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I got whatever the first Rogue Squadron book was and never read past the incredibly riveting discussion about putting kill decals on the fuselage
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Gnome de plume posted:I got whatever the first Rogue Squadron book was and never read past the incredibly riveting discussion about putting kill decals on the fuselage But it ended with them commenting how one squad member had two Death Stars painted on his fighter 
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Feb 14, 2020 12:08
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i read a comic book about rogue squadron once. it was satisfying entertainment
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Feb 14, 2020 13:20
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Starfighters of Adumar was great because they go to Space Massachusetts and dunk on people flying F-35s or whatever with X-Wings
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Feb 14, 2020 13:40
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Cage Kicker posted:Starfighters of Adumar was great because they go to Space Massachusetts and dunk on people flying F-35s or whatever with X-Wings Space France
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Feb 14, 2020 16:53
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First star wars book i ever read was whichever number the bacta one (on thiferra or something like it? hosed up i can even remember that much) and young me loving loved it. I think i got one of the thrawn books next and I thought it was AMAZING how theres like 90 loving star war books holy poo poo. And even though most of them were bad some were good. And of those rogue and wraith squads were number one easy. To my mild surprise i was actually kinda peeved when they made the eu into non canon Legends even though i havent read a star wars book in 15 years.
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Feb 14, 2020 19:17
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Biplane posted:First star wars book i ever read was whichever number the bacta one (on thiferra or something like it? hosed up i can even remember that much) and young me loving loved it. I think i got one of the thrawn books next and I thought it was AMAZING how theres like 90 loving star war books holy poo poo. And even though most of them were bad some were good. And of those rogue and wraith squads were number one easy. Woulda been nice if Disney had actually made a newer, solider canon
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Feb 14, 2020 19:37
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I think it was stupid that they put out a big press statement about how the entire EU was noncanon when they should've just made whatever drat movie they wanted that would end up only implicitly de-canonizing whatever works that they contradicted and leaving plenty of leeway to insert references to whatever EU things that they liked, and then let the nerds sort the whole mess out because that's half of what fandom is about anyways. The audience can have the freedom to decide what is and isn't in their own personal canon, which is what they loving do anyways. Official canon curation is always a dumb idea, DC's Crises events are also terrible. All it does is alienate parts of the audience (both the parts that liked the decanonized work and the parts that don't give a poo poo about weird nerd junk like official canon) and limit the amount of material you have to work with within your franchise. And now when I go to look up something, even something simple like "how many star wars novels have been published?" I have to wade through this weird orwellian muck that tries to follow the company line instead of just telling me the truth about reality.
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Feb 14, 2020 20:21
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Woulda been nice if Disney had actually made a newer, solider canon Claudia Gray’s new books are good. Just don’t read the Chuck Wendig ones no matter what you do
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Feb 14, 2020 20:38
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Woulda been nice if Disney had actually made a newer, solider canon Canon is a lie.
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Feb 14, 2020 20:42
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Just don’t read the Chuck Wendig ones no matter what you do The TIE wibbles and wobbles through the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrrann rooftops-it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight
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Feb 15, 2020 22:47
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MonsieurChoc posted:Canon is a lie. I agree in general but when you make a whole thing about how there's a new canon now and Star War officially agrees that the bug orgies and Triclops Palpatine and Luuke and Grand Admiral Art Critic and all that are silly then god dammit follow through. Also Kylo Ren might be my favourite Star Wars character overall but he'd be way better if he existed in a world where Triclops and Trioculus existed instead of fuckin Rey Palpatine, somehow Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Feb 15, 2020 23:55
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I agree in general but when you make a whole thing about how there's a new canon now and Star War officially agrees that the bug orgies and Triclops Palpatine and Luuke and Grand Admiral Art Critic and all that are silly Rey's dad is totally Triclops. You can't convince me otherwise.
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Feb 16, 2020 04:34
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OctoberCountry posted:The TIE wibbles and wobbles through the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrrann rooftops-it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight The Audibooks of Chuck Windig's books work better if you imagine it's a first-time DM running a Star Wars game with rules he made up on the spot
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Feb 17, 2020 00:23
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chuck wingdings
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TremorX posted:The Audibooks of Chuck Windig's books work better if you imagine it's a first-time DM running a Star Wars game with rules he made up on the spot I've only read a sample chapter of the one that came out around TFA. Are they all written in that awful ,choppy present tense style?
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OctoberCountry posted:I've only read a sample chapter of the one that came out around TFA. Are they all written in that awful ,choppy present tense style? yeah and he likes to tease character deaths all the time and of course nobody dies
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the paradigm shift posted:yeah and he likes to tease character deaths all the time and of course nobody dies Hm, sounds familiar
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OctoberCountry posted:Hm, sounds familiar are you threatening to kill someone itt
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Feb 17, 2020 03:28
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Squizzle posted:are you threatening to kill someone itt Who am I, JJ Abrams?
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Chuck Wendig did a lot of work on the World of Darkness rpgs IIRC. Or rather there is a Chuck Wendig that shows up a lot on the credits pages of my ton of WW books.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Chuck Wendig did a lot of work on the World of Darkness rpgs IIRC. Yeah, same guy. He did a ton of work for White Wolf before his writing career took off.
