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Arc Hammer posted:Just give her a gun. The Daniel Logan clones used blasters during the Kamino episodes, but Omega and space Aladdin have to use laser bows and slingshots. Two words; American Schools.
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Hi guys, I just caught up on Andor and I think that if Cinta ever got mad at me then I would have to flee to the farthest corner of the galaxy and still be looking over my shoulder in terror every day.
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withak posted:Hi guys, I just caught up on Andor and I think that if Cinta ever got mad at me then I would have to flee to the farthest corner of the galaxy and still be looking over my shoulder in terror every day. She would definitely blapp you too, and enjoy it Also, there is apparently a lot of cinta out there, but I'm going with this one; Wiktionary posted:belt (a device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon) blapp blapp blapp
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AJA posted:Also, there is apparently a lot of cinta out there, but I'm going with this one; Interesting that it means film given we've also got a character named Kino.
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Mar 21, 2023 06:00
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Maybe the Kaminoan messed up and meant "1,000,000" in base three since they have three fingers per hand, which would be 1,212,210,202,001 in Base 10 base 3 "1,000,000" is 729 in base 10. It's base 10 1,000,000 that is "1,212,210,202,001" in base 3 Maybe the messed up in the opposite sense, they got an order for 1,212,210,202,001 clones but they only made 1,000,000 of them. YggdrasilTM fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 09:07
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There is at least the fact that there not being that many clones, and them being slow and expensive to make, makes swapping to recruiting regular human stormtroopers an actual smart move.
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Mar 21, 2023 11:44
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Arc Hammer posted:Just give her a gun. The Daniel Logan clones used blasters during the Kamino episodes, but Omega and space Aladdin have to use laser bows and slingshots. it's more adorable that way the only thing missing is a
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Mar 21, 2023 12:08
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YggdrasilTM posted:base 3 "1,000,000" is 729 in base 10. lol I set up the calculator the wrong way. 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:lol I set up the calculator the wrong way. So you're Lama Su
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Mar 21, 2023 14:39
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I always assumed the Hoth landing was so sparse because the Imps knew they could just waltz in and blow the shield gen without and meaningful opposition. A lance or whatever of 3 AT-ATs and a screen of STs were doing just fine against the emplacements the rebels had until the speeders tripped them. Not sure why that caused the armor to suddenly be more susceptible to their blasters but it’s Star Wars. The only reason the rebels got out was the planetary ion cannon that was irreplaceable. Also seems like there weren’t that many people there overall if they all got out on a handful of cargo ships and fighters. There’s always been a scale problem but then again ultimately it’s a series aimed at kids than rational adults who’ve spent way too much time learning about ww2. I’ve always been able to turn off my brain and just enjoy space wizards and space planes going blap blap unless I get high and start over analyzing everything. I guess that’s what made a lot of the sequel trilogy chaff so much is that it broke through that rule of cool so egregiously that it was hard to just take it in. Honestly none of the shows have done that except parts of booba feet but even then overall it was fun enough. I guess watching it all with a 10 year old helps keep up that sense of fun. Whatever it is i’m grateful for it.
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Whatever you do, don’t start thinking about how the hydro-powered dry well prisons are breaking the laws of thermodynamics.
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Narsham posted:1 Executor-class = 24 AT-ATs and up to 38,000 troops, and 200 assault shuttles (carry 2 squads?) I feel like Andor fixes this by making it more clear that, like with the republic, there are several planets under the empire's direct military control but most of them are allowed to have whatever corporation or local government administer it and do their thing as long as number goes up. So something like Hoth where it's an entire rapid arrival of tons of troops at once is probably a bigger deal than normal for the empire (like how in ESB they mention if Ozzel didn't alert them by comig in so close an orbital bombardment would have been the first thing. Sort of matches with how in Clone Wars we followed small geoups of clones sent to do very specialized stuff or to complement existing forces to provide an edge.
