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A friend and I were watching Episode I for comedic value the other day. He said someone should dub over Jar-Jar's lines and give him a gruff voice. I agreed. George is a  right? I mean, there's really no way I can suspend my disbelief for a relationship between Anakin and Padme when the kid is that young in Episode I.
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Yeah, he must have been using one of the major game mods which is awesome in all ways but balance issues and barely any of the modded ships break up into debris like with the vanilla game models.
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Dec 6, 2010 16:31
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Pope Mobile posted:A friend and I were watching Episode I for comedic value the other day. He said someone should dub over Jar-Jar's lines and give him a gruff voice. I agreed. I'm pretty sure at least one of the fan edits does this.
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Dec 6, 2010 16:42
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I think Jar Jar would be a lot more bearable if he had a Creole accent actually.
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Dec 6, 2010 16:44
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Andorian Blues posted:I'm pretty sure at least one of the fan edits does this. Yeah, it plays all alien's dialouge in reverse so it sounds like alien gibberish, and lets him subtitle his own lines in. He rewrote Jar Jar as a bit of an everyman (took out most of the "wacky" antics) and actually is decently likeable, very "man these Jedi are loving crazy!" Also makes the Neimondians more sinister and not HARRO WE TAKE YOUR RAND NOW VVV HEH. RagnarokAngel fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Dec 6, 2010 |
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Dec 6, 2010 17:20
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^^^ Son of a bitch. Beaten. On both counts.Andorian Blues posted:I'm pretty sure at least one of the fan edits does this. One of the big fan edits (pretty sure it was "The Phantom Edit", but I may be wrong) adds some gibberish over his dialogue, and then uses subtitles. And the subtitles make him out to be a rather funny, not very annoying character. He sort of fits into the Han Solo role in the edit (not saying he's as good, but he's the skeptic with a bit of an ego). It really helped the movie more than I would have expected. They did the same for the Trade Federation dialogue, and made the embargo at the beginning about slavery. Which was also a big improvement, as it made the movie actually be about something.
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Dec 6, 2010 17:21
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Pope Mobile posted:A friend and I were watching Episode I for comedic value the other day. He said someone should dub over Jar-Jar's lines and give him a gruff voice. I agreed. Anakin is supposed to be 10 and Padme is supposed to be 14. The fact that they look like they're about 8 and 20, respectively, doesn't help.
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Dec 6, 2010 18:53
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Oh George, why couldn't you get a younger actor and replace Padme with Natalie in Episode II? I need to see that fan edit...
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Dec 6, 2010 19:11
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McGann posted:I thought that in the vanilla game, ships didn't function as carriers? It's been a while since I played it using anything other than one of the big mods, so I could be wrong. Imperial ships functioned as carriers in both the basic game and the expansion. Star Destoyers(Victory, Acclamator, and Imperial) would automatically start the map with 2 or 3, 3 ship squadrons. When those original squadrons would die they would spawn 1 replacement squadron per original one launched. The Executor didn't start with any squadrons but instead had an ability that was on like a 10 second cooldown that would spawn a squadron. You would randomly get either an Interceptor, Bomber, or Defender. I never used any mods.
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Dec 6, 2010 21:54
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Crowetron posted:I was going through a nostalgia kick, so I decided to listen to a bunch of old Weird Al songs. So, the song "YODA" comes on, and I get to the lyrics "I asked him his name, and in a raspy voice he said 'Yoda'", and I started sperging the gently caress out because that's not the way it happened and Yoda was completely evasive with Luke and a total dick, and then I realized what I was doing and wanted to die.  I prefer more obscure Yoda songs:http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,1117453-6013920,00.html Full lyrics at http://www.yodajeff.com/pages/songs/liquidplumber.shtml I feel like I once knew who the hell Yodajeff is, but now I don't. Probably some niche Star Wars specialist who made a name for himself.
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Dec 6, 2010 23:17
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Pope Mobile posted:George is a Indiana Jones and Marion quote:George: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven. http://mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com/2009/03/raiders-story-conference.html
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Dec 7, 2010 03:59
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Mister_Eel posted:Imperial ships functioned as carriers in both the basic game and the expansion. Star Destoyers(Victory, Acclamator, and Imperial) would automatically start the map with 2 or 3, 3 ship squadrons. When those original squadrons would die they would spawn 1 replacement squadron per original one launched. Ok, my bad. For some reason I thought that was one of the big features of the mods, whoops!
