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Schadenboner posted:No every road in the galaxy didn't need to somehow run through Mos Eisley. Reads aloud the wookieepedia entry for gamorrean door guard #3 who didnt tip in a restaurant once which lead to the bothan waiter quitting that job to go help steal the death star plans, dying a hero's death and changing the course of the war. It's fan wikis. Fan wikis are the shittiest piece of garbage tech in science fiction.
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Error 404 posted:Reads aloud the wookieepedia entry for gamorrean door guard #3 who didnt tip in a restaurant once which lead to the bothan waiter quitting that job to go help steal the death star plans, dying a hero's death and changing the course of the war. EU is the original fan wiki.
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Jun 27, 2020 15:11
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Schadenboner posted:EU is the original fan wiki. So we agree then. real talk, I had sooo loving many of those books and comics and just...ugh.
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Jun 27, 2020 15:13
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i read a lot of star wars eu when i was a child and i always liked the stories that involved han and chewie jumping through hoops to maintain or upgrade the falcon i dont think id ever have read any of those if i wasnt a kid in the 90s and i dont think anybody that wasnt a kid should ahve read them lol
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Jun 27, 2020 15:15
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The only canonical EU things are:
*: This is actually counter-EU but it's still loving true.
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Jun 27, 2020 15:16
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Statutory Ape posted:i read a lot of star wars eu when i was a child and i always liked the stories that involved han and chewie jumping through hoops to maintain or upgrade the falcon I liked the stories where (mostly) nobody from the movies showed up, just some randos in star wars doing star wars stuff. Lookin at you, Wraith Squadron and I, Jedi.
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Jun 27, 2020 15:18
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Schadenboner posted:I really really liked early Star Wars where Han Solo was just a dirtbag with a ship that was p.deece but that fundamentally amounted to one of the hot rods in American Graffiti and the gift of gab. Imagine instead that those narratives are by Luke himself using sockpuppets to make himself look less dumb.
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Jun 27, 2020 17:12
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Tulip posted:Imagine instead that those narratives are by Lucas himself using sockpuppets to make himself look less dumb.
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Error 404 posted:I liked the stories where (mostly) nobody from the movies showed up, just some randos in star wars doing star wars stuff. Despite how absolutely terrible a huge chunk of the EU was, and it definitely needed to be pruned, there was still a lot of good stuff. And just like you say that happened most often when the movie cast was nowhere to be found, or at least only peripherally involved. The Rogue Squadron Books and most of the comics Dark Horse put out are good examples of this.
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Jun 28, 2020 09:31
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galagazombie posted:Despite how absolutely terrible a huge chunk of the EU was, and it definitely needed to be pruned, there was still a lot of good stuff. And just like you say that happened most often when the movie cast was nowhere to be found, or at least only peripherally involved. The Rogue Squadron Books and most of the comics Dark Horse put out are good examples of this. I agree totally. Wraith is one of my favorites (yub nub motherfuckers) and Corran Horn is objectively the best jedi.
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Jun 28, 2020 10:28
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Oh here's a good one speaking of star wars eu. The Jedi were launching torpedoes using the force to avoid missile jamming lmao They literally just pushed em manually thru space w their minds
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Statutory Ape posted:Oh here's a good one speaking of star wars eu. The Jedi were launching torpedoes using the force to avoid missile jamming lmao Jedi completely lack chill. poo poo, did Qui Gon take the secret of dank-rear end space weed to his grave or what?
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Jun 28, 2020 12:51
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Well, he didn't exactly stay in his grave, so...
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Error 404 posted:Jedi completely lack chill. now we know what was special about the dagobah system
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Jun 28, 2020 17:26
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The dankobud system
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synthehol who invented alcohol that doesn't get you drunk. who wants that?
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Cerv posted:synthehol The borg, I assume? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCp-Wv-frBU
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Musluk posted:The borg, I assume?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Overpopulation doesn't seem to really jive with the fact that there's so much empty land for the Gundam to fight in and for White Base to scoot across on Earth in Universal Century. Before the show started they forcibly shipped most of the people on earth to colonies. The only people that stayed are the politicians, billionaires and enough people to serve them.
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Guyver posted:Before the show started they forcibly shipped most of the people on earth to colonies. The only people that stayed are the politicians, billionaires and enough people to serve them. Yeah, IIRC the assorted background materials and opening narration vary, but it puts something like anywhere from half to three-quarters of the population in space (Which I think totals 10-12 billion?), dropping the population of Earth to 3-4 billion. Then the first month of the war kills half humanity between nukes, gassing, and the colony drop, and the show doesn’t get to Earth until after it’s been a conventional war zone for months, so everything looks empty and abandoned cause it essentially is. I think the only populated city on Earth of any size the original series is Belfast.
