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For what it is worth, I have always trusted you from the very beginning

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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM MY LITTLE PIXELS AND I.

HERE IS TO ANOTHER YEAR OF SIM ANTICS, CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT STORIES ARE TOLD THROUGH THE IMAGES YOU ALL SHARE

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Blake’s 7: The Animated Prequel (AI generated)

Happy New Year!

Midjourney v6. Prompt was just “Blake’s 7 Happy New Year” and the image was a happy accident + some minor edits.

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my friend pointed out that the sporadic use of normal and ~future~ names in blake's 7 is really funny sometimes, especially with servalan and travis. this is my oc queen evillienne darkraven and her traitorous lieutenant, craig

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Project2025 #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Syria’s Kurds set to announce federal system in Syrian Kurdistan [UPDATES]

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Mujhe toh yeh samjh nahi aa raha ki roj roj garba mein jaane ke liye new outfit kese aa rhe hai tum logo ke pass yaha mere gharwale ek outfit 10 functions mein pehne bolte hai 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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On the prowl...

Mhmmm... He might do nicely

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Now for the hard question: in your top 10 movie franchises list add in ALL of the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings movies in order of favorites.

Oh you have to ask the hard questions! Ok, let me see...in order for Star Wars:

Empire Strikes Back -- it is just such a good movie with some iconic Luke looks and Daddy-Son moments. It's so good and him with grandpa-Yoda is so cute. I also love how we see this lead up into Luke's change of perspective with everything.

Return of the Jedi -- Also great Luke and Daddy-Son moments. I think it barely inches over New Hope simply because I got to see it again on the 40th re-release in theaters and I was feral over how Luke looked. Also, loved the fighting scenes and we get Lando. I also happen to love the Ewoks.

New Hope -- May actually be in second place once RoJ-theater release gives me peace (need another few months). But this Luke is just so pure and whiny and I want to put him in my pocket forever and ever and ever. (let me throw this Luke at Din omg)

Revenge of the Sith -- UGH just UGH so god. Anakin is so hot in this and so messed up and this lead up is just fantastic and wonderful and absolutely tragic.

Rogue One -- I mean, how could I not adore this? It is absolutely AMAZING. Just heartbreaking with amazing graphics, awesome characters, and is only getting better thanks to the Andor series.

The Force Awakens -- Honestly, I adored this movie so much. It wasn't perfect, it needed more Luke and the original trio, but it had so much potential. I just thought it was leading up to something amazing and the memes Mark gave us after left me excited and laughing for a long time.

The Phantom Menace -- Part of this is spite-love for young Anakin and Jar Jar Binks; both deserve better. But honestly, I have rewatched this a few times recently and was all "this is actually great? why the hate?"

Attack of the Clones -- Honestly, I need to rewatch this again. It's just here cause I haven't rewatched it in a while and i don't know why. We get Jango! We get the Clones! Baby Boba! The SAND-QUOTE! Obi-Wan's mullet! The lead up to the Clone War series! Badass Yoda! Yeah, gotta do a re-watch.

Solo -- Again, i actually really enjoyed the movie. It wasn't the best but it wasn't bad. Honestly, there were just some weird choices for some story movements and character interactions but other than that? It was good. I need to rewatch it honestly.

The Last Jedi -- I hate, hate, hate what they did to my Luke. If they were going to go this route with him I'd understand 100% because it would make sense for him to to have so much PTSD and just be burnt out and so hurt (still, i think we have enough of this and deserve older heroes that are still full of hope and silly and are kind). But the execution and how he is made to be a loser is just wrong. There were also some other scenes and interactions that were "uh...no?" but the fight scenes were great, Po was great, I loved Rose, I loved Finn's story and realization. It was just really wonky, disjointed from what we were getting before, and I will keep my head-cannon Luke in my claws.

