the_raven

Wait, you made a new thread?

I knew that, but still wanted to know if there's anything else on .com

33/33 now

...there's this site jkhub.com When i go there, it's just a background of some port with a bunch of (i think) Asian-looking boats and the line "jkhub.com, all rights reserved". Does anyone know anything about it? Does if display anything else for you?

Oh yes, I know how you feel. I started with sci-fi back in the 90's (when I was still a kid, actually), and would watch just about anything they showed on TV: movies (Total Recall, Judge Dredd, Terminator, Timecop, Universal Soldier, 6th Day, Robocop, Starship Troopers, Alien, Independence Day, Predator, Close encounters of the third kind, Robo Wars, Screamers, 20.000 leagues under the sea, many others, even some erotica! ), cartoons (Transformers, Batman, Dexter's Lab, TMNT, Inspector Gadget, a few animes even), series (The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, Guest from the future (a Soviet sci-fi series for children)). A lot of video games at the time (almost all of them, I think) were sci-fi at least to some extent. Star Wars I didn't watch until TPM came out, so I started with that. Star Trek I only saw a few episodes as I didn't really follow the show, until I grew older. Stargate I only saw the movie (came across one of the series on TV recently, not sure why people like it so much, the "problems" feel so arbitrary, and why they had to change some of the things established by the movie I really don't understand). I don't even watch half the Hollywood movies anymore, sci-fi or not. They are overly "realistic", "serious" (or the opposite - TLJ, I'm looking at you!), and gritty; it's all grey tones, and endings aren't satisfactory. The sci-fi films are uninspired, they all feel the same - blue/ green holograms and holo-computers, robots that behave more human than the humans, generic alien races, hyperspace travel, a loveable rogue protagonist (who isn't even all that loveable, though sometimes protagonists are done right, with them being regular people who faced crisis - Alien: Covenant, for example, though I didn't like that movie overal), and a whooping TON of cartoony CGI's - it all feels like I'm watching a sub-par action movie in sci-fi props with little-to-no context, or the context is so overused, it's not even interesting (I'm looking at you, Avatar!). Another thing that gets to me is that when they make space operas, they always treat planets (fucking planets!!) as cities - not even as countries! Sure, Coruscant is a planet-sized city, so it kinda makes sense, but other planets? Planets where there's nothing even remotely resembling a unified planetary government system? Yes, yes, I know, budget constrains, and other practical reasons, but at least have the decency to make it feel like these are planets, not cities, make them feel diverse, at least. Another problem is that if it's sci-fi, then it's strictly about space/ aliens, time-travel/ parallel universes, A.I./ computers, or zombie-viruses/ other kind of post-apocalypse. Ok, I get it, the first two are what most people think of when they hear 'sci-fi', the third is "current", and the last one is about those 'what if?' scenarios that everyone dreads. But come on, there's so much more to sci-fi than just this! Whatever happened to sea/ undersea sci-fi, interdimensional travel (not parallel universes where the protagonist's granny is evil), genetics, regular planetary romance, gothic sci-fi, wicked inventions, and many other things? So, as result of all this, I turned to reading. I did watch Disney's John Carter, and I loved that movie! It actually inspired to me read the original stories. Right now, I'm kinda reading "Chessmen of Mars" (it's the fifth in the series), "kinda" because it gets a bit repetitive and boring over time. I'm also reading "The Bull's Hour" by I. Yefremov (it's Soviet sci-fi). I also read a few shorts by I. Asimov, N. Gaiman, A. Clarke, P. K. Dick, and a few novels, among which are "I am legend" by R. Matheson and "Aelita" by A. N. Tolstoy. It's not much, but it's something. I should also return to reading C. J. Cherryh's "Chanur" series and G. Orwell's "1984" because I abandoned them at one point. As to "outdated" sci-fi, I actually love it. It's interesting and fun to see what people expected of the future, what became reality and what didn't. Movies are good for this too, but you know, books have more depth in these things. Actually, there's a sci-fi themed reddit community. Not long ago, someone complained on there that cyberpunk is greatly outdated because half the things it speaks about didn't happen. What I think, is that we're actually getting there, because we can see today that technology is evolving at a rapid pace, cybernetic implants and hover-cars are being developed, more and more people are constantly online, the internet is getting everywhere (even in one's salt shaker!), the environment is falling apart, mass surveillance is a thing (even if your government doesn't spy on you, big data corporations are!), and "civilized" capitalism is getting out of hand (at least, in some countries). Um, did I forget to mention something? So yes, I do love sci-fi.

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I still think he's asking for an npc file, because there are several nihilus models available either here on at MrWonko's, whereas the OP say's he can't find one anywhere.

Answered it in your status. For more details, check these tutorials: > https://jkhub.org/topic/10139-the-basics-of-npc-files/ > https://jkhub.org/topic/10142-npc-classes-and-their-descriptions/

Well, we can always have both versions...

Huh, this actually looks pretty interesting!

Well, you probably remember Kyle lightsabers and such? Stranger things have happened. But a porg holding a tiny gun would indeed be funny, provided the gun is sized to match the porg and isn't normal-sized.

Ok. It's just that, as you know, the Jedi Armour in TFU2 looked a lot like the Sith Trooper armour with flaps. Eh, anyway.

They didn't have ass-flaps

This could actually make a pretty cool idea for a modding contest! Porg lightsaber hilt? Porg blaster? A porg npc that walks like a penguin? Good times! Off-topic: Damn, I hate these critters' name! I keep trying to write porK or porN instead of porG! >.<

It's supposed to be Starkiller's Jedi Armour costume, right? The fetish thongs look strange though.

No updates?

Noice!

Either that, or they didn't make their models to be used for lip animation to begin with.

That's his hilt? Wut?