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  1. 4 hours ago, Techwright said:

    Something just occurred to me, and it might just be a big, ol' plot hole in episode 4:

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    Reva put a tracker in Lola the droid.

     

    But why?

     

    At the moment she controlled the droid there was no known threat of rescue.  Kenobi was incapacitated at the very least, Leia was secured deep in the bowels of the complex, and Reva was moving towards the torture step.  The first moment Reva is aware Kenobi has infiltrated is when the alarm went off when she was in a different part of the building, away from Leia and the droid.  So why put a tracker in the droid?  If there was info with Leia it would eventually come out with torture.

     

    The only thing I can think of at the moment is that the writers botched it.  Plot holes are common when writing complex narratives, but something so critical to the bridging of episodes 4 and 5 seems like it would be more tightly considered.

     

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    She probably assumes a 10 year old girl who'd only been kidnapped and met her rescuers that week wouldn't be privy to enough information to damage the Path as much as a surprise attack at wherever they escape to would. I assume trying to get info from Leia was mostly performative. She knows Kenobi well enough to know there'll be a rescue attempt.

     

  2. 6 hours ago, Krimson said:

    It was Maz Kanata's basement, but I can understand the confusion. Not many people know what a Jawa looks like under the robes.

    I was vaguely remembering Bad Fox Graphics on Twitter: "“Meanwhile, Senator Mitch McConnell, fresh  off his cameo in the new 'Star Wars' movie…” #SNL https://t.co/HkA0wUOxjV"  / Twitter

     

    which must've gone viral since I've not watched an ep of SNL since the 90s.

  3. I've only seen 7-9 once, which is once more than I wish I'd seen them. Are we entirely sure Bea Arthur's purse wasn't where Rey found the lightsaber in Mitch McConnell's basement?

     

    "It called out to me like a pal, a confidante. It told me my heart was true."

  4. iirc the holiday special made the official list back when they separated out the legends. i'm sure we all have our fingers crossed for cgi bea arthur force ghost.

     

    It's been like 25+ years since I read the original Thrawn trilogy as a teen. My memory of it is just that I really liked it. He seems a bit too Brainy Smurf to me in the newer stuff, but I might just be romanticizing the original based on 0 content recall.

  5. 4 hours ago, Voltor said:

    Rumors abound that they plan to incorporate Legends material and story elements/characters into the assorted Star Wars TV series, including Thrawn.  We shall see.

     

    Thrawn's already been brought into 'official canon' with Rebels and new novels so it's pretty much a foregone conclusion at this point we'll see him. Innertubes seems to want Benadryl Bandersnatch for the part, because innertubes.

  6. Should be fairly obvious if you're just using DO/SO. Stick defense in the defense shields, resist in the resist ones, an endurance reduction in the mez shield since that's all it'll take. Recharge in energy drain. Then slot for heal/recharge in energize (try using it early to take advantage of the +regen, then hopefully it's up again if you need it to heal). If you take disrupt I'd just stick an accuracy in the free slot.

  7. Good thing he had that blaster since there was no town to go back to for a big sack o' dimes. 

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    Evidently no one can go around anything in this galaxy far, far, away. I see no more reason Vader's troops couldn't have gone around the fire fast enough to catch up with the slow moving droid dragging a limp body than that Obi-Wan and Leia couldn't just squeeze around the energy barrier.

     

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  8. I had the same thought re the younglings

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    Reva does seem much too old, and the Jedi on Tatooine also seemed too old. I couldn't really think of any reason why they included that scene since we already know not all the younglings were killed from Mando. I was even more surprised that it didn't get removed at the last minute given the events in Texas. I can only assume that it's going to have some big significance later. 

     

  9. 13 hours ago, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:
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     We're also trying not to get noticed. Obi-Wan didn't spend ten years prepping Arby's entrées just for his cover to get blown palling around with Senators. 

