u/Admirable-Bit3041

Assistant coaches never sniff the Hall of Fame, no matter how good they are, which stinks. But who are your picks for their HOF? There's the obvious names like Tom Moore, Dante Scarnecchia, Vic Fangio, Jeff Stoutland, Buddy Ryan, etc. Who's your pick for the Assistant Coach Hall of Fame?

We often forget how influential they can be on a team, too. Even the anonymous guys. Some guy named Dick Rehbein coaching for the Giants spent the 1999 college season watching some guy he swore up and down was going to be the 'next Joe Montana'. He then got hired to the Patriots, where he insisted that there. They ended up drafting some guy named Tom Brady, who I hear did alright in the NFL.

Not like, a whole show - though obviously those can be bad. Just the single dumbest thing that's come out of the new canon.

Edit: Mine is 'bleeding crystals' to turn them red. Just no.

... And I don't think she was serious at all about wanting to destroy the Force at Malachor. Her goal is different - it's rebuilding The Force and the Galaxy.

Think about it. Kreia is manipulating you through the whole game, yes, but look at *what* she wants you to do

*Defeat Nihilus, who is going to eat the galaxy if left to it. She quite literally manipulates him into attacking somewhere with a Republic defense fleet, no Force Sensitives, and easily accessible from Dantooine.

*Defeat Atris, who has gone mad and is now a Sith Lord posing as a Jedi, who leaked your name to the coreward databases (and effectively the Sith), wiped out almost all the other Jedi at Katarr, and will keep being utterly destructive and hoard knowledge until she is stopped.

*Defeat Sion, who is the end result of the Exile's ten years of avoidant behaviour about confronting their demons.

*Gather the three lost Masters - remember, she's furious with you if you kill them - to see if they've learned anything. Of course, they haven't, so once she shows them the galaxy through your eyes - someone who turned away from the force after feeling a planet die, they can't cope, and they die.

*Picking the pro-Master options - which is what Kreia wants - also means rebuilding The Republic. You save Adare, side with Talia, and help restore Telos. These are the things that GOTO identifies as key factors in rescuing the Republic.

*Gets you to remake whichever order - Jedi or Sith - in your image, with your teachings and your philosophy. She instructs you to find the Lost Jedi, and then in the LS ending tells you the real Lost Jedi were the friends you made along the way.

*Makes you come to Malachor, to close that chapter of your past - and either asks you to stay to send people to fight Revan's war, or destroy Malachor altogether and join Revan. She wants you to prove yourself to her by either killing her or trying to redeem her. Trying to 'kill the Force' is a provocation, and threatening to kill herself so you die also is. She knows you will either try to redeem her or kill her for the power at Malachor, so she waits.

Ultimately, we're left with a new order of Force Users in the Exile's image, the three Sith Lords dead, the three Jedi masters dead, a rebuilding Republic and their bad teachings replaced by the Exile. That's Kreia's actual goal. She manipulates everyone and everything around her, including the Exile, to get there, but her goal is fundamentally a good one. I always find it interesting that following her teachings ends up with a Jedi half-way fallen to the dark side who gets the LS ending.

In a metafictional way, she's an NPC who's achieved CHIM and manipulates the PC, who she knows is the only thing with actual agency in the dream of the Godhead, to get what she wants.

FYI - Not worried about visa/citizenship - under 35 and have dual nationality for the UK/NZ, so already eligible for the 3 year IEC. That's fine.

Like most Kiwis my age I moved to Australia within the last 2-3 years. Currently in Sydney, initially loved it but it's just too samey. Also in some ways Australia is even more isolated and insular (both countries can border on xenophobia), than New Zealand is, especially compared to Auckland which, while a smaller global gateway, is a lot more outward looking as a consequence of being on an island full of people who all immigrated from somewhere else within the past 1,000 years, indigenous or not.

Culturally I don't quite fit - Australian culture is similar to NZ but a lot less gentle and way more direct, and I'm also bored of the brief bits of city that turn into endless suburb. At least Auckland had different beaches in each suburb.

I've always admired North American culture and looked to live there for a few years - the idea of watching baseball/football/hockey in person and getting to see the US, Canada and Europe from somewhere like Toronto sounds like a great idea - I've never seen snow, never had a winter Christmas, never been to the Northern Hemisphere, etc. I really do just want something very different. I've done 42 degrees, now let's do minus 42 degrees. Looking at the major cities, Toronto/Vancouver, etc. My French stinks, so Montreal is probably more of a visit than a live-there.

Wondering if this is a good idea? Aiming for a 12 month runway before I land. I have a top 150 university liberal arts degree and I've been working on a career change into IT (turning a lifelong passion project into a career), but otherwise my job experience is mostly in the public service.

I know culturally it'll be different - though as a Kiwi I am able to comprehend passive-aggressiveness, which I know is a key requirement to survive in Canada. Rents are mad everywhere, though I've heard apartments in NA are generally much higher quality than some of the dumps you get in Australia. Do people hire you on IECs? What's it like in terms of applying for Express Entry with that work experience? Is Canada mad right now? What kind of buffer should you aim for, and what are landlords like with new immigrants?