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SeanBeansShako posted:Aside from the mini lightsabers in the hilt that'd make it a loving danger to the person using it more, It isn't a bad idea design wise. Let's not forget about ol' Saber Knees. 
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buffybot posted:Let's not forget about ol' Saber Knees. Basically the goatse of Star Wars.
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Oct 29, 2014 22:59
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buffybot posted:Let's not forget about ol' Saber Knees. No, actually let's.
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Oct 29, 2014 23:02
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buffybot posted:Let's not forget about ol' Saber Knees. I misread the books he was in, so for the longest time I pictured him as having a full length blade extending from each wrist and a full length blade extending from each knee, which my 14-year old mind thought was pretty incredible. I imagined him as being sort of like the dude from that one episode of Batman Beyond with the cyborg gang who had chainsaws coming out his knees and forearms. Know the one I'm talking about? Obviously, I was quite disappointed to realise that it was... Well, that. I think he was the dark-jedi-of-the-week in one of the Bantam books as well, yes?
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Oct 29, 2014 23:32
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The thing of it is, the lightsaber crossguard makes sense. IF you have to have a lightbroadsword, then if you're fighting in that style you need the crossguards to help parry attacks that would otherwise slide down your blade. And since a crossguard made of regular materials would just get sliced off, the lightcrossguard actually serves a function. Of course, if we walk it back a step, the whole idea of a lightbroadsword is a dumb one. The main advantage to a heavy blade like that is so that you can cleave through armor with the extra mass of the weapon. You give up maneuverability in exchange for power, in other words. Except with light weapons, there is no mass and there's no need to cleave hard through armor. Your weapon cuts through anything already!
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Oct 30, 2014 00:18
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One feature of Dark Forces II that never fails to crack me up is how one of Jerec's posse (Boc) has a "double-bladed lightsabre" that's basically two swords stuck together parallel to one another, which means it has an extra-wide blade before he splits it in two.
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Oct 30, 2014 00:31
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Was that in a novel or something? In the game he just used two lightsabers.
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Oct 30, 2014 00:37
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jng2058 posted:The thing of it is, the lightsaber crossguard makes sense. IF you have to have a lightbroadsword, then if you're fighting in that style you need the crossguards to help parry attacks that would otherwise slide down your blade. And since a crossguard made of regular materials would just get sliced off, the lightcrossguard actually serves a function. That's not what "broadswords" (Which is a pretty vague term to begin with) were for at all. When people started wearing heavier plate armor, swords got skiinier so you could stab through gaps in the armor, which eventually led to rapiers. Crossguards would make sense for lightsabers, especially with the fighting styles seen in the Original Trilogy, which I believe were based on renaissance-era longsword (IE bastard sword) styles. You could make them out of cortosis alloy or something though, to avoid the silliness of multiple lightsaber blades, not to mention the possibiity of cutting yuor own fingers off.
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Oct 30, 2014 00:38
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Hazo posted:Was that in a novel or something? In the game he just used two lightsabers. You can sort of pick it out when he trades a couple of blows with Qu Rahn in the opening cutscene, but in the gameplay it's all two separate lightsabres. (I've never actully been able to get past Gorc and Pic myself.  )
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A crossguard might make sense to protect the wielder's fingers from a locked blade running down yours, but it looks in that picture like the emitters for the crossguard blades are still vulnerable to sabers unless they're made of bullshitosis ore or something.
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Oct 30, 2014 01:44
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So I've been out of the loop with Star Wars novels over the past two years. What's been really good? I have a couple long plane trips that could use a good book!
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Oct 30, 2014 04:25
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Insane Totoro posted:So I've been out of the loop with Star Wars novels over the past two years. Fate of the jedi and legacy of the force series are good, but nothing has really been released except for the Star Wars Rebels tie in book which is decent.
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Insane Totoro posted:So I've been out of the loop with Star Wars novels over the past two years. Kenobi is a pretty good low-key read, more of a Clint Eastwood western than a pew-pew space battle.
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wargames posted:Fate of the jedi and legacy of the force series are good, but nothing has really been released except for the Star Wars Rebels tie in book which is decent.
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Oct 30, 2014 06:37
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Just read Plagueis. It's one of the best Star Wars books I've read in years. And then when you're done, post your thoughts on Sheev.
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wargames posted:Fate of the jedi and legacy of the force series are good, but nothing has really been released except for the Star Wars Rebels tie in book which is decent. Don't listen to him/her. Those two are terrible. Try Plagueis or any of Luceno's books. A New Dawn also isn't a bad read. It's very YA but a good start.
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I was reading Star Wars when most of you were still in diapers. So I'm not falling for the "Legacy of the Force is good" schtick. But was Razor's Edge and Honor Among Thieves any good? Or were they the Barbara Hambly amateur hour? What about "Red Harvest?" Alright for confirmed good books....? -Kenobi -Darth Plagueis -Tarkin James Luceno.... hmm maybe I'll buy vodka on the plane and read the Robotech novels!
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Razor's Edge and Honor Among Thieves are decent enough, not particularly great but not terrible either. One book that you should read if you haven't yet is Scoundrels.
