I ordered a new laptop yesterday.
It won’t arrive until the end of the month…
I can’t fucking wait to be able to play SWTOR again!
sfdghfj
So far I’ve spent Star Wars day reading Darth Plagueis. I’m about half way through. I’m finding it sort of odd that the focus for much of what I’ve read so far has been on Palpatine. With the exception of the beginning of the book, it sort of feels like the book’s title should have been Darth Sidious.
I wasn’t thrilled to find that Plagueis had decided to do away with much of the violence in exchange for a more political and manipulative method, but the book is holding my interest regardless. The focus, as I said, for a while now, in this book, has been on Sidious’ political movements. I’ve never liked politics.
It looks like I’ll have to go further back in the line to find more interesting players in the Order of the Sith.
Lego Ultimate Collector’s Millenium Falcon
Images by Do-Hyun Kim
(via:itlego)
Super cray
I want this so bad…
30 Day Star Wars Challenge
16. Photo of your Star Wars related things (books, action figures, posters, shirts, etc.)
Whoops, forgot about this again, as usual. So here’s yesterday’s.
Oh man, now I’m really going to get called out…
The thing is.. I don’t really have any Star Wars merch anymore.. I used to have tons of toys and stuff when I was little, but somehow it all disappeared. I actually have an amazon wishlist full of the toys I used to have that I was able to find. I hope to get it all some day when I have a job…
But for now, all I have are a few video games. Rebel Assault 2, Battlefront, The Force Unleashed 1 and 2 and The Old Republic. Though of those I’ve only played the beginning of Rebel Assault and The Old Republic.. Haven’t gotten around to the others yet.
Hell, I don’t even own the movies anymore… I gave them to my step brother back sometime after the third movie came out because I’d lost faith in Star Wars.
But now I’m back and wish I had those movies back…
I have plans to buy up all the books and start a lightsaber collection, though. I also hope to one day own a stormtrooper costume. It’s kind of obligatory, after all.
I also want to somehow build or have made for me a sith holocron with an external hard drive inside. And leds, of course.
Just… need a job first =\
I saw this keyboard a while back.
Then I stumbled across it again just now.
I spoke to myself outloud.
This is what I said:
“It’s 250 dollars, though… I don’t love Star Wars that much.”
Then I made a face, nodded and quietly added
“Yes I do.”
I just wish it was in black… Even with the custom graphics and the red lights, the silver just doesn’t feel very sithy… I know it’s for the best since most people probably play characters on both sides and spending $500 to get one for each side would be even more ridiculous.. But still.
I want this…
30 Day Star Wars Challenge
15. A scene that makes you sad/angry.
Oh boy.. If we drop “angry” to something more like “annoyed” and increase the scope from just the movies to all official Star Wars stuff, I could probably rant for a long time with this one…
One thing that always immediately pops into mind was that giant seismic tank thing in the 2D animated Clone Wars show. It was this giant floating block with a cylinder sticking out of the bottom. The clone troopers and droids are fighting in this large open field, for some reason, and this tank slowly hovers over and then BAM the cylinder shoots down into the ground, crushing everything underneath it and sending out a massive shock wave through the ground. (See the first two pictures above) Like.. what? Seriously? Quite possibly the dumbest thing ever.
With all the technology in the Star Wars universe, they make a giant jackhammer? It’s just ridiculous and impractical.
In fact, that show is responsible for several of the things that bothered me.
Another thing in that show was these droids that showed up and tried to kill, I think it was Barriss Offee and Luminara Unduli. The droids use a cloaking device to become invisible.
You might think “So?”
BUT WAIT! Isn’t it that scene in the original trilogy (I forget which movie specifically) where the Millennium Falcon is trying to get away from the Star Destroyers but the hyper drive doesn’t work so Han gets the idea to latch onto one of the Star Destroyers and then one of the captains or someone is like “They’ve disappeared! But that’s impossible, no ship that size has a cloaking device…”
And then again in the CG Clone Wars series, there’s an episode where Anakin and Ahsoka take this prototype spear-looking ship into battle. It’s still a rather large ship, compared to a car or something, but they make a point about it being the smallest ship ever to have a cloaking device.
For starters, why is it easier to cloak larger objects than smaller ones? But ignoring that, if a ship is too small to cloak, how exactly did they get a cloaking device on those droids that went to assassinate Barriss and Luminara?
And another thing from that 2D Clone Wars series. They had these biker assassin droid jousters… What the fuck? They rode around on speeder bikes and had lances that they ran into you with. Are you kidding me? Talk about bringing a knife to a gun fight, they’re bringing sticks to a blaster fight. I get that lightsabers are futuristic versions of an ancient weapon (sword) but that doesn’t mean it makes sense to just go out and turn every medieval weapon into a future weapon.
Also, when the lances ran into stuff, for some reason it’d explode. Worse still, these assassin biker knights actually did a lot of damage, taking shit out and surviving all these blasters (though we all know how impossible it is for anyone wielding a blaster to hit a target). Anyway, that just bothered me.
Also, I remember something about a weird globule monster guy akin to the null monster thing that was in that old show Reboot, if anyone remembers that show. I don’t remember the details anymore, but I remember that guy bothered me, too.
Moving on to the CG Clone Wars, in one of the recent episodes, Obi Wan has his face modified to look like an assassin and he swallows a vocoder to alter is voice to match the assassin’s voice. Again, what? You can’t just change your face. That’s stupid. If that technology existed, everyone would be using it. All those criminals hanging out on Tatooine? They could change their face and no one would ever know they were the same person.
Later in that same story arc, the criminals use this holo-projector to project a holographic disguise over themselves to make them look like guards. And somehow even after walking away from the projector, the hologram just stayed over them. Despite whatever shape the character was, the hologram perfectly disguised them. You’ve gotta be kidding me, man! That’s ridiculous! Holograms alone are an iffy technology, but to be able to walk away and have the hologram stuck to you? And regardless of what shape your body is, it just magically reshapes your body? No. I reject that technology. Fuck that.
And then this most recent episode. Maul is back. I mean, I knew Maul came back, I’ve seen pictures of him with significantly larger spikes on his head and these dumb-looking robot legs. But what they had in this episode was different. I don’t even like the OTHER half-robot Maul I saw before, but this one had a robot spider body. That’s even dumber. Why would he have a robot spider body! ADSGH And to make matters worse, the villain who was incredibly bad-ass in the first movie was now whining and insane, not even remotely as bad-ass as he was in the movie. And why are his spikes so much bigger?
I don’t even understand how he’s still alive. His vital organs should have spilled out and he should have died almost immediately. But even if that didn’t kill him, he fell hundreds of feet, who even knows how far. How could he have survived that fall? And beyond that, who the fuck saved him? Who was just standing around waiting for half a sith to fall from the sky so that they could resuscitate them? He certainly didn’t drag himself to safety and construct a spider body to attach his torso to. I heard something about that nightsister saving him, but how the hell was that nightsister on Naboo? And how did she just happen to be in the area to save him or even know someone needed to be saved? The sith certainly didn’t know or care, or at least Dooku clearly didn’t know.
This post is really long, so I’ll end it here, but there is a whole discussion about the force and the obsolescence of lightsabers that I plan to type up one of these days. I feel like I actually already wrote about it somewhere, but I don’t know where..
Anyway, beyond all of this, there is of course Jar Jar. Nothing needs to be said beyond that.
