Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Godzilla@1989]

The year is 2026. A Star Wars film is bragging about an $80 million projected opening.

I bet it gets a lower opening. Probably $50-60 million but that’s me being optimistic

 

[p1138]

I dunno, when someone tells me they're a star wars fan there's usually a 50/50 chance that they actually are pretty familiar with the EU. Usually the ones that aren't are younger zoomers who grew up when the EU was getting overshadowed by Filoni Wars or boomers/gen xers who were too old to have kids when the prequels were coming out.

That's why I said office watercooler, not local game store, nerd hangout, or whoever your fellow nerd friends might be. I'm talking about the general public. At best the know the books existed, hardly anyone read them compared to the number of people who claim to be fans due to the movies.

 

[LovisXVI]

That's why I said office watercooler

Millenials are in their early 30s at the youngest. If anyone is talking Star Wars at the office, it isn't going to be the boomers or the zoomers.

 

[p1138]

Millenials are in their early 30s at the youngest. If anyone is talking Star Wars at the office, it isn't going to be the boomers or the zoomers.

This doesn't have anything to do boomers, zoomers, or anything of the sort. I didn't say go find people talking about star wars

Go try to strike up some water cooler conversation at work

As in start a conversation not find one. Yes, there are people over the age of 40 who will claim to be star wars fans if the topic comes up, tons of them. But they don't randomly bring it up because for them nothing existed outside of episodes 1-6 until the recent live action stuff. And clearly there's no millennial/zoomer/alpha audience for shit like the acolyte and obiwan because no one is watching it, and even the shows that did have an audience completely fell off like mandalorian and ahsoka because the writing either went to shit(mandalorian, compared to how it started) or it's a bunch of characters they know nothing about(ahsoka).

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

The PT was about autism and incompetence, love it, grew up on it, but no, George is a fucking retard and 2/3 of the prequels are crap the same way the Avatar movies are.

Not quite. The Avatar movies didn't have a charismatic villain. Nor did they have a lesson to teach.

The Sequel era being so much worse has created some revisionist history regarding the prequels but nah, everything before the fun and games on Geonosis is the diary of robot who is desperately trying to emulate organic behaviour.

Not really. It's just that you now have a younger generation who can approach the Prequels without preconceived biases. In the same way, even the people who saw the Prequels liked them enough to buy the merch, unlike the Sequels where the merchandise rotted on the shelves.

Ironically, the same thing thay befell the Prequels happened to Lord of the Rings; hated by critics during the time of its release, but loved by later audiences.

 

[p1138]

Ironically, the same thing thay befell the Prequels happened to Lord of the Rings; hated by critics during the time of its release, but loved by later audiences.

Even if critics hated the lotr trilogy at release, it was definitely loved by audiences at the time and wasn't some situation of developing a cult following later.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Even if critics hated the lotr trilogy at release, it was definitely loved by audiences at the time and wasn't some situation of developing a cult following later.

I was talking about the books. Not the films.

The books were dragged through the mud by critics as anemic and boring, but a later cult following of hippies salvaged the series' reputation.

Also, given that all three Prequel movies made bank, AND the merchandise sold like hotcakes, it's quite obvious the fans loved them. It's not just a cult following that propped up later, the movies themselves were loved by fans to the point where they would buy the merchandise based on the films.

After all, if they hated the Prequels, then they'd have done what they did with the Sequels and left the merch to rot.

 

[p1138]

I was talking about the books. Not the films.

The books were dragged through the mud by critics as anemic and boring, but a later cult following of hippies salvaged the series' reputation.

Also, given that all three Prequel movies made bank, AND the merchandise sold like hotcakes, it's quite obvious the fans loved them.

Got it.

And yeah, the SW prequel movies made shit loads of money and had merch flying off the shelves. Anyone claiming those weren't popular at the time is deluding themselves. Yes people joked about discussing trade negotiations, sand being course, and so on but the movies were still generally well liked unlike the current crop of trash being released by Disney. "People made memes and jokes about it therefore they must have hated it" must be whatever mentality people are using today to try and trick themselves into believing they weren't liked. The reality is people liked them despite the dumb shit.

 

[Mississippi Motorboater]

Yeah no, the OT was good in spite of George not because of him and the best one was made without him directing. “A New Hope” was a nightmare in production, everyone was rolling over him and was saved by tight editing

Lmao, we're still parroting this shit like it hasn't already been debunked?

 

[crunchy bits are the best]

I think this Nihilus is a new body? I’ve been out of the game for awhile but proportions look different from the old. The reason is Nihilus is the one most likely to be known by normies from click bait slop.

The confusion comes from why not just do a three-pack and upcharge the shit out of it?

The question is which Scion design is it gonna be? Cause I could see the fuckers using the smoother (more easy to make from repurposed parts) Force Unleashed look that SWTOR used.

This upcoming Nihilus had a couple of tweaks from the sculpt and the addition of soft goods. Strange still not to have Sion but it's cool for those who don't have Nihilus. I agree that it should have been a 3-pack instead.

I have both Darth Malak and Bastila but their looks were supposedly based from the upcoming remake of KotOR 1 instead of the original ones.

 

[Humble Architect]

This upcoming Nihilus had a couple of tweaks from the sculpt and the addition of soft goods. Strange still not to have Sion but it's cool for those who don't have Nihilus. I agree that it should have been a 3-pack instead.

I have both Darth Malak and Bastila but their looks were supposedly based from the upcoming remake of KotOR 1 instead of the original ones.

Yeah I saw those KOTOR 1 abortions on Amazon, hope that fucking thing never comes out.

Scion is in a weird place where he’s the second most prominent villian of the game but least-known/liked of the Triumvirate. Despite being the best and one half of the Vader whole him and Nihilus deconstruct, the man and the armor.

