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I'm guessing their going to step on Microsoft's toes. The evil of all evils has managed to keep intact for pretty long. The judicial system isn't even close. How bad could SCO be?

In the end, I believe Microsoft will attack SCO with its army of clone lawyers, which will give the emperor Gates total power over the law...

Wait a minute, the future has already been told!

No, but seriously though, SCo's probably just trying to get bought out by a big company, to ensure its future against linux

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Then you are taking part in the conflict...
Only in the most superficial of ways. As you've said yourself, the Rebellion against the Empire is limited to "Overt Rebels being attacked by Covert and Overt Imperials and vice versa".

AFAIK, there's no reason to be taking part in the conflict. The Rebels can't liberate worlds from the Empire, and (in return) the Imperials can't wipe the Rebellion off of a planet.
Without achievable objectives, the conflict is pointless. It's like getting experience even though you'll never be able to level/get better, or mining something you can't use or sell, or crafting equipment that doesn't even serve a decorative purpose. Or like dancing/playing music in a cantina on a server where no one but you can log in.

For the most part, the war didn't affect every single person and many never took a side. Most of this is elaborated in the Expanded Universe.
I guess we've been reading different E.U. books. The Empire affected the vast majority of the galaxy, all the way to the Outer Rim. The SoroSub company of Sullust overthrew their government to forge a corporate agreement with the Empire - which proceeded to oppress the Sullustians into obscurity. Due to the animosity between the Quarren and Mon Calamri (who live together on the same ocean planet), a Quarren lowers the shield generator allowing the Empire to enslave both races.
Kashyyyk (the wookiee homeworld) is blockaded and most of the wookiees are enslaved.

The list goes on and on... it's not just one race, it's not just one sector of the galaxy. The Empire subjugated the vast majority of people, and nearly everyone lived under the iron thumb of the Emperor.

In the movies, we find out that Stormtroopers are willing to attack and kill Jawas - and then cover it up to make it look like Sand People - not to mention humans like Owen and Beru Lars. The figurehead of the Empire shows that he is willing to kill his own officers for the slightest infraction. It is heavily implied that Leia is tortured by Vader to learn the location of the Rebel base. Grand Moff Tarkin ordered the destruction of Alderaan, a planet full of pacifists. The leader of Cloud City (Lando) is threatened, and finally Cloud City is sized in the attempt to get four people and two droids. C3-P0 is destroyed for learning that there are Stormtroopers on Cloud City. Han Solo is tortured without being told why. He is then frozen in carbonite as a test to see if it will harm Luke, and finally he is given to a bounty hunter to deliver to a crime lord!

I think the people of Alderaan (for one) would disagree that life behind the curtain of war was pretty safe.

I don't see issues with people existing in Star Wars and not taking part in the conflict, nor should you.
Please refrain from telling me what to think. Thank you.

Your sarcasm is unneeded, and is misplaced. The vast majority of the films are centered around the conflict between the Empire and Rebellion... that is to say, battle scenes - evading the Stormtroopers while trying to get R2-D2 to Leia, fleeing the Death Star, the defense of Yavin IV, the defense of Hoth Base, Han & crew fleeing an ISD in an astroid field, Han & crew being double-crossed at Cloud City, Luke facing Vader, Lando double-crossing the Imperials, the Rebel attack on the second Death Star / the bunker housing the shield generator on Endor / Luke facing Vader for the second time.

It's a story about conflict. Here, I find the lack of conflict to be disturbing.

Quit being so unrealistic... Sure, the Empire was Evil and the Rebellion was Good... Both were also Lawful, which meant they couldn't run about willy-nilly killing everyone and everthing all the time.
I'm pretty sure my examples provide a good argument on how the Empire (as a whole) was NOT Lawful. Unless, that is, it's lawful to slaughter jawas, moistu

And you'd be happy with the game if you had to play a human to join the Empire? Well, you're in a tiny minority then.
Would you like to be a Jedi? I'm sure the vast majority of players would rather have had the option of creating a Jedi character at startup, but V.I. elected to make it a "hidden" class.

It would have made the majority happy had they allowed it. But they didn't. Why? Supposedly, because it didn't fit in with the Star Wars mythos. Compare that with the decision to nerf the Empire into an equal-opportunity dictatorship, and tell me what that says to you.

It says to me, "well, we want as many people playing as possible, so lets F* the canon wherever we want. But, we also need a hook to keep playing playing - ah, Jedi, perfect!"

