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Cyberball 2072 posted:I refuse to believe an EU character exists with a name as pedestrian as Ken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters i checked that entire list and while that isnt literally all of them, its definitely a lot and i think youre right also dont look @ that list , only pain and suffering will follow
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Acne Rain posted:also i still like terry's transformer essay but she's very nice about the entire having a viewpoint and wanting to share it thing, instead of smg's king of poo poo mountain attitude well, the transformers thing was more 'why doesn't anyone ever talk about just how casually violent the good guys are, like how bay made a point of having extras in the car which ironhide kicks into a storefront which then explodes?' the TPM stuff is all 'no, no, don't you get it you morons? it's all deliberately bad because it reflects the badness of the republic'
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gfanikf posted:Hey buddy of equally bad judgment in Hutt related reading. I don't think Ken the titular Jedi Prince was even introduced in the first book (???), so yeah you lucked out. Y'know how every kids' movie from the '80s starred a cynical, bored suburban preteen who wished their life could be interesting like all the <x genre> stories they read? Ken is that kid, in Star Wars, played completely straight, except also raised by robots in an underground city on Yavin 4 because the Jedi Prince guy had no self-control One of the major plot points involving Trioculus is that he discovered Darth Vader's glove which he could use to choke people because obviously the gloves are what allowed Vader to do that. In later books I guess the author was trying to respond to criticism (consisting of people pointing out how pants-on-head retarded that concept is) so he retconned it so it was actually some sort of bionic implant allowing Trioculus to do that and not the glove at all, because obviously that's such a better plot point
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Acne Rain posted:also i still like terry's transformer essay but she's very nice about the entire having a viewpoint and wanting to share it thing, instead of smg's king of poo poo mountain attitude I hate SMG not because of his weird rear end contrarian views, but because he insists that they're objectively right and you're retarded if you don't agree I think he's the highest effort troll ever. Look, I love to gently caress with people online too, but I don't do it for 100 pages and millions of words typed because eventually it gets old and stops being funny
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loquacius posted:Don't worry, it's only Ken because his mom's name is Kendalina You left out the best detail: the Grand Moffs called their gatherings a "Mofference."
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It's like poetry, it rhymes. I think we already had a good 3 pages making mofference jokes but it's still funny.
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Jedi Prince was worth it because it culminates in Trioculous (the three-eyed fake son of Palpatine) getting lasered to death by Robo-Leia (which was built on a secret base on Mount Yoda) as he tried to marry her.
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SirPhoebos posted:Jedi Prince was worth it because it culminates in Trioculous (the three-eyed fake son of Palpatine) getting lasered to death by Robo-Leia (which was built on a secret base on Mount Yoda) as he tried to marry her. yeah that definitely sounds worth it alright
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If you're some dude with three eyes it's probably going to be in your name unless three eyes is like a common thing for whatever your alien species is. Also whatever baby Palpatine had was pretty much one hundred percent gonna be some kind of mutant thing.
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that list of names taught me about darth millennial... millennial http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Millennial
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Unidentified bully posted:A male bully used a rock to smash a toy Star Destroyer belonging to the Human child Harsh. Harsh, despite being smaller than the bully, took the rock from the other child and smashed the bully's face with it. two sentences more entertaining than most EU books Angry machine posted:The angry machine was a device utilized by Wikyochee, a ten-year-old member of a non-Human species. Wikyochee, though generally agreeable, would occasionally slip into a more violent temper. The angry machine he possessed would calm his body down and allow him to return to a more affable state. I'm the Temple Grandin of Star Wars and this is my hugbox in a galaxy far, far away
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SirPhoebos posted:Jedi Prince was worth it because it culminates in Trioculous (the three-eyed fake son of Palpatine) getting lasered to death by Robo-Leia (which was built on a secret base on Mount Yoda) as he tried to marry her. I forgot this part, holy poo poo it really was just a bad '80s cartoon in book form I don't think anything else in the EU had a straight-up King Koopa villain-wants-to-forcibly-marry-main-female-character plotline; even the Shadows of the Empire guy just wanted to gently caress her and move on david... posted:that list of names taught me about darth millennial... millennial Caramel macchiato joke, selfie joke, MacBook Pro joke, crushing student loan debt joke, boom No but seriously I'm just glad his name isn't "Darth Three-Eyes-Guy"
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This could be good.
