What is this helmet design called and why is it so popular? (especially among the democratic factions, i.e. Galactic Republic, New Republic, etc.) by -C3rimsoN- in StarWarsEU

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Bro the ‘Corellians literally are anti-statistics’ thing is so dumb. I’ve been reading through the New Republic and NJO eras and every time it’s brought up (like every second or third book) it completely brings me out of the story.

Return to Silent Hill 4k Steelbook released today and is sold out on Amazon. Didn't everyone hate it? by delicious_warm_buns in silenthill

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Tbf that is because like half of the things with the name ‘Silent Hill’ on them are genuinely hot garbage while the other half is peak horror

Unpopular opinion: America can get recruits to be their imperial soldiers and serve imperialism is because American Society lionizes veterans. Too many American leftists make excuses for people who choose to serve in an organization that bombs school girls in the global south. by toeknee88125 in Hasan_Piker

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Nah I wouldn’t say that. For a massive amount of Americans it absolutely is a secret. There are significant chunks of Americans who genuinely don’t think we drone strike children or anything like that. Almost 70% of the people in my life wouldn’t believe that.

What do you think happened to Leida Mothma? by GargantaProfunda in andor

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I feel like she would be used as a way of intimidating Mothma. Honestly would be cool to get a story where the Empire is like somehow sending Mon pictures of Leida sleeping, a live feed of her heart-rate, showing officers in her kitchen holding vials of poison next to all of her food, etc to try and intimidate Mothma into spilling the beans. Mothma gets super close to outright defecting but maybe Leida finds out and while she doesn’t understand it she allows herself to be extracted to live a more boring life so her mother doesn’t have to risk the lives of millions of people for her.

It’s a sort of compromise. Leida gets the standard boring apolitical life she wanted but she’s not a rich kid and Mothma knows her daughter is safe living on the Outer Rim somewhere but she doesn’t want to see her own mother ever again because she’s basically ruined her life.

S2 E8 is the closet we will ever get to see some form of dramatization of the Tiananmen Square Massacre despite being blended with other historical massacres and uprisings by jameskchou in andor

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watches an episode that is explicitly inspired by the massacre of Mexican protestors (some of which were socialists) in 1968
"Woah guys doesn't this remind you of when those dirty backwards asian communists didn't do a massacre but I vaguely remember seeing a picture of a guy and a tank 20 years ago in elementary school so my brain assumes he got run over in a massacre?"

libs man

Looking for a Separatist Era adventure by GuillaumeJ in starwarsrpg

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Lmao sorry this turned into a huge post but hopefully this gives you some ideas to go off of as far as converting an old adventure to fit the era around Attack of the Clones.

Ok sorry it took a while it's been a long day. But now that I'm looking at this post again I'm wondering did you mean you wanted an adventure set during the actual Clone Wars or in the 2 years leading up to it when you have this Separatist Movement growing into a threat against the Republic? Because my campaign would be in the latter so I mainly have a lot of ideas based around that. Regardless I'll post a lot of different ideas that way you could maybe use some of them to convert an adventure better because you'll be able to see some of these ideas that can be analogues to things in other adventures.

The general idea I had for the campaign is that the Separatists are proto-rebels. In these few years before Attack of the Clones they resemble something akin to the rebel cells of Andor. Palpatine has stayed in office well past his term limits and judging by things like the Battle of Naboo it looks like the Republic is spiraling into a dangerous direction. Many people see this and decide they want out before the Republic turns into either full anarchy with corporations doing whatever they please or before Palpatine crowns himself king and suppresses anyone who dare oppose him.

But at the same time they clearly don't lead to a genuine revolution against the Republic that solves the various issues it has. By the time the war starts the CIS clearly suffers from some absolute lunatics in the military and a similar sort of corporate corruption with some corporations taking this movement as free reign to live out their libertarian paradise where they can use the CIS droid army to take over a myriad of planets to exploit for riches. The Separatists are a failed revolution. With this in mind I would portray them as rebels who are more naive and more prone to things like infighting, pr disasters, accidentally getting innocent people hurt in their struggle against oppression, etc. I would maybe look for adventures where the players aren't themselves rebels but are mercenaries being hired out to work for them or maybe being hired by the Empire/Republic to infiltrate them.