The Rise of Skywalker -- I...didn't like it. I saw it twice and actually checked the time till I could go home often (only have done that with like two other movies). It was so awkward, the dialogue was poor, the actors seemed done, there was so many random new stories thrown in at last second, characters were thrown away, "Palpatine somehow returned?" like...what??? It was just lame. Such a lame, lame ending. The OT-trio and the new trio deserved so much better. It needs a re-do.

Now for the Lord of the Rings!:

The Fellowship of the Ring -- Even though it wasn't the most action packed, what it sparked, how good it was...just AUGH perfection. I adore this movie so much.

The Two Towers -- Incredible, amazing, also perfect. Great action, all the characters are given their due-time (with Legolas making faces). I love it.

Return of the King -- AMAZING ENDING. The wraps up is just...the moments of suffering and the release. The HAPPINESS. How ever gets what they deserve (tho RIP Boromir) just adore it so much.

The Desolation of Smaug -- PERFECT. Except for maybe some off CGI, this movie was amazing. So much Bagginshield, the intense cliffhanger, the Arkenstone....it was so good. I adored this movie so much!

An Unexpected Journey -- I adore Bilbo. I love him so much. And how this opened up Bagginshield just how could I not adore it??

Battle of the Five Armies -- I didn't like it the first time I watched it. But a few more times I was "huh, actually, it's not bad!" It honestly should've been loads better. There were so many wonky decisions and everything that happened did not feel like it met up with the end of a trilogy. But the end....how everyone survived! Can you believe that there was absolutely NO HEARTBREAK WHAT'SO'EVER??

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What did you mean you were "biased" about the Elli & Helena stuff? You said it in your tags, but how can you be biased about that?

Ehhhhhhh, alright, might as well. This is copy-pasted from the ROJ Discord:

"I figure y’all are all due an update since I said I’d be back by now and ROJ has gone pretty quiet. And with some recent discussions going on in the community, discussing ROJ came back up.

I wanna tread carefully with this because I don’t want saying any of this to feel like I’m trying to take the spotlight off people more directly involved. Because while I did miss an opportunity here that I’m very sad about, other folks lost actual jobs and that feels self centered to focus on me. But I’m also not gonna lie and say that seeing some of the community response has me hopeful that maybe the community could motivate the team to change their minds.

That’s a bit vague so let’s be direct. You may have seen recently that SSE has shuttered their publishing department from Elli and Helena talking about how there won’t be more comics or books. I knew this happened months ago because, surprise, I’d been in contract negotiations with SSE to make ROJ an official IP. I’d been kinda tongue and cheek about this, it was an open secret with friends since there was no contract yet. And there never ended up being one unfortunately. When the team shuttered the department, I got a very kind email from the department head and that’s been the end of it.

This is why 1.1 got delayed for so long. I’d been hoping that instead of 1.1, ROJ would move into official production and get a relaunch. So I kept pushing off the release of what was arguably an already ready version of 1.1 until things got signed and we moved forward. 1.1 released very shortly before I got the news. Just had a feeling things were changing, and I was right.

All of this has made coming back to ROJ difficult. I back burnered it originally to focus on other projects until contracts were done but ended up a lot more painful than that after nearly two years of trying to make a deal happen. I don’t begrudge that being the time these things take to produce well or SSE for it taking that long, but it is still two years of my life that I spent excited that maybe I’d get to bring more lore and worldbuilding to this franchise I adore, and a platform for all of y’all to share your ideas as well! ROJ was never going to be true canon but it was a fan’s dream come true. I’ve been playing since international launch, this was bringing every community fan head canon to the table. In some small way at least.

Again, of any people who deserve attention during this discussion about the department shuttering, it’s Elli and Helena. They’re amazingly talented and they deserved better than what they got. If there ever is a return of the publishing department, it should be for their works.

But the discussion has brought it all back up for me too and I thought I’d at least talk a little about why ROJ has come to a standstill. It’s hard to go back to working on the system after two years of talks and because of the short notice that things rolled out, not even some closure on running ROJ as a fan project. That’s how serious things had been, I wasn’t getting resources to continue ROJ as a fan project cause I’d been told the team was committed to seeing it officially published. It’s kinda hard to come back to that and the hiatus was a good enough excuse for me to just not.

