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Xenomrph posted:You mean planets that aren't just one huge biome? I think Ryloth kinda counts but it's defining characteristic is still it's extreme biomes. Yeah, thats what I meant. I think Dathomir is also another one that has the one really well known biome (swamps) but also has others as well
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RFC2324 posted:Never happen. Everyone knows that planets can only support one biome. Alderaan looked sort of Earth-like. Kashyyk is a tree world, but I recall it having mountains and poo poo so I'd give it a pass. sleepy.eyes fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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Naboo has forests and meadows and cliffs and oceans and a watery core, does that count?
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projecthalaxy posted:Naboo has forests and meadows and cliffs and oceans and a watery core, does that count? Not really. It's literally "Fantasy Kingdom Planet"
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I don't really mind single-biome planets. They're just stand-ins for cities and regions like in other genres. It's a lot less confusing than trying to write them all in as different cities in different regions on different planets and IMO helps to make it seem that the galactic civilization is advanced enough that traveling to planets is easy, quick, and only really distinguishable by their dominant biome.
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Chill la Chill posted:I don't really mind single-biome planets. They're just stand-ins for cities and regions like in other genres. It's a lot less confusing than trying to write them all in as different cities on different planets and IMO helps to make it seem that the galactic civilization is advanced enough that traveling to planets is easy, quick, and only really distinguishable by their dominant biome. I agree with you, since Star Wars is just Lord of the Rings: Space Edition it makes sense to try and keep ideas streamlined and simplistic while painting a vibrant mental image int he reader/watchers mind as to what happens int he background. But we're being nerds in here and picking poo poo to death
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Booblord Zagats posted:I agree with you, since Star Wars is just Lord of the Rings: Space Edition it makes sense to try and keep ideas streamlined and simplistic while painting a vibrant mental image int he reader/watchers mind as to what happens int he background. But we're being nerds in here and picking poo poo to death I had a campaign set on a planet that was tidally locked to a blue star (same side always faces the sun), looked up what color chlorophyll would most likely be with that light, came up with navigation terminology based on shadeward, brightward and had a low melting temp silica on the sunward pole so there was a sea of molten glass there.
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I can only imagine what a mess it would be trying to read how a "realistic" galactic space-faring civilization would be. I can only imagine it'd be like reading a history book using a single concurrent timeline instead of the easier way it's taught which is a single civilization or region is followed for X years. You'd be trying to remember if two cities were in desert regions in two planets or if they were on the same planet or if it was only winter in one city or if it's in the frozen tundra of another planet next to another prominent city. Huge mess.
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One thing I love about Rebels is they are making GBS threads on the every species in teh same thing somewhere. I mean, we had a rodian middle manager IT guy, an Ithorian bartender, an aqualish farmer etc.
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Ithorian bartender is one of the best parts of that show.
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Face-off: Yak Face or Prune Face?quote:
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Booblord Zagats posted:Corellia and Dantooine I think are the only two exceptions in Star Wars Ahem. Wookiepedia posted:The Fewoda Plains were a region on the forest moon of Endor.
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when I go to endor I like to go to the fewoda plains and wear my favorite hat, a fedowa
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Acne Rain posted:when I go to endor I like to go to the fewoda plains and wear my favorite hat, a fedowa I'm space groaning
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i thought dantooine was a desert planet too.
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Where is the wookiepedia article about the people that died on the capital ships during the battle of endor
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projecthalaxy posted:Maybe a variety of people telling a variety of tales in the great big galaxy is in fact good. It's a big tent out there, friendo, room for everybody. If they actually told a 'variety' of tales it might be good. But they're the same 1-2 stories with the names changed. Just on earth, in the 1950's, you could have Rebel Without a Cause, 12 Angry Men, North By Northwest, White Christmas, Some Like it Hot, Rear Window, A Streetcar Named Desire, Seven Samurai, etc. Star Wars EU has never been 10% as diverse as that.
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http://www.starwarsuncut.com/newhope
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I misread that URL and was a little disappointed with what I saw when I clicked
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Is it true the VHS versions are the only ones that are identical to the original theatrical release? Is it any specific VHS version? I had heard that the LaserDisc version was identical to theatrical as well. I bought an LD player for $5 at a garage sale this summer and it came with sealed copies of Space Jam and Robin Hood: Men in Tights on LD so that'd be pretty sweet if I could pick up the OT on LaserDisc and kick it old-school. Even during the theatrical run there were some tweaks made, the voice of Aunt Beru for one. Arcsquad12 posted:Of all the bad special effects in the Special Editions, the ones I really like are around the Battle of Yavin. If I could get a version that keeps the great effects they did for the space battle but got rid of everything else I'd be happy. They did look nice, but they also added a ton more ships too so it doesn't seem like the odds are so long. got any sevens fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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effectual posted:Even during the theatrical run there were some tweaks made, the voice of Aunt Beru for one. Not really anymore ships. There's only thirty.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:My favorite thing about the Yuuzhan Vong War is that there were 365 trillion dead. The problem is Star Wars feels more like a small star cluster of a couple dozen systems than a galaxy-spanning civilization. That's what they should have gone with, based on how it feels in the films.
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on the other hand, its loving space, there's enough of everything for everyone. land, minerals, whores, its all there. who is going to fight these wars when there's all this free poo poo everywhere in every possible variation, and with potentially so much insanely dangerous distance to seperate you from other people's poo poo? because one guy says so? how important could one guy be in the vastness of a galaxy that people think he's of any consequence? most people don't give a poo poo what is happening in Burma, why they care what's happening one hundred million light years away?
