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Captain Splendid posted:This is the Starhawk: This is literally Freespace 2’s Colossus.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:26
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The Star Destroyer is the Midway Carrier from Wing Commander Prophecy.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:34
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is literally Freespace 2’s Colossus. It's more like a bulkier Neb B.
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Aug 7, 2019 14:53
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Kanine posted:
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Aug 7, 2019 15:14
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For Christ sake, let's let that washed up deviant's romantic abnormality rest with the fishes.
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Aug 7, 2019 15:42
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Captain Splendid posted:What I find kind of funny is that there's a guy making a pretty cool mod for Empire at War and he had to come up with a model for the New Republic Starhawk and he ended up with this: i actually really like the starhawk design, it makes a lot of sense considering the background of the ship is the new republic disassembling damaged star destroyers and creating a new frame also i have a hunch the onager is meant to evoke a crossbow
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Aug 7, 2019 17:45
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also the onager design was created back in 2017 as an illustration for the rebel files book
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Aug 7, 2019 17:49
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Kanine posted:i actually really like the starhawk design, it makes a lot of sense considering the background of the ship is the new republic disassembling damaged star destroyers and creating a new frame The second one is just a really bulky version of the ship from the end of ESB. The first one, like the concept art posted earlier, has that big gap in the middle and I can’t stop thinking about how they’d have to get in a littler space ship to go from one side to the other or else go all the way around
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Aug 7, 2019 17:53
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What's the Porg density looking like in this one? I feel like Porg didn't really take off after TLJ but I still believe.
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Aug 7, 2019 20:56
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DeimosRising posted:The second one is just a really bulky version of the ship from the end of ESB. The first one, like the concept art posted earlier, has that big gap in the middle and I can’t stop thinking about how they’d have to get in a littler space ship to go from one side to the other or else go all the way around I attribute that to having some sort of space union of workers. So there are teams on both sides protected by labor laws.
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Aug 7, 2019 21:05
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I think porg is going down the memory hole lest it remind people of rian. Small asterisk that there might be a token one living on the falcon if they still have too many warehouses of leftover toys to sell
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Aug 7, 2019 21:07
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My sister in law got my kid some book about Chewbacca and porgs. Chewie doesn’t eat any and the porgs are portrayed as intelligent so uh...it would probably be weird if a kid was into that then saw the movie, since I understand he eats them or something. In conclusion, Porg
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Aug 7, 2019 21:10
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DeimosRising posted:My sister in law got my kid some book about Chewbacca and porgs. Chewie doesn’t eat any and the porgs are portrayed as intelligent so uh...it would probably be weird if a kid was into that then saw the movie, since I understand he eats them or something. In conclusion, Porg He almost eats one, but doesn't actually do it. But he had already killed and cooked it, so...not much better.
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Aug 7, 2019 21:31
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porfiria posted:What's the Porg density looking like in this one? 30-50 feral Porgs within 3-5 minutes of the films start time.
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Aug 7, 2019 21:37
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The porgs have migrated over to the new animated shorts series they're doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJZVUOUqz08
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Aug 7, 2019 22:07
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Porgs were the best part of TLJ.
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Aug 7, 2019 22:34
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Vinylshadow posted:The porgs have migrated over to the new animated shorts series they're doing What the gently caress
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Aug 8, 2019 00:27
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kidkissinger posted:What the gently caress Not that Star Wars was ever high art, but Disney would put out porn of Ewoks skull-loving Ben Kenobi if their marketing data said that would lock in the brainwashing of a target demographic.
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Aug 8, 2019 00:46
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George Lucas spinning in his God drat grave
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Aug 8, 2019 00:51
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kidkissinger posted:What the gently caress I have to know whose favorite Star Wars character is loving Maz. Also how many internal memos they've got going around to try and make BB-8 more known than R2-D2.
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Aug 8, 2019 00:56
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:I have to know whose favorite Star Wars character is loving Maz. Also how many internal memos they've got going around to try and make BB-8 more known than R2-D2. The one spoiler I hope I won't read before the movie comes out is the fate of 3PO, Artoo and Chewie. I expect the last one to die, but I have no idea about the droids.
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Aug 8, 2019 15:30
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:I have to know whose favorite Star Wars character is loving Maz. Also how many internal memos they've got going around to try and make BB-8 more known than R2-D2. “Kids love the Wookiee-eyefucking capitalist who goes to literal war with unions!”
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Aug 8, 2019 16:11
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:I have to know whose favorite Star Wars character is loving Maz. Also how many internal memos they've got going around to try and make BB-8 more known than R2-D2. What do you get in the sequels? The heroes have bland, one-syllable names that suggest nothing. Rey. Finn. Poe. "Kylo Ren" does not sound remotely sinister or villainous. Captain Phasma - good or bad? And then there's loving "Snoke". The Big Bad should not be called loving "Snoke" unless you're watching the Moomins. (I can never remember Maz's surname, because my brain always parses it as "katana".) It's all just a glop of syllables. BB-8 is actually the most memorable of the lot, because it has a bit of rhythm to it and he's shaped sort of like a baseball. See? That works.
