Star Wars!

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

justinpie wrote:

Yesterday the aforementioned folks saw The Empire Strikes Back and finally found out about Vader being Luke's father. Their response was, (and I'm paraphrasing): "Um, yeah? His name is Vader. How dumb were people in the Seventies?"

are your friends dutch or something justin

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:33 pm

They're hippies, their parents were hippies and their children will probably be hippies as well.

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:34 pm

I got frozen pesto for christmas from them. They're good people, it's just -- they weren't sure what my Gamecube was.

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

justin would you like super monkey ball 2 for gamecube because I don't really play it that often in fact not hardly at all.

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:40 pm

no dogg I hate me that game though my friend jon has every variant and version of monkey ball as well as the systems to play it on, some exclusively purchased to play the video game monkey ball.

In short, he really likes Monkey Ball.

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

justin would your friend jon perhaps like an extra copy of super monkey ball 2.

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:45 pm

hey yeah he probably would enjoy having an extra copy in case one were to be ruinated via smudging over by the unwashed fingers of a child.
the children, they are not allowed to play monkey ball at jon's house.

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:48 pm

jon hates children.

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

or he wants to save them from the addictive properties of monkey ball

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

have your friend jon paypal me ten dollars justin and it is his.

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

or perhaps you can get it for him as a friendly gift?

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:24 pm

http://videosift.com/story.php?id=630

In a perfect world these two dudes are the coolest guys in their high school.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:29 pm

It's Old Navy versus Hot Topic in a duel to the death!

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9009 Location: SOMEWHERE EXTREME

That was pretty sweet.

I was thinking. If a Jedi fought a ninja, the Jedi would win because the ninja would try to do that "jumping on the sword" thing and end up in pieces.

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:38 pm

Hey guys, maybe this should have been self-evident, but lightsaber duels really don't work as well when you watch them without sound. Which I had to do because I am in a public library.

That was pretty cool, though.

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

That was really good! It looks like the guys are actually swinging for kill-shots and blocking them, instead of the noisy clanging three feet away at arm's length that most homemade sword/staff/saber fights are. I would have liked to see some sparks and stuff when the blades hit the ground, and it was weird that the dude just dropped the saber into his pocket at the end. But it was very well done!

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

who will win control of the hot tub factory?
stay tuned for the surprise twist ending!

Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 143

Professor Stevie Freezie wrote:

http://videosift.com/story.php?id=630

In a perfect world these two dudes are the coolest guys in their high school.

Super sweet!

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

This looks long but is actually a pretty quick read and very funny:

http://hedonistica.com/text/starwars_abridged.php

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:42 pm

Here's another good lightsaber battle that takes place in the woods instead of Shop Class:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hot_usecS54

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:00 pm

How come the grass didn't catch on fire?

Also, that abridged III was pretty funny, I seem to remember a site like 8 or so years ago that used to write those abridged scripts for humorous effect. Can't remember what it was called unless it was something obvious like http://www.the-editing-room.com/ (Thanks Google!)

Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 44

How pathetic is this...I'm actually responding...

Watching how powerful Vader becomes between ep. IV and VI is really watching the last remnants of Ye Olde Republic finally disintigrate. The Senate was dissolved offscreen in SW, but the military was still fairly independent, with a highly trained, well educated, and professional officer corps. But that degrades too as Vader personally (in TESB) eliminates those officers that don't see/do things his way. Heaven help us if that happens to our officer corps...

As for that dial thing, I always thought it was a (badly designed) targeting device)

As for the Luke vs Vader vs Emperor scene, I agree that the attempted corruption of Luke was botched in almost every way. For example, it took 10+ years to turn Anakin into Vader, and that still only really happened after a particularly painful series of events (seen as betrayals) compounded by grave physical injury at the hands of a mentor. Not once did they try to paint themselves positively. Not once did they try to convince Luke that his friends were "the bad guys". The only card they tried to play was an offer of power, which was nowhere close to hitting Luke's motivations.

I submit that the Emperor was really just trying to keep Vader. He might have sensed parts of the old Anakin trying to surface, so he played along with Vader's idea in order to manipulate him into confronting and killing his own son. This could both eliminate competition and ensure Vader's loyalty.

However, he was overconfident (and probably treading in uncharted territory) at the end when he attacked Luke. Once Luke "proved" that he could/would not be turned (expected), and it also became clear that Vader was going to lose the battle (unexpected), he should have incapacitated Luke (if necessary), had him taken to a holding cell and arrange for him to die while trying to escape.

Keep in mind, though, that the Star Wars series would never stand up to any serious examination for issues or lessons. It teaches all the wrong ones.

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:50 pm

Matzebrei, turn that penchant for unnecessary analysis and rationalization towards examining the contradictions in Dinosaur Comics canon, and you will truly be a dude (or dudette, replace as appropriate) after my own heart.

EDITED because I cannot spell a name that is right there in front of me for pete's sake!

Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 44

Squidd wrote:

Matzebrei(sp), turn that penchant for unnecessary analysis and rationalization towards examining the contradictions in Dinosaur Comics canon, and you will truly be a dude (or dudette, replace as appropriate) after my own heart.

Hey, there's difficult and then there's impossible. I wouldn't even know where to start with Dinosaur Comics, except maybe looking for subtle differences in the panel artwork over time. Smile

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

Ryan has a very steady drawing hand.

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:27 pm

matzebrei wrote:

Keep in mind, though, that the Star Wars series would never stand up to any serious examination for issues or lessons. It teaches all the wrong ones.

heheh I actually have a huge-normous poster circa-1995 that says "Everything I know in life I learned from watching Star Wars", and it has stuff like "Let the Wookiee win". It's currently sleeping behind a giant-sized version of that "Killroy hunting Poptarts" poster, which normally would be a travesty but I mean come on I made Killroy dudes!

DKL I checked with my friend Jon yesterday and he is adequately monkey balled at this time.