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astr0man posted:Razor's Edge and Honor Among Thieves are decent enough, not particularly great but not terrible either. One book that you should read if you haven't yet is Scoundrels. Scoundrels is good if you like a good heist story. For me, it was confusing to keep up with all the different characters and no one seemed to have good characterization and I really had to force myself to get through it about 4 chapters in. I tend to like character-centric stories though, so ymmv. Zahn did nail the dialogue for Han and Lando though. I could hear them in Ford and Williams's voices when I was reading those parts.
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Insane Totoro posted:James Luceno.... hmm maybe I'll buy vodka on the plane and read the Robotech novels! I enjoy reading Luceno's page on Wookieepedia more than I probably should.
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astr0man posted:Razor's Edge and Honor Among Thieves are decent enough, not particularly great but not terrible either. One book that you should read if you haven't yet is Scoundrels. Airport fiction. Got it. PERFECT 
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Kenobi was the best of what was released last yearish. The other two are perfectly alright though.
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I still haven't gotten around to reading Kenobi yet, but Scoundrels and Plageuis were both really enjoyable, and I agree that Razor's Edge and Honor Among Thieves are decent enough.
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I finally got around to getting X-Wing and TIE Fighter from GOG. I very quickly discovered two things. 1) My old joystick, which I dug out of the parts closet for its first use in probably ten years, has gotten all kinds of jumpy and horrible and simply can't be calibrated right anymore. I think I need a new one. 2) ALL of my old habits and instincts are still there. I started one of the training missions in an X-Wing, and before I even realized I was doing it, I had shunted the stored laser power to the shields, set my recharge rates, and targeted the nearest enemy fighter. I haven't played this game since the 90s. If you'd asked me beforehand what keys to hit to do all these things, I might or might not have been able to tell you. But I didn't need to think about it, it just... happened. My brain scares me sometimes.
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Alright, we have an official name for Episode VII: The Force Awakens. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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It's making me worry for some reason that there's going to be Mortis stuff in the movie.
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So, you nerds reading Tarkin? Does it suck, or what?
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Wikipedia Brown posted:So, you nerds reading Tarkin? Does it suck, or what?
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Oh poo poo, it's out?? drat...I'm slipping. Back in middle and high school I had an excel spreadsheet for all the upcoming EU releases.
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jivjov posted:Oh poo poo, it's out?? drat...I'm slipping. Back in middle and high school I had an excel spreadsheet for all the upcoming EU releases. Back in middle/high school I just religiously read TheForce.net and was kept informed that way.
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Outside of Troopers, I don't think there was anything of worth that came out of TheForce.net
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Don't we have a goon who was a mod there? Remember when the owner made them all give him their personal information? Lol that was crazy. Almost 10 years ago now 
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Drone posted:Back in middle/high school I just religiously read TheForce.net and was kept informed that way. Same here. I still go there occasionally to read the book reviews. It was pretty cool back in the day when authors had accounts and would just chat with people. The internet seemed a lot smaller back then.
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They still do, at least sometimes; I lurked there around the time Kenobi came out and sure enough, John Jackson Miller was occasionally posting in the Lit thread, responding to critiques and general thoughts. Dunno if Luceno's doing the same for Tarkin.
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I remember when starwars.com had a message board; Karen Traviss had a Q&A thread (this was around the time the first Republic Commando novel was out and everyone still liked her). It was the first online message board I'd ever joined (circa 2002, so I was around 11 and lying about my age) and one big thing I remember was this one plonker who never seemed to post in the sections that were actually relevant to Star Wars, because all his contributions were these 10,000 word screeds about "crypto-Islam" and the rampant "heterophobia" encouraged by Hollywood, and how science as an abstract concept existed to marginalise and destroy white Christian males. Come to think of it, in retrospect, the starwars.com message board's "off-topic" subforum was pretty strongly right-wing, actually. That being said, still not the worst Star Wars themed forum I've heard about.
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Cross-Section posted:They still do, at least sometimes; I lurked there around the time Kenobi came out and sure enough, John Jackson Miller was occasionally posting in the Lit thread, responding to critiques and general thoughts. Dunno if Luceno's doing the same for Tarkin. Oh, that's pretty cool then. JJ Miller seems pretty nice and interacts with people on his facebook page pretty often. He has the most down to Earth fb out of all the Star Wars authors that I've followed.
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Metal Loaf posted:I remember when starwars.com had a message board; Karen Traviss had a Q&A thread (this was around the time the first Republic Commando novel was out and everyone still liked her). I remember around 2005 on TheForce.Net there was a guy called Quiet Mandalorian who kept talking about how great fascism was or how the Inquisition was actually a great idea that saved civilization and there needed to be a return to Catholic theocracy as a cure for the social problems of the West.
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I remember Bib Fortuna, Twi'lek had a lot of posts.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Don't we have a goon who was a mod there? Remember when the owner made them all give him their personal information? Lol that was crazy. Almost 10 years ago now I used to mod there. Don't blame me, I was a lot younger and stupider.
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember around 2005 on TheForce.Net there was a guy called Quiet Mandalorian who kept talking about how great fascism was or how the Inquisition was actually a great idea that saved civilization and there needed to be a return to Catholic theocracy as a cure for the social problems of the West. I believe the guy I was describing used the screen name "Darth Grandiloquous" but they could very well be the same person.
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