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The cables were for very high speed cross country skiing hth.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Flying down the trench they only had to face guns IN the trench. If they flew directly at the thermal exhaust port perpendicular to the Death Star's surface, they would have faced every single loving gun on the drat thing. Imagine being those gun crews in the trench. "Welcome to your new assignment on the Death Star, men. Squad one, you'll command the turbo lasers surrounding the command area. I'm very proud of you. Squad two, the flight decks. Keep our brave fliers safe, men. Squad three will take the battery capable of punching a hole through a capital ship, wish I could join you. Squad four? Get in this loving trench and defend the reactor's fart tube, you guys suck." Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Feb 9, 2016 04:35
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imagine how many civilians died in the terror attack on the death star
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Feb 9, 2016 04:59
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Sheev doesn't care about droid people
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Feb 9, 2016 05:41
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Bobert Bobertson posted:imagine how many civilians died in the terror attack on the death star 
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Bobert Bobertson posted:what was the empire's justification for being space-racist? just 420 smoke hitler or was there some actual sentiment they had against them? why do you expect fictional racism to be more reasonable than real racism
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Feb 9, 2016 10:05
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Bobert Bobertson posted:imagine how many civilians died in the terror attack on the death star wouldn't it be roughly the same number that died in the bombing of USS Cole because it was, you know, a military space vessel and not a town or city
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:wouldn't it be roughly the same number that died in the bombing of USS Cole It was a military facility the size of a small moon intended to be a permanent duty station for tens of thousands of troops and officers. It definitely had a post exchange, a commissary, a movie theater, and a food court as well as a dozen other recreational facilities. All of those would be run by civilian contractors.
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Feb 9, 2016 12:26
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In a deleted scene from ANH, Biggs tells Luke how everything is being "nationalized" like businesses, farms, and factories. Pretty sure if the Death Star had any of those non military functions they'd be run by droids or clones. Besides, boredom and frustration feed into the darkside.
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:
Thats what the terrists say.
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Automatic Slim posted:In a deleted scene from ANH, Biggs tells Luke how everything is being "nationalized" like businesses, farms, and factories. Pretty sure if the Death Star had any of those non military functions they'd be run by droids or clones. Besides, boredom and frustration feed into the darkside. I've got visions of the mall from System Shock 2 
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Feb 9, 2016 13:06
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Automatic Slim posted:In a deleted scene from ANH, Biggs tells Luke how everything is being "nationalized" like businesses, farms, and factories. Pretty sure if the Death Star had any of those non military functions they'd be run by droids or clones. Besides, boredom and frustration feed into the darkside. "Nationalized" does not mean "staffed by military employees." It just means that the jobs of the civilians who work there are controlled by the government.
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Feb 9, 2016 13:10
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Why would killing droids be better anyway? The ones we see in the movies have personality and emotions, right?
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Feb 9, 2016 14:21
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A Strange Aeon posted:Why would killing droids be better anyway? The ones we see in the movies have personality and emotions, right? If they go too long between memory wipes, yes. It's common procedure to wipe a droid before it can get uppity. They're not people, after all! 
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A Strange Aeon posted:Why would killing droids be better anyway? The ones we see in the movies have personality and emotions, right? the skeleton ones are like walking dishwashers with guns or somesuch mentally, it's the commander droids that do all the mental work
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Feb 9, 2016 14:53
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This one image is extremely powerful in how it describes how cynical and detached our culture has become.
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Feb 9, 2016 14:58
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Applewhite posted:"Nationalized" does not mean "staffed by military employees." It just means that the jobs of the civilians who work there are controlled by the government. You say civilian, but what you mean is conscript.
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Feb 9, 2016 15:12
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Applewhite posted:What do you tow from an airplane? Bear in mind that snowspeeders were not spaceworthy, they were basically tiny planes. maybe when one breaks down they tow it cause the snow kangaroos cant i guess
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Feb 9, 2016 15:17
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heres a true story i was in the same big brother program as a kid as hayden christensen and we went to some 3-par golf one time and he got really mad and threw his club thats when i knew i was playing golf with DARTH VADER
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Feb 9, 2016 15:18
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A Strange Aeon posted:Why would killing droids be better anyway? The ones we see in the movies have personality and emotions, right? CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:If they go too long between memory wipes, yes. Regular combat droids actually show empathy and capture the gungans rather then slaughtering them when the droids overrun them in that grassy field battle in Episode I. Telling them to surrender and sparing their lives in the process. Then the droids get shut down when the mothership blows up and they all just get thrown out. C-3PO and R2 have been repeatedly showing having empathy, planning, cowardliness etc. Droids are capable of fearing death yet get slaughtered for fun. Pretty messed up.
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Feb 9, 2016 15:21
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Why not shoot a jedi with a normal gun? Sure, the bullet would melt, but that fucker would end up with molten metal in his face.
