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Big "old man yelling at prequels" vibes there
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Apr 24, 2022 14:54
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Apr 24, 2022 14:56
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The kind of kid who could walk into a toy store at Christmas and just straight-arm a whole shelf of toys into their parent's trolley. I remember seeing a Star Wars toy ad when I was a kid with a bunch of kids playing with their toys. One had a Vader figure and, behind him, about 20 stormtroopers. Blew my loving mind as a kid. "Wait, you can have more than one of a toy?"
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Apr 24, 2022 15:19
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      Matt Allsopp channeling John Berkey rules.
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Apr 24, 2022 23:43
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I remember seeing a Star Wars toy ad when I was a kid with a bunch of kids playing with their toys. One had a Vader figure and, behind him, about 20 stormtroopers. Now as a grown up, I've sensibly settled for two stormtroopers to flank my Star Wars Black Series Vader.  When Hasbro put out that Droid Troop Transport for the prequels that included !20 loving droids! I realized that I'd have done anything to have that as a kid, burn my grandparents' house down with them still in it, whatever. I didn't buy it; just knowing that children today had the easy troop building option made the world seem a little brighter. 
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Apr 25, 2022 03:26
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The Legion miniature game finally let's me scratch that squads of toy dudes itch from my youth. https://twitter.com/TheGr8Aspie/status/1518266267534299139?s=20&t=rlUVgwoxKQU8pqPMqKbnDQ
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Apr 25, 2022 04:24
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Peyote Panda posted:When I was a kid I'd talk with my friends about how we were all going to get multiple stormtroopers so we'd have proper Imperial army, invariably either 10 or 12 of them. Of course, none of us got so much as a second stormtrooper because there was always some new toy we didn't have one of when buying time rolled around. The pro move is to collect Lego since so many sets come with one or two Storrmtroopers you end up with a small army after a while.
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Apr 25, 2022 04:27
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Where did you think the poo went when the TIE pilots flushed? veni veni veni posted:The pro move is to collect Lego since so many sets come with one or two Storrmtroopers you end up with a small army after a while. So obviously I bought four.
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Apr 25, 2022 12:00
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Arquinsiel posted:The chestbox thing, obviously
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Apr 25, 2022 13:11
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The kind of kid who could walk into a toy store at Christmas and just straight-arm a whole shelf of toys into their parent's trolley. Same. Between my sister and I we had exactly two stormtroopers. Not exactly an intimidating imperial presence.
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Apr 25, 2022 16:37
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All that work on the art and they couldn't fix the credits?
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Apr 25, 2022 21:46
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According to the artist those (and three other variations I didn't post) were done in a single evening. They're sketches he did for the director, he would have liked to refine them more, but they didn't get chosen to go further and he never found the time. I find the low res, hastily bashed ESB poster elements to be part of the charm! It goes with the really loose quality of the rest of it. Different artist, similar subject; finished box art for a boardgame expansion: 
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Apr 26, 2022 03:34
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Everyone in that painting looks off in a uniquely different way.
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Apr 26, 2022 10:19
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There's no board games thread so Prolonged Panorama posted:According to the artist those (and three other variations I didn't post) were done in a single evening. They're sketches he did for the director, he would have liked to refine them more, but they didn't get chosen to go further and he never found the time. Prolonged Panorama posted:
I think the overall plot and structure of the movie Rogue One doesn't work right for me, but dang did they put a whole lot of work into the characters and visual designs.
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Apr 26, 2022 23:01
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Ever since I noticed it, the TIE Pilot helmet just being a Rebel helmet with a Stormtrooper mask glued to it has been very distracting whenever they show up. 
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Apr 27, 2022 17:59
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Makes sense to a degree. The X-Wing helmet is just Imperial kit with a bit left off, much like the Nebulon-B. I wonder what the TIE pilot helmet looks like with the blast shield down though, and if that's why Han had one in the Falcon.
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Apr 27, 2022 20:33
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Robot Style posted:Ever since I noticed it, the TIE Pilot helmet just being a Rebel helmet with a Stormtrooper mask glued to it has been very distracting whenever they show up. It would make sense from an in-universe point of view (as opposed to in-props department). The rebels are probably either buying military surplus helmets, or just buying theirs from the same supplier. The Star Wars equivalent of David Clark probably provides the Imperial Spec version for a hundred thousand space bucks to the Empire, and the rebels just buy the much more reasonably priced (but still how does this cost so much expensive) off-the-shelf model, since they don't need fancy storm trooper mask integration.
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Apr 27, 2022 22:31
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Finger Prince posted:It would make sense from an in-universe point of view (as opposed to in-props department). The rebels are probably either buying military surplus helmets, or just buying theirs from the same supplier. The Star Wars equivalent of David Clark probably provides the Imperial Spec version for a hundred thousand space bucks to the Empire, and the rebels just buy the much more reasonably priced (but still how does this cost so much expensive) off-the-shelf model, since they don't need fancy storm trooper mask integration. A lot of The Last Jedi is a blur these days, but doesn't Benicio del Toro's character talk about how a lot of the
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Apr 27, 2022 23:30
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Dave Syndrome posted:A lot of The Last Jedi is a blur these days, but doesn't Benicio del Toro's character talk about how a lot of the I do remember a scene where space-euro-trash arms dealers titter with delight at some lavish venue about how profitable this war business is, but it didn't go anywhere. Maybe they all got blown up or something? Who knows.
