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Wingnut Ninja posted:You know, it occurs to me that Jedi Knight had a very strong Indiana Jones feel. The protagonist is a stubbly, rough-around-the-edges badass who uses a unique signature weapon. He's chasing a weird evil guy who is trying to discover a mystical artifact of immense power. Along the way he visits numerous exotic locations and fights You know Jedi Knight is on steam and totally works on vista, right? Dark Forces as well.
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Well poo poo. It costs less than a sandwich, too. That was easy.  edit: oh man, it's even better than I remembered. So refreshingly Star Wars-y after all the prequel poo poo we've gotten in the last decade. Wingnut Ninja fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Jan 31, 2011 |
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Nckdictator posted:Hey a excuse to post the website of the crazy guy who wrote the old Lando novels He agreed.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Well poo poo. It costs less than a sandwich, too. That was easy. The only thing that sucks is that it's (Jedi Knight) missing a lot of in-game music. I guess it's designed to be streamed off the CD (Red Book audio).
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Nessus posted:This is really belated and from like sixty pages ago, but I wrote to the guy and asked him if he agreed that it was a bad thing that the one-world government had destroyed both a species and a business by running the smallpox virus out of the wild. Lando attempts to poison the food supply of a colony because they have the audacity to place import tariffs on useless or deadly goods.
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How come pulling a Star Destroyer out of orbit is harder than pulling an X-wing out of a swamp? I mean besides the distraction of getting shot at and whatnot. Yoda clearly states that "size matters not", so in theory it should be the same? Or was Yoda just being a lying rear end in a top hat like everyone else who uses that line?
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BonHair posted:How come pulling a Star Destroyer out of orbit is harder than pulling an X-wing out of a swamp? I mean besides the distraction of getting shot at and whatnot. Yoda clearly states that "size matters not", so in theory it should be the same? Or was Yoda just being a lying rear end in a top hat like everyone else who uses that line? Yoda was a senile old pants-shitter that rambled on while suffering from a raging fever infection he contracted in the swamp.
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Slantedfloors posted:I've been wanting to claim the write-up for the Lando novels in the Book Barn thread just for this reason. Dude is creepy scary with the Libertarian crap.
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Casimir Radon posted:I don't remember that part. Lando tries to trade his cargo on the planet, but is told that it's basically worthless - he's trying to trade the equivalent of the planet's only export (leather), fishing rods (the planet has no bodies of water), and gelatin that (due to a biological difference) causes the colonists to diarrhea-poo poo themselves to near death. When he's told that there's a huge tariff on what are respectively useless items and poison, he gets pissed off. His solution is to sell the poison gelatin as fertilizer, ensuring it gets into the planet's food chain.
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Was that the only really bad thing, I seem to recall the rest of the trilogy being good?
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Slantedfloors posted:Lando tries to trade his cargo on the planet, but is told that it's basically worthless - he's trying to trade the equivalent of the planet's only export (leather), fishing rods (the planet has no bodies of water), and gelatin that (due to a biological difference) causes the colonists to diarrhea-poo poo themselves to near death. When he's told that there's a huge tariff on what are respectively useless items and poison, he gets pissed off. His solution is to sell the poison gelatin as fertilizer, ensuring it gets into the planet's food chain.
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Casimir Radon posted:Was that the only really bad thing, I seem to recall the rest of the trilogy being good? ...also there's a drug based on lizard poo poo. ...and a horrifically obese man in a pink speedo who has a garden full of people loving. ...and psychic Space-Manta Rays the size of Star Destroyers. ...and Space Wizards. And not like Jedi Space Wizards, actual Space Wizards. Okay I lied, it's actually pretty terrible. Nessus posted:Is he explicit about this? I mean to use an analogy, I sure wouldn't eat cow poo poo, but I might put it on my carrot patch. Slantedfloors fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Jan 31, 2011 |
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Clearly you just hate freedom, forums user Slantedfloors. You were probably for coercion to remove smallpox from the natural ecosphere too!!!
