Actually, in RotS, Anakin had lost that fight before it began. He was reckless, angry, clumsy, unfocused and expended far too much energy. Because Obi-Wan is a master of Soresu and has at least rudimentary knowledge of all other lightsaber forms, he was able to tire Anakin out to the point where his defense was weak and he couldn't even jump high enough to go clear over Obi-Wan's head and avoid getting sliced to pieces. Anakin would have eventually tired out, no matter what, and Obi-Wan would have won. It was inevitable.
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Gammatron 64 posted:honestly it's really kind of depressing that people are getting worked up over what is "canon" and what isn't. btw that is literally the most cringe worth part of the eu
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 02:47 |
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Fetus Tree posted:btw that is literally the most cringe worth part of the eu Did you read Darth Plagueius?
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 02:52 |
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Hi! I hate most all Star Wars and will obsessively post in every and any Star Wars thread telling you, at length! Nerds.
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redshirt posted:Did you read Darth Plagueius? i think i might have gotten 20 pages into it is that the one that involved a seismograph droid with an attitude E: btw i love star wars and enjoyed a lot of the eu and am posting itt a lot because i like talking about eu and nobody i know irl has read them or will admit it
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Fetus Tree posted:i think i might have gotten 20 pages into it Yes. Read it. It's awesome.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 03:03 |
I just learned that in the EU, Palpatine had a son named Triclops who was a mutant who had a split personality and a third eye on the back of his head. Disney made the right decision with the canon decision.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 04:36 |
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As the movies touch on, there is a Sith rule where there is one Master and one Apprentice. In keeping with this rule, the apprentice Darth Vader had twelve sub-apprentices. Antinnis Tremayne (Dark Jedi)[15] Halmere (Dark Jedi)[15] Lanu Pasiq (Dark Jedi)[15] Gwellib Ap-Llewff (Dark Jedi)[15] Galen Marek (secret Sith apprentice)[16] Dark Apprentice (secret Sith apprentice)[17] Kharys (Dark Jedi)[18] Vost Tyne (Dark Jedi)[19] Hethrir (Dark Jedi)[20] Rillao (Dark Jedi)[20] Lumiya (secret Sith apprentice)[21] Flint (secret Sith apprentice)[22] That's a lot more than the zero he should have had, and far outpaces the Emperor, who had only eight besides the ones that show up in the movies (for a total of eleven). "A Nikto"[15] Vergere[16] Garth Ezzar[17] Ferus Olin (informal)[18] Mara Jade[19] Cronal[20] Lumiya[21] Luke Skywalker (Briefly)[4] Lumiya shows up in both. I'm not going to bother trying to figure out how many apprentices each kept up simultaneously.
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Milky Moor posted:Actually, in RotS, Anakin had lost that fight before it began. He was reckless, angry, clumsy, unfocused and expended far too much energy. Because Obi-Wan is a master of Soresu and has at least rudimentary knowledge of all other lightsaber forms, he was able to tire Anakin out to the point where his defense was weak and he couldn't even jump high enough to go clear over Obi-Wan's head and avoid getting sliced to pieces. Anakin would have eventually tired out, no matter what, and Obi-Wan would have won. It was inevitable. No stop you're dumb.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 05:31 |
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redshirt posted:Hi! I hate most all Star Wars and will obsessively post in every and any Star Wars thread telling you, at length! I like star wars and I also like laughing at the absolute worst poo poo that it put out. In hindsight outside of the movies I only really enjoyed the games but whatever, I got enough hours of entertainment out of Jedi Outcast. Hopefully Disney will end up making Dark Forces V: Jedi Knight IV: Jedi Outcast III: Jedi Academy II: Force Boogaloo.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 05:43 |
Old Mark Hamill with a beard looks like Slavoj Zizek.