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Dec 7, 2010 16:53
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Just saw this posted in my facebook feed good god this could be terrible. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/George-Lucas-Wants-to-Resuscitate-Dead-Actors-Using-Computers-111400864.html?dr quote:From the horrible ideas department comes the news from George Lucas that he's buying "the film rights to dead actors." You know, so he can resurrect them virtually for upcoming movies. Oh, come on, George.
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Dec 7, 2010 17:12
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Dec 7, 2010 19:57
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Oh man, almost finished with Vortex, and not a whole lot has happened. Some big-ish spoilers ahead, if anyone actually cares. So Abeloth isn't dead, unfortunately. Nek'Buatu is in a coma. Luke and Ben chase after Abeloth with Vestara in tow, and she heads off to a force using moon I can't remember the name. Meanwhile, where I'm at, Jaina and some other Jedi are preparing to rescue the frozen horn kids. The siege ended now that the "barvy" jedi are fine now, and the mando's left. Probably the biggest and most exciting thing to happen so far is Kenth Hamner being ousted as Grand Master. The council finally has enough of his bullshit and confine him to quarters while they work on a huge plan to send stealth x's to help Luke. He escapes and tries to sabotage the plan in the temple hanger. He gets into a pretty nasty fight with Saba Sebatine and runs her through before she force hurls him off a catwalk 50 meters up. So yeah, bye bye Kenth. I have about 3 hours left in the book, I forget which chapter I'm at since I'm listening to the audiobook.
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Dec 8, 2010 00:19
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Kingtheninja posted:vortex stuff I finished it, I thought it was alright, I still don't know how they can drag this out over 3 more books. And abeloth being able to die over and over as a villain is dumb, but I guess it's the only way they can get around having overpowered jedi heroes in the EU. I did like that they killed Hamner. This next thing isn't really a vortex spoiler, more of just my thoughts on where fotj is going, but it sort of spoils something from vortex I guess so I tagged it anyways. I guess I spend too much time in TVIV and am paranoid about spoilers and stuff now. The fact that they are still willing to kill relatively major characters gives me hope that one of ben or vestara might actually kill the other rather than having some re-hashed "vestara loves ben so she turns to the light side" ending.
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astr0man posted:I finished it, I thought it was alright, I still don't know how they can drag this out over 3 more books. And abeloth being able to die over and over as a villain is dumb, but I guess it's the only way they can get around having overpowered jedi heroes in the EU. I did like that they killed Hamner. Is Talon becoming another abeloth? It started to sound like it, the way they were describing him after he was in the pool. I ended where they just met Abeloth again. The best part is, they say the next book is the one that REALLY ramps up the "stakes". Woo. 
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Dec 8, 2010 00:36
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Kingtheninja posted:Is Talon becoming another abeloth? It started to sound like it, the way they were describing him after he was in the pool. I ended where they just met Abeloth again. The best part is, they say the next book is the one that REALLY ramps up the "stakes". Woo. I think he's dead for good, there's no real reason to keep him around as a character if abeloth is alive anyways. But yeah I really just want them to go back to letting authors publish standalone stuff. Sure they end up with probable continuity issues and the rare (or not so rare) Crystal Star quality novel, but I think the pre-NJO EU on a whole was better since author's could just write however they wanted to write, without trying to fit into some bigger plot arc. Like I think Allston's x-wing books are a ton better than any of his NJO/LOTF/FOTJ work. I've posted this before and I think someone replied that they are in fact going to go back to standalone stuff after this finishes anyways, so I really hope that's true. edit: I guess I should add that I really did like NJO, but everything after that has been mediocre to bad. astr0man fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Dec 8, 2010 |
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Dec 8, 2010 00:44
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This series just gets dumber and dumber. I don't understand how killing Kenth is going to do any good. He's trying to hold the Jedi together and even if he's pretty drat useless, you don't have to loving kill him. The whole Vestara and Ben side plot is mildly interesting but as a whole, this series is awful.
