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#109500
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Anyone else want to see... an animated series set between ROTS and ANH?
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a animated series like the “clone wars” based on the the development of the empire. It could take place intermentantly between Ep.3 and Ep. 4. It would allow us all to see the real Vader in action as well fill in some holes. I am not a huge fan of the CW series, but in many ways it was better than the PT.

Thoughts???

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#109499
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Give Lucas A Run For His Money...
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Originally posted by: Duke's alter ego
Good points. By the way, where IS the guy who played Jango Fett from? Korea? The Dominican Republic?


Mr. Morrison is Maori and is from New Zealand...

lot of ideas being kicked about, but if you are going to go through all the trouble to rewrite something, why not just start from scratch??? In the story arch the is slowly but surely coming together in my mind there will be small influences from the EU and PT, but most of it would be new ideas built off the OOT. Again i dont have anything in writing, but i have lots of things floating about in my head and a general direction of where i would have liked to see the films go...
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#109358
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Lost Finale
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/109358/action/topic#109358
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Originally posted by: JediSage
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Originally posted by: CharlieX
It's the only show I regularly watch on TV, ever since my roomate brought home the pilot before it had even been sold to ABC (it was great, used music from random soundtracks). Anyhow, does anyone else kinda feel let down? Hopefully they'll do what "The Office" on bbc did and end after season two despite the money. you can only drag things on for so long before people don't care to be lead around anymore.

theory: the guys from the perfect storm. they washed up on the island and are know the grizzled (and disgruntled) boatmen/others.


They need to start resolving some issues. It's becoming like the X-Files and Twin Peaks in that they constantly just ask more questions...never provide answers, and it's pissing people off. I know two people personally who've said they will not watch it anymore because of this.

I'm a big fan of Babylon 5, which had a 5 year story arc, but would always resolve stuff brought up during the season by season's end or the next 1 or 2 episodes in the next one. As J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of it was always saying, leaving unanswered questions for too long cheats the audience who are investing time in the series.


i agree with you both, i felt really cheated. Dont get me wrong, i love the show, but they just keep dragging it out. I hate getting some sort of titalating info only to have to wait through 3 weeks of farging reruns in order to get nothing but more titalating info. I will still watch it next year, but i am the type that will wade through horrible forms of entertainment to have a conclusion drawn. Most other will not.

In summery make with the steady revealing of conclusions and closer of sub plots, even if it is a mere trickle it is better than what we got going on now...
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#109048
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Things you DID NOT like about Episode III
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/109048/action/topic#109048
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Originally posted by: Perfect 5th
Wow! You have pretty much covered the terrain already, and I agree with most of what y'all said. Let me just add a fantasy comment: since Ani's "conversion" seems to happen a bit too fast for most of us (destroying all the oh-so-important subtlety and richness of the most crucial aspect of this long-awaited PT), and since we would have enjoyed seeing a bit more Vader/Han/Tarkin/etc. (which would also have helped the transition to ANH), don't you find it even more frustrating now to have gone through all the useless rubbish in TPM? I mean, we almost could have started directly with AOTC with a few adjustments, no? (That WOULD make Qui-Gon/Darth Maul pretty much unnecessary, though, I guess. But also kid-Ani, whom I do not care for.) What do you think?


ever since coming to terms with the sucktitude of the first film i have thought that TPM was a gigantic waiste of time.

Ep II should have ended with the obi ani fight. It could have been made so that obi thinks he is dead, and then baddabing, Vader in his suite comes on the scene for the final movie. Thats the sama version at least...
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#109014
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Things you DID NOT like about Episode III
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/109014/action/topic#109014
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I have only seen it once and will probably have more info in time, but here is the tenative list...
in no particular order

1. there are some horriblly corny/hooky lines/segments in the first part of the film. Starts with a bang and soon wimpers.
2. Film is in general, very very rushed. Could have easily been split in two and worked much better.
3. Grevious is a punk nothing but running away.
4. fight with dooku short.
5. Finally we get to see wookies, and its for all of 30 seconds, if they are in the film at least use em.
6. Kasheek was treeless.
7. Mace goes out like a punk, just like every other jedi not named obi or yoda.
8. Is yoda the only Jedi master that can tell he is about to be shot in the back?
9. Anikins fall was completely lame/rushed.

