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The thing about the Old Republic trailers is that they're not supposed to get you amped up to watch a movie about Space Cowboy or Maori McTrooper. They're supposed to get you amped up about playing a basic MMO character that's kinda like that guy. Bitching that he looks too much like a cliche character is kinda like watching the old WoW intro and saying the guy in robes was just a flat character that shot fireballs.
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Mister Roboto posted:I think it's pretty obvious the droids were always comic relief to Lucas, and all the "skeleton" stuff is EU retconning from fans that feel like they have to be apologists. True, but at least it's a good retcon- there are certainly enough Force-sensitive banthas and whatnot. I'm keeping my skeleton army no matter what you say  Basic is also more common and less species specific than, say, Pak Pak or Skakoverbal I always though the battle droids talked to each other in basic so that their non-droid controllers could monitor communications- probably to make sure, for instance, so they would know what happened if a pilot droid walked into a battle with a fusion cutter and a comlink when the command for "all troops, forward march" came through" and sent it a signal to stop and do what it's supposed to. That too, doesn't makes as much sense as the most likely explanation: audiences don't speak binary, and you need the droids to telegraph their intentions the movies. Just like plot armor for the heroes. Sunshine89 fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Jun 8, 2011 |
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Jun 8, 2011 03:17
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Sunshine89 posted:True, but at least it's a good retcon- there are certainly enough Force-sensitive banthas and whatnot. I'm keeping my skeleton army no matter what you say The simple answer for the verbal communication is that it gives the audience information on the plot and what is going on. Imagine every scene of 3PO and R2 in the original series being devoid of intelligible dialog. Sure it would certainly make more sense for them both to communicate through some super-fast droid-only communication method, but it would also be boring as hell and would make their interactions meaningless without some external exposition to tell the audience what the hell is going on. In other words: Keeping the audience informed is more important and often makes for better a better movie than being entirely logical with regards to technology.
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Jun 8, 2011 03:28
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Grendels Dad posted:
Yes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy3yPI86Z1k
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Jun 8, 2011 04:00
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omgLerkHat! posted:The simple answer for the verbal communication is that it gives the audience information on the plot and what is going on. Imagine every scene of 3PO and R2 in the original series being devoid of intelligible dialog. Sure it would certainly make more sense for them both to communicate through some super-fast droid-only communication method, but it would also be boring as hell and would make their interactions meaningless without some external exposition to tell the audience what the hell is going on. In other words: Keeping the audience informed is more important and often makes for better a better movie than being entirely logical with regards to technology. Well, the R2/3PO scenes were halfway there in terms of being intelligible dialog. 3PO speaking back in English made sense as his purpose was "Human/Cyborg relations."
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Jun 8, 2011 05:16
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In honor of Liam Neeson's birthday today, I decided to watch Phantom Menace and my two biggest complaints are both about the ending: 1. Note to George: I don't give a poo poo about anything in the finale that isn't the lightsaber battle. Don't intersperse Jake Lloyd doing a thing or Jar Jar flatulence scenes in the middle of the lightsaber fight I waited all movie for, you cocks. 2. Having those stupid rotating loving forcefields is the stupidest, most video game-style bullshit I've ever seen in my life what the gently caress gently caress you George Lukeass you stupid dick Other than that, it still sucks.
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Jun 8, 2011 05:50
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NeonTurtle posted:Well, the R2/3PO scenes were halfway there in terms of being intelligible dialog. 3PO speaking back in English made sense as his purpose was "Human/Cyborg relations." But in one of the NJO books - Rebel Stand or Rebel Dream, can't remember which - 3PO and one of Lando's battle droids have a lengthy philosophical discussion about death in the span of time that it takes for a spark to fly off a ship during repairs, clearly indicating some sort of super-fast droidspeak. So no, it doesn't make sense 
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Jun 8, 2011 14:11
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Razorwired posted:The thing about the Old Republic trailers is that they're not supposed to get you amped up to watch a movie about Space Cowboy or Maori McTrooper. They're supposed to get you amped up about playing a basic MMO character that's kinda like that guy. Bitching that he looks too much like a cliche character is kinda like watching the old WoW intro and saying the guy in robes was just a flat character that shot fireballs. Yeah that is true. The trailers have gotten me interested in the trooper the most. Possibly since I guess they are farthest away from the Lucas movie versions. Troopers were never that bad rear end in the movies.
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Jun 8, 2011 15:21
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Torael_7 posted:But in one of the NJO books - Rebel Stand or Rebel Dream, can't remember which - 3PO and one of Lando's battle droids have a lengthy philosophical discussion about death in the span of time that it takes for a spark to fly off a ship during repairs, clearly indicating some sort of super-fast droidspeak. I was going to ask if there are any other books dealing with the more philosophical aspects of droids, but then I realized that Isaac Asimov has probably already written it and better.
