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Anora posted:Redlettermedia put together a touching video for the new Star Wars movies: Also doubles as a Breaking Bad tribute.
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Oct 20, 2015 13:47
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The lovely fanart makes a valid point. Just two generations ago there were millions of jedi flopping about all over the galaxy. It beggars belief that a technologically advanced society has forgotten all about them so quickly.
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Oct 20, 2015 13:51
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The best 'fan art' Red Letter Media guys did was the one of Honest Trailers videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acYl2lpq1YI mind the walrus posted:Star Wars is for nerds tho... I know what's not for nerds: Taylor Swift! 
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Oct 20, 2015 14:00
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Gorilla Salad posted:The lovely fanart makes a valid point. Personally I like to see it as the new trilogy just sort of ignoring the prequels and going with the solitary taoist space mystic angle from the originals. But I'm pretty sure the in-universe explanation is that at the time of the prequels the Jedi pretty much only retained significant influence on Coruscant. Most people in the galaxy would never have met one, much less seen them demonstrating overtly supernatural powers so anyone who had even heard of them would consider the Jedi an archaic religious group clinging onto power by force of tradition and dubious claims of divine mandate.
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Oct 20, 2015 14:07
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Tatooine is where all the uninformed space hicks live, it's pretty much way too far away from coruscant for anybody to care about jedis
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Oct 20, 2015 14:15
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Mintergalactic posted:Tatooine is where all the uninformed space hicks live, it's pretty much way too far away from coruscant for anybody to care about jedis Tatooine isn't in the new movie, though.
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Oct 20, 2015 14:37
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Mintergalactic posted:Tatooine is where all the uninformed space hicks live, it's pretty much way too far away from coruscant for anybody to care about jedis  Tatooine is established in the Old Republic era to be basically a trap for settlers, because scans make it seem like there's a ton of useful metals on the planet but they're all flawed and corrode incredibly fast, making them basically worthless. Hence it gets settled then abandoned and forgotten, then re-discovered and re-settled, over and over. Generally the rich, powerful, and informed don't end up on a barren rock made of whatever the iron equivalent of pyrite is where the main job seems to be "a farmer, but instead of crops it's water because it's a loving desert and you have to devote your profession to condensing moisture from the air to even have water".  
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Oct 20, 2015 14:42
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the wildest rear end posted:Tatooine isn't in the new movie, though. what the hell, you can't have 2 desert planets, that's just silly
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Oct 20, 2015 14:49
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Taciturn Tactician posted:
- ever heard of "ore"? That's more often than not "corroded metal" (iron ore is iron oxide is...rust). - you are probably thinking of the equivalent of gold or silver, which are the two metals that you do find in pure form (I might forget some, but I would guess that those are the most important ones). - there is no "other metal" that is "similar" or whatever. You have the periodic table and that's it. Of course this is all science and Star Wars is not really science, but that explanation still makes zero sense on any possible level...
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Oct 20, 2015 15:19
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Terrorforge posted:Personally I like to see it as the new trilogy just sort of ignoring the prequels and going with the solitary taoist space mystic angle from the originals. I always got the impression your average joe hated the Jedi anyway, since whenever they show up, there's usually some horrible war or disaster in the offing. KotOR II made this point pretty explicit.
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Oct 20, 2015 15:30
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Simply Simon posted:that explanation still makes zero sense on any possible level... Yep, Star Wars.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:24
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Simply Simon posted:- pyrite IS iron (sulfide) Star Wars has like fifty metals that are core to everything that they make that don't exist. I said "iron" for simplicity because it's some metal that is valuable because it's used in a lot of stuff, not because it's shiny or rare, and "pyrite" because it's Fool's Gold, as in "fool's iron/fool's whatever made up metal people in Star Wars mine". And in the Star Wars universe when they talk about it corroding fast they mean like when a car rusts and falls to pieces because it no longer holds together strongly, Tatooine ore was causing stuff like spacestations falling apart. I don't know why you'd even bother bringing science into the series that gave us lightsabers.  
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Star Wars has like fifty metals that are core to everything that they make that don't exist. I said "iron" for simplicity because it's some metal that is valuable because it's used in a lot of stuff, not because it's shiny or rare, and "pyrite" because it's Fool's Gold, as in "fool's iron/fool's whatever made up metal people in Star Wars mine". And in the Star Wars universe when they talk about it corroding fast they mean like when a car rusts and falls to pieces because it no longer holds together strongly, Tatooine ore was causing stuff like spacestations falling apart. I don't know why you'd even bother bringing science into the series that gave us lightsabers. For the record, I enjoy Star Wars a lot but only when it keeps it at "it's magic, roll with it", not "it's magic which works because of [thousands of words] magic".