Emp: You should turn to the dark side ani.
Ani: But you are bad.
Emp: Says who?
Ani: the jedi.
Emp: What makes them right?
Ani: But there wise.
Emp: They lie, evil is all a POV thing.
Ani: hmmmm.... maybe your right.
Emp: ill save your girl if you join the ds.
Ani: You got a deal, sign me up for the "I now pledge my life to you" package.
EMP: nice, now go slaughter all the children.
Ani: ok, sounds good to me

10. Apparently "he hunted down the Jedi and destroyed them" really means "he killed a bunch of little kids at the jedi temple all at one time"
11. Apparently Obi in ESB has alsimers cause he apparently cant remember holding LEIA, LUKES TWIN SISTER AT THERE BIRTH, when Luke leaves for cloud city stating "that boy is our last hope" and yoda drops "no there is another"
12. Apparently Leia thinks that Ms. Organa is her birth mom and she died when Leia was young, cause there is no way she could remember padmes face
13. Tarkin out grievious in bad idea i needed tarkin in the whole friggin movie, where it be controlling clones or droids.
14. No Vader in the suite killing many things.
15. Yoda "Oh by the way Obi, Qui dropped by from the dead and showed me something, make sure you drop by before you go into seclusion so i can run it by you"
16. CGI RToo is lame and all his toys must be removed over the next couple decades.
17. Doesnt R2 have magnetic feet in the first movie? if so why doesnt he used them in battle ship?


Thats all for now, give me another viewing and i am sure there will be more...

EDIT1:
well i take that back, all i needed was a few minutes.

18. VADER = FRANKINSTIEN = UBER LAME
19. So it took 18 years to build the first death star and only 6 or so to build the second???

EDIT2:

20. Yoda Chewie are homeboys? While i like the idea, why doesnt this ever come up on the falcon, or well anywhere in the OOT???
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#105921
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Most Influential Person
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

London, Newcastle, Leeds, Soutahmpton and any other English city you care to mention was bombed to shit during the war and we fought them off in airplanes, so if you're suggesting that Hitler was looking elsewhere and that's why he was eventually defeated by the UK/US alliance I'd have to disagree.



again with the jump to conclusions mat. I never stated that Hitler was ignoring the us and uk. I stated that he was overzealous in his pursuit of victory over russia. Simply put he stranded huge amounts of troops in the eastern european winter and left them under armed and under supplied. Had he waited for winter to clear things may have gone differenetly. I think that the combined ally forces as well as the bombing of Japan could have still pulled it off, but we dont know...

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#105745
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Born out of Boredom: Starkiller's thoughts on...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105745/action/topic#105745
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
First, I must also apologise if I've been rude or anything of the sort, it was not my intention. I also get carried away sometimes.

I understand and accept your point of view on guns, but I hope that this conversation will at least bring some wisdom on both of us... So, after all we discussed, I ask you to yes, keep the gun, it's your right if you want to, but please do be careful... Don't show it off to people, if you're going to transport it unload it first, if you have kids make sure they can't reach it/find it and if (or when) they are old enough, explain to them that what that is and they should never touch it or anything... And if you ever realize you'll actually need it, do think if you really need it, if you're merely fighting with someone, if the person is harming you but is clearly unnarmed, don't use it... And if you REALLY, have to use it, please try aiming for the leg or something, I mean, incapacitate someone should be your goal, you're not trying to get more kills as possible, right?

I'm pretty sure you're balanced enough not to do something dangerous with the weapon, and I'm confident that you'll never need to fire at anyone, at lease I that's what I hope for.

As for me, I'll avaliate this issue better and perhaps I might reconsider. I wouldn't buy a gun (if those were available), not only because of my point of view, but because I don't think I can shoot a gun... I'd probably shoot my own foot...



Dont get me wrong i am not for the manditory arming of all citizens, nor am i for easy availablity of weapons. I think that defeinate guidelines need to be put into place to do everything you can to keep guns out of the wrong people hands, including thorough background checks, registration(though there are aspects about types of registration that give me the heeby geebies), manditory classes/testing for gun owners, etc. Though i for the expiring of the assualt weapons ban because of the loopholes that were outlined initially.

If i ever guns my kids will be brought up understanding what guns are and be educated. I guess it may be a strange thought to many others here, but i can remember walking through my aunts home, which has rifles literally behind most of the doors, and never thinking about picking one up and playing with it.

