Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

p1138 said:
Stop shitting up the thread just because you want to believe the EU is more popular than it ever was. Kotor 1 and 2 sales, and even SWTOR player counts won't be vastly larger to be a significant amount of the movie fanbase either. You're just lying to yourself at this point.
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At this point I'm just more amused than anything that someone correctly pointing out younger star wars fans are more familiar with the EU than older ones makes you this angry.
 
Computer God Autism said:
At this point I'm just more amused than anything that someone correctly pointing out younger star wars fans are more familiar with the EU than older ones makes you this angry.
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I never said that the younger audience wasn't more likely to be more familiar with the EU stuff. In fact I used the clone wars show as a specific example of this
p1138 said:
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.
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But apparently you just don't want to read.
Computer God Autism said:
Ahsoka was one of the main characters on a nationally syndicated cartoon that ran every Friday night for five years on the second/third largest kid's network and a spin-off movie that Lucas and most fans would rather forget. She's not an obscure side-character for millennial/zoomer/alpha Star Wars fans.
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And this is what I mean by you just not fucking reading, because you posted this after I had already brought up the Clone Wars cartoon and the live action Ahsoka show. Clearly she's not an obscure character for younger fans and Sabine and Ezra are from Rebels but it doesn't change that the live action still wound up with... no audience because the younger audience who knows the characters didn't care and the older audience who are less likely to know the characters didn't care.

Clearly you're not illiterate seeing as how you can read and post, but like I said you keep reading partial posts and partial sentences and then just filling in the blanks with bullshit that wasn't stated and trying to tell me that I didn't know or forgot something well after I already pointed it out. What you can't get through your head, is that a guy with a Tartakovsky Grievous avatar, and another guy with a 1138 in his name are not representative of the average fan of the movies.
 
You can't in fight here! This is the Star Wars room!
Guys you've lost me a bit ago. What exactly is the slapfight here?
 
So, anyone here get one of those figures as a kid, the ones where it isn’t a main character or even named but because of the memory you have a fondness for them?

I know the prequel generation had this huge for clones and I remember the playground Clone Wars well. Before that, I had a Royal Guard figure and I loved that poorly articulated red guy with his thick plastic cloak. They literally do nothing, wear the most impractical helmets in Star Wars and guard a man who looks like a ballsack. Imagine my reaction to Crimson Empire making them cool and injecting a bit of Sparta into their lore.

They’re also the better sci-fi imperial bodyguards. Suck it custardes.
 
Humble Architect said:
So, anyone here get one of those figures as a kid, the ones where it isn’t a main character or even named but because of the memory you have a fondness for them?

I know the prequel generation had this huge for clones and I remember the playground Clone Wars well. Before that, I had a Royal Guard figure and I loved that poorly articulated red guy with his thick plastic cloak. They literally do nothing, wear the most impractical helmets in Star Wars and guard a man who looks like a ballsack. Imagine my reaction to Crimson Empire making them cool and injecting a bit of Sparta into their lore.

They’re also the better sci-fi imperial bodyguards. Suck it custardes.
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hammerhead with the dumbest gun in the history of action figures was always one of my favorites
 
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Ghostse said:
You can't in fight here! This is the Star Wars room!
Guys you've lost me a bit ago. What exactly is the slapfight here?
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It began when I said that, in my experience, there's a 50/50 chance that if someone younger says they're a star wars fan, they're familiar with some of the biggest names in the EU. This is because younger generations of Star Wars fans grew up with the EU, which had many immensely popular entries in the nineties and aughts. This is somehow a highly contentious claim. We don't disagree that the movies were massively more impactful than the EU, despite his best attempts to do so. We seem to disagree about what actually constitutes a fan, and rather than just agreeing to let that lie there's been a series of accusations about implications and arguments that may or may not actually exist for some reason.

In other words this back-and-forth has been about as well-written as the Sequels.
 
How does it feel to have lived long enough to see a Star Wars movie about to come out being met with the biggest "meh" on this side of the modern culture?

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LORD IMPERATOR said:
A lot of fans loved the EU, but last I checked, their most popular game was the old Battlefront 1 and 2. They were the best-selling SW games of their day.
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That remaster still sucks dick and a peak example of punching old fans in the gut, stealing their wallets and being allowed to get away with it.*


*mostly because fans were hoping it would unfuck itself through patches and/or by the time it dawned on them how horrid it was, the steam refund window already passed by.
 
