Garyn Dakari

I like the movie but yeah, that's pretty great XD

Oh, and completely unrelated to anything else, but I didn't realize the significance/connection till a buddy of mine mentioned it, but did anyone else notice that one of the pirates going after Han over a debt was Scottish? Kind of like... the Scottish pirate named Jabba coming after Han over a debt in that deleted scene in A New Hope? In hindsight that's kinda neat.

It shall be done. You have my apologies if that was my doing, though as everyone was being civil I don't see why moderation was in order at all Moderator note - Some off-topic posts were hidden I agree with most of your points there.

Well no, I have not read all the 300-something comic books or all 400-something books - but I am *very* familiar with the EU, I've read several books, played several games, and read hundreds(No exaggeration) of wookipedia pages to fill in the gaps. There's a lot of stuff I liked, even loved. KotOR 1 and 2 I thought were fantastic additions to the EU, and there was some great content added to that via the comic series. Thrawn was a great concept for a character, and yeah, the stories of Mara Jade, Ben Skywalker, and Jacen(When watching TFA I was actually half expecting Ren to be called "Jacen" once his parentage was revealed.), Jaina, and Anakin Solo were interesting. However, for every good thing in the EU, there were at least five incredibly stupid things to counterbalance them. Apparently Palpatine had a ship full of clones just waiting to be possessed by his spirit at a moment's notice. Sure, that's a good backup plan I guess, but it makes you wonder why he stuck around in that crusty old body of his if he could have a stronger, youthful body any time he wanted. Oh, and Vader's ultimate sacrifice, casting off the Dark Side, and destroying himself and his master to redeem himself and save his son? Just a minor inconvenience to ol' Palpy, actually. Like tripping over your own robe on your way to your evil chair. Or how about the time this three-eyed guy called Trioculous claimed to be the son of Palpatine, and therefore heir to the Empire? Except that was all a lie, and Palpatine's real son was... well, another three-eyed guy named Triclops. Or how Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc, only to fall in again, and escape again. Or how Darth Maul returned and attacked Obi-Wan and Luke on Tatooine, only to get killed again. And be cloned by pirates and sent to kill Vader... only to be killed a third time. Or how there were about fifty or so Jedi during the events of the original trilogy, some actively aiding the Rebellion. I guess Yoda didn't know what he was talking about when he told Luke "When gone I am, the last of the Jedi will you be," Or how Luke and Vader actually dueled each other multiple times before the events of Empire Strikes Back(Though, the new canon comics have already done this as well. Equally annoying). Those are just a few examples of EU messing up movie events, that's not even scratching the surface of their dumb 'outside' storylines or characters. Look, I'm not trying to be an ass here or take a dump on something you're passionate about, if you like the EU, more power to you, I'm just saying that keeping it carries far too much unwanted baggage. Though actually, as a thought exercise, lets imagine an alternate scenario where Disney kept the old EU. They still want to make their movies though, right? So lets look at their options: 1. Forget the idea of Episodes or returning characters and set it so far in the future or the past that they don't have to worry about EU interference. 2. Adapt existing EU into movies. 3. Try and fit new movies into the gaps left by the EU. The first option makes no sense from a business standpoint and almost none from a creative standpoint. They'd be catering to no one but the most die hard EU fans. Wouldn't happen. The second option seems to be what most EU fans wanted... or think they wanted. I say this would've opened a huge, nasty can of worms I wouldn't want to go anywhere near. Movies adaptations of books are never 100% faithful. Some of the closest are Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, but they still change things - which is fine, it's good that they do. But what happens if a Star Wars movie based itself off a Star Wars book and put itself in the same continuity? There would certainly be differences, but which one would be "More canon" ? The book, because it came first? Or the movie, because movies reach a wider audience or because so far they're just inherently more canon? The internet fights about this are headache inducing to even imagine. And even if that isn't seen as a large issue, that's just a really uncreative and dull route to take. There's no incentive to attract creative directors or screenwriters to throw together the movie version of the already set-in-stone Star Wars Book #127. And very little reason for fans to get excited about said movie when they can just look up everything that will happen on Wookipedia or by reading the book. Furthermore, the EU relies very heavily on the rest of the EU. So what part do they turn into movies? All of it? Hell no. The best parts? How will the people who only watch the movies know what the hell's going on? They'll need to consult the internet or an uberfan whose read the books. That just isn't a good future for Star Wars, and Disney knew it. The third almost sounds good, except when you realize the EU doesn't have many gaps, at least not involving the main characters. Sure, they never died, but are you gonna make a trilogy of movies just about that, while referencing those awesome adventures from the books that will leave audiences wondering wtf anyone's talking about? The EU was simply so overstuffed there was no room for creative freedom to make a sequel trilogy. Regardless of whether this trilogy works out better or worse than the books did, starting from scratch was the right call.

