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Post by Kyler Thatch on Jan 4, 2018 21:16:22 GMT
Did you forget to sacrifice a goat to appease the dice gods?
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Jan 2, 2018 20:41:28 GMT
Mental image of Ackbar being the one to do the suicide charge instead of Holdo.
"It's a trap!" *activates hyperdrive*
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 29, 2017 11:21:11 GMT
I'm just hoping the leak didn't impact the production crew too much.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 24, 2017 18:36:31 GMT
Oh yes, as stupid as Snoke's death was, it was at least entertaining in that technically, everything he was saying to Kylo Ren at the time was true from a certain point of view.
Seriously, though, it didn't really feel like Snoke was set up as the kind of character to be blindsided that easy, or that Kylo Ren was sufficiently cunning and devious enough to pull it off.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 22, 2017 5:47:19 GMT
My holiday vacation has mostly been spent playing Knights of the Old Republic 2, and getting frustrated that many of the alignment-changing decisions are either you being an immaculate saint or you kicking puppies. But then, this is an old game, morality mechanics weren't as sophisticated back then.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 21, 2017 4:17:34 GMT
Simpsons did what? What am I looking at?
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 20, 2017 4:15:46 GMT
Random note, but I would just like to take a moment to acknowledge the most epic use of force lightning from beyond the grave.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 19, 2017 3:39:27 GMT
For me, it's less about the midichlorians and more a combination of certain ties the Jedi Order had with the light side of the force. First part of it is how the Jedi monopolized the light side, culturally speaking. If you were a good guy who could use the Force, you were assumed to be a Jedi, both in-universe and out. This by itself is not so problematic (I mean, Jedi could just be the term for "good guy Force user"), if not for the fact that the Jedi Order was so strict and dogmatic, and if you stray from their very narrow path in any way, you're chastised for walking down the road to the evil wicked dark side. Putting these together, if you use the Force at all, then there's only way to be good and anything else means you're a despicable Sith or you will be at some point or another (I'd potlink that to No True Scotsman if this were TV Tropes). Bad enough as it is, but then on top of all that the Jedi Order have practices that I personally find disagreeable. For example, attachments being absolutely forbidden. I mean fine, I get that it's a path to the dark side, Anakin Skywalker was a big cautionary tale about that. But it's also a basic social need (I was going to say human, but this being space fantasy...) I could argue that by completely denying it, you just create stories like Anakin being lured by the Sith because of that need. And then there's the way they kidnap take young force-sensitives from their homes, because of course they must be raised to be Jedi and nothing else, tying back into my first point... So yeah, I didn't mean to start a massive rant, but I'll just summarize by saying I've grown disillusioned of the Jedi Order over the years. At least the version of it in Episodes 1-6. (I have different thoughts about the Old Republic Jedi.) Technically they're lawful good, but they're not without problems. P.S.: This article I read really explained it better, but the guy had a theory that the ‘midichorlians’ were a pseudoscience used by the Jedi to claim a monopoly of the force. Maybe midichorlians are real, but they had nothing to do with how force sensitive you actually are. By making Ray literaly a random person from nowhere and not mentioning the midichorlians they’ve returned the force to its roots as a faith based magic anyone can do. How it should be imo. Could you link to the article? Sounds like something I'd want to read about.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 18, 2017 5:15:01 GMT
It's the end of the Jedi as we know it, and I feel fine?
I mean I'm moderately sure Rey is still going to call herself a Jedi, but I'm more definitely sure we've seen the end of the old dogmatic religion we're all familiar with.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 17, 2017 21:49:56 GMT
We could probably use the Star Wars thread if we're going deeper into things?
Also, what implications are we talking about?
Also also, got KOTOR2 on sale on Steam, so I'm playing that now. I'm having fun playing a light-side force user with dark-side powers who is decidedly not a Jedi.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 17, 2017 15:09:47 GMT
You know, I don't remember the films in the past Star Wars trilogies having random bits of comedic levity inserted in otherwise serious scenes like we do now. It's not bad, just... different.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 15, 2017 15:38:08 GMT
I feel like I may need a second viewing of The Last Jedi. There's at least one scene I have some lingering questions about.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 13, 2017 16:43:41 GMT
I'm kind of glad I don't have to deal with winter around here. Not a fan of cold weather in general.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 6, 2017 7:22:23 GMT
Basically your character is someone who got kidnapped by one of the true fae, put into their service, and later escaped back into the real world. Except you've been changed in the process, and resemble a creature out of a fairy tale (the original versions, not the kid-friendly Disney stuff). That's what a changeling is, and they get certain powers depending on what kind of creature they got turned into, but they can't go back to their old lives. Especially because when they were kidnapped, they were replaced with a puppet clone that looks and acts like them.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Dec 5, 2017 11:47:56 GMT
Thinking about starting a game of Changeling: the Lost with some friends from school. It would be my first time running an RPG game rather than just participating in one, though.
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