Metal Loaf posted:even a really obscure droid called Bollux had a page all to himself. The person who did the Han Solo comics has never heard crude British slang apparently.
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Master Soon Bayts has nothing on Bollux. Even Yarael Poof can't match him as far as unfortunate names go.
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Apr 4, 2012 21:36
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The prequels. But those were universally reviled by sensible people. I'm talking about the fanboys who frequent places like TFN. The closest thing I can think would be the Holiday Specials, the Ewok movies, and the Ewoks and Droids cartoons, but those date back to the 80s. I'm more interested in 1997 - present.
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Apr 4, 2012 23:14
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Metal Loaf posted:Even a really obscure droid called Bollux had a page all to himself. Hey don't you go hating on Bollux. Or Blue Max. I'd rather have another book with those guys to than listen to the EU writers have another OH LOOK IT'S C3PO LOOK HOW ANNOYING HE IS GUYS GUYS ISN'T HE ANNOYING GUYS AND R2D2'S SWEARING AT HIM IN A FAMILY FRIENDLY MANNER GUYS HAHAHA thing. I mean, really, not to rant, but C3P0's characterization is the one that seems to flux the most from author to author, and some do him so badly. So badly.
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Apr 5, 2012 00:08
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Casimir Radon posted:It's Wookiepedia editors that spend all kinds of energy trying to resolve all the stupid poo poo until it fits, and it never does. Actually there's a guy at Lucas Licensing that's in charge of that, Leland Chee. His job title is something to the effect of Keeper of the Holocron, and he's responsible for sorting out continuity errors and helping to reconcile things. Chairman Capone posted:I may actually buy this one, at least when the price goes down and I can find it used. Amazon.com has it 35% off at the moment, if that helps. EDIT: Metal Loaf posted:I think Bollux/Blue Max reappeared in one of the earlier NJO books. Perhaps it was a different character; it's been years since I read it. That was actually a BFL model, named Baffle, that Han ran into. He did mistake Baffle for Bollux though. jivjov fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Apr 5, 2012 |
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Apr 5, 2012 00:29
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I think Bollux/Blue Max reappeared in one of the earlier NJO books. Perhaps it was a different character; it's been years since I read it.
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iolo_the_bard posted:Actually there's a guy at Lucas Licensing that's in charge of that, Leland Chee. His job title is something to the effect of Keeper of the Holocron, and he's responsible for sorting out continuity errors and helping to reconcile things.
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Apr 5, 2012 01:30
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I asked in the image request thread in PYF, but no one seems to be biting, so I'll ask here. I seem remember a thread where someone had found some extremely goofy subtitles for Star Wars Episode III. One of them (I forget the context) was 'KINDLY REMOVE YOUR SPACE PANTS SIR' or something to that effect. Someone made an image that was that title over a screencap of an alien and Obi-Wan making a goofy crosseyed face. Does anyone have that image? I seem to have lost it.
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On that note, does anyone have the iconic "IG-88s? In MY Death Star?"
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Portfolio posted:I asked in the image request thread in PYF, but no one seems to be biting, so I'll ask here. I don't recognize the image, but it sounds like it might be something from the famous badly-translated Backstroke of the West.
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Portfolio posted:I asked in the image request thread in PYF, but no one seems to be biting, so I'll ask here. I hate that drat thing, but knock yourself out. Chairman Capone posted:On that note, does anyone have the iconic "IG-88s? In MY Death Star?" People periodically ask for that, but nobody seems to have a copy.
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that awful man posted:People periodically ask for that, but nobody seems to have a copy. Speak for yourself! 
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Casimir Radon posted:I know about Leland Chee. He's not the one going around speculating that Jedi Prince was a bedtime story, or that such and such character did this and it was like this except that time it wasn't. He hands down judgements once in a while, but the major sperging is all Wookiepedia. Jedi Prince wasn't a bed time story. It happened. And we all have to deal with it.