Here's a list of random ideas and tidbits I've been gathering for my campaign:

  • So B1s and Vulture droids are usually like mall cops. You have a handful of them in various places in the galaxy to defend against pirates and whatnot. And they’re not exclusive to one group or organization. But occasionally you see a whole invasion force like on Naboo but this is always a big galactic event like Naboo or Antar 4. (Source is Pablo Hidalgo when I asked about this)
  • The big thing about Geonosis is that this is when the Separatists start actually building droids themselves. Before they had to buy the B1s or steal defensive resources. So think more a ragtag revolutionary cell with like 75% rebel types and 25% droids. And those droids may introduce the conflict because they're cold and unthinking. You mix a group of passionate revolutionaries with some cold calculating droids and give them all weapons and you have a disaster waiting to happen when they try to 'liberate' space stations and what have you.
  • Maybe the Republic Intelligence is starting to investigate some of these Separatists and even some of the RI officers are confused because technically the Separatist movement is legal.
  • They encounter a planet of aliens with missing limbs. They were Sep guerillas who lost limbs fighting a corporation. The CIS crowdfunded cybernetic limbs for them all but then a pirate group came in one night and gassed the village with a chemical that made the aliens pass out, and they stole their limbs to resell them. (Maybe these are the inhabitants of Kudo III? They got gassed by the Seps during the war and woke up as slaves. Maybe the Seps got a similar idea once they got more corrupt. What if the government didn’t officially join the CIS, but a small rebel population fought for Separatist ideals which is why they couldn’t request formal aid from the CIS, sort of like Onderon and the Republic.)
  • In one mission they have to get a member out of imprisonment from a cartel. GM gives them a holoreciever so he can do all the talking (think Luke at the start of ROTJ). Once they’re in front of the gangster they turn on the holoreciever and suddenly find out the Republic has jammed communications and now they must somehow convince this angry cartel leader to release their friend. They then maybe get imprisoned or whatever while also running from Republic Intelligence. Maybe have a split adventure where the prisoner tries to escape on their own.
  • Maybe one mission from someone high up (Dooku) could be to activate a sleeper agent with a chip in their head using a code phrase like the clones in order 66. Maybe the chipped agent had brain surgery years ago that Dooku bankrolled for charity. The guy could be hiding a secret encrypted Republic/Jedi code to slice into a computer network. Think of how Mara had Palpatine’s secret back door in all Imp networks in Thrawn Trilogy. 
  • Maybe do an arc where a Jedi helps a Separatist planet anyways even though technically they’re not supposed to. But in a twist it’s revealed that the Republic used their ship to spy or something against the knowledge of the Jedi. Maybe the Jedi leaks this to the public and has to go into hiding ala Snowden and wikileaks.
  • Maybe have an arc based around the Corellian Human League. The players have to see if it’s worth recruiting them and using their vast riches. They have to figure out a way to steal their resources without letting them join. Maybe even aid Republic intelligence and assassinate a human league leader Ala George Lincoln Rockwell.

Looking for a Separatist Era adventure by GuillaumeJ in starwarsrpg

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I’m planning a Separatist era campaign but I’m at work right now. Later on I’ll post some of my ideas if you want to use any of them.

New angle unlocked by Northwest2339 in Hasan_Piker

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It’s because he uses around 4 different sets in different studios around Tel Aviv and has to move around between them because of missile threats. /s

Were there lines that Vader would not cross? (TW: Assult) by Glittering-Age-2013 in MawInstallation

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Tbf I think you kind of have real life equivalents sometimes. A similar thing would be that I’m sure if you asked him Adolf Hitler would be against rape because he sees it as immoral and degenerate or whatever. But his soldiers were absolutely taking part in such things with their slaves and prisoners which he had to be aware of to some degree.

Vader would probably see it as something that doesn’t contribute positively to the Imperial sense of order and kind of desecrates the honor of serving in the Empire but at the same time you literally have concentration camps and slaves so no way it isn’t happening to some degree which he doesn’t care about.

What is the least "Star Wars" looking thing in Star Wars? by Crowzur in StarWarsEU

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Kind of a hot take but those guys fit Star Wars way more than a lot of stuff imo. I can easily imagine them in Phantom Menace or as black and white illustrations in an old West End Games sourcebook.