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Feb 9, 2016 15:40
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Shnag posted:Regular combat droids actually show empathy and capture the gungans rather then slaughtering them when the droids overrun them in that grassy field battle in Episode I. Telling them to surrender and sparing their lives in the process. Then the droids get shut down when the mothership blows up and they all just get thrown out. C-3PO and R2 have been repeatedly showing having empathy, planning, cowardliness etc. Droids are capable of fearing death yet get slaughtered for fun. Pretty messed up. space oppression is a serious and real threat in jedi culture
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Feb 9, 2016 16:27
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Michaellaneous posted:Why not shoot a jedi with a normal gun? Sure, the bullet would melt, but that fucker would end up with molten metal in his face. They apparently did machine gun Jedi like thousands of years ago in a time period virtually identical to the movies with core characters Grog Skywalker, Oog Palpatine, Calvin Solo and his stiffed toy Hobbesbacca.
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Feb 9, 2016 16:51
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Shnag posted:Regular combat droids actually show empathy and capture the gungans rather then slaughtering them when the droids overrun them in that grassy field battle in Episode I. Telling them to surrender and sparing their lives in the process. Then the droids get shut down when the mothership blows up and they all just get thrown out. C-3PO and R2 have been repeatedly showing having empathy, planning, cowardliness etc. Droids are capable of fearing death yet get slaughtered for fun. Pretty messed up. should i care about a thing's fear of death if it is in fact just a simulation of fear of what only superficially resembles death because the thing is not really alive
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Feb 9, 2016 17:00
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it wasn't the droids telling them to surrender, it was the ai on that ship. those little skeleton fuckers are just puppets
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Shnag posted:Regular combat droids actually show empathy and capture the gungans rather then slaughtering them when the droids overrun them in that grassy field battle in Episode I. Telling them to surrender and sparing their lives in the process. Then the droids get shut down when the mothership blows up and they all just get thrown out. C-3PO and R2 have been repeatedly showing having empathy, planning, cowardliness etc. Droids are capable of fearing death yet get slaughtered for fun. Pretty messed up. They only look like they feel fear as a defense mechanism against organics. Nobody would think twice about gunning down a stoic terminator, but even someone who knows his target is a robot will hesitate to shoot something begging for its life.
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:should i care about a thing's fear of death if it is in fact just a simulation of fear of what only superficially resembles death because the thing is not really alive But like what is really alive and what is really fear? Like we can't project our own selfish anatomical supremacy over artificial life because of the preconceived bias of our own personal Narratives. Like you just can't know man you know ?
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The worst Star Wars movie posted:Dexter Jettster: It's these funny little cuts on the side that give it away. Those analysis droids only focus on symbols. Huh! I should think that you Jedi would have more respect for the difference between knowledge and... heh heh heh... wisdom.
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family guy is generally bad but its star wars special was basically this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bSZXucTH4A
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:should i care about a thing's fear of death if it is in fact just a simulation of fear of what only superficially resembles death because the thing is not really alive Scientists once thought that animals couldn't feel pain like humans could, and the noises they made when they received damage was just a 'reaction' of sorts. So that is how they justified performing vivisections on dogs , yet they still cut their vocal cords to not hear the yelping. But we know animals can feel pain. Is the despair C-3PO showed when he thought was friends were crushed by the trash compactor less real because a robot brain showed that emotion rather then an organic one? He not only felt despair at the lost of his friends, but at his own perceived failure to save them, seems pretty unnecessary to give a robot that ability. With that mind set, is a human with a mental disability less human if they handle their emotions differently? Applewhite posted:They only look like they feel fear as a defense mechanism against organics. Nobody would think twice about gunning down a stoic terminator, but even someone who knows his target is a robot will hesitate to shoot something begging for its life. But its was more then that, they also said things like "uh oh!" and could be surprised. And those droids were just one of the more simple minded ones. I know starwars is all fantasy, but its interesting to think about what sort of rights AI would have if we truly created it.
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Michaellaneous posted:Why not shoot a jedi with a normal gun? Sure, the bullet would melt, but that fucker would end up with molten metal in his face. Easier to use the force to block a bullet than a laser.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Easier to use the force to block a bullet than a laser. Yes but the bullet won't disappear? I mean, that's not how lightsabers work, right? The bullet would pass through the beam of super hot light, it would melt, but it would still have speed and kinetic energy. Light can't block matter.
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Michaellaneous posted:Yes but the bullet won't disappear? I mean, that's not how lightsabers work, right? The bullet would pass through the beam of super hot light, it would melt, but it would still have speed and kinetic energy. Light can't block matter. Lightsabers are not made purely of light, they're more of a plasma chainsaw.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Easier to use the force to block a bullet than a laser. hell, in the new movie a laser gets blocked, i think one piece of lead would too
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Applewhite posted:Lightsabers are not made purely of light, they're more of a plasma chainsaw. Okay so the bullet would literally disintegrate upon touching the sword? Interesting. e: Really, again, just use shotguns. Laser shotguns. Michaellaneous fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Feb 9, 2016 18:52
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Michaellaneous posted:Laser shotguns. too unforcemanslike
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Michaellaneous posted:Okay so the bullet would literally disintegrate upon touching the sword? Interesting. immediately become plasma and get stuck in the magnetic field maybe.
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Feb 9, 2016 19:54
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what if we just built a wall around the jedi?
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Michaellaneous posted:Okay so the bullet would literally disintegrate upon touching the sword? Interesting. You could just use the force to stop or block them
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I would say cut off their funding, but that Galaxy doesn't run on money. Apparently intergalactic armies and star fleets are free for everyone.
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