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A lightsaber sniper rifle is called a blaster. He just made a gun.
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Jul 23, 2019 19:34
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Halloween Jack posted:A lightsaber sniper rifle is called a blaster. He just made a gun. And those are borderline useless in Star Wars until they've been strung
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Jul 23, 2019 19:40
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Should've brought back Sha'a Gi as the creator of the Farkiller "Like zoinks man, maybe killing your enemies before they kill you is a good thing?"
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Jul 23, 2019 19:42
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FARK KILLER
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Jul 23, 2019 19:50
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tino posted:FARK KILLER Fark Iller, the dopest DJ in the Galaxy, mentor Max Rebo and legendary hero of the Old Republic
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Jul 23, 2019 19:52
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Halloween Jack posted:A lightsaber sniper rifle is called a blaster. He just made a gun. Nah, it's a hand-held, low-power Death Star.
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Jul 23, 2019 19:53
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A Death Star is also a gun.
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Jul 23, 2019 19:55
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galagazombie posted:Poe is kinda exemplary of the problems with battles in the ST. In the entirety of the original trilogy super special destined hero Luke shoots down a whopping total of two TIE Fighters in his X-wing. Poe meanwhile downs like two dozen in TFA alone and singlehandedly disarms an entire mega ultra super duper Star Destroyer effortlessly by himself while downing yet more in TLJ. You never really get the feeling the heroes ever actually have to try. Which makes them seem all the more pathetic when they [i]still[/l] lose to a group 100 times more comically incompetant and baldly led than the Empire. I had the same issue with the first half of Rogue One. Jynn, Donnie Yen and .... guy with the machine gun mow down stormtroopers so effortlessly, it was really dull.
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Jul 23, 2019 19:57
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It's important to make the bad guys at least seem like a threat. Even Luke had trouble with some of Jabba's guards and the Scout Troopers, and Anakin and Obi-Wan got punked by the Seperatists.
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Jul 23, 2019 20:27
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I've been thinking, when was the first time we saw Jedi actively reflect laserbeams back? There's the scene with the training remote where Luke blocks. But I'm thinking ROTJ against the speeders is the first time we actually see him deflect laser blasts? I think there's a random shot he does in the Jabba scene as well, but no attention is drawn to it.
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Jul 23, 2019 21:03
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Darth TNT posted:I've been thinking, when was the first time we saw Jedi actively reflect laserbeams back? Vader does it with his hand in Empire Strikes Back.
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Jul 23, 2019 21:08
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Darth TNT posted:I've been thinking, when was the first time we saw Jedi actively reflect laserbeams back? Pretty sure he does it against Jabba's goons but also takes a shot to the hand.
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Jul 23, 2019 21:15
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Grendels Dad posted:Pretty sure he does it against Jabba's goons but also takes a shot to the hand.  
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Jul 23, 2019 22:31
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Jerkface posted:Technically the death star is a gun that shoots lightsabers. Ugh. This whole "everything is powered by Kyber crystals because we read that word somewhere" is another extremely trite thing with the Disney movies. Like with the new focus on space gas, or Han's dice, they're weirdly fetishizing tech and objects, but it's so totally uninteresting that no matter how many supplemental books and movies they get to explain "no really, this is important", no one cares. A similar thing is going on in the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, where they're going "hell yeah isn't this tech cool as gently caress or what!!!" and it's like, yeah maybe it would be but you ruined it by calling attention to it all the drat time and over-explaining it.
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Jul 23, 2019 22:32
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Muppetjedi posted:I had the same issue with the first half of Rogue One. Jynn, Donnie Yen and .... guy with the machine gun mow down stormtroopers so effortlessly, it was really dull. Stormtroopers andn TIEs being useless fodder is a big cultural thing not unlike Kirk drift, and it's been exacerbated by years of video games Mostly unrelated, but the delivery of these lines always made me wonder if they deliberately got caught. Ani continues to enjoy a nice little trap in subsequent episodes (letting the Falcon lead them to Yavin and torturing Han to throw out bad energy to lure Luke) Bogus Adventure posted:It's important to make the bad guys at least seem like a threat. Even Luke had trouble with some of Jabba's guards and the Scout Troopers, and Anakin and Obi-Wan got punked by the Seperatists.
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Jul 23, 2019 22:40
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I never noticed the bolt was reflected back to the hand. Thanks.
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Jul 23, 2019 22:50
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Ingmar terdman posted:Stormtroopers andn TIEs being useless fodder is a big cultural thing not unlike Kirk drift, and it's been exacerbated by years of video games I love that exchange because it's funny, and it sounds like something you'd say if you were playing a tabletop game and you walk right into the GM's trap. Darth TNT posted:I never noticed the bolt was reflected back to the hand. Thanks. Good eye, I thought he got hit in the chest.
