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Mar 20, 2011 04:49
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Fledgling Gulps posted:Just noticed the triceratops Looks like another ripoff-of the war elephant things from LOTR. This is worse than the poorly photoshopped DVD covers in bootleg shops.
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Mar 20, 2011 04:51
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Fledgling Gulps posted:Just noticed the triceratops Triceratops were herbivores, right? So, I guess just massive trees or something.
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Mar 20, 2011 05:12
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Fledgling Gulps posted:Just noticed the triceratops The Force, obviously.
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Mar 20, 2011 06:16
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I will never get tired of posting this. So... they still have lightsabers and lasers and poo poo but there are still guys fighting with spears and shields? Couldn't they at least give the spear guys lightspears or something?
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Mar 20, 2011 06:47
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muscles like this? posted:So... they still have lightsabers and lasers and poo poo but there are still guys fighting with spears and shields? Couldn't they at least give the spear guys lightspears or something? Lightspears? Don't be silly, there's just lightsabers. It's not like you can make the weapon into just anyth--  
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Mar 20, 2011 08:54
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muscles like this? posted:So... they still have lightsabers and lasers and poo poo but there are still guys fighting with spears and shields? Couldn't they at least give the spear guys lightspears or something? If this is the Old Republic stuff lightsabers were bulky and a liability. They had a battery pack the size of a car battery. Let alone the poo poo that cord would end up doing in the middle of a fight.
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Mar 20, 2011 10:05
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ZeeToo posted:Lightspears? Don't be silly, there's just lightsabers. It's not like you can make the weapon into just anyth-- What the hell? The potential to harm yourself with a regular lightsaber is already pretty big, a light-whip is outright suicidal. God, the EU sucks.
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Mar 20, 2011 12:59
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Not only that but how would you even block another lightsaber?
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Mar 20, 2011 16:54
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You don't, all possible opponents will just sit back and watch while you fillet yourself with your stupid lazerwhip.
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Mar 20, 2011 16:57
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Instead of bombing runs, Y-wings should just hang really long laserwhips and scrape along the ground.
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Mar 20, 2011 17:58
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The death star should have just been a big laser-hairy ball 
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Mar 20, 2011 19:29
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I will never get tired of posting this. This is the Jedi vs. Sith comic in a nutshell. Well, there's the children suffering psychological trauma.
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Mar 20, 2011 21:51
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Der Luftwaffle posted:The death star should have just been a big laser-hairy ball http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Torpedo_Sphere quote:The main weaponry of each Torpedo Sphere consisted of 500 proton torpedo tubes and 100 turbolaser batteries, organized around the ship's equator...Only 50 torpedo tubes could be recalibrated at a time to acquire starship-sized targets. 
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Mar 20, 2011 22:42
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Mooktastical posted:http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Torpedo_Sphere To be fair, that would be a legitimately useful military spaceship. It just looks retarded.
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Mar 20, 2011 22:50
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Grendels Dad posted:What the hell? The potential to harm yourself with a regular lightsaber is already pretty big, a light-whip is outright suicidal.
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Mar 20, 2011 22:53
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Slantedfloors posted:To be fair, that would be a legitimately useful military spaceship. It just looks retarded. It seems like it, but the fact that it can only target 10% of its torpedo tubes at any one time seems to be a pretty obvious design flaw.
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Mar 21, 2011 00:05
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Mooktastical posted:It seems like it, but the fact that it can only target 10% of its torpedo tubes at any one time seems to be a pretty obvious design flaw. Whether it's a design flaw really depends on nature of the 10% limitation. If the computers just can't target with more than a tenth of its weapons at once, then that is pretty terrible. If it's a positional thing with torpedos aimed in all directions, then we're talking death blossom levels of deadly. EDIT: The article doesn't seem to say one way or the other, but it does have their intended purpose. They fire everything they have at a single weak spot in planetary shields to open a hole for a few microseconds. Hugely wasteful and unhelpful, really, and it implies that the computers were just bad at aiming at moving targets. Astribulus fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Mar 21, 2011 |
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Mar 21, 2011 00:14
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Mooktastical posted:It seems like it, but the fact that it can only target 10% of its torpedo tubes at any one time seems to be a pretty obvious design flaw. It says that it can only use 10% of its torpedos against starships, but that its primary focus was shooting planet shields, so it could use all its gun on the planet shields I guess. Its like a cannon back in the day. You can line the cannon up against a fort, but if infantry attack the cannon it's going to be hard to hit them with a cannonball.
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Mar 21, 2011 00:28
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Astribulus posted:EDIT: The article doesn't seem to say one way or the other, but it does have their intended purpose. They fire everything they have at a single weak spot in planetary shields to open a hole for a few microseconds. Hugely wasteful and unhelpful, really, and it implies that the computers were just bad at aiming at moving targets. It looks more like it the weapons are located on the equator, meaning it can't fire more than 10% of them at one target just because they're not all pointed in the same direction. Presumably it rotates to bring fresh torpedo tubes into position.
