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Casimir Radon posted:Got elected Chief of State, I'm not kidding. Okay, I need to hear more about this.
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He's joking, its just a continuation of "Daala as chief of state? What could be more ridiculous." At least I hope he is. 
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Sep 15, 2011 04:22
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Abeloth gets nearly defeated by the leader of the Lost Tribe after he hurts her feelings. Shortly thereafter she absorbs a newly minted Senator who everyone seems to love because she freed her people from slavery. She then infiltrates Coruscant with a bunch of Lost Tribe defectors, gains widespread support through political machinations, kills the interim Chief of State, and gets elected herself. This was after seemingly convincing all the Jedi to leave Coruscant because of some stupid plot point, but Luke knowingly goes along with it to set a trap for her. It's really really stupid, and it sucks that I have to wait till April to see how they're going to tie up this trainwreck.
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Sep 15, 2011 04:48
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Casimir Radon posted:Abeloth gets nearly defeated by the leader of the Lost Tribe after he hurts her feelings. Shortly thereafter she absorbs a newly minted Senator who everyone seems to love because she freed her people from slavery. She then infiltrates Coruscant with a bunch of Lost Tribe defectors, gains widespread support through political machinations, kills the interim Chief of State, and gets elected herself. This was after seemingly convincing all the Jedi to leave Coruscant because of some stupid plot point, but Luke knowingly goes along with it to set a trap for her. I refuse to believe that this happened, but am too afraid to check Wookiepedia to confirm.
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Sep 15, 2011 04:51
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. . . Nothing says Star Wars more than that.
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Sep 15, 2011 04:54
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Suenteus Po posted:I refuse to believe that this happened, but am too afraid to check Wookiepedia to confirm. I did check Wookiepedia to confirm and either overlooked it or saw nothing of the sort. I...I want to (not) believe. 
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Sep 15, 2011 05:07
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Torael_7 posted:I did check Wookiepedia to confirm and either overlooked it or saw nothing of the sort.
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Sep 15, 2011 05:11
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Goddammit. Its pretty much a given how it ends though. A final confrontation between the Jedi and force cthulhu + loyal sith. A handful of nameless jedi (of which there seem to be plenty) die along with a few minor named characters to show everyone we're serious. Force cthulhu is defeated, Vestara stays good, she and ben hook up thus continuing the skywalker line (not to mention skywalker tradition of falling for former dark siders) and guaranteeing that we get Emo Skywalker in 100 years or whatever. mynnna fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Sep 15, 2011 |
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Sep 15, 2011 05:20
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 I assumed this was typical over thought sentimental Deviant Art stuff when I noticed the date of 1980.
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Sep 15, 2011 05:38
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Well, it definitely LOOKS like 70s/80s record album art.
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Sep 15, 2011 05:40
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RagnarokAngel posted:Oh the idea that being part machine makes your "power level" go down? I'll buy that. Force = mass * acceleration Mass before limbs got cut off > Mass after limbs got cut off and replaced with lightweight yet durable metal prosthetics Ergo: New Force = new mass * acceleration New Force < Force That's my justification anyways. WebDog posted:
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Sep 15, 2011 05:41
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I assumed the Vader mutilation thing was more about having been mutilated and mangled and the weakening of the organism it would cause, rather than being literally 'body mass = force potential.' Like I don't think Anakin's cyber arm was a particular weakness (except that as a sith he wouldn't have been able to shoot force lightning from it) while the presumably much more profound and poorly treated injuries would be an issue. Also, doesn't Palpatine always complain about how he has this giant crippled black cock as an apprentice and tries to replace Vader repeatedly throughout the EU? Hell, in a sense he does it in ROTJ, if I recall.
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I put up a new Star Wars: The Clone Wars thread, in the vain hope that George had to focus all his energy into loving up the Blu-Rays, so he ignored the series and we get less Fantasy Force-balancing planets with "it was all a dream"-endings. Series starts Friday, 8 pm.
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Sep 15, 2011 06:41
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I think where the whole being part machine hurts jedi power comes from is the original theory that the force is life, all around us, so organic things basically. And by cleaving organic parts of yourself off and replacing them with soul-less metal you now have either less control over the "living force" or less "force within you" due to being less alive. Reading that back to myself it sounds pretty confusing and shittily written, but I'm sure you get the gist of it.
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Casimir Radon posted:Abeloth gets nearly defeated by the leader of the Lost Tribe after he hurts her feelings. Shortly thereafter she absorbs a newly minted Senator who everyone seems to love because she freed her people from slavery. She then infiltrates Coruscant with a bunch of Lost Tribe defectors, gains widespread support through political machinations, kills the interim Chief of State, and gets elected herself. This was after seemingly convincing all the Jedi to leave Coruscant because of some stupid plot point, but Luke knowingly goes along with it to set a trap for her.
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Sep 15, 2011 07:13
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One would assume that Anakin would have lost a whole lot of blood while he was being burned alive, and lost even more during surgery. His MIDICHLORIANS were in that blood, dude. When he lost that blood, he lost his midichlorians. That's why he lost his power.
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Sep 15, 2011 07:27
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WebDog posted:
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Sep 15, 2011 07:30
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You fuckers are still falling into the trap of accepting that the ability to use the Force has anything at all to do with the condition of your body. And midi-chlorians? Really? VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Sep 15, 2011 |
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Sep 15, 2011 10:56
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While I don't accept it a bunch of books do  out on how Darth Vader can't use Force Lightning because he doesn't have the living tissue to channel his powers through and that less tissue = less midichlorians.After that quote of Guiness' I'm starting to think he talked George into perverting Star Wars after the first three movies so that nobody over the age of 12 could like the franchise without already being a weirdo.
