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LoL, it certainly does. Ever heard of MC Chris? e: the song is Fettes Vette. ...and it kicks rear end. Otis Reddit fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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juche mane posted:LoL, it certainly does. Ever heard of MC Chris? Yeah, I had to turn that off. I'm sure it was clever and all that, but I just got bored within 30 seconds.
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Apr 9, 2014 18:53
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His Han Solo and Dengar's Dumptruck songs are way better. http://youtu.be/00UGZcv2tNA http://youtu.be/f1xwus4fMHM Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 18:59
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SeanBeansShako posted:The Star Wars universe version of urban space rap must sound goddamn hilarious. I believe you mean, "hard isotope leap-jump." 
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Apr 9, 2014 19:56
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I suspect I'd be more into jizz. Smooth jizz, cool jizz, hot jizz, acid jizz. Free jizz shows tend to be a terrible mess, though. (Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?)
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Metal Loaf posted:I suspect I'd be more into jizz. The same guy who decided Bollox was a good name for a Droid.
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Apr 10, 2014 22:00
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I'm late to the swearing-in-the-EU discussion but in the Black Fleet books (if not those, these ones where Lando spends three books in a derelict ship) he starts getting hungry and says he'd "cut my best friend down for a fracking cracker" which is why I have absolutely no problem with Disney destroying the EU.
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Apr 12, 2014 02:09
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I think most of us don't have a problem with it per se, we just really wish that we got to keep that one, shining, red-eyed star of it.
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Apr 12, 2014 06:58
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And a few pretty good concepts not ruined by terrible writing.
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Apr 12, 2014 14:41
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SeanBeansShako posted:And a few pretty good concepts not ruined by terrible writing. Also yes. But mostly Thrawn.
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Yeah, be a shame if they end up cutting Thrawn, but c'est la vie.  I consider myself lucky that the first encounter I had with the EU was with the Thrawn novels. And I still have a fondness for them. To 8 or 9 year old me, this cover was the most rad thing ever:  X-wings, expolsions, and someone I thought was evil Obi-Wan (well, he is kinda, I guess). Then that was followed by TIE Fighter and Dark Forces 2. Like, the best possible entrances to the EU. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Apr 13, 2014 01:40
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ninjahedgehog posted:I agree, there's really no need. Han says "hell" and "drat" each a couple of times in the films, you'd think that would be enough for authors to use. You forget "Sithspawn" and "Sithspit"
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Apr 13, 2014 01:40
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Rave-fingers C'baoth was the funniest loving thing to me in 5th grade and it's still hilarious to me now.
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I've never noticed this before, but Thrawn's rear end is downright scary here.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:13
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While I'm at it, may as well post the other two covers: It's pretty good, albeit seemingly made up of stills from TESB and ROTJ. Last Command is pretty goofy though.  A baked, Cro-Magnon Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher, glaze out over some purple hippy, while 12-year-old Mark Hamill has tiny t-rex arms.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:49
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Pesky Splinter posted:While I'm at it, may as well post the other two covers: I like how Zahn goes from "Hugo Award-winner" to "Hugo Award-winning author" to "the Hugo Award-winning author" over the course of the three covers.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:54
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Quick question for a little project I might be starting soon, is there a list of every Jedi who "went to the dark side to learn how to beat it" and then ended up a full-fledged Sith? I know Exar Kun, Ulic Qel-Droma, Revan and Malik, and Luke of course...how many others though?
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Apr 14, 2014 04:35
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Pesky Splinter posted:someone I thought was evil Obi-Wan (well, he is kinda, I guess) If I recall, that was Zahn's original concept (a Ben clone) but Lucas vetoed it.
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Silver Brushes posted:If I recall, that was Zahn's original concept (a Ben clone) but Lucas vetoed it. That was Obi-Two wasn't it? Probably would have been a better naming convention than Luuke to be honest.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Quick question for a little project I might be starting soon, is there a list of every Jedi who "went to the dark side to learn how to beat it" and then ended up a full-fledged Sith? I know Exar Kun, Ulic Qel-Droma, Revan and Malik, and Luke of course...how many others though? Wookipedia, as usual. Hit up the Dark Jedi article, the scroll down to "Dark Jedi who became Sith" and you're good to go. There are a lot of the fuckers. e: Granted, looking at it now I realize a lot of them were pretty evil in the first place and not what you were looking for, but some of 'em would count, I think. jng2058 fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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GodFish posted:That was Obi-Two wasn't it? Probably would have been a better naming convention than Luuke to be honest. I still believe that Luuke and Joruus where nothing more than a poorly implemented literary device to help the reader differentiate between the characters. You're not actually supposed to pronounce the extra vowel or anything. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Esroc posted:I still believe that Luuke and Joruus where nothing more than a poorly implemented literary device to help the reader differentiate between the characters. You're not actually supposed to pronounce the extra vowel or anything. Not according to the audiobook version 
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Quick question for a little project I might be starting soon, is there a list of every Jedi who "went to the dark side to learn how to beat it" and then ended up a full-fledged Sith? I know Exar Kun, Ulic Qel-Droma, Revan and Malik, and Luke of course...how many others though? Revan kinda did figure it out though... Well until The Old Republic. Then he unfigured it out.
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Yorkshire Tea posted:Revan kinda did figure it out though... Yeah, following having his entire mind scrubbed out. I don't think he planned on the memory wipe happening.
