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No need, he was just fine after my version of TLJ 😁

The Last Jedi doesn’t happen the way it did. Instead, the moment on the island where Rey tries to hand Luke the lightsaber has him reject it in anger and anguish, afraid that the past he thought he had left far behind him has re-emerged. It does not get casually tossed off the cliff for a cheap giggle. The reasons for the rejection can be broadly the same, if necessary, but they can be shown in a less weird and melodramatic way.

In this new version, Finn gets something (anything) to do, ideally something that will bring he and Rey closer together by the end.

Poe does not play “Can you hear me now?” with Hux. There is no casino planet, no obvious double cross and no little moppets with magical broomsticks.

Luke does not die at the end. Leia dies at the 2/3s point, and it’s this that finally brings Luke back into the fold, perhaps to get revenge, perhaps to honour her dying wish, whatever.

Snoke is not discarded like a used tissue. Kylo and Rey still communicate psychically, but there’s no hint of romance. Instead he starts to tempt her towards the dark side, leveraging the pain she feels towards the parents who abandoned her.

I dunno, just something which follows on more naturally from TFA, which is darker, and which definitely is less silly than what we got.

The Rise of Skywalker is in many ways the same as in reality, but it’s Snoke and not the Emperor that’s the Big Bad (although maybe you get the Emperor involved as some sort of Force ghost mentor to Snoke, or whatever). It follows on much more naturally from TLJ, because it doesn’t have to spend the first 30 minutes doing major course corrections. Finn and Rey get together, only for one of them to be killed off… or were they?

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That’s the Chieftain’s Shield which has always been my favourite Asterix book, since I was little. Love it ❤️

And that’s the doves. The hawks are more like…

Funny, I was going to say the referee - a great refereeing performance will rarely be noticeable.

I’d love to see more of the classic BBC 80s adaptation - same cast, same production style, just continuing on through the books (with, as you say, the usual changes and mutations as most of Adams’ work). Obviously impossible, but I like to dream.

Some elements of this sound like the plot of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, starring Raul Julia, and made famous by its appearance on Mystery Science Theatre 3000: https://youtu.be/2hBEh1JJ1E0

Thanks! Even all that sounds hideously complicated or danger-strewn, but I’ll try and have a look.

One thing I think I’d like to try is getting a dedicated external hard drive or SSD and running Linux entirely from that, so as not to mess with any of the main drives I already have. Or, better, get a separate machine altogether and keep an air gap between Windows and Linux, at least until I understand it a bit!

Main reasons are:

• Work - I use my PC every day, all day, for work, so making OS level changes is something I’m not keen to do for fear of breaking something. I had meant to get a cheap laptop to practice Linux on, but time/money got in the way of that.
• Lack of knowledge - I’m far from a novice with computers, and am frequently the person people turn to for help, but I’ve never really used anything but Windows (Mac for a year, once, but only intermittently) and I know nothing about drive partitioning, etc.
• Software - I use Adobe products frequently, especially Photoshop and Première and while I know people say that there are alternatives, I don’t feel like I have the energy to start learning again with new programs.
• Time - I just don’t have the time to spend on all of the above.

All that said, I’m going to have to do something about it! Ugh.

I saw the end of Windows 10 coming up and decided to install linux in a dual boot

This is something I need to learn how to do - I’ve no idea how dual booting works, but I could do with learning. Did you have any good resources to help you, or did you already know how to do it?

I think any comedian who takes part loses all rights to ever complain about freedom of speech, or cancel culture, or whatever. Since they likely won’t have been kidnapped and murdered by bone saw.

Flushlights.

Yes, toilet illuminators, what of it?

While I do use steaming services for tv/movies and music, I’ve also got reasonably large collections of DVDs/BluRays, hard copy video games, books (never liked ebooks or even audio books) and most of all, vinyl records (over 1000 in my collection and ever -growing!)

Happy with having a mix of media, and increasingly keen to make sure I own things rather than only having them available through a stream, convenient though that is.

Not the same instance, but there’s !conspiracytheories@lemmyunchained.net

I wouldn’t put it here, because it wouldn’t really be a question, so would likely break community rules.

Seconded - I’ve been cutting my own hair for about 25 years now, must have saved a fortune. Still using the same clippers.

It’s clear you’ve given this a lot of thought 😁

Would the poop retain the invisibility after exiting your tiger body?

No worries, hope you can ID it! 👍