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Apr 27, 2022 23:41
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It was on that space yacht the Benicio character stole from the casino planet in order to save Finn and Rose, so he could betray them later. Anyway, it had easily accessible ship schematic plans or something showing that the yacht's space-euro-gambler-owner was playing both sides of the war. It makes no sense because there's always been a big deal made about how the scrappy rebels had to scrounge together durable junky ships from shady dealers and off-brand manufacturers to compete with the shiny assembly-line expendable Imperial ships, so why would they all be getting the same stuff a few years later, but don't think too hard about it. Hazo fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Apr 27, 2022 23:45
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Hazo posted:It was on that space yacht the Benicio character stole from the casino planet in order to save Finn and Rose, so he could betray them later. Anyway, it had easily accessible ship schematic plans or something showing that the yacht's space-euro-gambler-owner was playing both sides of the war. It kind of makes sense as a callback to Episode 3, where the Jedi fly TIEs and the stormtroopers fly X-Wings with helmets that mix the imagery of both sides of the war.  Though in that case "the war is just a scam that a small group of people are profiting from" was a big part of the story, while in TLJ it's just a throwaway thing.
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Apr 27, 2022 23:56
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God that movie was such a gong show.
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Apr 28, 2022 00:44
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It always seemed weird to me that while supposedly junk, the rebel ships all have way better shields, armaments, hyperdrive, etc than the imperial ships. Have some N1 Starfighters, actual most beautiful beast of the Star Wars:   
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Apr 28, 2022 01:29
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It always seemed weird to me that while supposedly junk, the rebel ships all have way better shields, armaments, hyperdrive, etc than the imperial ships. I remember it as the rebels investing in individually better ships because they knew they might not be able to replace them, but as a result they ended up with a bunch of fighters that were beat up pieces of poo poo because of the very fact that they did survive. Meanwhile in the imperial fleet you never see a damaged tie fighter because when they take a hit, they blow the gently caress up, repeat 1000x and Sinister Industries, Inc. gets a fat new defense contract
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Apr 28, 2022 01:44
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We also learn in Rebels that the Y-Wings look like they've had the hulls mostly stripped because they have. They were all stolen from a junker's yard. All of them. Every single one. At the same time. By Chopper.Hazo posted:It was on that space yacht the Benicio character stole from the casino planet in order to save Finn and Rose, so he could betray them later. Anyway, it had easily accessible ship schematic plans or something showing that the yacht's space-euro-gambler-owner was playing both sides of the war.
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skasion posted:I remember it as the rebels investing in individually better ships because they knew they might not be able to replace them, but as a result they ended up with a bunch of fighters that were beat up pieces of poo poo because of the very fact that they did survive. The X-wing was originally an Imperial project, but the designers defected with the plans and prototypes right as they were about to enter full scale production. skasion posted:Meanwhile in the imperial fleet you never see a damaged tie fighter because when they take a hit, they blow the gently caress up, repeat 1000x and Sinister Industries, Inc. gets a fat new defense contract TIEs are made by Sienar Fleet Systems, so, yeah lol. lol at the situational awareness you'd have wearing this inside a TIE cockpit, no wonder TIEs are considered strictly inferior. If we're gonna do Lego N1s, you've got to go with the custom version: [some CG renders I did]   
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Well they should be making more toys of it since that's Din's ship in Mando s3.
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I haven't played Squadrons but lol at how everyone talks about the TIEs being exactly as awkward as the seem. One entirely forward-facing viewport, plus you've got to look through the tiny eyeholes in your helmet. No wonder the rebels won. Me and my wife both got pilot licenses recently, and visual flying rules are hard enough. Good lord imagine flying around in an imperial helmet with WW2 instruments and a TIE cockpit. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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Apr 28, 2022 15:08
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Tie pilot helmets (and Stormtrooper helmets) have complex AR HUD optics, the physical cockpit displays are just redundancies. The rebels don't have them so they have to make do with a janky external targeting computer. Unfortunately, the AR overlay requires exact, precise, individual calibration for every user, otherwise targeting will be wildly inaccurate. Just about doable for the pilot corps, not so much for the storm trooper grunts. But Grand Moff Kickbacks was sold on the flashy sales pitch, figured hell they're clones, their eyes are all the same anyway, and contracted 100 million units with options for another 200 million.
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Apr 28, 2022 17:51
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Furthermore, if you look at these detailed schematics
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Finger Prince posted:Tie pilot helmets (and Stormtrooper helmets) have complex AR HUD optics, the physical cockpit displays are just redundancies. The rebels don't have them so they have to make do with a janky external targeting computer. Unfortunately, the AR overlay requires exact, precise, individual calibration for every user, otherwise targeting will be wildly inaccurate. Just about doable for the pilot corps, not so much for the storm trooper grunts. But Grand Moff Kickbacks was sold on the flashy sales pitch, figured hell they're clones, their eyes are all the same anyway, and contracted 100 million units with options for another 200 million. I see you went to the mofference
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Finger Prince posted:Tie pilot helmets (and Stormtrooper helmets) have complex AR HUD optics, the physical cockpit displays are just redundancies.   
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Zesty posted:Furthermore, if you look at these detailed schematics  “Stormtrooper Helmet There are a number of different models of Imperial stormtrooper standard issue helmets, incorporating various specialized components and changing over time with new developments. In this model, enhanced optical equipment creates holographic images of the surrounding terrain, shielding the eye from excessive brightness and offering vision through many barriers such as smoke, darkness, and fire. Optical equipment in trooper helmets can range from simple eye lenses to these elaborate vision processors.” 
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The best is still the Scout Trooper armour because it looks cool and eliminates all peripheral vision
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Apr 29, 2022 13:41
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Animal Friend posted:The best is still the Scout Trooper armour because it looks cool and eliminates all peripheral vision "You will ride your bike in a straight line on this forest moon filled with trees close together and you will like it, or would you prefer sanitation duty on the Death Star?"
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It just occurred to me that Boba never actually met or has any reason to care about Grogu.
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That book is a seriously cool read if you can find it. Just all kinds of batshit illustrations like that and some  trying to justify the weirdass animals they invented for the universe.
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