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Jun 8, 2011 15:50
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NeonTurtle posted:Well, we only got about a minute with him. We didn't even get a name. He's like Han Solo from the Star Wars theatrical trailer. We don't know poo poo about him. Cowboy dude isn't like Han Solo, he literally is Han Solo. He is a smuggler who flies a broken down piece of poo poo that is still the fastest ship in the quadrant, and he is drat  about it. We see him first after he botched a run, like Solo. He helps the heroes escape a space station and they shoot at TIE-Fighters that pursue them. I was surprised he didn't have a large green bunny as a co-pilot. Just a lovely droid he shouts "Fire up the hyper-drive" at.
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Jun 8, 2011 16:42
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Torael_7 posted:But in one of the NJO books - Rebel Stand or Rebel Dream, can't remember which - 3PO and one of Lando's battle droids have a lengthy philosophical discussion about death in the span of time that it takes for a spark to fly off a ship during repairs, clearly indicating some sort of super-fast droidspeak. Ugh, I thought I was able to block that from my memory but clearly not. I never understood that scene, mostly because it's so different than anything we ever see droids doing.
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Jun 8, 2011 17:38
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Geddy Krueger posted:Hey man don't talk poo poo about horse pilot he's badass as gently caress You rang?
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Jun 8, 2011 17:52
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Jerk McJerkface posted:You rang? How could anyone dislike Runt? I thought that was impossible 
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Admiral Goodenough posted:How could anyone dislike Runt? I thought that was impossible Says the man with the Horse-whisperer avatar 
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Jun 8, 2011 20:31
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Grendels Dad posted:Says the man with the Horse-whisperer avatar That movie had a profound effect on me as a young girl, okay <  >Never actually seen it
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Jun 8, 2011 21:09
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Admiral Goodenough posted:That movie had a profound effect on me as a young girl, okay < Two failed assumptions in one post, I am the new Bossk 
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Grendels Dad posted:Two failed assumptions in one post, I am the new Bossk Have some lovely Steampunk Vader as a consolation.  (Is he wearing a suit underneath?  )e. v v v Yeah, you're probably right. The blog post I found it in labeled it steampunk so I just rolled with that. MIDWIFE CRISIS fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jun 8, 2011 |
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Jun 8, 2011 21:19
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Admiral Goodenough posted:Have some lovely Steampunk Vader as a consolation. Pretty sure WWII-era isn't steampunk. It looks to me like an attempt to do Vader by way of Toht (from Raiders). Interesting concept. It'd be neat if he'd pulled it off.
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Jun 8, 2011 21:23
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Ha, steampunk Vader reminded me of the guy who made actio figures of Star Wars characters in various themes. http://www.sillof.com/C-CUSTOMS-Main.htm Noir Wars   West Wars   Samurai Wars 
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Jun 8, 2011 22:26
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Nckdictator posted:That's a pretty loving awesome Tarkin on the left. I would love to have seen Peter Cushing play a gangster.
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Is it Tarkin? Based on the Western villains I'd assume it was Boba Fett (Western Fett is awesome). Edit: The linked page backs me up on this, saying his name is Bruno Feretta. The page also has color shots, which make it much more obvious. Geddy Krueger fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jun 8, 2011 |
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Jun 8, 2011 22:56
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gently caress, everything that guy makes is amazing. He even made a Deak Starkiller based on that one piece of McQuarrie artwork: 
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Jun 8, 2011 23:05
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I can't decide if Giant Russian Immigrant Chewbacca is my favorite or if Pimp Vader is. Those all own, holy poo poo
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Turning a giant, furry, mostly incomprehensible alien into a giant, hairy, mostly incomprehensible foreigner was a stroke of genius. I highly recommend you look at some of the other, non-Star Wars sections on that page too for some more cool custom stuff the artist has done.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:Have some lovely Steampunk Vader as a consolation. Han Solo powered down the magnabike with a not quite unhearble hum and checked his chronometer. “drat.” he hissed threw his clinched teeth which were surrounded by the stubble of five days where in he had not shaven himself at all. It was almost chromodawn at Clashpoint. Alreddy the sun was sitting Walliston’s Hill ah blaze like so much molten meddle or a coin, gyreating in the air, tossed there by the uncaring hand of an imaginary god that doesn’t exist, borne from the interior minds of the hobbled masses. The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel that was orange. drat, he, Solo, thought. We thought we were opening a new beginning with our mad dreams of time travail but ironically the only time now is the time of which we’re out of. It’s almost humorous. Yeah, I could almost laugh, if I hadn’t cried that part of me away when my parents were maccasared by Darth Vader and the government sanctioned murderers of “THE EMPIRE”. He lit a Nicosheen brand swaggerette and took a dip drag, sinking farther into his inferior horologue. He thought of Leia and her mellifluous buttocks that he used to love to bang. Even now his nano enhanced hearing could almost hear her vagina lips quivering with moisture and also pleasure, like a slice of synth-ham being tongued by one of Vader’s slamhounds. When he got back to Alderaan, he was going to do some sex, no doubt about that. “That’s right doll” he said to nobody and the wind. They were going to do it hard. He smiled, blowing smoke from his nostrils. They were going to do it cyber hard.
