The HIVE 90210-911: Volume 2: Extreme Ultimate Home Edition; Gone Wild w/ Nano-Bots!

[Mathew_Freeman]

Well, if you really don't need it! But I think our mind is still kept pretty busy...

My mind is currently being kept busy by instructing my hands to keep clicking the refresh button on the Facebook application Word Twist. I want to see if I can beat my family, dammit!

I'm also finally reading the "Disapointed in 4e" thread. Ack. It's a monster.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I've just downloaded the Scales of War adventures thus far in preparation for potentially starting another D&D group closer to my own house in the New Year.

They're looking pretty good, I have to say. They're also shorter than H1, H2 etc, so it'll be easier (hopefully) to run each one.

Right. Goodnight, Hive, and have a good weekend.

 

[WhatGravitas]

My brain does not taste like chicken!

It does taste like chicken. Everything weird tastes "like chicken".

And hello, Hive - was busy this week... with university. Upside is: I'm doing holograms! That's really, really cool! We work with a 532 nm laser (green, basically... and it's a class 4 laser, i.e. really powerful - at least compared to the usual stuff you get your hands on) and create holograms of coins and miniature teapots.

Perhaps I should do a hologram of something geeky next time... after we finish, we can keep the plates, after all!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

My mind is currently being kept busy by instructing my hands to keep clicking the refresh button on the Facebook application Word Twist. I want to see if I can beat my family, dammit!

See, that's a great use for it! ahem

I'm also finally reading the "Disapointed in 4e" thread. Ack. It's a monster.

Wait, that thread is still running? I think I decided to Ignore it because I could only risk thread-capping in there, and it's not good for my mood.
You must be a masochist...

 

[Blackrat]

I've been thinking about an alternative timeline for Star Wars. Which is more dangerous, an Emperor who only desires personal power... Or an Emperor who genuinely believes in justification of any means for "Greater Good"?

What would have happened if Mace Windu would have executed Palpatine and seized control of the Republic?

I have a feeling this could have ended in a much more opressed Empire

 

[Packrat]

I've been thinking about an alternative timeline for Star Wars. Which is more dangerous, an Emperor who only desires personal power... Or an Emperor who genuinely believes in justification of any means for "Greater Good"?

What would have happened if Mace Windu would have executed Palpatine and seized control of the Republic?

I have a feeling this could have ended in a much more opressed Empire

Very interesting Blackrat. I think the 'greater good' arc would result in no resurgeance of the old jedi order.

 

[The_Warlock]

On the contrary, in the "history", and I use the term loosely for the Star Wars Universe, there have always been Jedi who strayed somewhat from the doctrine, often to a better understanding of the human condition. (But at the cost of being marginalized by the more dogmatic jedi.)

With a dogmatic Jedi Emperor demanding excessive force for the Greater Good, you'd likely see splinter groups of Jedi fighting a resistance, and eventually come to a "Balanced" perspective found in the New Jedi Order, much much earlier than in the novelizations.

That said, given my druthers, on those rare occasions I explore SW in RPGs, I prefer the Old Republic era....

 

[Packrat]

On the contrary, in the "history", and I use the term loosely for the Star Wars Universe, there have always been Jedi who strayed somewhat from the doctrine, often to a better understanding of the human condition. (But at the cost of being marginalized by the more dogmatic jedi.)

I just think that the Emperor would have been more attuned to the force and could feel out those groups and either crush or assimilate them.

 

[The_Warlock]

I just think that the Emperor would have been more attuned to the force and could feel out those groups and either crush or assimilate them.

I suppose I could see that for a while, but the Force in the SW universe tends to react to action and intent - after a while, even the "Good" Emperor would have begun to slip to the Dark Side, and eventually miss the real traitors among the shadows in his paranoid mind.

I think it would've been a different flavor of evil, not necessarily a more long lasting one.

And to be fair, good ole Mace and the whole Council, despite being capable of feeling the force missed a massive tumor in the skyscraper next door for decades - so, I'm not so sure he'd be much better at sniffing out "deviant" good Jedi if they began actively mastering their feelings - which is a tenant of the order.

[/Sith's Advocate]

 

[Packrat]

And to be fair, good ole Mace and the whole Council, despite being capable of feeling the force missed a massive tumor in the skyscraper next door for decades....

That always bugged me, I mean come on if the force is as powerful as it is, then how can something of that magnitude not be detected.

[/Sith's Advocate]

Rofl.