Last I read they were upgrading them, looking at MCWS.

I guess somebody decided a 16ish ton difference between the M10 and the M1E3 made it redundant for tank-like roles, and the existence of the Stryker with a 105mm fills the strategically air mobile fire support role better.

Now we wait for the Army to figure out that the XM7 is just an M14 with extra steps.

So anyway, here’s a C4 snowman.

Things go differently in the current canon, but what you described was more or less what happened in the old EU. There was no line of succession or instructions for what happened if Palpatine died. His death, along with Vader and important central figures in the Empire in ROTJ left a lot of squabbling Moffs and Admirals of dubious levels of competence in control of splinters of the Empire.

It wasn’t until Thrawn that someone competent started consolidating Imperial forces again.

Here’s some Swiss graffiti.

I’m not going to count shows aimed at adult audiences because that feels like cheating (that also includes not listing anime aimed at adults because that doesn’t seem like the spirit of the question). Of shows aimed at and easily accessible during their run to children I’m going to say Courage The Cowardly Dog and Invader Zim.

Courage had insane creepy visuals in almost every episode.

Zim wasn’t consistently freaky to the point of being notable in every episode, but the ones that were, they were really out there. The show was from the mind of the creator of the Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (which I read as a kid thanks to my interest in Invader Zim) and the show’s darker elements are obviously reigned in just enough to get on TV.

Yes. It’s probably an even more interesting experience going in blind to the universe because you have no idea which characters are safe, or the bigger directions of certain plot points.

The Vice President’s brother!

It gets comical how the characters say that phrase so much instead of using his name, for audience benefit.

I appreciate each season changing things up with a different central conceit. As absurd as the Central American super prison and spy craft seasons were at least the show kept changing instead of spinning its wheels.

I am asking, sincerely, what they see in it and how they don’t get distracted by the gravely, old sounding voices. It is difficult to find these people.

You and @Geetnerd@lemmy.world are both right on the line for me to step in when it comes to personally insulting each other. You can disagree without belittling each other.

The OP specified canon comics already. The Vader and Doctor Aphra comics are in canon.

I suppose there is a business argument to be made, but I’m more curious about the audience perspective. Who are these 2 million viewers? What do they like about the show? Do many of them actually even care and rewatch new episodes or is it just background noise?

I don’t think this comic exactly applies; I’m not commenting about people not knowing some bit of trivia. Even if you didn’t grow up with the classic Simpsons, I don’t know how you can’t notice how old and stiff all the main cast sound. Marge sounds older than the voice acting for her mother in classic episodes.

My question is genuine when I ask who is watching these new episodes. Are they people who grew up with the classics who are somehow hanging on? Are they a new, younger audience? Either way, I don’t see what the appeal is. The older audience knows the classic episodes, and the younger audience seems to have many choices for animation that seem a lot more in step with them and without a distractingly aged main voicecast.

I don’t know who is still watching new episodes. Obviously someone, because the show keeps going, but I just don’t get it. Occasionally I see some youtuber say “Actually the show is good again.” and I check it out and never even get to thinking about the plot because all the voice acting is like a punch in the face. All the characters either sound distractingly old with their original voice actors or they sound totally wrong with new ones.

A turreted Gavin is not a tank. It is beyond such categorization.

I actually think season 2 of Prison Break was a perfectly natural and well done (for the intended tone) continuation of the story. I know people snarkily point out the title doesn’t strictly apply anymore, but I think convicts on the run from a manhunt fits. The show was from the beginning always a political conspiracy thriller baked inside of a prison story anyway.

The following seasons get increasingly absurd, but they are enjoyable in a silly way.

While season 2 of The Mandalorian had the distinct flavor of introducing executive producer mandated spin-off hooks, I still found it quite good overall. The finale was the perfect ending to the Mando and child storyline.

The perfect ending. We didn’t need anymore after that ending.

Everything Mando related after that has gone totally off the rails by undoing that ending, and the show has become a parody of itself.

I always figured the doctrine and procurement created mutual inertia against change.

They like it because they have it, and they have it because they like it.

I like the convenience of being shown all my subscriptions, and with a trained algorithm actually being shown suggestions I’d be interested in. I think with an account used just for YouTube and nothing else the value to Google is minimal. It’s the last thing I have left from de-googling everywhere else.

from other users.

Can you elaborate? Using a compartmentalized account just to watch videos seems it shouldn’t draw any attention unless you’re getting into fights in the comments.