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Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Ships
TJPile writes "After months and months of beta testing and years of waiting, the Star Wars version of Ever-crack is now shipping. Order your copy today. There are already plans for an expansion pack in 2004 that will feature more character races, worlds, and even the ability to buy, fly, and fight in your own spaceship. The game will set you back $50, come on 3 CDs, require Internet access, and will cost around $10 a month (service subscription fee). Right now it's Windows only." Yep, I'm hoping to play as the Pit of Saarlac: The Ultimate Camper.
You have entered Cantina_1
You are struck by force for 15 points by Da4th_Vad3r_P1mp
You have been slain by Da4th_Vad3r_P1mp
Da4th_Vad3r_P1mp says: kekekeke
Pit_of_sarlac5116: roooaaar *chomp* *chomp* *digest*
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/me watches as productivity around the globe grinds to a screeching halt
And I thought we were in a recession now..
I think I'm going to go to the local EB and pass out some NA cards along with the game... looks like my cigarette vending ice-cream truck business will finally pick up..
I can't wait to see the look on Sony's faces with hoards of new subscribers turn their servers into a steaming pile of goop... *puts tin foil hat on* time to start playing, unibomber status
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
I wonder if the game is logged well enough that Lucas will use it as a source for story ideas.
Hmm, maybe I should patent that idea.
Or maybe I should patent the idea that I thought of that idea.
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If you sit down for drinks with Han Solo ...
Shoot First!
I regret to inform you that I cannot praticipate in this travesty. I will only participate in the merchandising for good movies. Episodes I and II fail to qualify. The tought of you recieving any money for those is too horrible for my participation.
I have tried several[1] MMP games, and I have yet to find one that didn't bore me to death within a couple of days play.
[1] WW2OL, Eve, Jumpgate, Allegiance, Earth&Beyond, etc...
I wonder if they'd accept tk421 ?
I promise to be at my post if they do!
Well if you kept buying and playing new ones, they can't be that boring, can they?
I am alone, yet I also surf the universal backwash of undifferentiated Being, which is LOVE.
Did you ever get this starwars name algorithm in your emailbox?
It's the answer to all your problems.
Of course rules 7 and 9 mean that you'll be condemned to being a petty bougois bystander in the great galactic civil war who amounts to nothing in history. Just like your parents always said you'd be.
Find the name that violates the most clauses:
I'll start with "Porkin's Wedge"
You know, I just mentally pictured a game with all these characters in it... and it was awesome.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
A 24-hour a day, 15,000 person, lightsaber-wielding melee over who gets to buy the Millennium Falcon.
Sounds great.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Drizzt
"Drizzt?!" "Drizzt" is a "Fantasy-oriented name that is easily recognized from popular existing media" in the same class as Gandalf, Pikachu, and Godzilla?
That's an over-the-counter nasal decongestant, that's not a name!
"Drizzt?"
"I AM DRIZZT! Kneel before me, lest I smite you with my +3 Sword of Nasal Membrane Leakage!"
"Drizzt?" "Elric of Melnibone," "Thulsa-Doom," "The Gray Mouser"... now *these* are Fantasy Names! "Drizzt" is a sound-effect. Or, at most, a Silver Age superhero team's cute alien mascot.
Sorry for the rant; guess I'm just feeling a little "old-school" today...
"I killed jarjar many times in beta"
:).
Gotta be worth $50 to kill Jar-Jar many times
It is the Pit of Carkoon!
The Sarlacc is the creature at the bottom of the pit.
What kind of non-Star Wars geek are you anyway?
Go to Mos Eisley Cantina: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Go to Mos Eisley Spaceport: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Go to Toshi Station to pick up some power converters: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Go to Aunt Beru's kitchen for some blue milk: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Hide from stormtroopers in the Millennium Falcon's hidden bay: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Go to appeal to the Imperial Senate for trade rights: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Jump in the X-wing to defeat the Death Star: fly through a trench filled with a mass of people randomly firing blasters to fire proton torpedos.
(Three months later, after everyone becomes a Jedi, replace "firing blasters" with "waving lightsabers")
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Wouldn't 'Clint Eastwood' fall under rule 5's jurisdiction? I'd say 'Clinte Astwood' would be a better candidate for rule 11, myself.
How about Clit Asswood?
I think I'm gonna get this game just to see how many naming rules I can violate.
2. Kids: Military school. Check.
3. Dog: Euthanized. Check.
4. Cats: Who cares? Check.
5. Friends: Gone. Check.
6. Phone: Disconnected. Check.
7. Doorbell: Ditto. Check.
8. Food: $500 worth on Top Ramen in pantry. Check.
9. Breaks: 10 cases of adult diapers. Trash can with lid next to computer. Extra liners. Check, check, check.
10. Power bill, ISP; Paid ahead for the year. Check, check.
11. Job: Hmmm. Reconnect phone. Dial. Ring. "Hi, Dave? It's me. Yeah. Yeah. Listen. I quit. No, no time to explain. Do whatever you want with the crap on my desk. Later." Re-disconnect phone.
Well, that's about it. Time to rip open that CD. Good-bye cruel world and all that. Hmm, I wonder if /. karma erodes due to lack of use. Guess I can check that in a couple of years.
