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Are the lightsabre colours from Old Republic an actual thing? Like blue means your this kind of Jedi, yellow you're another kind? Or was that just for the game?
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Dec 3, 2015 18:38
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sleepy.eyes posted: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, buy is the core of the galaxy supposed to be completely spoken for? AFAIK most of the galaxy has been mapped out, except for when it's convenient for a "long-lost planet of X" (looking at you, KOTOR and Dark Empire) like the Deep Core. The Wookiepedia article on The Galaxy actually has some pretty decent maps. IIRC they took pains to mention over and over again when a race was extragalactic in origin (Ssi-ruuk, Vong and Chiss off the top of my head, probably a bunch of others). e: I mean at least the Deep Core thing is a remotely reasonable explanation, that region is centered around a supermassive black hole (much like our own galaxy) and therefore hyperspace travel in that region is nigh-impossible The Maw is still dumb as gently caress though
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Dec 3, 2015 18:57
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drunk asian neighbor posted:AFAIK most of the galaxy has been mapped out, except for when it's convenient for a "long-lost planet of X" (looking at you, KOTOR and Dark Empire) like the Deep Core. The Wookiepedia article on The Galaxy actually has some pretty decent maps. The little archipelagos of stars coming off the outer rim and a lot of the deep core still aren't map due to force or gravity well related shennanigans making them impassable for ships in hyperspace Like the planet in KOTOR that was impossible to get to before Revan was because they had a giant gravity well set up around the Star Forge to keep former slaves of the Rataka from coming back and finishing the job
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Dec 3, 2015 18:58
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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Unknown_Regions
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Dec 3, 2015 19:02
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Yeah, I'm just saying that those two things are the favorite hand-waves to keep them explained in universe
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Dec 3, 2015 19:14
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Booblord Zagats posted:Yeah, I'm just saying that those two things are the favorite hand-waves to keep them explained in universe Oh yeah, I got ya. Didn't post that link as a snarky response, just to elaborate on the question of "what part of the galaxy hasn't been explored yet"
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Dec 3, 2015 19:18
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That was actually a pretty cool article, I'm just afraid of reading the books it's based off because they'll turn out to be really bad.
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Dec 3, 2015 19:27
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can't wait for the trench run on the Sunsucker. Too bad Spaceballs already did the suck to blow joke.
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Dec 3, 2015 19:57
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ChogsEnhour posted:Are the lightsabre colours from Old Republic an actual thing? Like blue means your this kind of Jedi, yellow you're another kind? Yellow is for the Jedi who know how to party Green is for people who have to fight against a blue sky Blue is for people who do neither
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Dec 3, 2015 21:07
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Oh yeah, I got ya. Didn't post that link as a snarky response, just to elaborate on the question of "what part of the galaxy hasn't been explored yet" I feel ya, dude. Your Rollins AV just felt so judgy I had to explain myself I guess. Also, the Rebels show is legit good and 90% of it is just a love letter to Ralph McQuarrie, from character designs based on concept art he did for the OT to them trying to make places look like his hometown of Gary Indiana. So it gets a ton of points for that alone
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Dec 3, 2015 21:12
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Which means, THIS IS CANON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mK7dzyUkM That same little girl got interviewed for a fan website. She named Darth Talon as a personal role model and discussed her plans to kill Vader in the grand Sith tradition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xByYLtYAm5s 
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Dec 4, 2015 00:27
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her parents hosed up raising her.
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Dec 4, 2015 01:24
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ChogsEnhour posted:Are the lightsabre colours from Old Republic an actual thing? Like blue means your this kind of Jedi, yellow you're another kind? I'm going to say no. I haven't played that game, but in Jedi Academy you can choose your lightsabre's colour and hilt design and it's purely cosmetic. Dely Apple posted:Yellow is for the Jedi who know how to party I'll follow this. My Jedi Academy character had a yellow sabre.
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Dec 4, 2015 12:24
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I'm going to say no. I haven't played that game, but in Jedi Academy you can choose your lightsabre's colour and hilt design and it's purely cosmetic. yeah you could have whatever colour you wanted in Old Republic, but Not-Yoda gave an explination about how blue represents a Jedi-Sentinel who is more attuned to the force. Green is for the Jedi-Vanguard who is skilled at combat or some other such gubbins. Dely Apple posted:Yellow is for the Jedi who know how to party Ahhh, see? I must have misheard. Anyone who doesn't have a yellow laser sword can just get to hell then. 
