Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[LORD IMPERATOR]

They were until George had to do his Vietnam parallel with teddy bears while completing ignoring North Vietnam was actively supported by USSR, China and "can't bomb an outhouse without my say so" LBJ.

Yet they still managed to nail Princess Leia and R2-D2 in Return of the Jedi. So even when Lucas went silly, the bad guys were still a threat.

Normies, casuals, and even fans have shit poor hearing, reading for closed captions/subtitles and language comprehension abilities when ANH blatantly spelled it out to the audience the stormtroopers were suppose to miss. Plus if we put in real life militaries including the special forces to the same criteria we put on stormtroopers on accuracy they do would also suck.

As EC Henry has indicated, Stormtroopers are far more accurate than most armies on Earth.

Not to mention that many games, videogame or otherwise, portrayed Stormtroopers as competent soldiers that are capable of chewing through infantry and in some cases, even destroying light tanks.

EU post W.E.P went full retard including Zahn on destroying the creditability of the post Battle of Endor Empire by going on easy mode. If anything killing Palpatine, Vader and the destruction of DSII should've the easy part for the Rebellion. This is where ripping off history (Alexander the Great Empire or Battletech for the cliffnote version (dissolution of Star League after the Ameris war). Leaving the Rebellion in an extremely precarious state trying to survive when everyone friend and foe either sees them as direct threat or a liable loose-end that need to be tied up.

At least the post-Endor EU stuff did display what would realistically happen after the Emperor died. Warlords springing up like vultures, military anarchy, civil war, outside invaders like the Rebel Alliance/New Republic taking advantage of the chaos, similar to Rome's Crisis of the Third Century or the Decline and Fall of the Han Dynasty in China. Some EU stuff got things right more than others.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Personally for me, those fandom menace people hyping the Daily Wire as some kind of future rival to Hollywood is easily for me the most cringeworthy thing I've heard them do. There is no way Ben Shapiro and his little cadre are ever going to compete with Hollywood. It's like believing indie game developers will be able to compete with triple A gaming companies.

Watching her fall in with a schlub like Shapiro erased what little sympathy I had. The Fandom Menace crowd makes Q Anon look less insane sometimes.....

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Firing KK won't fix anything when the entire company is overrun with SJW fruitcakes. All the old Lucasarts vets and old Lucasfilm people are either fired, retired, or kept in a place where they can't change much. Sure, KK can get fired, but you know what that will lead to? Another SJW fruitcake taking her place. Maybe even someone who's more leftist/radical than KK was. Removing KK is like chopping off a head from a hydra, two more heads will take its place.

On another note, this:

On the one hand, he does raise a valid point with how Stormtroopers are treated under Disney.

On the other, expecting Disney to change anything at this point is futile. Which at least, he's good enough to recognize.

It's even funnier when you consider that Stormtroopers are supposed to be precise, accurate warriors:

And yet the average dumb fan makes Stormtrooper jokes about them missing all the time. Not that it's just on Disney, plenty of other works, even parts of the EU partook in this misconception.

Empire Strikes back absolutely had it the worst of the movies, they apparently had 1 hit out of 100 on screen shots.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Empire Strikes back absolutely had it the worst of the movies, they apparently had 1 hit out of 100 on screen shots.

Mostly because they weren't ordered to kill the heroes, and we didn't see much of them shooting up Echo Base, just them breaching the defenses and jumping in.

But the other two movies made up for that. ANH had them gun down a whole platoon, while ROTJ had them hit R2-D2 and Leia.

 

[LemmeSee]

I'm probably super late with this but, did that statement Disney put out strike anyone else as similar to the one Funimation did about the Broly guy? Praying we get a lolsuit disaster even half as radioactive over this.

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[The Valeyard]

The official Star Wars Instagram account posted this animatic for Leox Gyasi which has since been deleted.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Empire Strikes back absolutely had it the worst of the movies, they apparently had 1 hit out of 100 on screen shots.

Real life getting 100% hit rate is unrealistic AF, more so when militaries employ "fire and movement," suppressing/covering fire and other fuk huge ammo eating tactics to engage an uncooperative opposing force.
Something which even Hollywood and its foreign counterparts understands.
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Take this scene and jump to 4 minute 50 seconds for an example of long duration suppressing fire.

