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Casimir Radon posted:The emperor’s three eyed son. The one with the eye in the back of his head, not the one with it in his forehead. That guy’s a liar. Dark Empire, Dark Empire 2, and Emperor's End are things I've always wanted to read. My public library had the audio drama versions of them and I got the tapes and later CD set out so many times. My favorite character was the steam powered Jedi from the gas cloud. I've started reading them but always end up never even getting through DE1
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Failed Imagineer posted:Nooo not Crix Madine! lmao was going to post this I remember the Marvel comics also had the empire attempt to build THE EYE OF TARKIN which was similarly a Death Star but without the armor around it so it was just like the big laser perpendicular to a tower of Death Star surface stuff. Those comics were pretty cool though and I liked that they were just ongoing stories in between the movies. That early point in between Empire and Jedi's stories playing out they also had a bunch of imperial officers attempt to have Vader assassinated because of how many folks he strangled/how off track they felt he was being so focused on finding Luke throughout Empire's events.
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The Cameo posted:Darksaber. If I'm not mistaken the reason it blows up is because whoever they hired to construct it built the superlaser backwards. They run into a New Republic fleet, there's a little battle, and they aim the laser at a capital ship to create enough chaos so they can get away, and it's in the last seconds before it fires that someone realizes "uh, all this superlaser stuff is pointing in the wrong direction". A lovely knockoff Death Star is hilarious because it's all too likely. Look at the IRL history of superweapons and things like the Ratte.
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Len posted:Dark Empire, Dark Empire 2, and Emperor's End are things I've always wanted to read. My public library had the audio drama versions of them and I got the tapes and later CD set out so many times. My favorite character was the steam powered Jedi from the gas cloud. Dark Empire is pretty terrible aside from a couple of decent concepts, so you aren’t missing much. The Dark Horse comics from that era are generally pretty bad when it comes to OT stuff (aside from Rogue Squadron), but the Tales of The Jedi series was excellent. Just really weird and vaguely medieval stuff with lots of Moebius-esque landscapes and designs.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A lovely knockoff Death Star is hilarious because it's all too likely. Look at the IRL history of superweapons and things like the Ratte. It's a shame the Marvel Ultimate Universe ended up going down the Darker and Edgier toilet (though it did give us Sam Jackson as Nick Fury and Miles Morales) because it was an utter stroke of genius to make every single Marvel super hero's origin story be the result of the entire world trying to create their own version of Cap's Super Soldier Serum (or at the very least some other way to create superhumans) since the 40s. That's totally what would happen IRL. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Dark Empire is pretty terrible aside from a couple of decent concepts, so you aren’t missing much. I've also heard those audio dramas a bunch they were also really rad. Crimson Empire got a full cast version too but that wasn't as good as the others imo
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Tars Tarkas posted:Look at these scrubs who didn't have a Crix Madine toy as a kid, complete with white wand stick accessory that went well with Admiral Ackbar's black wand stick accessory. *knockoff Lobot Cop action figure from taiwan
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A lovely knockoff Death Star is hilarious because it's all too likely. Look at the IRL history of superweapons and things like the Ratte. The silly power creep is a tried and true staple of space operas. Star Wars originally drew heavily from The Lensman which started as 'peak genetic specimen destroys planet destroying superweapon' and ended with 'army of millenia long eugenics programs destroys army of galaxy destroying super weapons.'
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Star Wars is really just the one kind of story over and over again. Even Rogue One, which was supposed to initiate a series of movies doing different things in the setting, segues into the first Star Wars movie at the end.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Someone’s never played Dark Forces Or Rogue Squadron for that part. ROGUE SQUADRON, WHERE'S MY COVER?!
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Naked boomers: *sigh* "I just can't get work anymore" Naked boomers: *ears prick up*
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I’m losing my mind, I didn’t know Ari Aster announced a new movie and that it stars Joaquin Phoenix. Hell yeah.
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I’ve only heard of like two of those people
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Len posted:Dark Empire, Dark Empire 2, and Emperor's End are things I've always wanted to read. My public library had the audio drama versions of them and I got the tapes and later CD set out so many times. My favorite character was the steam powered Jedi from the gas cloud. The guy who wrote Dark Empire is writing a book about the making of DE and its legacy, though I know he delayed it after Rise of Skywalker came out so he could work in the obvious influences there, and I assume covid might also have delayed it further.
