Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Uranus Pink]

Spoiler: book spoilers

They nuke Earth with asteroids in the fifth book and it's one of the more interesting plot points in the series.

Spoiler

UC Gundam or AU Gundam X level of colony asteroid droppage? Swear to God the show better raid the G Saviour wardrobe when it gets to that book.

 

[Jaimas]

have you ever asked how often Han let Chewie cuck him with Leia after they got married?

T'was the time before the internet, when such questions were alien.

 

[ZMOT]

It is my sole hope that they will hire some woman to direct an SW movie - and I really hope it'll be someone purely chosen to check off a few diversity checkmarks with absolutely no consideration for her experience, portfolio or even just the faintest contemplation about her actual skills.

I want Disney to pay a shitton of money for a movie made by a nobody purely based on her gender, have them pour money into marketing to boost the movie's image and then have them realize that the audience doesn't want their shitty product just cause it was made by someone with an uterus.

she probably will have experience, a portfolio and some skills - all totally inadequate when it comes to making movies or star wars especially. I don't mind if they have a women or whatever genderfluid thing at the helm if at least the end product is good or even honest that you can see they put actual effort in, but it's not going with an equally talented women instead of a man, they go with the absolute bottom of the barrel for the sake of brownie points and agenda. it's fucking retarded. and it's not like the expectations are high following jarjar abrams and ruin johnson, nor is star wars a "deep" or complicated franchise.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

They had a bunch up here in NY. There used to be a lot more, but the last few years have not been kind to movie theatres.

Well, both the number of venues and the number of screens are increasing. All showing Madagascar 19 or whatever, though. Weird because around me two megaplexes have closed in the past decade, and I think only one new one opened.

Number of U.S. Movie Screens

Number of U.S. Cinema Sites

have you ever asked how often Han let Chewie cuck him with Leia after they got married?

I mean, if this doesn't invite a Rule 34 interpretation, I dunno what does...

Leia: I’d just as soon kiss a Wookiee.

Han: I can arrange that! You could use a good kiss

 

[Antipathy]

I'm just sitting here remembering that Disney is going to steal the public domain from America again by 2024 at the latest. Fuck them, the public domain should be 50 years after the death of the author at most (which would give us all works made by people who died in 1969 or earlier), but it's been stuck in the year 1923 (I think), because otherwise the oldest Mickey Mouse shit would be in the public domain.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

I'm just sitting here remembering that Disney is going to steal the public domain from America again by 2024 at the latest. Fuck them, the public domain should be 50 years after the death of the author at most (which would give us all works made by people who died in 1969 or earlier), but it's been stuck in the year 1923 (I think), because otherwise the oldest Mickey Mouse shit would be in the public domain.

Disney wont do that [As they know that would be a massive PR Bomb]
They will just trademark things [and Trademarks dont go into the public domain] to make it next to impossible to use the new public domain

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

I'm just sitting here remembering that Disney is going to steal the public domain from America again by 2024 at the latest. Fuck them, the public domain should be 50 years after the death of the author at most (which would give us all works made by people who died in 1969 or earlier), but it's been stuck in the year 1923 (I think), because otherwise the oldest Mickey Mouse shit would be in the public domain.

Nope. They're not fighting it. And it is now advancing (slowly). Though Sonny Bono can burn in hell, yes, even if the Act was only named after him and he was dead when it passed. Don't care.

 

[HeyYou]

Any good KOTOR mods? That's my really big entry into the universe.

The KOTOR II cut content mod is the actual "must have". Past that, you can just get cool shit like replacing the robes with prequel robes, better lightsaber blades, better backgrounds for the planets/nebulas, etc. A very underrated but good mod in my opinion is the PC response moderation mod for the first game. It basically rewrites the worst parts of the dialogue to make the light side responses less naive and the dark side responses less edgy.

EDIT: Oh, all the best KOTOR mods are going to be found here.

 

[Adamska]

I am now firmly in this camp.

