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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Is this the type of book that will cause you to just forever hate Star Wars or will it give you an even greater appreciation of it? You mean there's a difference?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Is this the type of book that will cause you to just forever hate Star Wars or will it give you an even greater appreciation of it? You'll get more annoyed at George Lucas saying that the story now is how it's always been, but you'll probably get an even greater appreciation for all the work that went into making it, and for the goal Lucas originally had. You might start getting kind of angry when you get to the chapters about the prequels, but for the most part I'd say greater appreciation for Star Wars, maybe angry at Lucas.
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I liken it to learning that the Teabaggers were funded by a pair of Kochs. Slightly angry, but finding the whole thing hilarious and absurd.
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Fox of Stone posted:I liken it to learning that the Teabaggers were funded by a pair of Kochs. Slightly angry, but finding the whole thing hilarious and absurd. Star Wars was not improved by the introduction of George's third-grade-level politics, I don't think this thread will be any different.
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Captain von Trapp posted:Star Wars was not improved by the introduction of George's third-grade-level politics, I don't think this thread will be any different.
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Mar 28, 2011 18:37
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Fox of Stone posted:Oh please. Without the vote of no confidence scenes we'd have had 20 more minutes of Jar-Jar. Those were unintentionally great: "If only senator Amidala were here..." *makes puppy-dog face at Jar-Jar, laugh track plays*
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Captain von Trapp posted:Those were unintentionally great: "If only senator Amidala were here..." *makes puppy-dog face at Jar-Jar, laugh track plays* I love how he does the exact opposite of what Padme obviously would have wanted.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I love how he does the exact opposite of what Padme obviously would have wanted. Yeah, she probably didn't give him any more important jobs after that.
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I want to see what happened when she found out Jar-Jar did it in her stead despite the fact that he'd been hanging with her the past 10(?) years at that point.
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Pope Mobile posted:I want to see what happened when she found out Jar-Jar did it in her stead despite the fact that he'd been hanging with her the past 10(?) years at that point. It's a common misconception that she died from a broken heart, it was really the erasure of 10 years of work and principles by a retarded amphibian.
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Pope Mobile posted:I want to see what happened when she found out Jar-Jar did it in her stead despite the fact that he'd been hanging with her the past 10(?) years at that point. "I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war." *whips concealed handgun from armrest, shoots people*
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Captain von Trapp posted:"I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war." *whips concealed handgun from armrest, shoots people* Nah it was the decoy who said that. I think. poo poo I still can't figured that all out.
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Captain von Trapp posted:"I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war." *whips concealed handgun from armrest, shoots people* She did however convince a less technologically advanced society to throw their lives away on her behalf in a futile battle...
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Nah it was the decoy who said that. Seriously, when did she decide to use the decoy? Was it before the opening scroll? After the Trade Federation landed? gently caress! I laugh every time the Viceroy says "AHH! VICKTOWY!" quote:She did however convince a less technologically advanced society to throw their lives away on her behalf in a futile battle... No you see because the Naboo and Gungans form a symbiant circle and what happens to one of them will affect the other surely you must understa- 
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Bene Elim posted:She shot robots, not people. That's completely different. I think that's the most galling thing for me about the prequels - the idea that somewhere along the line, a robot designer decided to make battle droids capable of making wisecracks and getting nervous or scared.
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Bene Elim posted:She shot robots, not people. That's completely different. Hard choices must be made in war. They could have also invaded that Naboo city and gotten a lot of gungans killed that way but the end result would have been the same.
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Slantedfloors posted:Robots that felt fear and pain. I have a theory these battle droids were actually designed for comedy slapstick but they cheaped out and threw in some basic laser rifle operating software and sold them in bulk. "Yeah they can battle, they got guns see?"
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Slantedfloors posted:Robots that felt fear and pain. Well, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?
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Pope Mobile posted:Well, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there? Now that's just silfunction file_upload_error_message($error_code) { switch ($error_code) { case UPLOAD_ERR_INI_SIZE: return 'The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini'; case UPLOAD_ERR_FORM_SIZE: return 'The uploaded file exceeds the MAX_FILE_SIZE directive that was specified in the HTML form'; case UPLOAD_ERR_PARTIAL: return 'The uploaded file was only partially uploaded'; case UPLOAD_ERR_NO_FILE: return 'No file was uploaded'; case UPLOAD_ERR_NO_TMP_DIR: return 'Missing a temporary folder'; case UPLOAD_ERR_CANT_WRITE: return 'Failed to write file to disk'; case UPLOAD_ERR_EXTENSION: return 'File upload stopped by extension'; default: return 'Unknown upload error'; } } $error_message = file_upload_error_message($_FILES['file']['error']); Roger roger. That's just silly.
