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#316275
Topic
Jedi Equivalent of the 501st Legion?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316275/action/topic#316275
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PreludeRM said:

But really there is no equivalent as the 501st do think they are better then everybody and any costume group.


That bears repeating. If I'm not mistaken, there were a few members from the Rebel Legion that were in that parade too, but the lions share of the costumers were 501st members.

I also find it interesting that they were at one time all one group. "The worst thing we ever did was split the rebels out into their own group" - A former 501st LCO.

Whatever you do, do not join the Rebel Legion hoping to get any recognition at events. Time and time again, both groups will show up but the only one you'll hear about is the 501st.
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#316111
Topic
New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316111/action/topic#316111
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I think what everyone's missing here is that today's run of the mill crap is not usually done by well known actor's and director's. Batman Begins, The Matrix, and the others mentioned were done by people that were either new to the scene or wanted to stay faithful to the material.

Finding Nemo (to use someone else's example) was a movie done for adults that kids can love as well (just watch the commentary, they say exactly that in the commentary). So there's no reason why a movie can't appeal to both audiences and not be lame.

In the case of Clone Wars, we should expect and get a higher quality of movie than "a gangster's son is kidnapped and the Republic (who really has no reason to get involved) comes to the rescue". It's being done by the same man that did Star Wars. There are really very few glaring plot holes in ANH (why not shoot through Yavin instead of going around it, why not shoot down that escape pod, etc).

Yes, Lucas is making these for kids, but he's completely forgetting that kids aren't kids forever. They grow up and revisit the movies they loved as kids. When they go back to these movies they loved, they end up hating them and then they never want to watch them again because "I can't believe I use to like that movie". Then, when they become parents, some of them (like me) will simply just not show their kids these old movies because "That movie's dumb and I'm not letting my kid watch it".
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#316036
Topic
New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316036/action/topic#316036
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zombie84 said:

Johnny Ringo said:


the point is there is really no reason for either the republic or the CIS to be interested in Tatooine. Unless Anakin has gone rogue yet again.




I take it you haven't seen the trailer? Jabba's son is kidnapped and Yoda sends Anakin and the clones there to negotiate and rescue Jabba's son, or some ridiculous thing like that.


Are you serious? Let me just say, HAHAHAHAHA! Why would the Republic give two shits about a crime bosses son? It just keeps getting better and better.
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#316032
Topic
Oliver Stone's "W" with Josh Brolin playing George W. Bush
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/316032/action/topic#316032
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Arnie.d said:

lordjedi said:

skyjedi2005 said:

this movie is from the same guy who did the movie nixon which was overly dramatic one sided, and untrue to historical events.

typical of the lefties.

i'll ovoid this movie like the plague unless it is funny as an accident, kinda like farenheit was lampooning how stupid bush was, before family guy and american dad got in on the act.


You would be better off watching the movie (I didn't say pay for it) and making notes of all the inaccuracies. That way, when people like Arnie try to claim something as fact from the movie, you'll be well armed to dispel the myth.

Of course, that won't matter much I guess. Most of the people that go to see the movie will already have their minds made up and nothing anyone says to dispute the claims in the movie will change their mind. Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 had the same effect and people continue to speak the falsehoods portrayed as facts from those movies.

A list of inaccuracies would be helpfull indeed (btw, is there a list for columbine and fahrenheit?)


Are you kidding me? Simply search Google for "bowling for columbine truth" and "fahrenheit 9/11 truth". Among the hits you'll find these two sites:

http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1099142634.shtml

There are many others. Seriously, it's not hard to find sites that show what a bunch of crap both movies were. It's Michael Moore. Everything he does can be taken with a mountain of salt.
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#315985
Topic
Oliver Stone's "W" with Josh Brolin playing George W. Bush
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315985/action/topic#315985
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skyjedi2005 said:

this movie is from the same guy who did the movie nixon which was overly dramatic one sided, and untrue to historical events.

typical of the lefties.

i'll ovoid this movie like the plague unless it is funny as an accident, kinda like farenheit was lampooning how stupid bush was, before family guy and american dad got in on the act.


You would be better off watching the movie (I didn't say pay for it) and making notes of all the inaccuracies. That way, when people like Arnie try to claim something as fact from the movie, you'll be well armed to dispel the myth.

Of course, that won't matter much I guess. Most of the people that go to see the movie will already have their minds made up and nothing anyone says to dispute the claims in the movie will change their mind. Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 had the same effect and people continue to speak the falsehoods portrayed as facts from those movies.
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#315965
Topic
Leading To War
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315965/action/topic#315965
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zombie84 said:

Since Iraq and the middle east is in a worse state than when Saddam was around, no, we didn't really gain anything through his downfall.

