Star Trek vs. Star Wars (and a collection of memes)

People always slip through the cracks, especially in a medium where a young kid in his Mom's basement can hack the pentagon or a multi billion dollar social media giant with ease. Where else can you see billions of dollars in defense brought down by a single person who can't even drive a car, vote or buy alcohol. I'm betting the Great Firewall has quite a few cracks in it as well.

Just look at the recent GameStop fiasco.

Time and time again, when they try to shut something down, it gets out and proliferates anyways.

 

One difference though - Predators have personal cloaking devices, the Mandalorian doesn’t.

Predator wins easily.

 

Unless of course the Mandalorian rolls around in mud before the battle.


In "reality" it would come down to several factors:

• can the Mandalorian's visor allow him to see the predator through his cloak
• how effective are the Predator's weapons against Beskar

They each have their advantages. The Predator has his cloak, greater physical strength/toughness and his self-destruct nuke. The Mandalorian has superior armour, jet pack flight and more experience dealing with a wider array of threats (lightsabers, the force, greater range of creatures and technology).

Who wins depends on how the technology from their universes interact with one another. In any event, they are in the same ballpark in my mind. I don't think it is an easy win for either of them.

 

They have an immense amount of reach, too much in my opinion, but even they have their limits. If they push too hard, they will simply be bypassed. Especially something like Facebook. Facebook's strength comes from its user base, remove that, and they are essentially nothing but useless software (I'm exaggerating a bit, but the point stands). Myspace was once immensely powerful until it was not. If Facebook goes to far, the same could happen to them. There is nothing innately special about Facebook, it could be replaced. Google is a bit more tricky as their reach is far more diversified, but they too are not invulnerable.

Then there is the issue of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. If Social Media keeps trying to push their luck, removing them from that protection would cripple them. If they want to act as publishers, by choosing which ideas are allowed to propagate and which ones are shut down, then let them be liable for all the content on their site. They would be sued into oblivion.

The next factor is that the internet is global. To defeat the internet you would need to defeat it everywhere... and I just don't see that happening. Especially as such a small number of people with even limited amount of resources can unleash a huge amount of virtual devastation.

Lastly, there is one more truth that people often don't want to hear or acknowledge. When you push people too far, history has taught us that there is eventually only one outcome, which I say is doubly true in the US. Step on the first amendment for long enough, and the people might just resort to a second one.

Are you fully up-to-date on the Mandalorian season 2? Because that can be easily refuted.

 

Obviously satirical, but can you imagine?

https://babylonbee.com/news/lucasfi...Rk8_CmC3flJJNrbAle7EcVQUwGNmqFt8wX-rhPo9S3_54

 

That movie will bomb without Depp. Depp is the entire series; it is successful almost solely because of him. At least he will have some sort of pseudo revenge through her failure.

 

Yeah, I’m not even going to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 6 if they do even make it, because most of the characters’ story arcs were tied up nicely at the end of the last one. It’s only Jack’s story arc that could actually carry on into a 6th film, and without him there would be no connection between it and the other 5 films.

I personally think that pirate ship has well and truly sailed. At least they managed to finish the story in that series.

His departure from the film franchise is 100 times worse in the Fantastic Beasts series as I’ve mentioned before in the Harry Potter thread, as it’s only two of the planned five films have been made and he’s the main villain. I don’t know what they’re going to do there or whether it will work.

Another nice sci-fi crossover! Jedi and Sith would have a very good chance of being able to defeat the Xenomorphs as they have no defence against Lightsabers.

 

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lightsaber_shoto