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Oct 20, 2015 18:17
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If there's one thing I've learned about Star Wars, it's that it becomes significantly worse when you start trying to apply real science to it. It's a fantasy movie in space, not hard sci-fi.Simply Simon posted:For the record, I enjoy Star Wars a lot but only when it keeps it at "it's magic, roll with it", not "it's magic which works because of [thousands of words] magic". Basically this.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:54
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I don't really care about Star Wars but I do really really hope the black guy in the trailer is the main Jedi girl's love interest because boy howdy the internet would explode.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:07
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I don't really care about Star Wars but I do really really hope the black guy in the trailer is the main Jedi girl's love interest because boy howdy the internet would explode. If I worked in Hollywood, I would do this all the loving time. Not only is it good to piss off bigots, but it seems like incredible free press.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:25
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I don't really care about Star Wars but I do really really hope the black guy in the trailer is the main Jedi girl's love interest because boy howdy the internet would explode. He's going to be the funny sidekick and you know it. 
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Oct 20, 2015 19:25
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Tiberius Thyben posted:He's going to be the funny sidekick and you know it. I dunno man... They don't throw a light saber in any comic reliefs hand
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Oct 20, 2015 19:27
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Bonus points if his light saber is bigger than the white guys.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:28
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WOOP WOOP!
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Oct 20, 2015 19:43
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MariusLecter posted:Bonus points if his light saber is bigger than the white guys. EDIT: vvvvvv I'd be happy with, like, a two-second scene. Simply Simon has a new favorite as of 20:17 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 19:58
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His lightsaber is blue, it's on the poster.
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Oct 20, 2015 20:05
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Star wars fanart of everyone's favorite character: http://i.imgur.com/d7e3ydz.webm
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Oct 20, 2015 20:07
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Gorilla Salad posted:The lovely fanart makes a valid point. Hell that's a huge plot hole in ANH, how the hell can someone who was alive during the clone wars can it "superstition" and "ancient religion"‽
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Oct 20, 2015 20:19
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Propaganda
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Elfgames posted:Propaganda I could easily see the Emperor quietly suppressing all mention of the Jedi. Given that there's, what, 20 years between Sith and A New Hope, you could see a lot of people either forgetting or not caring. What, the Jedi? Oh yeah, those crazy guys who could do magic or whatever. Load of rubbish.
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Oct 20, 2015 21:26
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 Who the hell eats a burger with a knife and fork.
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Oct 20, 2015 21:50
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If it's cheese fries or such, a fork is fine!
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Oct 20, 2015 21:56
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American portions are stupidly huge for us tiny mouthed non Americans.
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Oct 20, 2015 21:56
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Concordat posted:
Who the hell eats a burger with a knife and fork in a room that has a caricature of a cursed version of yourself.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:02
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Concordat posted:
People in civilized parts of the world (Western and Northern Europe) who order a burger in a restaurant that isn't a fast food place.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:02
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DekeThornton posted:People in civilized parts of the world (Western and Northern Europe) who order a burger in a restaurant that isn't a fast food place. extremely hosed up if true
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Oct 20, 2015 22:16
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:If I worked in Hollywood, I would do this all the loving time. there's already a tiny but real boycott movement over the black lead, boycott autofills boycott star wars on google right now well played hollywood execs, now if I don't see this film because the reboot/remake/re-imagining well has gone bone dry for me people will go "yeah sure that's why you didn't see it" 
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Oct 20, 2015 22:22
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Pomp posted:extremely hosed up if true http://nowiknow.com/max-the-knife/
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Oct 20, 2015 22:23
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DekeThornton posted:People in civilized parts of the world (Western and Northern Europe) who order a burger in a restaurant that isn't a fast food place. That sounds like the opposite of civilized.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:27
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DekeThornton posted:People in civilized parts of the world (Western and Northern Europe) who order a burger in a restaurant that isn't a fast food place.     
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Oct 20, 2015 22:28
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I don't really care about Star Wars but I do really really hope the black guy in the trailer is the main Jedi girl's love interest because boy howdy the internet would explode. Boy do I have news for you. quote:Overnight the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII began trending, with people claiming that the movie is “anti-white”, even going as far as saying that the film promotes “white genocide”.
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SynthOrange posted:Boy do I have news for you. Nice. It's not even out yet and some people already hate it. 
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