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Sep 15, 2011 11:06
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arioch posted:You fuckers are still falling into the trap of accepting that the ability to use the Force has anything at all to do with the condition of your body. Has that been done  That said I do like the theory that the main thing holding Vader back in general (as opposed to specific effects like Sith lightning hands - I think that's a fair do if you can't use a custom spell of some kind) was that he'd gotten psychologically rear end hosed, not so much that he was borged up.
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Sep 15, 2011 11:27
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Nessus posted:There appears to be at least some degree of connection to an organic entity. After all, otherwise you could build a Force-using droid. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
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arioch posted:Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midichlorian count that high. 
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arioch posted:You fuckers are still falling into the trap of accepting that the ability to use the Force has anything at all to do with the condition of your body. You get kinda mad about Star Wars it seems.
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Sep 15, 2011 14:27
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Why do Ewoks even have eyes that need to blink? They are loving aliens. They aren't humans. Maybe they have natural dry alien eyeballs drat it. That's why the blinking is bad. Obviously George knows the inner biology of an Ewok's eye and up until this point we, as the viewers didn't. Thanks for the help big guy.
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arioch posted:You fuckers are still falling into the trap of accepting that the ability to use the Force has anything at all to do with the condition of your body. I was being entirely facetious  Honestly I love the typical science-fiction parts of Star Wars far more than the whole Force/Jedi thing. It was done right in the OT and very few EU books, now it's just ridiculous. Kind of like how Galaxies just went straight to hell after everyone was a Jedi.SymfonyMan posted:Why do Ewoks even have eyes that need to blink? They are loving aliens. They aren't humans. Maybe they have natural dry alien eyeballs drat it. That's why the blinking is bad. Obviously George knows the inner biology of an Ewok's eye and up until this point we, as the viewers didn't. Thanks for the help big guy. Just makes them creepier looking in my opinion. Can't wait for my BDs to show up so I can play the "drink everytime Jorge hosed something up" drinking game! 
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movax posted:I was being entirely facetious "Man holds Star Wars party, ten dead from alcohol poisoning"
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SymfonyMan posted:Why do Ewoks even have eyes that need to blink? They are loving aliens. They aren't humans. Maybe they have natural dry alien eyeballs drat it. That's why the blinking is bad. Obviously George knows the inner biology of an Ewok's eye and up until this point we, as the viewers didn't. Thanks for the help big guy. And 95% of aliens in Star Wars are bipedal humanoids without the fallback that Star Trek uses to justify it. It's a weird thing to get upset about beyond "Rarr CGI"
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RagnarokAngel posted:And 95% of aliens in Star Wars are bipedal humanoids without the fallback that Star Trek uses to justify it. It's a weird thing to get upset about beyond "Rarr CGI" Again, I think the main source of irritation is the sheer superfluity of such a change. Why bother? Why change such a tiny, unnecessary detail? I feel that it's just a strategy to sell me a "changed" version of a movie that is basically the same, but with more unnecessary crap added to it. I don't appreciate that. Lucas has the means to make meaningful changes to his movies. And there are billions of suggestions for fixes, e.g. the pink lightsabers. But instead they "fix" the Ewok's eyelids and then go "Here, buy this, it's different from what you already own".
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Grendels Dad posted:But instead they "fix" the Ewok's eyelids and then go "Here, buy this, it's different from what you already own". And we keep buying them, because we're like battered wives. "He didn't mean it, I love him! It was my fault!" Really I just want Star Wars on BluRay which is why I bought it, changes or no changes. Will I buy the inevitable second BluRay release? Probably not.
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Sep 15, 2011 17:41
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movax posted:Really I just want Star Wars on BluRay which is why I bought it, changes or no changes. 
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Sep 15, 2011 17:47
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Just noticed a post on the Rock Paper Shotgun blog, LucasArts is looking for programmers and designers for a new project. Ones with skills with aviation sims. Please god let this be it.
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Sep 15, 2011 17:49
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It's just gonna be Starfighter 3.
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Sep 15, 2011 17:51
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Probably Red Tails: The Game.
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Phylodox posted:Probably Red Tails: The Game. I thought that too but apparently they want someone who has "Experience with flight sims, aerial shooters and "especially space-based shooters" is considered "a plus" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-15-lucasarts-making-aerial-combat-title Here's to watching my dreams get crushed 
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Sep 15, 2011 18:56
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In a horrible twist, It will be a Star Wars space fighter sim but based on the boring ships from the prequals nobody gives a gently caress about.
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Sep 15, 2011 19:00
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SeanBeansShako posted:In a horrible twist, It will be a Star Wars space fighter sim on rails but based on the boring ships from the prequals nobody gives a gently caress about. Fixed for you.
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Sep 15, 2011 19:02
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SeanBeansShako posted:In a horrible twist, It will be a Star Wars space fighter sim but based on the boring ships from the prequals nobody gives a gently caress about. arioch posted:They'll just miss the point and make it with all Clone Wars era ships that nobody gives a poo poo about because there's a new dozen every episode.
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Tuxedo Jack posted:Fixed for you. I would frankly rather have another Rebel Assault than most of the stuff that Lucasarts has poo poo out over the last decade or so. And I didn't like Rebel Assault much.
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If it was clone wars based, I would un-ironically love the poo poo out of a Tie Fighter Sim type game with this http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Aggressive_ReConnaissance-170_starfighter Everything else can gently caress off though. Also, I really wish someone would make a bridge commander type game like Star Trek got all those years ago.
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