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Polaron posted:Yeah, same guy. He did a ton of work for White Wolf before his writing career took off. Looks like he was better as an rpg writer.
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Solo Command was one of the first real EU books I ever read (well-meaning but poorly canon-informed gift IIRC), and what I remember most is some long sequence where the characters pull a trick on another by making them think there's a real ewok running around and some running gag that Han Solo and another character (Tycho? Corran?) are the same character cause they're never in the same room. Which is to say it still has the best humor of any star wars novel I've ever read.
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OctoberCountry posted:I've only read a sample chapter of the one that came out around TFA. Are they all written in that awful ,choppy present tense style? I have never wanted to tear my ears off more than when I listened to that audiobook. I think I got maybe an hour or two in. To this day I wonder who he had to gently caress in order to have that be the first bit of EU material based around the new trilogy.
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Caros posted:I have never wanted to tear my ears off more than when I listened to that audiobook. I think I got maybe an hour or two in. i got half way through the second and never went back. it's just so booooooring. if your star wars book is not largely about either a) jedi or b) large scale space battles, what the gently caress are you doing? "oh but we have to build out the world between the movies!" gently caress off no you don't tell new and interesting stories.
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BiggestBatman posted:some running gag that Han Solo and another character (Tycho? Corran?) are the same character cause they're never in the same room. Corran, I think, since they're both Corellian. The joke was to explain why Corran never shows up in the KJA books covering this same event 
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BiggestBatman posted:what I remember most is some long sequence where the characters pull a trick on another by making them think there's a real ewok running around Zoran posted:Yub yub, commander
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What I remember is that they wound up making imperials think that one of their pilots was specifically an ewok that had been an escaped test subject for an experiment that involved boosting "primitive" species to be able to use complex technology. One thing led to another, and eventually the squadron wound up with a boosted gamorean pilot whose name couldn't've been Porkins, right? That's just my brain farting, right? There was also a verpine pilot that emasculated one of the main characters by just being way better at shooting.
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His name is piggy, porkins' nickname was also piggy.
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Well okay his name is some series of grunts but you know what I mean.
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SlothfulCobra posted:One thing led to another, and eventually the squadron wound up with a boosted gamorean pilot whose name couldn't've been Porkins, right? That's just my brain farting, right? I don’t know what the gamorrean’s name was but Porkins was the fat Rebel pilot that died in the trench run in the original movie
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SlothfulCobra posted:What I remember is that they wound up making imperials think that one of their pilots was specifically an ewok that had been an escaped test subject for an experiment that involved boosting "primitive" species to be able to use complex technology. The gamorrean pilot was Voort saBinring, but everyone called him Piggy, which was also what Jek Porkins' nickname was. The ewok pilot (Lt. Kettch) was a story Janson came up with to troll Wedge when they were interviewing candidates for Wraith Squadron; Piggy was the one who got experimented on (which made him a genius, and also he spoke through a throat implant like Stephen Hawking). Then in the second novel- when Wraith Squadron is impersonating a group of space pirates to get close to Warlord Zsinj- they decide that one of the fictitious pirates is Kettch, who they give Piggy's backstory. And Wedge ends up being the one who has to pretend to be Kettch, so in addition to modifying his radio so he sounds like an Ewok when flying (like a chipmunk voice filter), he rigs up an Ewok doll on his flight suit so that if an enemy pilot manages to get a look at the cockpit past the glass, they'll see an Ewok piloting a TIE Interceptor (this happens). Also, the verpine was Zraii, who was Rogue Squadron's flight mechanic, and never had a single line of dialogue nor hour of flight time (despite being listed in the dramatis personae at the start of every Rogue novel). You're thinking of Ooryl Qyrgg, who was a Gand (like Zuckuss the bounty hunter from TESB), and who is at one point described as shooting as though the Alliance was rationing laser bolts. Ooryl also punches a Stormtrooper in the back of the head so hard that he caves the fucker's skull in, through the helmet.
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I'll admit, I really don't remember much of them even though I read all the books. A lot of middle school is a bit of a blur. The other big thing I remember is BOHICA.
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There was also the Twi'lek who ended up as the lawyer of a big time smuggler after he lost his leg.
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Oh man remember when Tycho or whomever tears somebody a new one because they talk poo poo about Porkins? I think it comes up when Piggy joins the team
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Ooryl was great because he was basically superhuman (he could see in ultraviolet, regrow limbs and was immune to nerve gas off the top of my head) but was just kind of a weirdo and didn't mention this stuff until it was relevant He was blatantly Stackpole's "poo poo I need to write myself out of this corner and can't use the force' button though
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Ezis posted:Oh man remember when Tycho or whomever tears somebody a new one because they talk poo poo about Porkins? I think it comes up when Piggy joins the team Piggy had said "my squadron mates gave me this nickname as a pejorative" and Wedge responded something like "there was once a fine pilot in rogue squadron who went by that, it would be a mark of respect here" Is that what you're thinking of? It was during the wraith squadron recruitment montage.
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Let's not forget multiple-personality-horse pilot who once slammed a man to death back and forth between two walls while also on fire.
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silvergoose posted:Is that what you're thinking of? It was during the wraith squadron recruitment montage. Yeah, that was it. Thanks.
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