 

[LemmeSee]

Take this scene and jump to 4 minute 50 seconds for an example of long duration suppressing fire.

This looks great. What movie is it from?

 

[James Roancrest]

1. Nu Wars pushes non-binary pronouns.

2. Creates new character that is literally a rock.

3. Still uses he/him pronouns on first character where gender pronouns doesn't make sense.

Just wanted to point that out.

Also relevant:

 

[Uranus Pink]

This looks great. What movie is it from?

Act of Valor is the name was made with U.S. Navy Seals and them playing the characters in it.
Empire Strikes Back had the Norwegian military playing the rebels during the Battle of Hoth. At least those outside shooting at the AT-ATs. IMO SE ESB choked the chicken by not inserting new scenes with snowtroopers and more AT-STs fighting along side the AT-ATs like in the various ESB games made before the Special Editions were released.

 

[Ghostse]

Ramblings On British Karen And Her Lack Of Talent

No to derail the thread (though I give no fucks about derailing the 40th anniversary of people going on about Stormtrooper reality vs. film appearance chestnut) and definitely not to simp for JKR but....

While you are completely correct about her inability to write romantic relationships. JKR admits as such; to no ones surprise Hermoine is her self insert, and when she was in school had an unrequited crush on her basis for Ron Weasely.
Though I will disagree with you about Ginny coming completely out of left field; I remember thinking in book 2 or 3 that Ginny was probably going to end up with a best-friend's-sister crush on Harry. The EXECUTION where it went from 0 to 200 out of fucking left field however..... (and sidelined Cho, who was the better character AND if JKR hadn't been trying to fix history by forcing Hermoine together with Ron, would have been a better romantic rival/foil for Hermoine)

And I'm also not going to defend her unceremonious and nearly random offing of characters on a scale that only differs from GRRM in that it happens off page. And her, as you pointed out, not upgrading her writing style or tone to match the increasingly less younger-reader friendly events.

However, especially for YA, her characters did have some decent depth and nuance (For YA) and had some good motivations for how they were (even if execution was a bit sloppy). James Potter having been a bit a bully at school, Neville slowly sacking up, Draco developing some doubts ... I guess I'm a bit of chump for authors who clearly have a decent wide-range plan, even if they bungle the execution.(See: Star Wars Episodes 1-3)


I also think that a lot of JKRs creative bankruptcy being "discovered" traces back to that old adjage "Better to stay silent let them think you're an idiot than open your mouth and confirm it"; If she'd just stopped the series at the Deathly Hallows and stuck the spirit of her promise of "being done with Harry Potter forever", there were enough gaps in the writing for readers to fill in with their own much-better ideas.
But as the woman, even with a billion pounds faggotdollars cannot deal with irrelevance, so keeps opening her mouth and releasing suplemental material that only uncovers the depth of her hackery. I mean, get your shit checked if you didn't clock Dumbledore as being gay for Wizard Hitler.

And also just daily reminder that JKR wrote a detective novel under a male pen name to "Prove how much easier it was for male authors", but the novel was not picked up until JKR used her editor to exert influence to get it published.

 

[verissimus]

1. Nu Wars pushes non-binary pronouns.

2. Creates new character that is literally a rock.

3. Still uses he/him pronouns on first character where gender pronouns doesn't make sense.

Just wanted to point that out.

Also relevant:
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...even Kojima or Nomura wouldn't sink this low. Let that sink in.

 

[Creep3r]

The official Star Wars Instagram account posted this animatic for Leox Gyasi which has since been deleted.

You know I saw some of the thumbnails for the unreleased HR video that Disney was too scared to post on youtube, and I honestly thought it was clickbait...

Because even I didn't think that their idea for a rock-based alien sidekick for the newest smuggler archetype would just be a literal slab of rock... But I was wrong (and I was foolish to doubt after the wreck that was the Chinese novel).

Its actually just a huge slab of rock that can't even move by itself or even have some kind of droid body to help it get around.

And his name is just... Geode...

Geode

Please see the project page to participate in the project or to check its progress. Geode was a Vintian male who acted as the navigator of the transport starship Vessel alongside the pilot Leox Gyasi and copilot Affie Hollow. His appearance resembled a tall, dark gray, flinty and flaky rock...

starwars.fandom.com

And he's the ship's navigator...