This all is very bittersweet, and I should say, I’m not mad at the team or the folks I worked with during that time. It would have been an amazing opportunity and I’m grateful for them working so hard to get ROJ out for so long. But I’m also just sad about the whole thing and I don’t see ROJ getting more attention until I can process that.

Please show your support for Elli and Helena. Their works are amazing and they deserve more support from the community. And if you haven’t already, follow their other works too!

Y’all have been the best and most supportive community and ROJ wouldn’t be where it is without you. I’m so grateful to have met you all. ROJ may come back one day. But we’ll see."

Again, I've been hesitant to talk about this because, mostly, I don't want to take the spotlight off the people who were more seriously impacted. ROJ didn't get a contract, I'm not in the lurch like this closure left other folks because I hadn't adjusted to making ROJ my full time work yet. I also don't want to burn bridges in the event that the department ever returns, which is why I've tried to focus this discussion on the creators and supporting them over pushes to reestablish the department (although I appreciate those as well). I would love still to make the official ROJ transition happen, but I don't want that so badly that I'm not trying to do my best to support these creators post the closure, and realistically, y'all should be too. That's why I made that post with all the resources.

Hope that clears up my "bias."

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And one more for the intellectual challenge for redemption au Eddie:

A digital message has been delivered! It reads >>

What kind of ribbons do politicians use?

Neuf ggivxlggh! M yidk ydy'ii jxtimek etcz mexr vikmcmdg lxjv, wrfellrx. Fhmt eeh vxe bi jspxtxqv, mi roj imiu pacx r ldvktv fr bhug wzhh. Eoki, Klh Focipwsbdtv. 

-🕷

He's so unbearably bored. It used to be in moments like these that he'd start working on a new project, a new crime to outwit Batman. He didn't do that anymore. Now every day was filled with these empty stretches of boredom that were sheer agony.

And then a message. He squints at the text, not recognizing the sender, before realizing- it's a riddle. He sits up straight, finally having something to do- at least for a few moments.

The riddle itself is easy. What kind of ribbons do politicians use? Red tape.

Then there's the issue of the code. They have to be related right? And the simplest solution would be a substitution cipher. The Riddle answer must be the keyphrase. He could pop it into a decoder, but where would be the fun in that? So instead he painstakingly translates it letter by letter according to the phrase- just to keep the game going a bit longer.

And finally he gets the message:

Warm greetings! I hear you're getting back into civilian life, somewhat. Come and see me sometime, if you ever want a hacker on your side. Love, The Moneyspider.

Huh. He hadn't had anyone other than Batman reach out to him before. Does this mean people are starting to finally trust him?

Well, regardless he sends a message back:

Clever. Thanks for the game. I'll keep you in mind, Moneyspider.

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Big Tech, Big Lawsuit — Review of Journalism

My first online feature for fourth-year TMU magazine Review of Journalism, in which I briefly dissected, with the help of tech law/ethics experts, the lawsuit between 5 legacy news companies and OpenAI.

Reporting this avenue of news opened me up to tech journalism, and gave me valuable experiences in researching media, tech ethics, and AI.

"Given that recent research has found that critical thinking skills diminish with increased reliance on AI tools, the growing usage of services like ChatGPT could be problematic for the state of news media consumption, says [Christelle] Tessono. “I feel like we’re not going to be able to be as critical as we are now when reading literature.”

S/O to journalists and fellow RoJ '25 editors Quinnlyn Alexander, Rougine Kazemi and Andrew Roberts, who oversaw the development of this piece.

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KFC Opens New Restaurant in Christiana, Manchester, Creating 40 Jobs

Christiana, Manchester – Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ) has officially opened its newest KFC location in Christiana, Manchester, marking a significant milestone in the brand’s ongoing expansion across the island. The new restaurant, which opened its doors on Sunday, November 24, represents an investment of approximately $220 million and creates 40 new jobs in the local community. The Christiana…