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Both, and then meta-meltdowns all the way down. Also Hoth is technically a desert, as they're defined by rainfall and not by temperature. 
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Galactic teenager in a inter species relationship. With a dog lady. That's something of a trifecta for shippers and/or furries.
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Rocksicles posted:Galactic teenager in a inter species relationship. With a dog lady. Technically, she was more of a cat lady during Stackpole's time. I think the Selonians were still otter people though. edit: Isard's Revenge was obviously Stackpole deciding that, for Gavin, cat ladies are okay but dog ladies are not.
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There's a rumor that Ep. 8 will feature Han's funeral on Corellia, if so I want there to be Selonians there.
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Aug 12, 2016 17:17
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Chairman Capone posted:There's a rumor that Ep. 8 will feature Han's funeral on Corellia, if so I want there to be Selonians there. His space otter boxing partner comes to pay respects.
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Chairman Capone posted:According to the Tarkin novel the DS was being built over Geonosis, though maybe by this point it's been moved. It'd be neat if it actually was Despayre, which apparently almost got put into the end of ROTS. Rebels also implicitly confirmed the Death Star was built over Geonosis. It also confirmed the Genonoseans were wiped out, likely after construction completed. The planet wasn't destroyed but the entire population was genocided by some means. And here, I braved the CD Star Wars thread for these gifs. http://i.imgur.com/MNoQFQh.gifv http://i.imgur.com/q1GQ5A3.gifv http://i.imgur.com/6KrItKB.gifv http://i.imgur.com/5w4clIC.gifv My favorite: 
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SeanBeansShako posted:If we get a SA SWOTOR EU THREAD NERD group going I'm happy to download the MMO and join in, just hope some of you are EU. Then again I don't mind staying up late most nights. Incidentally, did you know stunt sabers can be ridiculously cheap? Someone please stop me. 
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Arcsquad12 posted:I'm also wondering if the scene of the starship fleeing a collapsing cave is actually a ship trying to escape a planet imploding from a superlaser strike. Because that would be loving incredible. That was my thought too, after going back to read the Wookieepedia article on Despayre: "The atmosphere ignited and created a chain reaction that damaged and sterilized the entire planetary surface. Physical surface damage was extreme; ground quakes and volcanic eruptions joined with great waves caused by the shifting of tectonic plates on the ocean floor. The second shot, fired an hour and fifteen minutes after the first to allow the capacitors time to recharge, caused massive kilometers-wide cracks in the planet itself. The molten core rushed to the surface through a myriad of new volcanoes." Not that it's strong evidence, but it definitely jibes with the "giant clouds of exploding dust" shot around 1:38.
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Rocksicles posted:Galactic teenager in a inter species relationship. With a dog lady. In addition to Gavin's romance with a dog/cat/horse person and Corran's romance with an otter person, you get Wedge's brief liaison with that omwati scientist. Stackpole may possibly have had some issues. Though the omwati are usually just drawn as blue humans rather than full-on bird people, so that might not be particularly furry. X-wing does have a female human getting with a male twi'lek, which is kind of a fun reversal. Jyn is gonna shoot down a TIE with a pistol and it's gonna be rad. "B...but Mary Sue," certain forums will yowl
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PupsOfWar posted:In addition to Gavin's romance with a dog/cat/horse person and Corran's romance with an otter person, you get Wedge's brief liaison with that omwati scientist. Was the Wedge / Qwi stuff not just a Jedi Academy thing?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was the Wedge / Qwi stuff not just a Jedi Academy thing? Didn't Qwi show up in NJO and die?
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Arcsquad12 posted:Didn't Qwi show up in NJO and die?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was the Wedge / Qwi stuff not just a Jedi Academy thing? Hell, looks like I don't remember these timelines anymore
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I'm getting a reaaaalll heavy Kyle/Jan vibe from these two. His name's not, like, Karl Katana, is it? 
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cptn_dr posted:I'm getting a reaaaalll heavy Kyle/Jan vibe from these two. His name's not, like, Karl Katana, is it? Cassian Andor apparently. Close enough.
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Chairman Capone posted:There's a rumor that Ep. 8 will feature Han's funeral on Corellia, if so I want there to be Selonians there. Dengar will be there drunk and grumpy that he wasn't the one to do it. Manaroo all apologizing for her dumb husband.
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:Dengar will be there drunk and grumpy that he wasn't the one to do it. Manaroo all apologizing for her dumb husband. Boba Fett will be there reluctantly to complain that he never got to tell Han off in person like he did in Last One Standing.
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cptn_dr posted:I'm getting a reaaaalll heavy Kyle/Jan vibe from these two. His name's not, like, Karl Katana, is it? Hah, that's the same thing I thought. Kinda like a reverse Jedi Knight setup.
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I watched Attack of the Clones recently and I noticed something. I was watching to see what sort of camera techniques were being used in the film, and while most of the shots are pretty mundane without much cleverness, the one thing that stood out to me were the wide shots that zoomed in to specific details. It's about the only unique thing in the film's visual style, and it is so well known that it keeps showing up in tons of films nowadays. Hell, even Empire at War's cinematic camera had a function just to do the dramatic wide angle zoom in. Even the worst dreck can have an influence on filmmaking, it seems.
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jivjov posted:Wedge broke up with Qui in the first few pages of Starfighters of Adumar Only one of the many reasons Starfighters of Adumar may be the best Star Wars book.
