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2024-04-26, 02:55 PMGiven that Palpatine was monologuing when he unleashed the Force Lightning, I think it's a fair conclusion that when he started zapping Luke he was...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-25, 10:53 AMWe-ell, these are his novels that I remember: Shogun Taipan Noble House Whirlwind King Rat "King Rat" is an fictionalized autobiographical...28 replies | 3165 view(s)
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2024-04-25, 09:59 AMMaybe. Even so ... Maul beat Qui-Gonn. Dooku beat Obi-Wan and Anakin together before losing to Yoda Dooku beat Obi-wan in their rematch and Anakin...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-25, 09:34 AMI would argue that , from what I've seen of the GFFA, individual Sith ARE, one-for-one, more powerful than their light-side counterparts. Or at...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 02:36 PMAs to the first argument, I agree there's a lot of hindsight going on here. As in a chess game where you don't see the trap coming until afterwards,...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-24, 10:02 AMHang on, that's not what happened in Jingo. Sam didn't concentrate on the real problem, he ignored the war in favour of pursuing kidnapped Angua,...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 01:56 PMBoba is an unaltered clone of Jango -- no shortened lifespan, no modification for greater obedience. He is , for all intents and purpose, an exact...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 08:33 AMI'm going to respond to this with a Terry Pratchett quote from Jingo: For that matter, when we discuss what the Jedi should and should not...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 01:07 PMInteresting question. Perhaps we can use a simile: If the Republic is a body, the Jedi are the body's immune system. The Sith are a virus. You can...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 11:53 AMThe never-ending argument I'm aware of is that there are advocates like myself who say the Jedi were wrong to participate in the clone wars, at least...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-19, 02:59 PMI stand corrected, thank you. His accomplishments entitle him to accolades not to either rank or responsibility he is unprepared for. He...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-19, 02:18 PMIn terms of the spoilery, I think it had a lot more to do that the army of which he was a member grew rather abruptly from the tens of thousands of...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-17, 02:07 PM"In my experience there's no such thing as luck" -- Obi-Wan Kenobi. I think we have to accept that the Star Wars universe is a universe in which...609 replies | 23375 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 02:48 PMSpice is the equivalent to oil in the modern world , and I believe it was written as a direct parallel; the resource of the 20th century, control of...98 replies | 8131 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 03:55 PMAs seen at Ars Technica , one Andre Freund was working along in his job as a security engineer at Microsoft with the intent of troubleshooting a 500...4 replies | 781 view(s)
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2024-04-03, 01:57 PMWell, Sauron created the Black Speech. Sauron, remember, was a student of Aule, the forger, before he fell to evil, and he's always been better at...18 replies | 1597 view(s)
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2024-04-02, 06:36 PMOne of James Clavelle's less popular books, King Rat is an almost-autobiographical barely-fictionalized account of his time in a Japanese POW camp....28 replies | 3165 view(s)
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2024-04-01, 07:41 PM"Ante bellum" is "Before the war". "Gone with the Wind" or "Song of the South" are antebellum movies which romanticize 19th century southern...98 replies | 8131 view(s)
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2024-03-30, 12:00 PMSo apparently there are a lot of complaints about Christopher Walken's portrayal of Shaddam IV, Emperor of Humanity, in Dune II. Here's One Rebuttal...98 replies | 8131 view(s)
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"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
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