As for handguns for self defence and selective mamings, hate to break it to you but neither are very effective, you best bet is to always aim for the chest, and to in the case of home invasion use a shot gun. In the heat of the moment you freak out and its truely takes a trained pro, to successfully aim and connect with a shot to the extremities. If some one is in my house i am shooting for the chest preferably with a 4 10. Again more people die in knife fights then they do in gun fights, its not as easy to point and shoot as it looks in the arcades or tv.



Moving on...

One point that i would bring up is what about guns for hobbiest? Maybe i am just a country boy, but i know tons of folks who love nothing more than disappearing into the woods for a couple of days and hunting. Personally i am not the type that kills much of anything, including insects, but hey if you want to legally go hunting more power to you. Further more, what about those that collect guns, again not my cup of tea, but i know people who love to buy and use firearms, including assault rifles. They have paid a ton of money, taken a ton of classes, and have been federally registerd in order to enjoy there hobby and they love to go to the range and unload some high powered rounds at the range.


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#105736
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Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition
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Originally posted by: starkiller
Question:

I've been thinking about getting a new PC. At first, I told myself "If I run across a game that I really want, but cannot play because its requirements are too high, then I'll buy a new PC."

Then I learned about the Alienware Star Wars Edition PCs. Now I'm tempted to get a new PC now.
But I cannot decide.

For about $550, I can get a custom machine from CyberPower Systems that is, in theory, equivilent to the power of the baseline Alienware.
(I say in theory because all the numbers...processor speed, Ram, video card type, etc would be roughly the same).

The Alienware starts at $1499, but the added perk is the sweet-looking case, hyperspace subscription, complete XP skinning, various soundtracks and the rest of the Star Wars package, whatever all of it is plus the Alienware brandname.

Is it worth $1000 extra? That's what I'm asking myself.

when i first looked at them i thought, perhaps. But after about 10 more seconds i was back at a definate no. I would be different if the case was a darth vader helmet, r2d2, or somehting to that effect, but its just some cool graphics and icon, not worth a cool grand in my mind...

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#105659
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Born out of Boredom: Starkiller's thoughts on...
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
OK I'll answer the ones I think I could add anything else. You'd probably think I'm repeating myself on the other questions (not exactly questions, but...)

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Originally posted by: Kingsama

wow way to dodge the question. i was looking for if other crimes rose, you no from people not being able to stop them. You are a lot less likely to get robbed if you have a gun under the counter, or car jacked if you can defend yourself. Of course simply stating % a is smaller then %b is over simplifying.


Did I dodge the question? Sorry. What I tried to say is that no, the number of occurences of other crimes did not rose. Gun related incidents did drop. And by the way, we have a STRONG pro-gun comunity here, that thinks the same way you do.


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Originally posted by: Kingsama

So let me ask you a question, you and i are both asleep in our respected homes, a crook breaks into both our homes, I grab the 410 shot gun from under my bed, load it and prepare to defend my family, you do what??? call the cops and wait the 10 minutes for them to arrive.


Can i ask you a quesiton, what type of neighborhood did you grow up in???


First the last question: Quite a violent one. I live in the second most violent city in Brazil, maybe the... 8th or 9th most violent city in the world. I was not raised in the most violent areas, but I was also not in a good area either. I've been mugged with a gun pointed to my head once.

The second question: Yes, I'd perhaps call the cops. As would do 99% of the population here, who dosen't own a gun. I see your point, the "cut the middleman" thing and "protect" your own people. But what I intend to do is to make sure those criminals never get to my house. We should focus on making sure people don't get into crime at all. We should focus on preventing violence to happen in first place, instead of just grabbing a bigger gun and shooting whoever trespasses my properties.

Now let me ask you, do you live in a violent neighborhhod? Ever needed to fire your gun? (I'm not sure you have one)



Now, before we continue this conversation, PLEASE, please, let's not turn this polite discussion into a fight. I'm offering my point of view, and I'm accepting yours. I can see your point, I really do, and I know you at least understand mine - you don't necessarily agree, but you understand what I'm talking about. Is any of us right about such topic? Hell no, these are opinions, no one is fully correct. What I intend to do when I express my opinion is never to force someone to accept it, I don't want that, we are free to make our own choices. What I want is to make sure another point of view is known. If we politely discuss a topic and all the points of views and issues are discussed, then with that full knoledge of the topic we can make a clear decision... LOL I'm not sure I made myself clear

* raises hands, offering to shake it *
I have nothing against anyone in this forum and I never will - I felt our conversation got a little bit too harsh and I don't want this to get ugly. OK?