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withak posted:Whatever you do, don’t start thinking about how the hydro-powered dry well prisons are breaking the laws of thermodynamics. Nah, the holes go down to the core to make steam. That's why it takes so long to reset.
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one thing George Lucas did really well was to craft battle narratives. They were military narratives; for example, in the Battle of Hoth you see that: *the imperials cannot penetrate the Rebel shield, and so land ground forces to attack Echo Base *the rebel blasters cannot penetrate the AT-AT armor *the rebels send the snowspeeders, using novel tactics and teamwork to inflict surprisingly heavy casualties on the imperials and to buy time for their evacuation *however, they can't stop the literal relentless march of the Imperial war machine; the shield generator is destroyed, making the defense of the base hopeless *the giant ion cannon disables the star destroyers forming the blockade, enabling the rebel transports to escape which was all the same whether it was 5 or 5,000 AT-ATs, but 'stopping the AT ATs' was still a *military* objective. The heroic characters on each side made no actual difference to the course of the battle, but functioned as viewpoints to show the progress of the narrative. In ROTJ the heroes were effectively off on side adventures; we didn't see Lando blip blapping the star destroyers or anything, and the single 'heroic action' in the space battle (taking out the SSD) was by a complete rando. this was something never grasped by the sequel trilogy; the battles were told as heroic narratives where the only thing that actually mattered was the actions of the heroes, and everyone else on both sides were essentially disposable goons. the most straightforwardly direct comparison is probably Hoth vs Crait; on Crait the decisive factor was the baby death star thing that the rebels had to destroy, and whether there were 5 or 5000 super walkers the FO would have lost if one dude blew up the one siege laser. And when JJ cranked the scale lever by 10,000 arbitarily, he didn't actually show a *battle*; he showed a series of heroic actions that had total control of the outcome. George Lucas *also* did heroic narrative battles, like destroying the Droid Control Ship, but it wasn't the *only* thing he was capable of. TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 18:12
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withak posted:Whatever you do, don’t start thinking about how the hydro-powered dry well prisons are breaking the laws of thermodynamics. Wait, I want to hear this because I haven't figured it out. The water going through the turbines just has to go somewhere because it can't go immediately back into the reservoir. As long as it goes somewhere, like water tunnels out of the lake or big electrolyzers to synthesize hydrogen and oxygen for Empire reasons, it should work.
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Sash! posted:Wait, I want to hear this because I haven't figured it out. The water needs to go somewhere lower in elevation to generate power. If this is the ocean then there is nowhere lower in elevation which means the water is being pumped back out for a net loss in energy. If it is a high-altitude lake then you could theoretically have a tunnel at the bottom conveying that water to a valley somewhere, but that arrangement wouldn't be very sustainable because you would be draining the lake. withak fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 20:39
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Realised only recently that lovely Star Wars sequels is a thing that existed right from the start. Because, lest we forget, the direct sequel to Star Wars wasn't Empire Strikes Back. It was the Star Wars Holiday Special.
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Parkingtigers posted:Realised only recently that lovely Star Wars sequels is a thing that existed right from the start. Because, lest we forget, the direct sequel to Star Wars wasn't Empire Strikes Back. It was the Star Wars Holiday Special. And Splinter of the Mind's Eye! 
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nine-gear crow posted:And Splinter of the Mind's Eye! Smav drink?
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withak posted:The water needs to go somewhere lower in elevation to generate power. If this is the ocean then there is nowhere lower in elevation which means the water is being pumped back out for a net loss in energy. If it is a high-altitude lake then you could theoretically have a tunnel at the bottom conveying that water to a valley somewhere, but that arrangement wouldn't be very sustainable because you would be draining the lake. Also in star wars they have devices that can negate gravity, so it's not breaking thermodynamics to put the water back in the lake (polluted) because they don't have to overcome gravity to do it. They just turn gravity off.
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Seems like they would have access to better power sources than the potential energy stored in water anyway.
