NeverarGreat

Probably so. Changing the color of the star to dark orange should be an easy fix.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/07/tiny-new-star

Interesting tidbit:

It’s an ultracool M-dwarf star, slightly bigger than Saturn, so if we assume that Starkiller Base is about the same size as Earth, that would bring this into the realm of the comprehensible:

trimboNZ said:

canofhumdingers said:

Pretty sure the Emperor’s tower is supposed to be at or near the North Pole of the DSII

I had always thought it was closer to the South Pole, as the Emperor points upwards (roughly ten o’clock) when gesturing to the sanctuary moon, and Luke’s gaze follows in that direction.

Assuming, of course, that DS2 isn’t orbiting upside-down. I thought it was only flipped horizontally in post 😃

From memory he even says, “your friends up there on the sanctuary moon are walking into a trap”, though I’ll have to re-watch it to confirm it. Online quotes record him saying “out there”, “down there” and “up there” depending on which version you read!

According to this Bothan intelligence, the Death Star is oriented along the same axis as Endor:

Who are you going to believe?

Dek Rollins said:

Your local delusional, ignorant, deplorable, shithole assface pile-o-what’sit here, saying that I was quite fond of our president’s State of the Union Address.

From what I’ve gathered, even an ‘effing moron’ can make a cogent speech once in a blue moon.

Better than the other guy’s speech.

Creox said:

yhwx said:

A thing on timelines here: The two main storylines in TLJ start at different times. The escape storyline starts a week after the events of TFA; the Ach-To storyline happens immediately after the events of TFA.

The bomber: People complained about how the bomber thing was unrealistic because there’s no gravity in space. That pedantry is inaccurate. The bombs fell due to the gravitational force of the Star Destroyer underneath the bomber. This is the same reason that Star Destroyer falls into the Death Star in ROTJ.

I read in the visual dictionary that the bombs used magnetic tech as well.

Oh dear oh dear.

It says here that the sound was a combination of an elephant recording from 1958 which had been used in several movies, overlaid with car noises.

Yeah, that’s definitely how it reads. But it’s just so monotone, always a poor teacher. It would be nice to have one moment of good instruction without him butting in, just to give a bit of contrast to the part.

That scene would also be a good place to start. The reason I like the Casino planet first, however, is that it would allow a great deal of specificity about Finn and Rose which would be necessary to understanding what’s going on.

On another note, something that bugs me:

“And this is the lesson. That Force does not belong to the Jedi.
To say that if the Jedi die the light dies is vanity, can you feel that?
There’s something else…”

I’d remove the sentence about vanity, since his meaning is clear with his first two sentences. This scene is one of my favorites in the movie, and this line is one of many in the movie that overexplain and end up being a detriment to the tone.

Great news!

Other than two spelling errors and the strange J e d i at the end, it’s really good. I really like how it is more reminiscent of old serials than the movies.

DominicCobb said:

Not every story has to be a massive galactic conflict Star War.

FTFY 😉

darth_ender said:

NeverarGreat said:

darth_ender said:

NeverarGreat said:

darth_ender said:

-Blacks gaining the right to eat in any restaurant they want

Oh, you mean those laws that were limited to the Southern states and were first introduced by the Democrat Party, and even when Republicans later began to support those laws, it was still isolated to the South.

It irks me when people conflate the Democratic party of the late 20th - 21st century and the pre-realignment Democratic party that originally represented rural America and the South. In short, the Democratic party was socially conservative until Roosevelt, and even then it took until the civil rights movement for conservative southern Democrats to abandon the party for the Republican ticket.

It irks me when people conflate the opinions of some Republicans with the opinions of all Republicans, or some conservatives with all conservatives, or holding some views with holding all views. It really irks me that, just because there are racist Republicans or uneducated conservatives or a moron Republican for a president, that so many liberals feel that they are so obviously right on every issue that there is no debate about anything.

By the way, did you actually read the rest of that sentence you quoted?

We seem to be saying the same thing. It’s just that your use of ‘Democrat party’ could be interpreted to imply that the modern Democratic party has more than a nominal relationship to the party as it existed a century ago, and I wanted to give more historical context in this regard. The fact that many constituencies which were solidly Democratic many years ago in the south are now solidly Republican is not exactly in dispute.

I apologize, both for my snarkiness, as well as for my confused message. I was trying to say, as it seemed to me that Frink was painting Republicans or conservatives as hindrances to these progressions, that conservatives and Republicans have actually advocated for disadvantaged demographics and brought progress to the nation. Sure, the nature of both parties has changed drastically, but many of the core principles remain, and conservatism has done a lot of good for the country.

