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Duckman2008 posted:So are Star Wars books really not available as eBooks? Do publishers not want to make money? Well, everything from the NJO onward is available, anything older is not, which means no X-Wing series, no Thrawn series, etc.
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TheBigBad posted:No, else Vader would not have scrambled fighters and personally launched against them. Vader launched for fun, not because he thought they were a threat. He liked killing things on a more personal scale than Tarkin; it was all for sport. That also explains why he only launched with a few wingmen instead of all (however many hundred) fighters the Death Star carried.
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Kylaer posted:Vader launched for fun, not because he thought they were a threat. He liked killing things on a more personal scale than Tarkin; it was all for sport. That also explains why he only launched with a few wingmen instead of all (however many hundred) fighters the Death Star carried. Nah, Vader knew something was up. He kind of looks to the side and says "Several fighters have broken off from the main group," before he grabs a couple of wingmen. And there were other TIEs running around out there anyway. That, to me, means he had this intuition through the Force that the Rebels were trying something. He could see they were pulling away and trying at something, and figured it would be prudent to stop them.
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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Squadron No, the only squadron to launch during the Battle of Yavin was the one under Vader's direct command. He detected a threat and took his personal squadron out, while Tarkin and everyone else refused to launch any more fighters.
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Apr 11, 2011 15:45
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Suenteus Po posted:Isn't Yavin a pure gas giant? Maybe the superlaser needs to hit rocks to make a planet blow up. The energy required to dissociate a gravitationally bound object scales as the mass squared over the radius. Jupiter, for instance, would take about 1300 times more energy to blow up than the earth. It's probably a safe bet that the Death Star simply didn't have the capability to blow up Yavin. 
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Apr 11, 2011 17:42
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 Saw this in the book store today. That is without a doubt the most offensive villain Ive seen in star wars. Just straight up take vaders helmet off and armour him up a bit. What the gently caress Bioware? I thought you were supposed to have Kotor to make up new characters and such.
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Apr 12, 2011 01:57
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Throb Robinson posted:Saw this in the book store today. That is without a doubt the most offensive villain Ive seen in star wars. Just straight up take vaders helmet off and armour him up a bit. What the gently caress Bioware? I thought you were supposed to have Kotor to make up new characters and such. Almost everything in The Old Republic is nearly identical to movie designs.
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Apr 12, 2011 02:04
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WELL I WASN'T AWARE OF THIS. Now I have nothing to be mad about I guess.
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No, you should be, because it really is loving stupid. I mean, I get that the point is to draw in people who just assume it's set during the movie era and with movie characters, but they should just be upfront about putting money ahead of creativity. It has Star Wars in the title and it's being made by BioWare, it would make a ton of money anyway. I mean, even though it's set three thousand years beforehand, it has stuff like Imperial Stormtroopers, Moffs and Grand Moffs, star destroyers identical to movie-era designs. I guess the explanation now is that when Palpatine came to power he deliberately copied everything from the Sith of this era but that's not exactly stellar writing. Chairman Capone fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Apr 12, 2011 |
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Chairman Capone posted:No, you should be, because it really is loving stupid. I mean, I get that the point is to draw in people who just assume it's set during the movie era and with movie characters, but they should just be upfront about putting money ahead of creativity. It has Star Wars in the title and it's being made by BioWare, it would make a ton of money anyway. The idea that someone would copy 3,000 year old designs down to the minute details with perfect accuracy and have them be competitive with contemporary designs is so mindbogglingly stupid that it makes me angry just thinking about it. 
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omgLerkHat! posted:The idea that someone would copy 3,000 year old designs down to the minute details with perfect accuracy and have them be competitive with contemporary designs is so mindbogglingly stupid that it makes me angry just thinking about it. Personally, if the game is fun, I don't give a gently caress. I understand that this is a franchise job, and all that entails. Just as I understand that, when making something as big as an MMO, some of Bioware's corners will have to be cut. The bigger the game, the less room in the budget for innovation. And the greater need to get tons of players quick. This was most likely a marketing decision, and it probably wasn't Bioware that made it.