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Chairman Capone posted:The guy who wrote Dark Empire is writing a book about the making of DE and its legacy, though I know he delayed it after Rise of Skywalker came out so he could work in the obvious influences there, and I assume covid might also have delayed it further. The old SW audio dramas were really cool when I was a kid. I got my mom to copy the library tapes of the Dark Forces ones. They’ve made a couple new audio dramas recently. One about Dooku, and another about Dr. Aphra. I bought them but haven’t had a chance to listen to them yet.
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Weekly World News is back...in movie form!quote:Weekly World News—the supermarket tabloid behind such wacky characters as Bat Boy, Manigator, P’lod the Alien, Ph.D. Ape and SpyCat—is launching an entertainment division. https://deadline.com/2021/07/bat-boy-tabloid-weekly-world-news-launches-entertainment-division-1234796950/ I've seen the Batboy musical so it's interesting they are doing a different musical as the first movie (also not 100% certain if WWN owns the rights to the Batboy musical)
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It’s Rick Scott’s time to shine!
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there's probably a good movie to be made about the WWN itself. You could make it all magic realist and have Batboy and poo poo be real as well
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Hope no UK goons were hoping to see The Green Knight as it has been pulled from theaters due to covid concerns.
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muscles like this! posted:Hope no UK goons were hoping to see The Green Knight as it has been pulled from theaters due to covid concerns. Unlucky for The Green Knight to be beheaded and also contract COVID
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muscles like this! posted:Hope no UK goons were hoping to see The Green Knight as it has been pulled from theaters due to covid concerns. There's also a rumor they got an offer from a streaming service.
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isnt WWN owned by the national enquirer chud
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muscles like this! posted:Hope no UK goons were hoping to see The Green Knight as it has been pulled from theaters due to covid concerns. A solid decision. We're going to be back in hard lockdown in a few weeks. Or we won't, because our government is insane. Either way no one will be going to the cinema because things are going to be very grim again.
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What’s funny is I was wondering what ever happened to Dev Patel, and then the first trailer came out.
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Casimir Radon posted:What’s funny is I was wondering what ever happened to Dev Patel, and then the first trailer came out. breaking indian girl's hearts https://twitter.com/teaforpterosaur/status/1292445765541953538?s=20
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The rare female incel. Is there lore for an asian version of the chad?
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i think it's the stacey? vs the gothy looking wojack girl why do i know these things
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She does look like the girl wojak. It’s uncanny.
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Because all of us on these here dead forums are very internet poisoned
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Alan Smithee posted:breaking indian girl's hearts
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I'm a brown Asian guy. Why no one told me I'm supposed to date an average white girl?
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For real though, I took a casual look through her recent tweets and this chick just seems like a straight up islamic supremacist
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If it’s who I think it is, she writes pro-Myanmar (that is, pro-Myanmar military dictatorship) articles for the Post Millennial, an openly nazi publication.
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Very cool and normal thing to do
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Casimir Radon posted:What’s funny is I was wondering what ever happened to Dev Patel, and then the first trailer came out. He was David Copperfield just last year!
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Julius CSAR posted:For real though, I took a casual look through her recent tweets and this chick just seems like a straight up islamic supremacist Antifa Turkeesian posted:If it’s who I think it is, she writes pro-Myanmar (that is, pro-Myanmar military dictatorship) articles for the Post Millennial, an openly nazi publication. The Muslim conservative equivalent of being an anti-Semite who supports people who give blank checks to Israel.
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It's not inaccurate that some POC -- male and female alike -- look to date white people exclusively. Whether that's internalized racism or societal indoctrination or pure happenstance, who the gently caress knows. But society does place a premium on white appearances and that certain POC are hugely disfavored as dating partners. It's a touchy subject and I'd rather it get discussed meaningfully than dismissed outright because of some bad tweeter. But yes, that person's tweets are awful and sassing someone's girlfriend is for sure not the way to do this.
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Vegetable posted:It's not inaccurate that some POC -- male and female alike -- look to date white people exclusively. Whether that's internalized racism or societal indoctrination or pure happenstance, who the gently caress knows. But society does place a premium on white appearances and that certain POC are hugely disfavored as dating partners. It's a touchy subject and I'd rather it get discussed meaningfully than dismissed outright because of some bad tweeter. It could just be a fetish. There are plenty of white people who are really into dating Asian people, why not the opposite?
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