Meanwhile, Trump’s claim to be the “greatest friend to the LGBT community” is confirmed to be the big lie everyone knew it was.
Yep. Figured it was all words, while the actions went the other way.
So glad I’m Canadian.
Only if you listen to it on a Victrola.
Pssh, why listen to fake recorded music when you have the real deal? (I don’t have an actual harpsichord and I probably wouldn’t have the patience to learn it anyway.
Fake?
Because recorded music is clearly a fake version of listening to the music in person. (I’m hoping it’s clear that I’m pretending to be snobbish)
Only if you listen to it on a Victrola.
Pssh, why listen to fake recorded music when you have the real deal? (I don’t have an actual harpsichord and I probably wouldn’t have the patience to learn it anyway.
I have hearby decided that the harpsichord is the best instrument.
So there was an attack, but he had it the wrong way around.
Well, that was last month and he said it happened yesterday, so he wasn’t even right in that regard. However, he’s always ignored attacks on refugees and on Muslims (see the attack in Quebec that he completely ignored) so he wouldn’t have even been talking about that if it had happened yesterday.
Yeah, I noticed that after I linked it. My bad.
So there was an attack, but he had it the wrong way around.
EDIT: though it may not be the attack Trump claimed, as it was not “last night”.
Now I remember. I had mentioned that the prequels could be improved (not fixed, but improved) if you muted the TV.
I think I encountered flametitan on reddit.
Star Wars, D&D, or elsewhere?
No one should encounter anyone on reddit.
I try to keep myself away from the defaults and other congregations of evil Reddit has, but you can definitely see the daker parts of reddit wherever you go.
Random Thought: I will now attempt to make GIAL a thing.
The Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics is already a thing, I don’t think you can make something that already exists exist more.
So, nothing important, but Rian confirmed that the stormtrooper redesigns are real https://twitter.com/rianjohnson/status/832007457253711872
Supposed image from TLJ:
If it’s accurate, we may be seeing subtle design tweaks to the Stormtroopers.
I dig. The frown is more evocative of the 1977 design.
I like the change too. Tones down the Duckface syndrome the TFA troopers had.
Supposed image from TLJ: 
If it’s accurate, we may be seeing subtle design tweaks to the Stormtroopers.
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
I don’t understand how this is possible. It’s inconceivable! A cat’s breath smelling like… cat food‽ What has the world come to?
On another note I get to see a psych next Tuesday. Hopefully all goes right.
EDIT:
@flametitan
I don’t think there would be any family functions because Ben is going to prison if he turns back to the light. Just because he’s of the Skywalker bloodline doesn’t mean he can get away with multiple counts of murder and being part of a regime who destroyed an entire System. And that’s just what he’s done thus far. Imagine what that fucker is going to do next.
Star Wars is a sci-fi take on a contemporary fairy tale world. Darth Vader’s redemption more or less absolved everything he did in Luke’s eyes (and the Force’s eyes, he got to be a force ghost!). Unless I read bloodline wrong, Leia in the new canon is more upset that she never got to see the good man and only knows the hate, than that Darth Vader got to be a karma Houdini by saving Luke (Legends is a different matter). The rest of the galaxy still hates Vader, but they don’t know about his redemption arc either.
I didn’t mean literally. It’s just a good illustration to point out how it’d be strained.
So Rey and Kylo’s enteries in the Star Wars database was recently updated to include the fact that a bond had formed between the two. This partially explains why she was able to get into his head.
This is one of the most exciting aspects of episode 8 to come.
I just hope this doesn’t mean Reylo is a thing…
+1000
Rey falling in love with a man who
• kidnapped her
• mentally abused her (literally, he used the force to abuse her mind)
• tried to kill her
• killed her only father figurewould be absurd and probably break the trilogy for me.
The most I would consider reasonable is that if Ben has a redemption arc, then the two of them might not be on hostile terms, but very uncomfortable together, and if they are related (to be honest I can see it going either way for Rey’s parentage), they might stay far apart during family get-togethers.
I actually read a few of the Legacy comics and they’re not that bad but they’re not particularly good either. The only reason I could recommend someone reading them is if you’re interested in Darth Krayt. Supposedly he’s stronger than Bane or Sidious.
Is he a dragon?
He’s (SPOILERS?) actually a PT-era Jedi who named himself that for reasons pertaining to his character.
Wasn’t the point of Legacy to try and put themselves as far flung from the PT/OT era as possible while still allowing for ghost Luke, or do I have that mixed up with a different comic line? A PT era character seems out of line with that.
It didn’t stop the writer from rehashing everything from those eras, only more EXTREME!!!
Didn’t like the Rule of Two? Well here’s the Rule of One – ie. one Sith Lord ruling over an order of thousands of Sith.
Like Darth Maul? Well now every Sith is Darth Maul!
Found the Great Jedi Purge underwhelming? Well here’s another Jedi purge to make up for it.
Didn’t like that the New Republic eventually beat the Empire? Well here’s the Empire back again.
Legacy was the nadir of the Expanded Universe. It exposed for all to see just how bereft of originality the EU was by that point.