One thing people have complained bitterly about in EQ is the class/race restrictions. "But I want to be a Troll bard! Is that so wrong?"
That's because, at first, EQ stuck to Brad's "Vision". You'll note that the longer EQ has gone on, the more "restrictions" similar to that they've dropped. "Hybrids" no longer have an experience penalty. "Hell levels" went away. Casters don't have to stare at their spellbook to meditate. Why? They've needed some way to keep people around. They sacrificed integrity to keep players around (hello? Legends? "Upper-class EQ" should be the server's name).

Preventing non-humans from joining the Empire is *not* at all similar to preventing Wookiees from being Brawlers. And since the game is not centered around Player Conflict (/rude), it really doesn't matter what the masses want - it's still breaking the "laws" of the Star Wars universe, and makes this game a pale immitation of what it could have been.

And Wookiees were practically the most requested playable race when they were planning the game. I'm sorry it's not cannon, but see above about restrictions. It's still a *game* that people want to have fun playing.
So V.I., again, bent to the pressures of the player community and ignored Star Wars canon? This doesn't surprise me. I wanted to play a Wookiee, too. Your entire argument, so far, has been "screw whatever Star Wars says is right, and make it so you sell as many copies as possible".

While we're at it, let's give everyone "cheat codes" so they can become invulnerable! I bet that would be a highly requested feature! Or maybe infinite gold! Or XP at the touch of a button! People would *LOVE* that? I'm sorry, but the "it's a game" argument doesn't cut it when we're talking about something based around an already well-developed world with PRE-DEFINED rules.

Oh, in case you want to brush up on your wookiee info, "Despite their proven intelligence, Wookiees were enslaved by the Empire and exploited for their brute strength. Their homeworld was blockaded, and a free Wookiee was a rare sight in the galaxy."

OH, I'm sorry, it's just part of the Star Wars galaxy! V.I. doesn't have to follow it, because SWG is just a *game*. If you haven't guessed, that's sarcasm. But, hey, as long as V.I. doesn't claim that it takes place in the STAR WARS UNIVERSE, I guess it's not false advertisement.

Actually, hacking is one of the basic skills for the Smuggler class. It's called Slicing.
Yup, it was tacked on in the middle of Beta 3 and was never really explored. You'd know this if you tried testing it, because their trainers were broken right up until near the end - so it's largely untested, and not useful at all. The only current "practical" application of slicing is "opening locked doors" - feel free to tell me if you ever come across one.

V.I. stated that Smugglers "will not be more fully developed until the Space Expansion" - in a nutshell, it's pretty useless and untested.

You can always defend yourself. You can't always attack someone.
So if some loser comes up and attacks my camp of falumpasets, I can shoot

After watching "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones", I am disgusted at the amount of shameful homosexuality present in the film. Not since the 50s have Godly Christian viewers been subjected to such hedonistic filth. Consider, for example, Anakin (effeminately nicknamed 'Annie'), the precursor to Darth Vader. Played by "wanna-be" pretty-boy actress Natalie Portman, Anakin lusts after the slutty Queen Naboo, engaging in filthy acts of oral copulation next to a fireplace (obviously symbolising the fires of Hell in which they will surely roast to death after their final judgement). But wait, fellow Christians, there is more! A grizzly-green munchkin by the name of Yodo engages in an inter-species affair with the burly jedi Mace Windu, so vile and contemptible it would sure make the residents of Sodom and Gomorah blush! If that is not enough to upset your pure and innocent mind, harken that a flooded world is visited in which giant, walking tampons amass a huge army, an obvious insult to the original giant tampon, Noah, and his army of Beasts.

I hope these revelations allow you to make a just and informed decision in choosing movies Our Lord won't send you to Hell for watching.

Rosebud...

The villan from this one will be Interpol, tracking Indiana down for 20 years worth of smuggling national treasures to sell to museums. High adventure ensues in U.S. Extradition Court, as Indy faces his greatest nemesis, Warren "Eyepatch" Fineburg, a ruthless UN junior legal secretary with a jaunty BLACK fedora and a bullwhip-like fountain pen. Indy's only hopes for exoneration lies in a ragtag legal team consisting of a whiny showgirl, an ex-Russian general turned Hindu monk, and a sassy orangutan lawyer. Indy will need all his skill and luck to survive the climactic out-of-court settlement on the ledge of the courthouse clock tower!


I trusted my heart to you once Lucas, and you let me down. I'll approach this with appropriate levels of guarded enthusiasm.

Wynter

Actually, it's the "Pit of Carcoon" the Sarlacc creature lives inside it. I think the idea may have come from a creature called an "antlion" but just added tentacles for fun.

