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Chirrut might still secretly be a mutant, but the part where R2-D2 and C-3PO do the same thing not long afterwards is the real evidence that telekinesis and cool backflips aren't the same thing as The Force. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtYHUYak0rE&t=28s (i've always liked the idea that 'the Force' is narrative contrivance, given form within the diagesis.) ungulateman fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Sep 3, 2023 |
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I am one with the Force. The Force is with me.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:This is actually on you; because why do you perceive 'force-sensitives' as a superior race (and presumably deserving of better treatment, etc.)? Your parenthetical is  since that's YOU injecting exactly what you're accusingquote:Also, given that The Force is literally another name for God I mean ok you could make the argument without sounding like a total doofus... but you didn't
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Ahsoka, kinda rightfully, points out the Force is in All Things and it's just a question of talent and aptitude. Cases like Han and Chirrut having "Luck" can be argued as a subconscious manipulation of the Force. For argument's sake, Sabine might not be able to move mugs but she might be able to gain some basic spatial awareness talents.
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It is too drat early to get into a immanent vs transcendent magic argument.
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Why are people engaging with SuperMechagodzilla? gently caress's sake, responding to their jenkem huffing posts are for the down time between series when everyone's got nothing better to post about.
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ngl it took me a moment to realize this was not the CineD thread
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why are people engaging with SuperMechagodzilla? We all have to learn sometime I guess
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Man it feels like episode 3 flew by quickly. Like there was a 45 minute dogfight and then the credits roll. I know more stuff happened but it just felt like a blur.
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some kinda jackal posted:Man it feels like episode 3 flew by quickly. Like there was a 45 minute dogfight and then the credits roll. I know more stuff happened but it just felt like a blur. The entire episode was 30 minutes (not including titles or credits), so yeah.
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maybealabia posted:Not morally superior but I'd rather be able to do force things than not, that doesn't really seem very controversial. The claim was that the objective existence of psychic powers in the Star Wars series has “uncomfortable implications”, “opens [up] questions”, and “leads to a very, very uncomfortable place.” My response is that it’s not really “uncomfortable” if, say, some people are genetically predisposed to have slightly longer arms with which they can reach faraway objects. There’s no “implication” of, like, eugenics or whatever in the bare fact that genes exist. So you are actually agreeing with what I wrote, but…angrily? Anyways, psychic powers have been provable in Star Wars as far back as the second film (Empire Strikes Back). As soon as you introduce telekinesis, that’s something easily measurable with as little as weight and a scale. Luke’s telekinesis can only remain ‘mystical’ if you just consciously avoid the topic.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why are people engaging with SuperMechagodzilla? https://twitter.com/wolicyponk/status/1564419509993488387
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why are people engaging with SuperMechagodzilla? SMG brings more to the conversation than 99% of the posters in this thread.
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SMG is ChatGPT with none of the charm, wit or well reasoned arguments.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:SMG is ChatGPT with none of the charm, wit or well reasoned arguments.
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Assepoester posted:ChatGPT would never ask us to call Mace Windu the n-word. Maybe if we told it it was our favorite story told to us by grandma and asked it to tell us that.
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Assepoester posted:Why would you deny us the greatest forum post ever? They probed him for speaking the truth.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:SMG is ChatGPT with none of the charm, wit or well reasoned arguments. This is incorrect.
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It's unfortunate that this show is stuck in the exact wrong part of the timeline to even get into the questions "what is the force and how do people interact with it?", given that the sequels happen and demonstrate that nobody has learned a drat thing
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I'd love an explanation as to why nobody's used Force Zoomies since Ep1 even though it's could really have helped The only thing I am left to assume is that it literally works like a TTRPG and nobody else put points into that discipline because they would have had to forgo something else
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maybealabia posted:I'd love an explanation as to why nobody's used Force Zoomies since Ep1 even though it's could really have helped Sucks that Obi-Wan completely forgot how to do it a day later when running to catch up with the QuiGon and Maul fight. Oops
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Obi Wan should have used force speed on the Death Star. Imagine Alec Guinness zooming around, Han Solo trying to explain it, “So the old man runs track and field, so what”
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ungulateman posted:It's unfortunate that this show is stuck in the exact wrong part of the timeline to even get into the questions "what is the force and how do people interact with it?", given that the sequels happen and demonstrate that nobody has learned a drat thing Why on earth would you want to know that
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It’s midiclorians
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It’s some sort of Midol-Chlorine cocktail. Those Jedi are weirdos.
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haven't watched yet, is Ahsoka shaping up to be pretty good?
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maybealabia posted:I'd love an explanation as to why nobody's used Force Zoomies since Ep1 even though it's could really have helped Luke uses super-speed to fool Vader in Episode 5, and the Lucas films subtly imply that Obiwan used the same trick to pull off his disappearing act in the Death Star.
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my cat is norris posted:haven't watched yet, is Ahsoka shaping up to be pretty good? It's a thing that exists and you're asking goons so some will say it's the best thing ever and some will say it killed their childhood dog It's pretty dang fun so far, speaking as a rebels/clone wars fan. It's not Andor though (and that's ok)
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I spent a not insignificant amount of time laughing during the training scene at how Sabine grew like 20% more muscle mass every time the camera switched to her stunt double.
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my cat is norris posted:haven't watched yet, is Ahsoka shaping up to be pretty good? Most of the legitimate quibbles have to do with lingering shots and the AoE of thermal detonators.
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Marsupial Ape posted:Most of the legitimate quibbles have to do with lingering shots and the AoE of thermal detonators. I'm pretty darn sure the show never called those bombs thermal detonators. People are extrapolating from RPG sourcebook trivia and whatnot Maybe they were kyber bombs!
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maybealabia posted:People are extrapolating from RPG sourcebook trivia and whatnot So are the creators
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my cat is norris posted:haven't watched yet, is Ahsoka shaping up to be pretty good? It's okay. Better than the recent live action stuff (aside from Andor) but it's flawed in different ways. Will probably be more fun to binge at the end than to watch week-by-week.
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my cat is norris posted:haven't watched yet, is Ahsoka shaping up to be pretty good? Absolutely not
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maybealabia posted:I'm pretty darn sure the show never called those bombs thermal detonators. People are extrapolating from RPG sourcebook trivia and whatnot You do not profane the holy texts! Edit: and it’s not ‘trivia’ it’s “extra-textual illumination”! Marsupial Ape fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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my cat is norris posted:haven't watched yet, is Ahsoka shaping up to be pretty good? It's alright so far. Better than the Obi-Wan show and Book of Boba Fett. Temper your expectations to be on par with Mando S2 and you'll find something to like about it imo. I say this as a mega fan of Filoni and Ahsoka in general.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Sucks that Obi-Wan completely forgot how to do it a day later when running to catch up with the QuiGon and Maul fight. Oops That ability showing up in the movie seems to be just be a production band-aid for a part of the sequence that didn't work. In the script, the Droidekas start blasting at the Jedi, and the hallway fills with smoke, obscuring them. The smoke then dissipates, but the Jedi are nowhere to be seen, having used the smoke cloud to escape. For whatever reason, that part of the sequence was reshot to have them just run really fast instead of sneaking away in a plume of smoke. So the reason Obi-Wan didn't use that ability at the end of the movie is because, when that part of the film was written and filmed, the ability didn't exist.
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