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Aug 8, 2019 16:21
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Payndz posted:Say what you will about Lucas, but he had a knack for memorable names. They may be corny and on the nose, but Luke Skywalker and Han Solo work. They tell you instantly a bit about the characters before they even do anything. Then you've got Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, R2-D2, C-3PO, Lando Calrissian, Jabba the Hutt... you can guess if they're good guys or bad guys. From the prequels, you have Jar Jar Binks, Queen Amidala and Senator Palpatine. You remember the names even if the movies don't stick so much in the mind. Even objects: Millennium Falcon, X-wing, lightsaber, Death Star, TIE Fighter, Star Destroyer, landspeeder, Imperial Walker all have a ring to them. The name "Ewok" never appears in the film, and everybody still knows it. I dunno, that argument is weird and incredibly selective. I feel like FN-2187, Poe Dameron, Ben Solo, General Hux, Supreme Leader Snoke, Rose Tico, Amilyn Holdo, Tasu Leech, Maz Kanata, Temmin Wexley and poo poo like that are about on par with names like Lando, Padme, Boba, Jabba or Jar Jar. It's just fuckin jibberish names you like versus jibberish names you don't like because of nostalgia reasons.
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Aug 8, 2019 18:35
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Darth TNT posted:The one spoiler I hope I won't read before the movie comes out is the fate of 3PO, Artoo and Chewie. Chewie died in the books because he was a pain to write dialogue for, but he'll live forever in the films because he and R2-D2 are the only two original characters whose actors are completely replaceable. (3PO has a distinctive voice that would make a substitute at least a little bit noticeable.)
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Aug 8, 2019 18:37
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Zoran posted:Chewie died in the books because he was a pain to write dialogue for Well, that, plus the people running the book series wanted to kill someone major to show that this series MEANS BUSINESS, and suggested Luke. Which Lucas personally vetoed. Apparently he refused to let them kill any of the big 3, and the first major character he said yes to was Chewie.
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Aug 8, 2019 18:53
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thrawn527 posted:Well, that, plus the people running the book series wanted to kill someone major to show that this series MEANS BUSINESS, and suggested Luke. Which Lucas personally vetoed. Apparently he refused to let them kill any of the big 3, and the first major character he said yes to was Chewie. The real question is whether they asked about R2-D2 or C-3PO before they got to Chewie.
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Aug 8, 2019 18:59
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All I want is porgs in red sith armor.
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Aug 8, 2019 20:20
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AndyElusive posted:I dunno, that argument is weird and incredibly selective. I feel like FN-2187, Poe Dameron, Ben Solo, General Hux, Supreme Leader Snoke, Rose Tico, Amilyn Holdo, Tasu Leech, Maz Kanata, Temmin Wexley and poo poo like that are about on par with names like Lando, Padme, Boba, Jabba or Jar Jar. difference is Lando is called Calrissian, Boba is a Fett and so on. Jar Jar Binks. Jabba, Hutt. Holdo is almost the same as Arch-criminal Hondo
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Zoran posted:Chewie died in the books because he was a pain to write dialogue for, but he'll live forever in the films because he and R2-D2 are the only two original characters whose actors are completely replaceable. (3PO has a distinctive voice that would make a substitute at least a little bit noticeable.) Yeah, but they mostly sidelined artoo and 3po making me fear for their safety. And do we really need 3 droids in this movie series? Regarding names, I like Snoke (where there's Snoke there's fire) and Kylo Ren. I don't know why, but Kylo Ren sounds sufficiently foreign and somehow sounds fast.
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Aug 8, 2019 22:55
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Darth TNT posted:Yeah, but they mostly sidelined artoo and 3po making me fear for their safety. And do we really need 3 droids in this movie series? That's kind of the most surprising thing about the sequel trilogy to me- why not stick with R2 and 3PO as key characters, as they're the one constant through the first six movies of "the Skywalker Saga". R2 and 3PO will never get old and die IRL (Daniels is old, but he probably has a lot of years of voice work left in him); they can be the constant the audience can always hold onto, rather than- what? Luke's old lightsaber? Han's dice? White helmets/body armor?
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Aug 8, 2019 23:02
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thrawn527 posted:Well, that, plus the people running the book series wanted to kill someone major to show that this series MEANS BUSINESS, and suggested Luke. Which Lucas personally vetoed. Apparently he refused to let them kill any of the big 3, and the first major character he said yes to was Chewie. Jesus no wonder he sold out. Dude was sitting on a 4 billion IP and answering repeated questions from D tier pulp authors.
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Aug 8, 2019 23:15
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Darth TNT posted:Regarding names, I like Snoke (where there's Snoke there's fire) and Kylo Ren. I don't know why, but Kylo Ren sounds sufficiently foreign and somehow sounds fast. Kylo Ren's name may have been a leftover from Lucas' outline. A character named Kybo Ren appeared in the droids cartoon, which Lucas referenced a bunch in the prequels.
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Aug 8, 2019 23:23
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It's probably age specific but every time I hear or read "Knights of Ren" I think of a mentally ill cartoon dog leading a bunch of knights around and I can't take it seriously.
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Aug 9, 2019 00:04
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For a long time I would get confused because there’s a Rey and a Ren. What is this, poetry? They almost rhyme!!!
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Aug 9, 2019 00:16
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I remember someone had to clarify that the villain in Solo was not related to a famous Jedi from The Clone Wars despite both being named Vos.
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Aug 9, 2019 01:11
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The MSJ posted:I remember someone had to clarify that the villain in Solo was not related to a famous Jedi from The Clone Wars despite both being named Vos. That was kind of important since Quinlan was an EU character who made an appearance in The Clone Wars. 
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Aug 9, 2019 01:39
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And they both have face stuff, although Quinlan's does not appear to glow.
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Aug 9, 2019 01:41
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I like Ren because it implies an alternate moral standard to that of the Jedi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_(Confucianism)
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It is interesting that Luke and Leia exist in a world consisting entirely of made up names. I guess in a neat way it shows they're special by being the only people with normal names.
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