Disney made it clear from very early on they'd be taking from the EU as they saw fit. And frankly I see no problem with that, given that there was some legitimately good content in the EU, but a LOT of crap content as well. For example, as much as I love the Jedi Knight series as *games*, their storylines are pretty awful when compared to the movies if we're being honest, so I'm totally fine with them being non-canon now. But one of Han and Leia's children falling to the dark side, that's a good concept from the EU, and they kept it.

I just got back from seeing it(First time I've seen a movie opening night, and the first Star Wars movie I've seen in theaters, woo!) - I mostly really liked the movie, though there was a massive buzz-kill at the very start, as there was no sound during the opening crawl due to a technical glitch. And this'll probably be stupid, but that really was the part I was looking forward to the most, hearing that opening in the theater... Anyway, moving on. It was a lot of fun, though not without flaws. I think I need to see it a few more times before I can fully form my opinion or compare it to the original trilogy. A few things did stand out though, such as All in all, my expectations were probably too high, I liked the movie, though didn't love it as much as I hoped I would. Subject to change after some rewatching of course.

In a strange way though, he's actually the best thing in that game. I mean, imagine if there was no Rosh... would anyone talk about the story or characters, ever? The story is so dull and pointless that Rosh is the only thing that makes it memorable XP

I'm in the process of adding all the Kejim pics to the wiki page now. Quick question though, does the fifth picture in every row run off the screen for anyone else? They do on my end, but I didn't want to "fix" it if it's just a problem on my end(I do have a smallish screen, so that could possibly it).

In the upload form, what should I put in the "Destination filename" box? I don't want to put a bunch of stuff where it doesn't belong.

Hm... I can't seem to get embedding images to work on the wiki. I looked around, and it seems that MediaWiki doesn't allow the embedding of external images without an extension, which I don't think the JKhub wiki has.

I might be able do, depending on how similar Mediawiki is to Wikia. I've never actually edited or created Mediawiki pages before, though I've done a lot of Wikia editing in the past. I'm reading about Mediawiki now...

As far as unmodded campaigns go, Jedi Knight is my favorite, followed closely by Jedi Outcast. Anyone remember that JK level where you're inside a crashing ship and the entire level is rolling? That was awesome. However if we take mods and moddability into account...Yeah, Jedi Academy is the best. Though it easily has the worst storyline of the series, in my opinion. But, the poll is about the game itself, not a poll about what the community has done with the game, so I voted Jedi Knight.

Very nice!

I've got both the Steam copy and the disk version. It's actually kind of nice having two installs - I use my disk installation for modding and testing, whereas my steam version is for actual playing. That way I don't have to move any pk3 files around to get rid of partial or experimental mods any time I want to play MP.

Honestly, the worst thing I can predict coming out of this is....There is a 99.9% chance that the new movies will contradict SOMETHING or other from the books/games, and as a result, there will be ENDLESS arguments online between the then-split fanbases, over what's canon and what's not. Ung...

Honestly, I actually like this news...My gut reaction was along the lines of "Dear God no...", but after thinking about it, I do think that this is a good thing. George can't edit the OT anymore, a proper boxed set with the theatricals might actually get released someday, and...new SW movies will come out. Assuming that these movies take place many years after the OT, and don't include any of the same characters, then even if they are awful, it'll be easy to just ignore them(Like with Indiana Jones 4). If they're good, than great! Really nothing to lose here by making more, so long as they aren't actually direct sequels to Ep6. Besides which, to make it bad enough to REALLY piss fans off, they're going to have to be worse than Ep1, worse than Ep2, AND worse than the Clone Wars movie/show. Disney's had a pretty good track record recently what with the Pirates series(Up until 4, anyway), and the Marvel series, so I don't think they'll do too bad. Further more, more SW movies were basically inevitable someday, right? They were gonna happen one way or another, and I'm glad that Lucas isn't directing or having control over the next ones. Sooo...Yeah. I'll remain "Cautiously optimistic" until I here more news...It may suck, it may not, but I'm willing to give Disney the benefit of the doubt

Eh, Halloween is such a small deal for me, I don't even get a day off school for it unless it's on a weekend. So now that Summer's over, I'm already looking towards Thanksgiving and Christmas. I like the idea of a Christmas event in a snowy map, but I don't know if I'll even be on my computer that day >.> Depends on how interesting the real life "party" is that day.

I've only used 1.5, but I've been meaning to try out 1.4 and 1.6 for a while now. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Hm...His head looks kinda small on that model.

I wouldn't get ME3 unless I'd played ME1 and 2, if I were you. That said, I really liked ME3, even the ending(Though I feel like I'm the only one on the planet who didn't have a problem with the ending, lol), it's just not a standalone game.