the kids’ PG-rating armor. The reveal of the planet being ruled/powered by one robot without any redundant systems felt too familiar and trite with Disney’s The Marvels and even She-Hulk both within recent memory.

    Wim upturned an entire planet’s way of life, probably got some innocent people killed, and possibly crashed the galactic economy. That’ll teach the audience the right lesson about wanting to go on an adventure.






  • I don’t see how any publicly accessible info could be protected from web crawlers. If you can see it without logging in, or if there is no verification for who creates an account that allows access, then any person or data harvesting bot can see it.

    I wonder if a cipher-based system could work as a defense. Like images and written text are presented as gibberish until a user inputs the deciphering code. But then you’d have to figure out how to properly and selectively distribute that code. Perhaps you could even make the cipher unique and randomly generated for each IP address?