god i just had a weed-fueled flashback to high school when my history teacher was explaining the nazis and i, in teen shit-head form, kept pointing out that (in the then-contemporary USA of 2003) that we do all the like, bullet points of nazism he was presenting and him getting upset with me because "ours is different" and me chalking it up to him being right that ours is different, but also that i didn't get how and it must be because he was a bad teacher, or at least bad at explaining this.

ideology. good lord.

i'm probably a little reductive in my criticism but this was somehow worse than episodes 7+8. I think I actually prefer Filoni's version of Thrawn, post-OT star wars. Also, if you're going to have your original characters dispatch your original villains - mara jade, ruhk / joruus cbayoth, thrawn - why even put it in someone else's universe? so the main cast can bear witness like a greek chorus? grow up.

ff8 was like two decades early on

• crafting game
• melodramatic romance game
• roguelike deckbuilder

im now about 10hrs in and about to go on the seed exam in dollet, as soon as i win the quistis card