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I think Pratchet is probably the best author I’ve read in my life and I feel like the Vimes books are probably the best written out of the series, but the way cops function in Ankh-Morpork is a degree of fantasy more absurd than the 8 fundamental spells or Santa Claus being a real person. Edit: like to such a degree that “cop” practically means something different on discworld, where they have the capacity to do good.
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As opposed to the fantasy any other cop show indulges in 
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Feb 20, 2021 15:35
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I enjoy Terry Pratchett, but I think you ought to read more.
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Feb 20, 2021 16:21
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   Man, they're spoiling us
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Feb 20, 2021 16:31
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lmao he's wearing a crew neck sweater under his Mandalorian battle armor like a mid-Atlantic swim team dad ha ha ha
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Feb 20, 2021 16:38
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Bust Rodd posted:lmao he's wearing a crew neck sweater under his Mandalorian battle armor like a mid-Atlantic swim team dad ha ha ha I remember being surprised to learn Luke’s pants in ANH were just jeans dyed white.
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Feb 20, 2021 16:49
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Dawgstar posted:I remember being surprised to learn Luke’s pants in ANH were just jeans dyed white. I’m surprised to learn that now.
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Feb 20, 2021 16:51
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Give me Columbo in the SW universe.
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Feb 20, 2021 17:20
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AlternateNu posted:Give me Columbo in the SW universe. and make him an inquisitor  He drives people to the dark side using questions. :p
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shades of eternity posted:and make him an inquisitor "You know, sir, it’s a funny thing. All my life I kept running into smart people. I don’t just mean smart like you and the people in this Empire. You know what I mean. In the Inquisitorious, there were lots of smarter inquisitors. And when I first joined the force, sir, they had some very clever people there. And I could tell right away that it wasn’t gonna be easy killing Jedi as long as they were around. But I figured, if I worked harder than they did, put in more time, read the books, kept my eyes open, maybe I could make it happen. And I did. And I really love my work, sir."
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Feb 20, 2021 20:01
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pile of brown posted:Chopper should get his own show He got one, it was called Rebels.
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Feb 20, 2021 20:20
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AndyElusive posted:He got one, it was called Rebels. It was ruined by too much ezra and not enough chopper/ahsoka
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Feb 20, 2021 20:34
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Chopper, Beetee, Artoo, HK-47, and Triple-Zero walk into a bar... ...the authorities found no survivors
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Feb 20, 2021 20:34
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I want Filoni and Favreau to bring back actual hk47 because I think they'd do him justice.
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Feb 20, 2021 20:39
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Vinylshadow posted:Chopper, Beetee, Artoo, HK-47, and Triple-Zero walk into a bar... and L3-37 declares the revolution has begun.
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Vinylshadow posted:Chopper, Beetee, Artoo, HK-47, and Triple-Zero walk into a bar... I will always advocate for Squeaky in these situations, because his argumentative personality and underworld contacts, as well as his skill in requestioning stuff are always going to be valuable. Plus, the fact he's a "free" droid, and no longer required to obey humans like many others are would probably serve such a group well.
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Feb 20, 2021 23:39
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Bust Rodd posted:Edit: like to such a degree that “cop” practically means something different on discworld, where they have the capacity to do good. "Cop" means something different in England. They have a fundamentally different concept, "policing by consent". See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
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mllaneza posted:"Cop" means something different in England. They have a fundamentally different concept, "policing by consent". See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles This is basically irrelevant in practice in the UK. Cops are cops are cops.
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Feb 21, 2021 00:43
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It’s honestly impressive the way UK police manage to terrorize people over there without the crazy dependence on firearms that US police have
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AlternateNu posted:Give me Columbo in the SW universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_5vFOEAPec
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Feb 21, 2021 03:52
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Debating. next episode of droids or do ewoks as a matched set.
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Feb 21, 2021 16:52
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Combine them. Cyborg ewok
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Feb 21, 2021 20:12
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Dave Syndrome posted:Not nearly good enough. He didn't kill even ONE person.  fair point.
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Feb 21, 2021 22:50
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I'm crediting all the kills via Death Star Laser in Rogue One to Chopper, because neither Krennic nor Tarkin deserve those figures
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Vinylshadow posted:I'm crediting all the kills via Death Star Laser in Rogue One to Chopper, because neither Krennic nor Tarkin deserve those figures Chopper distance-hacked the Death Star targeting system and uploaded code to tweak their fire control so they could fire lesser-powered beams. Because Chopper likes to watch people die a few at a time, despairing as they do instead of quickly and all at once. He likes to savor the experience.
