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I've been a Star Wars fan all my life (i.e. since the 80s) and I forced myself to find things to like about the prequels.
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The RotS novelization gave things for me to enjoy about the prequels. Too bad the post-NJO EU is doing all it can to quash all of them. That's pretty much why I haven't even cracked FotJ:Outcast.
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Nov 18, 2010 05:19
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My interests in the fate books has flipped a couple times. There are parts I love about luke and ben's journey (dathomir) and parts I hate (Cthulu). On the other hand the stuff on Coruscant is really enjoyable right now (jedi temple) and wasn't earlier on (alana's day at the zoo). Vortex is coming out soon, I'm hoping both stories will align and kick rear end. Lots of hope. Also, I really recommend listening to the audio books for this series. The narrator (I think it's mark thompson?) does an amazing job of voicing all the people you come across. It really adds to the love and (mostly)hate for certain people. Javis tear.
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Nov 18, 2010 05:36
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Quoting this so hard. Now I have never played TFU or TFU2, but I have played every Star Wars game that existed before 2001. If you want to play a good lightsaber/jedi game...might as well just reinstall Jedi Outcast, or go really retro with Dark Forces II. These games did everything perfectly as much as they could. There is no substitute. I still find it hard as to why there's even an existing debate on it.
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Nov 18, 2010 06:31
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I got a question. Did anybody read the book "Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine?" It is one of the few Star Wars books I have not read, and I would like to know if it is worth my time.
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Nov 18, 2010 23:46
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ScottyJSno posted:I got a question. Did anybody read the book "Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine?"
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Nov 19, 2010 02:21
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ScottyJSno posted:I got a question. Did anybody read the book "Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine?" It was boring. I was tempted as hell to buy it for the bad book review thread but I can't find it anywhere. I would have used it as a "gently caress SOE, SWG was pretty awesome in its day!" mouth piece after the 3rd entry anyways. SeanBeansShako fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Nov 19, 2010 |
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Nov 19, 2010 03:11
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Apparently the next clone wars episode starts the use of new character designs for anaking obi-wan and ahsoka. The fact they're even changing the looks of them during the show is really cool, hopefully they'll give the clones ep. 3 armor eventually.
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Nov 19, 2010 04:19
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That's already happening. Some of the commandos have the ep3 armour.
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Nov 19, 2010 22:51
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arioch posted:The RotS novelization gave things for me to enjoy about the prequels. Too bad the post-NJO EU is doing all it can to quash all of them. That's pretty much why I haven't even cracked FotJ:Outcast. I like how it made Padme's own POV just as incredibly two-dimensional lovey-dovey for Anakin as she is shown in the films and as she would have to be to marry a guy who just admitted he killed a bunch of kids.
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Nov 20, 2010 06:05
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She was very beautiful. Kind, but sad. Why are you asking me this?
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Nov 20, 2010 06:35
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Pththya-lyi posted:I like how it made Padme's own POV just as incredibly two-dimensional lovey-dovey for Anakin as she is shown in the films and as she would have to be to marry a guy who just admitted he killed a bunch of kids. Maybe she just had a genocide fetish?
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Nov 20, 2010 06:44
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What's your mom like?Doc Hawkins posted:She was very beautiful. Kind, but sad. Why are you asking me this? Wanna meet that mom.
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Nov 20, 2010 06:46
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Battered wives often come to empathize with their husbands. That'd explain a lot.
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Nov 20, 2010 11:08
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She probably just did it so she could brag about having a secret Jedi boyfriend to all her friends.
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Nov 20, 2010 15:24
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Pththya-lyi posted:I like how it made Padme's own POV just as incredibly two-dimensional lovey-dovey for Anakin as she is shown in the films and as she would have to be to marry a guy who just admitted he killed a bunch of kids. Don't you mean he killed the younglings, goddarnit!
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Nov 20, 2010 17:26
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If my girlfriend told me that she'd just massacred the Jedi I would be so turned on.
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Nov 20, 2010 18:24
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Mad Hamish posted:If my girlfriend told me that she'd just massacred the Jedi I would be so turned on. He did it because he just loved her so much and they were trying to tear them apart.
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Nov 20, 2010 18:26
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Mad Hamish posted:If my girlfriend told me that she'd just massacred the Jedi I would be so turned on. You're dating Karen Travis?
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Nov 20, 2010 20:23
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SeanBeansShako posted:Don't you mean he killed the younglings, goddarnit! They got married at the end of Attack of the Clones, so it must have been the massacre of the sand people that he's talking about. Which is no big deal because sand people aren't even human. 
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Nov 21, 2010 10:00
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Seriously, Younglings. Awful writing. I can think of better names off the top of my head. Nei-Padawans, Student Learners etc. But no, he picks the sort of thing you'd hear from the mouth of an elderly relative describing kids.