Apology accepted 😃 And I apologize if I painted with too broad a brush.

It’s important to have a strong conservative party in the US, guided by the founding principles of our nation and advocating for the valuable traditions of the past. I just wish that the Republican party today reflected those principles and traditions instead of bowing down before the lies, immorality, and undemocratic impulses of our current president.

Thumbs up for Female Purple Saber Kylo

darth_ender said:

NeverarGreat said:

darth_ender said:

-Blacks gaining the right to eat in any restaurant they want

Oh, you mean those laws that were limited to the Southern states and were first introduced by the Democrat Party, and even when Republicans later began to support those laws, it was still isolated to the South.

It irks me when people conflate the Democratic party of the late 20th - 21st century and the pre-realignment Democratic party that originally represented rural America and the South. In short, the Democratic party was socially conservative until Roosevelt, and even then it took until the civil rights movement for conservative southern Democrats to abandon the party for the Republican ticket.

It irks me when people conflate the opinions of some Republicans with the opinions of all Republicans, or some conservatives with all conservatives, or holding some views with holding all views. It really irks me that, just because there are racist Republicans or uneducated conservatives or a moron Republican for a president, that so many liberals feel that they are so obviously right on every issue that there is no debate about anything.

By the way, did you actually read the rest of that sentence you quoted?

We seem to be saying the same thing. It’s just that your use of ‘Democrat party’ could be interpreted to imply that the modern Democratic party has more than a nominal relationship to the party as it existed a century ago, and I wanted to give more historical context in this regard. The fact that many constituencies which were solidly Democratic many years ago in the south are now solidly Republican is not exactly in dispute.

darth_ender said:

-Blacks gaining the right to eat in any restaurant they want

Oh, you mean those laws that were limited to the Southern states and were first introduced by the Democrat Party, and even when Republicans later began to support those laws, it was still isolated to the South.

It irks me when people conflate the Democratic party of the late 20th - 21st century and the pre-realignment Democratic party that originally represented rural America and the South. In short, the Democratic party was socially conservative until Roosevelt, and even then it took until the civil rights movement for conservative southern Democrats to abandon the party for the Republican ticket.

Antivirus is telling me that there’s an infected link on this page.

Collipso said:

I’d buy a computer that can open Chrome while Spotify is playing without crashing one of the two (if not both).

You’re clearly drunk with power.

Mocata said:

Yeah it’s not made with that kind of logic in mind. Like they way the heroes actively waste time and risk their lives shooting at TIE Fighters instead of just jumping to hyperspace.

Also - wasn’t it the Noad System or is that a fresh idea for the mis-heard stuff thread?

Anoat’s not a system, he’s a man.

Wait.

Michael Ward said:

Creox said:

With regards to the DS being able to use a hyperdrive. I am stunned that people think it wouldn’t. Space is really, really big…I mean, really big. For the DS to not be able to fly at lightspeed would render it completely useless for striking fear into the galaxy.

Of course it realisticly needs a hyperdrive, but I’m not sure if that was the original intent. In the older Superman comics stuff was always just drifting from Krypton to earth with no propulsion at all more less a hyperdrive. Writers didn’t always think that stuff through, and Lucas probably didn’t either.

The Death Star is treated the same way a villain in an action movie is treated - realistically they need to be running at full speed to catch up with our fleeing protagonist, but somehow they manage to catch up while walking at a slow, menacing pace.

snooker said:

Has anybody mentioned removing the opera singer? Because that’s seriously my only issue with the movie.

That’s probably the only gag that I would cut.
Well that and the BB-ST.

Sir Ridley said:

The fatness and fading into the distance are closely based on the TFA crawl. https://i.imgur.com/3KBqQuu.png

Perhaps it would look a bit different if I based it directly on the OT (which I assume TFA did in the first place). I haven’t studied the OT crawls much so I can’t say for sure.

I guess it’s not a thickness issue so much as it is a luminance issue.
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/01CNNN8U
In the original, you can see a large variance in luminance levels across the letters, making them pop a bit (notice how much contrast there is at the S in ‘Awakens’):

In your version, it’s like the brightness of the title is clipped.

That’s probably because it’s fading out at that point, but I wonder if there’s another blending mode that will allow it to fade out while retaining more of the contrast.

SilverWook said:

we’ve never seen exactly how Imperial Walkers are dispatched.

Really big parachutes.