RicOlie_2

G-14st

Considering he switched to his current avatar about five or six hours before making that post, the second part of your question needs no further answer....

"Point me out" isn't a biggy, since native English speakers sometimes word it like that. It isn't technically correct, however, because "point me out" means that you want me to point you out to someone (the following "any errors in my grammar" clarifies your meaning, so you could get away with using it).

Now I'd better slow down before this discussion turns into the official OT.com "Consult a Grammar Nazi" thread. ;)

No problem. I don't really expect you to address anything in my responses to your answers, unless I specifically ask for clarification. I think I'm happy enough with what you came up with this time. If I needed you to convince me why your beliefs are the best explanation of the evidence before I was satisfied, I wouldn't have any questions left to ask after that because I'd be a Mormon. ;)

Ender, ender, there's no sharing allowed in this game! Either you use an X to capture his lance or you stay in your own hexagonal bubble. ;) And your pawn is protected--I didn't realize my bishop was covering that hex. However, this raises the question: can one member of an alliance protect another's pieces from illumination? After all, I am still legally able to capture your pieces, so long as I don't check your king.

G-9rs√

bkev said:

Cons aren't really my thing[...].

 Agreed. I much prefer pros myself.

dclarkg said:

RicOlie_2 said:

dclarkg said: Is not literally a marathon, it will be a 3 night split, 2 per night.

 I wouldn't nitpick your grammar if "literally" wasn't such an abused word, but a literal marathon would be a long distance run of however long it is. You could use "really" or "actually" instead (e.g. "It won't actually be a marathon") since those words aren't as strong as "literally," and can allow for a figurative meaning (now I'm going to have people nitpicking over the definitions of "really" and "actually" :P).

Carry on....

 As you can see, I said is NOT literally a marathon :p

Alright, you got me there. :P

RicOlie_2 said:

Alright, maybe he doesn't want it, but I know what it's like to be a second language speaker, and I would want people to correct me, especially on things I wouldn't be able to figure out without being told. I don't plan on picking apart his grammar at every opportunity unless he asks for it, though. And apologies to him if he didn't want it. :P

 Hey, not a problem, I appreciate it. Feel free to point me out to me any errors in my grammar; I'm sure I make mistakes all the time without realizing it so any help is welcome. At least in this case I knew it wasn't literally a marathon but I was trying to use the broad meaning of the word. ;)

 I'm glad that I didn't come of as an annoying know-it-all. (Also, minor punctuation errors, a typo, and one other small mistake corrected for you ;P.)

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Alright, maybe he doesn't want it, but I know what it's like to be a second language speaker, and I would want people to correct me, especially on things I wouldn't be able to figure out without being told. I don't plan on picking apart his grammar at every opportunity unless he asks for it, though. And apologies to him if he didn't want it. :P

That king of yours has certainly become an odd fellow since darth_ender's laptop met with its end. I do wonder if his brains were addled with too much time in the sun and not enough strategy in the past few days.

Ender, you'd better get that pawn defended before he gets illumined.

Nope. A literal marathon is the race. The other definitions of marathon (other than the place, obviously) are figurative derivatives of the literal meaning.

If you want to escalate the situation without causing trouble, take your computer upstairs (this might require taking it downstairs first).

My attendance, obviously.

dclarkg said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

For someone who has never seen SW (or for someone who has, for that matter), I can't imagine a 6-movie marathon.  That would be exhauting to the point of torture.  I remember back in about 1985 when a local theater did the 3 movie marathon (4,5,6), and that alone is 9 hours and by partway through the 3rd movie I was mentally done and so was just about everyone else in the theater.  You're talking 18 straight hours which is borderline unhealthy.

If you mean a 2 or 3 night "marathon", I still think 456123 is the most logical sequence, because it is the order they came out in theaters.  No reveals are spoiled, and the progression of movie-making techniques and styles would be less jarring.

 Is not literally a marathon, it will be a 3 night split, 2 per night.

 I wouldn't nitpick your grammar if "literally" wasn't such an abused word, but a literal marathon would be a long distance run of however long it is. You could use "really" or "actually" instead (e.g. "It won't actually be a marathon") since those words aren't as strong as "literally," and can allow for a figurative meaning (now I'm going to have people nitpicking over the definitions of "really" and "actually" :P).

</grammar lesson>

Carry on....

Good point. Jabba the Hutt's reveal being spoiled has also been mentioned. I agree that for a first time viewer, the best order is the release order--no question about it.

Darth Mallwalker said:

Don't keep us in suspense.
I can't wait to find out who's the official who is going

 Perhaps moderators could be considered online officials, in which case SilverWook is the official who is going to this thread (although he already went, so it might be someone else).

EDIT: Also, I'm not going unless someone sends me plane tickets for both there and back, pays for my passport, gets me a hotel room for the duration of the Celebration, and makes sure I get fed while I'm there.

The maturity is palpable.

R-14qr

I think you should watch them alphabetically (excluding "the's"):

A New Hope

Attack of the Clones

The Empire Strikes Back

The Phantom Menace

Return of the Jedi

Revenge of the Sith

Or, if you want to include the "the's" in your alphabetization, the order is ANH, AotC, RotJ, RotS, tESB, TPM.

NeverarGreat said:

lpd said:

Sounds ok to me. TFA

For a moment I didn't know what the acronym was, and googled it. I wonder how much thought JJ and his people put into the acronym aspect, if any.

Obviously they didn't think much about it, or they would have realized that everyone would associate it with trifluoroacetic acid! Every time people type the acronym, they're going to be thinking about a chemical instead of a movie and people are going to end up buying large quantities of the acid instead of movie tickets in their confusion!

You didn't try to move to the pleasure garden, before that last edit, did you? That would have been a very anticlimactic end to the game after waiting several days for ender to sort out his computer problems....

The EU (may it rest in pieces) tells us that Wookiees can live at least a few hundred years, so he might still be young by Wookiee standards. However, I agree that he should look at least a bit older.

ALLOL!

NeverarGreat said:

Harmy said:

I liked The Ancient Fear much more.

I hope that the Force is now potentially able to be used by anyone, and that it does not follow bloodlines anymore.

 Midichlorian injections coming up! ;)

It could be better, but it's no worse than "Return of the Jedi" or "A New Hope." Star Wars has never really had good titles.