Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Yeah but what are you going to do? Got an alternative suggestion for how to convey where in the timeline we are compared to the original film?

Does anyone else hate the BBY/ABY calendar? It's lazy as hell, incredibly vague, and making it a reference point is like saying we live in "80 after Normandy"
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yeah I never liked it but it seemed as reasonable as an arbitrary spot as any for nerds to use

unrelated it's a co-worker's birthday this weekend and one person already made a dumb May The Fourth joke, so I'm tempted to throw in how Coworker's Birthday was a lot better before the Special Editions, I mean, who's really gonna believe that the candles blew first?

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

The problem with using the Empire's founding for a new date era is that whilst one could imagine Palpatine being arrogant enough to try it, the Empire only lasted a handful of years so would never successfully establish a new system. BC/AD only came about long after the actual birth of Christ when the significance of Christianity became recognized.

The BBY-ABY calendar could still be used by the Alliance. Especially since it was the Battle of Yavin that established them as a galactic power worthy of fighting, and it was the one battle that decided whether or not they'd be a threat to the Empire or an afterthought. That, and Luke's miraculous shot that blew up the Death Star adds a spiritual angle to it. Almost like it's their version of the Birth of Christ.

You can have the Empire use the Before Empire Founding/After Empire Founding calendar, while the Alliance uses the Before Battle of Yavin/After Battle of Yavin calendar. Conflicting calendars would show how both sides really hate each other, to the point where they refuse to use the same calendar.

You can have the same thing for the Sith and the Jedi. The Jedi could use the foundation of the Republic, the Treaty of Coruscant, or the Ruusan Reformations as a starting point, the Sith could use the founding of the Sith Empire or the reformation of the Sith Empire under Vitiate as a starting point.

 

[Aaron McIntyre]

So what might as well be the worst Star Wars essay on YouTube (and that's saying something) just dropped.

It amazes me that people who aren't even capable of interpreting the original films beyond the most basic levels really love doing videos pretending otherwise.

 

[Spergichu]

I can't tell if Saw is black Ram Kota or black Garm Bel Iblis, but I sure wish Andor was a show about Garm instead of Mon Mothma's personal life and space lesbians.

Kota did pick up a substance addiction after getting dabbed on by Starkiller but he also sobered up when it was time to start fighting again. Iblis and Mothma had a falling out and he started his own rebellion with blackjack and hookers, but that was due to personal distrust and not because Iblis was a deranged petrol-huffing abo. Saw might be an honest to God OC who only takes cues of inspiration from multiple characters.

 

[Imperial Commando]

Im still waiting on an Imperial equivalent to the DC-17.

 

[Sneedmiser]

Saw might be an honest to God OC who only takes cues of inspiration from multiple characters.

In other words, a gay ass-baby?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

So what might as well be the worst Star Wars essay on YouTube (and that's saying something) just dropped.

It amazes me that people who aren't even capable of interpreting the original films beyond the most basic levels really love doing videos pretending otherwise.

Every take I’ve ever seen from this guy on Twitter has been both against my will and absolute dogshit.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

The BBY-ABY calendar could still be used by the Alliance. Especially since it was the Battle of Yavin that established them as a galactic power worthy of fighting, and it was the one battle that decided whether or not they'd be a threat to the Empire or an afterthought. That, and Luke's miraculous shot that blew up the Death Star adds a spiritual angle to it. Almost like it's their version of the Birth of Christ.

You can have the Empire use the Before Empire Founding/After Empire Founding calendar, while the Alliance uses the Before Battle of Yavin/After Battle of Yavin calendar. Conflicting calendars would show how both sides really hate each other, to the point where they refuse to use the same calendar.

You can have the same thing for the Sith and the Jedi. The Jedi could use the foundation of the Republic, the Treaty of Coruscant, or the Ruusan Reformations as a starting point, the Sith could use the founding of the Sith Empire or the reformation of the Sith Empire under Vitiate as a starting point.

Yeah, sure, Rebels would use the BBY/ABY calendar for that reason, but for normie Imperial Citizens that go to work and then eat at Dexter's diner, it'd be the Imperial Calendar* and it'd be the Imperial Calendar that would have in-universal adoption for the same reason we use the Gregorian calendar. Especially in a BBY context, such as Andor, where no one expects the Battle of Yavin to take place or how it'll turn out.

*As far as George Canon is concerned, anyways.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Im still waiting on an Imperial equivalent to the DC-17.

That would be the Imperial Heavy Repeater. It fires rapid-fire shots of superheated metallic bolts, and it has a secondary function of launching an explosive mortar round. Also, the bolts are somewhat accurate from up-close or a distance, allowing you to use it as a sniper weapon. Imperial Rocket Troopers can fire at you from afar with it with precision.

 

[Screamer_2]

So what might as well be the worst Star Wars essay on YouTube (and that's saying something) just dropped.

It amazes me that people who aren't even capable of interpreting the original films beyond the most basic levels really love doing videos pretending otherwise.

Can you or someone give a brief explanation as I don't want to give them a click.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Still finding enjoyment in Andor Season 2, though hopefully all this blatant setup can be paid off.

