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Though, I've gotta admit ... Star Wars has gotten kind of repetitive - it seems like every time they need a major, long term bad guy, they turn to some previously hidden Sith faction ... and it's a surprise every damned time , and then Republic constantly demilitarizes and disarms the Jedi and forg...

If Disney paid $4 Billion and didn't make more movies then their shareholders would probably have a decent case for a lawsuit Probably true ... even though with or without new movies Star Wars makes fucktons. Granted, a new trilogy is almost bound to make even more, assuming that it's not horribly ...

The USA isn't going to start playing cricket, at least, not on a meaningful scale. We've got baseball and softball. Though schools tend to do men's baseball and women's softball.

The Star Wars EU is a mixed bag - there's plenty of good stuff, and there's a fair amount of stuff that's merely passable, but there's also a lot of stuff that deserves the crap it gets. That's a side effect of having been around for so long and there having been so much stuff created in it (drunk t...

I meant "new" movies; Lucas has been talking about the third trilogy for decades. For some reason, I want to say that Lucas's third trilogy would have been an extension of the existing movies/connected fairly closely to pre-existing lore. I gather that the word on the Disney-backed trilogy is that ...

Well, Episodes 1-3 lowered the bar, so to speak, for the next trilogy.

2015, 2017, and 2019 are the theoretical releases.

junk: which is why jedi really have no business on a battlefield, spec ops or even fighter craft sure but not as infantry on a battlefield. That is what really annoyed me (among 1000 other things) in episode 2, when they wasted all those jedi in that bowl. I think some of that could be attributed t...

Part of the (relative) rarity of twin suns in comparison to multiple moons is probably because it's a lot easier to figure out or guesstimate (for the author) what multiple moons would do (funky tides, etc) than it is to figure out what multiple suns would do ... unless you're orbiting both stars, ...

You're probably right, javcs, but it'd still be a fun idea. The Times of Light and Darkness, underground cities, all that cheesy stuff. Mmm... Oh, most definitely. It'd certainly be fun ... the problem would be making the indigenous life fit in with the multiple sun-aspect, and not doing something ...

For a planet around either star, the secondary star would provide significant illumination, so there would be two "day" periods that would overlap to varying degrees during the year. "Night" would only occur during the parts of the year when the planet was on the opposite side of both stars. Then t...

fredgiblet wrote:He didn't get that detailed, but IIRC it was in a response to the idea of putting disassembler nanites into mass driver rounds, which IS a bit more far-fetched than skin stitching nanites

Or many other specific tasking medical purpose nanites.

I'd've thought they'd put a number on it rather than a letter - ie, if our sun is Sol, Mercury is Sol 1 or Sol I, Venus Sol 2 or Sol II, Terra Sol 3/Sol III, Mars Sol 4/Sol IV, etc. - so this would be Alpha Centauri B.I/Alpha Centauri B.1, with the letter indicating subsystem/star for multi-star sys...

The game mechanics don't really need to match up with reality well, especially since a lot of the time, there's things like energy shields and superadvanced armors. The internal game mechanics are one thing ... it's when they start issuing 'real world' specifications for things that it gets really s...

UNSC weapons are, for the most part, utter crap compared to modern weapons. They mass more, have weaker rounds, shorter effective range, etc. than their modern equivalents. For example ... the UNSC turreted weapons ... IIRC, they're a .30 caliber chain gun. With an effective range of 30m, according ...

javcs: actually ANY warp capable ship that can crank it up to warp two and cargo bays that can open would win the outsider war in a matter of weeks(after a little refitting to add weapons to the slow ass cargo ship), FTL capable inside a gravity well? game over, it's just pure win the other side ju...

well, my problem with it is that the galaxy class were never truly exploration vehicles, they were effing battleships/dreadnoughts with a secondary role as diplomatic/science vessels(even if the federation insists on saying that backwards) characteristics of a 'exploration vessel' should be quite s...

Godsdammit.
They're getting in again.

The right-handshake symbolism is that most people are right handed, thus, when shaking with the right hand (or clasping right forearms), and doing an embrace, the symbolism was that you were acting in peace, and could not stab the other guy in the back. This is related to why lefties were viewed wit...

So, we just received another volley of spam.
Reported it of course, but really ... I have to wonder what changed.

Definitely in favor of a person-only filter, the identifying a character image is usually a solid way to thin out the herd, if it's feasible to implement.

A part of me says "HELL YES," but another part says "BUT THAT COULD TAKE AWAY FROM THE COMIC". A Song of Ice and Fire. I would be willing to put a buck down that the next book won't come out until the TV show reaches it. I wouldn't be surprised if the next book is actually the novelization of the T...