I can't believe that some people can possibly defend the war in Iraq. Okay, maybe some people had different expectations when they first went in there, but after everything thats happened and come out, theres really nothing positive to say about it.


Nothing positive? How about real elections. How about people not being put into meat grinders. How about peaceful political dissension (read non-violent protests) actually being tolerated instead of the perpetrators being killed. Every Democracy goes through this, or do you think the American Revolution was without its troubles to? You do realize that only 10-20% of the population at the time wanted to split with the crown. Everyone else wanted to stay loyal to the King.

The "lie" that sky refers to about 911 and Saddam and Iraq being related is no lie. What has been stated numerous times and is still true is that Al Qaeda had training camps within Iraq and Iraq was funding Al Qaeda. So while there is no direct link between Iraq and 911 (which has never been stated), Iraq was funding Al Qaeda, who did have a direct link to 911.

The CIA operative was not undercover according to Congressional rules. Congress makes the rules on who is undercover and who is not and she was not. Let's look at those rules:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sec_50_00000426----000-.html

(4) The term “covert agent” means—
(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency—
(i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and
(ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States; or
(B) a United States citizen whose intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information, and—
(i) who resides and acts outside the United States as an agent of, or informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency, or
(ii) who is at the time of the disclosure acting as an agent of, or informant to, the foreign counterintelligence or foreign counterterrorism components of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or
(C) an individual, other than a United States citizen, whose past or present intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information and who is a present or former agent of, or a present or former informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency.

Robert Novak is the one who first publicly mentioned her name. According to this http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E2D6153FF932A25753C1A9659C8B63 New York Times article, reporters often learn the names of CIA operatives, but never publish their names. True, Novak learned of it from Armitage, but even he says that he did not know her status, other than as a CIA employee, at the time.

According to this blog post (it's the best I can do right now) http://decision08.net/2007/03/08/was-valerie-plame-covert/ (scroll down to Relish), Valerie Plame had not been overseas since the early 90's, which is necessary in order to be considered covert. Her name wasn't mentioned until 2003. In order to be covert, she would've had to work outside the country as late as 1998, not just travel outside the country.

This has taken up far to much of my time and I shall now give up. It won't matter what anyone says anyway, you'll all continue to believe what you want simply because you don't like Bush.
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#315931
Topic
Leading To War
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315931/action/topic#315931
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Here's the whois record. They're in Berkeley, so no surprise there.

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#315901
Topic
Leading To War
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315901/action/topic#315901
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Arnie.d said:

I have seen interviews with dutch UN inspectors who worked in Iraq. It is a fact that months before the invasion Iraq was cooperating FULLY and nothing was ever found. But Bush had long decided to attack and nothing was going to change that.
Sure, Saddam had WMD in 1988. After the first Gulf war I'm not so sure. Although not fully cooperating after the first Gulf war it would have been almost impossible for Saddam to make WMD.


Care to provide a link to these interviews? According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_1441 Iraq was only partially complying. UN Resolution 1441 called for full compliance. According to Hans Blix, there was a substantial lack of evidence that chemical weapons had in fact been destroyed as Iraq claimed. You can read the resolution in PDF form here http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/un/index.html

Isn't it interesting that France was against a war, threatened to veto a second resolution, and was selling weapons to Iraq at the same time? Gee, I wonder what they had to gain by not going to war.
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#315892
Topic
Leading To War
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315892/action/topic#315892
Time
Not really. From the first point about not finding any WMDs, they fail to provide a link for their claim that Saddam got rid of his weapons. We know he had weapons because he used them on his own people. There are no records of their destruction. You don't just throw a chemical or biological weapon away. UN inspectors couldn't find anything because they weren't getting complete, unrestricted access to the sites. Saddam kept moving things around so the UN couldn't get a complete picture.

The point is, even though it now appears that he didn't have any (by all accounts, they were moved to Syria just before we invaded), he was completely uncooperative with the inspectors which is what lead to UN resolutions which is what finally led to the invasion.

That website is misrepresenting the facts regarding UN inspections and the "destruction" of Saddam's chemical weapons (there is no documented evidence that that ever took place).
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#315862
Topic
New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315862/action/topic#315862
Time
Johnboy3434 said:

see you auntie said:

Now this just serves to confuse me even more.

Are you saying if Lucasfilm doesn't release the OOT, eventually those fans holding out for the OOT will start buying ancillary products instead?

Why would that be the case?


Well, if you're a Star Wars fan, the same old thing will get... well, old, eventually. Don't you ever get curious about, say, what's happening to Luke in the EU once every couple years, or how cool that model X-Wing would look hanging from your ceiling? Would you give all that up permanently because of your idealistic crusade?


