Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

XYZpdq said:
Yeah now that other dimensions and galaxies are on the table I guess it's marginally less stupid to have financial powers beyond the Empire
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Oh... right.
Then why the fuck does the Empire even matter? It's one galaxy out of dozens, in a single dimension out of an unknown, large amount. This is like trying to hype up the evils of Nazi Germany in 40k. Sure, they were undoubtedly bad but the Imperium of Man would shit itself laughing at the ~22 million casualties over 12 years, when a single fucking Inquisitor can do more than ten times that in a day, and some battles have taken billions of human lives in mere hours.
 
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Manwithn0n0men said:
Its also dumber because it despiritualizes SW......so its only less dumber
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Kinda reminds me of how Fist of the North Star began more as THE ONE HOKUTO SUCCESSOR vs THE ONE NANTO SUCCESSOR oh wait there's a bunch of other Nanto styles. And a bunch of brothers who didn't become the Hokuto Shin Ken successor. And a bunch of other Hokuto styles.
 
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I'm not going to try and fight the (fairly well reasoned and rightfully deserved) criticisms of the nu-Wars comic (although I will note that Mrs. Super Duper Planner seems remarkably stupid, confiding in Doctor Aphra, a woman whose picture should be in the dictionary under 'amoral opportunist').

But I WOULD encourage folks to go to their favorite comic-piracy site and read Aphra #37. There's just something so pure about watching that annoying bint beg for her life every time Vader walks by. Makes me smile even though the silly bitch has had almost Rey-tier plot armor for her entire run (I mean, I could accept her putting one over on Vader at the end of the 2015 series. Once. But after that she should've run like hell for the Outer Rim and stayed there till after RotJ).

Personally, I want to believe the Emperor is just trolling Vader by telling him he has to keep her around and can't kill her on a whim.
 
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Capsaicin Addict said:
I'm not going to try and fight the (fairly well reasoned and rightfully deserved) criticisms of the nu-Wars comic (although I will note that Mrs. Super Duper Planner seems remarkably stupid, confiding in Doctor Aphra, a woman whose picture should be in the dictionary under 'amoral opportunist').

But I WOULD encourage folks to go to their favorite comic-piracy site and read Aphra #37. There's just something so pure about watching that annoying bint beg for her life every time Vader walks by. Makes me smile even though the silly bitch has had almost Rey-tier plot armor for her entire run (I mean, I could accept her putting one over on Vader at the end of the 2015 series. Once. But after that she should've run like hell for the Outer Rim and stayed there till after RotJ).

Personally, I want to believe the Emperor is just trolling Vader by telling him he has to keep her around and can't kill her on a whim.
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Holy shit you're right! This is delicious! The best issue in this entire comic's run! Heck maybe the best of anything Marvel has produced in a long time.

She almost snuck a little sass in there...
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But...
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After so many years of smug faggotry, the super stronk Doctor Aphra PhD is finally reduced to a whimpering and humbled puppy. Who would've thought? Its like watching pre-Disney shit make a comeback and kick Disney's shit in.

She's even suffering from PTSD nightmares so you know her fear and pitiful state is legit.
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Somewhere in the original timeline... Geez lo-

Wait... the prisoner's her dad? What are the odds of that? Is the population in the galaxy really on decline or something? I mean if they've been separated for years, the amount of coincidences in Disney these days is just unbelievable.
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Iceland Heavy said:
The Empire being doomed to collapse under its own weight and Palpatine's machinations has always been a thing.
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how tho? it's self-sustaining without any outside pressure and literally run by a sith. you maybe would have a chance with a "normal" leader at some point, but not with a dude that plotted for decades to get into that position and will vader you the moment you try to start shit.

even in the very best scenario it will take decades for that to happen, and the logical conclusion in the worst case would be various factions competing for leadership, so depending where you are things wouldn't necessarily get better. there's even an argument as old as the OT that the empire brought "peace" and stability to some parts of the galaxy, so not everybody was pressured to join (which wouldn't fly these days, the bad guys need to be nazi caricatures).

Ghostse said:
All the RE movies fall into what I call "watchable". Not good, not bad, you can sit through it without cringing too much and be reasonably entertained. RE1 has the dubious distinction of being the best of the lot.

The real issue with RE1 is other than Zombies and Umbrella, it has nothing to do with Resident Evil. You could strip out all the RE shit and make a movie I think stands shambles just fine on its own. Arguably better because you need to do all the pandering references to the games.

And Anderson highlights what makes older 'bad' movies different from the latest crop:
If you watch the commentary track to Die Hard, or Predator, or a bunch of schlocky 80/90s action, the directors had a vision. They had a coherent film they want to show, and show it well, even if it wasn't great. Now they are lazy. Everyone just wants to show how woke they are, and Jar Jar wants to give us another disappointing mystery box.

