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The King in Yellow by R.W. Chambers

Decided I needed to read this book after I caught wind of it not that long ago. A highly regarded paranormal novel from the late 1890's that inspired Lovecraft, Heinlein, Howard etc.? Okay cool, let's do this.

It starts off very strong and I really dug the first half of the book. It's really strange and mysterious. Then I don't know what happened. The last few stories are basically just little romances set in Paris. I don't get it.

Our very own Heilemann is the author of Kitbashed!

Yeah, Colonial Marines was a hot mess. It was pretty fun to play with a couple buddies though. Great game to laugh at while you play.

The new game based on ALIEN looks great though.

darklordoftech said:

How we have to read out-of-print RPG sourcebooks in order to make sense of novels.

 The entire EU is built upon the back of the original WEG RPG source books. Which I always thought was great as they were incredibly well done. I've never felt lost while reading a SW novel but then I stopped once the NJO dropped. Are the current novels that badly written?

I dunno seems like a pretty straight forward progression to me. =P

Looking up the female cast of Twin Peaks as they are today is really depressing. =(

In a couple weeks I will be embarking upon the odyssey that is STAR TREK: THE VIDEO GAME. It's dangerous to go alone so I'll be co-oping it. Wish us luck!

As for mixed adoptions, there's a great autobiographical film on the subject. I highly recommend it.

That these guys aren't Bothans:

Or the quirky proprietors. 

Of the three Doctors I'm familiar with, the Second is my favorite.

Bingowings said:

I thought the graphic of the Bith (a species renown for being musicians) and the other alien was a reference to the Cafe 80s in Back to the Future Part 2 (Michael Jackson and Ronald Gunray etc).

So maybe it was a nostalgia bar for an even earlier time or maybe not.

 They had Nuna Ball and Podracing playing on screens in the back, I'm pretty sure it was a sports bar.

I always thought it would be neat to divide them up by trilogies:

IV-VI = The Star Wars

I-III  =  The Clone Wars

VII-IX = The Sith Wars? *flees while Duracell and darklord rend their clothes*

Speaking of mobile games. This apparently just launched today:

STAR WARS ASSAULT TEAM

Been playing it this morning. Pretty fun and surprisingly firmly set in-universe. Lots of little nods to things like the team Han put together in that PSP Battlefront game. Though they use ROTS Chewie. =(

His species is so weird and different I would have pegged you for liking him. What about him do you despise?

darklordoftech said:

Luke turning to the dark side in Dark Empire. The whole point of Luke is that he's different from Anakin.

 Indeed. I hate Dark Empire as a whole. Dark Horse has grown leaps and bounds from their beginning. I'm really sad about the end of their Star Wars reign. =(

Welcome! We used to have a thread for that in Off Topic. This is somewhat similar though.

I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with the forum rules. As well as this thread to get a handle on the local lingo. Good luck and watch out for Frink! ;) =P

I couldn't help myself...

As news about the forthcoming Star Wars 7 shoot continues to leak out, the latest reports suggest that Iceland has been added to the list of filming locations.

According to Icelandic site visir.is, the crew will be heading for the Scandinavian nation this Spring ahead of the main production kicking off in May.

However don’t expect to see Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford et al on Icelandic soil, as it appears that the production team have mainly landscape shots in mind.

The site reports that Iceland will be used mainly for filming landscape ‘plate shots’ which will then be used for scenery – although the news has sparked speculation that the movie could be partly set on the ice planet Hoth.

Source.

It's the official Star Wars blog. Every part of that post was meticulously thought out. They're not going to just throw in that little tidbit at the end unless they're certain of their facts. They know how fast that kind of news travels and what a mess it would be if they would have to retract such a statement later on.

Fang Zei said:

The tweet Kilroy refers to was from Pablo Hidalgo back in December. It caused quite a stir because he basically said the only things that were ever "canon" are the movies and the clone wars series. In other words "only what's up on screen." Everything else in this model is merely "continuity."

 Was able to track it down. That does muddy the waters but it wasn't an official statement of policy. It was an off the cuff remark.

If their intention was to completely do away with the EU then they wouldn't have been so quick to cobble that retcon together for the Korriban/Moraband debacle.

We'll have to wait for an official announcement before we know where the dust has settled.

It's not just coming from Iger. The official Star Wars blog stated the same as well.

KilroyMcFadden said:

1. I saw it in a tweet that was captured and posted either here or at TFN by someone from Lucasfilms (Dave Filoni?).  I'm not going to be able to link because it was weeks ago and is lost to me.  

2. The point is that I was answering the OP... "What do you hate about the EU?" answer being, that people continue to take it seriously after it has been rendered a pile of pro fan fic, referring back to the "nothing counts anymore" nature of the tweet to which I referred.

 Again, no such announcement was ever made.

What was announced is that the tiered classification system for the EU has been eliminated. Now whether it be movie, game or book they're all equal in the Star Wars canon now. With this, some material will most likely be labeled completely non-canon but what that material is has not been announced.

KilroyMcFadden said:

I may be going a little meta here, but what I really hate about the EU is that since the announcement that only the PT, TCW, Rebels, the OT, and the ST count

 There has never been such an announcement. I would challenge you to provide a source for that.