I wasn't a huge Star Wars fan by any stretch, but my dad sure as shit was. He knew fucking everything about the series, big and small and he'd read basically everything about the series. If I had any questions, he could answer them, and it was a way we honestly bonded a bit when I was little. I held onto a few of his old books long after he and mom divorced, and one of them was a big book on ships and vehicles in Star Wars.

Of the maybe 110 or so ships in this book, the removal of Legends deletes all but 33 of them.

At first I thought this was disrespectful, but on retrospect, it's anything but. They're safe from Disney. They remain untainted and unraped by the house of Mouse, forevermore beyond its slick black tentacles. We will never need to worry about seeing Dash Rendar or Talon Karrde get a personality-ectomy by Kathleen Kennedy, never see the Dark Trooper project as interpreted by Chuck Wendig, and never see Mara Jade reinterpreted as a black woman and changed into yet another lens for woke politics.

They're safe. And that one giant mistake is the one thing the fandom has to hold onto right now.

You guys DO realize that Disney has and did bring back specific portions of the EU already under their own trash fanfiction, right? They can totally just drag anything out of that pile and mangle it on purpose. They did it to Thrawn, they did it to the Vong, and their trash fanfiction trilogy is effectively Dark Empire... and Ragu 1 was based on the time Kyle Katarn took the plans casually but more schizophrenic and with bland characters.

NONE OF YOUR SHIT IS SAFE.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

I am now firmly in this camp.

I wasn't a huge Star Wars fan by any stretch, but my dad sure as shit was. He knew fucking everything about the series, big and small and he'd read basically everything about the series. If I had any questions, he could answer them, and it was a way we honestly bonded a bit when I was little. I held onto a few of his old books long after he and mom divorced, and one of them was a big book on ships and vehicles in Star Wars.

Of the maybe 110 or so ships in this book, the removal of Legends deletes all but 33 of them.

At first I thought this was disrespectful, but on retrospect, it's anything but. They're safe from Disney. They remain untainted and unraped by the house of Mouse, forevermore beyond its slick black tentacles. We will never need to worry about seeing Dash Rendar or Talon Karrde get a personality-ectomy by Kathleen Kennedy, never see the Dark Trooper project as interpreted by Chuck Wendig, and never see Mara Jade reinterpreted as a black woman and changed into yet another lens for woke politics.

They're safe. And that one giant mistake is the one thing the fandom has to hold onto right now.

Just to ask which edition of that book was it the original or the one released after Attack Of The Clones (the one I have)

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Here's a video I don't think has been posted yet that can explained what went wrong with Iger's clueless decision to buy Lucasfilm.

 

[Antipathy]

Nope. They're not fighting it. And it is now advancing (slowly). Though Sonny Bono can burn in hell, yes, even if the Act was only named after him and he was dead when it passed. Don't care.

That's the best news I've heard in months.

 

[Crichax]

If Disney Star Wars wasn't already crazy enough, now the ride is going to get even weirder. Disney and Tencent are now teaming up to write a Star Wars webnovel that includes "Chinese elements" and is intended for a Chinese audience. So, basically we're either going to get relatively grounded wuxia Star Wars, or an over-the-top xianxia or xuanhuan version instead. I wonder if we'll see a multiverse-destroying Luke Skywalker or Rey by the end of the book, as is typical of many xianxia and xuanhuan novels.

And 40 older webnovels are going to be translated into Chinese, apparently, but I don't know what is meant by that vague statement. Presumably, the article means older Star Wars books rather than 40 random webnovels.

Catering to the Chinese market to this extent most likely means that the Chinese market really does not like Star Wars, and that Bob Iger is desperate to change that. I wonder if Disney is basically Blizzard 2.0. behind the scenes.

Disney and Tencent are writing a new Star Wars webnovel

The Star Wars universe will be rewritten with 'Chinese elements' by a Chinese author

www.timeoutshanghai.com

 

[Raging Capybara]

So, basically we're either going to get relatively grounded wuxia Star Wars, or an over-the-top xianxia or xuanhuan version instead.