Last things first...

I am with you, i love this forum and the people in it. It is one of the most well read, well spoken places i have had the pleasure of visiting. And i didnt mean to seem to go agro on you(but can see why you might have thought so). I just love to have a good debate sometimes and i am very competative. So i apologize if i came across to strong, i really enjoy your POV and have done so ever since joining up here. Do i agree with you? generally no, but i still apreciate what you have to say, i would hate to live in a world full of people like me, the world needs balance or else things would be horrible. The last thing i want is for this to get ugly too. so in short, we're cool. and please forgive my agro banter, i talk that way to my friends, and at times i forget that you only see me and a avatar and text, where as they know me. One day i will get the hang of this internet thing...

By the By where are you from in Brazil i have a very dear friend in Sao Paulo, yes i know its a huge country and uber city so i dont expect you to know them. By the way the were you from question was not just for debate purposes, i was just trying to see a lil of your background so i could understand where you are coming from.


as for where i grew up, i am from the country. I took minutes to get to the neighbors not seconds. So we didnt really see a whole lot of folks. I do own two guns though, one is more a collectors thing, and the other just a .22 rifle which i wouldnt wield for household protection. In time i will probably buy a pistol grip 410 for the house though as well as some sort of hand gun. Thank G-d i have been blessed with the finacial ability to live in a nice community, so i dont have to worry about this as much as others. I have never had to use a gun for protection, but i do know people that have. I m only 24 and have only lived in my own home for 2 years now so its not like i have had alot of experience. As for the home invasion, dont get me wrong, i would call the cops too, but i would want some protection in the mean time. My families house has never burned down, but i will always have home owners insurance just in case it does.

I hole heartedly agree that education and social intervention is the way to go, but like with insurance i just want a back up plan. I work with at risk youth and am trying to make a difference, but i have to say for every 2 or 3 we reach 1 gets lost. I just never want to be in a position to where i didnt have the means to protect my wife and my kids. In my mind the gov, and the police are incapable of making me 100% safe and i just couldnt live with myself if something happened and i couldnt stop it...
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#105645
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Born out of Boredom: Starkiller's thoughts on...
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Kingsama

1. I hate to break it too you, but organized martial arts generally are worthless save for teaching self decipline, improving self esteem, and protecting yourself from the average joe. Watch any of the first 7 ufc pay per views and you will see people with 5th degree black belts get beat by some guy who is a bouncer. Further more statistically speaking more people die in knife related violence then guns, at least in the US. Should we ban them too? If you could theoretically take away all the guns, which would never ever happen, then what do you do with the knives, the basball bats, the sharp sticks, etc?


My point in mentioning the Krav Maga is that it makes as much sense as buying a gun to "protect youself". If you are fast enough to grab your gun while you're having another gun pointed to your head by an unstable individual, and pulling the trigger before him, THEN perhaps you're fast enough to disarm him without actually shooting him.



then you dont know how to use a gun. If you have ever had a class their are systematic ways to stop the gun from being "snatched" out of your hand. That happens in the movies, but if you know what you are doing and keep a good distance and use the right technique it wont happen.

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Originally posted by: Kingsama

2. Do you know how easy it is to get an illegal weapon? If you know the right people, which isnt hard to do if you are truely motivated, you could go buy a hand gun for less than 35 dollars. Heck i have been offered a .22 calibur hand gun for $15. Where there is a will there is a way.


No, I don't know how easy it is to get a weapon. I know how easy it USED to be, when guns were legal over here (well, actually, it was kinda hard back then, you had to prove you knew how to shoot, prove you are mentally stable and sane, take some tests...).


I cant speak from where you are, forgive me if its not brazil, but i can for where i am from , and though i have moved since my last offer to by a guy for 15 dollars i am more than sure i could have a hand gun by tuesday if i really really wanted too.


