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DiseasedTempest posted:I googled the script. It does appear that there's supposed to be 2 and only 2 Sith at any given time, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense but whatever. I, too, was stunned.
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Tunicate posted:so fat he's immune to blaster fire 
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Tunicate posted:Without the EU, we never would have gotten Jabba the Hutt's dreadlocked father, Zorba the Hutt, who is so fat he's immune to blaster fire and flies around in the Zorba Express. loquacius posted:I had very poor critical skills as a kid and read a bunch of really terrible sci-fi books, but the only one I was capable at the time of recognizing as bad was the Star Wars Jedi Prince series. Here's some stuff I remember off the top of my head: The Moff part still cracks me up.
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, and this pile of poo poo took place two years after Jedi so even though I was fully aware that it was terrible I still had to suffer through it (and Splinter of the Mind's Eye, which was also terrible) if I wanted to read actual good books like Heir to the Empire or whatever. I guess I thought those books would like spoil things that happened in chronologically-earlier books, and this would be bad somehow??? Man I was a really stupid kid.
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Krinkle posted:Starwars EU is goofy as poo poo. LOok at this loving nonsense: I always get annoyed that the Hutts are now what the race of space-slugs that Jabba is instead of Hutt being a space mafia title. Like I always thought Jabba was a space-slug who was a Hutt. And the guy who said that Vader would probably be a chill boss, are you mental?? I've been watching the original trilogy recently with my kid and apart from her thoughts that the storm troopers are such poo poo shots because they can't see very well out of their helmets (based on Like saying he can barley see with it on.) Her best pearl of wisdom was that Vader seems like a awful boss and she'd hate to work for him. I mean keys do a count. Star Wars- he chokes out a guy during a meeting. Empire- he loving kill's a guy who bravely went to his death. Return- he turns up at the new Death Star and tells they guy that's managed to rebuild it in record time without adequate staff or resources (who also seems proud of himself.) that he's doing a poo poo job and if it was up to him he'd be floating in space already. Vader would be the worst loving boss, it's almost a running joke that Vader is terrible and I actually feel bad for the guys who have to work with/for him. While we're talking Star Wars what were the rebels rebelling about anyway? Apart from being run by a crazy evil space wizard the Empire seemed to be fine there's no mention of prison camps or limited freedom or racial genocide or any of the bad things you think about with fascism. Then again we don't ever see any "civilised" planets. Krypt-OOO-Nite!! has a new favorite as of 03:00 on Nov 21, 2015 |
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:And the guy who said that Vader would probably be a chill boss, are you mental?? Vader isn't the boss, though, he's just the line manager. Palpatine is the boss, and if things don't go the way he wants when Vader has been sent to make sure they do then Vader's in a world of hurt. Star Wars isn't the best example of this as the guy getting choked was giving Vader poo poo and dissing the Force, but in Empire he only kills people who cause him to fail in the task Palpatine has given him and in Jedi the only threat he makes to Jerjerrod is that of the Emperor's wrath.
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Nov 21, 2015 03:15
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:While we're talking Star Wars what were the rebels rebelling about anyway?
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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"Krypt-OOO-Nite!!" posted:
Uh, they destroyed an entire planet for giggles and literally built something called a Death Star
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Nov 21, 2015 03:39
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misguided rage posted:Uh well they did blow up a planet a little bit Collateral damage. If Alderaan didn't want to be blown up they shouldn't have been harboring rebels and weapons on their planet. In fact it's quite despicable of the rebels to be hiding behind women and children like that.
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Their ships are called Death Stars and Star Destroyers. If you don't want people rebelling against you don't name your stuff that.
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How about the Mobile Intersystem Anti-Terrorism Outpost? The 'MIATO. Star Destoryers in orbit? No, those are the Active Turbolaser Defense Platforms, they'll keep us safe! The Empire just needed better PR, they'd never have a rebel problem.
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I take my Miato out for a spin whenever the weather's nice enough.
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Caedus posted:How about the Mobile Intersystem Anti-Terrorism Outpost? The 'MIATO. Star Destoryers in orbit? No, those are the Active Turbolaser Defense Platforms, they'll keep us safe! Okay, wow, "Stormtroopers"? Are you... are you serious with this... hell no; they're going to be called "Peace Sentinels" now. They're going to be Robin egg blue, not white, and that helmet has to be completely redesigned...