Computer God Autism said:
It began when I said that, in my experience, there's a 50/50 chance that if someone younger says they're a star wars fan, they're familiar with some of the biggest names in the EU. This is because younger generations of Star Wars fans grew up with the EU, which had many immensely popular entries in the nineties and aughts. This is somehow a highly contentious claim. We don't disagree that the movies were massively more impactful than the EU, despite his best attempts to do so. We seem to disagree about what actually constitutes a fan, and rather than just agreeing to let that lie there's been a series of accusations about implications and arguments that may or may not actually exist for some reason.

In other words this back-and-forth has been about as well-written as the Sequels.
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if you were a star wars fan as a kid at that time you bare minimum played KOTOR, Battlefront or Force unleashed which counts as the EU. anecdotally i have hung out with a lot star wars fans my age (20s) and a high number of them are familiar enough with the EU to carry on a conversation about at least an aspect of it. I think people forget how pervasive star wars media was in the 2000s especially during the clone wars multimedia project era from 2002 - 2008. Shit was everywhere.
 
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LORD IMPERATOR said:
A lot of fans loved the EU, but last I checked, their most popular game was the old Battlefront 1 and 2. They were the best-selling SW games of their day.
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IIRC, it was actually the Lego Star Wars games that sold the best out of all the Star Wars games from the late 90s-mid 00s golden age. Granted, that's when you take into account sales across all consoles, which make some games seem like they over/underperform in a vacuum (Kotor, for example, sold something like a million more copies than BF/2 on the Xbox because it was an exclusive, while the Lego games had the benefit of Nintendo ports).
 
Yesterday morning at my job I noticed the guy in front of me was wearing a Star Wars shirt, so I chatted him up (happened to be his 40th birthday). This "fan" had no idea who the fuck Revan, Bane, Exar Kun, etc. are. I tried steering the conversation to the Endor movies, Ewoks and Droids cartoons, etc., but he just looked at me like he had no idea what I was talking about. He couldn't talk about shit beyond the movies with the exception of the Christmas special.
 
malt ipecac said:
Yesterday morning at my job I noticed the guy in front of me was wearing a Star Wars shirt, so I chatted him up (happened to be his 40th birthday). This "fan" had no idea who the fuck Revan, Bane, Exar Kun, etc. are. I tried steering the conversation to the Endor movies, Ewoks and Droids cartoons, etc., but he just looked at me like he had no idea what I was talking about. He couldn't talk about shit beyond the movies with the exception of the Christmas special.
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You should have called him a pa'taq and that Col. Jack O'neill would be ashamed of him. Fucking posers.
 
Maul Shadow Lord is doing a very good job of making me dislike Maul. I don't know if that's intentional or not. What is intentional and I don't like is the jump to outer space shit from what was a pretty good attempt at a crime drama on a single world.
 
Hot Toys did the unthinkable and showcased everybody's favorite looks for Ahsoka Tano.
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Ghostse said:
You can't in fight here! This is the Star Wars room!
Guys you've lost me a bit ago. What exactly is the slapfight here?
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Because the idiot has some kind of dyslexia and ignores things or just makes shit up
Suggest to start a conversation - mentions how people won't be discussing star wars unprompted
Specifically mention millenials/zoomers/gen alpha - apparently this meant people over 40 according to him
Specifically point out Ahsoka being known by people who watched clone wars - next day needs to pretend they're informing me that people would know the character from the clone wars cartoon

It's hard to have a conversation with someone that can't read or just makes shit up. Point is, guy claims it's 50/50, I believe it to be far less people that would have bothered with the EU. I never defined a "fan" other that pointing out fans watched the movies, he decided eventually to add "casual fan" to the discussion without defining it and I guess wants to pretend like they're some separate category or something.

Guy thinks his fellow nerd friends are representative of the general public regarding Star Wars, they aren't.
Delany's Donkey said:
You really notice how creepy and inappropriate this outfit is when it's rendered realistically. :stress:
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Even ignoring that, it's just hideous.
 
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