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Originally posted by: Kingsama

3.Growing up as a kid we had guns in the home. I knew where they were and i knew where the ammo was for them(though it was locked up). Never once did i think how cool it would be to play russian rulett, or take the shotgun out back and play with it. Though i am not a big gun enthueist now, and my families trips to the firing range wained as we moved to the burbs, i still understand the how to handle a fire arm. I can remember sitting on the tail gate of my grandads truck in the desert watching my family (mom, grandma, dad, grandad etc.) shoot cans and other assorted safe targets. I can remeber getting my first red rider at 4 or 5 and my dad showing how where and why to use it. If you educate your children they wont do something so stupid. Growing up i had thousands upon thousands of talks about the dangers of , in combination with the handling of, guns, the tools (power and other) in the work shop, cars, knives, weed eaters, mowers, electricity, gasoline, fire, this that and the other thing. Did i do stupid things? sure like any kid, but nothing stupid enough to harm someone or something beyond home grown medical care. Give kids credit they arent little mindless minons. I remember at a very young age seeing what a gun could do to a tin can and recognizing with very little aid from my pops that it would not be good to to that to a person.


3- Three or four year old kids don't even get the concept of DEATH, much less guns. If one is available to them, what do you think may happen. And, of course, there's the Columbine scenario, which I rather not talk about due to respect.

i am with you on not getting into the columbine issue, but i will say this, literally millons of "kids" have access to guns and dont do that, to simply blame guns for the horrific actions of a few is a gross gereralization.

As for kids and the concept of death, they may not be able to grasp the entirety of the concept of death, but they certainly can understand the idea that something isnt living again, that it isnt coming back, their fish aint gonna ever swim again, that hamster is done running on the wheel and that granny aint ever gonna be home again. Give kid some credit. They can also begin to understand what tools are for. I knew what a tooth brush was for at 3 or 4, why couldnt i understand that a projectile comes out of a gun? Watch 3 and 4 year olds play, they are doing a great deal of mimicing, but there is a basic understanding of concepts aka a 2 year old know fire = hot. No where did i state you could teach a child everything about guns, merely that if they are raised with them they can be trained how to use them properly

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Originally posted by: Kingsama

4. If there are no weapons factories who makes the guns for "those that need them". Further more if we the people have no guns than how to we protect ourselves from a corrupt authority, ie police department, governement, etc. Ultimate power ultimately corrupts. I am sorry i just dont have the faith in people you do. If we did stop gun manufacturing in all the world what makes you think that Kim Jong-Il, the many many drug lords through out the world, the uber rich psychos, bin laden, etc will stop. I am sorry i just dont want the good people to do something only to have the uber rich psychopaths not and then we all be in a world of hurt.


When we talk about the gun issue, there are two possible sides one can take: those who think the problem will be solved with more guns, those who think the problem will be solved with less guns. I belive the problem will be solved with LESS guns. I belive peace is the answer. If we arm everyone, the problem will NEVER go away, and therefore we are doomned to live in a world of chaos and violence forever. Violence is never the answer, NEVER. There is no need for wars if we chose to live in a cooperatively peace. If peace is an utopia, then we should all commit suicide right now, because it's pointles.

I have chosen to support peace and I'll never change my mind, even if I'm the only one in the world without a gun under my pillow.

Oh, and if you chose to keep your gun to protect yourself from Osama Bin Laden or from the president of North Korea, I say "good luck" to you.

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did you see Sage's point on switerland where they do arm everyone. I too would love to live in peace, but imo that is nothin more than a dream. In my mind the world is full of evil hateful people many of which would stab, shoot, kick to get what they want. We are doomed to live in a world of chaos and violence, it has always been that way and will always be that way look at history. Look at econimics for a second, the reason that it works so well is that it embraces man potential greed and corruption and sets up rules to govern it. where as other economic systems are based upon trusting others. Perhaps we just see things differently...

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Originally posted by: Kingsama

5. Gun related violence may have dropped, but whats happening to the murder rates and the non gun related violence rates? Of course there will be less gun violence if there are less guns, a crook doesnt have to worry about shooting any one if he is the only person on the block with the
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#105611
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Born out of Boredom: Starkiller's thoughts on...
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I agree with everything. But you see, to me this seems common sense. Why does this even have to be a debate. Criminals aren't going to obey gunlaws, so they only affect those who ALREADY obey the law. I'm honestly considering carrying some sort of weapon in my car or something for the odd event that I ever get robbed/mugged whenever I get out on my own.

I'd make a humourous analogy right now if I could think of one.


