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LLJKSiLk posted:For example, naming all your ships things like "Intimidator" and "Devastator" all seem fairly jingoistic in terms of the military industrial complex. Well, real-world militaries tend to avoid calling their ships things like 'Soft fluffy cushion' and 'Nice relaxing backrub'. Devastator in particular is a perfectly respectable name for a warship; the US has one right now - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Devastator_%28MCM-6%29
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Admiral Goodenough posted:You just made me go look up stardestroyer.net. That's quite a... thing
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Apr 27, 2011 18:33
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feedmegin posted:Well, real-world militaries tend to avoid calling their ships things like 'Soft fluffy cushion' and 'Nice relaxing backrub'. USS Jimmy Carter  Though really Executor is not so tough either, since the dictionary definition is "someone who does something".
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Apr 27, 2011 18:38
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feedmegin posted:Well, real-world militaries tend to avoid calling their ships things like 'Soft fluffy cushion' and 'Nice relaxing backrub'. Devastator in particular is a perfectly respectable name for a warship; the US has one right now - Who the hell thought the name "Devastator" would be a good fit for a friggin Minesweeper? That's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.
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Apr 27, 2011 18:43
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NeonTurtle posted:Who the hell thought the name "Devastator" would be a good fit for a friggin Minesweeper? That's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. It devastates...mines, I guess?
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Apr 27, 2011 19:40
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Yeah, the Avenger-class as a whole is amusing like that; names like Champion or Gladiator on non-combat ships. Looping back to topic, some SW EU author thought "Belarus" was a fine name for an entire space cruiser class. Why not "North Korea"-class, then? I also have a bit of a beef with "Viscount", but that's a somewhat nerdier argument.
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Apr 28, 2011 02:37
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Is the little jewish-looking bird puppet who sit next to Jabba the Hutt during the opening scene of The Empire Strikes Back a sentient race? Is he intelligent? Force sensitive?
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Apr 28, 2011 03:10
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star wars 3D posted:Is the little jewish-looking bird puppet who sit next to Jabba the Hutt during the opening scene of The Empire Strikes Back a sentient race? Is he intelligent? Force sensitive? Yes, yes, and no.... yet?
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Apr 28, 2011 03:13
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star wars 3D posted:Is the little jewish-looking bird puppet who sit next to Jabba the Hutt during the opening scene of The Empire Strikes Back a sentient race? Is he intelligent? Force sensitive?  I assume you're referring to Salacious Crumb from Return of the Jedi. He's a Kowakian monkey lizard, which is a sentient, intelligent race. They may be Force sensitive, but I'm not sure it's been addressed.
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Apr 28, 2011 03:16
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There was a Kowakian monkey lizard Dark Jedi in one of the Dark Forces games. The one with Jerec. Although I think he might have later been said to be a Force-altered mutant or something.
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Apr 28, 2011 03:28
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So who bought the gimmick account?
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So I think a Revan book is likely to be a pointless handjob to the lowest common denominator... meaning naturaly theforce.net loves the idea. And who other than Drew Karpshyn, who cut his teeth video game novelizations with the Baldur's Gate series, to write it?
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Apr 28, 2011 05:53
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You know that KOTOR III game you guys wanted, here's a lovely licensed novel instead, now shut up and buy spiffy outfits for your online character. I think this could be pretty funny really. All the biggest sperglords already have "their Revan" thoroughly fixed in their mind, and any deviation from what they want is going to piss them off immensely. The other option is to dance around the issue like the comics did, and the book will end up having little to nothing to do with Revan.
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Apr 28, 2011 06:03
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yronic heroism posted:And who other than Drew Karpshyn, who cut his teeth video game novelizations with the Baldur's Gate series, to write it? I still can't believe I actually tried to read those things when I found them in a used book store years back.
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yronic heroism posted:So I think a Revan book is likely to be a pointless handjob to the lowest common denominator... meaning naturaly theforce.net loves the idea. Can't wait to see how he changes KOTOR II.
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Nucleic Acids posted:I still can't believe I actually tried to read those things when I found them in a used book store years back. I read both of them. I was young and stupid so I liked them, but those books made no loving sense. I didn't even realize those were written by Karpyshyn.
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Apr 28, 2011 07:30
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Chairman Capone posted:Can't wait to see how he changes KOTOR II. Wasn't he senior writer for KOTOR too?
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Apr 28, 2011 09:26
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He's been writing the Mass Effect novels as well. They've been ranging from '...decent' to poor, so I don't have high hopes for this.
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Apr 28, 2011 13:29
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star wars 3D posted:Is the little jewish-looking bird puppet who sit next to Jabba the Hutt during the opening scene of The Empire Strikes Back a sentient race? Is he intelligent? Force sensitive? Wow did you make that account with the specific intent of trolling Star Wars fans? Pretty sad how bad it's failing. edit: I like how they the "readers will learn who the Sith Emperor is in the time of the Old Republic," didn't they imply that it was the same guy? Spoiler alert Revan is now the Sith Emperor 
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Chairman Capone posted:There was a Kowakian monkey lizard Dark Jedi in one of the Dark Forces games. The one with Jerec. Although I think he might have later been said to be a Force-altered mutant or something. Oh hell, you're right. I know the game play for that game was good, but dammit were the plot and cutscenes some of the worst things I've ever seen.