Lmao, we're still parroting this shit like it hasn't already been debunked?

I too, love the tarnished state of the original movies, once George, the second he was left to his own devices did everything he could to make things worse by smearing shit on the screen.

George is a hack and he will be judged when he stands before Saint Peter………. and Mara Jade, judgement will be passed and his promised twi’lek virgins will be forsaken by his mortal crimes.

 

[The Nothingness]

Disney shills are freaking out at the possibility of Gina Carano returning

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Not quite. The Avatar movies didn't have a charismatic villain. Nor did they have a lesson to teach.

Quaritch is the most charismatic character in those movies. That's why he comes back despite dying.

 

[crunchy bits are the best]

Yeah I saw those KOTOR 1 abortions on Amazon, hope that fucking thing never comes out.

Scion is in a weird place where he’s the second most prominent villian of the game but least-known/liked of the Triumvirate. Despite being the best and one half of the Vader whole him and Nihilus deconstruct, the man and the armor.

All three are awesome despite their hang-ups. Sion deserves more love.

Disney shills are freaking out at the possibility of Gina Carano returning

Shills are one of the most insufferable people to exist due to having lack of actual life to begin with.

 

[Computer God Autism]

That's why I said office watercooler

This may come as a shock to you, but the prequels are more than twenty years old. It's not hard to find people in a workplace who grew up and loved the Star Wars EU.

hardly anyone read them compared to the number of people who claim to be fans due to the movies.

The Thrawn Trilogy alone sold something like 15 million copies when they were new. Is that a fraction of the people who watched and liked the movies? Sure. But people who just liked the movies probably aren't going to be interested in gushing about Star Wars in a casual conversation to begin with.

I also don't know why you seem weirdly insistent on thinking that it's the 40+ crowd who are the main audience for Disney livestream slop. Grogu was a psyop aimed at childless millennial women and most of the Disney Wars shows deal with characters that people under 40 are most familiar with and under 40 are more likely to be subscribers to Disney plus.

 

[p1138]

This may come as a shock to you, but the prequels are more than twenty years old. It's not hard to find people in a workplace who grew up and loved the Star Wars EU.

Why do you think I said over 40?

The Thrawn Trilogy alone sold something like 15 million copies when they were new. Is that a fraction of the people who watched and liked the movies? Sure. But people who just liked the movies probably aren't going to be interested in gushing about Star Wars in a casual conversation to begin with.

No shit, that's why I've said multiple times now to bring it up and see how people respond to it. Obviously the average person is not going to randomly bring up Star Wars and start yapping about it ad nauseum. I don't understand why this is so hard to figure out.

I also don't know why you seem weirdly insistent on thinking that it's the 40+ crowd who are the main audience for Disney livestream slop. Grogu was a psyop aimed at childless millennial women and most of the Disney Wars shows deal with characters that people under 40 are most familiar with and under 40 are more likely to be subscribers to Disney plus.

I didn't say the 40+ crowd was the main audience for Disney's shit. In fact I said

And clearly there's no millennial/zoomer/alpha audience for shit like the acolyte and obiwan because no one is watching it, and even the shows that did have an audience completely fell off like mandalorian and ahsoka because the writing either went to shit(mandalorian, compared to how it started) or it's a bunch of characters they know nothing about(ahsoka).

Since when do zoomers and alpha count as 40+? Or have you not noticed that Disney has been pissing away millions per episode on their live action shit with no one watching it? It's not that the audience is >40 or <40, it has no audience. The only shit the average zoomer and younger millennial might care about is Ahsoka since she's a character from the Clone Wars cartoon, and even then the Ahsoka show still didn't do very well.

It's like you're only reading half of what I post and just imagining what the rest might be, or you've somehow managed to pay no attention to how poorly Disney has been handling their live action shit with fewer and fewer people watching it. The only reason The Mandalorian did as well as it did, and even Disney fucked this one up with regard to what merch they had available(to the point where amazon was full of bootlegs for months, and Disney rushed to get some print t-shirts and mugs/glasses with shots from the promo still) was "omg, baby yoda!" and then having to bring the character back once he had fucked off because that was the main draw.

 

[LovisXVI]

I also don't know why you seem weirdly insistent on thinking that it's the 40+ crowd who are the main audience for Disney livestream slop. Grogu was a psyop aimed at childless millennial women and most of the Disney Wars shows deal with characters that people under 40 are most familiar with and under 40 are more likely to be subscribers to Disney plus.

They also pivoted hard to pander to the millenial audience with lots of Prequel referencing and riffing. The Mandalorian show is like 50% prequel references, 50% stealing from the EU.

 

[cjv97]

Embo's new pet

 

[Humble Architect]

All three are awesome despite their hang-ups. Sion deserves more love.

I’ve said it before but I stand by that they’re the best Sith group (duos/trios/teams not empires) outside the two originals. Sith have a problem outside the PT and OT where they still wear the Empire’s trappings. KOTOR is forgiven because it’s a love letter to the OT and the first toe dipped into the era. It’s just the OT but Luke learns he was the Emperor instead of learning his dad is the second most evil thing in the galaxy.

But the Old Republic is unforgivable in how badly it botched the “True Sith” with it being Empire-lite.

The Triumverate? Alien, no care about material power, they’re the logical endpoint of one-off phrases from the PT and OT, “Insignificant next to the power of the Force.” All while having a tidy mind, body and soul theme with the warrior, mage and rogue archetypes intact.

Embo's new pet
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Witches and wolves with that nigga. He ain’t right.

 

[cjv97]

Maul used this to drill down beneath him to break his fall and somehow survived.