Tyrphanax

Take a proficient fencer, then shoot him in the chest with a 12 gauge shotgun slug, then see how well he fights afterwards.

I’m guessing not great.

Rey obviously knows a bit about melee combat because she handles multiple attackers at once on Jakku.

As I’ve said multiple times before, her basic scrappiness coupled with Kylo’s having tanked a round from a bowcaster which generally sends people flying, plus her obvious latent strength in the Force explains the fight perfectly well.

Thanks, Bingo.

Damn. Sorry to hear about your uncle, Frevious. Hang in there, man.

And I’m glad you’re doing well, Possessed. I wish you continued luck in your recovery. You can do it, man.

Good post, Bingo.

And strength and good wishes to both MikeO and Possessed. Hang in there guys and keep fighting. You can do this.

Gold - Kiiara

Heard this song randomly on the radio the other day and it lodged in my brain. That’s pop for ya; always strangely gets jammed in there somehow.

I like the song though.

8/10 Album
9/19 Art

generalfrevious said:

ATMachine said:

That’s an assumption, not an answer. And with a man as slippery as George Lucas - who makes “experimental films” in private that have so far never been publicly seen - it’s a fair question.

I always found that to be a bullshit excuse from Lucas. To me he has zero interest in “experimental films” and more interest in milking the same franchise too many times to count. He is a man with very limited scope who claims to be avant-garde when he is nothing more than a lucky idiot. He’s bitter because he couldn’t remake his beloved Flash Gordon and had to use his brain to make something original. Then he became even more resentful when smarter people could make better films than him, so he fired everyone who made the franchise great, and made four bad films that are still today black marks for Star wars fans. The only silver lining he got out of this is the merchandising, which was his true calling all along.

Lucid.

9/10 Album
9/10 Art

“Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”.”

This is a good jam from him.

I love Com Truise.

9/10 Album
9/10 Art

Off Topic is a shithole that could use a good firebombing.

TV’s Frink said:

Mean Girls is really good.

It really is.

Who would have thought?

DuracellEnergizer said:

ZkinandBonez said:

(Btw, this image looks a lot better when it’s this small. Link to larger image.

I continue to hate the way Wookieepedia defaults its images to super-small size.

Just chop off everything after .png and you’ll get the full-size image.

Those Gungans look awful though.

ZkinandBonez said:

Tyrphanax said:

The EU had an explanation for this (of course) wherein there are two different types of Gungan, one being the Jar Jar kind and the other being the Boss Nass kind.

But why does Boss Nass need and explanation? He’s just fatter than the other Gungans. Tarpals on the other hand actually has a unique feature.

Because that’s how the old EU (slightly less so the new EU) worked, everything had to have a detailed exacting explanation even if they had to retcon or shoehorn it in. Usually they were dumb.

The EU had an explanation for this (of course) wherein there are two different types of Gungan, one being the Jar Jar kind and the other being the Boss Nass kind.

If you look closely, it still is. Just Halloween’d!

Here are some of the replies to when I asked (be sure to expand that last one):

ATMachine said:

Uh, yes? He’s a money-grubbing businessman/slave-owner who has a huge nose and lives on a desert planet where he gambles in chariot races straight out of Ben-Hur.

TV’s Frink said:

We’ve had this discussion before, and not just with Watto…there’s Jar Jar, the Nemoidians…some people see it, some people don’t. Some who don’t see it argue furiously that it’s not true, for some reason.

ATMachine said:

Nah, it’s not necessarily weird to not notice those things – but it’s definitely the sort of racial coding that ought to be avoided when writing.

I guess it didn’t bother GL though (cf. the Neimoidians, whose voice actors were deliberately told to mimic line readings by other non-English-speaking actors saying the lines phonetically.)

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

ATMachine said:

I guess it didn’t bother GL though (cf. the Neimoidians, whose voice actors were deliberately told to mimic line readings by non-English-speaking actors saying the lines phonetically.)

Well I mean, to play Devil’s Advocate here, I would imagine Neimoidians might not speak English as their native tongue and they do have very odd mouths so I would assume they would speak English pretty awkwardly.

http://www.davechen.net/2012/02/racism-stereotypes-phantom-menace-star.html

In a 1999 article for the Boston Review, Alan Stone corroborates Gottlieb’s take on things. He also identifies one of the reasons why Lucas got himself in trouble: he made the aliens English-speaking. Unlike aliens from the previous Star Wars films (see: Chewbacca, the Ewoks, all the people in the Cantina scene), the aliens in this film spoke our language and had accents and other characteristics reminiscent of the ones found in ethnic stereotypes:

What has made my student and many other cultists of his generation feel betrayed is the new ingredient in Lucas’s recipe: aliens who, unlike any of the previous exotic life forms, suggest racist stereotypes. The evil henchmen in this story seem to be Fu Manchu style Asians, and the primitive Gungan people who live under the sea suggest old Hollywood stereotypes of African-Americans.

I’m not sure I personally see it as intentionally meant to be racist, but it was certainly a poor choice.

ZkinandBonez said:

Maybe I’ll get crap for asking about this; but how exactly are Gungans supposed to be racist?
Or maybe I should rather ask; who are they supposed to be stereotypes of? I get why people complain about the Neimodians, as well as Watto. But what exactly are the Gungans supposed to be similar too?

I’m honestly curious about this, because I feel like I’m missing some connection here that everyone else seems to find quite obvious.

I had this same question myself not long ago, because I just didn’t really get it. I’ll try to find the responses to it, but the gist was that in the OT, all aliens spoke alien languages whereas in the PT, they just spoke English in what are generally accepted as racial stereotype accents.

Gungans (Jar Jar in particular) are said to be based on black stereotypes.

JEDIT: Id done beat me to it.

dahmage said:

Thanks Jay. btw, did the ‘banned’ version of the avatars get dropped recently? I just see his normal looking avatar.

It seems to work in comments (I just saw it there), but not in thread titles.

Tough decision. Congrats on your island paradise, at least!

Haha nice.

That seems unfun and messy.

Introducing Microsoft Surface Studio .

For years and years I’ve been in constant arguments with people who think that if you’re going to be a creative professional (video, music, art, design), you have to have an Apple computer when my PC can run programs as good or better than any of Apple’s proprietary software while simultaneously out-performing any pre-built Apple. All of Adobe’s programs, plus analogies for their video editing and music production software, plus it can play video games with amazing settings, plus it’s modular and upgradable.

Maybe now that Microsoft has a powerful (though I admit the specs aren’t incredible in this first iteration) pre-built, proprietary computer aimed at creative professionals, the laypeople will come around and realize that Apple’s design was really the only thing they had over the average PC.

I love competition, and I’m excited to watch Apple scramble to find a new sales pitch that doesn’t rely on looks alone or removing features.

Plus holy shit is that display sexy or what? And that little accessory pod thing? Man. I want one to plug into my PC. If they were just selling the displays alone, they’d get rich.

JEDIT: Holy crap.

TV’s Frink said:

darth_ender said:

TV’s Frink said:

I WILL BE ALSO BE THE MODERATOR BECAUSE HUMANS ARE BIASED

SYNTAX ERROR

LOL I LIKE YOUR STYLE

FOR A HUMAN

YOU CAN BE MY SECRETARY OF HUMAN LANGUAGES

I, for one, welcome Darth_Ender to the cabinet. Welcome to the bigtime, D_E.