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Well...maybe we'll meet again there one day. Fair winds and following seas,

From what I understand the game is hard to get right now as it goes into a full release so most of my impressions come form its FBB forum . I'm seeing a lot of early setting customization around the game. Dont Look Back By Black Site Studios WWW.FACEBOOK.COM This is a group for fans of Don’t Look Back written by Matthew Burns, published by Black Site Studios We want to keep these rules simple Keep the discussion on topic. Dont be a jerk. No...

What I find kind of geeky awesome is that if you pick up the various expansions...they come in a VHS Cassette Box...like...first rule of marketing is know your audience right?

Anyone played this....seems it is still early on in its release. Definitely interested in co-op games that have a good hook or lend themselves to imagination and are moddable, but don't have such long play throughs

Might be a stretch guys depending on your commute but just wanted to put this option out there for anyone wanting to join a *secret* game club in Frederick,MD. They have two tiers of membership $150 a year or $20 a month or $300 a year or $40 a month depending on which way you sign up. This is obviously quite a bit more than just gaming at the local gameshop type stuff as it's more of an actual private club. Anyway..take a look if ya want. It is pretty amazing. The Historic Haven – Historic Gamer and Crafter Lounge WWW.HISTORICHAVEN.COM

Not great times for Oracle..yeesh...first Amazon rips your guts out and then Google steps on ya

Grew up in a Methodist household.....parents went to Church pretty much every Sunday..never recall them having to force me or my brother..it was just an enjoyable thing to do..and growing up in a small town without the entertainment options we have today it was something interesting to do...looked forward to seeing my friends and our pastor was pretty much a TED Talks kind of guy...I never really found it boring and our Church Services were ..i think short at around 45 minutes. After church we'd usually make plans with out friends or family for the afternoon and head out to eat somewhere (usually local bar) for lunch....or to Watch the Vikings play (noon kicks offs in Minnesota)

Yes..this greatly depends on the space between your eyes...for some reason they made it so you only have 3 options whereas on the Quest it was a slider that covered the entire range...some people are more or less affected depending on where they fall. I got lucky...hopefully Quest 3 gets 110 FOC and sliding IPD back.

Pretty much no one in Russia really supports Putin...he's like background noise to most Russians....he's familiar and there's really no one better..or..that much better. He hasn't completely run the country into the ground and has somewhat joined Russians in a national identity. Russia..Like the US has a sort of Boomer Generation that won't get out of the way and let younger leaders lead...and a lot of this spy stuff comes form that generation who venerated the power of the KGB....but as stated...these old men have lost quite few steps...and aren't as capable as they were in their younger days. The Russian Militray has pulled off some good Cyber Warfare stuff, but a lot of that is not neccessarily how good they are, but how terribly bad and cheap our private companies are in protecting assets. I mean...when OPM got hacked like 8 years ago....it wasn't because of sophistication..it was because the systems there were running old software on old hardware.

I've been told that the people carrying out these types of things are getting elderly and that's why the work is sloppy..as in the people in charge.

The 80's in a nutshell Skip to 3:21 for the fun...talk about storm troopers having bad aim....I think he kills the same 100 guys a couple of times with umm..unlimited ammo hack?

Oh yeah...star wars definitely doesn't have rules....or the rules apply uniquely to each individual. Kind of like how in Harry Potter certain wizards were stringer or weaker or could do one type of magic better than another. Pretty much every 80's film was about pulling shit out of your ass to win the day..just rewatched The Last Starfighter last night...Death Blossom anyone? Moving close to that Popcorn Flick to Popcorn Television...but in the end...it's all about the fun

Emporer Palpatine definitely did when they came to arrest him and I think i saw Mace Windu do it..but that might have been a force jump. I think in the novels it says it drains a Force user but those aren't techncially canon..depending on the book and time period. Hard to recall..I've read so many.