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Esroc posted:I still believe that Luuke and Joruus where nothing more than a poorly implemented literary device to help the reader differentiate between the characters. You're not actually supposed to pronounce the extra vowel or anything. No, it's called out in the first book by Thrawn when he first encounters Joruus. Basically he turns to Palleon and says "That's not C'both" When Palleon asks why he points out the mispronounciation then kinda goes "Oh, and I killed the original...  "
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In the first of Michael Stackpole's Rogue Squadron books, one of the battles involves assaulting an Imperial base that's nestled inside some sort of valley or mountainside basin. Apparently what they did was to identify a seam between two mountains and use Proton Torpedoes to blow a hole wide enough for starfighters to fly through - I found that weird because the expectation I had for an energy shield was that it'd just "fill in" the blank part of the "dome" it was projecting as soon as the hole was made.
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Shield generators work however the author wants them to work.
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gradenko_2000 posted:In the first of Michael Stackpole's Rogue Squadron books, one of the battles involves assaulting an Imperial base that's nestled inside some sort of valley or mountainside basin. Apparently what they did was to identify a seam between two mountains and use Proton Torpedoes to blow a hole wide enough for starfighters to fly through - I found that weird because the expectation I had for an energy shield was that it'd just "fill in" the blank part of the "dome" it was projecting as soon as the hole was made. ... If it did that then how the heck would an ATAT assault work where orbital bombardment wouldn't? (Empire Strikes Back)
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It's been a long time since I read that book but I don't remember shields having anything to do with that part. I thought they had to blow a hole in what was basically just a giant concrete wall?StashAugustine posted:Shield generators work however the author wants them to work. also this
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Weren't they blowing up a power line that was giving the shield generator its extra energy?
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Calax posted:... If it did that then how the heck would an ATAT assault work where orbital bombardment wouldn't? (Empire Strikes Back) To be fair I never understood the whole thing about the Rebels being alerted to the Imperial fleet because they dropped out of hyperspace too close...as if them appearing further away and more slowly approaching out of hyperspace would somehow hide them better?
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GodFish posted:Weren't they blowing up a power line that was giving the shield generator its extra energy? I looked it up and yeah you're right. quote:Wedge pointed to a faint red line linking the military base and the Biotics facility. "A tunnel that runs about one and a quarter kilometers beneath the surface of the planet links the two facilities. There is a rift valley where a ferrocrete conduit links the tunnel one side to the other. This is the weak link-the generator is too deep to blow with proton torpedoes and destroying it makes no sense if we intend to take the planet." I knew there was something involving concrete in the description though.
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Calax posted:... If it did that then how the heck would an ATAT assault work where orbital bombardment wouldn't? (Empire Strikes Back) Can't you walk through energy shields? (See Phantom Menace) So a ground assault would make sense if the shield generator was inside the shield.
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Chairman Capone posted:To be fair I never understood the whole thing about the Rebels being alerted to the Imperial fleet because they dropped out of hyperspace too close...as if them appearing further away and more slowly approaching out of hyperspace would somehow hide them better? Best guess is that ships make some sort of easily detectable emission when they exit hyperspace, be it electromagnetic or whatever. If they'd done that at the edge of the system they might have been able to cruise in and avoid rebel sensors until a shorter distance. That's my guess anyways.
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Chairman Capone posted:To be fair I never understood the whole thing about the Rebels being alerted to the Imperial fleet because they dropped out of hyperspace too close...as if them appearing further away and more slowly approaching out of hyperspace would somehow hide them better? Remember all those asteroids in the Hoth system? There's obviously lots of them out the way the Falcon went, and there are enough of them coming near the planet that no one was surprised when Luke reported a meteor hitting the ground nearby (which of course wasn't a meteor at all). Just imagine a radar screen full of all those rocks. So if you're going to attack the planet, you could sneak up through the swarm, be mistaken for asteroids, and try to catch the Rebels with their pants down. (This is apparently exactly what the probe droid did.) Or you could suddenly appear in low orbit, thus alerting the Rebels that you're not definitely not asteroids, and causing them to activate all their defenses. Then you get choked by Darth Vader for not choosing the first option. e: Suddenly remembered there's even a line of dialogue about it. Something like "With all the meteor activity in this system, it'll be difficult to spot approaching ships."
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http://starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page.htmlquote:In order to give maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience, Star Wars Episodes VII-IX will not tell the same story told in the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe. While the universe that readers knew is changing, it is not being discarded. Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe. For example, elements of the EU are included in Star Wars Rebels. The Inquisitor, the Imperial Security Bureau, and Sienar Fleet Systems are story elements in the new animated series, and all these ideas find their origins in roleplaying game material published in the 1980s. This seems....not terrible?
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So essentially they can pick and choose elements from the EU from over the years for the new movies/tv shows but aren't following the exact stories/timelines laid down. Which is exactly what we figured they'd be doing.
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Wonder if they'll address the "timeline" change within the EU. Seems like they could do one final "Legends" book to address the new continuity going forward. With Zahn being in that EU vid, seems like Disney could try to sooth some of the fan anger/annoyance by getting him to do one of the big kick off novels for the new post-ROTJ series. Him doing an alt-take on his trilogy would be pretty crazy. "Mara Jade died on the way back to her home planet." Teek fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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Teek posted:Wonder if they'll address the "timeline" change within the EU. Seems like they could do one final "Legends" book to address the new continuity going forward. No, gently caress that, Luke's got too many women in the refrigerator as it is. api call girl posted:They're saying to put out hits on Troy Denning now, instead of when it's too late. e: so much angst from wookieepedia, ahahahahah e2: "But I say we do exactly what Memory Alpha did to Abrams. Keep the original stuff right where it is, and make the Abramsverse poo poo wear a big scarlet letter A for Alternate Reality." e3: "And someone can start Wookieepedia: The "We Don't Care About Our Fans" Wiki" e4: Apparently the non-canon label applies to pretty much everything not just post-OT. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Apr 25, 2014 |
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