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Arcsquad12 posted:No stop you're dumb. He was defeated only because of the fact that he is weak against the use of force powers against him, which is not something Anakin/Darth Vader has incorporated much into his fights. Literally he only lost against them because they used force powers against him and not Anakin. In a pure lightsaber duel, Obi-Wan is basically invincible because of his immense skill in Soresu. Also, you said they were equally tired, but I doubt that because Obi-Wan was hardly breaking a sweat compared to Anakin. Also neither of them looked as though exhaustion was really a factor in their ability to fight. In the end, it came down to Obi-Wan's tactical skill and swordsmanship being much better than Anakin's and the fact that Anakin was unfocused and relying purely on a style that is expressly more exhausting than Soresu.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:As the movies touch on, there is a Sith rule where there is one Master and one Apprentice. And then Dooku was doing the same thing in the probably-more-canon Clone Wars.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:01 |
i legitimately like the force palm strikes vader does in this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj23dwWHukY
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:03 |
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SunAndSpring posted:Old Mark Hamill with a beard looks like Slavoj Zizek. I noticed this, too
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SunAndSpring posted:Old Mark Hamill with a beard looks like Slavoj Zizek. nobody's going to beat Jeff Daniels in Looper when it comes to being a Zizek lookalike
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:24 |
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the only EU thing I cared about was the N64 game
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:26 |
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:the only EU thing I cared about was the N64 game Episode 1 Racer is the poo poo. gently caress Racer Revenge though.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Episode 1 Racer is the poo poo. gently caress Racer Revenge though.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:39 |
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:the only EU thing I cared about was the N64 game Dash Rendar is the Poochie of Star Wars.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:42 |
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did you know that mace windu, one of three black people in star wars, technically isnt human? http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Korun yep there's a special black people sub-species of humans in the eu.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:43 |
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Otisburg posted:Dash Rendar is the Poochie of Star Wars. If you didn't have an N64
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:If you didn't have an N64 This is true. My parents didn't let me play video games as a child so my Shadows of the Empire experience was basically the Kevin J. Anderson novel, the Boba Fett comics and the action figures and I loving hated Dash Rendar.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:45 |
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Also I had a lot of topps(?) trading cards with paintings of scenes from the novel, I thought that was cool.
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wasnt dash rendar basically "han solo but cooler"?
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shiksa posted:did you know that mace windu, one of three black people in star wars, technically isnt human? quote:The Korunnai (singular, Korun) were a Human race from the planet Haruun Kal.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:48 |
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Harime Nui posted:Also I had a lot of topps(?) trading cards with paintings of scenes from the novel, I thought that was cool. either I have them or my bosses son will find them.
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shiksa posted:wasnt dash rendar basically "han solo but cooler"? I don't remember if he was supposed to be "cooler," he was basically literally Han Solo, since they couldn't actually have Han Solo appear in SotE. Also he literally only appears in three pages or so of the novel, he's basically solely there to be a video game protagonist.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:50 |
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homullus posted:Best part of the EU, or worst? (NSFW) serious question, was anyone able to see both the title and preview image of this video and still bring yourself to actually click play
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quote:(The Force in the Korun language, the literal translation was "jungle mind")
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:57 |
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Wolfsheim posted:serious question, was anyone able to see both the title and preview image of this video and still bring yourself to actually click play would this really have helped?
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 06:58 |
Well I didn't say it wasn't stupid. I just wanted to point out they were technically human, even if they did come from Black People Planet.
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 07:02 |
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Otisburg posted:No way, no way. Tried it once, doesn't work. You got four apprentices all fighting over who's gonna be Darth Ebon, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. Sorry, I know this was from a couple pages back but I just wanted to say that this really made me laugh.
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SunAndSpring posted:Well I didn't say it wasn't stupid. I just wanted to point out they were technically human, even if they did come from Black People Planet. Magical Black People Planet. quote:The Korunnai were genetically Human in almost every respect, except that they were all Force-sensitive and used their Force powers to bind akk dogs and grassers to themselves.
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Milky Moor posted:i legitimately like the force palm strikes vader does in this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj23dwWHukY whats timestamp i dont want to watch the whole thing again
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 08:39 |
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did anyone ever play the tcg. seemed complicated as gently caress
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 08:50 |
Frostwerks posted:whats timestamp i dont want to watch the whole thing again 3:11 -> 3:20
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# ? Dec 13, 2014 08:58 |
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The Star Trek books have one where Kirk gets into a three stooges pie fight with a bunch of Klingons and it's still less ridiculous than the Star Wars EU even though it was actively trying to be.
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Frostwerks posted:did anyone ever play the tcg. seemed complicated as gently caress I played the Decipher one in high school. When I stopped playing it was broken in favor of rebels because you could just move your fleet around faster than the Empire could catch you, and cause damage by "force draining" (forcing your opponent to put cards in the graveyard) places your opponent wasn't at. If you ignored force draining rules, rebels were still stronger. From Wikipedia: quote:While Decipher oversaw the game, no card was ever banned from tournament play. Instead, when a card or strategy was deemed abusive or too powerful, Decipher chose to release "magic bullets," new cards which were specifically designed to counter the offending strategy. In some cases, Decipher also used errata, modifications to game text of a card that supersede the actual printed version. The use of errata also contributes to a steep learning curve, since players need to be aware of the current meta-game at all times. This is really bad design by the way. Name Change fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Dec 13, 2014 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Magical Black People Planet. I'm the grasser
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