Well said. This is my take on it too. It’s really the only reasonable approach.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_star

That doesn’t seem to be entirely accurate.

The deal is the weird part where they made a specific point of and big deal out of the new classification not being a type of planet despite having the word planet in the name.

I think you would be surprised how many people would not only understand but also engage in the same activity.

Probably wiser to delay than to take a misstep when trying to edge into the Sims’ territory. I hope Life by You succeeds. EA and the Sims have been lazy, abusive, and out right thieving for so long now.

I like how as you descend into evil and madness you increasingly discard the “don’t draw attention to yourself” part and with chaotic evil the wealth generation aspect is pretty much forgotten. The progression feels right.

Not the richest fastest but probably nice and discreet: electronics repair shop using mending.

Being funded by the John Templeton Foundation certainly doesn’t do anything for the credibility of the paper.

Well he didn’t do a doctor strange. I don’t think it’s more interesting. I think it panders to the portion of the audience that quietly likes those negative traits and probably preps a lot of less than critically thinking readers to be more receptive to those traits. It also doesn’t fit the thematic style of stars which pretty clearly settles into clean camps of good and bad. The emperor served the function of embodying everything that was clearly bad. He was deceitful, sadistic, authoritarian, genocidal, xenophobic, vengeful, and probably much more but I think you get the point. He didn’t serve as a complex character, he served as one of the extremes of the moral landscape that the actual characters navigated. At arguably the highest climax of the story Vader is only redeemed because he rejects the symbol of evil. Adding a secret motive that makes excuses for his blood soaked accumulation of power mucks up the story framing and didn’t even come close to accounting for the vast array of just plain evil traits he exhibits. He didn’t cackle gleefully while making a father and son fight to the death because it was a grim but necessary step to protect the galaxy, he did it because he is the personification of evil in the story.

I do think that there is a place for complex villains. They are generally much more interesting but they also require a skilled writer and importantly an audience that can understand that, complexity aside, they are still the villain. We can look at the alarming percent of the Breaking Bad/Rick and Morty/Punisher fan bases that don’t get that to see the perils of that type of story telling reaching the wrong people. The emperor was not one of those complex characters and trying to retcon that in was at best clumsy and foolish.

I’ve always hated the story lines that turn authoritarian genocidal megalomaniacs into the good guys and I have a hard time understanding how so many people are not off put by that.

Of all the options available to post covering this story why would you choose to direct traffic to fox news?

What is the rainbow press?

The hair and buttons are also give aways.

What’s it like being so willfully wrong?

Nah you were genuinely wounded that I didn’t revere the yuuzhan vong.

Nah the mini rant tips your hand. You were not being tongue in cheek, you were being sincere.

Kind of a shitty tone to take over a crappy plot line.

The yuuzhan vong will never be canon for me.

That’s part of what I meant. Even the length that they admit to doesn’t cover the full extent of their real intent.

When they are forced to under oath sure but the scope of their malice extends to not just the people they hate but anyone that will interact with them or even engage in commerce with them.