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Metal Loaf posted:Master Soon Bayts has nothing on Bollux. Even Yarael Poof can't match him as far as unfortunate names go. They're almost as bad as Kit Fisto. I too had the Essential guide to the characters before the prequels came out. It's kind of quaint now really, what with the OCD of the Wookiepedia editors, and the literal thousands of essays and including stuff like Star Wars crappers, and explaining to people what a sci-fi window is, or the purpose of  tits (really Wookiepdia? Really?).Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Apr 5, 2012 |
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Saint Guinness posted:Speak for yourself! Awesome! Thank you very much for this gem. It just wouldn't be a Geeky Star Wars Loser Thread without it.
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Apr 5, 2012 14:43
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There is at least one Wookieepedia page that isn't too stuffy. It's copied from the Transformers Wiki but it's something.
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thrawn527 posted:Jedi Prince wasn't a bed time story. It happened. And we all have to deal with it. Thanks to Jedi Prince I can refer to Admiral Ackbar as having a enviromentalist phase.
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The Star Wars Facebook page posted the following very small excerpt from Scoundrels, by Timothy Zahn. And it's hilarious. Zahn posted on his page that this is not another April Fool's joke.Scoundrels posted:One shot was all Falsta got. An instant later his blaster was pointed harmlessly at the ceiling, frozen in place by Chewbacca’s iron grip around both the weapon and the hand holding it.
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thrawn527 posted:The Star Wars Facebook page posted the following very small excerpt from Scoundrels, by Timothy Zahn. And it's hilarious. Zahn posted on his page that this is not another April Fool's joke.  Nice "gently caress you" to Lucas.
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thrawn527 posted:Jedi Prince wasn't a bed time story. It happened. And we all have to deal with it.
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This is still here? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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If any of you haven't liked Timothy Zahn's Facebook page, you should. It's the gift that keeps on giving. These are the covers he posted as an April Fool's joke. 
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TheBigBad posted:This is still here? In the sense that it hasn't been punted to yet another subforum, yes.
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Anyone see that Battlefront 3 alpha footage? It looked pretty boss. Why can't we get good Star Wars games again?
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Because Lucasarts gutted their core design team after X-Wing Alliance (or XvT, I can't remember). Now Lucasarts is just a license printing machine for more Lego Star Wars games.
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I enjoy the lego star wars games to be honest. But I would kill for a new space sim or battlefront game.
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The first game I had was Dark Forces II, the one which had Jerec as the main villain. As I recall I was never very good at it; I couldn't even get past the first level. The unbelievable silliness of the cut-scenes for that game was brilliant, though.
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Metal Loaf posted:The first game I had was Dark Forces II, the one which had Jerec as the main villain. As I recall I was never very good at it; I couldn't even get past the first level. I miss 90's era gaming cutscenes so goddamn much. They did a great job recapturing that with CnC3's cutscenes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqd5rt1Z_WM VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Apr 6, 2012 |
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I tried to play it recently. I only got as far as the opening crawl and the introductory cut-scene; either the game's gone wonky in the ten years since I got it or it doesn't work on operating systems newer than Windows 98.
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Did Apocalypse just totally rip off Mass Effect with the Powerful beings periodically wipe the galaxy clean every few thousand years so new life can develop, or is that just a common sci-fi theme and Denning just got super lazy and used it instead of coming up with something original?
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Esroc posted:Did Apocalypse just totally rip off Mass Effect with the Powerful beings periodically wipe the galaxy clean every few thousand years so new life can develop, or is that just a common sci-fi theme and Denning just got super lazy and used it instead of coming up with something original? Is that really what was stated in Apocalypse? That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense given that the history of spacefaring civilizations in the SW EU goes back hundreds of thousands of years, so it would have to be a pretty drat long cycle.
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Esroc posted:Did Apocalypse just totally rip off Mass Effect with the Powerful beings periodically wipe the galaxy clean every few thousand years so new life can develop, or is that just a common sci-fi theme and Denning just got super lazy and used it instead of coming up with something original? That is a super common sci-fi trope that existed long before Mass Effect.
