Resident Ace/Bi. Struggling Shit-poster. This is low-key a Critical Role blog now.
I love the Star Wars and Overwatch women more then I love life. I blog Comics, Pokémon, Overwatch, AtLA/LoK pretty often. Subject to Hiatus.
it’s a great time to be a hater, many things are bad and lots of stuff sucks. it’s also a terrible time to be a hater, because many people will insist that you have to like the bad thing because a company spent millions of dollars making it and it’s just not very nice to say it’s bad
hating is ultimately a philosophy of optimism. the knowledge that things could be better, and the desire to see them improve, differentiates it from the pessimism of idle consumption.
palpatine straight up told anakin he was a sith lord and anakin was like well. this is a lot to process so im going to go fetch my boss and we’ll come back in about half an hour and murder you so don’t go anywhere and palpatine didn’t you have to admire the man
palpatine is the best villain of all time bc he’s the classic master manipulator who pits his enemies against each other without lifting a finger by preying on their weaknesses but normally those types of villains have the caveat that once their bullshit get exposed it’s a simple matter of slapping handcuffs on them bc they’re like weak old CEOs or whatever
but our boy sheev? when his plans don’t go perfectly he’s just like oh well and starts zapping fuckers to death bc he’s also the most powerful old prune in the galaxy and he could just kill everyone around him if he gets bored
like luke throwing away his lightsaber and declaring himself a jedi was great but you know that luke kinda thought that was it, the crotchety old emperor doesn’t have vader to fight for him anymore courtesy of luke cutting off vader’s hand for possibly the fortieth time in anakin’s life, so it’s smooth sailing until lando destroys the death star and blasts them all to kingdom come, but then palps is like aw shucks no new apprentice can’t blame a guy for trying and just starts deep frying luke for shits and giggles and our poor twink is like THIS ISN’T ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT THE FORCE COULD DO ABORT ABORT ABORT
and with mace and co arriving at sheev’s office to bring him in for being dark catholic it’s functionally the equivalent of a scooby doo villain of the week getting unmasked by the gang but then he just starts snapping necks
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The fact that Palpatine tried to play dumb at first when Windu showed up just sells it to me. It’s like he thought he genuinely could bulkshit his way out of this before just getting annoyed and going “well, fuck it”.
can’t get over how. the mighty nein campaign was like ‘if just one person betrays us again, all of our paranoia would have been worth it in the end.’ and then it’s the most heartbreaking betrayal of all time. genuine blue screen on all of their faces. five stages of grief speedrun. someone starts crying in the audience.
ALT