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Tumblr Star Wars nerd thread talking about the ending of 'Rogue One' leading into 'A New Hope' :)


Star Wars fans are insufferable at the lengths they're willing to try and defend just bad movie making. That ending was the cherry on top of just how much Rogue One shits all over the original movies. It treats viewers as idiots because, as that points out, he just went scorched earth, literally. So he's evil enough to blow up a whole goddamn planet to try and keep the plans from escaping but not a single ship? What sense does that make? It doesn't. Further, did they even watch the original? Vader says they took the ship because they intercepted a transmission, so it literally doesn't make sense unless Vader is an even bigger goddamned moron (which uh, doesn't make him more badass), who also calmed down enough after he literally just like force killed dozens of people (and blew up a goddamn planet) that he didn't just force choke Leia. Its not like he needs her for any reason. He could just kill her and pinned the entire thing on her and the rebels. "Princess Leia was killed after she as part of a Rebel fleet attacked a Galactic Empire outpost, with it being destroyed in the process." They would have proof that her ship was there so its not like even if they kept her alive she could play dumb if she had been apprehended just minutes after having left that planet. Its just stupid every which way and turns it into a Turmp level farce that only makes sense if you ignore basically every aspect of what would be needed for it to have happened that way.

This is up there with the stupid one posted about how some group got around lightsabers by shooting bullets. Because apparently laser swords that can cut through every other metal can't just vaporize bullets? Plus uh, JEDI can stop and move stuff with their mind, they should be able to just Neo bullet stop them. Star Wars fans think themselves far more clever than they are.
 

sactoking

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Why is Leia a princess? It doesn't make much sense for the daughter of a member of the Senate from Alderaan to have that title.
 

zinfamous

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In my town, it was the A and S that were out, so it was Arby's ROT BEEF. I always asked myself which would be worse, this in your image or what we grew up with.

I don't think there is an answer to this question.


Funny thing, this very same sign in your photo was the big 'ol hat sign that we had, and my fair city passed some "egregiously tall sign" ordinance maybe in 1992ish. Which meant that, within 2 or whatever years, business signs couldn't be more than x feet or yards above ground level, to their top.

That very same Arby's was the only one granted special dispensation to keep their hat sign, because it was considered like, local/national/cultural significant, ...seriously. for whatever reason. They still brought it to the ground, so it now crested about the building height, instead of where it once started well above it. Every other business was forced to replace their signs with something more "tolerable and Dutch," as we see everywhere today, within 200 feet of every Panera and, therefore, where you live.

...

but they never restored the A and S lights. Just kept it as it was. For years.

Then it got bulldozed.

I always remind myself that this carbon-copy Arby's, built c. 1976 or whatever, was considered enough of a "cultural value" to bypass local nuisance laws in my po-dunk town back when Pearl Jam and Nirvana still managed to rule the college radio. Which was weird.

This is Raleigh, NC. They still want to be fancy, to this day. pssht.
 

IronWing

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Why is Leia a princess? It doesn't make much sense for the daughter of a member of the Senate from Alderaan to have that title.
The so called rebels are old regime dead enders, a hereditary aristocracy protected by a weirdo sword cult. They oppose the meritocracy of the new administration. We are supposed to root for them because of reasons.
 
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zinfamous

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Why is Leia a princess? It doesn't make much sense for the daughter of a member of the Senate from Alderaan to have that title.

Eh?

I mean, I hate the prequals but it's pretty clear: she's the actual daughter of the last monarch of her dynastic Alderran, her adoptive father being that Senator, for reasons of Galaxy-wide security.

and enough people know who she is, particularly that dude that knew her from pre-birth to birth to life-mission-to-protect-and make-important: Obi-Wan, to understand that she is literally a fucking princess. Of a fucking Planet.

dude. dont' bring these weak Seinfeld jokes where the punchline just dies at the premise!
 

zinfamous

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The so called rebels are old regime dead enders, a hereditary aristocracy protected by a weirdo sword cult. They oppose the meritocracy of the new administration. We are supposed to root for them because of reasons.

I mean, that's another reason, but also true.

Fucking rebel scum. Fucking smell like burritos and patchouli all the fucking time.
 

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I have two other friends in my lifetime that are also Barf enthusiasts. It is somewhat disappointing to me that he never received the public recognition comparable to his peers of his time: say Ernest or, of course Pee Wee, ....whatever that guy's name was. RIP (probably) .../sigh.
 
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Desperate and/or crazy humans are not to be trifled with, it's true.

well, Tigers are still swimmers. The serious tigers are...that is some seriously unique shit among panthers.

Think about it: No other big cat has that adaption, no other big cat has that range, and no other big cat is as single-hunter-bad-ass as a serious fucking Tiger. Seriously, it's no contest

no fucking way.

so yeah, now you think about it: These are the only fucking cats that survived swimming across great land islands into new seasonal feeding and breeding grounds, year on year, for millions of years. And they made it doing that. All the other shitty big cats got fucked up trying to make that annual migration, so indeed: what the hell was eating them in the water, that no longer exists?