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Jedit posted:Vader isn't the boss, though, he's just the line manager. Palpatine is the boss, and if things don't go the way he wants when Vader has been sent to make sure they do then Vader's in a world of hurt. Star Wars isn't the best example of this as the guy getting choked was giving Vader poo poo and dissing the Force, but in Empire he only kills people who cause him to fail in the task Palpatine has given him and in Jedi the only threat he makes to Jerjerrod is that of the Emperor's wrath. Yeah, basically Vader is like Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Choking.
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Nov 21, 2015 07:03
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That's my favorite scene in star wars. Vader just snapping and choking out a coworker during a meeting. So many times have I wanted to do the same thing.
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Nov 21, 2015 09:06
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:racial genocide or any of the bad things you think about with fascism. The Empire enslaved and killed the hell out of the Wookies. Also the Jedi probably count as a religious group being exterminated, along with all their knowledge and temples being destroyed.
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Schubalts posted:The Empire enslaved and killed the hell out of the Wookies. Also the Jedi probably count as a religious group being exterminated, along with all their knowledge and temples being destroyed. And any other species that was not humens, allowing slavery, letting the Moffs run their planets and star systems how ever they want.
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None of that poo poo was in the movies except for the Jedi thing.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Collateral damage. If Alderaan didn't want to be blown up they shouldn't have been harboring rebels and weapons on their planet. In fact it's quite despicable of the rebels to be hiding behind women and children like that. This would be funny if a Danish politician didn't just use that exact phrasing the other week, to justify bombing civilian targets in Syria  Aphrodite posted:Their ships are called Death Stars and Star Destroyers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer  "Destroyer" is just a class of battleship, and naval terminology is a good fit for spaceships. But it does have a aggressive ring to it. And if Star Destroyers and Super Star Destroyers actually fit the naval terminology, I'd love to see a Star Battleship.
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KozmoNaut posted:"Destroyer" is just a class of battleship, and naval terminology is a good fit for spaceships. But it does have a aggressive ring to it. And if Star Destroyers and Super Star Destroyers actually fit the naval terminology, I'd love to see a Star Battleship. I'm more curious about Star Submarines.
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Periscope up "god gently caress it's bright up there" back to swimming the fusing depths of the stars. Or source or whatever they say instead of god in the EU I heard it once but forgot, mercifully.
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Krinkle posted:Periscope up "god gently caress it's bright up there" back to swimming the fusing depths of the stars. Lol there literally was an EU ship that could (almost) do this. it was sunk into the core of a gas giant without being harmed http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sun_Crusher
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thespaceinvader posted:Lol there literally was an EU ship that could (almost) do this. it was sunk into the core of a gas giant without being harmed http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sun_Crusher quote:"The only thing more dangerous than a Dark Jedi is a Dark Jedi behind the controls of a Sun Crusher…" I feel that nobody should make the image of harrison ford we all have in our hearts and memories say the dumbest possible thing ever, just in my humble opinion.
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jazzyjay posted:Yeah, basically Vader is like Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Choking. Oxygen is for closers only
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KozmoNaut posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer And there's lots of people rebelling against us and Russia. And maybe Peru.
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Krinkle posted:I feel that nobody should make the image of harrison ford we all have in our hearts and memories say the dumbest possible thing ever, just in my humble opinion. "I've been from one end of this galaxy to the other, and I've never seen another house like this one. It's a new concept of mine—houses that float in the sky. If you don't like the cloud you're living on, you just drift off to another one."
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Tunicate posted:"I've been from one end of this galaxy to the other, and I've never seen another house like this one. It's a new concept of mine—houses that float in the sky. If you don't like the cloud you're living on, you just drift off to another one." Googled the first half of this quote, went directly to star wars (1977) IMDB quote page, heart exploded thinking "did he loving say that? did I block this out?" but phew no he said something else. Is the second half homer from cape feare?
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Krinkle posted:Googled the first half of this quote, went directly to star wars (1977) IMDB quote page, heart exploded thinking "did he loving say that? did I block this out?" but phew no he said something else. Is the second half homer from cape feare? I am almost certain it's from that book with the guy who has three eyes and Vader's glove.
