No joke, this is valuable parenting advice. Just remember to teach them what their obligations are for the exchange:
Since it doesn’t really matter, it shouldn’t escalate to a point where the consequences _would_ matter.
There’s no reason to get angry, no reason to get physical.
Don’t run from the argument, but don’t make it more than it is.
At least, that’s my take on it. Anyone else have any thoughts?
Um, exCUSE me, but gauntlets were not used with dueling pistols. At that point they used dueling gloves. This is the most important fact on the planet to be clarified, and I won’t accept your death-or-honour declaration until you follow goddamn protocol and throw down the right handwear.
Exactly! When you learn to fight with facts and logic, you have to adapt *those* things (and general rhetoric abilities) in order to get better at it. Channel competitiveness into intellectual honesty.
My wife’s mom used to have a rule: If it reached a ruckus to the point where someone was hurt and/or crying, there would be consequences for all involved. As I was an only child, I was rather immune from that particular concern.
And let them know it’s OK to concede an argument and admit you’re wrong.
Pal87
4 years ago
Hey right you know.
Kitty
4 years ago
Ehp-ep-ep
Ambaryerno
4 years ago
Exactly.
Also, it’s NOT A SNOWSPEEDER. The deck officer even said they had trouble adapting them to the cold, so clearly the speeders the Rebels used at Hoth weren’t designed to operate in that environment.
Seems like it was a modified air speeder, that the rebels colloquially called a “snowspeeder”
The snowspeeder was a type of T-47 airspeeder manufactured by Incom Corporation and modified by the Rebel Alliance. They saw use during the Battle of Hoth against the Galactic Empire, taking down Imperial All Terrain Armored Transports with their tow cables
Jacob Bielski
4 years ago
So do your kids really like Episode II? Or are they just into the Close Wars cartoon?
It’s mostly the Clone Wars show, which I also to be consider some of the finest Star Wars we’ve ever gotten. It doesn’t redeem the prequels, but it does make them far more bearable.
I agree, Tim. I LOVED the clone wars show, and now I am ok with going back to watch the prequels a second time, so that my wife can watch them for the first time.
If you care to mess with swapping back and forth between, watching the last few episodes of The Clone Wars interstitched with RotS to create the timeline is fantastic. You can find timestamps online for when to swap between the show and the film.
I think it does redeem the prequels, but I have the unpopular opinion they weren’t that bad to begin with – if you researched the extra materials to understand what was really going on, and excused the forced hasty love story.
In other words they were awful as stand alone movies, yeah.
Main thing thats made me look more favorably on the prequels was finding out just how much worse it could have been. Flaws and all they were masterpieces compared to Last Jedi.
Leon
4 years ago
What if they start learning from Saints Row?
Marvin Williams
4 years ago
Wait…am I the only one noticed that this is the future of Ethan and Lilah?
M D
4 years ago
I’m like “damn, Tim’s looking old as hell.” And then realized I’ve been reading this comic nearly 20 years, so I am too…
I’ve thought he looks a bit like Tony Stark, but that’s probably due to facial hair drawn, I’ve never seen his RL photo. (the movie Tony Stark, I didn’t read the comics, alas, so can’t compare)
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No joke, this is valuable parenting advice. Just remember to teach them what their obligations are for the exchange:
Since it doesn’t really matter, it shouldn’t escalate to a point where the consequences _would_ matter.
There’s no reason to get angry, no reason to get physical.
Don’t run from the argument, but don’t make it more than it is.
At least, that’s my take on it. Anyone else have any thoughts?
Woah, woah, woah… it doesn’t really matter?
Well excuse me, sir! *throws down gauntlet* *selects dueling pistols*
🙂
Um, exCUSE me, but gauntlets were not used with dueling pistols. At that point they used dueling gloves. This is the most important fact on the planet to be clarified, and I won’t accept your death-or-honour declaration until you follow goddamn protocol and throw down the right handwear.
