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Speaking of Star Wars, this thread's a read that soundly explains why meeting on a Star Wars online forum might get you in an abusive relationship, and also captured by the taliban (really)
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Star wars and star trek aged badly because of the nerds they created.
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Sep 7, 2019 21:28
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OutOfPrint posted:I once had an argument with my old gaming group's GM about how you could take the script from Star Wars, set it in the golden age of piracy, and the only change you'd need to make is saying islands instead of planets. That was part of a longer argument than genre and setting are largely disconnected, with my point being that genre is more about tone and action than trappings. Playing with different combinations of genres and trappings is a hell of a lot of fun in table top RPG's, which is why I always wanted to run a big standard D&D type fantasy game only to have it be interrupted by a full-fledged alien invasion for some dragon vs. UFO action. How are they gonna literally blow up a whole island? Also the WW1 dogfighting/trench run also wouldn't work.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:13
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GoutPatrol posted:How are they gonna literally blow up a whole island? I don't know how you'd do it, but I'm a lot more interested to see someone try than I am interested in a new Star Wars movie.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:25
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It would have been a big ship they blew up instead of the death star. And they could have burned down the entire island/town instead of blowing up a planet.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:30
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GoutPatrol posted:How are they gonna literally blow up a whole island? Pirate magic, burning down a village as previously mentioned, gunpowder catapult, a big rear end cannon. GoutPatrol posted:Also the WW1 dogfighting/trench run also wouldn't work. Make the death star a floating artificial island with a bunch of waterways and gaps between platforms and x-wings and TIE fighters little one man skippers and you could have a trench run on the water running to Death Island's gunpowder store. You'd lose a dimension, but could still have a thrilling scene. Just don't think too hard about the racial implications of jawas and, really, any alien in the series.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:41
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Der Kyhe posted:Was it ever explained what history Guinan and Q had with each other, and why Q was tiptoeing around her? Really, the big takeaway there ends up being she's met/known about Q for a while.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:49
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the other Q seem less like sci-fi lokis who revel in screwing with tiny mortals and more like... guardians seemingly preserving some order? i mean they made Q briefly mortal for some transgression i wouldn't be surprised if guinan, somewhere in her long years, managed to get a q-continum restraining order against him and is able to banish him with a single gesture Pick posted:Speaking of Star Wars, this thread's a read that soundly explains why meeting on a Star Wars online forum might get you in an abusive relationship, and also captured by the taliban (really) 
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Sep 8, 2019 02:35
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Pick posted:Speaking of Star Wars, this thread's a read that soundly explains why meeting on a Star Wars online forum might get you in an abusive relationship, and also captured by the taliban (really) What the actual gently caress 
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Sep 8, 2019 03:07
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hard counter posted:the other Q seem less like sci-fi lokis who revel in screwing with tiny mortals and more like... guardians seemingly preserving some order? i mean they made Q briefly mortal for some transgression They're not deliberately maintaining some galactic order they're just not bothering to change the fundamental rules. The insistence is that the rules only change when somebody powerful enough to change them actually does it which is usually a Q. The Q are portrayed as both few in number and completely apathetic. They don't care enough to keep the order; they're just the only things actually powerful enough to change the rules and never bother. They keep an eye out for anything that could potentially threaten them when they can be bothered to pay attention at all but only the Q that Picard encountered seemed to actually be paying any sort of attention. Since they've already seen, done, and discussed everything there's just nothing left for them. The other suggestion is that the Q are the assumed end result for the evolution of all life. If a life form becomes sentient then develops its society and technology long enough they'll eventually end up almost exactly like the Q. They consider their being "pure" and lock away dissidents as dissidents are dangerous thanks to just how powerful the Q are. However the Q are also are portrayed as timeless creatures that have just always existed so there's that question of did they transcend reality entirely to the point that time quit having meaning or is it possible for them to actually die? The Q while they are Q are immortal but Q can also be turned into mortal humanoids. A lot of stuff about them was left horribly vague, mysterious, and unexplained; I figure that's probably on purpose. Of course it's also possible that the Q are actually only one creature and the Q Continuum is the actual Q. Maybe God is real in Star Trek but incredibly loving bored which leads to tossing things that call themselves "Q" into the galaxy to stir things up. In any event the Q that Picard encountered started causing poo poo in the galaxy pretty much out of phenomenal cosmic boredom. Q society had gone totally stagnant to the point that the Q didn't even communicate with each other anymore so Q decided to start stirring up the pot. The Q that became Quinn decided that he was going to stir poo poo up even further by killing himself. ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 03:34
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hard counter posted:the other Q seem less like sci-fi lokis who revel in screwing with tiny mortals and more like... guardians seemingly preserving some order? i mean they made Q briefly mortal for some transgression The thing is though, there's no way to verify anything that Q says about himself. It might not even be the same person showing up each time. Or the other Qs might also be him. The conflict we see between Q and the other Qs could be staged. When he was punished by being turned human, maybe that was just him loving around or testing Picard in some way or whatever. The scope of his abilities make it impossible to know if anything is as it seems or is even real. There is no way to draw any meaningful conclusion about Q or the Q continuum other than that some being exists and is more powerful than you can imagine. Its nature and motives are impossible to determine.