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PupsOfWar posted:In addition to Gavin's romance with a dog/cat/horse person and Corran's romance with an otter person, you get Wedge's brief liaison with that omwati scientist. I have a feeling the TIE is piloted by one of the rebels and they're helping her escape something
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I have a feeling the TIE is piloted by one of the rebels and they're helping her escape something Would tie into her Tie Pilot uniform from the first teaser, the reprogrammed Imperial sentry droid, and the rebel engineer looking guy wearing an Imperial uniform.
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Kenny Baker just died. Hope he gets a nice big aluminum cylinder full of porn up in heaven.
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Today I went out of my way to read the Dawn of the Jedi comic books and oh my god why do I do this to myself I hate how Ostrander writes.  And I'm not really into Duursema's art, either.
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Siivola posted:Today I went out of my way to read the Dawn of the Jedi comic books and oh my god why do I do this to myself I hate how Ostrander writes. heresy.
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I haven't liked James Luceno's works either so maybe I'm just broken. 
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Finished the Let's read Crap EU books thread. It was hilarious and cringe-inducing. It occurred to me that EU Lando is one step away from building Rapture as his next scheme.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I watched Attack of the Clones recently and I noticed something. I was watching to see what sort of camera techniques were being used in the film, and while most of the shots are pretty mundane without much cleverness, the one thing that stood out to me were the wide shots that zoomed in to specific details. It's about the only unique thing in the film's visual style, and it is so well known that it keeps showing up in tons of films nowadays. Hell, even Empire at War's cinematic camera had a function just to do the dramatic wide angle zoom in. I'm on my phone so I can't double check, but the ultra wide zoom to detail move is something that was done long before AotC. Especially in 60s/70s cinema. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Finished the Let's read Crap EU books thread. It was hilarious and cringe-inducing. Rapture is a Lego house compared to the scale of Lando's schemes. One thing you can say about the old EU is that no matter how bad the book is, if Lando shows up he's going to be running a scheme that is at least conceptually interesting (and ridiculous). Well, unless you're reading Black Fleet Crisis, where he spends three books preparing to lube up and wrestle a wall naked, with Lobot.
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BonoMan posted:I'm on my phone so I can't double check, but the ultra wide zoom to detail move is something that was done long before AotC. Especially in 60s/70s cinema. It's about the only camera trick in the movie that stands out to me, which I had never seen before but now I see everywhere. I guess maybe AOTC brought the type of shot back and made it mainstream again? I'm not familiar with any films from the 60s/70s that use that camera technique, or at least, use it in the way I am thinking of.
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The zoom was used in Firefly around the same time as AotC too. Part of the reason it spread was that the same animators / animation studios worked on a lot of different projects
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The zoom was used in Firefly around the same time as AotC too. I have a feeling Attack of the Clones was in production long before Firefly, but then this is the internet where Joss Whedon has a giant fanbase so obviously they would attribute the magical snap zoom effect to him. So it spreads the same way A113 animators mark their work. Interesting. Speaking of that, has anyone ever hidden the A113 tag in aurebesh somewhere? Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Aug 14, 2016 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:I have a feeling Attack of the Clones was in production long before Firefly, but then this is the internet where Joss Whedon has a giant fanbase so obviously they would attribute the magical snap zoom effect to him. So it spreads the same way A113 animators mark their work. Interesting. Speaking of that, has anyone ever hidden the A113 tag in aurebesh somewhere? I do remember Whedon saying in some interview that they went to see AotC while shooting Firefly, and he was mad because he wanted to be the guy who was combining western stuff like lens flares and snap zooms with sci-.
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MonsieurChoc posted:It occurred to me that EU Lando is one step away from building Rapture as his next scheme. No, says the Hutt, it belongs to the cartel. No, says the Jedi, it belongs to the Force. No, says the man on Coruscant, it belongs to Palpatine.
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What was that story where Lando blew up a space station because they had tariffs on their trade? (Or something like that.)
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It was one of the Lando trilogy books by real-life insane libertarian L. Neil Smith. If I remember right, Lando was angry at them for having import tariffs, so he gave them poisoned food.
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Lando is the coolest motherfucker in space and I refuse to believe he's an Ayn Rand fanboyThwomp posted:Rebels also implicitly confirmed the Death Star was built over Geonosis. It also confirmed the Genonoseans were wiped out, likely after construction completed. The planet wasn't destroyed but the entire population was genocided by some means. drat, this movie looks cool as gently caress and no, I am not brave enough to venture into CineD to discuss it
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Japanese trailer is up. Some new scenes. Also, since they put it in the trailer, here's the big new content: Mads Mikkelsen's character, Jyn Erso's father, is the one who leaked the Death Star's existence to the Rebellion. If I decide to do some headscratching, I assume this is why we will see Jyn disguised as a Tie Pilot, to rescue her father from the Imperials, as well as why she was chosen for the mission to begin with.
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Just read Lords of the Sith by Paul Kemp. It was a fun quick read at 285 pages although like a lot of star wars books recently it feels very inconsequential. It is helped by the fact that is pretty much just a fast paced action adventure where Vader acts like a completely unstoppable bad rear end for most of the book. I'm thinking about reading the aftermath trilogy next although I have heard a ton of bad things. I think the new canon is going to continue to be slightly disappointing because Disney does not want to tread on the new movies, which means we will probably continue to get inconsequential side stories. What I can't figure out is why they don't make a few adult focused novels that flesh out the background and setting of The Force Awakens. A Captain Phasma novel would be great as it could show us information about Snoke, The first Order, and the galaxy before TFA. I would even settle for a Tales from Maz Kanata's bar set of short stories, or a Tales from Nima Outpost. I really liked the old Tales books.
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