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star wars looks like an astronomy textbook next to the jj abrams start teek, if we wanna talk about galaxies feeling too small how about in that movie where a star going supernova threatens to destroy the entire galaxy, or how spock could see vulcan being destroyed in real time like it was the moon from a different solar system
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chaosbreather posted:on the other hand, its loving space, there's enough of everything for everyone. land, minerals, whores, its all there.
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Elukka posted:The problem is Star Wars feels more like a small star cluster of a couple dozen systems than a galaxy-spanning civilization. That's what they should have gone with, based on how it feels in the films. I don't know, a bureaucrat casually destroying an inhabited planet suggests to me that there's more than a few to go around.
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chaosbreather posted:on the other hand, its loving space, there's enough of everything for everyone. land, minerals, whores, its all there. This at least lends credibility to the fact that everyone forgot about Jedi and the force in like 30 years. Similar to segregation I guess.
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chaosbreather posted:on the other hand, its loving space, there's enough of everything for everyone. land, minerals, whores, its all there. you sound sick to death of these star wars, friend
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Groovelord Neato posted:i thought dantooine was a desert planet too. Like in the grand scheme of "choose a single-biome planet to retire to", Dantooine seemed like a solid choice. Not too hot, not too cold, not overcrowded, not a lot of dangerous wildlife, not a galactic hotspot or war zone, scenic hills... you can do a whole lot worse 
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Xenomrph posted:Meant to respond to this, but I'm pretty sure Dantooine is all hills and rolling fields of tall grass, I'm pretty sure you visit it in one of the KOTOR games. Dantooine was the setting for a few scenes in the Jedi Academy trilogy, and it sounded like a nice place. It was specifically chosen as a place for refugees from a hellish lava planet. Then Admiral Daala slaughtered the eighty or so unarmed refugees and treated it like a glorious military victory.
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Star Tours at Disneyland is canon now because of the Star Wars Rebels cartoon.
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Lemmi Caution posted:Star Tours at Disneyland is canon now because of the Star Wars Rebels cartoon. I've read this sentence a few times now. I know all of those are words but none of that makes any sense.
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Otisburg posted:There are a couple, but the convenience and cheapness of digital tend to far oughtweigh them. Shooting again because you don't know how the camera works isn't really an option when you're on a hundred million dollar+ shoot. No professional cameras (Red, Arri, etc) will have unnatural colors or artifacting, they have optical filters and complex 'color science' going for them. Arri Alexa and Epic Dragon are digital cameras that I'm pretty confident can handle highlights almost as well as film. There's likely a few others but I haven't shot them. Today, on a professional film set with a competent camera department you will never see a problem with highlights. Film has grain, which is its 'pixel' equivalent and it definitely has a resolution limit, which for every formula of 35mm is probably a lot less than 4k, although it's randomly distributed in each frame while digital's pixels do not move, making the resolution limit more apparent. Most digital cameras can't resolve 4k with high MTF, in other words the file they make might be ~4,000 pixels wide but they can't resolve 2000 pairs of black and white alternating lines into black and white alternating pixels (instead, at best it'll be more like light grey-dark grey). Even the Epic Dragon's 6k resolves ~3.6k with high MTF, and I think that's currently the highest resolution sensor available to film makers. The reason to shoot film is basically because the director wants to, both film and digital 'negative' are absurdly nice now-a-days. Digital is cheaper and faster and can be made to match any film stock in post anyway. Modest Mao fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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Lemmi Caution posted:Star Tours at Disneyland is canon now because of the Star Wars Rebels cartoon. I thought it always was?
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The 25 dollar build your own lightsaber stand in the Star Tours gift shop is now canon. There is a lightsaber attendant in a hideous top who helps you and all Jedi build your plastic weapon of destiny and he is as valid as Chewbacca.
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Lemmi Caution posted:Star Tours at Disneyland is canon now because of the Star Wars Rebels cartoon. Its also a fun ride now! I just rode it 2 months ago with the gf and her kid brother and we all enjoyed it. They're actually turning Tomorrow Land to be way more Star Warsy, which is a very smart move considering how much of a turd that George Clooney reimagining was.
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Booblord Zagats posted:Its also a fun ride now! I just rode it 2 months ago with the gf and her kid brother and we all enjoyed it. They're actually turning Tomorrow Land to be way more Star Warsy, which is a very smart move considering how much of a turd that George Clooney reimagining was. On Nov 16 they started Season of the Force so now Tomorrowland has Star Wars music in all the common areas, projections of the Imperial and Rebel symbols, Storm Troopers walking around, a meet and greet with Darth Vader and Chewbacca, props from the new movie, Space Mountain is now Hyperspace Mountain where you're part of the Battle of Jakku, and a new Star Tours scenario set on Jakku. Disney is going all out.
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Dely Apple posted:The 25 dollar build your own lightsaber stand in the Star Tours gift shop is now canon. Which means, THIS IS CANON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mK7dzyUkM Edit: It's only 34 seconds long and totally worth it.
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hey guys is the black peoples planet still considered canon? if not how are they going to rectify there being black people in star wars now??
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Speaking to the whole fighting over poo poo when the galaxy is gently caress-off massive; does anyone ever actually mention how much of the galaxy is inhabited? I know there is the Outer Rim and all that, but is the core of the galaxy supposed to be completely spoken for?
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