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Nov 21, 2010 16:43
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SeanBeansShako posted:Seriously, Younglings. Awful writing. I can think of better names off the top of my head. I always wondered why they don't just call them "children." Or is that not spacey enough? Is "child" a word explicitly denoting a human kid, so when talking about a group of various species, you have to use a term like "youngling" to avoid being speciesist? Does the word "child" not exist in Star Wars? Or am I overthinking things too much, and Jorge simply used it to sound spacey and alien? I'm devoting too many words to this issue.
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Nov 21, 2010 17:41
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No children does exist. When Anakin slaughters the sand people he says "I murdered them all! The women! And the children!" So maybe youngling is like a pre-padawan Jedi? I thought there was a term for that.
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Nov 21, 2010 18:13
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NeonTurtle posted:You're dating Karen Travis? Ew, no. She's obsessed with MANDALORIANS and looks like a horse. Admiral Daala is where it's at 
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Nov 21, 2010 18:29
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It's obviously racism. Oh, Anakin kills Sand People children? Whatever. They're just monsters. Anakin kills humanoid children? Oh my goodness! We should use a different word!
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Nov 21, 2010 18:52
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that awful man posted:They got married at the end of Attack of the Clones, so it must have been the massacre of the sand people that he's talking about. Well her planet was racist towards Gungans maybe Padme was a huge bigot towards the non human races, Anakin could of picked up on that helping him support the Empires pro-human ideals.
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Nov 21, 2010 19:23
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that awful man posted:Which is no big deal because sand people aren't even human. If they can't be Jedi, they're not really alive. 
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Nov 21, 2010 20:01
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socialsecurity posted:Well her planet was racist towards Gungans maybe Padme was a huge bigot towards the non human races, Anakin could of picked up on that helping him support the Empires pro-human ideals. I think it was in Star Wars Galaxies where there's an implication that due to Palpatine being from the planet and all the Naboo hating Gunguns they're pretty much fine with the Empire. I like the idea that this almost painfully blunt utopian society from the prequels ends up being a big center of Imperial support all because the Gungans are a race of unlikeable retards.
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Nov 21, 2010 20:32
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Well, when you create a race that embodies just about every negative stereotype of southern black people via slapstick, I don't really blame them. I'm sure there will someday be a story in the EU talking about Gungan drug abuse and gangs and rape.
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Nov 21, 2010 21:18
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dialhforhero posted:Gungan drug abuse The only way to make a gungan more annoying: a gungan on speed. Ugh.
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Nov 21, 2010 21:50
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dialhforhero posted:Well, when you create a race that embodies just about every negative stereotype of southern black people via slapstick, I don't really blame them. I'm sure there will someday be a story in the EU talking about Gungan drug abuse and gangs and rape. I'm pretty sure they were going for a Jamaican/Rastafarian stereotype. Of course most Jamaicans are of African ancestry, but skin tone aside the culture doesn't look a whole like that of the African-American south. Which doesn't make it any less of a  caricature.
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Nov 21, 2010 23:17
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dialhforhero posted:Well, when you create a race that embodies just about every negative stereotype of southern black people via slapstick, I don't really blame them. I'm sure there will someday be a story in the EU talking about Gungan drug abuse and gangs and rape. wheresa da white humans is at?
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Nov 22, 2010 00:09
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Mad Hamish posted:The only way to make a gungan more annoying: a gungan on speed. Ugh. MEEESSAAAA Jar Jar Binks, Meeessa love you long time. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Nov 22, 2010 |
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Nov 22, 2010 00:38
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I'm still amazed we got Neimodians AND Gungans in the same drat film. Goddamn, Lucas.
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Nov 22, 2010 00:43
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Don't forget toydarians, the racial hat trick.
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Nov 22, 2010 01:24
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SeanBeansShako posted:Seriously, Younglings. Awful writing. I can think of better names off the top of my head. I don't mind it if it was just the one-off pet name for his students that we hear Yoda say in Ep2. When grown adults seriously use the word in Ep3 it really crosses the line into retarded writing.
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Nov 22, 2010 03:27
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Oh god I forgot all about the Neimoidians and Toydarians on top of Gungans. Jees...so we have asians, arabs, AND blacks represented in horrible stereotypes. I just now realized this. Maybe TPM was supposed to be a comedy.
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Nov 22, 2010 05:09
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dialhforhero posted:Maybe TPM was supposed to be a comedy. It failed at that, too.
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Nov 22, 2010 05:11
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dialhforhero posted:Oh god I forgot all about the Neimoidians and Toydarians on top of Gungans. Jees...so we have asians, arabs, AND blacks represented in horrible stereotypes. I just now realized this. Arabs? I thought Watto was the moneygrubbing Jew.
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He's middle-eastern, but the elephant-nose clinches it for "jewish." What race was Dexter Jettster?
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