Tyrphanax

"Missing" - Everything But The Girl

It's actually pretty awesome you got one. They're good conversation pieces for nerds if nothing else.

I remember the one jerk kid who got everything he ever wanted in my neighbourhood had one. I never got to touch it. I doubt it got any use, though, just because of it being brittle and not so great.

It better have been free. That thing was crap.

I was catching up on the thread when it frontpaged and reading the old DJ ban posts reminded me.

I miss twooffour.

*stabs Frink in the eye*

"I'm a person and what is this?"

Anthony Le (who goes by MasterLe) is this guy who does prop costume building (you've likely seen his Iron Man costumes on the internet as they are very popular in the blogosphere) who has a really bad reputation in the prop recreation community for being a self-important, condescending dick.

Even Adam Savage called him out on it.

Dark Jedi is to OT.com what Master Le was to RPF.com.

Pat Man is his own sock.

I'm Spartacus Pat Man.

The guy is wrong because she is female and therefore has no concept of direction.

...heyo.

My god... Babe was right...

There's something alive in here?

Thread of the Year.

I'd like to bitch about Frink's b*tching.

Probably some obscure game the kid by the Pepsi machine is playing.

Oh yeah. The space combat is far superior to EaW. EaW isn't "true 3D" in the sense that different ships are more or less relegated to different "levels" in the plain. I can't help it in that I have a huge thing for Imperial starships, but I also like a challenge, so I would rarely just go up against some mis-matched, tiny fleet unless I wanted to have some guilty fun.

EaW's difficulty is also not all that hot. I play games on the hardest difficulty available these days because everything else isn't much of a challenge anymore (though I find that "hard" usually means "you do less damage and enemies do more, also there are more enemies" which isn't "hard" so much as annoying and lame, but this is a different rant =P), EaW for the Empire becomes way too easy once you get the Executor and about four Star Destroyers in a fleet; after that you will likely never lose another ship and will basically roflstomp anything (including their hero units) with the audacity to stand in your way. You'll have to resort to using an interdiction cruiser in order to keep them from hiding on the other side of the map until they can jump out of the system, which is kinda lame...

I enjoyed EaW a lot, but I was already spoiled by Warlords' space combat by the time I got a hold of it.

Warlords is really incredible. Having played Homeworld II, it really is a total conversion indeed, because only rudimentary things from Homeworld are the same. Warlords is also more of a "sim" in that attributes are what they are from canon material and are not balanced and better ships are just better ships. That said, I wouldn't say any one side has an advantage or disadvantage (except the pirate or independent faction, whichever it's named, obviously they don't have access to crazy military technology [though they did get a bit of a boost when they put in some of the ships from the EaW expansion]), because I've had my Imperial fleets pretty well dismantled by certain Rebel ships. Of course, if you have the patience and resources to build some of the super-class ships, things get all kinds of crazy.

There are also some interesting non-canon ships in there as well, and I believe you can restrict the construction to certain timelines, too, which is cool.

Anyway... if you get a chance to try it out sometime, you really should. It's one of the best mods I've ever played.

The Warlords mod for Homeworld II is amazing fun. Really it's the best Star Wars RTS I've ever played.

I'm not sure what the support for it is like anymore, since it's been years since I played it last, and I know there was work happening on a Sins of a Solar Empire mod going on by the same guy (more or less a "port" of Warlords), but man; the level of detail on the ships was amazing. From the Executor down to the TIE fighters, everything was spot on. You could just follow one little TIE around as it engaged in dogfights with X-Wings, or you could zoom way out and watch your ISDs pound the pulp out of some Rebels on a true three-dimensional plane. Truly an amazing experience.

Here are a few screenshots I had laying around that I took for background purposes. I realize now that it kind of shows the fleets you were talking about not liking, but they're pretty damn awesome (not to mention the AI Rebels would always give me a run for my money).

http://i.imgur.com/vgixH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sNayZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vU2CV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BkPYP.jpg

Curiosity gets the scoop. There was also a lot of talk about that small metallic object in the dirt in the lower right... what could it be?! Well, apparently the rover is shedding.

Who knew!

georgec said:

I thought the thread title was "Religion-free Blu-Ray". I was wondering how that would work.

I was just about to post that every time I see this thread, I think that for a second.

Cheese is pretty good.

*groan*

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

yeeeGGAAAHHH!!!

Read this as a Howie Scream.

"The programmers of www.StarWars.com put up a temporary webpage with mocking the "Godzilla" campaign with a poster lettered with the green glow reading "Plot Does Matter - May 1999", in reference to Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace."

This made me laugh out loud.

Tyr: Beer Psychic.