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I just won a $50 Amazon gift card, and I want to put it towards a nice Star Wars book. Not a EU fiction book, but more of a "behind the scenes" coffee table book. I've been looking at The Complete SW Encyclopedia: http://www.amazon.ca/Complete-Star-Wars%C2%AE-Encyclopedia/dp/0345477634/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301490958&sr=1-3 Or the Making of Empire: http://www.amazon.ca/Making-Star-Wars-Empire-Strikes/dp/0345509617/ref=sr_1_22?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301491230&sr=1-22 Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on alternatives? I'm pretty open to anything, I'm big into Star Wars but haven't really sprung the money to buy any nice books. triplexpac fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Mar 30, 2011 |
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If it's between those, I would say Making of ESB. I've flipped through it and it looks really interesting and comprehensive, whereas literally everything everything in the Complete Encyclopedia can be found on Wookieepedia (and in much more depth). Also if you're actually going to have it on a coffee table, I think Making of ESB would be a better conversation started than a listing of everything from the EU. Not to mention the Complete Encyclopedia is three volumes so that would be harder to have fit in on a tabletop.
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It didn't make sense that all of the battle droids could talk. R2 is basically a toolbox on wheels so he doesn't need to be able to talk. The regular battle droids should have been the same. Have the yellow ones be able to talk to Gunray/Grevious/whatever but have the regular ones make an ominous mechanical buzz or just silent. Maybe that would marginally up the Killing Machine vibe? Nah.
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Silver Brushes posted:It didn't make sense that all of the battle droids could talk. R2 is basically a toolbox on wheels so he doesn't need to be able to talk. The regular battle droids should have been the same. Have the yellow ones be able to talk to Gunray/Grevious/whatever but have the regular ones make an ominous mechanical buzz or just silent. Maybe that would marginally up the Killing Machine vibe? Nah. A better solution would be to just make the Super-Battle Droids (I hate that name) the standard. Those things were more imposing than the regular ones and seemed to be marginally better at their jobs.
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Slantedfloors posted:A better solution would be to just make the Super-Battle Droids (I hate that name) the standard. Those things were more imposing than the regular ones and seemed to be marginally better at their jobs. On the other hand, Robocop 2. The real standard should be the droidekas. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Mar 30, 2011 |
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The making of star wars or making of empire strikes back are amazing journalistic history books that really give you the details of making movies, particularly these star wars movies. If you want a true coffee table book, I suggest Star Wars Visions Revealed. It's a bunch of amazing art done by modern artists on the subject of star wars.
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Slantedfloors posted:A better solution would be to just make the Super-Battle Droids (I hate that name) the standard. Those things were more imposing than the regular ones and seemed to be marginally better at their jobs. No you see, we can't have that because it would be too scary for the children. And Star Wars is for children, therefore antagonistic forces can't be too intimidating, 
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Grendels Dad posted:
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arioch posted:The real standard should be the droidekas.
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Mister Roboto posted:Any way to get this in a larger size? I think I want to make some stickers out of it. 
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Admiral Goodenough posted:GET DRUNK ON BLUE MILK, FIND LIGHTSABER.
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I bought X-Wing: Alliance on a whim, then I realized I don't even own a joystick 
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If you ever get it working: http://www.darksaber.pnma.co.uk/craftpackucp.html + http://www.xwaupgrade.com/ to update the graphics. http://www.darksaber.pnma.co.uk/craftpacktftc2.html For Missions 1 - 7 of the Tie Fighter TC (Need the Tie Fighter disc for sounds and stuff, but its pretty cheap.) http://www.maxgames.it/xwc/ For Missions 8 - 13 of Tie Fighter and X-Wing TC (I've not played the X-wing TC so can't comment on quality.)
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Looks like Wookiepedia is closing for good. I don't know if I'm happy about this or ecstatic. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Looks like Wookiepedia is closing for good. I don't know if I'm happy about this or ecstatic. How ecstatic do you get every year at around this time?
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arioch posted:How ecstatic do you get every year at around this time?  nevermind. Move along. Move along.
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Lucasfilm would never close Wookieepedia mainly because every employee there uses it as a research resource over Lucasfilm's own in-house continuity guides. I know there have been times before when the StarWars.com databank entries were literally just copied and pasted from Wookieepedia articles. Also when character research stuff on computers in The Clone Wars show, some of it is just the Wookieepedia article but "translated" into Aurebesh, which I actually think is kind of a neat little wink for them to include.
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TheBigBad posted:Does this happen every year or something? Well, it's not every year that Wookieepedia goes 3D.
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arioch posted:How ecstatic do you get every year at around this time? Also why would you be "ecstatic"? At worst wookiepedia is harmless at best it's an amusing diversion.
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