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Not sure what you guys are all worked up about, I think the Salacious Crumb puppet is still in pretty decent shape by the looks of it. You have to keep in mind, it was made 30 years ago.
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Misandrist Duck posted:I grew up in the Star Wars EU. I spent 20+ years immersed in it, knowing the how and why to everything that made up Star Wars. It was mine.
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Apr 28, 2014 02:56
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Bung Harmer posted:Dark Forces and Jedi Knight were amazing FPS games that were groundbreaking for the time. LucasArts built a 3D engine for those and it brought a lot of new stuff to the FPS table. I played the poo poo out of those. Outcast and Jedi Academy were built off the Quake 3 engine and it shows. They really felt like reskins.
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Apr 28, 2014 23:01
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I only recently started reading CD, and, no offense intended, until a couple days ago thought SMG was a gimmick account. I enjoyed his posts, and occasionally found them insightful, but assumed reading too much into stuff was his schtick and everyone was playing along and enjoying it. Can't we just do that?
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May 9, 2014 17:02
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What say you about Star Wars?
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May 9, 2014 20:52
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qxx posted:-C3PO's head banging against the Falcon doesn't dislodge the light
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May 14, 2014 00:41
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Honore_De_Balzac posted:I still don't get this change. If Obi and yoda are old men why the hell does Anakin revert back to his 20 year old self? His knowledge of the dark side gave him that young blood ghost form. It's the one big change that I really like. Obi and Yoda don't change because they were at peace with themselves. Anakin gets to return to the last time he was at peace (as at peace as that guy ever was at least). The original version, a healed version of his adult self is a form that he really never experienced in life.
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May 14, 2014 19:45
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Tender Bender posted:Anakin is at peace at the end of Jedi as an old man, though. He rights his wrongs, saves Luke, and dies as a proud father looking at his extremely accomplished son with his own eyes. Yeah, but his soul shouldn't have to carry the scars of his physical form. (Unless of course, we feel he kind of has it coming. He was sort of a dick after all.) But then removing his scars is problematic because as I said, he ends up looking like a man that he never was.
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May 14, 2014 20:17
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sassassin posted:I don't know, what does wookiepedia say? Right this second? "Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhh"
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May 15, 2014 22:48
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Bongo Bill posted:On the other hand, the relatively long time span between the two trilogies introduced a new audience, mainly children, who were approaching them chronologically.
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May 16, 2014 16:06
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AccountSupervisor posted:gareth edwards
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May 23, 2014 00:34
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I'm wondering if they had to invent a lot of new animals and props and stuff for legal reasons. Curious that there's no banthas or dewbacks who have become pretty much Tattooine staples at this point. I'll be honest, that would be awesome. And strangely unsurprising.
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Jun 2, 2014 23:27
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Detective No. 27 posted:I always thought that when they called it "The Forest Moon of Endor," that the place they were on was actually just a moon and Endor was a planet below it. A quick look at wikipedia proved me wrong, I guess.
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Jun 3, 2014 05:46
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Neo Rasa posted:With each passing page of EU info in this thread my hatred grows stronger. Boba Fett was the best man at Dengar's wedding.
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Jun 3, 2014 22:19
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Mogomra posted:That being said, the Luuke poo poo is egregious. I must have totally blocked that out of my memory, and thinking about it now, I have to question my feelings about the books. As has already been intimated, a lot of that series is egregious. I recently came to terms with just how rose colored my glasses were with that series. Even the stuff I remember fondly, when really considered, is idiotic. He is such a goddamn tactician that he studies a culture's art, and then knows how to defeat them. Awesome! Except, not. At all.
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Jul 26, 2014 17:35
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Sith Happens posted:It's hanging from the ceiling in the Coruscant Smithsonian, and Han has to steal it to go rescue Luke.
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Cross-Section posted:Here's the actual, non-render Stormtrooper helmet: That's the biggest breathe-right strip I have ever seen.
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Aug 15, 2014 16:12
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computer parts posted:The general perception of Episode I is that it was worth more than a billion dollars.
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Aug 22, 2014 01:30
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computer parts posted:Episode 2 made $650 million, Episode 3 made $850 million.
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Aug 22, 2014 01:38
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computer parts posted:And the person I quoted said that the general perception of the films was that they were bad.
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Aug 22, 2014 02:36
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Personally, I still can't believe there are people who like the podrace. Only thing enjoyable out of it is Greg Proops' obvious excitement about being in a goddamn Star Wars movie.
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Aug 24, 2014 21:21
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Anakin is ten years old and works in a junkyard. Watto occasionally makes him compete in the deathrace. He's probably never gone to school. He has a bomb implanted in his head.
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Aug 27, 2014 20:03
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Szmitten posted:The "Other" was actually going to be his sister, but she would be a new character introduced in the sequel trilogy (a fully trained Jedi from an entirely different galaxy). It's kinda why I'm interested in Daisy Ridley's role, I feel like she might be a mutation of this old idea. That is powerfully strange. We were meant to watch these movies about the last Jedi bringing balance to the force, and then in the galaxy next door there are just Jedi running around doing their own thing?
