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The Last Call posted:Punk got his rear end absolutely handed to him in every attempt in MMA and he's a known rear end in a top hat. Not so much about his views, he's just kinda a jerk. It apparently comes out on a dime, too. Hornswoggle used to be friends with him and until he asked for somebody's phone number and Punk decided he was trying to "use" Punk for whatever reason and never spoke to him again. He even fell out with Colt Cabana as I understand it, who was his hetero life-mate.
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Aw. I can just hear 'The Lonely Man' playing as I look at it. Side question: why do these assholes think having terrible beards equals personality?
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Feb 12, 2021 17:19
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Combat Pretzel posted:Wait, that ThatStarWarsGirl also supposed to go on the poo poo list? What she done wrong? She's part of the Fandom Menace and is right there with other pop culture chuds like The Quartering.
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Feb 12, 2021 19:41
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Owlbear Camus posted:INTERIOR: Space Ship, night https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1359699885918879745
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Feb 12, 2021 21:09
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Slashrat posted:If she was a warehouse worker in some amazon sweatshop, I wouldn't give a gently caress either about whether she got to keep working because it has no bearing on her ability to influence others with her lovely views. That's unfair! She comes from very humble origins where her father... let me check my notes... is the General Manager of three huge Vegas casinos. Oh.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:58
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Doronin posted:"Believing one thing, and being seen as something else" is a Hollywood tradition as old as Hollywood itself. She had to work considerably harder to get bounced by the Mouse than not. Favreau even went to bat for her.
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Feb 17, 2021 23:37
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BizarroAzrael posted:Specifically, Nimoy voiced Galvatron in Transformers the Movie (86) until he gets knocked into space in the end. When he returns at the start of season 3 he's crazy and voiced by Welker, now sounding like 1/3 of Hannah Barbera characters and not like he's murdering his own throat. Yeah. Welker can't actually do that Dr. Claw voice anymore, unsurprisingly. (It's also the voice he used for the big demon thing in Eddie Murphy's The Golden Child, which is free trivia from me to my fellow goons so you can wow your friends at trivia pub night.)
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Feb 19, 2021 19:31
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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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Captain Splendid posted:There was an IG-88 in the Death Star Hutts built a Death Star.
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Feb 22, 2021 13:51
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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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Feb 22, 2021 15:38
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fartknocker posted:No, originally they dumped it into the gas giant Yavin, but Kyp Durron brought it out with the Force. They ended up sending it into a black hole at the Maw as well (Unlike the science people in the Death Star prototype who went into one unintentionally). The Maw scientists also came off as super incompetent. Like what if Dr. Kelp designed war machines for the Empire. That also struck me as odd as a kid. The Thrawn stuff was mostly about a guy really good at tactics. Then we get a trilogy with two super weapons and Admiral Daala who kept losing Star Destroyers every time she turned around but stuck around herself for ages.
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Feb 22, 2021 22:23
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skasion posted:Don’t worry, “Isard’s Revenge” retroactively makes the character look stupid and also hammers home the point by giving her a moron clone I keep meaning to re-read Rogue Squadron which I did at least enjoy at the time but I'm put off by the notion of Corran Horn is Good At Everything (including rocking the world of a weasel alien).
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Feb 23, 2021 00:06
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Spookydonut posted:Anakin's death is just so contrived and dumb then it's used as justification for Jaina to turn to the dark side for a bit. Which in turn leads to Jaina to seek out the best Jedi killer EVER to kill her brother... Boba Fett. (The correct response being "How? When?")
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Feb 23, 2021 14:09
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skasion posted:Nah, there’s a lot of stuff in between the incredibly half assed Dark Jaina poo poo in NJO and her killing Jacen. There had to be, so Karen Traviss would have time to write books in which Boba Fett actually did anything to back up his reputation That was during the time Traviss and the other main NJO guy were essentially having slap-fights in their novels, where one would write something and then the other who would write something for the express purpose of saying "nuh uh," right?"
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Feb 23, 2021 16:18
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The Last Call posted:Ashoka outright killing etc. Oh, Ahsoka has a really high body count in the cartoon. I can't do it right now but I'm sure somebody could find that clip of her decapitating four Mandolorians at once.