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Dec 4, 2015 12:32
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Pththya-lyi posted:That same little girl got interviewed for a fan website. She named Darth Talon as a personal role model and discussed her plans to kill Vader in the grand Sith tradition: I'm the pink AT-AT.
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Dec 4, 2015 16:01
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ChogsEnhour posted:yeah you could have whatever colour you wanted in Old Republic, but Not-Yoda gave an explination about how blue represents a Jedi-Sentinel who is more attuned to the force. Green is for the Jedi-Vanguard who is skilled at combat or some other such gubbins. The worst light saber color was in Force Unleashed, there was a hidden crystal that was really hard to find that had a really cool icon for this rippling darkness. Instead it was a solid bar of black so it looked like you were censoring storm troopers.
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Dec 4, 2015 16:04
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Pththya-lyi posted:That same little girl got interviewed for a fan website. She named Darth Talon as a personal role model and discussed her plans to kill Vader in the grand Sith tradition: "You don't think Darth Vader's tough?" "Well, he is, but... not as tough as me." This kid rules.
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Dec 4, 2015 16:16
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Instead it was a solid bar of black so it looked like you were censoring storm troopers. Truly the old republic has become corrupt and the jedi have lost their way...
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Dec 4, 2015 16:52
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Purple Sam Jackson Saber, best saber PS Jedi are lame as gently caress except Shaft
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Dec 4, 2015 21:29
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Booblord Zagats posted:Purple Sam Jackson Saber, best saber 
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Dec 5, 2015 00:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgmH9Vv2-I poo poo owns, if you don't think it's badass when the 1 sith lights his saber and then all the other ones behind him activate theirs then I dunno what to tell you Too bad the actual game seems p. terrible e: nothing said in the thread specifically triggered this post I was just remembering some of my favorite Star Wars stuff Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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Dec 5, 2015 01:11
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Booblord Zagats posted:Purple Sam Jackson Saber, best saber I always go purple in Knights Of The Old Republic.
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Dec 5, 2015 01:19
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drunk asian neighbor posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgmH9Vv2-I OKay that was pretty drat awesome. Can we get a movie about that?
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Dec 5, 2015 01:57
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nah because that has stupid prequel-like dbz fighting poo poo.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:00
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Groovelord Neato posted:nah because that has stupid prequel-like dbz fighting poo poo. I mean I get that the OT lightsaber battles were way more tense and "realistic" and formal and such but how would you want a large-scale Jedi/Sith battle to look? Plus there are non-Jedi fighting too.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:07
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i don't think there should ever be large scale fights with them. i always pictured it being a wandering monk type thing before the prequels came out (still how i picture it as i don't accept that fanon). i always figured the numbers were never that large and if so they weren't all gonna be in one place.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:08
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Groovelord Neato posted:i don't think there should ever be large scale fights with them. i always pictured it being a wandering monk type thing before the prequels came out (still how i picture it as i don't accept that fanon). i always figured the numbers were never that large and if so they weren't all gonna be in one place. Fair enough. I grew up reading the old Dark Horse Tales of the Jedi comics so those shaped my opinion pretty hard.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:13
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Groovelord Neato posted:i don't think there should ever be large scale fights with them. i always pictured it being a wandering monk type thing before the prequels came out (still how i picture it as i don't accept that fanon). i always figured the numbers were never that large and if so they weren't all gonna be in one place. It's their main temple. Even with wandering Buddhist monks there's still a bunch at their main temples.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:16
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Fair enough. I grew up reading the old Dark Horse Tales of the Jedi comics so those shaped my opinion pretty hard. The Tales of the Jedi comics are pretty great, been meaning to re-read those.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:17
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TK-42-1 posted:It's their main temple. Even with wandering Buddhist monks there's still a bunch at their main temples. it shouldn't be on the capital planet next to the senate considering less than a generation later people are calling it a hokey or ancient religion and talking about the force and jedi like they're myths. and i figured they didn't have a formal hierarchy or anything, it never struck me as an organized type religion.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:18
