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Silver2195 posted:Before Legends became non-canon, everything Palpatine did was for the sake of saving the galaxy from the Yuzhan Vong, IIRC. The easiest answer to "What two words are responsible for everything wrong in Star Wars?"
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Silver2195 posted:Before Legends became non-canon, everything Palpatine did was for the sake of saving the galaxy from the Yuzhan Vong, IIRC. New Jedi Order: not even once.
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Mar 28, 2017 03:27
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Taerkar posted:The easiest answer to "What two words are responsible for everything wrong in Star Wars?" What about "Lucas's solitude"?
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Mar 28, 2017 04:09
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Taerkar posted:The easiest answer to "What two words are responsible for everything wrong in Star Wars?"
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Mar 28, 2017 04:19
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"Holiday Special" also fits.
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Mar 28, 2017 04:25
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Fulchrum posted:"Holiday Special" also fits. you've confused 'right' with 'wrong' again
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Mar 28, 2017 04:28
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Peanut Butler posted:you've confused 'right' with 'wrong' again I like how you're prepared to go to bat for 10 minutes of wookies screaming at each other but not the prequels.
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Mar 28, 2017 04:34
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Despera posted:Quality Hitler derail  1 2 3
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Mar 28, 2017 04:35
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frankenfreak posted:That derall was better than the ongoing Star Wars discussion. As if I needed another reason to hate Reagan...STAR WARS USES PROTON TORPEDOS, NOT PHOTON TORPEDOS! PHOTON WARHEADS ARE FROM STAR TREK, AS IS SCOTTY! SPELLED WITH A Y, NOT A GODDAMN IE!!  
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Silver2195 posted:Before Legends became non-canon, everything Palpatine did was for the sake of saving the galaxy from the Yuzhan Vong, IIRC. Actually, that's not true. He did everything for power. You get a bunch of Imperials saying he might have been trying to unify the Galaxy to fight the Invasion, but they're Imperials and even then his choice of "unity" was to give himself all the power without any planning for when he'd die. Also trap sprung I guess. gently caress.
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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:As if I needed another reason to hate Reagan...STAR WARS USES PROTON TORPEDOS, NOT PHOTON TORPEDOS! PHOTON WARHEADS ARE FROM STAR TREK, AS IS SCOTTY! SPELLED WITH A Y, NOT A GODDAMN IE!! Conflating Star Wars and Star Trek is an appropriate joke there. This was a guy who'd confuse old movies with reality. Also, that X-Wing has eight laser guns. How will it close its wings? Sandpuppy fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Actually, that's not true. He did everything for power. You get a bunch of Imperials saying he might have been trying to unify the Galaxy to fight the Invasion, but they're Imperials and even then his choice of "unity" was to give himself all the power without any planning for when he'd die. Oh, there was planning. Those plans are explained in one of the new novel trilogies that came out, the Aftermath series by Chuck Wendig. Literally, the plan is "An Empire that couldn't keep me alive doesn't deserve to exist.", and so it is revealed that he had put plans into motion that would be sure to finish off the rest of the Empire in case he ever died, with a select few chosen to be hiding outside of the galaxy to rebuild.
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the_steve posted:Oh, there was planning. Now that's the Sheev I know and love.
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the_steve posted:Oh, there was planning. MonsieurChoc posted:Now that's the Sheev I know and love. Different continuity. He wasn't even called Sheev in Legends.
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Three straight $4,000 jeans cartoons.
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Time for some foreign cartoons! From Austria 1  From Austria 2  From Russia 3  From Switzerland 4  From Spain 5  6  7 
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Sandpuppy posted:Conflating Star Wars and Star Trek is an appropriate joke there. This was a guy who'd confuse old movies with reality. I thought if that while I was in the middle of my gross nerd rant, but I was in too deep to care. Not sure which part to attack first... "The thing I was ranting about yesterday is actually an indicator of late-stage capitalism, which means it's suddenly good now", or "Our enemies actually hate us because of our freedoms  (specifically the ones I despise and rail against and fought tooth and nail to prevent)".Either way, I hope drunk duck forgets to wear his seatbelt the next time he drives drunk (and that he hits an inanimate object, instead of a car with actual people in it).
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Scholtz posted:Every Branco has a hilarious punchline in the "@reagan.com" email address. Look again. It got funnier.
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frankenfreak posted:That derall was better than the ongoing Star Wars discussion.  Easy Salmon Recipe posted:As if I needed another reason to hate Reagan...STAR WARS USES PROTON TORPEDOS, NOT PHOTON TORPEDOS! PHOTON WARHEADS ARE FROM STAR TREK, AS IS SCOTTY! SPELLED WITH A Y, NOT A GODDAMN IE!! Star Wars is some kinda fantasy thing, right?   Meanwhile, relevant to Trump:  And I found the Reagan equivalent of "Dow Soars! Economy Humming!" 
