General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 190

CatBus said:

Tobar said:

Looks like little Annie fell to the Darkside

Goatees lead to handlebars, handlebars lead to neckbeards, neckbeards lead to mutton chops.

Actually, I've heard that neckbeards can also lead to anti-Semitism and an obsession with composing "total works of art".

But what do I know? I'm just another man of flesh.

AntcuFaalb said:

ray_afraid said:

This actually looks much more like what I'd imagined Anikin would look like before the PT!

Nah, it's all about young Sebastian Shaw.

Lovely fanart.

I can't help but nitpick, however--IIRC young Shaw actually had dark hair. Which seems to have been how GL envisioned prequel-era Anakin around the time of ROTJ.

SilverWook said:

Wait, he hates Star Wars so much he destroyed all of his collection? I know he's done con appearances in the past.

I remember there was an interview with him a while back (maybe it's on youtube or something, I can't be sure) where he revealed that he was bullied a great deal at school for all the star wars stuff. That and the fact that irate fans would come up to him as he was growing up and insult him for simply being in the prequels, blaming him for a lot of stuff that he had no involvement in. If I were him, having most memories of star wars associated with some sort of abuse, I would probably feel pretty bitter about the whole thing too.

Then again, I am half remembering all of this so take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm probably remembering most of this wrong.

SilverWook said:

If what TMZ is saying about him struggling with schizophrenia is true, then this isn't funny anymore.

Agreed.

Plus, I don't think he did a bad job in TPM. Not Hayden level bad, at least.

TV's Frink said:

CatBus said:

Tobar said:

Looks like little Annie fell to the Darkside

Goatees lead to handlebars, handlebars lead to neckbeards, neckbeards lead to mutton chops.

No handlebars leads to global destruction.

"I don't like...global destruction."

I had to get a Darths and Droids joke somewhere. Well, that and the "goatees are evil" thing. Qui-Gon does NOT have a goatee, thank you very much.

AntcuFaalb said:

it's all about young Sebastian Shaw.

 That's really cool!
Needs longer sideburns though.
And the necklace is a bit femme.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.

CatBus said:

Tobar said:

Looks like little Annie fell to the Darkside

Goatees lead to handlebars, handlebars lead to neckbeards, neckbeards lead to mutton chops.

 Is this a personal attack?

There's nothin' wrong with goatees, handlebars or chops.
Neckbeards on the other hand... yeah, clean that up.

ray_afraid said:

Neckbeards on the other hand... yeah, clean that up.

I shave only mustache regularly and my "beard" proper approximately once per month.

Does this mean I have a neckbeard?

ray_afraid said:

CatBus said:

Tobar said:

Looks like little Annie fell to the Darkside

Goatees lead to handlebars, handlebars lead to neckbeards, neckbeards lead to mutton chops.

Is this a personal attack?

Naw, you go right ahead and rock that dark side.  It is more seductive after all.  Er, so I've heard. *cough*

AntcuFaalb said:

ray_afraid said:

Neckbeards on the other hand... yeah, clean that up.

I shave only mustache regularly and my "beard" proper approximately once per month.

Does this mean I have a neckbeard?

 Do you shave the hair off of your neck? If not, then, yes, you have a neckbeard. And it looks bad.

CatBus said:

Naw, you go right ahead and rock that dark side.  It is more seductive after all.  Er, so I've heard. *cough*

Truth.

ray_afraid said:

Do you shave the hair off of your neck? If not, then, yes, you have a neckbeard. And it looks bad.

As I said: only approximately once per month or sometimes once every two weeks. I shave my mustache every other day, but this doesn't include my face; that is, the hair coming down from my sideburns which joins up with the hair on my anterior neck.

JEDIT: Which part of the neck are you referring to here? I'm referring to the portion immediately under my chin and jawline which stretches down to my Adam's Apple.

I don't give a shit if it looks bad or not. It gets my wife going, lets me be lazy*, and kinda helps me fit in with the other Software Engineers at my shop.

(* I have extremely coarse hair and very thin/sensitive skin, so shaving even with 64-blade WePromiseWeWon'tCutYou™ razors fucking sucks.)

SilverWook said:

Back to Star Wars please?

Yes, sorry!

Has anyone here ever played the Japanese NAMCO Star Wars game for the Famicom (a.k.a., NES in the US) that was released in 1987?

Don't confuse this with the JVC Star Wars NES game released in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_%281987_video_game%29

I hear good things about it.

AntcuFaalb said:

SilverWook said:

Back to Star Wars please?

Yes, sorry!

Has anyone here ever played the Japanese NAMCO Star Wars game for the Famicom (a.k.a., NES in the US) that was released in 1987?

Don't confuse this with the JVC Star Wars NES game released in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_%281987_video_game%29

I hear good things about it.

I have, and at one point made a video walkthrough before I deleted it. That game was hard on easy mode. Only a few lives, with seemingly no way to add to them. No passwords. No continues. Several Vader clones that transform into monsters (quoth the AVGN, "I am your father, and I am also a ****ing scorpion") The only way I was able to beat the game was savestates, and even then I died a couple times.

One thing to note is that the famicom and nes empire strikes back games are the same, the only real difference being the ladder has japanese text.

I'd love to see an anime (or even better, toku) adaption of the famicom star wars game.

Star Wars is again reduced to mindless action sequences. "It wouldn't be Star Wars without epic space battles." So where is the epic space battle of Empire?

I'd even say the first "epic" space battle was the one in Jedi, since that's the first one with capital ships on both sides. The dogfights around the first Death Star are intense, but for me they don't qualify as "epic".