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Aug 28, 2014 17:12
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PeterWeller posted:Yet the beginning of RotJ shows him and a handful of friends taking down the planet's crimelord in an elaborate and successful scheme to rescue Han.
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Aug 28, 2014 20:10
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I have heard that in the air force, the captain of the plane accepts medals in honor of the whole crew. Having not served in the air force, I don't know if that's true - If so however, that would a reasonable explanation for Chewie getting apparently skipped over. Even if not true in real life, it doesn't seem like much of a leap in logic. In that case, the rebel alliance did him a great honor in breaking military tradition and allowing him to stand at the ceremony even though he wasn't directly receiving a medal.
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Aug 31, 2014 00:13
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Ash1138 posted:"Where are you taking this...thing?" Well nobody said the Empire wasn't racist.
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Aug 31, 2014 03:53
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computer parts posted:Chewbacca does threaten white society, we're just from the viewpoint of those rebels. B) Vader's hit crew is a droid, an alien, a human, and a human (clone... For some stupid reason) C) Everyone in Jabba's palace is an alien, so pointing out that the guards are too seems pointless. In fact, the only humans there are a slave and some sweet wall art. Jabba's palace is a worse place to be for humans than it is for aliens. D) This is leaning into non-canon territory as far as confirmation goes, but most of the rebel capital ships are of Mon Calamari design in the movie - It stands to reason then that they are crewed and commanded by Mon Calamari (confirmed in EU, unconfirmed in movies). Ackbar is an admiral, so while he may be the sole alien showed, he holds an impressive title.
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Aug 31, 2014 17:31
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K. Waste posted:The characters in Star Wars are explicitly conscious of this, as in the scene where they don the all white uniforms of the Storm Troopers and escort Chewie in chains as their prisoner.
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Aug 31, 2014 17:39
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:That's a tactical realism argument. Think about it. If so, I will wholeheartedly admit I don't understand the game we are playing and I forfeit. I don't get why it is more legitimate to say 'the film is clearly saying this' when an equally valid interpretation exists.
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Aug 31, 2014 22:11
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feedmyleg posted:Porkins? Dax? There's all sorts of fatties in Star Wars, what are you talking about Dude, look at all the excess skin. Max Rebo is in the middle of a huge weight loss, lay off.
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Sep 4, 2014 17:08
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Vintersorg posted:It's loving fantastic that he's going all practical sets. Keep CGI down to a minimum as much as you can and this will be goddamn perfect. Good CGI is as good, if not better than practical effects. If you meant lovely CGI, then sure, I agree they should focus on not making the movie look lovely.
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Sep 18, 2014 19:18
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unlimited shrimp posted:
If you mean the column next to them, it's casting a shadow parallel to the walkway. Those columns appear to be lit by the (skylight?), and the angles seem to make sense Yeah, that seems hard to argue Honestly can't tell. Shadows don't always look the way we expect. They don't look particularly strange to me, but I am willing to accept it may be off.
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Oct 13, 2014 16:44
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Teek posted:Y-Wings will now be shaped like letter Ks. EU beat you to it
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Oct 15, 2014 20:44
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Milky Moor posted:There was a horse pilot in Wraith Squadron. I remember a conversation in one of those books that went into, well maybe not graphic, but unnecessary detail about interspecies loving. It was where my honeymoon period with the EU lost some of it's glimmer.
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Nov 10, 2014 14:18
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Ave Azaria posted:I just think it's kind of corny. A step away from the camera flipping around to the camera man's face as he mouths "woooahhh!!" loving hell, I actually liked the zooms in BSG and now this is forever going to taint them.
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Nov 25, 2014 17:32
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Davros1 posted:I'm irrationally pissed off at the sight of the droid. Don't know why, but I loving hate it. I loved the teaser, but the opening shot seemed really off to me, like almost goofy, and then I saw that droid and I was like 'oh, another joke trailer...'
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Nov 28, 2014 21:26
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JerryLee posted:On the subject of legacy tech/the rate of innovation, something I've been thinking is that while I'm fine with the new X-Wing design on its own, I hope they intend for it to be a later model/iteration and not the way all X-Wings have been forever. Call it a
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if you like, but I'd be pissed if they retconned the original X-Wing out of existence altogether.
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unlimited shrimp posted:People act like spoilers are the most taboo thing ever. There was a study that found people enjoy stuff more when it has been spoiled for them, because they are more focused on what's happening vs trying to guess what will. I can't convince myself it's the way to go though.
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Nov 30, 2014 02:19
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computer parts posted:That's why people who turn evil are either kind of lovely at the start or are just secretly a lovely person but keeping up a public facade (like Hans in Frozen). Now to test whether it increases my enjoyment.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:I like the one where Alec Guinness made that child cry. George Takai made my friend cry at a convention when he was younger. A few years later there was an episode of Freakazoid featuring George Takai and a suspiciously similar situation.
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