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Chairman Capone posted:Is that really what was stated in Apocalypse? That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense given that the history of spacefaring civilizations in the SW EU goes back hundreds of thousands of years, so it would have to be a pretty drat long cycle. I don't know about the thousand years thing, but the whole wipe the galaxy clean thing is pretty explicitly stated, yeah. Ironically, with that, the SciFi setting of Star Wars as a whole is taking the Stephen King approach to wrapping up a story-- everything inexplicible was done by God/a turtle/Satan/evil butt aliens.
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I may be completely alone in this, but I would like to see a novel go into the science behind the Force. I was one of the very few who was excited about midichlorians in the prequels because it removed the mystical, religious aspect of the force and connected it to a more scientific view of that Universe. I enjoy Star Wars partly because I feel it is possible that the canon behind the Force can be explained in-universe as something more profound than "magic." Though I do understand that the fantasy element of Star Wars is partly what people enjoy about it, I personally would find enjoyment in having that fantasy explained. Does anyone else agree that it might be exciting to read about how force users are really just manipulating the laws of physics?
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Esroc posted:I may be completely alone in this, but I would like to see a novel go into the science behind the Force. I was one of the very few who was excited about midichlorians in the prequels because it removed the mystical, religious aspect of the force and connected it to a more scientific view of that Universe. I enjoy Star Wars partly because I feel it is possible that the canon behind the Force can be explained in-universe as something more profound than "magic." Though I do understand that the fantasy element of Star Wars is partly what people enjoy about it, I personally would find enjoyment in having that fantasy explained. Any such thing would just be a more complicated version of fantasy bullshit, because jedi and force powers aren't real. The laws of physics do not actually let you lift X-wings with your mind. Also lasers don't pew pew in the vacuum of space. So no, I want my space wizards to not pretend they're something more real than space wizards. And lasers should pew pew.
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Esroc posted:I may be completely alone in this, but I would like to see a novel go into the science behind the Force. I was one of the very few who was excited about midichlorians in the prequels because it removed the mystical, religious aspect of the force and connected it to a more scientific view of that Universe. I enjoy Star Wars partly because I feel it is possible that the canon behind the Force can be explained in-universe as something more profound than "magic." Though I do understand that the fantasy element of Star Wars is partly what people enjoy about it, I personally would find enjoyment in having that fantasy explained. You are the first person I've ever met who liked midicholrians. Of course, I've never met George Lucas. He probably likes them. But other than him, yeah, I'm pretty sure you're alone.
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Esroc posted:Does anyone else agree that it might be exciting to read about how force users are really just manipulating the laws of physics? No. Not even a little. The Force's most interesting aspects are not the ability to shoot force waves from your hands or lift poo poo. That's... kind of the entire point of Yoda. That the guy who is most powerful in the Force isn't the guy who can lift a Star Destroyer with his mind, it is the guy who is close to spiritual enlightenment. Take away the spiritual enlightenment part and you really do just get Magic Space Wizards, even if they're using ~physics~ instead.
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ImpAtom posted:No. Not even a little. The Force's most interesting aspects are not the ability to shoot force waves from your hands or lift poo poo. That's... kind of the entire point of Yoda. That the guy who is most powerful in the Force isn't the guy who can lift a Star Destroyer with his mind, it is the guy who is close to spiritual enlightenment. That's why the scene where Yoda lifts Luke's X-Wing out of the swamp is so effective, I think. I guess it's another problem the EU has had for a long while. There seems to have been a bit of a propensity for portraying the Force as a source of superpowers, which can be measured like a power level from Dragon Ball Z or something. There's a book that comes to mind; did anybody ever read the Jedi Apprentice series when they were younger? It had a villain whose whole gimmick was experimenting on Jedi to try and break down the Force into measurable scientific components.
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Metal Loaf posted:I guess it's another problem the EU has had for a long while. There seems to have been a bit of a propensity for portraying the Force as a source of superpowers, which can be measured like a power level from Dragon Ball Z or something. I have my problems with Zahn and think he is a bit overrated, but god damned if he wasn't the only writer to go "Hey guys, maybe giving Luke a new superpower every other book isn't really meshing with how the Force was portrayed. Let's give him an excuse to cut back and become more spiritual." And then that was promptly ignored so they could use force-guided torpedoes, shoot green lightning and travel through time.
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