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Jul 23, 2019 23:03
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Bogus Adventure posted:I love that exchange because it's funny, and it sounds like something you'd say if you were playing a tabletop game and you walk right into the GM's trap. Getting captured was the go-to plan to finding info for one of my characters. Being a cyborg, he was confident he could escape and/or beat up the enemies afterward. It only backfired once or twice!
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Jul 23, 2019 23:56
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tino posted:FARK KILLER Fart Killer
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Jul 24, 2019 01:01
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MonsieurChoc posted:Getting captured was the go-to plan to finding info for one of my characters. Being a cyborg, he was confident he could escape and/or beat up the enemies afterward. That's the spirit!
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Jul 24, 2019 01:11
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Ingmar terdman posted:Really need to make sure everyone saw that a Jedi named Oo'ob made a lightsaber sniper rifle called the Farkiller EA seriously needs to nerf the oo'ob tube, the wide-open maps are getting unplayable
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Jul 24, 2019 04:25
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:In the Darth Vader series there is also a lightsaber powered rifle that Jocasta uses against Vader. Jerkface posted:OH poo poo yea I forgot, Jocasta owns too.  in space
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Jul 24, 2019 12:13
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Jedi Master F'Wocka-F'Wocka.
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Jul 24, 2019 12:43
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Grendels Dad posted:Jedi Master F'Wocka-F'Wocka. You mean Jedi Fozzie?
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Jul 24, 2019 13:37
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Bogus Adventure posted:These are the dumbest designs ever. They look like they got their armor and weapons out of a junkyard. Maybe they'd work on a post-apocalyptic Star Wars setting, but lmao that these are the bad guys with the resources enough to build a doomsday weapon and a massive fleet. Everything post-Clone Wars is post-apocalyptic.
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Jul 24, 2019 20:58
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When they take off their helmets I imagine they all look like Cenobites. That or a college lacrosse team.
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Jul 24, 2019 21:15
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General Dog posted:When they take off their helmets I imagine they all look like Cenobites. That or a college lacrosse team. I'd be down for Star Wars: Hellraiser
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Jul 24, 2019 21:49
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Bogus Adventure posted:I'd be down for Star Wars: Hellraiser Such sights we have, to show you.
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Jul 24, 2019 21:57
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wyoming posted:Such sights we have, to show you. Such sights to show you, we have.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:03
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To show you, such sights, have we.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:44
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Wept, Jesus did.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:48
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Everything would need to be done with 1980s-era effects, though.
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Jul 25, 2019 00:08
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The more I think about the Knights of Ren as cenobites, the more it makes sense. They got outwitted by a teenage girl, too.
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Jul 25, 2019 00:09
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:In the Darth Vader series there is also a lightsaber powered rifle that Jocasta uses against Vader. Lol @ this heavy rear end old cyborg jumping around all nimbly bimbly (I mean, I think. It's hard to tell, that is some baaaad art)
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Jul 25, 2019 02:09
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Muppetjedi posted:I had the same issue with the first half of Rogue One. Jynn, Donnie Yen and .... guy with the machine gun mow down stormtroopers so effortlessly, it was really dull. Machine gun guy kills vastly less Stormtroopers after going beast mode than he does while not trying the rest of the movie it's hilarious
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Jul 25, 2019 02:53
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mastershakeman posted:Machine gun guy kills vastly less Stormtroopers after going beast mode than he does while not trying the rest of the movie it's hilarious The front and back half of Rogue One do seem to be almost out of different movies. When they talk about all the reshoots the movie had I wonder if they were all loaded into one of those halves and not the other.
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Jul 25, 2019 06:24
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It’s been interesting to see opinion of Rogue One change over time. At release I only ever saw positive opinions of it but now it’s a movie that a lot of Star Wars fans are slowly changing their minds on? I still love that movie and think it’s the only good Disney era Star Wars film so far.
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Jul 25, 2019 14:12
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I said come in! posted:It’s been interesting to see opinion of Rogue One change over time. At release I only ever saw positive opinions of it but now it’s a movie that a lot of Star Wars fans are slowly changing their minds on? I still love that movie and think it’s the only good Disney era Star Wars film so far. Even between proponents and detractors, the debate always seems to center on the general tone and pace of the film (and admittedly, in this thread, on the politics). However the most overlooked criticism of this film is that Jyn Erso is easily the least charismatic lead in any Star Wars film to date and is an absolute snooze to watch.
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Jul 25, 2019 14:19
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I think Rogue One at the time looked particularly good because I was comparing it to The Force Awakens, which I didn't like very much. But as time goes on and Rogue One is judged more individually on it's own terms, it does kinda blend into the background as just another cynical cash-in movie that doesn't have a whole lot of staying power. The finale is still a hell of a special effects showcase though, we've had a few Star Wars films since then and I don't think they've topped it yet.
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Jul 25, 2019 14:28
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galagazombie posted:The front and back half of Rogue One do seem to be almost out of different movies. When they talk about all the reshoots the movie had I wonder if they were all loaded into one of those halves and not the other. The reshoots were loaded in the second half
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Jul 25, 2019 14:44
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