WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

Speaking of lightsaber nonsense, how on earth is Luke able to use his father's light saber like immediately?

I mean, they build their own lighsabers because they put in unique activation mechanisms - some of them even requiring the use of the force on inner mechanisms. They do this so a force using enemy can't just BAM depower their saber right before a critical blow and ALSO so no ordinary schmuck can use one.

So, Luke using anakin's lightsaber without a hitch makes no sense unless Anakin was the most lazy combat-focused Jedi ever.

Speaking of which - why, after the Jedi were wiped, out did lightsabers not come into more common use? The crystals can be synthesized, and these things are like almost invincible weapons - I imagine at least every gang leader from the core to the rim would want to have one built - or found one on the black market and modded it.

author=alterego
lol, this is so alien to me. Who does that? Who is so gullible and so easily influenciable that being told a coat is for one profession or another changes the way they approach things? Do people think fabric grant them special powers or something? ...Also I've never experienced the whole playing a game differently depending on how your character dresses/looks. It's a purely an aesthetic choice to me. But I can sort of understand that a bit more. After all, some people really get invested in their games.

They're onto something there, whether you'd like to admit it or not. It's all in how you perceive yourself and less in how you actually look. If you're clean, you tend to feel better about yourself. If someone told you that a certain piece of clothing was worn by a famous celebrity, you'd better believe people will be lining up at the door to look at/touch/purchase said clothing because of its association to "greatness".

author=alterego
On the bikini-armor thing. It's videogames. Things don't have to make sense.

This is a ridiculously lazy way to approach the topic.

author=Liberty
I wonder how that differs between genders, though. I was reading a topic a while back about how men and women view interaction in MMOs and it showed that women were more leery of sharing information with the other people online but also cared less about what gender the other players were and thus were more likely to treat confirmed male and female players the same (in general, of course. there's always exceptions).

Now, this video is from a male's point of view and hearing him talk about how he'd choose a burly man tank with the same stats over the woman wearing a cloak, I was like "Woman pls" because there's something about a smaller character beating down hulking brutes that tends to appeal to a lot of people, too. It's not just 'this person makes sense to be strong tank because muscles and male' - I know plenty of women who are small and have put big men on their asses and thus it's more likely that I wouldn't automatically pick the big hulking dude to play tanker.

That said, the idea that 'clothes maketh the man' is an interesting one and not one I've heard of much in game dev bar the usual 'this doesn't make sense for a character like x to wear'. The way it affects the way a player plays a game is an interesting concept that we should probably make a topic about to explore because it's such an interesting idea.

Also, the gender differences, too, might play a part. Women have had to get used to expecting female characters to usually be wearing those chainmail bikinis, and thus possibly experience a disconnect from character-playing to player-playing. That is, we're expected to have our female characters do anything in illogical clothing choices so I'd imagine that tying RP to different clothing choices wouldn't really work so much in that aspect since we're already ignoring said choices for our characters. If that makes sense?

I'm tying words together to distract myself from brother yapping at me over some bullshit about batteries or something. >.<;

I'm pretty sure the point wasn't "look at this big dude and this little chick. I'm gonna play the big dude.", more "if I'm a runt but armored like a tank, I'm going to be more brave and/or careless because I'm armored and tough looking." I'm trying not to make this about men vs. women because that's how we got in this whole mess in the first place ("mess" being an extremely heavy word in this context that one cannot reasonably understate), but simply arguing the points provided. Sure there's a history that can be fallen back on ("it's always been this way for women" or "video games are video games"), but that's feeling more and more like an easy way out the deeper this goes.

I'm trying to bridge the gap in my head without resorting to feelgood, idealistic statements like "progress" and "change". I want to think we're not intentionally driving this divide between the feminazis and the dudebros.

OT 4 lyfe

Weren't lightsabers considered obsolete weapons by the masses during the time Ep 4 was set in?

I don't know that they were considered obsolete, but only a Force user could build them and only a Force user could synthesize the crystals (the kyhber crystals were basically concentrations of the Force so to synthesize one would require a Force user).

Oh, the space wizard making plasma bombs make a 90 degree turn wasn't the only thing that didn't make sense. The most wanted freaking man in the history of the fucking universe hides out the home planet of the ruler of the galaxy's right hand man, hides ruler of the galaxy's right hand man's son walking distance away and then doesn't even bother to change either of their names!

If we're going to suspend disbelief entirely, the one thing that always comes to my mind about the Death Star attack is: Why didn't they fly straight at the exhaust port? Was there a specific reason to be insane and fly through the trench for a half hour and then angle the shots into the port?

I mean, a reason besides "it makes the movie more enjoyable". (Which I am fine with, in a movie about space wizards and planet destroying moons)

author=Pizza
If we're going to suspend disbelief entirely, the one thing that always comes to my mind about the Death Star attack is: Why didn't they fly straight at the exhaust port? Was there a specific reason to be insane and fly through the trench for a half hour and then angle the shots into the port?

I mean, a reason besides "it makes the movie more enjoyable". (Which I am fine with, in a movie about space wizards and planet destroying moons)

Yes, actually - it kept them out of range of the best guns.

how does one change their user name?
suddenly i realized that the original purpose of the name is completely irrelevant now. and so i have no more application for it.
and i could change it to, well, anything but. how refreshing and how lucky am i?


anyone have some suggestions? really, my name could be anything but has to be either andro and kinda fem. not jon, not tom either. jasons a dumb name too.

anyawys i will take all suggestions (if any) into consideration. some may even influence the final outcome.
you too, can be a part of my strange 'internet history' for what ever that is worth. i'm having a hard time thinking of anything but if i think for lng enough something may come.

idk i was thinking maybe somthing more bubbly and cheerful maybe idk.
the idea is to be another form of delusional now.
like it's naruto or someshit for example

Rayman. And then you can wear a rayman set.
I can't imagine a more bubbly name.