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Away all Goats posted:It bugs me when a character is looking for a vehicle, finds a car or truck or whatever, opens the sun visor and the car keys fall right in their lap. I prefer that to the hotwiring scenes where they just fiddle around under the steering wheel for a few seconds off the camera and the car starts. I guess it would make sense at a beach and didn't want to get them wet/shove them in your shoes, or if you didn't have pockets for whatever reason. I've never personally known anyone who does it in real life though - maybe some people keep a spare set up there? Who knows.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Yeah, just trolling. Peace. Fair play then lad. Gargamel Gibson posted:Han Solo's "I'll see you in hell" line in The Empire Strikes Back bugged me as a kid. Does that mean that there's Christianity in space? It's just a figure of speech but it raises a few questions. I wondered this as well, and I recall that Uncle Owen said something like "there'll be hell to pay" about not getting the moisture harvest in or something. Fortunately, the incredi-nerds of the Extended Universe have us covered. Memento has a new favorite as of 10:35 on Oct 13, 2015 |
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For the car keys in the blinds thing. When I spent time in South Dakota, that's what they used to do in their cars or tractors. They'd never lose their keys that way. It was easier than keeping it in your pocket when you were doing farm work where they might fall out, and you'd never be able to find them. The closest neighbor was miles away, and the closest small town was a couple of hours, with a pop of around 200 people. In other, very small towns in rural locations, people know your car. They know who drives it. They'll know if someone's in there that's not supposed to be in there. If you're that weirdo that only goes to the shop on occasion, people take note of it.
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Oct 13, 2015 10:40
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Memento posted:I wondered this as well, and I recall that Uncle Owen said something like "there'll be hell to pay" about not getting the moisture harvest in or something. Fortunately, the incredi-nerds of the Extended Universe have us covered. I figured that they weren't speaking English anyway and we were just getting a translation that made sense to us. Well, apart from the fact that I never thought about it at all until just now.
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Knowing Lucas, we should be glad it wasn't reconnected so that Hell is actually just a really famous prison planet.
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Fuckin' Geonosis was close enough, IMO
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Oct 13, 2015 14:58
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Memento posted:Fair play then lad. quote:Chaos, referred to as Hell in Corellian mythology and also known as The Void,[1] was a reputedly dark[2] region of the Netherworld of the Force inhabited by the spirits of deceased Dark Lords of the Sith[3][4], Dark Jedi, and the spirits of all evil sentient beings who had died.[source?] In Naboo mythology, Chaos was envisioned as a dark pit kept closed by six impenetrable gates. That's the dumbest thing I've ever read.
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Plus I'm pretty sure the concept of 'hell' isn't an exclusively Christian one. It's just some place where people get tormented in the afterlife.Zaphod42 posted:That's the dumbest thing I've ever read. Jesus christ of course there's something that dumb in the EU.
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Oct 13, 2015 15:31
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Morpheus posted:Jesus christ of course there's something that dumb in the EU. I was going to say "alright imagine that scene if he said 'I'll see you in plimdarrrr which as we all know is a black hole that grinds up tortured space souls forever'" but they already did it in the EU. Ancient greeks had tartarus. Zoroastrians had The Chinvat Bridge which I am just reading about now and sounds bad rear end. Christianity didn't get to any ideas first.
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Oct 13, 2015 16:51
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Yeah that's is from a universe where some sort of sentient spider runs a black market weapons dealership out of an asteroid belt. Which actually sounds like a Rick and Morty character.
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Oct 13, 2015 16:52
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Zaphod42 posted:In Naboo mythology  ?
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Henchman of Santa posted:Yeah that's is from a universe where some sort of sentient spider runs a black market weapons dealership out of an asteroid belt. Which actually sounds like a Rick and Morty character. That spider was pretty cool though, even if his coolness was tainted by having even indirect contact with Prince Xizor
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Here's a stupid one. I was watching Star Wars with my 4.5 year old. First time I'd seen it in forever. How does R2D2 get around? Seems like even on tatoonie, which is all sand, there'd be a rocky obstacle at sone point. Wouldn't he be hosed? Even getting traction in sand can be difficult. And are there no stairs in the Star Wars universe? A simple raised platform in a spaceship would have him effectively stuck.
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BiggerBoat posted:Here's a stupid one. I was watching Star Wars with my 4.5 year old. First time I'd seen it in forever. Uhh R2D2 has rocket jets dude. They show em in the prequels.
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Oct 13, 2015 17:56
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BiggerBoat posted:Here's a stupid one. I was watching Star Wars with my 4.5 year old. First time I'd seen it in forever. He's just not supposed to so he's doing it through robot pluck and gumption. R2 is an astromech and he's designed to fix ships while either rolling around on the outside of the ship or while plugged into a droid-shaped socket. That whole trilogy would be better if it was just the heartwarming story of a plucky droid that won't take stairs for an answer.
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Oct 13, 2015 18:10
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Lil dude is a hero. He literally fucks the death star when he gets the chance (tell me that data probe ain't shaped like that for a reason), and then helps discover the weakness would be literally shooting it in the rear end in a top hat. Guy needs a medal way more than anyone else in the movie, that's for damned sure.
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Guy curses like a sailor, though.
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Star Wars would be R-Rated if R2 or Chewie got subtitles.