Also saw the Revenge of the Sith screening and I don't know if anyone else caught onto this, but George Lucas had pretty much left it open for more Order 66 survivors by having Obi-Wan and Yoda go to the Jedi temple to disable a signal that was meant to be a honeypot for any jedi stragglers to be killed.

It's a neat detail among the many that I picked up on in my viewing of this movie like how Padme's final words that she still sees good in Anakin which sort of enhances Luke's character since he has his mother living through him in wanting to save his father (but it becomes hilarious that same kindness isn't shown to his nephew because reasons)

So what might as well be the worst Star Wars essay on YouTube (and that's saying something) just dropped.

It amazes me that people who aren't even capable of interpreting the original films beyond the most basic levels really love doing videos pretending otherwise.

Not going to click but fuck off, while you can maybe argue that TLJ being shit forced open the terrible mask of Disney Star Wars, it had the most disastrous impact on film discussion where some obnoxious grifters rose because of this trite garbage and you can't even criticize Star Wars without some jackass calling you racist.

 

[Gondolindrim]

It's a strange fate that Fortnite is consistently the best Star Wars game on the market.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Also saw the Revenge of the Sith screening and I don't know if anyone else caught onto this, but George Lucas had pretty much left it open for more Order 66 survivors by having Obi-Wan and Yoda go to the Jedi temple to disable a signal that was meant to be a honeypot for any jedi stragglers to be killed.

A) This was made after a lot of EU material came out with Jedi survivors popping out left and right, such as Qu Rahn and Echuu Shen-Jon.

B) Lucasfilm was planning to tell more stories with Jedi survivors for future works set in the post-Order 66 galaxy, with them being featured in future stories as heroes or as cannon fodder for the now-armored Darth Vader and his minions to hunt down, like An'ya Kuro, Rahm Kota, or Shaak Ti. That way, they've put it in the movies that there would be an excuse as to why so many Jedi survived Order 66, because Kenobi and Yoda made that trip to Coruscant and reversed the beacon to warn all Jedi to run as far away as possible and hide.

It's a neat detail among the many that I picked up on in my viewing of this movie like how Padme's final words that she still sees good in Anakin which sort of enhances Luke's character since he has his mother living through him in wanting to save his father (but it becomes hilarious that same kindness isn't shown to his nephew because reasons)

In the actual canon, Luke was good to his nephews.

Speaking of which, all this glazing the fans are doing for the Rebels of Andor fall short when you do count in the Sequels. Director Krennic's line of how it's stupid that the Rebels are dying for "lawless ineptitude" is proven to be correct by shows like Ahsoka, the Mandalorian, and the Sequel Trilogy films, since the New Republic is unable or unwilling to enforce its laws, and its rulers are a bunch of incompetent jackasses that get their asses handed to them by scattered Imperial remnants. So in the end, the Rebels replaced the smooth, efficiency of the Empire with the lawless ineptitude of the New Republic, and they canonically paid the price for it at the hands of what's left of the Empire.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

A) This was made after a lot of EU material came out with Jedi survivors popping out left and right, such as Qu Rahn and Echuu Shen-Jon.

B) Lucasfilm was planning to tell more stories with Jedi survivors for future works set in the post-Order 66 galaxy, with them being featured in future stories as heroes or as cannon fodder for the now-armored Darth Vader and his minions to hunt down, like An'ya Kuro, Rahm Kota, or Shaak Ti. That way, they've put it in the movies that there would be an excuse as to why so many Jedi survived Order 66, because Kenobi and Yoda made that trip to Coruscant and reversed the beacon to warn all Jedi to run as far away as possible and hide.

Yeah this was honestly a smart move on Lucas since he pretty much did this to account for all the stuff he was planning to do with spin offs and the like such as The Force Unleashed.

In the actual canon, Luke was good to his nephews.

Speaking of which, all this glazing the fans are doing for the Rebels of Andor fall short when you do count in the Sequels. Director Krennic's line of how it's stupid that the Rebels are dying for "lawless ineptitude" is proven to be correct by shows like Ahsoka, the Mandalorian, and the Sequel Trilogy films, since the New Republic is unable or unwilling to enforce its laws, and its rulers are a bunch of incompetent jackasses that get their asses handed to them by scattered Imperial remnants. So in the end, the Rebels replaced the smooth, efficiency of the Empire with the lawless ineptitude of the New Republic, and they canonically paid the price for it at the hands of what's left of the Empire.

Honestly I feel like there's a lot of people who just ignore the sequels given they are easily one of the worst cinematic trilogies in history that really damaged the franchise, but even so it really sucks the Rebels become incompetent morons because Jew Jew Abrams and Bob Iger thought rehashing A New Hope was the best idea going forward instead of refining George's scripts.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Honestly I feel like there's a lot of people who just ignore the sequels given they are easily one of the worst cinematic trilogies in history that really damaged the franchise, but even so it really sucks the Rebels become incompetent morons because Jew Jew Abrams and Bob Iger thought rehashing A New Hope was the best idea going forward instead of refining George's scripts.

