Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Dom Cruise]

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it get's everywhere... please don't bury my son's lightsaber here.

It's also ironic considering the Lars homestead was a place Luke couldn't wait to leave.

 

[UnKillFill]

All the BLR Star Wars vids are great.

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You know, I like most of the BLR Star Wars vids that I've seen, Bushes of Love is especially one of my <3 jams...

I never really liked the one that one you posted though... When did C3P0 become a street shitter?

 

[Ghostse]

It doesnt help Lovecraft wasnt exactly the most politically correct guy that there was either...
Lets just say that he wasnt a big fan of minorities, ESPECIALLY the niggos. I even dare say some of his horror stories were fed by his paranoia of other "alien" non white races taking over. Im not saying the big anthro squid guy was suppose to be a eldrich niggo but...it honestly wouldnt surprise me.

My point is, while I respect Lovecraft's works and their impact, Im in the small minority that doesnt think they are a masterpiece, some of his works are but I feel like people act like he was this gifted writer who could do no wrong, when the guy was a paranoid racist that was struggling finantially constantly. He wasnt that much of a genius in the long run. But im god damn sure these leftist elites are going to twist his works to make it seem like white people are weaklings/ eldrich evils.



The entertainment industry is full of stolen ideas to which if you dare to try to claim they stole it, they will rain down every expensive lawyer and cattle blue checkmark to bully you into silence...while also making the media portray you as a white devil.

God Bless hollywood.

"The Shadow over Innsmouth" was inspired by Lovecraft's existential dread that one of his ancestors might have fucked a darkie he didn't know about, and he was unknowing carrying mudpeople genes.

I can't remember the specifics, but basically the topic of "What if great-great-great grandma had jungle fever, and no one said anything because the jiggaboo was wealthy and kid passed the paper bag test?" had come up with freinds, and the horror and revulsion Lovecraft felt at the possibility of having niggerblood in his veins is what made him write about a town where Deep Ones have been asking "where da white wimmin at?" for a few hundred years and the protagonist is turning into a fishman because of it.

I don't think Rose deserved better. She was an awful fictional character that didn't need to exist, much like the Disney films, but Kelly Marie Tran did deserve better. And the way Abrams just pushes her into the background instead of at least trying to make her look nice and show off some acting for the sake of her future career is pretty shameful, but then again he couldn't make anything in this trainwreck look nice or worthwhile with all the money in the world. The hashtag should be #KellyDeservedBetter because honestly she might be screwed after this and Rose only worsened her image. It also doesn't help that drama surrounding her social media was a questionable mess that was overblown by Disney for pity points and in the end even Boyega questions how things were handled.

I don't think KMT did either. She readily hopped on the woke narrative train, only to be kicked off when she was no longer valuable, and from all appearances, she learned zero lessons.
So lay down with dogs, wake up with your career fucked up.

 

[Liquid Kent]

"The Shadow over Innsmouth" was inspired by Lovecraft's existential dread that one of his ancestors might have fucked a darkie he didn't know about, and he was unknowing carrying mudpeople genes.

I can't remember the specifics, but basically the topic of "What if great-great-great grandma had jungle fever, and no one said anything because the jiggaboo was wealthy and kid passed the paper bag test?" had come up with freinds, and the horror and revulsion Lovecraft felt at the possibility of having niggerblood in his veins is what made him write about a town where Deep Ones have been asking "where da white wimmin at?" for a few hundred years and the protagonist is turning into a fishman because of it.




I don't think KMT did either. She readily hopped on the woke narrative train, only to be kicked off when she was no longer valuable, and from all appearances, she learned zero lessons.
So lay down with dogs, wake up with your career fucked up.

KMT - Kelly Marie Tran
KMT - Kuomintang

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I am going to love finding out how any Lovecraft movie coming out is going to go out of its way to fellate black people and women, because you know people will be lining up on Twitter to screech at anything based on Lovecraft if it doesn't.

Tales From The Crypt already did something with one of his short stories:

Then again, it is loosely based

KMT - Kelly Marie Tran
KMT - Kuomintang

Probably the reason China didn't care about her at all

 

[Ghostse]

Also, I missed it, but regarding the Galaxy forgetting Luke:
Now, again, applying real-world logic to fictional universes never ends well but:

Luke should have been Rebellion Famous after Yavin. He's young, dedicated, and doesn't look like he's been run over a car; he's got a hell of story (EMPIRE KILLED MY FAMILY), he brought the rebellion plans for the death star which he then blew up with an impossible shot... he's the perfect propaganda poster boy. He should have been near a house-hold name.