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Captain von Trapp posted:The energy required to dissociate a gravitationally bound object scales as the mass squared over the radius. Jupiter, for instance, would take about 1300 times more energy to blow up than the earth. It's probably a safe bet that the Death Star simply didn't have the capability to blow up Yavin. But Alderaan's bits flew away a LOT faster than escape velocity. If you time the explosion frame-by-frame, you can see it actually blew up at a few percent of the speed of light. This means that the blast was about a million times more powerful than it needed to be just to dissociate the planet -- do math and you get 10^38 joules or so as a good lower limit for the superlaser. (For real-life scale, that's about the total amount of energy the Sun emits in eight thousand years or so.) I think a gas giant would be no trouble for a Death Star. And I'm happy to say I wasn't the one who sat down and figured all this out: http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Beam/Alderaan.html 
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Chaos Hippy posted:Personally, if the game is fun, I don't give a gently caress. I understand that this is a franchise job, and all that entails. Just as I understand that, when making something as big as an MMO, some of Bioware's corners will have to be cut. The bigger the game, the less room in the budget for innovation. Now I don't have anything original to say about it. But that's exactly it, I think. I was getting really worked up about the trailers 6 months ago but I decided that this game is only Star Wars inasmuch as it uses the franchise's iconic imagery. It has absolutely 0 canonicity and, when approached as such, it looks pretty great. We basically get to pretend we're in Empire Strikes Back era Star Wars with a different storyline.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr04FBKPS9E Check out the Chewie one too, it's great.
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Blame LA's Marketeering divisions for why the KOTOR MMO just looks like a slightly earlier OT. Don't start hating on Bioware and the game pointlessly until you play it though. Could be fun.
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Powered Descent posted:But Alderaan's bits flew away a LOT faster than escape velocity. If you time the explosion frame-by-frame, you can see it actually blew up at a few percent of the speed of light. This means that the blast was about a million times more powerful than it needed to be just to dissociate the planet -- do math and you get 10^38 joules or so as a good lower limit for the superlaser. (For real-life scale, that's about the total amount of energy the Sun emits in eight thousand years or so.) I think a gas giant would be no trouble for a Death Star. I love the unspoken assumption in SSD.net's minute dissection of every little thing. Apparently, the reason things happen the way they're shown on screen is because they wanted to portray 10^38 Joules of energy used on a planet, and no other reason is even entertained.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr04FBKPS9E Trooper one was the best. Don't bother watching the Vader one, it was pretty awful.
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http://vimeo.com/14815990 This needs to be posted again just cause its so good.
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Maybe this is another step towards real lightsabers, TIE fighters, and star destroyers. http://atatforamerica.tumblr.com/ I'm holding out for my own Death Star. 
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Sith Happens posted:Maybe this is another step towards real lightsabers, TIE fighters, and star destroyers. It sounded okay until they started begging the 501st to show up.
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NeonTurtle posted:It sounded okay until they started begging the 501st to show up. You know they do their stuff for charity right?
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http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=10221-1 Cross-posting this from the Lego thread. About drat time they made a ssd.
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VaultAggie posted:http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=10221-1 That smaller star destroyer next to it better be the correct length ratio!
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theforce.net message boards never fail to bore me, except when the "Literature" people get drawn into real world political stuff, like a discussion of race in Star Wars. I'm sure, given the average level of maturity for Star Wars fans (who post on TFN, no less) this will go well. Especially when the people with dueling sig lines come out to play.Rogue77 posted:Recipient of the Confederation Ewok with "Rebel Yub"® Action!! Kuag posted:"I don't care what you smell! Get in there!"-Han Solo Hmmm... I smell a winner with this "Kuag" fellow. Kuag posted:I'm voicing opposition to the furor over what's right there in front of us by using hypothetical situations. Big difference. That stated, if your personal qualm with this has to do with continuity as opposed to an actual anger over lack of "diversity," then I have no problem with your objections and would be more likely, in fact, to support them. TCW has done great harm to Star Wars continuity--so much so that in my opinion it would be better had the show never been created. Yep.