To the first question, no. To the second one, I've already given up purchasing anything PT related. As far as I'm concerned, that's my "protest". I buy OT items that I think look cool. In the last year, that's really only been a few ornaments. In fact, my wife even said "What about that one?" My response was "That's from the Prequels, I don't want it" Most everything else that gets released is PT related. Even if it looks a little cool, I do not purchase anything that is PT. If we ever get the OOT on Blu-ray, I may actually buy some of the PT items. Until then, forget it.
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#315729
Topic
China
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315729/action/topic#315729
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Arnie.d said:

It is weird isn't it, these "dictator watches". And everyone accepts it apparently. Imagine what would happen if Germans start selling Hitler watches as souvenirs.


Heh. They'd be breaking the law for one thing, but I'm sure you already knew that ;)
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#315727
Topic
Real-life 'Imperial Walkers' coming to a galaxy near you...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315727/action/topic#315727
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zombie84 said:

lordjedi said:

zombie84 said:

I wonder if you could use this sort of thing to aid disabled people instead of killing.


They already have them.

http://www.ibotnow.com/


Yeah but those can't go off-roading through an uphill snow-covered forest like the dog thing. Would be cool to offer that kind of mobility to the disabled. Of course even if they could offer such a thing I imagine it would cost a million dollars.


According to this lady, it can go through snow:

http://www.ibotnow.com/ibot-experiences/stories-laurie.html

"Now, in the iBOT® Mobility System, 4-Wheel Function, I can safely go outside in the winter, get through snow, down our gravel driveway and across soggy, uneven ground."

The iBOT costs about $26k. So about the price of a new car to give someone the mobility they've lost. Some people would say that's a bargain.

There are also other products on the market that are actually advertised as being able to go through snow, like the Landeez http://www.landeez.com/.

The iBOT actually does use gyroscopes, so I was wrong about that. I don't know why none of them use actual legs instead of wheels. If I had to guess, it's probably easier to stabilize wheels then it is to stabilize legs.

DARPA is probably using legs so they can eventually make something that will be indistinguishable from a real thing. Wheels would stand out. Legs can be made to make it look real, giving it a better chance at infiltration. Either way, the technology will eventually trickle down to the consumer, benefiting everyone.
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#315726
Topic
Further proof GL has lost his mind... Clone Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315726/action/topic#315726
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The market actually ignores 90% of what's on the market. During the great Doom and Quake phase, 90% of what came out were just rehashed copies of those games. None sold well if at all. The gaming industry may be a billion dollar or more a year industry, but it has also gone through a lot of turmoil and consolidation in the past 10 years.

People want a game that looks good, has a decent story, and easy controls to learn. Games that don't implement those things are usually doomed to failure.
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#315710
Topic
Real-life 'Imperial Walkers' coming to a galaxy near you...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315710/action/topic#315710
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zombie84 said:

I wonder if you could use this sort of thing to aid disabled people instead of killing.


They already have them.

http://www.ibotnow.com/

No need for legs when you've got wheels and you can be lifted up stairs. Legs actually increase the complexity since you then need gyroscopes for stabilization (that's how this dog looking thing manages to stay standing after it's pushed).

This will probably eventually lead to a humanoid looking robot soldier that can duck and crawl and do everything a real person can do. Except it'll be bullet proof and manned from a bunker 100 miles away from the battlefield. You could then even put a self destruct mechanism into it that blows up everything within a certain distance if it ever becomes incapacitated.
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#315701
Topic
China
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315701/action/topic#315701
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Anchorhead said:

Two anti-American, mass murdering, communists.

Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have given their lives protecting us from communist dictators and leaders who reveled in killing Americans and destroying our country & our way of life. Now their images are being worn as fashion statements by the Echo Boomers.

Fucking obscene.




Yes, it is obscene. The best response is to ignore those people. If they even attempt to discuss politics with you by wearing something with those faces on it, you simply point out what that person did and then ask them if they were aware of that. If they weren't, maybe you just educated them. If they were and they're still wearing the shirt, it's safe to ignore everything else they're saying.

You could also get a shirt that has their picture with a big anti sign through it. There's a website that sells conservative shirts that has one like that for Che Guerra. If I was going to wear a shirt with his picture on it, that would be the one.

Sean, I don't know if you're still wearing the watch, but you could easily tell the person that gave it to you "I appreciate the gift, but I can't wear this knowing what this guy has done." That is, assuming, you don't want to look like "one of those people".
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#315652
Topic
Further proof GL has lost his mind... Clone Wars
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315652/action/topic#315652
Time
zombie84 said:

lordjedi said:

Pakka said:

Much like the movie industry, technology allows for more over the top, showy effects, which are then used to hype the product to power-hungry teenage boys. Whatever story might be involved is completely overshadowed by the awesome powers and physics simulation in the game.


