#mixed bag

[mixelation]

me usually: i don't believe in intergenerational conflict

me today: i fought in the TRENCHES so you don't have to wear low rise jeans. and yet you forsake me? you forsake my brethren? you betray us?!

[chronicallyleggless]

queer4queer mixed bag! (Pack)

queer4queer

[stone-stars]

new mixed bag falls into my favorite genre of two crew media reaction which is emily saying she liked a piece of media and the boys all being various layers of horrified and shocked that anyone could like it.

[captainpondlilly]

Emily making the Halloween one shot absolutely terrifying, and the boys making the the goofiest, most dysfunctional family of Rogue PI's. A+, I love the Vantasmos.

[dougielombax]

Dave Filoni can be a damn good writer when he wants to be.

But lately it feels like he’s been rushing things or working on autopilot.

The third season of The Mandalorian was jarringly uneven. It had some great moments and stories but the ending felt too damn fast. (I loved seeing Coruscant again, and the flashback showing Grogu escaping from the temple, the Nevarro battle was great, I just wish that Carson Teva was there to help)

The Ahsoka series was a VERY mixed bag. (I loved all the stuff with Baylan Skoll and seeing Ezra again (Eman Esfandi is brilliant btw!), C3P0 and R2D2’s cameo was a nice surprise, as well as seeing Huyang, Thrawn, the Nightsisters and the Purgills in live action, as well as live action Lothal, the Loth-cat animatronic puppets, the borderline feral fascism of imperial remnants, Enoch, but the constant ineptitude of the New Republic wore thin really fucking fast, the zombie stormtroopers were tedious, though I can look past Marrok’s death because it was unintentionally hilarious!)

(And shut up about lightsaber wounds being healed. Ahsoka was right there so she probably knew what to do)

The Bad Batch’s third season was great. Barring a few missed opportunities which I would’ve happily seen explored (more stuff about separatist holdouts, Cody continuing to doubt the empire’s purpose, etc)

Tales of the Empire was fantastic in some areas (I loved all the stuff with Morgan Elsbeth), and not so much in others.

It feels like he needs a few other co-writers to help him sort through stuff like pacing and side plots. Idk.

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . she felt them inhabiting some simulacrum of coupledom that was both torturous and enticing.

Curtis Sittenfeld, from Eligible

[kublakola]

the Hork-Bajir Valley vs Free Hork-Bajir valley distinction is SO FUNNY Jake is such a loser (affectionate)

[exc-lsior]

can’t believe that the vantasmos got got by binky fiasco 😂

[mustbebunnys]

I have thoughts and feelings on s19 and Maya/Carina. None of which I know how to concisely put into words. But the thoughts and the feelings, they are there.

To put my two cents in: the episode leaves a lot to be desired but the actors did a fine job with the material handed to them. Who ever is editing? Please, do better.

Anyway, RIP all the Mason is a good guy and brother fanfics—we hardly knew ye.

p.s.

Look how easily they can write Carina back onto Grey’s.

[neimiismycoolgirlname]

Surprise round! is the funniest podcast show

[marble-seafoam]

if you lovely talented people don’t make frankie vantasmo hot as fuck when you make his fanart i’m losing it on you

[mixelation]

i wanted to do a specific type of statistical test in R, but then it turned out there's currently no package that can do it for the specific way my data is configured, and i'd have to set up the test myself. this isn't beyond my meager coding capabilities, but i haven't had to come up with original code in a while (i just recycle old code), and my statistical understanding isn't that good either, so it was going to be a lot of work.

i complained to a labmate and they told me to just ask chatGPT. i know a lot of biologists do this for R help (and other types of coding help) so i decided to give it a go. chatGPT gave me some code and it was even annotated! it made sense at first glance and it worked with my data and spat out some numbers that fit with my expectations! so for about two minutes, I was happy.

but then. i looked over the code some more. did some further testing with fake data. it actually doesn't do the stat test correctly at all??? now i'm nervous about what other people are doing with chatgpt fdhjfdsl

[chronicallyleggless]

nonhuman4nonhuman mixed bag! (Pack)

[stone-stars]

[ID: The naddpod patreon Mixed Bag collection, with 69 entries in it.]

gamer energy drink mixed bag is the 69th mixed bag. no notes.

[ginger-canary]

I love when NADDPOD does taste test shit for the Mixed Bag because I become a Murph truther instantly

[hardwonsbf]

i listened to the phantom menace mixed bag last night while i was stoned + sick in bed (2/3 of the household has been taken down) and i stopped halfway through the episode, watched the entire movie, and returned to the episode review. it was not worth it, that movie is ass, but here are my thoughts!

- Yippee!!!

- where’s hayden christensen

- i just now learned how to spell hayden christensen’s last name

thats all. i only made this post because i’m about to watch attack of the clones & i actually am excited to talk about that one