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Dec 8, 2010 00:52
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Pops Mgee posted:Just saw this posted in my facebook feed good god this could be terrible. Um, no. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010...content=Twitter
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Dec 8, 2010 07:54
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Mister_Eel posted:I use to play the poo poo out of that game despite its many flaws. Until the day I took the Executor and flew it to a rebel controlled planet. A single B-Wing squadron(3 ships total) came and attacked the Executor. Now keep in mind the Executor can launch something like 20 squadrons of TIE Fighters/Bombers/Defenders. I've taken out entire fleets of enemy ships with it. So I think "I'll just auto-resolve this one fight." Sure enough the Executor goes down in flames. I calmly quit the game, took the CD out of my computer, then snapped this disc in half. I'm going to listen to Vortex when I do some big commuting in a couple weeks, Star Wars books are usually mindless enough to not distract my driving.
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Dec 8, 2010 07:57
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Casimir Radon posted:What am I supposed to do, e-mail a bomb threat to Valve? Yowzers, that's kind of extreme. The game has it's fun moments, just don't auto resolve any battles. If you play Empire then use lots of Lancers. They're broken as gently caress.
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Dec 8, 2010 10:12
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Why are you guys still reading that tripe? Going through the spoilers makes the general plot seem significantly worse than a good chunk of the fan fiction I used to read. Are they dead loving serious with ANOTHER force using planetoid, a Cthulu analogue and actually continuing to write Daala as if she was the leader of the Alliance? That should have been retconned with an apologyto the readers in the book subsequent to the last LotF novel. What happened to you, EU? This must be what it's like to see your child grow up to be a meth head.
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Dec 8, 2010 11:05
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Well, said child had ADD and was a habitual liar at times too. Still it is a shame it now is mostly utter junk. At least the comics are still decent.
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Dec 8, 2010 15:39
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Azzmo posted:Why are you guys still reading that tripe? Going through the spoilers makes the general plot seem significantly worse than a good chunk of the fan fiction I used to read. Are they dead loving serious with ANOTHER force using planetoid, a Cthulu analogue and actually continuing to write Daala as if she was the leader of the Alliance? That should have been retconned with an apologyto the readers in the book subsequent to the last LotF novel. They still have an escape hatch! They could declare the last few series through Dark Nest to be entirely a meta crazy vision by Abeloth, then Pellaeon shows up and blasts the poo poo out of Abeloth and then all the heroes ride off into the sunset. Also, killing Kenth Hamner is like the most blatant and weakest "poo poo got real" moment since uh he's pretty much never been given any characterization. Ever.
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arioch posted:Also, killing Kenth Hamner is like the most blatant and weakest "poo poo got real" moment since uh he's pretty much never been given any characterization. Ever. And also he's killed by Denning's pet character, who all the other Jedi then comfort and forgive and then force to become Grand Master because she's just so great.
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Dec 8, 2010 17:53
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Wow. I'm glad I stopped reading new Star Wars books about halfway through the New Jedi Order. That being said: unless they explicitly said the guy hit the ground and died after the 50 meter drop, he'll be back.
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Dec 8, 2010 18:18
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I looked up Hamner on Wookiepedia because I had no idea who he was or what he did despite always seeing his names in novels and came across this:quote:Sometime after he completed his training, Hamner served a salted nerfloaf to his Arcona student Izal Waz. By doing so, he unwittingly sent his apprentice into a salt addiction that threw him off his Jedi path 
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Dec 8, 2010 19:10
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WhyteRyce posted:I looked up Hamner on Wookiepedia because I had no idea who he was or what he did despite always seeing his names in novels and came across this: As I recall this also was from a Denning book. Denning must not really like the guy.
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quote:Sometime after he completed his training, Hamner served a salted nerfloaf to his Arcona student Izal Waz. By doing so, he unwittingly sent his apprentice into a salt addiction that threw him off his Jedi path Now we finally know where this guy came from. Started out as a Jedi, ended as a salt-mad monster on a 60's TV show. Oh how the mighty fall. 