Well, you have to remember the fanbase back then. "The Prequels Suck!" "We want original Star Wars!" JJ Abrams and Bob Iger just gave the fanbase what they wanted, and we all suffered for it, because they listened to the most brain-damaged, short-sighted, buffoons in the SW fandom.

The PT-hating fanbase got the movies they wanted. TFA and Rogue One leaned heavy on the OT nostalgia.

Yeah this was honestly a smart move on Lucas since he pretty much did this to account for all the stuff he was planning to do with spin offs and the like such as The Force Unleashed.

Exactly. Force Unleashed came out three years after Revenge of the Sith, and you also had novels and comics with Jedi Order 66 survivors.

 

[Tablet County]

Has this been posted already? If not I think it's time.

 

[The handsome tard]

The May the first features on the SW games in my Steam library served to legit remind me that the last major update of this mess



was in June 2024. In a couple of months, it will have been a whole year without updates.

To say Aspyr grabbed the money and shamelessly ran is an understatement, this is something you expect from a shaddy Early Access Game on Steam, not from a company seems to have a pretty good reputation outside of this. So anyone that said that this game would run fine after a couple of updates has just eaten their own words. The fact that no one at Disney seems to be demanding Aspyr fix this mess is rather telling of their intense apathy when it comes to these classic games. They legit dont give a shit. They are only bothering with these remasters and ports for the sole reason to make some sort of money off Star Wars games that existed before they got their grubby jew-ey hands on it, even then, most of them are rather bare bones at best or even legit bad.

Absolutely shameless

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

The May the first features on the SW games in my Steam library served to legit remind me that the last major update of this mess

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was in June 2024. In a couple of months, it will have been a whole year without updates.

To say Aspyr grabbed the money and shamelessly ran is an understatement, this is something you expect from a shaddy Early Access Game on Steam, not from a company seems to have a pretty good reputation outside of this. So anyone that said that this game would run fine after a couple of updates has just eaten their own words. The fact that no one at Disney seems to be demanding Aspyr fix this mess is rather telling of their intense apathy when it comes to these classic games. They legit dont give a shit. They are only bothering with these remasters and ports for the sole reason to make some sort of money off Star Wars games that existed before they got their grubby jew-ey hands on it, even then, most of them are rather bare bones at best or even legit bad.

Absolutely shamelessly uncaring.

My biggest gripe with them was the KOTOR 1 and 2 ports. Good graphics remaster, but very few save spaces. I liked to create multiple save spaces to re-create battles and play back important events. My Xbox playthrough of KOTOR 1 and 2 had hundreds of save slots. How they could fuck that up, when even the fucking Nintendo Switch can be upgraded to have hundreds of gigabytes of save space, is beyond me.

 

[Laputa]

The most effective rebel cell at this point is Saw Gerrera's. And he's an unhinged lunatic who sniffs Rhydonium fumes. When your best man is an unhinged lunatic who gets high off jet fuel, you know you're FUBAR.

I think it's interesting that the show seems to be painting Saw's troupe in the most comparatively negative light out of the main rebel groups we have seen (each with their own styles that map serviceably onto different leftist archetypes)

Sure, Saw is off his rocker, but also, he's a man of action. He's getting shit done.

As we can tell from the mismanagement of Luthen's web of agents, information can fall through the cracks-- blaster fire rarely does

But, clearly the negative angle is *because* Saw is so violent/radical. It's less acceptable to be a revolutionary extremist that takes moral sacrifices of death and destruction rather than espionage and sabotage.

I've always liked Saw as a character since he debuted in Clone Wars, so it's nice to see him here, especially as a bridge to Rouge One. Still, I wish that the show would be critical of *all* the rebels for making sacrifices (Yeah, Luthen gets his fair share, but not as much his constituents)

Maybe revolution isn't palatable after all

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

I think it's interesting that the show seems to be painting Saw's troupe in the most comparatively negative light out of the main rebel groups we have seen (each with their own styles that map serviceably onto different leftist archetypes)

Sure, Saw is off his rocker, but also, he's a man of action. He's getting shit done.

As we can tell from the mismanagement of Luthen's web of agents, information can fall through the cracks-- blaster fire rarely does

But, clearly the negative angle is *because* Saw is so violent/radical. It's less acceptable to be a revolutionary extremist that takes moral sacrifices of death and destruction rather than espionage and sabotage.

I've always liked Saw as a character since he debuted in Clone Wars, so it's nice to see him here, especially as a bridge to Rouge One. Still, I wish that the show would be critical of *all* the rebels for making sacrifices (Yeah, Luthen gets his fair share, but not as much his constituents)

Maybe revolution isn't palatable after all

Luthen is no less radical than Saw. Saw shot a traitor in point-blank range with no trial, Luthen was willing to let the Ghormans die for the cause and he threw Kreeger's Separatists under the bus to protect his ISB mole.

It's just that Luthen's able to hide that behind a veneer of class and good manners, whereas Saw is honest about the fact that he's a colossal asshole, and he doesn't hide it. Whereas Luthen hides his true nature 99% of the time.