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Lady Naga posted:None of that poo poo was in the movies except for the Jedi thing. Yeah, the Empire being alien racist is all from the EU. In the movies it was just a practical thing where in ANH almost every alien was just in the cantina scene.
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In Django Unchained why didn't Dr. King shoot the guy with the shotgun after he shot Candy? He had a 2 shot derringer.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:In Django Unchained why didn't Dr. King shoot the guy with the shotgun after he shot Candy? He had a 2 shot derringer. All of his other kills had a certain methodical preciseness to them; Schultz always had a plan to approach the target, make the kill, and get away clean, with a preference for using words over bullets whenever possible. His confrontation with Candie was the first time, at least in the movie, where he 'lost' the encounter. When he shot Candie, he seemed to be as surprised as anybody.
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ducttape posted:All of his other kills had a certain methodical preciseness to them; Schultz always had a plan to approach the target, make the kill, and get away clean, with a preference for using words over bullets whenever possible. His confrontation with Candie was the first time, at least in the movie, where he 'lost' the encounter. When he shot Candie, he seemed to be as surprised as anybody. Also his shooting of Candie was not done in self defense or as a bounty; it was pretty much straight-up murder. It's possible he had no intention of living afterward.
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He didn't think he was going to live. That's why he said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself."
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In Avatar, when they 'lose' the dude in the forest and just give up and go back to base like, "It's getting dark, we'll never find him now." You stupid fucks. You have the capacity for suspended animation and fast interstellar travel, both of which you used to schlep a cripple through space to use this insanely expensive piece of bioengineering that have now 'lost' because you don't have a pair of human eyeballs on it? gently caress you, James Cameron. Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:While we're talking Star Wars what were the rebels rebelling about anyway? Jump to 2:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3YRlNLqCM Smudgie Buggler has a new favorite as of 12:39 on Nov 22, 2015 |
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El Cid posted:Speaking of book-Chewie how was Chewbacca even handled in the Star Wars books? Like... do authors just always have someone around to translate for him? It just doesn't seem like it would feel right if he had directly translated lines in the book, like "'Oh no, look out, a Storm Trooper!' roared Chewie". More importantly, why is he called Chewbacca? It is physically impossible for a wookie to say Chewbacca. His name would be RrrwaarrRRAWR or something. Did Han just give him that name? Is it like Gearhead in rick and moryy? Is han a space-racist?
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El Cid posted:Speaking of book-Chewie how was Chewbacca even handled in the Star Wars books? Like... do authors just always have someone around to translate for him? It just doesn't seem like it would feel right if he had directly translated lines in the book, like "'Oh no, look out, a Storm Trooper!' roared Chewie". It's mostly poo poo like "Chewbacca growled a warning" or "He chuffed his agreement." One time I lost track of who was speaking and thought he had this paragraph long passage that got super philosophical. I was blown away at what a great change that was, until I realized that the author had some droid saying it instead. 
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There was a wookie in the thrawn books that had a speech impediment that made him easier for non wookies to understand. That was pretty dumb.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:More importantly, why is he called Chewbacca? It is physically impossible for a wookie to say Chewbacca. His name would be RrrwaarrRRAWR or something. Did Han just give him that name? Is it like Gearhead in rick and moryy? Is han a space-racist? Half of Chewbacca's lines were "gently caress, stop calling me that, HAN!" and Han was being a jerk by pretending it was something else which Chewbacca passively accepted.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:More importantly, why is he called Chewbacca? It is physically impossible for a wookie to say Chewbacca. His name would be RrrwaarrRRAWR or something. Did Han just give him that name? Is it like Gearhead in rick and moryy? Is han a space-racist? Names often get shifted between languages, Carlos becomes Charlie, Istvan becomes Steven, Giovanni becomes Johnny, Vilhelm becomes William, etc. So it makes sense if his language is hard for us to pronounce and ours is hard for his, there'd be a common nickname for him. Hopefully he signed off on it and Han isn't just being a dick  But I mean, its not like you ever hear Chewbacca say "rawwwrawwarwar Leia rawwarawrwawrwar Luke rawrarwarawrar" so its not like he's saying any of the other characters' names either. There must be wookie' nicknames for all the main characters' names which he is saying and Han translates.
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Why doesn't Chewbacca wear pants? Is he some kind of pervert that likes flying around space with his wookie dick hanging out? That's hosed up.
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