Tyrphanax

The flows are insane.

Opeth is cooool

Yeah, it works for so many things around here.

TV’s Frank is great.

TV’s Frink said:

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/962550

https://youtu.be/G7O5PBbfUUU?t=227

Nah man, own it. Sometimes we say something silly. It’s cool.

Peep that alliteration. Fresh as fuck.

It’s good that you’re feeling like the medication increase is helping, and it’s good that your mother sees some advances as well. I know it doesn’t feel like progress when you forget it momentarily and then it comes back, but I really do think you’re making progress, despite how it feels to you. Sometimes you have to let yourself win. Hold yourself accountable, yes, but don’t beat yourself down.

Don’t worry too much about being dependent on medication. A lot of times they’ll give you a high dosage and then start weening you down once you’ve gotten things under control. Medication like this isn’t ever an exact science and your dosage could fluctuate a lot or a little.

I don’t know enough super specific details about your predicament to diagnose you with OCD, but in my experience what you’re experiencing is very close to OCD. And you’ve definitely manifested something if not OCD. It’s okay, we all have our things to manage. I do think that at least consulting with one of those OCD specialists would be a good idea. Bring them your diary and let them read through it and see what they think, and what they suggest.

And just hang in there.

Yeah, that’s the joke of the thread title as well.

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/962681

Because it’s Han’s solo movie.

Hahn.

Mojito.

The image was obviously shot with a potato.

Sorry this thread is about the Han - Solo movie, not post timestamps!

Why isn’t that on the front? Everything’s all fucked up in this bizzaro world!

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!

How about Mark stays and we vote someone else off the island? I’ll even volunteer.

Either way, I hope Mark feels better soon and comes back to us.

Damn you for having good taste in jazz ImperialScum.

Gettin’ By - Jerry Jeff Walker

Aw but I like Mark.

yhwx said:

I know squat about the EU, so what’s “Mandalorians?”

Basically, in either canon, the Mandalorians are the people warrior culture from the planet Mandalore.

To get more in-depth, read below.

Originally, during pre-production for The Empire Strikes Back there was an idea that there would be a group of “supercommandos” from the Mandalore system who wore heavily weaponized white armour. This was eventually whittled down to just one, Boba Fett, and the armour was repainted to the green, yellow, and red we see in the movie. The novelization that came out around then said that Boba Fett wore a suit of “Mandalorian Armour”, and that the Mandalorians were a group of “evil warriors” who were wiped out by the Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars, without saying that Boba was a Mandalorian himself.

This was later retconned by the original Marvel comics. Boba Fett (later retconned to some random clone) became one of three surviving supercommandos from the world of Mandalore. The Mandalorian supercommandos had been decimated during the Clone Wars after being ordered to capture Princess Leia by Palpatine (later retconned to Padme Amidala).

In that same comic, it is revealed that Mandalore, a lush jungle/forest planet, came under the heel of the Empire after the Clone Wars, and the other two Mandalorian supercommandos, Fenn Shysa and Tobbi Dala, returned to train a group of Mandalorian Protectors to wage guerilla warfare against the Imperial slavers. Princess Leia showed up looking for Dengar and got involved in the Mandalorian rebellion which eventually led to the liberation of Mandalore from the Empire.

Later on, a writer called Karen Traviss would come along and make a lot of retcons (the two mentioned were hers). She successfully turned Boba Fett and the Mandalorians into a group of Mary Sue infallible good-guy warrior badasses and drove the entire concept into the ground while creating a really creepily-dedicated and aggressive fanbase and a full language to use in her books. Luckily she got butthurt about the possibility of her stories being overwritten and quit Star Wars in a huff before going off to write awful Halo books.

The Clone Wars retconned things in a more interesting direction by making the Mandalorians a warrior culture that had fought so many wars that Mandalore had been reduced to a barren wasteland, and the current ruler was an off-worlder and a pacifist who had exiled the planet’s remaining warriors to the moon Concordia. I won’t give any spoilers about the arc because it’s actually quite interesting and I think very good, but suffice to say it’s hard to keep warriors down.

Personally, I preferred the idea that “Mandalorian” was more of a warrior culture that one could ascribe to (which prevailed around the Tales of the Jedi and Knights of The Old Republic eras, and even into the Open Seasons comic), rather than a set people from a set planet. But I also really, really enjoyed the way the Mandalorian arcs played out in The Clone Wars.

joefavs said:

Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight was one of the first bits of EU I was exposed to and thus a huge influence on my ideas about Star Wars as a whole, especially given the fact that I played it within a year or two of seeing the movies for the first time. The atmosphere and tone in that game is still closer for me to what Star Wars is supposed to feel like than almost anything else that’s come out since. The lack of characters and locations from the movies made the galaxy seem much more open, and I think the way that dark Force users were handled here is a big part of why I’m so inclined to groan when I see every single bad guy with a lightsaber referred to as a “Sith” these days. I also think Yun’s yellow lightsaber is why non-movie colors don’t really bother me (the Darksaber from TCW is still the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, though).

EDIT: What an historically significant post number.

Old post, but you should definitely check out the Dark Forces Radio Drama. It’s excellent.

darklordoftech said:

TheBoost said:

The Merchant said:

What’s wrong with Palpy being a Sith? Just curious, nothing against him not being a Sith.

Any time you take a character, and say “WAIT! There’s a whole class of characters just like them!” it lessens that character.

Greedo comes from a species of all bounty hunters.

Jabba comes from a species of all crime lords.

Palpy comes from a club of evil wizards.

Boba comes from a planet of bad ass whatever he is (retconned at some point).

It makes them boring.

This. This is what Duracell and I have been trying to say. It’s much more awesome when you come up with your ideology and become a badass without anyone else’s help. Furthermore, Palpatine doesn’t seem like the type of person who would identify with anything that he didn’t create.

I do have to agree with this, as much as I enjoy the idea of pre-Karen Traviss Mandalorians.

imperialscum said:

One of my favourites (Kotonoha no Niwa):

Anyone can trace over a photograph or video.

Bingowings said:

I noticed some B5 figures going cheap on eBay so I put a bid in expecting to be out bid later but won the auction. As I am currently visiting folks in England, I asked them to be delivered here. Today my cousin turned up at the door with a box which I assumed to be a late, cheap and possibly ribald birthday present. It wasn’t it was my order. Of all the eBay sellers out there I had just ordered something from my own cousin.

Wow. Small world.

FanFiltration said:

This guy right here knows what’s up.

Neglify said:

Tyrphanax said:

yhwx said:

Oh. My. God.

Becky.

Look at her butt. It’s so big.

Someone got it.

She looks like one of those rap guys girlfriends.

yhwx said:

Of course, I’ve also eaten roast beef and raspberry jam sandwiches.

Oh. My. God.

Becky.

Today is the centennial anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, which went on for four months and resulted in a ten-mile advance for the British and French armies.

Here’s a short video about it.

Fifty-seven thousand British casualties in one day, a third of them deaths.