*realises his error has brought dishonour to his family*
*continues to mix time periods and cultures inappropriately by committing seppuku*
Alas, I could only upvote the posts in this conversation once…
Please say you used a Māripi to perform seppuku to seriously mess with more time periods and cultures.
We’ll never know, but my guess is that the guy used a laser pistol.
You should have written Sudoku so that Me-Me could go “Um, exCUSE me, but that is called Seppuku etc etc etc” to continue this joke line. XD
could also try commit sudoku with arrow,just for novelty of it
That arrow would only land in his knee and then he’d be complaining non-stop for dozens of Ingame years.
“Never bring a whip to a pistol fight”
Be sure to put on your dying clothes.
I love this thread so much
But Scortch, what colour should he dye his clothes?
I want to upvote OP, but it’s sitting on the holy number! xD
Erik B. Red or brown. Take your pick! ;D
Do you play on mac?
Also teach them to cite sources. Can’t just be arguing without facts to back it up.
Exactly! When you learn to fight with facts and logic, you have to adapt *those* things (and general rhetoric abilities) in order to get better at it. Channel competitiveness into intellectual honesty.
Since when? If It’s good enough for a President….
My wife’s mom used to have a rule: If it reached a ruckus to the point where someone was hurt and/or crying, there would be consequences for all involved. As I was an only child, I was rather immune from that particular concern.
And let them know it’s OK to concede an argument and admit you’re wrong.
Hey right you know.
Ehp-ep-ep
Exactly.
Also, it’s NOT A SNOWSPEEDER. The deck officer even said they had trouble adapting them to the cold, so clearly the speeders the Rebels used at Hoth weren’t designed to operate in that environment.
They were MODIFIED T-47 airspeeders. Modified to SPEED on SNOW. IT’S A SNOWSPEEDER.
Seems like it was a modified air speeder, that the rebels colloquially called a “snowspeeder”
The snowspeeder was a type of T-47 airspeeder manufactured by Incom Corporation and modified by the Rebel Alliance. They saw use during the Battle of Hoth against the Galactic Empire, taking down Imperial All Terrain Armored Transports with their tow cables
So do your kids really like Episode II? Or are they just into the Close Wars cartoon?
It’s mostly the Clone Wars show, which I also to be consider some of the finest Star Wars we’ve ever gotten. It doesn’t redeem the prequels, but it does make them far more bearable.
The only thing I enjoyed more than the clone wars show is the Mandalorian.
I agree, Tim. I LOVED the clone wars show, and now I am ok with going back to watch the prequels a second time, so that my wife can watch them for the first time.
If you care to mess with swapping back and forth between, watching the last few episodes of The Clone Wars interstitched with RotS to create the timeline is fantastic. You can find timestamps online for when to swap between the show and the film.
2D or 3D Clone Wars series? The latter is a standout among animated series, but Gendy Tarkovsky blows most feature films out of the water.
Isn’t there a fan edit of the prequels that actually make them very good?
Compared to that notion, the Death Star (or Starkiller Base) seem simple and trivial.
I think it does redeem the prequels, but I have the unpopular opinion they weren’t that bad to begin with – if you researched the extra materials to understand what was really going on, and excused the forced hasty love story.
In other words they were awful as stand alone movies, yeah.
I’ll see your Clone Wars and raise you Rebels. It was probably the finest Star Wars storytelling I’ve ever seen.
Main thing thats made me look more favorably on the prequels was finding out just how much worse it could have been. Flaws and all they were masterpieces compared to Last Jedi.
What if they start learning from Saints Row?
Wait…am I the only one noticed that this is the future of Ethan and Lilah?
I’m like “damn, Tim’s looking old as hell.” And then realized I’ve been reading this comic nearly 20 years, so I am too…
I’ve thought he looks a bit like Tony Stark, but that’s probably due to facial hair drawn, I’ve never seen his RL photo. (the movie Tony Stark, I didn’t read the comics, alas, so can’t compare)