Anderson had a coherent idea for Resident Evil. I don't think 'sci-fi action zombie alice in wonderland' was a particularly good idea, but he executed that idea pretty solidly.

And the commentary track for RE is fucking ace. You almost don't need rifftrax with Michelle Rodriguez.
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beat me to it, but yeah, the first movie definitely isn't that bad (I peaced out after the second when alice went fisticuffs with nemesis tho).
but I disagree being only loosely tied to the games is bad. it's necessary to provide easy entry (else people that never played the games won't know wtf is going on), for the people that know the games it has enough references that makes it more fun to watch. it's a fine line but at least the first one managed to pull it off.
 
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GeneralFriendliness said:
Holy shit you're right! This is delicious! The best issue in this entire comic's run! Heck maybe the best of anything Marvel has produced in a long time.

She almost snuck a little sass in there...
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After so many years of smug faggotry, the super stronk Doctor Aphra PhD is finally reduced to a whimpering and humbled puppy. Who would've thought? Its like watching pre-Disney shit make a comeback and kick Disney's shit in.

She's even suffering from PTSD nightmares so you know her fear and pitiful state is legit.
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Somewhere in the original timeline... Geez lo-

Wait... the prisoner's her dad? What are the odds of that? Is the population in the galaxy really on decline or something? I mean if they've been separated for years, the amount of coincidences in Disney these days is just unbelievable.
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Wow the art has been getting shittier. It looks like Vader is floating in that last picture
 
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Kane Lives said:
To be fair, it's a problem writers in Star Wars generally face (everything is too small scaled and localized to be believable as a galactic conflict), but this Disney Wars takes it to an even more exceptional level.
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that's writers in general, or more how the story is presented. how would you show a whole galaxy at war without blowing up the scope of the cast? ofc as I mentioned before rehashing the same characters over and over to the point you'd think they live next door doesn't help.

otoh, does it really matter? like every form of entertainment no one wants to watch vader doing his taxes or taking a shit, so the focus is on the important bits in striking setpieces. it's one of the reasons you have 3-4 planets and extra locations per movie to walk the middleground. remember the audience are people who are hardcore fans on one side and "hurr who's that dude in the black mask" on the other.

where disney fails hard is that they can't even be arsed to use new locations. I mean ffs the remotely "new" planets/locations were in RO and solo. the rest was not!tatooine, not!endor (first with trees, then with salt) and imperial installation #5628. can't remember if they ever showed the sneeze planet so it was just "rocks with a lot of water"
 
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Godzilla@1989 said:
Nope, but I have seen this first picture we get from Rise of Skywalker.
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What is it with JJ Wars Macguffin holders and asshole eyes? Orange Yoda has the same problem. That thing looks like a taint with googly eyes and his ability of reprogramming droids sounds stupid: no shit you can reprogram a computer dumbass. Just delete the old files and put new ones in.
 
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Godzilla@1989 said:
Nope, but I have seen this first picture we get from Rise of Skywalker.
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Dr W said:
What is it with JJ Wars Macguffin holders and asshole eyes? Orange Yoda has the same problem. That thing looks like a taint with googly eyes and his ability of reprogramming droids sounds stupid: no shit you can reprogram a computer dumbass. Just delete the old files and put new ones in.
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He's even uglier now than before yet they want to make toys out of this thing? And to no one's surprise its a nu-alien "Anzellan", not even a Disney one like the tiny fuck from TLJ.
 
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Point one of this being nonsense: Who does Palpatine owe money to? What group or nation has the finance to support the Galactic Empire?! Why haven't we heard of these people before? How did they make all that money? Where are they based, why are they trading with Palpatine, have they been manipulated by him, etc, etc.
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Oh... right.
Then why the fuck does the Empire even matter? It's one galaxy out of dozens, in a single dimension out of an unknown, large amount. This is like trying to hype up the evils of Nazi Germany in 40k. Sure, they were undoubtedly bad but the Imperium of Man would shit itself laughing at the ~22 million casualties over 12 years, when a single fucking Inquisitor can do more than ten times that in a day, and some battles have taken billions of human lives in mere hours.
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Its almost like a curse, since the Galactic Empire of Star Wars is based off the Galactic Empire of Asimov's works, and rather infamously Asimov threw his hands up part way through Foundation and said "I have no where the hell to take this" and just wrote two prequels instead. George Lucas then, decades later, rather infamously threw up his hands and said "I have no idea where to take this" and directed three prequels instead.

Except with Disney they're flailing their hands in the air going "halp I have no idea what I'm doing!".

Maybe something the sheer size of a Galactic Empire just cannot be fathomed in terms we can understand? Warhammer 40k takes the novel approach of having the galaxy filled with constant internicine factional wars and disputes between different organizations that are almost independent of each other. It fractures the focus of the setting substantially, but it makes it easier to just move the action to some random planet or star system when the writers hit a wall.
 
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