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    Quote Originally Posted by Moff Chumley View Post
    Um, lightsaber armor is impractical but lightsabers themselves are A-Okay?
    No, but it makes more sense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moff Chumley View Post
    Um, lightsaber armor is impractical but lightsabers themselves are A-Okay?
    Well, I imagine holding your sword would be a bit difficult, and touching anything would be a problem... and I'm pretty sure falling through the planet's crust to the core would be a bit impractical too.

    But hey, at least nobody else can kill you!
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    ...Or you could just a get a force field.
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    Rocket-propelled lightsabers, perhaps?
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    Quote Originally Posted by absolmorph View Post
    Rocket-propelled lightsabers, perhaps?
    They already have telekinesis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prime32 View Post
    They already have telekinesis.
    But rockets are so much more awesome!

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    Quote Originally Posted by arguskos View Post
    But rockets are so much more awesome!
    Well, then, if we're going by awesomeness...

    Paint them red (Cuz red makes them go fastah), Make them shoot even more missiles, add a hundred rockets, make it a nuclear weapon, shoot it out of the most powerful cannon in the world, make them make that high-pitched noise, and emblazon them with Kamina's glasses.

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    Well, then, if we're going by awesomeness...

    Paint them red (Cuz red makes them go fastah), Make them shoot even more missiles, add a hundred rockets, make it a nuclear weapon, shoot it out of the most powerful cannon in the world, make them make that high-pitched noise, and emblazon them with Kamina's glasses.
    Needs more cowbell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maximum Zersk View Post
    Well, then, if we're going by awesomeness...

    Paint them red (Cuz red makes them go fastah), Make them shoot even more missiles, add a hundred rockets, make it a nuclear weapon, shoot it out of the most powerful cannon in the world, make them make that high-pitched noise, and emblazon them with Kamina's glasses.
    Now that's just plain silly.
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    They already have telekinesis.
    Rockets don't require focus.
    Also, new idea: lightsaber missile that shoots smaller lightsaber rockets that explode into lightcaltrops.
    They would be fired en mass. It's a Macross Missile Massacre that Macross Missile Massacres and then explodes into a ton of shrapnel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by absolmorph View Post
    Rockets don't require focus.
    Also, new idea: lightsaber missile that shoots smaller lightsaber rockets that explode into lightcaltrops.
    They would be fired en mass. It's a Macross Missile Massacre that Macross Missile Massacres and then explodes into a ton of shrapnel.
    Now you're cranking it up to eleven.

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    You know that we're now one step closer to real lightsabers, and that they're available for a reasonable price tag, right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by absolmorph View Post
    Rockets don't require focus.
    Also, new idea: lightsaber missile that shoots smaller lightsaber rockets that explode into lightcaltrops.
    They would be fired en mass. It's a Macross Missile Massacre that Macross Missile Massacres and then explodes into a ton of shrapnel.
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    Rawhide=BEST. ADMIN. EVAR. Yah, I said it, Roland. Watchu gonna do, ya big softie?
    Be my guest.

    And Roland still takes the cake with the mind control. Rawhide is awesome, though.
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    *points at signature*

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    explodes into a ton of shrapnel.
    Not just any shrapnel, sword-shaped shrapnel.

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    My brother and I once played around with imaginary lightsaber gloves. It seemed okay, then I managed to wound him, so he grabbed his wound, which is an efficient amputation.

    It would be an entertaining boxing match.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mando Knight View Post
    Not just any shrapnel, sword-shaped shrapnel.
    Made of Spiral Energy, shooting rabid robot ninja zombie pikachus with katanas shaped like a sorcerer Abraham Lincoln that takes off his hat to show him nesting a mexican orphan with a jetpack riding a velociraptor throwing shurikens that sing Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" while at the same time exploding into a million tiny demon hamsters.

    That are reciting the Illiad.

    While shooting ramen cannons.

    On pogostcks.

    In a volcano.

    Made of beer.

    On the moon.

    Made of acid cheese.

    With the face of Christopher Walken engraved in it. (Happy, Rawhide? )
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    Quote Originally Posted by druid91 View Post
    Yes, that. Blasters got deflected by stuff, but lightsabers didn't so obviously the lightsaber isn't as unstable, so sniper rifle with burrowing lightsaber bullets.
    What do you mean? Lightsabers got deflected by other lightsabers all the time.