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Yeah, the enemy was too dumb. That's why they maneuvered around the line, through Belgium, instead of attacking it head-on, just as the designers had intended.
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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:As if I needed another reason to hate Reagan...STAR WARS USES PROTON TORPEDOS, NOT PHOTON TORPEDOS! PHOTON WARHEADS ARE FROM STAR TREK, AS IS SCOTTY! SPELLED WITH A Y, NOT A GODDAMN IE!! 
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Meanwhile, relevant to Trump: Not pictured is that after a big umbrella fight, we made Japan sign an agreement that said they would only have that tiny bamboo umbrella (to avoid them participating in another umbrella fight), and that, to compensate, we would let them share our umbrella. Also, the rain is North Korean aggression, so they kinda need an umbrella.
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Mar 28, 2017 06:44
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I've never heard a college professor refuse to say conservatives hate us for believing in the rights of gays, women, and nonchristians.
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Kopijeger posted:Yeah, the enemy was too dumb. That's why they maneuvered around the line, through Belgium, instead of attacking it head-on, just as the designers had intended. 
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Not convinced. It seems like the cartoonist believed that the Maginot line fell to direct attack because "the enemy was too dumb to realize" that it was impenetrable.
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Bruce Tinsley probably wrote a senior thesis. It was probably about how women and gay rights are a stronger driving force in international politics than poverty and violence. It was probably rejected because every citation was This is why he hates professors.
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But you hate women and gay people. And so does almost every single person who justifies their Islamaphobia with "they're throwing gay people off buildings!", it seems. Seriously, this might be the biggest ongoing trend of concern-trolling I've ever loving seen. The same people who constantly insult, attack, and demean various minority groups will then point out how patriotic we are as a country for supporting them when those SAVAGES in the Middle East attack them. Tinsley hates people who are gay, black, transgender, or female, but when the Middle East comes up he's running around bragging like he's always been their best ally. gently caress you, Tinsley. Weren't you super vocal against gay marriage? So yeah, trumpet on about how you think gay people have rights when you were fighting those rights every step of the way. I used to think Tinsley was bland but these days he's easily one of my most hated artists. What an absolute piece of poo poo.
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Kopijeger posted:Not convinced. It seems like the cartoonist believed that the Maginot line fell to direct attack because "the enemy was too dumb to realize" that it was impenetrable. No, that's . It starts off by saying it has to "embrace ignorance" to see its value.
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Fret not, Tinsley, as a college educator I very much believe our enemies hate our tolerance for women, gay people, and other religions. After all, that's why they're constantly trying to cut our funding. SomeMathGuy fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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Tinsley is probably the biggest hack among all the thread regulars. In terms of dull, uninspired commentary, only Rall comes anywhere close, and at least Rall's is outside the mainstream. Seriously, he thought a "kids are buying expensive ripped jeans??" joke was good enough to stretch out to three strips in 2017. I don't think any of the other thread regulars have reached that level of "who cares, they'll print anything." The only reason that loving comic exists is so newspaper editors can deflect complaints about Doonesbury being too liberal with "we have a conservative comic too, see, we're representing both sides."
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Silver2195 posted:Different continuity. He wasn't even called Sheev in Legends. He's Sheev in Aftermath. At least, that's what he tells the kid responsible for finishing off the Empire in the event of his demise. We also now have a genderfluid space pirate running a pirate town out of a stolen Star Destroyer, so that's fun. Either way, I would recommend the books if only for Sinjir Rath Velus, he is such a delightful bastard. And now I'm going to stop making GBS threads up the thread with Star Wars novels. Here, have a Rogers. 
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I thought the "they hate us for our freedom" thing died with George W Bush but I guess I was wrong!
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Taerkar posted:The easiest answer to "What two words are responsible for everything wrong in Star Wars?" George Lucas?
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"blue jeans"
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I see, Tinsley is a pacifist. He only wants to deny gays, women, and atheists rights because he wants peace with the enemies.
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Kopijeger posted:Not convinced. It seems like the cartoonist believed that the Maginot line fell to direct attack because "the enemy was too dumb to realize" that it was impenetrable. That is absolutely the joke. The reference to the Maginot line is "An insanely expensive defence project to give you a false sense of security that the enemy will absolutely focus on finding a cheap, effective way to neutralise".
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Cat Mattress posted:I see, Tinsley is a pacifist. He only wants to deny gays, women, and atheists rights because he wants peace with the enemies. Is he really arguing that women shouldn't have rights? Really?
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