Take real-life superhero Audrey Murphy. This guy had malaria, but being the only man in his platoon able to fight, he manned a .50cal on a burning vehicle and singlehandedly suppressed a whole squad of germans until not only reinforcements had arrived, but he ran out of ammo. Only then did he leave the vehicle, which exploded a few moments later because it was on fire the whole damn time.
And that was one of the tamer things he did.

Sure, in V-day + 25,000 no one knows who he was, but during and immediately after the war, he was a hero and well known. One o the reasons he's not more well known is he was very humble and didn't particularly like glamorizing war.

 

[Duke Nukem]

street shitter

Why limit yourself to just the streets?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Luke should have been Rebellion Famous after Yavin. He's young, dedicated, and doesn't look like he's been run over a car;

You get a Winner just for this.

 

[BScCollateral]

Miniature sun? In the real world, we call that a fusion reactor. If anything, that seems a bit conservative for Star Wars.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Miniature sun? In the real world, we call that a fusion reactor. If anything, that seems a bit conservative for Star Wars.

Oh please, don't tempt Darth Syphilis into shoving some idiotic environmentalist allegory into Star Wars along with her already idiotic Mary Suewalker plotline.

I'm sure that Jar Jar and/or Darth Ruin will even shoehorn THAT in, in the most idiotic way possible. Maybe a Super Star Destroyer owned by pale skinned space pirates who run it by burning Wookiee trees?

No, I'm wrong.

It'll be worse than that.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Luke should have been Rebellion Famous after Yavin. He's young, dedicated, and doesn't look like he's been run over a car;

That was a cover story, what really happened was Mark was eating a Krispy Kreme doughnut on set, Carrie thought the frosting sugar was coke and went for his face.

 

[Duke Nukem]

That was a cover story, what really happened was Mark was eating a Krispy Kreme doughnut on set, Carrie thought the frosting sugar was coke and went for his face.

That sounds like the start of a good joke but considering everything that has transpired in the past few years it might as well be true.

 

[King Dead]

I do cherish my TIE Defender, although it's in need of upgrades now that Lego has improved their TIE construction so that the central sphere is more, well, spherical and less like a square block with some of the edges chipped off.

On the topic of Lego EU sets, they also managed to work in slightly modified versions of the E-Wing and TIE Phantom into the Freemaker Adventures sub-line.

While doing a search for Lego TIE fighter models, I stumbled upon Brick Vault's website, which has a variety of highly-detailed custom TIE fighter model instructions for sale, including the TIE Defender. You still have to acquire your own bricks, and it kinda sucks having to purchase the instructions too, but they look rather well-designed.

The costumes themselves actually look better than what the FO fucks are wearing and the Sith trooper helmet almost looks more believable as a combat helmet.

You're right in that there's nothing wrong with a portable superlaser in itself, just the fact that they recycled a Star Destroyer and slapped a penis cannon on it that can blow up planets with ease on a whim is just horribly lazy and then have it be powered by something like a miniature sun just to explain how a ship so small can generate that much power is insane (it was a bad move in the TORtanic MMO and even more so now since at least TORtanic's had a unique ship design). At least with previous ships with powerful lasers, they were gigantic and had unique designs that worked in such a way to made it feel believable, like the Eclipse. Also they could look cool as shit.
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The old SW trading card game also experimented with the idea of a Star Destroyer having a Death Star superlaser installed but the only thing that could do on the limited power of a Star Destroyer's reactor core was maybe bust a small moon or just fuck cities or a small continent, but even doing that was a huge waste of energy. And though it was claimed it could blow up a planet in promotional material, its not something that actually happens during the campaign and its most like just imperial propaganda at best.
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Its one of the problems the Disney films seem to have. Almost all tech seen in these movies is left unchanged with only slight alterations, like giving Star Destroyers a penis canon or giving them red highlights. The galaxy's hardly recognizable but tech is almost completely unchanged and feel like Chinese knockoffs.