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Feb 24, 2021 14:10
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Baron Von Ghoulosh posted:I got ya bruh... There my (murder machine) girl at.
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Feb 24, 2021 17:18
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The Last Call posted:I probably should have added a bit more context to the statement, she basically wrote Ashoka as a sneering uncaring angry person who slaughtered not giving a crap about what was right or wrong when the opposite party was trying to have dialogue with her. Oh, in that case, yes, that's bad. Yikes. Writing Ahsoka by like... I don't know, a rough description and never having consumed a single piece of media with her in it. Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Feb 25, 2021 01:39
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Kwatz posted:Ain’t that the truth. There were lots of times that you could tell that the author had just shoehorned Star Wars into whatever half-baked idea they already had. The Black Fleet Crisis and Truce at Bakura standout to me in that respect. But I haven’t read those in twenty years. What is the Black Fleet Crisis about? I don't think I've even ever read a summary. Truce at Bakura I'm painfully familiar with, though. It and Courtship of Princess Leia seemed to solidify the EU need to show off the writer's New Thing at the expense of the Empire. "Hapan has ships WAY BETTER THAN STAR DESTROYERS, YOU GUYS!" or "The Emperor is totes afraid of these weird lizard aliens and their snub fighters." Zahn just... worked with what he had. (And what he had was a mountain of West End Game books.)
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Feb 25, 2021 16:21
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Spookydonut posted:counterpoint: no matter what author writes him lando is always lando. I'm now retroactively irritated again they swept under the rug Lando and Mara Jade were casually hooking up.
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Feb 26, 2021 20:46
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I always liked that Red Leader was from the southern part of the galaxy. I also oddly remember Pops, the last Y-wing pilot to bite it.
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Feb 27, 2021 17:04
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nine-gear crow posted:Oh god, what if she’s playing Dr. Aphra? My goon, that role is reserved for Chloe Bennett. 
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Mar 3, 2021 14:40
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Too late for Trench Run?
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Mar 4, 2021 19:41
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Spookydonut posted:The darksaber was made by an actual jedi who was also mandalore Sometimes I wonder, spitefully, if a lot of what Filoni did with the Mandalorians was him looking at Traviss' stuff and going 'ew, no.'
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Mar 7, 2021 03:06
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Everyone posted:I think that take ascribes way too much influence to Traviss. Sure, but clearly Filoni's job is doing what we do - obsessing over Star Wars stuff but for a lot of money - so I still would not be shocked.
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Mar 7, 2021 03:51
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I said come in! posted:Those questions make no sense to ask in a earnings call. Besides, if they were considering getting rid of Kathleen Kennedy, it would have been over the disaster of the sequel trilogy, not because they fired a super racist rear end in a top hat. These people have hated Kennedy since Rey existed, possibly or even probably before.
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Mar 11, 2021 00:25
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nine-gear crow posted:This AV Club article covers some of it. poo poo like how they they walked into their sales pitch with GRRM empty handed and had zero experience doing television before. That they absolutely cocked up the original pilot and were dumbfounded when HBO gave them the chance to reshoot it instead of just cancel it outright then and there. They copped to not understanding the characters they were writing and left it up to some of the actors to do the heavy lifting when it came to defining who the characters were. Lindsay Ellis had a great video (possibly more) on how the fact the actors were so good that DND just sort of wrote them so they were bland heroic people now, or bringing back story arcs that had long since run their course (CLEGANE BOWL AIR HORN).
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Mar 12, 2021 04:16
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I always liked what I was able to pull from the stuff Zahn hinted at (and he had to fight to be able to hint at anything). The Republic cloned people to fight... something and then went crazy or decided to go into business for themselves, or maybe both.
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Mar 12, 2021 04:20
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TheCenturion posted:The movie should have introduced more tension by having Amidala fighting to get the actual mission back on track. Showing passion for something? That certainly doesn't sound like TMP.
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Mar 14, 2021 04:15
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Like that time people were asking for Darth names and he suggested "Plagueis". There are the possibly trolling names he suggested for Force Unleashed 'Icky' and 'Insanius.'
