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Dark Empire and Dark Empire II. Resurrect the Emperor, resurrect Boba Fett, turn Luke to the Dark Side, steam-powered spaceships, TIE tanks...

Finished it it today. Here's something that may be of interest to users here. I have the Kindle version, so I can't quote the exact page. It's chapter 7, the scene where Rey and Finn got the Falcon captured and think they're about to be boarded by the First Order (they get boarded by Han and Chewie ...

The artwork is really good, and there's stuff from eras for which very few materials exist (pre-KOTOR Republic). As for the minimalism, it's there, but at least it doesn't go the "CIS numbers were Palpatine's propaganda" route. However, The Grand Army began as a vision of Sifo-Dyas, a Jedi...

For what it's worth, there is an overriding theme that hit me.

You can't change who you are, nor can anyone do it for you.

Jack, Angelica, Blackbeard, Barbossa, the mermaid--at the end, they all remain in their true natures.

Do you have links to the songs, in Russian?

To add to Jim Raynor's list, three more egregious offenses: 1. Another completely agenda-driven element: a pet character watches a news broadcast and "reasons" that quintillions of droids are impossible. The reasoning is stupid, and offensive to anyone who knows anything about galaxies, pl...

You forgot 'worst father ever' despite being a part of a culture that allegedly values family and thinks the 'Sith and Jedi are the same, but the Sith pay better'. I liked the guy better when he didn't talk and and blew himself up in Vector Prime. Oh, I could have gone on for quite a while more, st...

Bah, fuck the Mandalorians. Fucking Mary Sue Klingon knockoffs with a bullshitt'a language. I actually applaud what Lucas did with them for the CG series--i.e. making them an actual society rather than yet another 2D warrior race . Well, I guess they were alright before Traviss got her fucking hand...

A decimal representation of any number is sum(from i = 0 to Infinity) [a_i *10^i]. The sum of the digits of that number is sum(from i = 0 to Infinity) a_i. Subtracting the sum of the digits from the number, you get sum(from i = 0 to Infinity)[a^i * (10^i - 1)]. For any non-negative i, 10^i - 1 is a ...

To be fair, I'm not sure one can say all Americans are taught to treat their main historical figures as demigods. I don't remember being taught so; it may be a cultural or regional problem more than a "this is how Americans are" problem. The mythic version of American history exists , and...

I'd like to see the penny eliminated and the one and the five converted to coins with the two circulating as a semi-collector's item only as the smallest denomination paper currency, but god help us if we make any changes to our currency because it will upset Jesus or something since his name is on...

I live on the Westside, so I can make it pretty much anywhere in the region. Any meeting will probably be more interesting than what I usually do on weekends.

Or do you need over 2000 posts to be accepted?

Also, sharing and borrowing books of any kind is communism that should be reported to your local Senator Joe McCarthy for persecution at the hands of the House of Un-American Activities. Libertarians hate libraries . Instead of going to one of the Blockbuster Video stores that are on practically ev...

atlantisking.atlantisking. Not ranked yet, only got it last week.

The Heritage . A "Harry Potter" fic about Harry getting a gigantic harem, including pre-pubescent girls. I "sporked" (took it apart line by line using a "canon characters read the fic" trope) several chapters on deleterius until I got tired of it. If want to read those...

You know why there is a North Carolina and a South Carolina? This. Single. Fucking. Issue. Uhm, no. North and South Carolina were both among original 13 colonies, and both were slave states . North Carolina seceded after the fall of Fort Sumter, but it had nothing to do with the regional balance (w...

OK, I am confused and this question may warrant it's own thread, but why the fuck are Republicans against everyone having guaranteed health care coverage? Is it just a money thing and they feel like they are going to have to pay for all the 'dead beats' that can't cover themselves? Is it a principa...

OK, I am confused and this question may warrant it's own thread, but why the fuck are Republicans against everyone having guaranteed health care coverage? Is it just a money thing and they feel like they are going to have to pay for all the 'dead beats' that can't cover themselves? Is it a principa...

What is your beef with Karen Traviss? I personally liked her commando books. Let's make a list of things she did: Wrote a story about how the Yuuhzan Vong view the Mandalorians as on equal terms with the Jedi and the Sith. Made the Mandalorians into peaceful farmer Soldiers, all self-sufficient and...

in true colors one of the mandoa words is dema'golka (named after Demagol, a scientist who sold his own child into slavery and who performed Joseph mengele style experiments on men women and children) meaning "utter psycopath." That's the only one I know of, but it wasn't hostile. It just...

I considered doing a detailed review like I did for Order 66 . Frankly, I just don't feel it. This book was tiring to read (primarily due to heavy use of Man'doa ), and going through it again, looking up examples of stupidity, hypocrisy, women swooning over clones and other Mandos, and Traviss's vie...

You solved everything correctly. The equations solve to t=2/15, where t is the time since Bob left the house. So Bob will catch up to Alice 2/15 of an hour, or 8 minutes after leaving the house, which is 20 minutes after Alice left. Since Bob jogs at 5 mph, it will be (2*5)/15, or 2/3 of a mile from...

I support this, with the caveat that she write the entire book in Man'doa.

The first IC book is already halfway there, so it's not much of a stretch. And her fans will shut up for the several years it will take to get past all the apostrophes.

"If people evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" Which is a subset of a general line of reasoning that amounts to: "There's this obvious flaw in the theory that anyone can notice, so all the experts are a massive conspiracy against the truth." Also, "Fossils ar...

God damn is that hilarious. :lol: I still think her low point in the EU was when she let her Mary Sue accountant/analyst/whatever "debunk" Saxton's numbers in-universe. She ran some arithmetics to "prove" that there was not enough iron on a single terrestrial planet to build a q...