Bullshit. You either don't play a lot of games or you believe the hype. The only games in the past 10 years that came out that had very little story and still sold well were the Quake series. That pretty much ended with Doom 3 though. It had amazing graphics, but the "story" and gameplay sucked absolute ass and it's referred to as a $50 tech demo.


Most games have some sort of storyline but the emphasis is always on the powerups and super-abilities and razzle-dazzle (obviously, they are video games after all) and I think thats the point being made. Few games, preportionally speaking, have the depth of character and storyline that say, the Final Fantasy games have, and even there a big part of it is upgrading your powers and abilities into ever-more-grand preportions.
(Not to mention, there are millions of games without much story, from Smash Brothers to all the Capcom games to stuff like Twisted Metal)


I tried playing a Final Fantasy game once. I found out that it's nothing but a huge cut scene with some play time in between. Anything with the words "Final Fantasy" in the title isn't my idea of a game.

The story might be thin on the titles you mentioned, but they also aren't using cutting edge technology. I used Doom 3 in my example because it did use cutting edge technology (a lot of PC gamers had to upgrade in order to play it) and it turned out to be a shitty game. Contrast that with Bioshock, which uses pretty cutting edge graphics and has an excellent story and sold well enough to warrant a sequel. COD4 is similar as well. Cutting edge graphics and a good single player story.
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#315569
Topic
Lucas to sue Star Wars designer
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315569/action/topic#315569
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zombie84 said:

Ralph McQuarrie has always been legit when he sells his stuff.

This guy on the other hand--what IS he claiming exactly? That he DESIGNED them? McQuarrie designed them, and John Mollo translated the designs into a physical costume. This guy just worked at the factory they were manufactured in. So, putting aside the issue of licencing, he doesn't even have a claim to anything in the first place.


If I read it right, what he's claiming is that he does have a right to sell them and make a profit since the only agreement that was in place was a verbal one. He's not saying that LFL doesn't also have a right to sell them, he's just saying that there was no contract in place transferring all the rights to Lucas. Considering that the agreement was entered into before Star Wars made it big and before Lucas even expected Star Wars to be a huge success, I wonder if that's what really happened.

Here's how I see it possibly taking place:

Lucas: Hey, can you guys make me some suits of armor with helmets that look like this?
Armor guys: Yeah, we can do that. How many do you need?
Lucas: I need this many and I need them by this date.
Armor guys: No problem.

Armor guys then go to work on making armor with nothing more than a "Yeah, we can do that" agreement in place. They later invoice LFL for the cost of the armor and each party goes their separate ways, at least until the next movie (which nobody knows will happen at that point).

Seeing as how Lucas wasn't able to shut down Parks Sabers, this guy may have a case. Worst case scenario is that he gets shut down. Best case scenario is that he can't use the term "stormtrooper" so instead he starts using "spacetrooper". Just like how Parks Sabers are not lightsabers, even though they look just like them.
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#315568
Topic
Real-life 'Imperial Walkers' coming to a galaxy near you...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315568/action/topic#315568
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C3PX said:

lordjedi said:


That thing is noisy as hell! I'd hear it coming from extremely far away and unless it had long range weapons on it (guided missiles), you could probably take it out pretty easily with an RPG. Still, it's a step in the right direction.


Imagine a whole army of these things hoping along. It would take a lot of RPGs to take them all out. Regular bullets that can take an organic soldier down with just one hit, even a non fatal hit, will have very little effect on these things.


I doubt that. Yeah, he kicked it and it righted itself. Shoot it with a rocket and see how well it does. It's not going to stand for very long, no matter how good it is at keeping itself up. High power automatic rifle rounds will make short order of these things very quickly. They need to be fast, quiet, armored, and well armed.
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#315567
Topic
China
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/315567/action/topic#315567
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C3PX said:

lordjedi said:

[What's blatant about it? It's a Chinese guy waving with the Chinese flag in the background. It's not like the guy is ordering the execution of a prisoner right there on the watch. In either case, if you don't know who the guy is or what he's done, you'd have no idea what you're wearing.


What is blantant about it??? That is not just some Chinese guy, that is Mao Tse-tung. That is about as blatant as wearing Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler on your wrist.


I get that. You get that. The average idiot on the street probably doesn't get that. Yeah, the average idiot on the street knows Hitler. They might even recognize Stalin (that one's borderline). I seriously doubt the average idiot has a single clue who Mao Tse-Tung is, let alone what he did.

People can tell you what Hitler did. They might be able to tell you what Stalin did. I don't think they even know who Mao is.