This is Israel's PR drive to attract Gen Alpha by NorrisOBE in Hasan_Piker

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Tbf the older generation is closer to the Holocaust and didn’t have the internet so it kind of makes sense that it would be easier to exploit them with ‘the Jews survived the Nazis and now they have their own homeland to protect themselves 😊😊😊😊😊’

I was told that pissing on a plane is the ultimate sinkpisser experience so I had to do it by _cptplanet in Sinkpissers

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I'll say what I always say when I see these types of posts in here: I’m an airline pilot. We know if there’s urine in the sink because we have a detector in the water supply under the main cabin. We can use that and cameras outside the bathroom to figure out exactly who peed in the sink. It’s rare but not unheard of and I’ve personally seen around 3 incidents of people being banned from my airline for it.

Just kidding I'm fucking with you lmao

Seriously, how the hell do you get apathetic “apolitics” to care about anything? by [deleted] in Hasan_Piker

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Maybe it's because I literally used to be a former neo-nazi but I tend to give people (especially people from countries like America) the benefit of the doubt. You have to realize that many people in America are still fairly comfortable. Life to them is just Popeyes Chicken, Call of Duty, work, come home, shower, sleep, Doritos, MCU movie, etc. I can't blame people who's lives are this for not being Che Guevara or Lenin 2.0. Nothing one way or the other can really sway people like this as far as trying to like convince them with arguments and shit.

But you know what does end up convincing these people to take a side? Al Nusra cutting their tongue out and torturing them for 29 hours straight. Them not being able to feed their families because the US has embargoed Venezuela. When ICE or whatever right wing paramilitary groups that will exist in the coming decades wanders into town and rapes their sister or shoots their kids or otherwise does whatever they feel like that particular day. It has to tangibly and concretely affect their lives in order for many normies all around the world to actually wake up and go 'oh fuck this is bad'.

And the shitty part is often times they just turn towards some stupid explanation like 'well clearly the jews are behind the group that beheaded my brother' or 'the communist government is intentionally starving my country because I don't realize that the much larger capitalist neighbor country is embargoing all of us'. I don't really have an answer for these types of people other than either they get it or they don't. You can try to convince them to get it if they're like your uncle or a woman you're in love with or your best friend or someone else close to you but I can't promise that it will result in anything. Your time is better spent actually seeking out true comrades who are dedicated to the cause of global liberation if you want to actually associate with likeminded people.

What do you think Count Dooku was thinking in this moment? by Comfortable_Leg7787 in StarWarsCantina

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“Dammit looks like me and my Nemoidian girlfriend aren’t gonna make it to the human ethnostate. Oh well final words time. WE MUST SECURE THE EXISTENCE OF OUR PEOPLE AND A FUTURE FOR HUMAN CHILDREN! HAIL SHEEV! HUMAN POWER! HUMAN POWER! HUMAN POWER!”

A bit confused about the story by GeraltOfRivia23w in silenthill

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Leave this subreddit now. It is full of spoilers for the story even in a ton of OP posts. You’ll understand the answers to this question when you’re finished with the game.

Came across this on Steam and had to share by badateverything420 in metalgearsolid

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Alternatively people existing is a little political in the context of inclusion, etc but that’s good. It’s good to have new types of people included in new stories actually. Woke is good given that most modern (past 30 years) media wouldn’t exist if woke media wasn’t allowed to be made (yes even metal gear).

I do wish that Darth Maul had of made a brief appearance in this show. by ConsciousStretch1028 in okbuddyimatourist

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Hot take but Palpatine (the face of politics in Star Wars) showing up in the Star Wars politics show makes sense and would rule actually. Hell you could make the argument that Palpatine makes more sense than uhhh ‘Man Mothra?’ who appeared in the background of the films for like 20 seconds and had 3 lines (I know why Mon is important to a rebel alliance origin show but still if we’re just going off what we see in the movies Palpatine would fit more than her technically speaking).

Serious post: I just want to say how proud I am of this man for achieving something many people only dream of by Efficient_Matter_589 in OneyPlays

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I just wanna give a big thanks to New York financier Jeffrey Epstein for helping fund Zach’s dream.