     

    I'd not even made that connection. Hopefully at some later point 

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    Obi-Wan will investigate what sort of shenanigans are going on such that the Arby's meat he produced on Tatooine didn't make it into the Arby's on Daiyu. Are space Arby's corporate folks in so deep with the Hutts or Crimson Dawn that they have to allow some of their franchises to be fronts for kidnapping operations? Or did they just have one of their signs stolen and used to disguise the building?

     

  10. I thought it was just horrible, but not for the reason I expected. I was expecting a long series of easter eggs loosely held together with a thin plot, not the disastrous cast-wide acting and dialogue throughout and the complete gutting of a great character (they ruin Chavez even worse than Birds of Prey ruined Cassandra Cain). Some of the effects were cool but I'm well past being snowed by effects into liking shiny turds. And as much as this was supposed to be the centerpiece kicking off the next phase it really seemed like a standalone. 

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    They did set up the idea of an incursion which i guess could lead to some version of Secret Wars and left the possibility of FF/Xmen/Inhumans already being in 616 but did so in pretty much the lamest possible way. Essentially this was Labyrinth or Willow with a thin veneer of Marvel multiverse.

     

  11. I like it as-is for the most part, love the jump into melee style as that's my usual style (even on sents). Would like to see neurotoxic breath made into a TAoE or PBAoE though. Even if it were another small radius splash it'd fit better than it does now. It doesn't work very well as a jump and look down cone and I'm certainly not going to open with it from range before jumping in with venomous gas. So for me it's basically only useful leveling or exemped below venomous gas levels when I can toss it after the more effective debuffs from range. My most recent poison I didn't take it at all.

  12. 21 hours ago, Techwright said:

    Those that have been commenting about their love of Monopoly might want to check out the predecessor game The Landlord's Game.  Rumor is that there's a crowdsourcing going on to revive and publish the game.

     

    I learned of this when I took my elderly Mom back to her hometown of Macomb, IL a few weeks ago. The city limits sign said it was the hometown of the creator of Monopoly, Elizabeth J. Magie (later Phillips).  This puzzled me, and I launched into a search that revealed that "Lizzie" did indeed create The Landlord's Game, with a testing model in 1903 and a patent in 1904 (A second patent for a revision came in 1924.), three decades before Monopoly. The game ended up selling in both Britain and England for years before Charles Darrow showed up at Parker Brothers to hawk a game he "invented".  It's been demonstrated that his version was so similar that it had to have been a theft of her intellectual property.  Regardless, Parker Brothers bought the rights to both Monopoly and The Landlord's Game, so legalities became a moot point.  The Landlord's Game was originally created to explain through playing the basic concepts of Georgism, an economic ideology.

     

     

    History channel had a recent documentary series called The Toys that Built America with an episode that covered this iyi in a partly dramatized version of the whole Parker Bros/Milton Bradley rivalry story. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14357568/

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  13. I'll throw mine up for esses and jeez even though it takes frozen fists as a filler power and only uses ice sword as a mule. Personal preference I'll take a lower damage power that doesn't have the sword draw. Also I run amps all the time so the build's short of softcap without those turned on.

     

    This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.1.2.5
    https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn

    Click this DataLink to open the build!

    Boris Badinage: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
    Primary Power Set: Ice Melee
    Secondary Power Set: Bio Armor
    Power Pool: Speed
    Power Pool: Leaping
    Power Pool: Fighting
    Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