The wonder was always one of interest, and when it was finally explored in the 90s with the Thrawn Trilogy I felt justified since it was exactly how I thought it would turn out. The Emperor's death led to infighting, division and loss of power as the galaxy rebuilds, but unsurprisingly former imperial leaders refuse to give up the power they once held. The Thrawn Trilogy was everything Disney's shit and Dark Empire wasn't, but hell it says a lot when even Disney's shit can make Dark Empire look passable and more memorable with its art and unique designs.

I decided to do what apparently nobody at Lucasfilm bothered to do, which is to do a little research into why Disney's Death Sith Star Destroyers are fucking stupid. Warning, turbo-powered autism ahead. I decided to put it in a spoiler because it ended up longer than I thought it would.

Spoiler: sci-fi ship sperging

The Eclipse has been another of my favorite designs since seeing it in one of the old Essential Guides when I was a wee skel. Part of what made it interesting to me was the fact that it had its own superlaser mounted on the front, albeit at a lower power than the old Death Stars. As opposed to the Death Star completely obliterating a target planet, the Eclipse could only break through planetary shields, crack a planet's crust, or wipe out a smaller area of a planet. Nothing to sneeze at, and it could definitely wreak havoc on an enemy fleet.

Its superlaser is described as "two-thirds the power of one of the Death Star's superlaser components," so it's effectively one-twelfth the power of the Death Star. Construction began about the time of the Battle of Yavin, and wasn't completed until a decade later, partly due to Palpatine's apparent demise, partly due to its sheer scale. Some Imperial navy officers wanted to scrap it and use the parts for a number of standard Star Destroyers, showing just how expensive this thing was to build.

Now for some basic quick-and-dirty calculations. This isn't going to be 100% accurate, but humor me.

The Death Star is 120 kilometers in diameter. Cutaway schematics show that the superlaser components don't go through the whole station, but from the core to the dish, so we'll say that the total length is about 60 kilometers. If we just make the assumption that the power of the superlaser scales linearly with its length, then a superlaser one-twelfth of the power would be five kilometers long.

The Eclipse is 17 kilometers in length, and we're told that the superlaser components run the length of the ship. That sounds feasible to me, since it's over triple the length of my theoretical 1/12 superlaser. In addition, advancements in technology could help some with miniaturization, further keeping this believable.

Now let's look at JJ's donut steel Star Destroyers. Somehow, Sheev has built an entire armada of these ships over the past thirty years, each one armed with a full-power superlaser that can obliterate a planet just as well as the Death Star could. And they can do this despite being not that much bigger than a regular Star Destroyer. But how bad is this disparity? The only way we can find out is through more autism math.

A regular Imperial-class Star Destroyer is 1600 meters long, while the donut steel Star Destroyers are 2400 meters long, barely 50% longer, or only 1/7 the length of the Eclipse. That would be bad enough for this argument, but it gets worse.

Unlike the Eclipse, the entirety of the superlaser's components extend only about half the length of the ship, so we'll be generous and say 1200 meters, or 1/14 the length of the Eclipse, or 1/50 the length of the Death Star's superlaser. We're supposed to believe that the power of an entire Death Star could be shrunken down and squeezed into something that's only 2% its size? Come the fuck on.

Now I'm willing to accept that there would be advancements over the course of about thirty years that could lead to smaller superlasers. New strides are being made all the time in our world, so it's not unreasonable to assume the same in Star Wars. But even if we take that into account as a plausible explanation (which I don't fully), the cost of building hundreds or thousands of these mini-Death Stars is just ludicrous, not to mention the time investment. The Death Star took twenty years to build and over a trillion credits, and the Eclipse required over a decade to complete a single ship. This stupid Sith fleet would have probably cost way more than a single Death Star to produce, and unless Sheev managed to kidnap half the galaxy in secret to work on them, completing this whole fleet in thirty years is unfeasible. And no, "he just had droids do it" doesn't work as an excuse since Palpatine had to kidnap a bunch of wookiees to build the first Death Star (which I think is still canonical to Disney Wars? The Star Wars wiki has it listed in Disney canon as the "pacification of Kashyyyk" and happening at the same time as the old battle, but with no further details).

JJ and company want to just handwave this all away with the whole "it's a fantasy story, it doesn't have to make sense" excuse, but even fantasy stories have some form of internal consistency. I put a modicum of thought into why this premise doesn't really work, which is apparently more than anyone working on the story did. If an idle thought (that admittedly took about an hour to fully research) blows apart a key idea in your plot, then you're clearly not putting in enough effort.

tl;dr: JJ is a hack and I wonder if this design was some elaborate prank by a disgruntled Lucasfilm employee to get Star Destroyers with dicks in a movie.