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Mar 14, 2021 16:13
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sticklefifer posted:A major reason I enjoy The Mandalorian (and Rogue One) more than anything else since the OT is because it's a proper sequel. No 30 years before, no 30 years later, just post-ROTJ shenanigans in the era that brought me to the dance. That was the fun thing I liked, and I never got more of it until now. I'll probably like the other spinoff shows set in that era more than anything set in the PT or ST eras too. Part of the series' appeal did feel like it could have come right out of a West End Games book that focused on immediate post-Endor stuff.
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Mar 14, 2021 18:42
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I still wish they asked Ashley Eckstein if she wanted to be Ahsoka first. I guess it's fine, though. I have my audiobook read by her.
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Mar 27, 2021 13:05
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tsob posted:While I agree with your basic point that Eckstein doesn't really have the physical presence to embody Ahsoka, I think "Anakin's cute teen padawan sidekick" is a pretty poo poo way to summarize Ahsoka outside the first season or two and not just outside Rebels. Fans who've watched a couple of seasons are unlikely to characterize her as cute or as someone primarily defined by her relationship to Anakin. Fans who've seen the last few seasons almost certainly wouldn't, given it's such a major plot point that she walked away from the Jedi order and is thus no longer a padawan (or sidekick) to anyone. Yeah. Don't make me tap the sign, and by sign I mean posting the .gif of her decapitating four members of Death Watch at once. That was in fairness to Everyone the running notion for Ahsoka when she first appeared, that was laser-focused at the 'Miley Cyrus set' to quote a review of the time, but the review came from the Clone Wars movie and nobody should be judged by that the least of their works.
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Mar 28, 2021 00:10
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tsob posted:I haven't seen Rise, so I stand corrected. I remember hearing people bitch about C3P0 dying and then coming back though, now that you mention it. Yeah. It's not even the only 'oh, he's dead wait never mind' the movie pulls during its runtime.
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Mar 29, 2021 22:47
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nine-gear crow posted:Solo was perfectly fine, if completely unnecessary. But I think I'd like the Lord and Miller version of it a LOT better. I went back tot he movie and enjoyed it a lot more in the theater, I just had to let my brain slide over the pointless need to explain every little thing. I think the most egregious was Han calling Chewbacca "Chewie" because the name that was a whole three letters more was too long to say. People have heard of nicknames. They get it.
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Mar 30, 2021 13:28
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I forgot what an over the top badass they made Saesee Tinn in the Genndy Clone Wars series It's also great for the only time ever Grievous is impressive.
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Apr 4, 2021 15:23
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Tell me again about the Shatterpoint!
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Apr 9, 2021 13:48
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Butterfly Valley posted:Yeah I don’t dislike him at all, and on consideration it’s probably a better idea to have player characters be somewhat bland and likeable to allow players to fill in the gaps themselves. I still would have preferred a bland and likeable female/alien/anything other than plucky young white guy #5367, for representation’s sake at least. Playing as Merrin, maybe even just for a few sections, would certainly have been interesting. A whole game based around a Nightsister would probably not have gotten made, but it could be interesting.
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Apr 11, 2021 14:58
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Big Mean Jerk posted:No one said it did. Those posts were making light of the kinds of angry incel fanboys who’ve been frothing at the mouth about Rian, Kathleen Kennedy, and women in general on YouTube and the like for the last four years and act like The Mandalorian is some miracle “*~true Star Wars~*” brought about solely by Favreau and Filoni. Yeah. I bet the Fandom Menaces goofs will have multiple videos in the week.
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Apr 19, 2021 02:46
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Sanguinia posted:That bit is so underrated, not only is it a really good subversion of expectations, its actually kind of a DOUBLE subversion, because even though he does the wrong thing the final dialogue he has with them leaves open the possibility that he was wrong about the side he picked, which plays back to his first conversation where he explains why he's jaded by showing that the MIC serves both sides of the conflict and gets rich in the process. He's given up on morality and defaulted to self-interest because he sees the sides as the same, but interacting with the good guys, while not enough to win him over, was enough to make him think twice. TLJ is such a mixed bag and it's a shame you can't talk about it most places without people getting super upset you don't like it/hate it hard enough. Like that right there is really good but they've also got somebody explaining to the actual child soldier about oppression.
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Boba will be the Boyd Crowder to Tim Olyphant's Cobb Vanth. It's just going to be Justified on Tattooine.
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