A lot of people are unaware of Marlon Brandos extensive efforts to bring attention to Indigenous rights issues. From attempting to platform an Indigenous person during the Oscars, to giving an RV to the American Indian Movement that the feds would pull over in Wichita, it is no wonder we find him at the Fish-ins during 1964. The title image shows Brando with Puyallup tribal leader Bob Satiacum, Brando is holding one of 2 steelhead salmon he caught during the protest.
It's important to note the real impetus of these protest not only being the Puyallup but the Nisqually people as well which, the right hand map shows in reference to Puyallup. Puyallup being in the middle of Tocoma, Nisqually is right outside the western city limits. All of this history of course is underpinned by settler-colonialism that we can't help but see being repeated (only with modern technology) in Palestine.
Of course we all know Lewis and Clark to be foundational to western expansion, their expedition having ended in the PNW, it makes sense why when Ft. Lewis was built they would name it after Meriwether. This is why we can't colonial occupation and land grabs to something "hundreds of years ago" considering Bill Frank was born only 25 years after their treaty was signed and lived to be 101. Our elders and leaders have a living memory of this time because it really wasn't that long ago
In total I have heard elders say 400 times the franks had been arrested, 40 were the times they were charged with a crime instead of only having property seized
And if you are ever lucky enough to meet the people who grew up learning from the Frank's, you will see why I felt the need to inform people more about this topic. You see February 12th marked 50 years since the courts ruled in favor of the organizers
Yet the salmon are not safe, and in fact are on the brink of extinction. When I went to the Pacific Northwest I went to Frank's Landing, I visited the Puyallup, and then I went North to Lummi. There I would have an interview with Children of the Setting Suns production crew, and would meet with Jewel James. There I learned about the effort to establish an International governing body to protect the salmon from over-exploitation called the Salmon Peoples Project, which would seek to connect people who rely on salmon for their way of life, to fight on behalf of the Salmon.
Solidarity on an International level has always been at the root of Red Power, and is why I think people should learn to put down their hubris, and humble themselves to hear about the kinship between our nations and the other-than-human nations that are often hard for settlers to understand.
There's a great song by the AIM activist Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman (a grandpa of mine) called "They Didn't Listen" which is painfully relevant today, as is his song "Where were you when" when I mention humbling oneself to hear another world. While in Lummi I learned their traditional river only saw 3 salmon return, and I was honored with a can of smoked salmon of one of them, and feasted with them after being invited to an incredible ceremony to celebrate the end of a totem journey.
This is despite the best conservation efforts of settler society, and the elders there believe this year there will be no salmon if the dams are not removed. There has been incredible efforts to do this, but the question remains what will happen? Have their predictions changed since 2019 and 2021 when I last heard them? We will see.
I can only talk so much about this specific story out of respect for the people who I was a guest to, but you can read about it https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-carvers-totem-pole-to-journey-across-pacific-northwest-to-bolster-dam-removal-movement/ where I am actually behind the camera as the photo of the 3 of them is takem (Jewel being to the right). They were actually laughing and smiling right before the camera took the photo and had to take considerable effort to stop smiling. The totem pole shown above is my photo of the same one shown in the paper, and neither of us took a photo of the other side. On the other side was a red women waiting to be reborn through the salmon, this symbolized Indigenous resurgence through traditional food systems brought into the future and updated. It was an honor to have met these people and shared our stories, to hear how they valued the salmon like we value buffalo. I look forward to visiting again this year and to hear about the dams they are tearing down, and what theyre carving next.
Most recently was a totem pole https://around.uoregon.edu/content/totem-pole-journey-will-make-stop-uo-campus that was an orca being ridden by an Indigenous woman in reference to the same orca from 2018 that inspired the journey I saw the end of. They call orcas the people under the sea, and I think when we see literal organized attacks on yachts, we should consider what that means for organizing given stories of crows collecting change for people when trained to. Theres a lot you can do thinking outside the box, to me this is how we invent the future
So if you learned something and want to help us out we are currently raising $1000 for an Anishinaabe families electric bill that got away from them with rising prices, and ultra cold, cold spells and weirdly warm spells making bills extremely unpredictable. As well, the utility is owned by enbridge who is being required to remove Line 5 from Bad River lands where this family lives, to us we believe there might be a case of mass retaliation through raising prices. We have 711/1000 we are also looking for help paying the storage costs of an elder and community leaders ceremonial items he has had to store to house 15 people during the winter. We have 87.50/200 needed to pay that bill.
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Nerds- it seems like every jedi in the prequels was a commander of a at least a squad of clone bois during the Clone boi wars. How did they feel about serving under Mace Windu? The dude who beheaded their All-Father?
The losers retconned almost all the Mando stuff
So they aren't clones of Boba Fett anymore?
Never were, it was Jango and very few were raw Jango. Most were heavily tampered with and not all got put in touch with their cultural heritage.
I meant more that the animated series shit all over the established lore so it’s mostly a moot point if they are or not. Some of the behind the scenes people had a grudge against Karen Travis and went out of their way to alter her contributions such as creating almost all of the language and lore originally.
Just watched the movies. I ain't about to watch some cartoon about bad movies
Smart choice, the authors like Zahn and Travis did far more creative things with the setting than Lucas ever did and then it all got retconned anyways
I think the first movie rocks, Empire s pretty good, the rest are skippable and Andor is one f the best things ever filmed.
I like the entire first trilogy, but 5 > 4 > 6.
