If you love Star Wars and are a total coffee addict, boy, do we have a thread for you. Twitter user @ViWiWrites blessed the site yesterday with a pretty comprehensive thread that pairs your favorite sci-fi heroes with what she believes to be their preferred method of making and drinking coffee. It may not be backed by George Lucas, but we have to say these tweets strike us as pretty damn accurate.
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Recording artist Moby is on the receiving end of some major Twitter heat following a very weird and creepy Instagram post regarding an alleged relationship with Natalie Portman. Moby had written of a relationship with the actress in his memoir, Then It Fell Apart. In the book, Moby describes a brief 1999 romance between himself (33) and the "20" year old Harvard student. On May 21st, two weeks after the memoir's release, Portman denied the claims in an interview with Harper's Bazaar. Her account is far more damning:
"I was surprised to hear that he characterised the very short time that I knew him as dating because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school.
He said I was 20; I definitely wasn't. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18. There was no fact checking from him or his publisher – it almost feels deliberate. That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me. It wasn't the case. There are many factual errors and inventions. I would have liked him or his publisher to reach out to fact check."
Yesterday, Moby opted topost a bizarre and public "call out" of Natalie following the interview. The text, accompanying a shirtless photo with the young actress, reads as very defensive.
"I recently read a gossip piece wherein Natalie Portman said that we'd never dated. This confused me, as we did, in fact, date. And after briefly dating in 1999 we remained friends for years. I like Natalie, and I respect her intelligence and activism. But, to be honest, I can't figure out why she would actively misrepresent the truth about our(albeit brief)involvement. The story as laid out in my book Then It Fell Apart is accurate, with lots of corroborating photo evidence, etc.
Thanks, Moby
Ps I completely respect Natalie's possible regret in dating me(to be fair, I would probably regret dating me, too), but it doesn't alter the actual facts of our brief romantic history"
Many people on Twitter and Instagram felt this was an inappropriate response, and began roasting the star for his creepiness "calling himself out." Other Twitter users have opted to parody his post, sharing photos with celebrities (or photoshops with celebrities) with similar claims of romantic relationships. Leave it to Twitter to use humor to address a pretty appalling issue. Natalie Portman has yet to respond to Moby's social media antics, but hopefully she's enjoying the internet coming to her defense.
Star Wars prequels memes are some of the best the fandom has to offer. The date June 6th (6/6) has a very special meaning to the r/prequelmemes subreddit. It's a nod to Order 66 - the order that led to the fall of the Jedi. What better way to celebrate this important day than with a massive dump of hilarious Star Wars memes?
Reddit is still overflowing with anti-EA memes following the company's decision to force players to invest exorbitant amounts of time - or money - to unlock certain characters. The gaming community refers to this as "pay to win," and as one can see from the memes below, this type of gaming doesn't have many fans.
EA has since reduced cost to unlock heroes - but also reduced credit rewards, which means it will still bevery challenging to play as your favorite Star Wars characters. While the situation is far from being resolved, we have been enjoying the insane wealth of memes that have been created in protest of this injustice. Here are some of the best we've seen yet.