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crossposting from the Scam Citizen thread but they added some stupid poo poo recently space billards!  there's a disinfecting room that will remove infectious diseases... but it's only... right at the loving entrance to medbay. christ  hey remember the space map room in the star trek movies. they added one to star citizen, but it's totally loving worthless. also you have to hit three buttons just to turn the control panel on. lmao
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Jun 29, 2020 06:38
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I admit I suddenly curious about the gameplay implications of a non-rectangular pool table now.
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Sanguinia posted:I admit I suddenly curious about the gameplay implications of a non-rectangular pool table now. You have already put more thought into it then the devs. The table should change shape after every shot.
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oh but seriously I posted:You have already put more thought into it then the devs. That would be cool. This being star citizen the cue will glitch through the table, hit someone in the head, and you'll get a crime stat (they did actually implement that, yes?)
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Jun 29, 2020 15:59
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Neo Rasa posted:But for real chairs on Federation starship bridges are some of the absolute dumbest tech in all of fiction for not having seat belts. Like, Federation Command or whatever, come on, do you SEE the poo poo these ships run into every day? I really loved that in the 2009 movie the Enterprise bridge did in fact have fancy robo-seatbelts.
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Jun 29, 2020 19:28
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In one TNG episode, the Ferengi are shown to have transporters that can remove clothes. This does beg the question if all transporters can do that.
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i wonder how many transporter button pushers were fired for accidentally leaving their CO's uniform on shore
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Statutory Ape posted:i wonder how many transporter button pushers were fired for accidentally leaving their CO's uniform on shore That's why you get people like O'brien to run your transporter. Just dead inside and lacking the creativity to pull 'pranks' with dangerous equipment.
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Jun 29, 2020 22:58
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Imagine the murders possible with a transporter. Just rematerialize 30% of the ambassador's arterial wall, please
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GD_American posted:Imagine the murders possible with a transporter. Just rematerialize 30% of the ambassador's arterial wall, please you could probably find a real clever way to give somebody a stroke
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High Precision Transporters would be an incredible medical advance.
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I know there was at least one time they solved a disease by simply not transporting it along with the person.
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galagazombie posted:I know there was at least one time they solved a disease by simply not transporting it along with the person. Scotty knew that "1 to beam up" meant leave the syphiherpAIDS back on the planet with the green women
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Statutory Ape posted:I'm gonna also vote "the self destruct system " and it doesn't matter which one I remember a scifi movie from the 80s where the conceit is a prison ship crashes on modern day Earth and the single prisoner on board escapes. If left unchecked will wipe out all life on the planet. With the the aid of a human cop, the No Nonsense Sexy Alien PilotTM gets the deadly alien back on the ship and into space. But the alien is running loose on board, so the cops goes, "We have no choice, activate the self destruct!" The pilot looks at him and asks, "Why would a prison ship have a self destruct?"
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I remember a scifi movie from the 80s where the conceit is a prison ship crashes on modern day Earth and the single prisoner on board escapes. If left unchecked will wipe out all life on the planet. I mean, prison ship is a case that absolutely makes sense to have a means of self-destructing, scuttling or isolating it. (Kids Next Door has the same question asked why the ship has a 'Blow up the engines' button) It's a prison, designed to keep its inmates contained, and in the case the ship is compromised and the inmates are taking over the controls, that's the ultimate escape prevention. Military vessels may be similarly designed to prevent capture, and even civilian ones may have it as a safety feature- in case you're careening uncontrollably into a major settlement, the self-destruct prevents it from ploughing into skyscrapers and hopefully renders it a less drastic cloud of debris. And as for installing one in the first place, a lot of the time it's just no longer stopping the power source from exploding energetically.
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Schadenboner posted:I really really liked early Star Wars where Han Solo was just a dirtbag with a ship that was p.deece but that fundamentally amounted to one of the hot rods in American Graffiti and the gift of gab. If you're talking about Solo, you realize the film's a tall tale being told by an unreliable narrator, possibly Han himself, right?
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It's always bothered me a little that the "holograms" in Star Trek are not actually holograms. First Contact seems to show a little self awareness about this when Picard shoots a bunch of Borgs with a holographic gun and Alfre Woodard asks "I thought you said it's all a bunch of holograms, if it's a holograms..." And Picard explains he turned off the holodeck safeties, seemingly oblivious to how this doesn't answer her question AT ALL.
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xutech posted:Federation uniforms... The first Star Trek movie could've been called Camel Toe: The Motion Picture
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I mean, prison ship is a case that absolutely makes sense to have a means of self-destructing, scuttling or isolating it. (Kids Next Door has the same question asked why the ship has a 'Blow up the engines' button) It's a prison, designed to keep its inmates contained, and in the case the ship is compromised and the inmates are taking over the controls, that's the ultimate escape prevention. otoh prisons and prison transport vehicles dont have this functionality
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Statutory Ape posted:otoh prisons and prison transport vehicles dont have this functionality The real-life analogy you're looking for is a prison hulk, which if you count scuttling, totally do.
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