Strangely it seems, the spelling of "Carcoon" has at some time in the past 20 years (1983!?) been changed to "Carkoon" (check google). I know this happens from time to time in the starwars universe...

you can get more info about the Sarlacc here:starwars.com

The name is The Sarlacc in the Great Pit of Carkoon.

official lore here

I suppose that there would be other Sarlaccs in less famous pits, if you don't manage to camp Carkoon, which is like the beverley hills of pits.

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

SCO ... is just trying to sue (part of) what drove them out of business!

This is not the same SCO. What we're dealing with now, is relates directly to the story line of Star Wars which I'll outline here for you.

Darl Mcbride has been possessed by some evil force and in a plot to take over the universe, have launched a lawsuit headed by David Boies against IBM who seems to so far be the strongest ally Linux has at this point. It is thus far unclear what role Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, or Richard Stalman will play. It is also unclear who will play Luke, or the chick

Ah, here is a link

How can "The Gardening Channel" and the like "ruin a population"? Oh, they won't watch that. Last nite I watched "Star Wars - Attack of the Clones", and today I don't feel like jumping around like Yoda did and holding off falling bolders, chunks of ceiling, etc. with my Jedi powers.
Seriously, though, I can see where the Bhutans would be effected if they watched "The Sopranos" have an executive card game.
Now I know where all the jackasses at work get their language.

There are many games set in fictional countries and even fictional universes, but somehow the signs are written in perfect English. I don't ask the developers to adopt an actual language, be it Russian (although that would be nice), Ukrainian, Serbian, Mongolian or any other, but making the signs at least readable to anyone familiar with Cyrillic would be nice. Even people whose native language is based on latin alphabet, would probably be happy to invest a little time to learn a few extra letters if they are going to spend 50+ hours playing the game.

The developers decided to use meaningless babble-speak a la The Sims, but I doubt that they made it sound like some sort of Geonosian.

In any case, I am sure that the problem is deeper than the wish of developers to create a fictional country. Here is just one example of many.

Film: The Bourne's Identity, Time: 0:17:10 (in Swiss bank)

The Russian international passport shown in this scene is issued for Foma Kinaev. Everything looks authentic enough, except that the name in Cyrillic sounds more like Lsh'f Lshtshfum. But it's written in those cryptic Cyrillic letters (note, how the filmmakers favoured the letters which aren't also in English alphabet) and so probably no viewer will understand it. For some reason, Brazilian passport is done correctly, as well as the rest of them.

Honestly, I cannot find any reason behind this other than simple ignorance or outright idiocy (if Bourne's Identity makers got a Russian passport, they must have had someone who also knows how to spell a Russian name).

Is this how we progress to the Ultimate Soldiers of the future?
The resemblance of the helmets is quite striking.

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I mean if he can't hire real actors for his crap films anymore it makes sense that he will have to make virtual actors himself.

I mean if he can't hire real actors for his crap films anymore it makes sense that he will have to make virtual actors himself.

Where have you been all this time?

Watch the documentary. It's also available on DVD.

An ever-increasing number of archival projects from other studios are also readying the THX team for a time when Lucas will be available to focus on releasing the classic trilogy on DVD. "We have an advantage that some very great work was done by Rick McCallum and his group back in '97. So we have restored films and we have a lot of work that was put in that first step with the restoration job back then," says Dean.

"I've certainly heard that there's a lot of material that has been in the archives that never has come out. I imagine it will be a very, very long, tedious process to make it work," he speculates. "Frankly, that's why DVD is just not something that you jump into. There is a lot of planning behind that."

When will the classic trilogy come out on DVD?
The films of the classic trilogy will eventually come out on DVD, but it won't be this year.

An ever-increasing number of archival projects from other studios are also readying the THX team for a time when Lucas will be available to focus on releasing the classic trilogy on DVD. "We have an advantage that some very great work was done by Rick McCallum and his group back in '97. So we have restored films and we have a lot of work that was put in that first step with the restoration job back then," says Dean.

"I've certainly heard that there's a lot of material that has been in the archives that never has come out. I imagine it will be a very, very long, tedious process to make it work," he speculates. "Frankly, that's why DVD is just not something that you jump into. There is a lot of planning behind that."

When will the classic trilogy come out on DVD?
The films of the classic trilogy will eventually come out on DVD, but it won't be this year.

An ever-increasing number of archival projects from other studios are also readying the THX team for a time when Lucas will be available to focus on releasing the classic trilogy on DVD. "We have an advantage that some very great work was done by Rick McCallum and his group back in '97. So we have restored films and we have a lot of work that was put in that first step with the restoration job back then," says Dean.

