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Pablo Hidalgo
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In San Francisco here. Here’s hoping it continue its inexorable spread.
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Twitter survivor (arguable). Director, Franchise/Story, Lucasfilm. Author of things, advisor of lore, sketcher of robots, subject of flimsy rumors. Not really here to argue.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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In San Francisco here. Here’s hoping it continue its inexorable spread.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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We are so back.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Margarita Levieva is a real MVP. Great work.
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🏳️⚧️ The Josie Zone
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The quotes from sf writer Ted Chiang are GOLD
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Pablo Hidalgo
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* gasp * are they back?!
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Pablo Hidalgo
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stashed in a variety of hospital beds across the country.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Next up in my 1984 SW re-read: Star Wars Word Puzzles. Serious business. (Probably the most dynamic a Mon Cal cruiser ever looked on a cover too).
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Were the far right French memes not dank enough? Did they not try AI images?
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Pablo Hidalgo
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This reminds me: when coloring affects lore. Mystra seemed pretty human in the 80s. She was green-skinned in the 90s.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Continuing my 1984 Star Wars re-read with “The Final Trap!” the last of the newspaper strips. While I am grateful for Dark Horse reformatting the series to make it more widely available in the 90s (below, right), there’s nothing quite like seeing the wild newsprint colors of the originals (left).
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I can’t see why she’d even know who I am? 🤷
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I don't recall there being any Huttese in it. I did look at some of the visuals and offered some notes.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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(My biggest consistent contribution to the show is translating Huttese; I'll leave it to you to conclude the likelihood of my role in all this)
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Pablo Hidalgo
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(in case anyone is deeply curious, I have nothing to do with casting)
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Pablo Hidalgo
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As long as I’m forgotten it’s all good
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I guess rent is overdue.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Meanwhile, further down the aisle, Hasbro has swivel arm battle grip, robots turning into trucks, and Mattel has Man-E-Faces. Poor Lumat and Romba never stood a chance.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I like the "kids are losing interest in our action figures; let's include coins. kids love coins" thinking of 1985 in Star Wars. "... what if we included stamps?"
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Pablo Hidalgo
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No shortage of confusion in the 80s. I enjoy the chaos.
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Brandon Bird
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Started my 1984 Star Wars re-read with the "Showdown" newspaper strip that ran from Dec. 26 '83 to Feb. 5 '84. It has the distinction of repeatedly calling Dengar "Zuckass," which is very funny.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Weekly drops vs all at once? I’ll go one further. I think TV shows should have dropped their episodes 20 years earlier.
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Karl Bode
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"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Enough of Ep II and Ep III was done that they were completed and the only venue to show them was Celebration. So the assets exist but as to where they may surface for the public again, I do not know.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Oh the 3D re-release market pretty much collapsed in 2012, so timing worked against this plan. I think people had hoped Titanic and The Phantom Menace would have performed better than they did. And I don’t think the home video 3D market fared any better.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I really love how crowded with planets his space stuff is.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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My most batshit paranoiac thing is refusing to do video because I’m convinced it would give weirdos content to feed AI.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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My secret dream is animation that looks like Al Williamson illustration.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Anyway, if you auto-replace ‘you’re not a true fan’ barbs to ‘haha, you have a greater sense of balance and priorities in your life‘ it makes an already silly situation even funnier.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Go back another 5-10 years and it gets even more constrained. Imagine lobbing an accusation that someone who bothered to dial up to rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc wasn’t sincere. Heh.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Whatever acrimony these message board combatants may have had 25 years ago, there was a tacit acknowledgment that they shared the same interest and maybe the same damage that kept them on message boards. The idea of being a ‘tourist’ was alien because there were no tourists in message boards.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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The modern terms have the suggestion of recompense built into them. That’s kind of interesting. That built in skepticism that sincerity has anything to do with it.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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History lesson: back before people made a living digesting media, ‘bashers / gushers’ was the forum equivalent terms for ‘grifters / shills’.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Ed gets it.
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Ed Zitron
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Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Oh, if you don’t like something I work on or are even tangentially involved in that’s totally cool, but you don’t have to tell me. This isn’t Twitter. 🙏 gonna be more generous with the blocks here and I blocked everyone who followed me once over there.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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A lovely interview with Leslye Headland and she namechecks me for some fantastical metallurgical work.
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Happy 🇨🇦 Day!
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I only just saw that video this year. Very cool.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I, too, ship minerals.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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SF and Chicago both passed. So dumb. But that's LA's win.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Cortosis has been around since 1998. Beskar since 1994.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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No, not in a long time.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I do not know; more than I do, I'm sure. :) I think the museum is keeping him busy these days, though where he does that work I do not know.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Bean: Origins
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Inside Out 2 crossed a billion dollars in 19 days. No one knows anything (still).
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Pablo Hidalgo
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I keep thinking about Nixon supposedly saying “it’s a great wall,” in China.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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Ranchin’
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Pablo Hidalgo
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The Rutger Hour would be a good name for a podcast.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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There’s a line read that Avery Brooks has of “In the meantime…” that is seared in my brain.
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