    Hero Profile:
    Level 1: Frozen Fists -- SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx(13), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(13), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(15), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg(15), SprBlsCol-Rchg/HoldProc(17)
    Level 1: Hardened Carapace -- StdPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), UnbGrd-ResDam(3), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(7), UnbGrd-Max HP%(9)
    Level 2: Inexhaustible -- NmnCnv-Heal(A), NmnCnv-Heal/EndRdx(9), NmnCnv-Heal/Rchg(11)
    Level 4: Environmental Modification -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), ShlWal-Def(5), ShlWal-Def/EndRdx(5), ShlWal-ResDam/Re TP(7)
    Level 6: Super Speed -- WntGif-ResSlow(A)
    Level 8: Ice Patch -- RechRdx-I(A)
    Level 10: Adaptation 
    Level 12: Build Up -- RechRdx-I(A), GssSynFr--Build%(37)
    Level 14: Combat Jumping -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A)
    Level 16: Ablative Carapace -- Prv-Heal(A), Prv-Heal/EndRdx(17), Prv-EndRdx/Rchg(19), Prv-Heal/Rchg(19), Prv-Heal/Rchg/EndRdx(21), Prv-Absorb%(21)
    Level 18: Ice Sword -- SprScrStr-Acc/Dmg(A), SprScrStr-Dmg/Rchg(37), SprScrStr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(39), SprScrStr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), SprScrStr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), SprScrStr-Rchg/+Crit(40)
    Level 20: Evolving Armor -- GldArm-3defTpProc(A)
    Level 22: Frost -- SprCrtStr-Acc/Dmg(A), SprCrtStr-Dmg/Rchg(23), SprCrtStr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(23), SprCrtStr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(25), SprCrtStr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34), SprCrtStr-Rchg/+50% Crit(37)
    Level 24: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(25)
    Level 26: Freezing Touch -- Hct-Dmg(A), Hct-Acc/Rchg(27), Hct-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(27), Hct-Dmg/EndRdx(33), Hct-Dam%(33), UnbCns-Dam%(33)
    Level 28: DNA Siphon -- TchoftheN-Acc/Heal(A), Erd-Acc/Rchg(29), Erd-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(29), Erd-Dmg(31), TchoftheN-Heal/HP/Regen/Rchg(31), Erd-Dmg/Rchg(31)
    Level 30: Boxing -- Empty(A)
    Level 32: Frozen Aura -- Obl-Dmg(A), Obl-Acc/Rchg(34), Obl-Dmg/Rchg(34), Obl-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(36), Obl-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(36), Obl-%Dam(36)
    Level 35: Genetic Contamination -- Erd-Acc/Rchg(A), Erd-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(43), Erd-%Dam(46), Erd-Dmg(46), Arm-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), Arm-Dam%(48)
    Level 38: Moonbeam -- Apc-Acc/Rchg(A), Apc-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(40), Apc-Dmg(40), Apc-Dmg/EndRdx(42), Apc-Dam%(42), StnoftheM-Dam%(42)
    Level 41: Tough -- ResDam-I(A), ImpSki-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(43), ImpSki-ResDam/EndRdx(43), ImpSki-Status(48)
    Level 44: Weave -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), Rct-Def(45), Rct-Def/EndRdx(45), Rct-ResDam%(45)
    Level 47: Parasitic Aura -- EffAdp-EndMod/Rchg(A), EffAdp-Acc/Rchg(48)
    Level 49: Shadow Meld -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg(50)
    Level 1: Critical Hit 
    Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
    Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
    Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
    Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
    Level 2: Health -- Pnc-Heal/+End(A), NmnCnv-Heal(3), NmnCnv-Heal/EndRdx(11), NmnCnv-Regen/Rcvry+(50), RgnTss-Regen+(50)
    Level 2: Stamina -- PrfShf-End%(A)
    Level 49: Quick Form 
    Level 1: Prestige Power Dash -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Slide -- UnbLea-Stlth(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Quick -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Rush -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Surge -- Empty(A)
    Level 4: Ninja Run 
    Level 50: Agility Core Paragon 
    Level 50: Ion Core Final Judgement 
    Level 50: Degenerative Core Flawless Interface 
    Level 50: Banished Pantheon Radial Superior Ally 
    Level 50: Ageless Radial Epiphany 
    Level 50: Assault Radial Embodiment 
    Level 50: Freedom Phalanx Reserve 
    Level 50: Portal Jockey 
    Level 50: Task Force Commander 
    Level 50: The Atlas Medallion 
    Level 10: Defensive Adaptation 
    Level 10: Efficient Adaptation 
    Level 10: Offensive Adaptation 
    Level 6: Speed Phase 
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