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Apr 28, 2011 14:39
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That DICK! posted:edit: I like how they the "readers will learn who the Sith Emperor is in the time of the Old Republic," didn't they imply that it was the same guy? Spoiler alert Revan is now the Sith Emperor Which Sith Emperor? For that matter, have a smorgasbord of Sith Empires.
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Ninja_Orca posted:He's been writing the Mass Effect novels as well. They've been ranging from '...decent' to poor, so I don't have high hopes for this. Even "...decent" seems pretty generous, though that's just based on my hearing of other's opinions (the Mass Effect thread in games, back when I used to skip through it) and not personal exposure.
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Decius posted:Wasn't he senior writer for KOTOR too? He was the senior writer for the first KOTOR but had nothing to do with KOTOR II. Which is really evident from his Darth Bane books which draw heavily from KOTOR I while not mentioning anything from the second game. I think he even mentions something like how the Jedi Order had been at peace since their defeat of Malak, which of course kind of brushes over the whole elimination of the Jedi in KOTOR II. Karpyshyn has said that the Exile is going to be in his Revan book, which should reassure me, but I just hope that means he actually played KOTOR II and isn't just basing it on reading the Wookieepedia Exile article or something.
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Am I right in thinking Revan will be male in the book, and the Exile female?
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Holy Cow posted:Am I right in thinking Revan will be male in the book, and the Exile female? Well, if it's true that people used to continually change the Exile's gender on Wookiepedia to male, he'll probably end up doing so to appease that crowd. Nucleic Acids fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Apr 28, 2011 |
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Nucleic Acids posted:Well, if it's true that people used to continually change the Exile's gender on Wookiepedia to male, he'll probably end up doing so to appease that crowd. Just when you think Wookieepedia couldn't get any more pathetic. 'Eeeeew, a girl hero! not in my Star Warrrrrrrs!'
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SeanBeansShako posted:Just when you think Wookieepedia couldn't get any more pathetic. But the other popular consensus is that Revan was a girl, or at least that's what I've heard.
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Holy Cow posted:Am I right in thinking Revan will be male in the book, and the Exile female? I am pretty sure that the cannon ending has Reven as a male.
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Darth Freddy posted:I am pretty sure that the cannon ending has Reven as a male. Right, and the canon ending has the Exile being female. Changing that would be pandering for the worst reasons. Which means I'm sure that's what they'll do.
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The only bad apart about having the female Exile is that tool, the disciple. The Handmaiden was much more badass and useful.
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Personally I liked Revan as female and Exile as male better. What I really want to know is if he's going to give the Exile a name.
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VaultAggie posted:The only bad apart about having the female Exile is that tool, the disciple. The Handmaiden was much more badass and useful. One of these days, I got to see do a female Exile run. I need to see how much of a tool this guy is.
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Yeah, the canon settings are that Revan was male and the Exile was female. Needless to say, countless bottom-feeders bitched about how the Exile couldn't be female, about how it smacked the face of Star Wars' tradition. The Star Wars fanbase is filled with manchildren who would make Lucas proud.
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Somewhere in the depths of the internet there is incredibly right wing Star Wars fanfiction. I just know it.
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Chaos Hippy posted:I read both of them. I was young and stupid so I liked them, but those books made no loving sense. I didn't even realize those were written by Karpyshyn. My bad. He only wrote the third one (Throne of Bhaal), which wasn't... as bad.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Somewhere in the depths of the internet there is incredibly right wing Star Wars fanfiction. I just know it. What do you mean "in the depths of the internet"? About half the official Star Wars novels are incredibly right-wing fanfiction.
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Chairman Capone posted:What do you mean "in the depths of the internet"? About half the official Star Wars novels are incredibly right-wing fanfiction. You underestimate the insanity of internet fanfiction. I'm thinking about stuff that makes paranoid libertarian crazy Lando look a rational and sane individual.
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thrawn527 posted:Right, and the canon ending has the Exile being female. Changing that would be pandering for the worst reasons. Which means I'm sure that's what they'll do. I kind of doubt(hope) that the guy behind most of Revens back ground would change it to female just to appease a small minority of people and piss off a ton of people. Either way I don't care to much I ordered deceived today and sure as hell will order the Reven book. I think the guys writing is pretty drat good for star wars and enjoyed the hell out of the Bane books.
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SeanBeansShako posted:You underestimate the insanity of internet fanfiction. I'm thinking about stuff that makes paranoid libertarian crazy Lando look a rational and sane individual. I got curious and did a brief search. I found this short but sweet gem: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5132407/1/Christian_Jedi_Code Also this, which I was kind of surprised to see on the official Star Wars website blog. http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2009/05/05/what-if-conservatives-are-the-new-rebel-scum/
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