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    Made of Spiral Energy, shooting rabid robot ninja zombie pikachus with katanas shaped like a sorcerer Abraham Lincoln that takes off his hat to show him nesting a mexican orphan with a jetpack riding a velociraptor throwing shurikens that sing Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" while at the same time exploding into a million tiny demon hamsters.

    That are reciting the Illiad.

    While shooting ramen cannons.

    On pogostcks.

    In a volcano.

    Made of beer.

    On the moon.

    Made of acid cheese.

    With the face of Christopher Walken engraved in it. (Happy, Rawhide? )
    Needs more cowbell.

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    Come on, man, this is basic, basic stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maximum Zersk View Post
    Made of Spiral Energy, shooting rabid robot ninja zombie pikachus with katanas shaped like a sorcerer Abraham Lincoln that takes off his hat to show him nesting a mexican orphan with a jetpack riding a velociraptor throwing shurikens that sing Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" while at the same time exploding into a million tiny demon hamsters.

    That are reciting the Illiad.

    While shooting ramen cannons.

    On pogostcks.

    In a volcano.

    Made of beer.

    On the moon.

    Made of acid cheese.

    With the face of Christopher Walken engraved in it. (Happy, Rawhide? )
    ......you know what I find hilarious about the internet? I can suggest something perfectly reasonable, possibly innovative and sensible in comparison to lightsabers.....

    and a page later, we end up with this nonsense. Its like....
    Anti-Science. instead of progressing forward towards more refined efficient ideas we go backwards into chaos as people impulsively parody awesomeness to the point of staleness and antiquity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
    ...parody awesomeness...
    I hate to be the one to break this to you, but what they are parodying is not awesomeness. That's kind of the point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pyrian View Post
    I hate to be the one to break this to you, but what they are parodying is not awesomeness. That's kind of the point.
    Exactly my point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mando Knight View Post
    Not just any shrapnel, sword-shaped shrapnel.
    Caltrops made of laser swords, actually.

    And, they may need to have cowbells.
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    You know that we're now one step closer to real lightsabers, and that they're available for a reasonable price tag, right?
    I was so disappointed to find out it was just a laser. Like, so very disappointed. For a moment there, a very brief moment, I thought we were soon to have lightsabers, like in those Starwars movies with which I fell in love.*

    As for the topic of lightsaber variants and not the Internet being silly, I don't know enough about tonfa fighting to say Ms. Brood's lightsabers are not a good, but I am pretty sure it is so, and am pretty sure she'd be a lot better off with a pair of regular lightsabers. That reminds me, shouldn't Jedi duel-wield? Why don't they? Too expensive?

    Also, why no light-knives? Lightsabers do negate many of the benefits of knives (small and concealable), but come on, lightwhips. We're clearly not being practical at this point, so why not knives? At least they have some realistic application. Here's my idea: a lightflail. It would be downright silly, but come on: A lightflail.

    *The Starwars movies I am referring to are, of course, of the awesome trilogy: The prequel trilogy. The original movies were very good movies in their own right, but they failed to enchant me the way these prequels did. Someone had to like them, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by arguskos View Post
    Exar Kun's weapon was wielded in two hands, or so I recall, but that's because it featured a HILARIOUS intensity dial on both blades, so he could dial the intensity of the beam down suddenly to psych out opponents.
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    Now you're cranking it up to eleven.
    Anyone else see the potential for awesome?

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    Didn't the Gungans already use something that was effectively Lightsaber shields in Episode 1?
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    The only truly sensible lightsabre I've seen is the variant in the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie:

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    It makes toast!


    Lightsabres aren't about being sensible, however.

    (The most combat-useful would probably be the old lightsabre clone in the Ulysses animated series that did double-duty as a blaster).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jibar View Post
    Jedi are simply so aware thanks to the Force they would never accidentally cut themselves with the weapon.
    So, in the end, it's a variant of "it's magic"?
    ...yyyes, I can live with it.

    On a side note, if we were looking for a cool weapon, i would like to see a friggin' battleaxe lightsaber...
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