Wrong. We will get communist propaganda commissioned by Winnie the pooh himself.

 

[Reverend]

I think the worst part of the Trailer was the mass of star destroyer. It just looked so lame compared with similar scenes from other scifi franchises.
The Andromeda slipstreaming into a massive fleet look alot cooler and dont get me started on DS9 scenes or Battlestar scenes.

finding a massiv amount of enemy capital ships is not new.

and to quote a friend from a famouse battle: "whats going on guys, why are there 100 Titans in syste ohhh fuck."

BabylonFucking 5. How you do space battles that matter.

 

[Jaimas]

You guys DO realize that Disney has and did bring back specific portions of the EU already under their own trash fanfiction, right? They can totally just drag anything out of that pile and mangle it on purpose. They did it to Thrawn, they did it to the Vong, and their trash fanfiction trilogy is effectively Dark Empire... and Ragu 1 was based on the time Kyle Katarn took the plans casually but more schizophrenic and with bland characters.

NONE OF YOUR SHIT IS SAFE.

I don't think you get what I mean, old friend. All the stuff you just mentioned aren't actual edits of the Legends canon.
They're trying to piggyback off its success and bring it to the current shitty canon.

The Legends book is closed because they didn't want to pay the original content creators for it, and let us all be thankful for this. They instead closed the book on the whole shebang, insisting upon using their own in-house staff. What this means for us is that yes, they can make new content that happens to have these old characters and old ideas - but the wellspring of those ideas is completely safe from their edits, and completely immune to their influence.

They can put Thrawn in their animated shit-show that tries to parasitize the corpse of Clone Wars and stumbles around like me attempting to shitpost after hitting the Johnny Walker all they want. It's not an edit of the Legends canon because they declared Legends itself to be noncanon, and ergo, its own seperate entity. It is hubris and greed alone that led Disney to do this, and ironically, it's also the greatest gift it's ever given the fandom. This also makes the Disney canon hilariously internally inconsistent, but that's fodder for another post.

What's particularly interesting about that is that usually, it's the other way around. When a work that contradicts canon emerges, it's easier to declare that one work to be noncanon as opposed to the body whole. In Metroid: Other M, for example, we had a case of the series creator getting control of the series he helped create while understanding absolutely nothing about it. He immediately declared the bulk of the series non-canon and proceeded in his own game to be completely inconsistent with his own established lore and characterization, leading to massive fandom backlash. That ultimately led Nintendo to override him and bring the Prime games back into canon.

Just to ask which edition of that book was it the original or the one released after Attack Of The Clones (the one I have)

Old one.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

The KOTOR II cut content mod is the actual "must have". Past that, you can just get cool shit like replacing the robes with prequel robes, better lightsaber blades, better backgrounds for the planets/nebulas, etc. A very underrated but good mod in my opinion is the PC response moderation mod for the first game. It basically rewrites the worst parts of the dialogue to make the light side responses less naive and the dark side responses less edgy.

EDIT: Oh, all the best KOTOR mods are going to be found here.

I actually meant an EAW model set in KOTOR times. Still very welcome though!

 

[HeyYou]

I actually meant an EAW model set in KOTOR times. Still very welcome though!

An unfinished one and an upcoming one that combines the first and second games and TOR into one mod. It's actually not vaporware.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

You know, for all of it’s cringe, at least the CW’s Supergirl is more honest about its ideology and agenda than the Disney SW.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Back To The Future? No, that's Universal.

My sigh of relief was strong enough to circle the globe. Jesus.

I don't want to imagine a BTTF Disney reboot. I don't want to see a BTTF reboot ever, but a Disney reboot (most likely featuring Jarjar)?
That's... pure hell.

Okay so where the fuck were you all watching a bunch of old Fox movies in a theater to be assblasted over because I didn't have shit like this around my neck of the woods.

My big issue with stuff like that:
What if it spreads to broadcasting, DVDs and BluRays, too?

I don't want to see these classic titles just end up Disney+ exclusives.
Then again...