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

Oh thank Christ, Mandalorian stuck the landing.

Excellent episode, though one thing I couldn't understand:

Spoiler

why did the IG unit head back to town instead of leaving with the kid? That could have been easily adressed that his peogramming included the Mandalorian.

Does anyone else get the feeling this isn't the last we see of IG-11? I don't know, I thought a major theme was going to be his relationship with it. Perhaps, they feel the relationship with the child is the only focus...

Interestingly, this show is turning into a two character show. Cara Dune is really a major support character instead of a lead...

Star Wars nerds will freak over the darksaber...

Minor detail: finally see baby Yoda smile..

Yes, Pedro Pascal is in this show, in case we weren't sure...

Take a bow Favreau and co, you deserve it...

Props to Gina Carano, she was not good in her first episode. But, over the course of the series, her acting has dramatically improved. She is pretty damn solid actually, I really like her character...

I wonder if it was just Bryce Howard's piss poor directing that torpedoed her performace? Not to mention, episode 4 sucks, so whatever...

Also, can someone explain to me what Mandalorians were doing during the Clone Wars?

It's implication was that they were fighting for Republic in this episode. But, I didn't watch "Clone Wars", so I have no idea...

Granted, I know Mandalorians fight for whoever they wish. They could have been found with the Empire or the Rebels. I just didn't know if there was a specific side....

 

[Miller]

Also, can someone explain to me what Mandalorians were doing during the Clone Wars?

A lot of stuff happened. Both the Republic and the Separatists wanted Mandalore to join the war, Duchess Satine wanted to remain out of the conflict but then the Death Watch (enemy of Satine) did a coup d'etat with the help of Maul and his brother. I don't remember what happened after that. I think they ended up joining the Republic side.
You should watch TCW or at least the episodes dealing with the Mandalorians, those were the best stories told on the show.

Spoiler

Star Wars nerds will freak over the darksaber...

Yeah, I wasn't expecting to see it on the show. I thought Maul had it.

 

[Ghostse]

That was a cover story, what really happened was Mark was eating a Krispy Kreme doughnut on set, Carrie thought the frosting sugar was coke and went for his face.

That is very clearly a lie. Mark survived, so clearly a coke-seeking Carrie Fisher was not involved.

 

[cecograph]

"The Shadow over Innsmouth" was inspired by Lovecraft's existential dread that one of his ancestors might have fucked a darkie he didn't know about, and he was unknowing carrying mudpeople genes.

I can't remember the specifics, but basically the topic of "What if great-great-great grandma had jungle fever, and no one said anything because the jiggaboo was wealthy and kid passed the paper bag test?" had come up with freinds, and the horror and revulsion Lovecraft felt at the possibility of having niggerblood in his veins is what made him write about a town where Deep Ones have been asking "where da white wimmin at?" for a few hundred years and the protagonist is turning into a fishman because of it.

Shadow over Innsmouth always gets brought up as having racist undertones, but I don't find it so obvious. The existential fear you are describing is far more obvious in Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, which is explicitly about a guy researching his ancestry, which involved whites mixing with Congolese.

Lovecraft was a pathetic figure who was racist even by the standards of educated people in the 1920s, but even so, I find the usual accusations against him to be overblown folklore. Also consider that the guy started moving very much left in his later years. His ideas about the fundamental meaningless and arbitrariness of humanity in the cosmos was always going to be at odds with his social conservatism.

If you want something concrete though, you just want to take his poem "On the Creation of Niggers":

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

 

[The Decimator]

You know which character I hope Disney never gets their hands on?

Durge.

He was pretty damn awesome, and, dare I say it, even cooler than Boba Fett.

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

Unlikely, but it would be pretty fucking great if(when Kennedy is gone and guard change), Disney does a Disney + series with Rey.

At the end of it, She gets her head chopped off and baby Yoda takes over as vanguard of the Jedi....

It really depends how much Kennedy is disliked among Iger/Filoni/Disney/Lucasfilm folks. For sure, she made enemies though...

But, it wold make me laugh if they destroy her self insert...

 

[Mongo0o]

I just watched the season finale of Mando. That 40 minute episode was better than the entirety of ROS.