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withak posted:Seems like they would have access to better power sources than the potential energy stored in water anyway. The suffering is the point
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Surely one could produce suffering more efficiently and sustainably by leveraging advanced technology though.
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withak posted:Surely one could produce suffering more efficiently and sustainably by leveraging advanced technology though. Say what you will about star wars 9 but I guess this was what was depicted with exegol. Far from merely a space fantasist, JJ answered the hard questions
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withak posted:The water needs to go somewhere lower in elevation to generate power. If this is the ocean then there is nowhere lower in elevation which means the water is being pumped back out for a net loss in energy. If it is a high-altitude lake then you could theoretically have a tunnel at the bottom conveying that water to a valley somewhere, but that arrangement wouldn't be very sustainable because you would be draining the lake. Maybe the planet's hollow? Bet you feel foolish now 
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The fastest way to da naboo is going through the planet core.
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Arc Hammer posted:The fastest way to da naboo is going through the planet core. In a mini-sub the size of a Mazda Miata. And Naboo's core is somehow watery and not under immense, Jedi-crushing pressure.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:In a mini-sub the size of a Mazda Miata. And Naboo's core is somehow watery and not under immense, Jedi-crushing pressure. It's a very tough submarine!
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I just assume THE PLANET CORE was nonsense puffery and not an actual straight line through the planet.
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I dunno, I kinda like the idea of a planet under the effect of magic space physics such that it is just a giant bubble of water floating in space, just a zero-gravity ocean sphere with whales and sea monsters tooling around throughout it
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Sash! posted:I just assume THE PLANET CORE was nonsense puffery and not an actual straight line through the planet. Yeah I figured it was just a metaphor, like the heart of the jungle or the eye of the storm.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Yeah I figured it was just a metaphor, like the heart of the jungle or the eye of the storm. Both of those are not metaphors but literally describing the center of either a jungle or a storm?? If the planets core was the same as those it would literally mean the center of the planet!
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BIG HEADLINE posted:In a mini-sub the size of a Mazda Miata. And Naboo's core is somehow watery and not under immense, Jedi-crushing pressure. The Jedi themselves could withstand the pressure of free swimming down to an enormous city under water which nobody else on land knew about despite being the only thing in this lake that’s glowing.
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Jerkface posted:Both of those are not metaphors but literally describing the center of either a jungle or a storm?? If the planets core was the same as those it would literally mean the center of the planet! They aren't literal hearts or eyes though. I don't need to take the name literally any more than I need to somewhere called World's End literally.
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Canonically speaking, getting the bends from his reckless free dive was probably why qui gon died in the duel with darth maul. Rather than the jedi love ban or an evil cartoon wizard, the root of the tragedy was even more relatable: lack of adherence to proper diving procedure
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I don't think you should think too hard about any star wars movies because george definitely didn't and the disney era lucasfilm picked up the mantle of writing poo poo that doesn't hold up to even cursory inspection
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The executor alone had the firepower to pound the rebel base on hoth flat the whole point was they wanted to take at least some of the rebels alive. Also doubtful all the AT-ATs were properly adapted for cold weather and time was a factor here.
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1st AD posted:I don't think you should think too hard about any star wars movies because george definitely didn't and the disney era lucasfilm picked up the mantle of writing poo poo that doesn't hold up to even cursory inspection My measure of literally any Star Wars related material has never been "Is it good?" because they ALL fail that metric aside from Empire Strikes Back; instead I judge them by "Did I enjoy watching/reading/playing it?" and the answer to that one is generally "Yes, but..." The only one that's ever outright flunked that test for me with a straight 0/10 so far has been Rise of Skywalker.
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With the exception of *maybe* the Armorer, this covert are definitely the Pakleds of the loving Mandos. "It always gets away." You mean this isn't the FIRST time a kid's been abducted and loving EATEN and you loving morons never thought to get a ship? Oh holy poo poo. "It has happened before when it has taken others."
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So… We’re just that much closer to a Darth Jar Jar, aren’t we?
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