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This scene always drove me nuts. It seems so unrealistic that a ship could survive crash landing onto the planet like that.
You’re looking for realism in a film about space wizards?
The technology isn’t presented as magical so yes. Just because people can move objects with their mind doesn’t mean gravity doesn’t exist.
Suspension of disbelief only works if it feels like you’re trying to make the system consistent. If you start doing whatever you want because the story isn’t entirely based on our reality then it becomes an uninteresting story
The technology isn’t presented as magical…?
Kyber crystal? Hyper lanes? FTL? THE FORCE? Star Wars is sci-fi in flavouring only. There’s no sci in that fi at all. And that’s ok, that’s not the point of the stories.
Star Wars is technically more a space opera than a sci fi.
Space opera is sci fi.
As a note… in many countries and languages there is no distinction between fantasy and sci fi. Sci fi is just modernist, scientificism inspired fantasy. Eventually hard sci fi came to be, and overtook most of the genre, but there are no requirements for sci fi to “make scientific sense”. It just has to have space, robots, lasers etc.
I mean, if you go by how the genre was born and all.
Do we have any data on how Reddit’s business was affected?
I think all we know so far is that desktop traffic dropped 3% in the month of June. So pretty much, we have barely any data at all. We need information on total traffic and mobile traffic, and from July 1 onwards.
I guess we can also say that Reddit got pretty horrible press, but we don’t know if that’s had a financial impact.
“desktop traffic” sounds like a carefully chosen statistic which would exclude all the users of 3rd party apps. Frankly they were presumably hoping this measure would go up?
What they’re really hoping is for more mobile users to be forced into the official app, not the desktop. Desktop people can choose Old.Reddit (for now) and block some or all ads. Mobile users on the app provide a ton of marketable data, including, if I’m not mistaken, location data at least while the app is open. They want the user data and to sell Reddit Premium or ads to users, because there’s otherwise no path to profitability. What they have now is a very slim chance of profit, but their analysts must be huffing that hopium, because they alienated a massive amount of their biggest users, which is who made the site what it is.
Since we switched to Lemmy I removed the Reddit app and the Apollo app, but did occasionally browse a single subreddit in Firefox mobile app whilst not logged in. Now they’ve totally walled off the whole site. Ridiculous.
Walled off the site? Like, no access if not logged in?
Yes. Login, Sign up or install the app.
I can browse Reddit on Firefox mobile without logging in. Are you trying to access a NSFW sub? Because that doesn’t work. But it’s been like this for way longer than the recent protests.
Is it really that bad over there now? I haven’t been since RIF died
I check it every so often without logging in. A lot of the old major subs went dark and both All and Popular are almost exclusively memes. The occasional News or Politics article breaks through but, and this may be because I usually didn’t visit All, it’s like looking at a completely different website. The comments aren’t too much different but it feels like desktop users are getting the upvotes now as opposed to the shorter but still solid replies from mobile users.
The fandom subs I frequented (Star Wars, NBA, etc.) have sort of gone to shit, though it’s hard to tell how much of that was always there. Actually the biggest difference may be just how unmoderated some of the big subs are, so where before duplicate posts on the same topic would be removed in Technology, now you’ll see 20 articles on the same thing. I suspect Reddit admins are inflating vote counts to make engagement look the same as always when participation is actually down, but it’s just a hunch. I have no proof of it.