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Theforce.net sigs are embarrassingly sad. These are all from one thread and almost the same page. -----signature----- Winner of two 2010 JCCer Razzie Awards: Least Improved Poster and Worst Thread Lamentations 3:24~ The Lord is my portion sayeth my soul therefore shall I hope in Him -----signature----- Lightside Jedi Master Is gaire cabhair Dé ná an doras. God's help is nearer than the door. Sarcasm - Just another quality service I provide. grin -----signature----- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God. I'm a sexy shoeless GOD OF WAR! Current crush: http://tron.wikia.com/wiki/Quorra -----signature----- Rms 3:23 For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God. Rms 5:8 But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Rms 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal Life. -----signature----- Luke *whines*: "I wanna become a Jedi like my father before me!" Obi-wan: "Over my dead ...! Nevermind ..." Sev Wars: A Tribute to Alec Guinness "Thou shallst not bear false witness to thy neighbor! -- Except from a certain point of view!" tongue -----signature----- God Bless America Go Blue! I am not ashamed of the Gospel (see Romans 1:16-17) -- I'm so glad people don't use sigs on SA. Although I turned them off years ago so I don't really know their current status. Mister Roboto fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Apr 14, 2011 |
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Do any of you guys think the Star Wars movies have actually changed your life/changed you as a person? I study Film + TV Production at University, and now I'm in my final year I've got some experience working in the real world of production and I'm having a blast. I graduate in about a month, and I've got some jobs as a camera assistant etc lined up for when I leave. I can honestly say that I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for seeing Star Wars when I was a kid. Ever since then, I've always wanted to be a part of the film making process, to give someone else that same thrill I had when I was young.
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Mooktastical posted:I love the unspoken assumption in SSD.net's minute dissection of every little thing. Apparently, the reason things happen the way they're shown on screen is because they wanted to portray 10^38 Joules of energy used on a planet, and no other reason is even entertained. Well if you start with the assumption that the movies are "the ultimate canon" or whatever, then drawing conclusions based entirely on what you see on screen should be valid, right? Granted its  as gently caress but so is most of this thread, so who cares?
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yronic heroism posted:theforce.net message boards never fail to bore me, except when the "Literature" people get drawn into real world political stuff, like a discussion of race in Star Wars. I'm sure, given the average level of maturity for Star Wars fans (who post on TFN, no less) this will go well. Especially when the people with dueling sig lines come out to play.
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Torael_7 posted:Well if you start with the assumption that the movies are "the ultimate canon" or whatever, then drawing conclusions based entirely on what you see on screen should be valid, right? Not necessarily. Take the destruction of Alderaan for example. They probably just built a planet out of whatever was laying around, then blew it up. To actually measure the speed at which the pieces flew away assumes gently caress loads, without any reason to do so. In that link, Wong even admits that he has no clue what would produce the fire ring that was added in the special edition. Reason being that there was no logical in-universe reason for it to be there, it just looked cool. Welcome to Star Wars, a movie that was intended to be a schlocky rip-off of Buck Rogers, but made poo poo tons more money than anyone expected it to, and wasn't taken seriously by most of the people making it, including the leads. Torael_7 posted:Granted its What annoys me about the method of SSD.net is that it's so far removed from any semblance of coherent thought that it's pretty insulting to read.
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Wookiepedia posted:Ultimately, however, the Redemption was one of several ships obliterated by the second Death Star's powerful superlaser.
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How loving special do you have to be to actually think this is a good idea?
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NeonTurtle posted:How loving special do you have to be to actually think this is a good idea? Not even basic dignity can hold me.
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Shouldn't it be "Not even the Sarlacc can hold me twice"? Also Jesus Christ!
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I bet you the guys who go for these super geeky tattoos lie to themselves thinking we'll have super awesome skin regenerating lasers when they hit 30 or 40. I don't think it works that way however and these dudes will have stretched out Boba Fetts and Darth Mauls on their bodies into their mid sixties.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:Are there any example of good Star Wars-related tattoos? A simple Rebel or Imperial logo would be tastefully geeky, but I can't think of much else.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:Are there any example of good Star Wars-related tattoos? 
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Pops Mgee posted:Why is there a random ankh in the middle?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Why is there a random ankh in the middle? The United States is life.
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I discovered this take on the Imperial March while wasting time on TvTropes. It is...glorious.
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