I watched the prequels as a child (as Lucas intended). Which seems to be a main divide in reception to it.
Andor is amazing, if you haven’t seen it Rogue 1 is good despite the retcons (where are the Bothans referenced in ANH?).
Rogue One became good retrospectively cause of Andor. I have a really odd relationship with stsr wars. I saw The OT and a friend's house when I was five and we watched them repeatedly and then the prequels came out inthinkni was 9 when phantom menace released and there was so much hype and it was stsr wars so I thought I was the one missing something. Then attack of the clones happened and I kinda fell off and didn't see revenge of the sith until the Plinkett review was coming out (I was a VERY early RLM guy, I think I found em in 2008). I was becoming a huge trekkie I'm the mean time but I've maintained an absolute fascination with the star wars franchise and its fans, so I watch the movies, I've now seen clone wars and will see all the other side garbage not cause I care at all about what's happening but because I find stsr wars and its fans sociologically nterstate as hell. I am Diane Fossy and they are my gorillas. Anything post Disney has been just boring corporate stuff but a film dream of mine is to tell the George Lucas story in a biographical doc. I kinda don't like star wars but also love star wars and have this almost scientific fascination with everything surrounding it, I guess my three stsr wars things that I think were worth shooting speak to it, the first movie, Empire and and andor and honestly is prefer empire not exist, it's a great movie but also what led the series down the road it went. Andor should have been made in 1978 and then star wars would be the best Sci fi ever.
I would argue it established some foundational stuff to it, but the MC was lib af. you may be right.
Lol, I saw the trailer for TPM around that age and my dad insisted I see the originals first. I was a bit younger though, like 10ish when ROTS came out.
I got huge into the books which saved me. When the retcons started I quit because I was a bigmad lore purist lol. Check out the subreddits for the purists (truEU, I think?). Its a special kind of Star Wars fan that never grew out of being mad about that AND still hatewatch everything.
willling to expand? that is a hot take indeed.
imagine lucas making an Andor-esque show still during the cold war, He used to be based for a lib at least since he admired the Vietnamese struggle (edit: he’d also go down in legend for inventing the prestige miniseries as well I guess)
Your last point is why I'd rather empire not exist, cause the other direction to tske would be andor 1978
Monkeys paw curls (he makes TPM in 78 with the edits necessary for practical effects)
Do t threaten me with a version of phantom menace that I'd probably love
Everything else stays the same except the podracing is mad max
I've wanted a movie or series preferably with George Miller at the head just about pisxracing since like 2003 whe. I first saw mad max. F Zero is also one of my favorite game series. I've always wanted podracing to be it's own series, it's got characters and cool machines to developers already and the concept is just sooooo fucking cool. I'm a sucker for futuristic death races
The old game was so lit, you could have a secret character sebulba and it turned into artic thunder.
A death race/ redline style pod show would rule
F Zero X was the better fast racing game on n64 that only I had which was a bummer and the character roster is just small biiiiit more weird and colorful than podracing but I'll take anyone's high speed futuristic death race show if they're giving it away
Does it hold up? I’ve never played a F game and am looking to emulate something tomorrow
It's soooo good. All time favorite of mine. The graphics are meh because they made sure it ran super fast at a steady 60 fps with 30 racers at a time, the controls are absolutely tight as hell too. If emulating I'd look into the right sensitivity settings to keep things as close the n64 stick as possible. This isn't Mario Kart, you will need to learn the tracks in time trial and practice your ass off to place in GP. It's fun as hell to learn and get good though. You're blasting around close to 1000mph or over and you gotta kkow how to hit 90 degree turn sequences with minimal speed loss to just be good. This game is tough as fucking nails but in a way that feels rewarding as hell to practice and master. Every single character looks like a Rob Liefeld comic book image and every song in it sounds like Judas Priest. It's an all time favorite of mine, but you gotta meet it at its level and that level is intense.
Thanks for putting it on my radar! Retro gaming on my day off seems like tomorrow is set!
I'm off tomorrow and and now feeling hyped to boot it up again too. Vehicle preference is personal but for the first ones available in find samurai goroh the most beginner friendly. You also adjust you acceleration/top speed ratio at the start of each race so that stat isn't totally tied to the car, it works weird, play a bit and get used to the controls and then look up some videos on how to race
Buddy, you did not mention the guitar riff it starts with. Hype engaged
Ahhhh no sound in gameplay, might need a better emulator
Nm, needed to enable memory pack setting.
Buh, the main theme goes hard
As wipeout is is drum and bass f zero x is to the 80s
You're gonna have so.much fun. Chances are you'll eat shit at GP the first go, you gotta time trial those courses
I won until the race 4, won I try two (novice with white cat). My emulator doesn’t let me ribond controls or tell me what the binds are so I’ll figure out a better solution tomorrow. Bet I’m hooked though. The hyperloop ass map is kicking my ass though (apparently attacks exist according to the wiki? I have a lot of binds to figure out seeing as I’m using a ds4 on an emulator lol)
The attacks are either double tapping Z or R for an n64 controller which will make you do aorta side checks and can also be used for cornering, there also a spin attack where you hold one button and double tap the other, this is pretty hard to control. For the most part taking out other racers is just a nice bonus, the game does point out the car who's closest in overall gp points to you and it can be good to take them out to catch up easier or widen the point gap but I wouldn't make it a goal. Focus on racing first
Hell yeah, I have poor impulse control so I’m downloading simple 64 rn tbh lol
'VAHOOOM!' - The title screen