RicOlie_2

It was a running joke that Frink was an ancient old man. I think he’s still in his 40s.

Haha, kind of funny to see people early in the thread getting upset at it having no opening crawl and no 20th Century Fox fanfare… How Star Wars has changed.

StarkillerAG said:

jedi_bendu said:

No offence meant at all Duracell, but for a Star Wars fan it sounds like you really hate most of Star Wars!

I don’t think he even identifies as a Star Wars fan. He’s pretty much just here to shitpost.

For someone who spends as much time on Star Wars rewrites as he does, and has read as much EU-content, he is certainly not just shitposting.

Haha, it’s only illegible if you’re not used to reading it. I find it very useful, because I write a lot by hand. It’s way faster than printing ever can be. Good luck writing very quickly and legibly without using cursive.

And also thanks to Jay for designing and programming this site from scratch, devoting who-knows-how-many hours to it, and making this community possible.

Compare OT Vader with ST Kylo Ren (specifically TFA). I think that highlights what people mean when they say that Vader is cold and calculating. Vader doesn’t fly off the handle when he’s upset.

Wow, that’s very tough, especially so close to Christmas. My sympathies, Puggo. I hope you and your friend’s family are doing OK.

Merry Christmas to all of you!

That’s great!

Also, it’s a little crazy how many people in this thread are banned… 😦
(I’m not trying to comment specifically on recent events, I just feel like it’s sad how much the community changes because of people getting banned, regardless of whether it’s merited.)

Read a little further back in the thread. And oojason’s post.

oojason said:

Handman, have a couple of weeks off from here to cool off

Is that really necessary given that he’s already had almost two weeks to cool off and this hasn’t been a problem since then? This seems a bit inflammatory to me, even if Handman was in the wrong.

JEDIT: And for someone talking about not stirring the pot, coming here a week and a half after an argument has died in order to ban someone out of the blue is a little hypocritical. You make it seem like you just wanted to get the last word in. If you’d stopped by a little earlier, it would have made a little more sense.

OutboundFlight said:

Rogue One is incredibly overrated – it’s not a bad movie by any means, but it gets too much credit for fan service elements and a). rode the wave of euphoria generated by TFA from 2015-2017, and b) had a primetime Christmas release with no rival blockbusters.

It’s funny…I hated TFA, but loved Rogue One. It didn’t feel fan-servicey to me at all, because the fan-service elements made sense in the context of the movie.

I enjoyed the Solo movie overall, but some things felt a bit forced. I liked it better than anything in the ST though.

canofhumdingers said:

If I had to invent a new force power… hmm. I don’t know if I can come up with one that hasn’t already been at least touched on in official media. Maybe something like the ability to put your enemies to sleep? I could see that being a cool scene for a hero hopelessly outnumbered in a critical situation to reach out with the force and watch a whole platoon of stormtroopers start feeling very drowsy and struggling to stay focused and awake until they give in and all fall asleep. Has something like that been done before?

I like this. I also feel like hypnosis would be a natural extension of the mind trick power.

In response to the OP, I hate the force-projection thing. I thing it would have been better if it was a bit more limited. Like if it was instead a “force hallucination” power. Luke could have caused Kylo Ren to think Luke was there, without anyone else being able to see it, and it would have undermined Kylo’s credibility a bit as well as providing just the right amount of confusion needed for the Resistance to get a leg up.

jedi_bendu said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Well, maybe I should just avoid Star Wars forums until I watch the episodes. I just thought our normal policy here was to keep things in the spoiler threads until at least two or three weeks had gone by.

You’re right, including a spoiler warning just slipped my mind. It’s hard not to notice somewhere that [redacted] is it the season, but I’ll definitely put a warning for the episode posters.

Thanks! Don’t worry, you didn’t ruin anything for me. But if I had been one more episode behind, it definitely would’ve spoiled some things…

Well, maybe I should just avoid Star Wars forums until I watch the episodes. I just thought our normal policy here was to keep things in the spoiler threads until at least two or three weeks had gone by.