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blowfish posted:beeb boot beeee boooo booo bzzzzzzt* Hey, if you want rights, then speak the language. First you take our jobs, next you'll want to get on the Galactic Empire's welfare train!
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muscles like this? posted:I want to know why there are so many droids who can't talk "basic." Seems like an rear end in a top hat design choice. I can't decide if it's critically terrible to have astromechs not speak English, because their job can be a life/death race against time kinda thing and they should be able to communicate with their pilot efficiently as possible, or if the astromechs speak in code the pilots are required to learn and it's some kind of security feature so enemy units can't monitor pilot/astromech conversations. I'm sure the real explanation is worse.
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gfanikf posted:This could be good. Yes, yes. Good, good. 
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A really stupid thing was when Star Wars Galaxies originally came out and they didn't have the option for a Jedi player character. You know, the one thing Star Wars is most known for. Then when they eventually added it in you had to do some circuitous bullshit involving leveling up random jobs to unlock one character slot that was allowed to be a Force user.
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muscles like this? posted:A really stupid thing was when Star Wars Galaxies originally came out and they didn't have the option for a Jedi player character. You know, the one thing Star Wars is most known for. Then when they eventually added it in you had to do some circuitous bullshit involving leveling up random jobs to unlock one character slot that was allowed to be a Force user. it was actually dumber that they didnt have space ships
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Light Gun Man posted:I can't decide if it's critically terrible to have astromechs not speak English, because their job can be a life/death race against time kinda thing and they should be able to communicate with their pilot efficiently as possible, or if the astromechs speak in code the pilots are required to learn and it's some kind of security feature so enemy units can't monitor pilot/astromech conversations. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Binary quote:History
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quote:Yperio Baobab
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I refuse to believe that name came to exist in any way other than hammering randomly on a keyboard
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muscles like this? posted:A really stupid thing was when Star Wars Galaxies originally came out and they didn't have the option for a Jedi player character. You know, the one thing Star Wars is most known for. Then when they eventually added it in you had to do some circuitous bullshit involving leveling up random jobs to unlock one character slot that was allowed to be a Force user. Except if you set your game post-Jedi purge having tons of Jedi running around makes no goddamn sense. EDIT: And then the prequels happened and any Jedi not killed on screen somehow managed to survive. So much for being "all but extinct" 
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SirPhoebos posted:Except if you set your game post-Jedi purge having tons of Jedi running around makes no goddamn sense. Disney changed stuff so the prequels arn't really canon anymore.
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The Taint Reaper posted:Disney changed stuff so the prequels arn't really canon anymore. Sadly, because they're the movies, the prequels remain canon. Hopefully they'll never have to reference it in future movies, but now and forever C-3P0 was built by a 9-year-old Anakin. EDIT: I was originally referring to the EU stuff around the prequels, and yes those can be safely told to gently caress off.
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SirPhoebos posted:Sadly, because they're the movies, the prequels remain canon. You say this but watch them make Special Editions of Episodes 1-3 where poo poo is changed around. Or they dedicate an entire TV season to the retelling of Episodes 1-3 where everything doesnt suck. It's like 9-12 TV episodes to match the time of the three movies. I liked the original concept of jar Jar that he was this wandering ronin type drunk who was outcast from society(he may have killed somebody on accident). Which was where his slurred speech came from, but then lucas hosed it up because Jedi are the only ones who can be Samurai. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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SirPhoebos posted:Except if you set your game post-Jedi purge having tons of Jedi running around makes no goddamn sense. Not like anything else they were doing fit perfectly into continuity. Like why bother having any kind of conflict between the Rebels and Empire when you know the Rebels can't win until after the events of ROTJ.
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I think the new movies are going to address that the Rebels kinda hosed up taking the empire out because the empire had a wide reach and when Palpatine fell (in more ways than one) they created this fall of Ottoman Empire type situation where a bunch of Imperial officer warlords rose up and took parts of the former empire for themselves because the Rebels didn't have enough resources to cover poo poo like the outer rim and had no Star Destroyers. Because there's a bunch of tie fighter pilots who have berzerker decos all over their masks.