And the video describes their vessel as simply being called "The Vessel". All Geode can do is just steer the ship, which Leox Isgay says makes it a "wild man". However the video just shows the rock standing behind them in the cockpit doing nothing. I guess he just has telekinesis or something? The video above also reads a few excerpts from their book and Geode just seems to exist for some weird and bland humor concerning rock jokes and from what I've found out, that's about it and doesn't do much else in the book. He's just there. That's it. Claudia Gray also felt the need to tell us that rocks can have sex and that Geode needs to be smelted down in 9 years in order to mate. Rock Sex.

When I first heard about this thing, I thought the line "it appears to be just a rock" was some kind of racial slur. Like maybe he was a Shard knockoff in a droid body, a tsil that communicates telepathically or any other mineral species or a knockoff of them.

But its just a rock who does nothing and pilots the ship when no one's looking. He's basically just Leogay's Plank.

Unsurprising as to why Disney was worried about uploading this on youtube considering how much negative feedback this shit's been getting. And as soon as they posted it on Instagram they took it down too. Only place you can watch their crappy animatic now is on the SW website.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

I've shock nobody is comparing the quality of the post-James Cameron Terminator sequels to the Star Wars films released after 2005. The What If Trilogy and post-Cameron Terminator sequels have a lot in common.

• Both lack the writing and ambitions of their creators (Lucas and Cameron)
• Both try to capture the magic of their predecessors without understanding why it worked in the first place.
• Both have to rely on shit new actors that don't have the energy and charisma of the previous older actors.
• Both got legally fucked by corporate assholes neglecting the franchise as it gets passed to new studios from time to time.
• Both turn iconic heroes into cowards after they see their accomplishments go to shit.
• Both returning actors look like they don't give a flying fuck other than getting nostalgia paychecks.
• Both bring in aggressively unnecessary woke politics.

 

[X Pac Heat]

A Vessel named The Vessel piloted by a rock named Geode.

And yet some people still get upset when I say that Star Wars is gay and retarded and nobody should buy or watch anything related to it anymore.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Its actually just a huge slab of rock that can't even move by itself or even have some kind of droid body to help it get around.
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And his name is just... Geode...

Geode

Please see the project page to participate in the project or to check its progress. Geode was a Vintian male who acted as the navigator of the transport starship Vessel alongside the pilot Leox Gyasi and copilot Affie Hollow. His appearance resembled a tall, dark gray, flinty and flaky rock...

starwars.fandom.com

And he's the ship's navigator...
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And the video describes their vessel as simply being called "The Vessel". All Geode can do is just steer the ship, which Leox Isgay says makes it a "wild man". However the video just shows the rock standing behind them in the cockpit doing nothing. I guess he just has telekinesis or something? The video above also reads a few excerpts from their book and Geode just seems to exist for some weird and bland humor concerning rock jokes and from what I've found out, that's about it and doesn't do much else in the book. He's just there. That's it. Claudia Gray also felt the need to tell us that rocks can have sex and that Geode needs to be smelted down in 9 years in order to mate. Rock Sex.

Peak creativity right here. Making an entire species that are basically rocks. And Geode is a very original name.

The Wookieepedia states that he's a male. But, how can you differentiate male rocks from female rocks? And how does their biology work?

This reminds me of the Spongebob episode about the rock Spongebob and Squidward travel on to deliver pizza.

 

[James Roancrest]

 

[Miller]

And the video describes their vessel as simply being called "The Vessel".

Its actually just a huge slab of rock that can't even move by itself or even have some kind of droid body to help it get around.

OMG it's so random, guys!
This is Star Wars now. This shit is like something out of [current year] Doctor Who.

I've shock nobody is comparing the quality of the post-James Cameron Terminator sequels to the Star Wars films released after 2005.

TSCC was a fine sequel to T2.

 

[Ghostse]

I've shock nobody is comparing the quality of the post-James Cameron Terminator sequels to the Star Wars films released after 2005. The What If Trilogy and post-Cameron Terminator sequels have a lot in common.

How can you compare the ST with something that doesn't exist? Or are you one of those Mandela Effect crazies who's going to swear up and down they also made not one but TWO Matrix sequels?

 

[RumblyTumbly]

A rock? Seriously?