Chaltab, consider this:

1- In the eventuality of you getting mugged (btw, how often does that happen in the town where you live???), are you really going to grab you gun and shoot the guy? If you make a sudden move to grab you gun, he could get scared and shoot you first. If you really want to counter-atack, why don't you learn the KRAV MAGA, which is a Israeli self defence fighting system developed for these situations (you'll be able to disarm the man and break his arm without killing him).

2- Let's asume you leave your gun on your car, and it get stolen. That's another gun that'll be used to kill and rob and stuff.

3- Imagine you have your gun in your home and your kids find it. Then, they decide to imitate the russian roullete scene from "The Deer Hunter".

4- If we DISARM everyone, we'll be able to achieve peace, not by grabbing more guns! Violence creates more violence, as Ghandi said: "An eye for an eye will make everyone blind". Ghandi defeated the brutal and fully armed British Empire without firing a single shot. What we need is to CLOSE DOWN the weapons factories and ARREST those who manufacture weapons. Them, we need to disarm everyone, the people AND the criminals. If you arrest a criminal, you're obviously going to take his gun away. You'll probably say "oh, if you forbid selling weapons he'll buy a weapon on black market", ok, so we need to fight the gun industry everywhere the same way we fight the drug cartels. The price of a weapon would increase drastically, it would be highly unavaliable... The violence generated by these weapons would drop, therefore dropping the NEED for more weapons, and so on...

5- Consider this: About an year ago, weapons were officially banned over here. Only police officers, the army, and people who can REALLY justify that they need a weapon can carry one of those. People who already owned weapons were asked to give them away at police stations, and they were paid back. The guns were destroyed. Gun related violence cases dropped after a few months.


1. I hate to break it too you, but organized martial arts generally are worthless save for teaching self decipline, improving self esteem, and protecting yourself from the average joe. Watch any of the first 7 ufc pay per views and you will see people with 5th degree black belts get beat by some guy who is a bouncer. Further more statistically speaking more people die in knife related violence then guns, at least in the US. Should we ban them too? If you could theoretically take away all the guns, which would never ever happen, then what do you do with the knives, the basball bats, the sharp sticks, etc?

2. Do you know how easy it is to get an illegal weapon? If you know the right people, which isnt hard to do if you are truely motivated, you could go buy a hand gun for less than 35 dollars. Heck i have been offered a .22 calibur hand gun for $15. Where there is a will there is a way.

3.Growing up as a kid we had guns in the home. I knew where they were and i knew where the ammo was for them(though it was locked up). Never once did i think how cool it would be to play russian rulett, or take the shotgun out back and play with it. Though i am not a big gun enthueist now, and my families trips to the firing range wained as we moved to the burbs, i still understand the how to handle a fire arm. I can remember sitting on the tail gate of my grandads truck in the desert watching my family (mom, grandma, dad, grandad etc.) shoot cans and other assorted safe targets. I can remeber getting my first red rider at 4 or 5 and my dad showing how where and why to use it. If you educate your children they wont do something so stupid. Growing up i had thousands upon thousands of talks about the dangers of , in combination with the handling of, guns, the tools (power and other) in the work shop, cars, knives, weed eaters, mowers, electricity, gasoline, fire, this that and the other thing. Did i do stupid things? sure like any kid, but nothing stupid enough to harm someone or something beyond home grown medical care. Give kids credit they arent little mindless minons. I remember at a very young age seeing what a gun could do to a tin can and recognizing with very little aid from my pops that it would not be good to to that to a person.

4. If there are no weapons factories who makes the guns for "those that need them". Further more if we the people have no guns than how to we protect ourselves from a corrupt authority, ie police department, governement, etc. Ultimate power ultimately corrupts. I am sorry i just dont have the faith in people you do. If we did stop gun manufacturing in all the world what makes you think that Kim Jong-Il, the many many drug lords through out the world, the uber rich psychos, bin laden, etc will stop. I am sorry i just dont want the good people to do something only to have the uber rich psychopaths not and then we all be in a world of hurt.

5. Gun related violence may have dropped, but whats happening to the murder rates and the non gun related violence rates? Of course there will be less gun violence if there are less guns, a crook doesnt have to worry about shooting any one if he is the only person on the block with the gun...

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#105473
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Most Influential Person
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105473/action/topic#105473
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
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Originally posted by: Kingsama
there would not have been an england save for FDR and Hitlers over zealousness.