....or it does. And only the very few remaining Tigers keep those very few swamp creatures at bay, and from devouring the planet. What indeed...
 

zinfamous

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Star Wars fans are insufferable at the lengths they're willing to try and defend just bad movie making. That ending was the cherry on top of just how much Rogue One shits all over the original movies. It treats viewers as idiots because, as that points out, he just went scorched earth, literally. So he's evil enough to blow up a whole goddamn planet to try and keep the plans from escaping but not a single ship? What sense does that make? It doesn't. Further, did they even watch the original? Vader says they took the ship because they intercepted a transmission, so it literally doesn't make sense unless Vader is an even bigger goddamned moron (which uh, doesn't make him more badass), who also calmed down enough after he literally just like force killed dozens of people (and blew up a goddamn planet) that he didn't just force choke Leia. Its not like he needs her for any reason. He could just kill her and pinned the entire thing on her and the rebels. "Princess Leia was killed after she as part of a Rebel fleet attacked a Galactic Empire outpost, with it being destroyed in the process." They would have proof that her ship was there so its not like even if they kept her alive she could play dumb if she had been apprehended just minutes after having left that planet. Its just stupid every which way and turns it into a Turmp level farce that only makes sense if you ignore basically every aspect of what would be needed for it to have happened that way.

This is up there with the stupid one posted about how some group got around lightsabers by shooting bullets. Because apparently laser swords that can cut through every other metal can't just vaporize bullets? Plus uh, JEDI can stop and move stuff with their mind, they should be able to just Neo bullet stop them. Star Wars fans think themselves far more clever than they are.

well, you're not entirely wrong; but you can also go fuck your mother for being so stupid.
 
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sactoking

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Eh?

I mean, I hate the prequals but it's pretty clear: she's the actual daughter of the last monarch of her dynastic Alderran, her adoptive father being that Senator, for reasons of Galaxy-wide security.

and enough people know who she is, particularly that dude that knew her from pre-birth to birth to life-mission-to-protect-and make-important: Obi-Wan, to understand that she is literally a fucking princess. Of a fucking Planet.

dude. dont' bring these weak Seinfeld jokes where the punchline just dies at the premise!
She's the actual daughter of the Senator from Naboo.

Queen of Naboo was also an elected position. Amidala aged out between Phantom Menace and Clones. She was elected Senator to replace Palpatine when he became Chancellor. Like, her position on Alderaan wasn't indicative of her being a princess. Being the daughter of Amidala also shouldn't mean she was a princess. I just don't get it.
 

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Star Wars fans are insufferable at the lengths they're willing to try and defend just bad movie making. That ending was the cherry on top of just how much Rogue One shits all over the original movies. It treats viewers as idiots because, as that points out, he just went scorched earth, literally. So he's evil enough to blow up a whole goddamn planet to try and keep the plans from escaping but not a single ship? What sense does that make? It doesn't. Further, did they even watch the original? Vader says they took the ship because they intercepted a transmission, so it literally doesn't make sense unless Vader is an even bigger goddamned moron (which uh, doesn't make him more badass), who also calmed down enough after he literally just like force killed dozens of people (and blew up a goddamn planet) that he didn't just force choke Leia. Its not like he needs her for any reason. He could just kill her and pinned the entire thing on her and the rebels. "Princess Leia was killed after she as part of a Rebel fleet attacked a Galactic Empire outpost, with it being destroyed in the process." They would have proof that her ship was there so its not like even if they kept her alive she could play dumb if she had been apprehended just minutes after having left that planet. Its just stupid every which way and turns it into a Turmp level farce that only makes sense if you ignore basically every aspect of what would be needed for it to have happened that way.

This is up there with the stupid one posted about how some group got around lightsabers by shooting bullets. Because apparently laser swords that can cut through every other metal can't just vaporize bullets? Plus uh, JEDI can stop and move stuff with their mind, they should be able to just Neo bullet stop them. Star Wars fans think themselves far more clever than they are.
Vader didn't order the planet to be blown up, "Peter Cushing"'s character did. One could argue that Vader suspects deep down that Leia is his daughter which would be why he isn't so ruthless with her as he is with others, but I honestly don't care that much about whether the Star Wars movies make perfect critical sense as they nuked the fridge a lot time ago as far as I'm concerned.

One thing I recently thought about with Rogue One (as much as I enjoyed it, far more than most Star Wars movies which IMO isn't saying much, even though I have a soft spot for some of them) is that they really just allowed the only source of documentation for by far the largest technical project they've undertaken to be destroyed?!? "So yeah, we need to do some maintenance on such-and-such..." "well, we killed all the guys who were in charge of development, so I guess you'll have to figure out how it works yourself!". A free-lance contractor's field day! :D <nod to 'Clerks'>
 
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More dark comic here.. https://worldtravelling.com/50-mind...unravel-the-twisted-world-of-spaceboycantlol/
 

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So i was informed this is where to post funny meme pics.

Change thread title to say Meme somewhere in it?
heck, change Hume to Meme would be perfect
 
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