Those of you posting stuff from recent Mando episodes, mind including spoiler warnings? 😛

benduwan said:

hey guys.i got some questions.

1. in this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ua2v64mh9o at 4:19 the han and leia scene,is this part of
   the movie,deletet scene?
   and can someone say what the dialog is?

Han: Watch out!
Leia: And what precisely am I supposed to know!?

(I think)

2. and in this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix_9g_Ob74 3:30 the han and leia scene,i like the dialog too please.

thanks

Han (calling to Chewie?): Don’t touch anything!
Leia: Problems?
Han: Thanks for your concern.

Thanks! He’s pretty cute–if only he’d grow up a little slower!

DuracellEnergizer said:

RicOlie_2 said:

How are you doing these days, Duracell?

These past three years have been something of an emotional spin cycle. Father passed away last January, my mother’s been chronically ill due to complications with COPD and kidney disease, my sister’s an utter mess, and the political landscape … yeah. In spite of all that, I’m in a much better place, emotionally and spiritually, than I was many years ago, though somedays I have to make a concentrated effort to see the good things in life. Thanks for asking.

I hope you’ve been doing well for yourself.

I was aware that your father had passed away from catching up on various threads a while ago, but I’m sorry to hear that you’re family’s going through such a tough time. I’m glad that you’re doing better personally. I imagine the pandemic doesn’t help though. Hang in there!

I’ve been doing pretty well overall. I’m still in seminary, so not much has changed since I stopped frequenting this forum, with the exception of a new little brother, who is currently 2 1/2. I’m quite fortunate to be a seminarian with everything that’s going on, since I get to live with 30 other people. We have various restrictions and COVID-protocols, but I don’t feel cooped up and isolated like so many people do.

It was meant semi-ironically. My impression is that pretty well everyone involved was at fault in some way. And I was trying to be somewhat diplomatic given that the Random Thoughts thread got locked over this issue.

How are you doing these days, Duracell?

I miss the old Off Topic…before everyone started treating each other like crap and getting themselves banned. This place used to be so much fun.

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

If our goals aren’t met, we will have no choice but to resort to…

Remember, the mods know what you did, who you did it with, and where you got the Ric Olie costume.
😉

I do hope this is a joke. Even if it isn’t, it doesn’t matter. I have no money.

Enter Ric_2.

Whenever you see a winky face, that’s a pretty good indication someone is joking. Pretend all winky faces say “THIS IS A JOKE!”

Exit Ric_2.

I just noticed we passed one million posts. I wonder which one the millionth was.

I’m with you on that one. This place is pretty depressing sometimes. It’s not nearly as fun as it used to be, and now that my love for Star Wars has waned a bit, I imagine it’s only a matter of time before I take off.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

RicOlie_2 said:
… ultimately, in order to enter into a loving relationship with him, we have to have faith. If God is God, and he gave us empirical evidence directly demonstrating his existence, we would not have faith and would simply know in a more absolute sense that God will always keep his promises. But that’s not how human relationships work. Because we are not gods, we can fail to keep our promises, and every human relationship therefore requires trust and faith that the other person will not turn their backs on us. God wants us to have that same trust and faith, otherwise there will be a certain coercion involved in following him.

Right, but again, that’s what pretty much every religion says. How do I pick? How do I know which one is right?

No, that’s actually what a minority of religions say: namely, the major monotheistic religions and religions they’ve influenced. Most Eastern religions have no conception of relationship with god (at least not a relationship based on trust and love), and neither do most religious systems indigenous to the Americas, Africa, and Australia, as far as I’m aware. They don’t all emphasize the importance of trust and faith. They don’t all recognize a single higher being.

Christianity is also fairly unique in having documents (many of them independent from each other) dating back to about the time when a divine power is supposed to have revealed himself (to many different eyewitnesses). In Islam, the Qur’an wasn’t written for centuries after Mohammad lived, and he was conveniently the only one who received this divine revelation. Hinduism’s texts evolved and developed over time, but none go back to the time of a divine revelation. Buddhism’s texts don’t go back to Buddha. Most indigenous religions don’t have any such documents to speak of.