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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Must have travelled slow across the country, pretty sure all my lunchboxes were metal in the 80s

The National Lunchbox Association held out as long as they could.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Somehow…somehow…

I get together with my friends and just play.

Maybe we are not trying hard enough to make it suck.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Must have travelled slow across the country, pretty sure all my lunchboxes were metal in the 80s

I had metal ones well into the 80s

 

[Scribe]

Somehow…somehow…

I get together with my friends and just play.

Maybe we are not trying hard enough to make it suck.

This trick applies to almost every game, or hobby I've ever participated in. People have overcomplicated literally everything, and its enough to drive a man to the wilderness, burning every bridge he passes.

"But but what about..."

 

[Squared]

But when the first Kelvin movie came out, the franchise ... Star Trek ... it was pretty moribund. The first movie is Abrams at his best. LENS FLARES. ACTION. LENS FLARES. COMEDY. LENS FLARES. FAN SERVICE. LENS FLARES.

It's like getting on a superfast roller coaster ride while eating a bunch of cotton candy and having nostalgic scenes of Star Trek shown to you (but with LENS FLARES). You have a great time, you're happy, and at the end of the ride you're glad you did it ... so long as you don't think about it too much, and ignore the terrible pain in your stomach from all those empty calories.

By the second movie (Into Darkness) those tricks- the remixed nostalgia, the LENS FLARES, and the action/comedy/sugar rush have worn off, and you realize that it's just empty.

Such is life with Abrams. He can reboot a franchise, but he can't keep it going. He understands the symbols, but not what they mean.

I was pissed walking out of the movie theater after seeing the first Kelvin movie. All I could think of is the Stargate episode 200. The one where they try and pitch Stargate within the universe. There is one scene where all of the characters are recast as teenagers and it is a CW series now, but somehow even worse.

If you have not see it, it is quick:

Spoiler: Link

 

[overgeeked]

I'll take an optimizer over a Super Serious Thespian any day.

I’ll take the third option for $300, Alex. Casual player for the win.

 

[Reynard]

I’ll take the third option for $300, Alex. Casual player for the win.

As long as they show...

 

[overgeeked]

As long as they show...

No gaming is better than bad gaming. I’d rather a table full of casual players who might not show up than a table of optimizers or thespians.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

This trick applies to almost every game, or hobby I've ever participated in. People have overcomplicated literally everything, and its enough to drive a man to the wilderness, burning every bridge he passes.

"But but what about..."

I am there in furs eating locusts and honey

People ruin everything except for when they drink some White Russians and just stop being asshats

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Fine.

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! Also, because as terrible as discussing Star Wars is, we seem dangerously close to an actual RPG discussion.

(The following list of all Star Wars stuff was determined by Colosson the Numberwang Robot and as the product of Maths cannot be argued with.)

1. Empire Strikes Back.
2. A New Hope
3. Andor (S1).
4. 3/4" Star Wars Action Figures
5. The Last Jedi.
4. Rogue One.
6. The Mandalorian.
7. Star Wars Bed Sheets. Search your feelings. You know this to be true.
8. Various animated Star Wars shows, such as Clone Wars, Bad Batch, and Rebels.
9. The Kenner Millennium Falcon. Would be higher, but Derek totally bogarted playing with it. DEREK!!!!
10. The Force Awakens. Needz moar lenz flarez.
11. Going to any Star Wars movie with a friend who keeps asking you if Yoda is related to Hulk. Because Green?
12. Return of the Jedi. Ain't no party like an Ewok party 'cuz an Ewok party can't stop. Yub nub, eee chop yub nub.
13. Ahsoka.
14. That recurring nightmare that George Lucas has invented time travel and is going to use it to improve Cinema by re-writing the dialogue of Casablanca and Glengarry Glen Ross and adding wipes for transitions in all Kubrick movies. Also? Walkie talkies make good blasters, amirite?
15. Revenge of the Sith.
16. Obi Wan. Perfectly cromulent. Filler, filler, filler, filler, BEN AND ANAKIN FIGHT, filler.
17. Reading Simon Pegg's statement that Star Wars has the most toxic fanbase and thinking ... eh, he's not wrong, but still feeling the need to write a 25,000 word rebuttal because nu-Scotty doesn't get to criticize Star Wars.
18. The Phantom Menace. Meesa like the prequels?
19. Solo (except Lando ... Lando is cool, and not even this movie can make Lando uncool).
20. Going into your attic and finding that all of your Star Wars collectibles that you never played with because of their value have melted in the latest heatwave into a large Jabba-like mass on top of your vintage Kenner X-Wing, and recognizing that this a metaphor for the loss of your childhood.
21. Caravan of Courage.
22. Realizing that not only is Disney recycling all the Star Wars characters you grew up with, but that the actors that played those characters are dying too, and that AI Princess Leia is just the abyss staring back at you.
23. Book of Boba Fett. Really, the story of Star Wars is taking an iconic and awesome mysterious bounty hunter and making him desperately uncool.
24. Battle of Endor.
25. Holiday Special. Cocaine is a helluva drug.
26. George Lucas’s proposed sequels about the midi-chlorians. Because that's the one part of Star Wars I really wanted to know more about. For whatever wrongs Disney has done, they didn't do this. Although I would pay to hear Weird Al do a version of, "It's all about the midi-chlorians."
27. Finally recognizing that a space opera that you enjoyed for a few years in your youth and still appreciate to this day is not only nothing more than more corporate IP that Disney is using to take over the world and everyone’s brains through a streaming service, but is also the breeding ground for a peculiar and nasty strain of nerd-rage with a side-dose of toxic masculinity that frightens the hell out of you- and trying to come to an understanding that Star Wars has always been primarily about and for young people, not you.
28. Attack of the Clones.

It is a valueless list if it does not include the Fernandes Retrorocket Star Wars guitars (2001-3).

https://reverb.com/item/62360625-fernandes-retrorocket-star-wars-guitar-collection-darth-vader-yoda-boba-fett-storm-trooper