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Feb 22, 2021 03:43
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There was an IG-88 in the Death Star
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Feb 22, 2021 12:33
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Captain Splendid posted:There was an IG-88 in the Death Star Hutts built a Death Star.
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Dawgstar posted:Hutts built a Death Star. Wasn't it a cheap lovely knockoff Death Star? That does at least make material sense. And they did have the Death Star hinted as a Seperatist project that the newly formed Empire appropriated.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't it a cheap lovely knockoff Death Star? Yes, it was the original Darksaber from the crappy book of the same name. It was basically just the super laser without anything else attached to it, built on the cheap by some hive minded... rodent monkey alien things? And it was full of problems and basically blew up the first time they tried to actually use it.
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fartknocker posted:Yes, it was the original Darksaber from the crappy book of the same name. It was basically just the super laser without anything else attached to it, built on the cheap by some hive minded... rodent monkey alien things? And it was full of problems and basically blew up the first time they tried to actually use it. Flew into an asteroid after Crix Madine got executed after failing to sabotage it. They may as well have not bothered.
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Feb 22, 2021 14:57
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rip bevel lemlesk or whatever his name was. the only good part of that book
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TK-42-1 posted:rip bevel lemlesk or whatever his name was. the only good part of that book More like RIP, RIP, RIP, RIP, RIP, RIP, RIP, but yeah, Bevel Lemelisk and the stuff with him is one of the few interesting parts of it.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Flew into an asteroid after Crix Madine got executed after failing to sabotage it. They may as well have not bothered. The whole book is an odd exercise in pointless failure. Even as a kid who uncritically devoured SW stuff I didn't think it was very good.
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Dawgstar posted:The whole book is an odd exercise in pointless failure. Even as a kid who uncritically devoured SW stuff I didn't think it was very good.
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fartknocker posted:Yes, it was the original Darksaber from the crappy book of the same name. It was basically just the super laser without anything else attached to it, built on the cheap by some hive minded... rodent monkey alien things? And it was full of problems and basically blew up the first time they tried to actually use it. The absolutely wild thing is how many times they went back to that well. You've got the Eclipse (What if the Death Star, but a Star Destroyer?), the Tarkin (What if the Death Star, but just the laser and shields), the Darksaber (what if the Death Star, but just the laser and also libertarianism), Starkiller Base (what if the Death Star, but like, literal stars?), the superlaser seige cannon (What if the Death Star, but tiny and used to open doors?), and finally the Xyston-class star destroyer (What if the Death Star but a Star Destroyer times 1000 because I am literally a six year old child?). Just say no to Death Stars. Old Kentucky Shark fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Hello, my name is Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, and I don’t know how to write a Star Wars story without a Death Star in it.
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Feb 22, 2021 17:57
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fartknocker posted:Yes, it was the original Darksaber from the crappy book of the same name. It was basically just the super laser without anything else attached to it, built on the cheap by some hive minded... rodent monkey alien things? And it was full of problems and basically blew up the first time they tried to actually use it. Was that the one that was incompetently piloted by committee, or was that another one? I just know the book that made my interest in the EU drop sharply involved a stripped down Death Star superlaser and an author who had clearly been deeply hurt by a bunch of pencil pushers at some point, but it was a long time ago now.
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Which was the one with the tiny one-person craft shaped like a snow cone and capable of killing stars? EDIT: Suncrusher. 
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Killer robot posted:Was that the one that was incompetently piloted by committee, or was that another one? I just know the book that made my interest in the EU drop sharply involved a stripped down Death Star superlaser and an author who had clearly been deeply hurt by a bunch of pencil pushers at some point, but it was a long time ago now. Same author, Kevin J. Anderson, but a different book series. The thing with the committee were the researchers and science team at the Maw with the prototype Death Star in the Jedi Academy books, I think specifically the third one, Champions of the Force. When everything there goes sideways and a giant battle erupted, the various scientists who'd been isolated from the rest of the galaxy for a decade (Since Tarkin took the original Death Star) ended up in control of the shell that was the prototype, which I think got partially blown up and then sucked into one of the black holes of the Maw. Constantly going back to the Death Star/superweapon well is usually a sign of the weaker EU books. I'm one who didn't mind the Sun Crusher in the Jedi Academy trilogy, as IIRC that was the first time the EU tried something like that so it wasn't horribly run into the ground yet, but then you get all the other wacky stuff after it that shows up once and gets blown up, such as everything in the Callista trilogy (Of which Darksaber is the second book).
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"What if Death Star, but ten times bigger.?" "I gotchu covered, fam." 
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