Bartleby's Corpse

Even though I suspected that it was coming, it sucks to actually see Bioware close. I first got into Mass Effect years after the original trilogy had come out, and it was honestly a bright spot during a tough time. It was only fitting that I got into Dragon Age when I was starting a new chapter.

I wasn't sure that you could follow up on the original trilogy, but knowing the number of people that were pouring themselves into creating something new, it stings.

I had never seen more than a few parts of Spider Man 3 before. Finally sitting down and watching it tonight, I was thinking that this was way better than people thought when it came out... and then that third act happened.

I've become desensitized to the Emo Peter montage, so maybe I didn't judge it as harshly as I should have (even though Peter on Jazz Piano was a solid Jumping the Shark moment). Still, the point where it relt everything started going off the rails was when Venom and Sandman teamed up.

I had never seen more than a few parts of Spider Man 3 before. Finally sitting down and watching it tonight, I was thinking that this was way better than people thought when it came out... and then that third act happened.

Mostly- yeah, it was a matter of trying to do too much. Take Sandman and Gwen Stacy out, and you have the perfect set-up to close out the trilogy. All the pieces were there. Despite that, they were making it work up to a certain point before it all fell apart.

I'm not against AI use in coding. It would be really hypocritical if I was. I also know that corporate pushing for AI-first workflows is being done for its own sake with little regard for, or understanding of, how it's supposed to work.

Even more often, you can't figure out how to solve a problem without getting hands-on with it, and if you're outsourcing so much of the workflow to an agent, you're never going to get your hands on it.

I'm not against AI use in coding. It would be really hypocritical if I was. I also know that corporate pushing for AI-first workflows is being done for its own sake with little regard for, or understanding of, how it's supposed to work.

Having an AI workflow is not some kind of "easy button," it's more like having a junior developer under you that you supervise. This runs into an obvious issue where you need to be equipped to supervise a junior developer, or at least check their work.

I'm not even sure what the overarching *plot* is. Full disclosure that I never even bothered to watch Rise of Skywalker, but as I understand, it doesn't necessarily help.

The problem here is that this core plot, which was good, existed in the context of everything else in the movie, which was, charitably speaking- a mess.

I'm not even sure what the overarching *plot* is. Full disclosure that I never even bothered to watch Rise of Skywalker, but as I understand, it doesn't necessarily help.

One of my more unpopular-on-Bluesky takes is that JJ Abrams should have been in charge of the whole trilogy. Sure, he didn't have an overarching vision for it, but neither did anybody else, and the fact that he was tapped to clean up the mess left by The Last Jedi demonstrated that fact.

I'm not even sure what the overarching *plot* is. Full disclosure that I never even bothered to watch Rise of Skywalker, but as I understand, it doesn't necessarily help.

They then decapitate the Republic and are now top dogs. Seems a little sudden, but moving on... There's also a Luke-like figure who gets the the Millennium Falcon. A big coincidence, maybe, but you could chalk it up to the force or whatnot. There's also some other companions who I'm not sure matter.

I'm not even sure what the overarching *plot* is. Full disclosure that I never even bothered to watch Rise of Skywalker, but as I understand, it doesn't necessarily help.

I think we need to put the GOAT title back on Michael Jordan. Yeah, I wasn't a fan of him hawking $150 shoes to young people, but that's downright virtuous in comparison.