Mycroft Kenobi, Obi-Wan's smarter (and better looking) brother is about to kick the Force's ass!
Quite right. If you want to hunt sandpeople, just join the Marines and get shipped to Iraq. Basic training is going to quicker, less painful and a hell of a lot cheaper than levelling in SWG.
bwahahaha. that was the best commentary ever. my two favorite sub-paragraph (the second being quite accurate as to the mmorpg genre) is "Tycho had talked me into playing my first MMORPG and I told him that if he ever did that again Iâ(TM)d kick him right in his cream and crackers. After an hour or so of hitting spiders with a bat I was ready to write off the entire genre."
Cream and Crackers is without a best euphemism for a man's private area EVER!
Oh yeah, mad props to MAUS
When I heard about the OS X port I nearly cried. When I crossed over to the Mac side, one of the benefits in my eyes was the lack of EQ
I say let them take their time porting SWG over.
This is "the Almighty Sarlacc".
There are other Sarlaccs, but they are less mighty, such as "the Fairly Mighty Sarlacc" and "the Quite Good Sarlacc"
"The Slightly Shitty Sarlacc" was last seen inhabiting the fourteenth hole at "The Golf Course of Carnoustie", digesting golf balls and the fingers of any golfers foolish enough to attempt to retrieve them.
However, in a shock twist the fingers of famed Bounty Hunter Boba Fett escape and go on to enjoy
many adventures in order to cash-in on their bizarre popularity among the fanboys.
Or something.
erroneous: look me up in a dictionary
A spokeslawyer for SonyLucasarts announced a "firing first" lawsuit against the bnetd project. When asked what bnetd had to do with Star Wars, the spokeslawyer replied "You know when all you little pissants were buying your Han Solo and Luke Skywalker figures? I bought forty Greedos. That guy was my hero.". When pressed further he replied "You want some too, Mr 'I had friends at school'? Do you want some?"
The spokeslawyer went on to detail the grounds under which defamation suits would be brought. Prohibited phrases include but are not limited to "Progress Quest with Wookies", "Rogue for GeForce 4" and "So dull it even sends bot clients to sleep".
Grand Moff Lucas could not be reached for comment. Skywalker Ranch has been lost and sustaining damage in an asteroid field since 1997. Observers report that much of the renowned polish on its outer hull has been tarnished, and that only outgoing communications seem to be possible. Garbled transmissions from junior officers indicate that Moff Lucas has become increasingly detatched and disinterested in administrating the Empire directly. They beg for news from the outside world, and are particularly keen to hear how The Jar Jar Project was received.
Dude, it's a Sarlaac.
Think about it. It's basically a big huge cock stuck in the ground. I mean, the boy is hung! The huge Sarlaac cock just travels underground until finding a nice female Sarlaac (coincidentally, stuck in the ground in a big HOLE, so it's not as if she can run away) and just tags that booty from the subterranean angle.
Spores indeed. WTF is the point of living if you can't get some poontang every so often. Being asexual would SUCK!
Although, now that I think about, I'd never have to pay for dinner and a movie again...hmmmm
Spread the RC luvin'
100% agree. Back when SWG was first being marketed (round about when dinosaurs ruled the earth), it was "Jedi Knight but as a MMORPG!". Later that became "Probably not like Jedi Knight" then "We never said it would be like Jedi Knight. It's a Whole New Paradigm, just like Everquest in Space", then "When we said Everquest in Space, we didn't mean it would have Space."
If they were being honest? "Progress Quest with Wookies, only online! You can even watch other wookies running past you as they play Progress Quest on the very same server that you are on!"
Someone needs to explain to them that Massively Multiplayer doesn't just mean multiple players playing on the same server, it means multiple players interacting on the same server.
which one of these buttons calls your mother to come pick you up?
I'd assume you don't really have to worry about that too much anyway. =]
Karma: Dyn-o-mite!(mostly affected by Jimmy Walker reading your comments)
[city] Yo! Wassup ? Where's our bank ? /city /quitin this guild, youse guys are teh suk ! .LETS CAMPTHEIR TOL AND SEE HOW THEY LIKE IT
[city] Hey I just logged on.. what Guild has that Black tower on the red.. ?
[city] Hey - I just got attacked at our TOL
[city] Geez will you guys SHUT UP! We've got a spy in our
[city] Spy ? Is that a new Profession / Disc ?
[city] Hey I just spent 20 mins trying to log in and when I finally get on someone ganked my at our TOL !
[city] LAAAAGGGG
[city] Hey Can someone summon me ? I'm in Safe Mode at TOL after log on, and there's all these guys from BW camping and kiling us.
[city] Hey ! I just logged on and our Bank is GONE !
[city] Who toasted our town?
[city] These town guards SUCK.
[city] Where cna I gte trannin ?
[city] Whose da spy ?
[city] I'm
[city] EVERYONE LISTEN
[city] Stop SHOUTING !
[city] Your teh suk!
[city] No you are
[city] Hey ! Keep this channel clear for War Room.
[city] Yo ! Hey what happened to our Bank? Where's my stuff
[city] STFU. CryMoreN00b
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