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Mar 21, 2011 01:37
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Slantedfloors posted:It looks more like it the weapons are located on the equator, meaning it can't fire more than 10% of them at one target just because they're not all pointed in the same direction. Presumably it rotates to bring fresh torpedo tubes into position. It looks more like it's not an actual weapon, meaning it's creators can give it whatever limitations they want.
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Mar 21, 2011 01:39
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A Typical Goon posted:It looks more like it's not an actual weapon, meaning it's creators can give it whatever limitations they want.
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Mar 21, 2011 01:42
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Casimir Radon posted:What's hilarious is the lightwhip was one of those things that they should have pretended never happened, but got dredged up to make LOTF all that much worse. LOTF is pretty much entirely comprised of poo poo that should have been glossed over and forgotten. For me the worst part of LOTF was that it was originally going to be a 9-book series set around the KOTOR games, but then got shifted to cover the movie characters because they thought it would sell more. The writing staff might have been just as terrible but I feel without constantly shoehorning in terrible movie references/rehashes and dealing with their beloved OT-era pet characters it would have been at least somewhat better. At the least we would have been spared Jacen's terrible, embarrassing storyline and everything that entailed.
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Mar 21, 2011 01:57
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I'm still waiting for a canon explanation for why Lando pronounces Han's name like hand minus the d.
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Mar 21, 2011 01:59
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'm still waiting for a canon explanation for why Lando pronounces Han's name like hand minus the d. Because he's the only black man in Star Wars.
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Mar 21, 2011 02:09
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MichiganCubbie posted:Because he's the only black man in Star Wars.   You were saying?
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Mar 21, 2011 02:11
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Slantedfloors posted:
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Mar 21, 2011 02:13
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Does the black X-Wing pilot have a massive back story on wookieepedia?
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Mar 21, 2011 02:21
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Does the black X-Wing pilot have a massive back story on wookieepedia? He sure does! He's an idealist who wants to make his homeworld of Devaron and peaceful multispecies utopia, joins the Rebellion, goes crazy after an accident, is reassigned to be a poo poo-hauler (no really, poo poo), then get re-activated for Endor and dies a hard-bitten cynic who's never found happiness.
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Mar 21, 2011 02:23
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Does the black X-Wing pilot have a massive back story on wookieepedia? Depends on how you define "massive", but yes. His name is Grizz Frix.
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Mar 21, 2011 02:23
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Slantedfloors posted:He sure does! I'm curious, what about the asian Y-Wing Gold leader and A-Wing dude who crashed into the bridge of the Executor?
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Mar 21, 2011 02:31
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm curious, what about the asian Y-Wing Gold leader and A-Wing dude who crashed into the bridge of the Executor? Now I KNOW he has a backstory. But I forget his name.
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Mar 21, 2011 02:32
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Now I KNOW he has a backstory. But I forget his name. Arvel Crynyd or something to that effect. Why do I know that?
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Mar 21, 2011 02:33
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm curious, what about the asian Y-Wing Gold leader and A-Wing dude who crashed into the bridge of the Executor? I can't find anything on the first guy; "Gold Leader" seems to be Lando, according to Wookieepedia, and I can't see anything on any other Gold Group members... so I guess he doesn't exist? Arvel Crynyd (NGL remembered correctly) seems to not have a background beyond his actions over Endor. This has gotta be the only place in the whole OT that has any characters who haven't been defined and given backstory, adventures, and Force sensitivity. Everyone's Force sensitive, it seems. That Y-wing pilot who survived the Battle of Yavin? Apparently, according to Wookiee.
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Mar 21, 2011 03:10
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Slantedfloors posted:He sure does! This makes sense when you consider that his backstory was actually written by a Wookieepedia member. A lot of the minor background characters with ridiculously detailed biographies were written by members of Wookieepedia and/or TheForce.Net through a feature the Star Wars website used to have where users could submit entries for random characters, ships, etc.
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Mar 21, 2011 03:13
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ZeeToo posted:Everyone's Force sensitive, it seems. That Y-wing pilot who survived the Battle of Yavin? Apparently, according to Wookiee.
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Mar 21, 2011 03:32
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'm still waiting for a canon explanation for why Lando pronounces Han's name like hand minus the d. What about how in the Death Star briefing in ANH the guy in charge pronounces Leia's name wrong? He calls her Lee-A.
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Mar 21, 2011 04:09
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And doesn't Alec Guinness pronounce Obi-Wan strangely? Maybe alternate pronunciations are acceptable in the Star Wars universe.
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Mar 21, 2011 04:45
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DorianGravy posted:And doesn't Alec Guinness pronounce Obi-Wan strangely? Maybe alternate pronunciations are acceptable in the Star Wars universe. The Galaxy is a big place. I'm sure there are regional accents/local variations on names in Basic. Or knowing the EU, they were subtle information about how we could know they were spies/good guys/involved in stealing the Death Star plans.
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Mar 21, 2011 05:25
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Speak Galactic Basic or get out!
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Mar 21, 2011 05:41
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