The Star Destroyer and Imperial Military Doctrine
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#2I love that this dude exists and does what he does. I don’t have the attention span to read 20 pages on Star Wars Imperial Military Doctrine, but I appreciate that it exists.
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#3This is the sort of silly and smart and insanely-well researched bit of fun that was the norm during the blogging era of ~ 2000-2010 before the social media era really set in. I miss it.
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#4I love that this dude exists and does what he does. I don’t have the attention span to read 20 pages on Star Wars Imperial Military Doctrine, but I appreciate that it exists.
'The pedant' can be quite wordy in general, but keep in mind that most of the scroll bar on that page is filled up by the comments.
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#5This is the sort of silly and smart and insanely-well researched bit of fun that was the norm during the blogging era of ~ 2000-2010 before the social media era really set in. I miss it.
I think we are actually past the social media era (or at least we are past its peak).
Btw, the total absolute amount of new good blog content is probably not any lower than during the golden age you harken back to. (And of course all the old material is mostly still there, thanks also to various archives.) The relative amount might have gone down, but for your and my individual content consumption absolute amounts matter more.
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#6 And this creates a bit of an oddity, because in the Clone Wars, the Republic fleet is essentially built around fast carriers – the Venators – and their fighters, whereas it is the CIS fleet which has specialized gunboats (along with the slower Lucrehulks that function as carriers), but by the time we get to the Empire, the doctrine has switched: the ISD is clearly a gun platform first and foremost, which carries its own fighter screen, but expects to win with its primary battery, not its (flimsy) TIE-Fighters
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#7This is the sort of silly and smart and insanely-well researched bit of fun that was the norm during the blogging era of ~ 2000-2010 before the social media era really set in. I miss it.
I think we are actually past the social media era (or at least we are past its peak). Btw, the total absolute amount of new good blog content is probably not any lower than during the golden age you harken back to. (And of course all the old material is mostly still there, thanks also to various archives.) The relative amount might have gone down, but for your and my individual content consumption absolute amounts ma…
Yes, but how to find it? There are no longer "web rings" and search engines aren't designed to highlight blogs above rich media content.
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#8I'm a little confused by the characterization of the rebellion as a continuation of the Old Republic fast carrier philosophy as, as far as I can recall in the current canon, there is no emphasis on carriers at all but rather on individual fighters that are independent of carriers due to their hyperdrives (which, along with shields, have been the primary distinguishing factors between the rebellion and Imperial starfighter forces).
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#9Maybe just my nostalgia for old star wars lore, but I found this to be a surprisingly pleasant read. It felt like a conversation with old friends at 3 in the morning.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think we are actually past the social media era (or at least we are past its peak). Btw, the total absolute amount of new good blog content is probably not any lower than during the golden age you harken back to. (And of course all the old material is mostly still there, thanks also to various archives.) The relative amount might have gone down, but for your and my individual content consumption absolute amounts ma…
Yes, but how to find it? There are no longer "web rings" and search engines aren't designed to highlight blogs above rich media content.
Agora Rd and similar small forum sites are still there, like the hole in the wall restaurants that people have to choose to go to instead of McDonald's. Prices are higher, algorithms are worse, but there's genuine connection there.