Jonathan Meer Wrote:That spoiler makes me very glad I didn't play the second one. Sounds awful

Rose Wrote:Somewhere between watching the Clone Wars cartoon and playing SWTOR, I just ... 'got over' Star Wars. It feels like with this level of spinnoffage, we should see some development, some progression in the universe, but it's still exactly the same. Even with TOR, which is thousands of years before the movies, it still feels exactly the same. It's only a tiny detail really, but it hit home when someone pointed out the bounty hunter's carbonite freeze, which is an obvious 'homage' to the original movies. It feels like pandering though, and even at the expense of consistency (wasn't freezing people in carbonite something that hadn't been tested when they did it to Solo?)

Same reason I don't read comics. It's incredibly patronising to get fed the same shit over and over because whoever makes these calls would rather not take risks, and because of the vocal people who flip their shit when volume 2 isn't just more of volume 1.

Tyr Wrote:Like: America.

Hate: I am absolutely shit at guessing girls' ages. That could have turned out so bad. Also getting sick after only staying here for a week is pretty bs.

Tyr Wrote:Hate: I am absolutely shit at guessing girls' ages. That could have turned out so bad.

Kole T. Merr Wrote:This sounds like a fun story...

Was she 13?

Tyr Wrote:Storytime: So for people who don't know, I'm about 6'3" (ish) and so I'm usually considered tall when entering the standard household. I arrive over here and, never having seen any of the people over here before, need to get introduced to everyone. So my uncle's family arranges a family meeting day, where I'm to meet the (non-blood related, but technically related) family of my uncle's wife's sisters. First I meet the youngest sister who just go her first child, cute as a button quiet 4 year old girl. Quiet kids = instant points.

Then comes the eldest sister who has three kids. In comes one on the age of my uncle's son, my cousin, a girl on 7 and then in comes her big brother and big sister. Noisy and rowdy tomboyish little girl and I would estimate the big brother to be around 5'2". I get introduced to them all and then I get told he's 15 before the conversation is cut off and we move before I get to her sister, who's either my height or just slightly taller. I'm immediately intrigued and my brain sure as hell suddenly remembers we're not related by blood.

Time passes, when I later hear more about her daily life and start to think I seriously fucked up my American essays on American school and education. She says she's still in high school and moving up a grade in it, instead of going out of it. My face is just a puzzled look at this point. Then her mom talks about telling her about me and she apparently "immediately got that 'oooh is he hot' look on her face" and started to beautify herself in record time, so I'm shooting jokes like 'sorry to disappoint you', everybody's laughing and I'm just forgetting about it.

Then after dinner, we sit down again and keep talking and my cousin (uncle's son, whatever) start playing with their youngest sister, when the oldest girl turns to their brother and goes 'they're just like us, one year apart and playing together'. My brain instantly flashes an image of pedobear as I casually turn around to my uncle 'Uhm... How old is she again?'

[spoiler]14.

No go.
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Kole T. Merr Wrote:Wait...So not only was she a bit young, but she was also kind of almost sort of not really your cousin?