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BiggerBoat posted:Here's a stupid one. I was watching Star Wars with my 4.5 year old. First time I'd seen it in forever. theironjef posted:He's just not supposed to so he's doing it through robot pluck and gumption. R2 is an astromech and he's designed to fix ships while either rolling around on the outside of the ship or while plugged into a droid-shaped socket. That whole trilogy would be better if it was just the heartwarming story of a plucky droid that won't take stairs for an answer. This is half of the answer. The other half is... doesn't he have like tank treads effectively? The movies never really show his wheels very well, although I'm probably forgetting some single shot somewhere. The physical R2D2 used for filming just had roller wheels but I always got the impression that he had like a big rubbery wheel under each of those pads that would have like.... rubber fins on it?  Put one of those under each pad and he'd get around on sand just fine. Rocks would still be an issue but he could back up and turn around, and people could help him if he gets really really stuck. Plus 'droids are waaaaaaay smarter than any robot that we can make yet, so by simple virtue of artificial intelligence he can probably analyze the loving poo poo out of any rocks in his path and calculate the exact ideal angle of approach or whatever. He IS an astromech droid after all.
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BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:Uhh R2D2 has rocket jets dude. They show em in the prequels. Well, there's my answer then. Of the prequels, I only ever saw Phantom Menace, and that was enough. I knew I was skewering a sacred cow and opening a can of worms going after Star Wars when I posted it. It was just something that stuck out for me watching it for the first time since forever, with my kid, and seeing that little fucker escape from the Skywalker complex, which was multi tiered. They lived in a hole/cave complex. A reverse apartment building practically. R2 made his way out of there, into the desert and navigated canyons. Somehow. I'm being irrational here, dude. Work with me.
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BiggerBoat posted:Well, there's my answer then. Of the prequels, I only ever saw Phantom Menace, and that was enough. I knew I was skewering a sacred cow and opening a can of worms going after Star Wars when I posted it. Neo did it.
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Zaphod42 posted:That's the dumbest thing I've ever read. Yep, it's basically a retcon for "ahh poo poo some of the star warriors said the word Hell, better incorporate it into the extended universe because just ignoring it and watching the movies and having fun is something none of us or our fans are capable of doing".
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Memento posted:Yep, it's basically a retcon for "ahh poo poo some of the star warriors said the word Hell, better incorporate it into the extended universe because just ignoring it and watching the movies and having fun is something none of us or our fans are capable of doing". Hurry! Someone is having fun the wrong way! Make them stop!
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On the flip side, Star Wars EU is also really bad about having made up terms for things that exist in the real world simply because it's IN SPACE. Like toilets are called 'freshers and instead of "poo poo!" when something goes wrong you say "sithspawn!"
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AnonSpore posted:On the flip side, Star Wars EU is also really bad about having made up terms for things that exist in the real world simply because it's IN SPACE. Like toilets are called 'freshers and instead of "poo poo!" when something goes wrong you say "sithspawn!" http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Paper
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AnonSpore posted:On the flip side, Star Wars EU is also really bad about having made up terms for things that exist in the real world simply because it's IN SPACE. Like toilets are called 'freshers and instead of "poo poo!" when something goes wrong you say "sithspawn!" Hand me the hydrospanner
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In the EU didn't Luke join the darkside just to see what was up? Then just up and returned to the light side through his SSJ Goku levels of willpower? Just a reminder how
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darkhand posted:In the EU didn't Luke join the darkside just to see what was up? Then just up and returned to the light side through his SSJ Goku levels of willpower? Luke wasn't convinced that there even was a light and dark side, since the Old Republic Jedi were kinda wrong about a lot of things, and was of the opinion that there was only The Force and how you used it was up to the individual (A philosophy called Potentium). So he thought he could learn a few darkside tricks from Palpatine before killing him again. But he then realized he was wrong, the dark side was a "thing" and could corrupt a Jedi who tried to skirt the line between light and dark, so he abandoned that plan and fought Palpatine. Yes, I am one of those people.
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Hasn't Luke fallen and come back like three or four times now Also iirc he's even more Jedi Jesus than his dad was
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AnonSpore posted:On the flip side, Star Wars EU is also really bad about having made up terms for things that exist in the real world simply because it's IN SPACE. Like toilets are called 'freshers and instead of "poo poo!" when something goes wrong you say "sithspawn!" http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz
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AnonSpore posted:On the flip side, Star Wars EU is also really bad about having made up terms for things that exist in the real world simply because it's IN SPACE. Like toilets are called 'freshers and instead of "poo poo!" when something goes wrong you say "sithspawn!"  John Big Booty posted:They're just bad with made-up terms in general. 
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On that note: mildly  http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/BreastExtra fun together with that wiki's obsession with writing everything in the past tense. Apparently both paper and breasts ceased to exists at some point in time.
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PicklePants posted:For the car keys in the blinds thing. I'm originally from small town America and this is actually super common. In the visor or under the mat. If you're in a rural area, it's normal to leave the keys in the ignition all the time, even in town.
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People do the same in Corsican villages, I never questioned it when I was a kid, but now it seems crazy to me. To be fair everyone has a rifle as well 
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Perestroika posted:On that note: mildly Well it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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Piell posted:Well it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Pretty sure breasts and paper still exist in our galaxy, close, close nearby. Or maybe the term breast in the EU just shorthand for hyperbreast or something. So, technically, hyperbreasts no longer exist indeed.
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No jiggling in the Empire.
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BiggerBoat posted:Well, there's my answer then. Of the prequels, I only ever saw Phantom Menace, and that was enough. I knew I was skewering a sacred cow and opening a can of worms going after Star Wars when I posted it. All I know about Star Wars is from watching the movies a couple times and playing some of the video games. Then along come the hyper nerds to make me feel ashamed about even doing that. I'm laughing too hard at the breasts one though. quote:T'ra Saa, a tree with pronounced breasts.
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Perestroika posted:On that note: mildly Hahahha first appearance in Starwars IV: a new hope
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AnonSpore posted:On the flip side, Star Wars EU is also really bad about having made up terms for things that exist in the real world simply because it's IN SPACE. Younglings.
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