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From the trailers to the new one it sounds like people have total cultural amnesia about what happened like 30 years ago again.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:22
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that makes more sense considering there was only yoda, obi wan, luke, vader, and the emperor. and two of those nobody knows about apart from luke.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:24
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Groovelord Neato posted:it shouldn't be on the capital planet next to the senate considering less than a generation later people are calling it a hokey or ancient religion and talking about the force and jedi like they're myths. and i figured they didn't have a formal hierarchy or anything, it never struck me as an organized type religion. I mean them congregating in one large main temple doesn't necessarily mean they have a formal heirarchy beyond "we all kind of hang out here" and maybe jobs like Librarian or whatever. Like how monks in Europe live at their convent or abbey or whatever, but this one is the gardener, these guys brew the beer, etc. (I know monks usually have a head abbot or whatever, shut up). Plus that game takes place like 3500 years before the OT so the ancient religion thing doesn't hold up so well. Although I do agree 100% that the temple being next to the Senate on Coruscant was dumb in the context of the OT's general regard for the Jedi as long-gone, and I kind of wish they weren't running with that idea for Ep7.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:26
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Also if that "Sunsucker" nickname for the new superweapon is actually a description of what it does that will be Sun Crusher levels of dumb.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:27
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the jedi being long gone/mythical is the better of the two choices. i'm glad they seem to be avoiding the prequel-think as much as possible.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:28
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Groovelord Neato posted:the jedi being long gone/mythical is the better of the two choices. i'm glad they seem to be avoiding the prequel-think as much as possible. On the one hand I agree but on the other hand it ups the ante from "how the gently caress did the whole galaxy forget about the Jedi in 30 years" to "how gently caress did the whole galaxy forget the Jedi in 30 years, witness a newly minted Jedi wreck the Empire, then forget about him in another 30 years" I guess it does make more sense if you distance yourself from the prequel depictions of the Jedi. I think it would gel a lot better with the EU depictions of the Jedi as they were thousands of years ago (widespread badass warriors), and have them be an empty shell of their former glory in the prequels. That way they're diminished enough that it makes sense people have forgotten about them by the OT, but also their reputation for being total badasses 3000 years ago still lingers as legend or whatever. e: I guess what I'm saying is Groovelord is correct and the prequel depictions of the Jedi totally mess up their depictions in the OT and potentially the upcoming movies. But I still maintain that 2-5,000 years ago the Jedi were Magical Crouching Tiger Hidden Space Wizards. When they fought the Mandalorians in the old comics it was cool as hell. double edit: seriously though Tales of the Jedi was IMO the best Star Wars comic series ever and is also pretty high up on my EU list overall, if you haven't read it I highly recommend it Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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Dec 5, 2015 02:36
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drunk asian neighbor posted:On the one hand I agree but on the other hand it ups the ante from "how the gently caress did the whole galaxy forget about the Jedi in 30 years" to "how gently caress did the whole galaxy forget the Jedi in 30 years, witness a newly minted Jedi wreck the Empire, then forget about him in another 30 years" I don't think Luke publicly did anything that a normal human couldn't have.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:43
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drunk asian neighbor posted:On the one hand I agree but on the other hand it ups the ante from "how the gently caress did the whole galaxy forget about the Jedi in 30 years" to "how gently caress did the whole galaxy forget the Jedi in 30 years, witness a newly minted Jedi wreck the Empire, then forget about him in another 30 years" Everyone who has seen Luke wield a lightsaber or do anything force-magicy is part of his immediate and extended family or dead. If he doesn't go around bragging it stays an urban legend at best. That's another point in favor of Kylo Ren being someone who knows the main cast personally.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:47
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Tender Bender posted:Everyone who has seen Luke wield a lightsaber or do anything force-magicy is part of his immediate and extended family or dead. If he doesn't go around bragging it stays an urban legend at best. Agreed, but I feel like the general reaction from the Rebellion would be to publicize as much as possible "HAY GUYS REMEMBER ALL THOSE COOL JEDI WELL THERES A NEW ONE AND HE BLEW UP 2 DEATHSTARS AND KILLED THE EMPEROR AND DARTH VADER," regardless of if Luke wanted it known or not.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:48
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before this new movie i would assume the same as i figured (as i think most did) that the empire would be totally gone and we'd have the republic restored (do not mention the loving terrible books and the imperial remnant and the 8 emperor clones and all that garbage) and not a battle between the "new order" and the "resistance".
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Dec 5, 2015 02:50
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