3. TIL Jake Lloyd, the actor who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I, cl...

TIL Jake Lloyd, the actor who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I, claimed in a 2012 interview that director George Lucas ruined his childhood and his acting career, and that he destroyed all of his Star Wars memorabilia out of anger toward the film.

Mate, chill the fuck out. Yes you were right - I phrased my initial point poorly and should have said that Star Wars had a negative impact on Mark Hamill's career instead of what I said.

When you replied I should have just ignored you or edited my original comment to comply with your pedantry; however, I made the mistake of looking at your username and then reading your comment history which consists entirely of you taking great delight in telling people why they're wrong, which I called you out on. I should have listed all those charming quotes I did later at that point, but again misjudged. I also could have phrased my reply better, but I wasn't that invested in this conversation at this point.

I'm only continuing it because it's amusing reading your responses as they degenerate into increasingly poor language and ad hominem attacks. Everybody knows somebody like you who just can't deal with being disagreed with. I've admitted a couple of times now my initial comment was badly put, but the underlying point was correct as the quote I extracted from your Wikipedia article demonstrated.

I called you a troll because all you do is try to abuse people and start arguments, with the evidence being that when confronted with the evidence you demanded you chose to ignore it and tried to divert the conversation away from it.

Again I admit I was wrong and you were technically correct due to my phrasing. What more do you want? I asked this before and you kept up your tirades, so we have literally achieved the circlejerk I predicted you were shooting for.

I must say this whole thing has been really quite amusing, if you'd like to keep it up I'm perfectly happy to! Please though, apply the same standards you expect from others to yourself. Tell me why and where my analysis of your comment history is flawed for example. Move past my initial semantic error and talk about what we're discussing now. I'll say it again, very explicitly for you to try to salve your butthurt at my mistake: Mark Hamill, despite the difficulties being so closely associated in people's minds caused his career, was eventually able to achieve a lot in artistic endeavours other than movies!

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