Technically..if Luke went to Tython and investigated he would have found a whole lotta dead storm troopers and a couple of wrecked ships including Mando's and conisdering we've seen X wings thoughout the season having tracked Mando's ship having saved him and having been in contact with Cara Dune...and considering she borrowed a Prisoner who "died" on Morak..this might have led Luke to the destruction there and sightings of Slave 1....and it can be entirely plausible that it was a combination of the force and investigation combined.

Wait....I thought R2 saved Grogu..... when he came in and started chirping so long I figured that it was because it was some sort of long ago reveal....because I thought when Anakin went to the Jedi Temple he had R2 with him.. Overall great season..great episode. As i said elsewhere Abrams and Johnson could take some pointers from Filoni and Favreau on world building and character development. There's a way to handle fan service while also expanding the story and creating emotional connections

my kids are happy about that...

Considering that ultimately it was Snoke/Palpatine in Charge....it made sense that he kept the same type of hierarchy. Indeed he was treating both Ren/Hux with the same level of authority. It was only in Episode 9 that all of a sudden we had these other higher ranking military figures show up.....yeah...they really made a hash of that aspect...but I'm hopeful that Moff Gideon and maybe Thrawn fix it depending on what they do with the characters. Tarkin was the one in charge though..Vader was just an enforcer that had little to do militarily. "Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board." -Princess Leia --A New Hope

I do wonder where the Thrawn thing is headed. I mean..it seems that this could be a link to the Chiss Ascendancy in the Outer Rims.....I did like in the novels the idea that the Imperial Remnant wasn't his caricature that the 1st Order was...that they carved out their own space and seemed to have support from some worlds who did not want to be part of the Galactic Alliance.....it really started exploring the grey areas and failures of the Old Republic and such.

There's a big difference. Tarkin was not afraid of Vader and Vader respected Tarkin. Now...the focus shifted in Episode 5 and 6...but the writing (before Star Wars Legends was a thing) did not make a jokes out of Imperial Officers....Thrawn, Palleon,Daala.....were written very well and gave form to a Post Episode 6 Imperial remnant.....Thrawn so much so that they brought him into canon...and also seem to have course corrected with the Mandalorian and Moff Gideon. People want competent villains. It makes for a much better story and adds realism. Hux/Ren was obviously Tarkin/Vader...and the first movie gave us that although a much paler imitation..Rian Johnson just destroyed that dynamic by immediately playing Hux for straight laughs when more could have been done to expand the idea of this larger scale war going on. The clone wars and Mandalorian really have done a good job at that piece from a military perspective where the larger films have failed...well...Rogue One did alright

He was merely bad there...a little over the top acting and miscast..maybe needed an older actor, but the idea was to build him into something like a Thrawn or Gideon even....or it should have been. That's what fans were looking for. Hell..Moff Tarkin was badass too.... No one was asking for Space Colonel Klink *of course..I play Star Wars Legions and Armada and Rebel Assault and Xwing tabletop games ...so ymmv

Rian Johnson didn't do ther series any favors. He turned General Hux into pure comedy relief...he ruined the character so bad they had to give him a comedy sendoff. That's why Thrawn is so admired...he wasn't scared of Vader or other force users..one of the things I liked about many of the novels is that the military leadership of the Empire/Former Empire and their arcs was really interesting. That's why Moff Gideon is getting a lot of positive buzz thus far in the Mandalorean.....personally..I don't think Abrahms or Johnson understood Star Wars at the level they needed to in order to craft their stories or not nearly as much as Dave Filoni. The good thing is that there is a lot of room for expanded stories post Episode 9 that

Give it a decade and VR and a lazyboy will replace this easily. I actually really enjoy laying back in mind and watching movies in the tilted position....I feel like it allows the neck to rest

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They aren't being gaslit..... when confronted with facts they refuse to acknowledge those facts. When my own family tells me the Dems are gonna take their guns I simply ask them how. I explain what it takes legally to make a new constitutional amendment and who votes and ask them to list the 33 states that would ratify taking their guns. They can't do it...they can't even come up with 5 legitimate states that would vote to ban firearms completely...so they clearly know its not true...

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