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Sep 8, 2019 03:39
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OutOfPrint posted:Make the death star a floating artificial island with a bunch of waterways and gaps between platforms and x-wings and TIE fighters little one man skippers and you could have a trench run on the water running to Death Island's gunpowder store. You'd lose a dimension, but could still have a thrilling scene.
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Sep 8, 2019 04:51
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One Piece has a surprisingly grounded example of the naval equivalent of the nuclear option; just surround an island with battleships and carpet-bomb every square inch of it until not a single brick remains standing atop another, and it's an order that once given cannot be revoked.
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Sep 8, 2019 06:37
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Where does that put Pern? Never occurred to me before that it's only one letter away from porn.
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Sep 8, 2019 08:02
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It's even more complicated when you consider that girl who was half Q because her father was a rogue Q who went to earth and started a family. The other Q made a tornado out of nowhere to kill her parents and John Delancie Q implied that they were going to off her too if he couldn't teach her to control her powers
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Sep 8, 2019 13:51
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That sounds like a superhero origin story.
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Sep 8, 2019 18:15
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GoutPatrol posted:How are they gonna literally blow up a whole island? Same way nature does it, drop a lake into the volcano powering everything. This combined with a dam and presto, Caribbean wars script which writes itself.
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Sep 8, 2019 18:52
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Ok smart guy, Hoth.
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Sep 8, 2019 19:26
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christmas boots posted:Ok smart guy, Hoth. Some parts of Earth are cold.
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Sep 8, 2019 19:46
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Ice pirates. And suddenly Han has space herpes.
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Sep 8, 2019 19:53
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buddhist nudist posted:Some parts of Earth are cold. Yeah but no AT-ATs unless you replace with Mammoth which would be highly anachronistic
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Sep 9, 2019 19:57
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Hannibal crossed the Alps in 218 BCE with 37 elephants. Edit: holy poo poo  
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Sep 9, 2019 20:05
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Beachcomber posted:Hannibal crossed the Alps in 218 BCE with 37 elephants. Granted, I've not seen a lot of elephant clothes in my life time, but those are the worst elephant clothes I've seen to date. That elephant looks ridiculous. Ridiculous.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:19
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Solice Kirsk posted:Granted, I've not seen a lot of elephant clothes in my life time, but those are the worst elephant clothes I've seen to date. That elephant looks ridiculous. Ridiculous. He looks like ELMER how dare you
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Sep 9, 2019 20:22
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Solice Kirsk posted:Granted, I've not seen a lot of elephant clothes in my life time, but those are the worst elephant clothes I've seen to date. That elephant looks ridiculous. Ridiculous. elephant will remember this.
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Sep 9, 2019 21:46
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christmas boots posted:Yeah but no AT-ATs unless you replace with Mammoth which would be highly anachronistic Big slow boats you send small nimble boats at. Literally every imperial defeat. It's boats all the way down.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:05
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what are droids in this analogy 
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Sep 9, 2019 22:16
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hard counter posted:what are droids in this analogy Also boats, but the ones you put in a bottle
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Sep 9, 2019 22:22
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hard counter posted:what are droids in this analogy One of like 5 people with the freakish ability to read and write? Otherwise there be monsters thataway, and they be us 
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Sep 9, 2019 22:22
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Solice Kirsk posted:Granted, I've not seen a lot of elephant clothes in my life time, but those are the worst elephant clothes I've seen to date. That elephant looks ridiculous. Ridiculous. my dude, that is stylish everyday elephantwear in that particular bit of India, and imo it is crushing it 
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Sep 9, 2019 22:25
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Droids are the trained monkeys and parrots that perch on captains' shoulders.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:27
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I always considered the Death Star analog to be a castle, since, at its core, it's a story about a young knight going to rescue a princess held prisoner by a black knight.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:02
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But we’ve already had a mobile oppression palace! https://www.theinfosphere.org/Mobile_Oppression_Palace
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Sep 9, 2019 23:08
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hard counter posted:what are droids in this analogy “Goodness, Captain Solo! It is I, Sea Threpio. You probably don’t recognize me because of the red peg leg.”
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Sep 9, 2019 23:19
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Surprisingly Google images isn't delivering very much when I ask it for castles that are also boats. I think we've found an untapped genre
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Sep 9, 2019 23:56
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christmas boots posted:Surprisingly Google images isn't delivering very much when I ask it for castles that are also boats. I think we've found an untapped genre 
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Sep 10, 2019 00:03
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The Death Star has to be at least three times bigger than this!
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Sep 10, 2019 00:20
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What is this, a Death Star for ants?
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Sep 10, 2019 00:23
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That thing looks fun as hell but I can already tell from how they’re balancing the weight on every side that it’s probably annoying to actually get on
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Solice Kirsk posted:Granted, I've not seen a lot of elephant clothes in my life time, but those are the worst elephant clothes I've seen to date. That elephant looks ridiculous. Ridiculous. We were playing a tabletop rpg once and one of the players was just a rich rear end in a top hat. And it was established that he had enough money to buy an elephant because 193x elephants were probably affordable. A few bluff checks later we were looking into buying a yacht for his formal elephant (he was now up to 3) One Google search later we discovered formal elephants existed https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/video/elephant-in-tuxedo-walking-on-hind-legs-short-stock-video-footage/498-462
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