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Everyone has the right to poo poo themselves to death and I'll do everything I can to make sure they get the chance to do just that.
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Oh, I forgot. Lando guns down a guy in a crowded spaceport(he's attacked, but he responds to a club by shooting the guy and setting him on fire instead of, you know, calling for help) with an illegal firearm, and is then shocked that he could actually be tried for murder.
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I have a geeky Star Wars question! What exactly is the appeal of this: http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_sku=SWFRAMES&rid=SWHPFPROD (For those too lazy to click, they're picture books of the six movies sitting in a wooden box for a grand total of $3000.00. No, that was not a typo.) More about it here: http://www.starwars.com/vault/books/frames_starwarsshop/index.html
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I have a geeky Star Wars question! I'm assuming the appeal comes from being able to show off just how goddamn rich you are to be able to spend 3000 bones on some pictures.
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Those things make every unnecessary purchase I've ever made look reasonable.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:I have a geeky Star Wars question! This is just beyond me. Aren't they just books with shots from the movies? What about them is supposedly worth $3000?
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Admiral Goodenough posted:This is just beyond me. Aren't they just books with shots from the movies? What about them is supposedly worth $3000?
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Admiral Goodenough posted:This is just beyond me. Aren't they just books with shots from the movies? What about them is supposedly worth $3000? The box?
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Slantedfloors posted:Oh, I forgot. Lando guns down a guy in a crowded spaceport(he's attacked, but he responds to a club by shooting the guy and setting him on fire instead of, you know, calling for help) with an illegal firearm, and is then shocked that he could actually be tried for murder. I want to write a whole series of sci-fi books where a libertarian hero encounters interesting alien cultures and is then shocked by their reasonable laws allowing for a fire department/providing a public transit system/banning murdering kids that used your backyard as a short cut.
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AmbassadorFriendly posted:I want to write a whole series of sci-fi books where a libertarian hero encounters interesting alien cultures and is then shocked by their reasonable laws allowing for a fire department/providing a public transit system/banning murdering kids that used your backyard as a short cut. "Cato Rand and the Perilous Border: Cato Rand discovers a fiendish plot a thousand years in the making - the Marxlosocialik Commieperium have somehow put Cato's gold under their planet's crust!"
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Cato Rand and the Indoctrodromes: Cato Rand is stranded on Strawmanicus VI - home of the Indoctrodromes, a dread people who deny their children the value of wage-earning in favor of a system of Brain Control Centers -- funded by tax space-dollars! e: maintaining realism Nessus fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Jan 31, 2011 |
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Is there any word on a follow-up to Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy? I thought they were a great series of games, and they got good reviews.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:This is just beyond me. Aren't they just books with shots from the movies? What about them is supposedly worth $3000? LIMITED EDITION!! I know some people who enjoy that sort of picture books, mostly in the 40+ year old segment, but none of them would pay this much. But I guess there are 1138 big enough geeks out there, or at least some, with the rest buying it in hopes that it will increase in value..
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Boi Hole posted:Is there any word on a follow-up to Dark Forces 4: Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy? I thought they were a great series of games, and they got good reviews. LucasArts just had a huge management shake up and Lucas hates the original trilogy stuff so it will be released the same time as Duke Nukem Forever.
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GodlessCommie posted:LucasArts just had a huge management shake up and Lucas hates the original trilogy stuff so it will be released the same time as Duke Nukem Forever. May 3rd, 2011? That seems rather soon.
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Locutus Of Bored posted:May 3rd, 2011? That seems rather soon. Heh, yeah, guess he didn't get the memo (or is refusing to believe it). Can't really blame him for that though. I just bought a fuckton of hard drives from Amazon. Since I already spent over a grand, I also tossed in the Rogue Squadron Omnibus's and the Thrawn trilogy. I've only ever owned one Star Wars book (Rogue Squadron, and that copy got lost  ) that my parents bought me as a kid; I inter-library loan'd like a motherfucker to read all of the others. Pretty pumped to have my own copies  I lost my eBay auction for a set of the X-Wing books though, so I'm going to have try again. It's like $25 on eBay for all 9; shipping for 9 books via Amazon easily hits like $40 (3.99/item).
