Star Wars Misc. Catch-All

Pause not a thing?

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Bad Batch was interesting. Looks like I was off on what time period the show was in which I really shouldn't have been.

Spoiler:

Didn't expect to see Hera and Chopper. We get a prequel to Rebels. And the bad batch is only in it for a few minutes.

Did you not make that out during the first episode that included another Rebels character?

I somehow missed this from a few weeks ago:

As someone who only played the original very very briefly but has heard about it nonstop ever since, maybe it’s finally time to do this.

Keithustus wrote:

As someone who only played the original very very briefly but has heard about it nonstop ever since, maybe it’s finally time to do this.

Me, too! I played a lot of X-Wing, but mostly missed TIE Fighter and XvT.

That's over a decade old. There's a thread about it. Veloxi just necro'd it.

Stele wrote:

That's over a decade old.

For people who don’t wait for things to be done, maybe. KSP…Factorio…etc….purchased only after leaving early access.

I did a thing.

A few months back the ‘A More Civilized Age’ podcast did a Chose a Light Side Team budget game on their Q&A feed. And as I am a few months behind, I just listened to it. And as I had time to listen to a podcast, I had time to make a thing.

Chose a Dark Side Team

You get $12

$7

Darth Sideous/ Sheev Palpatine
Darth Revan

$5

Darth Vader/ Annikan Skywalker
Boba Fett
Grand Admiral Thrawn

$4

Darth Tyrannis/ Count Dooku
Maul
Cad Bane
Kylo Ren
Grand Moff Tarkin

$3

General Grevious
Captain Phasma
Moff Gideon
Jango Fett
Snoke
Jabba The Hutt

$2

HK-47
Greedo
IG-88
Asajj Ventress

$1

TR-8R
Savage Oppress
Aurra Sing
The Inquisitor
Ziro the Hutt
Dengar
Hondo Ohnaka
General Armitage Hux
Director Orson Krennic

Feel free to add to and criticize my list. In retrospect, I know I left off several favorites to make the list shorter.

Hondo seems pretty Grey to me.

Also Revan, Ventress, HK.

Oh, cool, I can get Palps and Vader.

Oh, but there's Tarkin, I guess I could drop Vader for him.

But then I need to choose one of these $1 losers.

Palps and Vader it is. Sorry, Tarkin.

Yeah like is this supposed to be a 4-person team or something? Otherwise, it's pretty easy to choose the top 2 and be done.

I mean, it's sort of appropriate that I can't pick my dream team of Palps / Vader / Tarkin considering that AFAIK all three of them never appear in the same movie.

Also, yes, I am in fact an OT purist, how could you tell?

So this looks incredible.

Unsurprisingly the comments on the tweet sharing it were the usual reactionary Star Wars 'fans' who can't handle anything that pushes the boundaries.

I'm in. Reminds me of the Animatrix collection. Also, I made this, so I'll take joke improvement suggestions.

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Mixolyde wrote:

I'm in. Reminds me of the Animatrix collection.

This^

Not a Star Wars fan, but I. Want. That. Now.

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Just watch yesterday’s new Lower Decks. Not the best episode but pretty good.

Keithustus wrote:

Just watch yesterday’s new Lower Decks. Not the best episode but pretty good.

Oh I thought it was great, especially with the new security officer.

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That made me chuckle.

Oh that looks fun.

And also need a new proper X-Wing game.

Finally watched Bad Batch. I need to post my thoughts here later, but first...

Spoiler:

This was fun. I didn't know I wanted a rogue clone trooper A-team, but I did. Especially one lead by Solid Snake.

Actually,

Hunter is Snake, there is a strongman (Wrecker/Vulcan Raven), a sniper (Crosshair/Sniper Wolfe), a tech expert (Tech/Revolver Ocelot), a tech magician (Echo/Psycho Mantis), and a freak clone (Omega/Liquid). Clone Squad 99 is Foxhound.

Star Wars: Visions is now available on Disney+. Nine standalone episodes, each about 20 minutes long, presented as a traditional Anime. Looks very neat.

Spoiler: English-subtitled Trailer

 

Spoiler: English-dubbed Trailer

 

H/T to Mantid for pointing it out on Discord.
(cross-posting to Disney+ thread)

I really enjoyed the first episode of Visions, it's a pretty standard "wandering ronin saves a village from bandits" type story but it's got some very cool fight scenes and I really dig the art style.

Spoiler:

The minor twist that the protagonist was apparently a Sith who hunts other Sith was fun, I always like to see different takes on Dark Side force users that aren't just a straight-up supervillain. Also that lightsaber umbrella attachment was pretty neat.

The second episode was cute. Looking forward to watching the rest.

New Star Wars stories with no JJ involved? Sign me up

muttonchop wrote:

I really enjoyed the first episode of Visions, it's a pretty standard "wandering ronin saves a village from bandits" type story but it's got some very cool fight scenes and I really dig the art style.

Spoiler:

The minor twist that the protagonist was apparently a Sith who hunts other Sith was fun, I always like to see different takes on Dark Side force users that aren't just a straight-up supervillain. Also that lightsaber umbrella attachment was pretty neat.

Spoiler:

I took the fact that his character name was "ronin" to mean that he wasn't either Jedi or Sith. More like an Ahsoka Tano type. Yes, he had a red lightsaber, but he still seemed masterless.

Watched all of the Vision seps. Pretty damn amazing!

The only episode I didn't really enjoy was The Twins - the animation was very pretty, but the story was kinda nonexistent and the majority of the dialogue was just the two main characters yelling exposition at each other. The rest were all really great.

Also, I'm pretty sure someone said "I've got a bad feeling about this" in every single episode except for the first one.

muttonchop wrote:

The only episode I didn't really enjoy was The Twins - the animation was very pretty, but the story was kinda nonexistent and the majority of the dialogue was just the two main characters yelling exposition at each other. The rest were all really great.

Also, I'm pretty sure someone said "I've got a bad feeling about this" in every single episode except for the first one.

Quoting Aliens in a star wars thing is a pretty baller move.