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Imagine four Death Stars on the edge of a cliff. Say a direct copy of the Death Star nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of Death Stars and takes the place of the first Death Star. The formerly first Death Star becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the fourth falls off the cliff. The Force works the same way.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:I was going to ask if there are any other books dealing with the more philosophical aspects of droids, but then I realized that Isaac Asimov has probably already written it and better. If Knights of the Old Republic II counts, I think G0-T0's subplot is a pretty great homage to Asimov. You have to, y'know, actually talk to him and suck up to him and complete some techy sidequests, but trust me, the revelation is worth it. The problem is that G0-T0 is pretty useless and is so uninteresting at first blush that nobody wants to get to know him, so they never find out what makes him so cool! I mean, besides his appearance.  He's pretty much the li'l floaty interrogator droid from ANH, except flipped upside-down and sporting a HAL-9000 "eye."
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Nckdictator posted:Imagine four Death Stars on the edge of a cliff. Say a direct copy of the Death Star nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of Death Stars and takes the place of the first Death Star. The formerly first Death Star becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the fourth falls off the cliff. Imagine four Boba Fetts on the edge of a sarlacc pit. Say a direct copy of the Boba Fett nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of Boba Fetts and takes the place of the first Boba Fett. The formerly first Boba Fett becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the fourth falls into the sarlacc pit. The EU works the same way.
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that awful man posted:Imagine four Boba Fetts on the edge of a sarlacc pit. Say a direct copy of the Boba Fett nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of Boba Fetts and takes the place of the first Boba Fett. The formerly first Boba Fett becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the fourth falls into the sarlacc pit. "The EU works the same way" would imply that it would all end sometime, wouldn't it?
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that awful man posted:Imagine four Boba Fetts on the edge of a sarlacc pit. Say a direct copy of the Boba Fett nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of Boba Fetts and takes the place of the first Boba Fett. The formerly first Boba Fett becomes the second, the second becomes the third, and the fourth falls into the sarlacc pit. Which one has the plans for the Death Star?
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Grendels Dad posted:Which one has the plans for the Death Star? You almost made me spit my coffee rear end in a top hat. 
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Nckdictator posted:Ha, steampunk Vader reminded me of the guy who made actio figures of Star Wars characters in various themes. This dude is incredible. I hope he gets a job with Hasbro or something. Luckily he's not also amazing at drawing. I'd have sent him an angry e-mail out of envy. 3. Did you go to school for this? I have no formal art training, other then art classes in middle school. If something turns out good, it is just from years of practice, or luck.
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Azzmo posted:This dude is incredible. I hope he gets a job with Hasbro or something. Luckily he's not also amazing at drawing. I'd have sent him an angry e-mail out of envy. His work never ceases to impress me. I can't seem to figure out what scale he's working at, though. 3 3/4" seems like the obvious choice, but they look a bit too detailed for being that small.
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We should do a scavenger hunt where we take random screencaps from the movie and find the character's life story and at what point in the continuity the death star plans passed through their hands.
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Did you guys know that Zuckuss is Force-sensitive? I wish I didn't.
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Tensokuu posted:Did you guys know that Zuckuss is Force-sensitive? I wish I didn't. We should have a depressing/enraging Star Wars fact of the day. Told my GF that Chewie dies in the EU. "That's horrible!" "Oh, it's just the tip of the iceberg..."
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Pope Mobile posted:We should have a depressing/enraging Star Wars fact of the day. Chewie didn't die. He faked his death so he could go and do something fun for a change instead having to watch over Han Solo and his stupid kids for all eternity. Edit: Tensokuu posted:Did you guys know that Zuckuss is Force-sensitive? I wish I didn't. NeonTurtle fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jun 9, 2011 |
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NeonTurtle posted:Chewie didn't die. He faked his death so he could go and do something fun for a change instead having to watch over Han Solo and his stupid kids for all eternity. I actually checked the wiki entry. Kept reading after his death. Found this glorious quote: "CHEWIE!" ¯Han Solo, right after accidentally killing Chewbacca while fighting the Dark Apprentice[src]
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Tensokuu posted:Did you guys know that Zuckuss is Force-sensitive? I wish I didn't. So, aside Han Solo and Bobba Fett, who isn't Force sensitive?
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