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Dec 8, 2010 21:02
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Azzmo posted:Why are you guys still reading that tripe? Going through the spoilers makes the general plot seem significantly worse than a good chunk of the fan fiction I used to read. Are they dead loving serious with ANOTHER force using planetoid, a Cthulu analogue and actually continuing to write Daala as if she was the leader of the Alliance? That should have been retconned with an apologyto the readers in the book subsequent to the last LotF novel. It's star wars and no matter how many times I swear off it I still have to keep reading because there is always a tiny glimmer of hope inside that maybe it won't be terrible.
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Dec 9, 2010 02:16
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Azzmo posted:What happened to you, EU? This must be what it's like to see your child grow up to be a meth head. Might I remind you that the most highly regarded and beloved piece of EU fiction culminated in Luke Skywalker battling a silent clone named Luuke Skywalker. It has always been pulp garbage, some of it was just slightly better pulp garbage than the rest.
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Dec 9, 2010 05:15
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Was it? I just wrote that whole thing off as a stupid fanboy's fanfic wanking. I would have thought that the highlight of the EU was the x-wing rogue squadron books full of shenanigans and pew pew lasers and top gun in space. 
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Dec 9, 2010 05:48
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Might I remind you that the most highly regarded and beloved piece of EU fiction culminated in Luke Skywalker battling a silent clone named Luuke Skywalker. It has always been pulp garbage, some of it was just slightly better pulp garbage than the rest. Ahem 
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Dec 9, 2010 06:35
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Might I remind you that the most highly regarded and beloved piece of EU fiction culminated in Luke Skywalker battling a silent clone named Luuke Skywalker. It has always been pulp garbage, some of it was just slightly better pulp garbage than the rest. That wasn't meth use - perhaps just ill behavior by an otherwise adorable young child. To this day I find many of the older books to be a lot of fun and good for a reread. I think we can overlook a lot when the story is entertaining and an adventure occurs. Besides, if the name Luuke Skywalker was the stupidest thing in that series then it didn't do too poorly. Besides, as Fox of Stone said the X-Wing series is also frequently considered the best the EU has to offer. Even with the horse pilot. Because it's fun. Sentient, force-using planets and constantly bleak novels containing characters who no longer have the ability to communicate with one-another or remember things from earlier in the book and all this new stuff people are bringing up.....it's so lazy.
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Azzmo posted:That wasn't meth use - perhaps just ill behavior by an otherwise adorable young child. To this day I find many of the older books to be a lot of fun and good for a reread. I think we can overlook a lot when the story is entertaining and an adventure occurs. Well don't get me wrong, something can be pulpy garbage and still be enjoyable; hell the first movie was exquisitely-done pulp all the way through.
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Dec 9, 2010 14:22
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Just finished vortex, what the hell was up with the last few pages of it? Specifically, the barabel hatchery thing?
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Well don't get me wrong, something can be pulpy garbage and still be enjoyable; hell the first movie was exquisitely-done pulp all the way through. Star Wars is pretty much at its best when it is late seventies/early eighties sci-fi pulp especially when well written. It started to really suck when poo poo got serious and everything was at stake from Death Star 3.0/Alien assholes/SITH CONSPIRACY.
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Hope I can apologize ahead of time if this isn't the right spot for the question, but it is Star Wars related. I have a Star Wars blanket that is probably over 25/30+ years old by now, in pretty good condition, and I can't find a price for it or what it is worth. I saw a similar blanket listed for about 12.00$ on Etsy, but the one I have is very definitely not the same one. Etsy:http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/star-wars-fleece-blanket-original-from-the-70s Mine is a similar material but different images, and I can't find another like it. It has Darth's head in the background, Leia kneeling beside Luke and Luke raising a lightsaber above his head. C3P0 and R2D2 are large, Han and Chewbacca are smaller. I'll see if I can get a picture up shortly, but I was just wondering if someone here would know where I could find out what 'edition' it is labelled and if it is of any value, etc. It's my childhood blanket and I just found it in a storage closet a while back.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Might I remind you that the most highly regarded and beloved piece of EU fiction culminated in Luke Skywalker battling a silent clone named Luuke Skywalker. It has always been pulp garbage, some of it was just slightly better pulp garbage than the rest. What would've been a better way to name the clone? Calling him Luke's Clone every sentence would've been wordy.
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