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Star Wars Galaxies - Fact-Checking, Fan Style

Posted by simoniker on from the bantha-droppings dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to this interesting LA Times article regarding Star Wars Galaxies. As well as plenty of background information, the piece talks about how detail-orientated beta testers of the forthcoming Sony-published PC MMORPG are, and includes this choice quotation: "..a German fan was outraged that the cockpit dimensions of an X-wing star fighter varied from those in the movies. Blackman looked into it and found that the game's version was indeed off -- by 6 centimeters."

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  1. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's what they get for having a tape measure in the default inventory. First?

  2. wow 6 whole cm! by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then he's gonna be _really_ pissed when he finds out the Millennium Falcon's size is off in all published Star Wars stuff from that of the movie set by about 40%!

    Still, it IS the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, so allowances should be made. :)

    1. Re:wow 6 whole cm! by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Han Solo brags that he can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time."

      Maybe that's how far he had to travel to find somebody who cared.

    2. Re:wow 6 whole cm! by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

      Look, if you're going to start quoting the classics, at least get your measurements right. As every geek worth his/her/its salt knows, there's no such thing as 140 bwiddlethorms, since the bwiddle- (of course, bwaddthle- in the original Outer C!thornic branch from which all dialects in that quadrant descend) prefix can only refer to quantities in multiples of 90 (90, 180, 270, etc.). Don't get me started on the hideously non-canon 'secron' -- that's like saying the Ascetic Malform was a Xenirrific Frumphf, for Ulp's sake! And you call yourself a geek: zappydonks, I say to you, megalazappydonks!

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      I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
    3. Re:wow 6 whole cm! by rjh · · Score: 3, Funny

      There once was a professor named Fisk
      Who made love with an action so brisk
      The Lorentz Contraction
      Came into action
      And shortened his rod to a disk.

      -- Isaac Asimov

    4. Re:wow 6 whole cm! by willr7 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Shut the frell up, shazbot breath! Fudu you!

      I think you meant to call him bantha poodu.

  3. Ph33r the hardcore star wars geeks by Kethinov · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's next? Wookies don't make the wookie sound right? The pull of gravity is off in comparison to the total mass of the planet they're on? Hyperspeed is measured in incorrect units? Light saber power sources have incorrect yields?

    Sony is messing with the wrong kind of geek here. Unless they get it just right they're not satisfied. Between Star Wars and Star Trek you can't get a more hardcore geek.

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    You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
  4. Train Wreck by limekiller4 · · Score: 1, Funny

    "a German fan was outraged that the cockpit dimensions of an X-wing star fighter varied from those in the movies. Blackman looked into it and found that the game's version was indeed off -- by 6 centimeters."

    [Long, slow whistle, as if passing by a train wreck.]

    [Very, very much like a train wreck, actually...]

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    My .02,
    Limekiller
  5. Coversion Factor by Hal+The+Computer · · Score: 1, Funny

    For those people (read americans) who use evil imperialist mesurements and are too lazy to check the conversion rate:

    2.54 cm = 1 inch
    6.00 cm = 2.36 inches

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    int main(void){int x=01232;while(malloc(x));return x;}
  6. Bobcat Goldthwait said it best... by TrebleJunkie · · Score: 2, Funny

    and includes this choice quotation: "..a German fan was outraged that the cockpit dimensions of an X-wing star fighter varied from those in the movies. Blackman looked into it and found that the game's version was indeed off -- by 6 centimeters."

    As is oft heard on The Bob and Tom Show, Bob (Bobcat) Goldthwait said it best about rabid Star Wars fans:

    "Have any of you nerds ever seen a vagina?! Because if you had, you'd throw that Stormtrooper cookie jar right out the window!!!"

    --

    Ed R.Zahurak

    You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.

  7. Just to be evil... by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blackman looked into it and found that the game's version was indeed off -- by 6 centimeters.

    Just to be evil, they should adjust the cockpit size by only 5 centimeters.

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    "Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."