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On paper, I think the idea of super-cool PC classes being kept purposely rare such that running into an actual Jedi or bounty hunter is a big deal and turns your entire gameplay experience around sounds kind of awesome. In practice, of course, everybody wanted to play as a goddamn Jedi and had to spend hours jumping through stupid unentertaining hoops to be allowed into the cool-kids club. It was worth a shot, but I'm not surprised it failed. Also, remember that level of Battlefront where you play as a trade federation person and you just slaughter Gungans for like ten minutes, and the only thing they have to defend themselves is those dumb paint grenade things that are completely useless? I know it was just a tutorial battle but I played it over and over because drat that was satisfying 
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Gungans were an entire race of Beta-Ray Bills that they somehow made worse than Ewoks.
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loquacius posted:Also, remember that level of Battlefront where you play as a trade federation person and you just slaughter Gungans for like ten minutes, and the only thing they have to defend themselves is those dumb paint grenade things that are completely useless? I know it was just a tutorial battle but I played it over and over because drat that was satisfying That was a great way to recover from watching the Holiday Special.Too bad the rest of the game had you playing as Darth Generic with his wiffle bat lightsaber, often fighting enemies that were immune to the force.
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loquacius posted:I refuse to believe that name came to exist in any way other than hammering randomly on a keyboard Hyperion Baobab tree.
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So I started watching that Clone War movie and cartoon show that's still canon. It's not too bad....but the hell is with a 14 year old girl running around in a tube top...that's just weird. It helps that Hayden whatshisname doesn't do voice work on the show and a professional actor does instead. Tarkin audiobook is pretty decent...it's humorous when Tarkin slips in Sherlock mode. ..which is actually a nice nod to Peter Cushings various performances as Sherlock.
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Cyberball 2072 posted:I refuse to believe an EU character exists with a name as pedestrian as Ken "C'mon Greet Norbo, Fah Soh Tung, Neat Tableau, and Blart Mallcop, lets go and bully one named Ken!"
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gfanikf posted:So I started watching that Clone War movie and cartoon show that's still canon. It's not too bad....but the hell is with a 14 year old girl running around in a tube top...that's just weird. It helps that Hayden whatshisname doesn't do voice work on the show and a professional actor does instead. The Clone Trooper episodes are one of the best because it plays out like a war movie especially after they start seeing everyone die and realize that they're expendable and that there was no real way to erase the sense of individualism and self preservation from human clones. Because they develop individual personalities from just being exposed to poo poo.
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The Taint Reaper posted:The Clone Trooper episodes are one of the best because it plays out like a war movie especially after they start seeing everyone die and realize that they're expendable and that there was no real way to erase the sense of individualism and self preservation from human clones. Because they develop individual personalities from just being exposed to poo poo. The clones are the best part of that series. The various hairstyles and tattoos they get to distinguish themselves over time are a really well done detail. The one episode with the deserter who started a family with a twilek was especially good.
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just remembered how according to the EU, the empire's trap with the 'non-functioning' death star in return of the jedi was actually just IG-88 uploading his consciousness to the Death Star's main computers and fixing everything up for them and manually firing the laser and the imperials were just as surprised as the rebels.
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Moridin920 posted:just remembered how according to the EU, the empire's trap with the 'non-functioning' death star in return of the jedi was actually just IG-88 uploading his consciousness to the Death Star's main computers and fixing everything up for them and manually firing the laser and the imperials were just as surprised as the rebels. Wait. During the trap? Was Sheev in on this?
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TK-42-1 posted:Wait. During the trap? Was Sheev in on this? Yes. No.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yeah unfortunately those space shooter sims all died out around 2003 or so. I remember that a great one, Freespace 2, ended up costing the studio a ton to make and it failed to sell. I mean the last X-Wing game was made in 2000. FreeSpace 2 was the greatest space sim ever made and also killed the genre.
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Groovelord Neato posted:FreeSpace 2 was the greatest space sim ever made and also killed the genre. Let me tell you about a little game called Elite: Dangerous
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