I've Been Tricked!
That's what my son likely thought when he finished watching Toast Wars this morning. To understand the humor in this little moment, allow me to provide some back story.
When I was in my junior year of high school, my cousins and I decided to make a Star Wars parody movie during the summer. The goal wasn't to be too serious and accurately reproduce everything but to see how ridiculous we could make things and still have a working script.
The plot revolves around Dark Vapor (Darth Vader) intercepting a message from Luke Piewalker to Leia Organa, letting her know the Rebel Toaster is operational and can now make toast for her. With the help of his apprentice (Dark Paper), Dark Vapor and the Emperor set off to destroy the toaster to annoy Leia, while Luke Piewalker trains with Yoga (Yoda) to stop them.
In one particular scene, we mocked the "Imperial walker" by creating an Imperial "roller." The contraption was nothing more than a box on top of a toy flatbed truck, with a face doodled on the front, and eyeholes cut out so we could put turkey basters through the holes and shoot water.
The Imperial "roller" assaulting the toaster
Fast forward to this morning and my son, who is now obsessed with watching Toast Wars after he found out I helped make it, abruptly comes up to me while I'm soaking my shoulder in the bathtub (That's another story for a different day) and says "Did you know that the Imperial roller is just a box on a toy truck? I can see the yellow wheels!" I responded to my son with, "Yes, it's pretend. It's to be funny." His frown turned into a grin and then a smile, when he realized it wasn't supposed to be a trick but just a joke.
This just goes to show you that even kids can sometimes take things too seriously and not enjoy things simply for the amusement, joy or entertainment they bring. Sometimes the simple things are better, and if we can move past the fact that something isn't "professionally done" or quite as detailed as we'd like, we can begin to notice and appreciate the smaller things that we likely overlook and take for granted.
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Unfortunately there’s a lot of gatekeeping regarding posts and the ever nebulous “quality” of them.
This stems back from the Steem days where you needed to post at least 1000 words for something to be considered worthy of an upvote. There are still a few nutbags that have carried this attitude across to Hive. These are the same people who accuse others of “raping the blockchain”, while doing just that and wanting to police the posts of others.
It’s a mindset that caused, and still causes a lot of damage to people here. Even now I feel like I need to maintain a minimum of 500 words to be considered “worthy”. It’s ridiculous.
You can tell who the above people are because they mine upvotes, usually have been here over 6 years have a reputation score in the 80’s.
Yeah, it's ridiculous considering the audience. People aren't coming to Hive to read a research paper.
Overall, I feel like that sentiment is dying. Even HiveWatcher announced they won't be downvoting content that was posted outside Hive first. While it may seem like a small step, it's a considerable step away from that old way of thinking.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Those complaining about it are the most guilty of it, and their own posts hardly offer anything insightful, much less entertaining. With more people coming to Hive and HW signaling changes, maybe there's hope. 🙂
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I like to think I take the things I read here on Hive as they are intended. It wouldn't be as fun if I didn't.
I liked your story about the Star Wars parody.... Piewalker..... 😂
It was nice that your son got your explanation instantly.
Same here. I try not to have high expectations for everything I read, because not everything on here is meant to be taken seriously. 🙂
I'm glad you liked it! I went into a little bit more depth with more pictures in an older post, if you're interested.
https://ecency.com/hive-168869/@bulliontools/hunting-down-a-memory
I was also relieved my son understood and wasn't mad at me. 😅
I checked out your link and enjoyed reading more about your teenage adventure.
Did one of you somewhat write the script or maybe sequence for your parody or did you as a group make it up as you went along?
It's so nice that you still have a copy of it to share with your children and your sister and cousin.
That's a lad with good eyes and a great sense of humor...
Most kids would miss that, or see it and pay it no mind.😂
I like Star wars too
It's definitely a classic. 🙂
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