That’s unfortunate. I would’ve liked to have seen a proper future for the Star Wars Universe. The political landscape could be so far removed from what we’re used to (with the Galactic Civil war being as far back to them as the American Civil War is to us), the characters facing radically different social issues from those in the main saga.
EDIT: I should really take the time to notice that the forum drops you off on the last page you’ve read, which is not the same as the last page on the thread.
I think rather than a list of jokes they will make, it might be more interesting to make a list of jokes they won’t make, likely ones that are actually good and might fit into what a parody is about.
Like meta humour about how casual audiences mistook Rogue One for Episode VIII at first. I could see great humour made out of it, but requiring too much thought put into the script for a parody like this.
Darths & Droids explained it rather simply: Wedge is a shapeshifter.
Galen didn’t construct the DS, only the laser.
Then how did he construct a convenient way for the rebels to destroy it???
That’s a common misconception. He didn’t. All he did was make an unstable reactor to set off the chain reaction. That’s why he wanted the rebels to steal the plans, so they could figure out on their own how to set it off. He didn’t have a clue how the rebels would do it. It’s entirely possible he was expecting an espionage mission than a bunch of snub fighters trying to make a one in a million shot.
So it would have been possible for, say, a 4 person crew to infiltrate the Death Star and sabotage the faulty reactor using the Death Star plans carried by R2? It’s a good thing there was never the chance for such a sabotage mission or the Rebellion wouldn’t have needed to give away the position of its base and send almost all of its fighters to their destruction.
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“SUPPLEMENTAL DATA: BATTLE STATION ENGINEERING NOTESI am instructing my team to look into all options. To expedite matters, I must request the use of your droids in running several alternative scenarios.
This will be an inconvenience, I realize, but the safety of the battle station’s crew is paramount.[Document #YM3884U (“Reply to Venting Shafts”), sent from Engineering Operations Manager Shaith Vodran to Galen Erso.]
Are the command sectors or officer quarters in the affected radiation zones?
[Document #YM3884V (“Reply to Venting Shafts”), sent from Galen Erso to Engineering Operations Manager Shaith Vodran.]
No.
[Document #YM3884W (“Reply to Venting Shafts”), sent from Engineering Operations Manager Shaith Vodran to Galen Erso.]
Send me your final plans. I’ll declare the droids in error.
This isn’t too far from real engineering reports I saw when I worked at an automotive assembly plant. Way to make the Empire ordinarily corporate.
Red Five didn’t destroy the Death Star, Red Tape did!
Galen didn’t construct the DS, only the laser.
Then how did he construct a convenient way for the rebels to destroy it???
That’s a common misconception. He didn’t. All he did was make an unstable reactor to set off the chain reaction. That’s why he wanted the rebels to steal the plans, so they could figure out on their own how to set it off. He didn’t have a clue how the rebels would do it. It’s entirely possible he was expecting an espionage mission than a bunch of snub fighters trying to make a one in a million shot.
So it would have been possible for, say, a 4 person crew to infiltrate the Death Star and sabotage the faulty reactor using the Death Star plans carried by R2? It’s a good thing there was never the chance for such a sabotage mission or the Rebellion wouldn’t have needed to give away the position of its base and send almost all of its fighters to their destruction.
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I don’t know, and Galen didn’t either. According to the novelization, it’s implied that Galen signed off on the exhaust port design, but it was confirmed by Lucasfilm recently that he did not design them.
Besides, I doubt Luke and Co. were well equipped to perform such an activity, nevermind knew that was an option. After all, that’d require them to open up the plans (which they can’t just do, it seems like), they’d have to recognize the faulty reactor (And Galen would not just label “Hey, this reactor’s set to blow” on the plans, unlike “Tractor beam power switch”), and then they’d have to deliver a strong enough shock from a remote enough distance (as I doubt anyone but Leia or Ben would be willing to embark on a suicide mission, and one person is not a sufficient force against overwhelming odds, though the force may balance it out).
And that’s assuming it were possible. Neither Galen or myself know what the complete technical readout of that station looks like, so it’s entirely possible that wasn’t an option.
Galen didn’t construct the DS, only the laser.
Then how did he construct a convenient way for the rebels to destroy it???
That’s a common misconception. He didn’t. All he did was make an unstable reactor to set off the chain reaction. That’s why he wanted the rebels to steal the plans, so they could figure out on their own how to set it off. He didn’t have a clue how the rebels would do it. It’s entirely possible he was expecting an espionage mission than a bunch of snub fighters trying to make a one in a million shot.
One thing I’ve noticed looking at the Death Star more: You can actually see some deep lines running up to the North Pole of the Death Star in the few shots you can see its poles clearly. Now, being that the entire surface is designed to give the illusion that the surface is uneven, that doesn’t mean much, but I consider that relevant.
So how is it that Luke has never heard of “the force”? I’ve always read Mark’s reaction to imply that Luke has never even heard the phrase used in the way Obi-Wan has used it.
I’m putting money on Owen being that micromanaging of Luke’s life that Luke never got to learn what the force was if he had heard of it before.
Somewhat international, but it ties into recent things from America: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/25/netherlands-trump-gag-rule-international-safe-abortion-fund
I might be a little late to post this, but this ep IX title seems legit.