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Midichlorians: Does any of the book stuff go into more depth on what these are? Could someone theoretically inject themselves with midichlorians and boost force potential? Or are they just an indicator of force potential, i.e. attracted to life forms with the force? Can one lose midichlorian count, and if so does this decrease force power?
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LLJKSiLk posted:Midichlorians: I believe (and this could be completely wrong) that it was retconned that midichlorians don't actually grant you access, but they are attracted to and stick on to people who have high Force potential (like you said). So if you are strong in the Force, more midichlorians will be in your blood stream just because they like it there, not because they actually make you stronger. So testing how many you have in your blood stream can be a good way to measure someone's strength, but they're not actually the cause. Kind of in a "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" way. That may be total bullshit, though, because I can't remember where I heard that. Also, even if it's true, it's still incredibly stupid. But not quite as bad. No idea on the decreasing power if you lose, say, a limb, though. If it's true, Vader should be pretty drat weak by the end of ROTS. He was just a torso and a head at that point. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Jan 31, 2011 |
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thrawn527 posted:
Can't remember the source, but Vader was supposed to have ultimately been twice as strong as the Emperor, but without his limbs he only ended up being 80% as strong.
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Captain Splendid posted:Can't remember the source, but Vader was supposed to have ultimately been twice as strong as the Emperor, but without his limbs he only ended up being 80% as strong. He was only about 10% as strong as Starkiller 
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BonHair posted:How come pulling a Star Destroyer out of orbit is harder than pulling an X-wing out of a swamp? I mean besides the distraction of getting shot at and whatnot. Yoda clearly states that "size matters not", so in theory it should be the same? Or was Yoda just being a lying rear end in a top hat like everyone else who uses that line? Because Force Unleashed is stupid drivel. Kart Barfunkel posted:I have a geeky Star Wars question! GodlessCommie posted:LucasArts just had a huge management shake up and Lucas hates the original trilogy stuff so it will be released the same time as Duke Nukem Forever. Lucas has next to no input at Lucasarts because frankly he couldn't give less of a poo poo about stuff he didn't personally work on. He just enjoys getting a check. The lack of OT stuff is just that all the kids these days love the prequels cause they're new so they make games catering to this. Yeah, Yeah I know "Red Letter Media showed that they're boring to kids too!" but kids seem to love the prequels for the action bits and kinda ignore the boring stuff.
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thrawn527 posted:I believe (and this could be completely wrong) that it was retconned that midichlorians don't actually grant you access, but they are attracted to and stick on to people who have high Force potential (like you said). So if you are strong in the Force, more midichlorians will be in your blood stream just because they like it there, not because they actually make you stronger. So testing how many you have in your blood stream can be a good way to measure someone's strength, but they're not actually the cause. Kind of in a "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" way. Midichlorians are retarded in general but if we must tolerate their existence, I like this explanation a lot more than "THEY CAUSE IT".
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Day Job Orchestra did a Star Wars Thing! I like Day Job Orchestra, and I like Star Wars, sooo... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7X6Orlc73g
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Captain Splendid posted:Can't remember the source, but Vader was supposed to have ultimately been twice as strong as the Emperor, but without his limbs he only ended up being 80% as strong. That's ridiculous, and I refuse to accept as canon that because you lose an arm you're weaker in the Force. So I'm not going to count it. (P-canon is the way to go.)
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I think the logic is that because he's less organic matter the Force has less for him to be a conduit for or something lame like that since The Force can't be channeled by machines.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I think the logic is that because he's less organic matter the Force has less for him to be a conduit for or something lame like that since The Force can't be channeled by machines. Judge Yoda by his size, do you?
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RagnarokAngel posted:I think the logic is that because he's less organic matter the Force has less for him to be a conduit for or something lame like that since The Force can't be channeled by machines. Which makes no sense since even inorganic objects 'have' the force in them.
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