Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
As long as people are watching all of these movies, made decades apart, as a single consecutive series, comparisons are inevitable.
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overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
I still vastly prefer the originals, flaws and all. The practical effects are so much better than the later CGI.
payn
Glory to Marik
I made a comment recently in a thread about RPG mechanics. Happened that FFG Edge was brought up at some point. I made a single sentence about more opinions on SW out there than actual stars in the universe. I got a handful of likes and im pretty sure it was that one sentence and not the three paragraphs I wrote about playing RPGs.
Sure. Now, note how most things that are inevitable are only "fair" in the statistical sense, not in a moral or ethical sense.
Or as I say, There are more opinions about Star Wars than there was cocaine on the set of the Stars Holiday Special.
payn
Glory to Marik
“WAaaaarrrRGRRRaghhhhh!”*
~ Chewbacca, high on cocaine, whipping Han Solo around like a flail
* translation: “Say HELLO to my LI’L fren!”
trappedslider
Legend
Now if we could only harness that energy
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Different topic that bugged me enough to type it out. I've jsut finished up book one called The Last World War of two books by Timothy Imholt and Michael Garst. The only problems I had with the book was you could clearly tell that the writers did very little to no reasearch and one phrase that jsut annoyed me ( "our stealthiest bombers").
So in the book the US is attacked with two nuclear weapons from Iran, that's fine with me the targets were a Lockheed-Martin factory in Texas and another donated in Detroit. Apparently there are no other factories/companies that could supply the US military.
Then the writers for whatever reason choose to go with the Green Berets instead of either the Navy Seals or Delta despite those two groups being better for the actual missions depicted in the book.
Going back to the nuclear weapons, they did no research on how long the fallout would last or anything related to it beyond radiation burns/sickness and the damage caused. They decided that an indefinite 15 mile quarantine zone would have to be put in place around the bomb zones.
Then during a combat sequence they had US pilots getting into close combat with the Iranian air force and losing because I guess we didn't train them and our aircraft suck? Then they ordered the pilots not to get into close combat and they start winning again lol. This is also putting aside that Iran also used nuclear weapons to take out three military targets in Israel including their nuclear weapons because they had them all in one place for some dumb reason. Then for some reason both Egypt and Syria with Iran going through Iraq (with no issues somehow) decided to invade Israel.
If it weren't for the fact that book was readable via kindle unlimited I would have been upset over paying for it. With all the above said, the editing/proof reading were good no errors in that department. And now to copy and past all that into the review.
True story: I once (and only once) had someone PM me a threat of physical violence on ENworld. I was caught very off guard and confused about what I had done to set them off. After researching things, I eventually learned (with 98% certainty) that their beef originated in a Star Wars debate. I'll also add that the mods handled the situation perfectly, with great care, speed, and professionalism.
My other ENWorld Star Wars story would be that my opinions on Star Wars were so unpopular they got an "Unpopular Opinions" thread shut down. But that seems rather tame by comparison.
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Hey, Chewbacca's dad being into VR porn of Diahann Carroll is canon!
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