May I take this opportunity to worship at the feet of all Americans for saving my puny Island from certain destruction. We held out from 1939 until 1944 without them, but that one year that they helped us was, of course, the decider. Thank You Thank you Thank you.
p.s Thank You.


Calm yourself and read both reasons i listed, there are two after all... There would be No US, if the french wouldnt have lended aid during the revolutionary war. Thanks for assuming so, but i am not some crazy american jocker. But i cant see the english and french ralying to defeat Hilter with out the US and Hitlers overzealousness towards Russia. IF Hilter would have laid off and not tried to ramrod into Russia during the winter things would have gone much much worse for all the good guys involved.

As for JFK and Reagan others have more than adiquitely covered the issues i would have raised...

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#105469
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Samuel L. Jackson & Laurence Fishburne
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105469/action/topic#105469
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
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Originally posted by: Kingsama
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
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Originally posted by: Kingsama
they look nothing alike, but i would have rather seen Larry as Mace as opposed to Sammy...


How come?



in my mind he fits more of a "jedi master" feel than sammy. Sammy = shaft, Larry = Morepheus. Not to take anything away from sammy, cause he is a great actor, i just prefer Fishy, He talent is a little bit more diversified imo, and i think he could pull the Jedi Master thing off in a more refined manner, and in the end still be a bad ace...


Sorry to be getting off topic but could you have seen Morgan Freeman or Keith David as the Jedi Master Mace Windu?

Could it not be argued in your opinion that Mace and Morpheus are essentially the same character?



I could definately see Morgan Freeman as a Jedi Master that would be a great fit. As mace windu, not so much. As for Kieth David, no for both Jedi Master and Mace, though i am sure he would be great in the movie given the appropriate role.

As for mace and Morpheus being the same character i would say definately not. They are written very differently. I would have pefered Mace to be more like Morpheus(but not a clone) and to have been played by L. Fish though...
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#105312
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Most Influential Person
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105312/action/topic#105312
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Originally posted by: starkiller
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I'm not going to pick 5, I'll pick 10.

PLEASE do keep in mind that I'm listing the most INFLUENTIAL persons of the last century, and by influential I mean people whose actions changed our world. OK? I'm not a nazi.

1- Hitler
2- Ghandi
3- Lenin
4- JFK
5- Churchill
6- Gorbatchov
7- Einstein
8- Jonh Paul II
9- Stalin
10- Mandela

And why not mention GL too? I mean, can you imagine the world today without Star Wars?
Not to say he wasn't a good president, but why pick JFK over someone like FDR or Reagan??



JFK was a Joke... How do you have Gorby and not Reagan? Why Mandela over MLK Jr? And Church Hill over FDR? (there would not have been an england save for FDR and Hitlers over zealousness.)
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#105203
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Samuel L. Jackson & Laurence Fishburne
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105203/action/topic#105203
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
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Originally posted by: Kingsama
they look nothing alike, but i would have rather seen Larry as Mace as opposed to Sammy...


How come?



in my mind he fits more of a "jedi master" feel than sammy. Sammy = shaft, Larry = Morepheus. Not to take anything away from sammy, cause he is a great actor, i just prefer Fishy, He talent is a little bit more diversified imo, and i think he could pull the Jedi Master thing off in a more refined manner, and in the end still be a bad ace...
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#105162
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Info: OT Preservation mention on G4:AotS by Chris Gore (then he mentions eBay - Ugh!)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105162/action/topic#105162
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Originally posted by: none
The Original Trilogy Preservation Fan Activities got a mention by Chris Gore (of Film Threat) on the 050510 Attack of the Show on G4.
Download Clip
50 secs : 1.2 megs : quicktime



i caught that this morning, when he pulled the dvd's out i started to think "could he possibly be name dropping the OT.com?" then he just said ebay, how sad...
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#105156
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The Time Draws Nigh...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105156/action/topic#105156
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Originally posted by: JediSage
I can barely contain myself now! Can GL gain a small measure of redemption? Or will the dark side (CGI, idiotic dialog, etc.) forever dominate his destiny?


well we will all find out next week. Just bought my tickets for a thursday afternoon showing in a DLP theatre. By next friday i will be able to close out the star wars part of my life. Well after that and i get ahold of the OOT on DVD(but thats another story and another adventure). Hopefully this one will be good, though there isnt much hope for a house that was built on a poor foundation.