"I've certainly heard that there's a lot of material that has been in the archives that never has come out. I imagine it will be a very, very long, tedious process to make it work," he speculates. "Frankly, that's why DVD is just not something that you jump into. There is a lot of planning behind that."

When will the classic trilogy come out on DVD?
The films of the classic trilogy will eventually come out on DVD, but it won't be this year.

Grand Moff Tarkin was the Imperial governor of the Outland Regions, and the mastermind of the Death Star project

Neither IG-88 nor the droid army in Episode I would qualify due to breaking Asimov's "laws" (which I think are bullcrap...WHY wouldn't you use troops that kill without hesitation, follow orders without question, don't need to be fed or paid, easier to transport, etc.).

http://www.starwars.com/databank/droid/c3po/index. html

C-3PO (See-Threepio) is NOT in Episode III. (it's the only episode that is not grayed out).

(then again, they might not have had time to gray it out yet).

Look at how StarWars.com politely phrases it "Classic Characters Return" and "Several familiar names return to the Star Wars galaxy." Now, with that information, you don't have any idea who returns. There are many "classic characters" so nothing is given away. People that want more specific information can continue reading.

Now, look at how Slashdot does it... "The Return of Chewbacca." They couldn't have said it much more directly than that. The mystery is totally gone, even if I didn't want to know.

Also, look at Padme's Body. Not related to the rest of the comment, but still worth looking at.

I always thought Boba was the son of Jango, not Jenga.

I don't know the answer to your question, but I *do* know that the beloved Chewbacca will be back in Episode III!

> Rumor is that it was cancelled by the Wachowski brothers in hopes of coming out with a Super Collectors Special Edition later."

rather than trying to milk us for both the Special Edition and then (surprise!) the Super Collectors Special Edition.
The theater release schedule is terrific as well.

The Wachowski brothers are going to have a huge and satisfied fan base simply by doing the opposite of whatever this guy has done.

It was either that or an ewok joke. ;-)

i thought i chose the lesser of two evils ;-P

You can read a small 45 minute novella in large yellow print on a starfield background scrolling away from you in 2005.

In the meantime, check out starwars.com's cool 404 error page here.

The character designs look TERRIBLE. :(

Apparently, they got the Samurai Jack / Dexter's Laboratory guy to do the shorts. Who the hell made that decision? His goofy style is totally inappropriate, imo. I'll watch them, but I'm not too optimistic.

If they had to pick someone totally out of left field, they should have gotten the Sealab 2021 guys to do it. :D

I found a website here which has specifications for a space vehicle with dual ion engines and solar arrays to power them. This one is manned, too.

I think he meant "Ewok".

Wearing an Ewok is simple: Fry it with a laser, make clothes of the fur.

...does that mean that this will come down in price so i can freaking afford it?!??

Huh? That thing looks a little like the Gungan Bongo from Episode I. Hopefully, the flying sub doesn't come standard with an annoying muppet.

Ahh yes, the I remeber that well. My first run-in with "child safety". I remember opening the package and reading the notice about it not being able to fire. I also remember not giving a crap because i was the only kid in my school w/ the figure =) Anywho.. here's the scoop

When I was a kid I had the original Bossk. Untouched, well maintained. I had no idea who he was. I thought he was that alien dude in that one Dennis Quaid sci-fi flick. Well anyhooo, one terrible night while my baby brother was having a jolly time, he ... gasp ... snapped his head right off. Bossk! 2 peices. I saw it happen. Snap, crackle, pop like a some bad commercial. I could only watch for the words would not come out. It was a cold dark childhood ...

But hey! Now I had something to put in the droid spot on my Y-wing fighter. Bombs away!

can touch Hammerhead.. he rules too much to believe.

My buddy had an AT-AT ( link 1,
link 2,
link 3,
link 4 )and we massacred that thing.. took the head apart so we could get at the electronics and mess with 'em.. we were about 8.. it always kind of walked funny after that..

Here's some posts as to why AT-AT's are 'retarded'.

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Quite Clearly, on such a planet, any life there would have twin head tentacles. The Japanese would love it. (If you don't get it, don't bother looking it up)

Star Wars was a mistake. George Lucas himself admitted that, before releasing the "improved" SW with 'bonus footage.' The guy never meant it to be as good as it was, and he obviously intends never to repeat it.

A few things I didn't like: CG everything
Jarjar
George Lucas

Star Wars was a mistake. George Lucas himself admitted that, before releasing the "improved" SW with 'bonus footage.' The guy never meant it to be as good as it was, and he obviously intends never to repeat it.

A few things I didn't like: CG everything
Jarjar
George Lucas