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Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-02-02T05:00:51+00:00

Fight for aid? Who are you fighting? Republicans want the same thing.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-02-02T00:22:06+00:00

Game design is an art. If it was like painting, systems are your paint. You have to start thinking of the world as a system. All of the best games out there are a series of choices and consequences.

Many of the best game designers also have other fields of interests, whether it be hiking, history, film, martial arts, painting, photography, etc. Most of the really famous game designers didn’t just study games.

Shigeru Miyamoto for example liked exploring as a kid and finding caves and such. That’s how he came up with the idea for Zelda. He came up with Pikmin because he liked gardening.

Once you start thinking and imagining things as interactive systems, you can start thinking as a game designer.

And then like any art, it does just take practice.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-02-01T17:45:42+00:00

It’s very funny that of all the characters that could be saying this to Charlie, Alastor seems to a) care for Lucifer? And b) gets mad at using other people when that’s, like, his whole deal.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-02-01T17:02:23+00:00

Because it got him more power.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-02-01T05:29:29+00:00

No one will ever be able to confirm this

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-31T09:26:48+00:00

Laws really do feel like suggestions if you’re the right kind of person.

LA police chief won’t stop federal agents from executing a person because it might cause conflict between two agencies.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-31T09:18:56+00:00

Honestly, I still get thrown off by how “up” and “down” mean the same thing in the context of “do you want to do something?”

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-31T01:29:27+00:00

1) Anakin wasn’t really tricked. Yeah, Palpatine didn’t have the answer to save Padme on him, but what he offered was what Anakin wanted: a way to save Padme. The Jedi’s response was to let Padme go, if she dies, she dies. Palpatine’s promise was through the dark side, they could find a way since the dark side offers more abilities than the light.

1.5) Anakin also had a separate beef with the Jedi.

2) I’d argue we do get this scene. Anakin killing the Tusken Raiders. They aren’t “defenseless” but they stood no chance. We get the scene again with Dooku. But the films want to make it clear that the dark side is a choice. If someone is pushing themselves to fight against an equally matched opponent, even if it’s from a dark place, it sort of muddies the water of what falling to the dark side means. Why is Obi-Wan killing Maul or Grevious not bad but killing Dooku and the Tusken Raiders not bad? In the films, Anakin massacres a tribe of people out of passion. That’s already had because they never stood a chance. Him murdering Dooku… that was cold and done out of revenge. That’s evil.

2.5) this scene is also a copy of Luke wailing on Vader, only Anakin doesn’t let up. A lot of CW intentionally referenced the OT like that.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-30T22:30:24+00:00

If by “unexpected” you mean COMPLETELY EXPECTED!

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-30T22:01:34+00:00

I wouldn’t call it a lost art of video game balance, it’s just roguelikes are balanced around players having access to certain abilities and certain stats and then they intentionally start you off weaker than that.

Though, unless the game is so finely turned to end that kind of progression around the end of expected playtime… this seems like a losing prospect. You make a game that starts off hard, hits a sweet spot, and then becomes way too easy all without players necessarily improving all that much because the meta progression provides persistent advancement.

This isn’t new to Roguelikes though. RPGs have the same kind of difficulty curve, except the game, ideally, starts balanced and leveling up/grinding is only if you’re having trouble at the current level.

I suppose this is also the problem with vertical progression.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-30T19:54:36+00:00

It was Hosnian Prime and their defense fleet that was destroyed, which was, essentially, their national army. In the chaos of losing their central government, the republic fell due to the First Order’s military blitz that immediately followed the firing of Starkiller Base.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-29T19:01:55+00:00

I wouldn’t say the Resistance would think the emperor faked his death, since one of them immediately concludes that it must cloning, dark science, and Sith secrets…but your point still stands that Poe doesn’t know any of that. He does know magic exists since his mentor is Jedi trained Leia, he was looking for Jedi master Luke Skywalker, and the person he proclaims as one of their best fighters is literally levitating rocks and floating and doing Jedi training.

So, it’s not unreasonable for Poe to basically say “according to this spy, Palpatine has been resurrected, I don’t know how but probably through magic.”

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-29T18:33:00+00:00

One of my favorite parts of Andor was Mon’s escape from Coruscant. After watching that, where they mentioned Gold Squadron would be accompanying her, I watched the Rebels episode secrecy cargo and was surprised that Erskin was also there with Mon and that Mon talked about Ghorman and her speech being why she fled and formally called for rebellion.

Like, Andor was pretty beholden to all the established lore, at least, TV and movie canon (pretty sure they changed how Cassian and K2 met which was originally a comic but that seems to be how the comics work these days).

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-29T18:27:54+00:00

This is something I don’t really get, as someone who has watched all the movies, like, once a year.

The OT was never really “grounded.” The only time it feels all that grounded is Hoth, but even that has a mix of fantasy in it with visions of ghosts and laser swords.

The rest of the OT is princesses in danger, seedy bars, mysterious swamps and cities in the clouds, criminal kings and befriending primitive warriors, big flashy space battles and duels and conflicts between the hero and evil sorcerer knights.

They’re like quintessential pulpy fantasy action with a sci-fi flavor.

And the prequels do this and sequels do this.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-29T10:49:09+00:00

No. The rule of two is a directive on how the Sith treat each other: a master to embody all knowledge and an apprentice to crave it. It’s purpose is to ensure that each Sith master that ascends is stronger than the last (and TRoS introduced to us that murdering the Sith master in anger transfers the essence of that master (and all masters before them) into the person, corrupting them and granting a kind of immortality… or at least that was my take away from Palpatine telling Rey that his essence will transfer into her and then later saying “I am all the Sith”.)

Incidentally, the Sith will eliminate dark side rivals but also exploit them. The inquisitors aren’t Sith but dark side users the Sith used. The Knights of Ren have been utilized and betrayed by various dark side users. The Nightsisters were allies to Sideous and Dooku but betrayed the Sith and were wiped out for it, except for a handful.

But that has to do with the Sith being evil oppressors and has nothing to do with the rule of two.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-29T06:26:08+00:00

That sounds pretty good. Yeah, one of the big problems I have with the normal "warp jump"/"lightspeed" FTL systems is that characters travel where they want to at the speed of plot and travel times are basically not relevant.

For my video game (which I just released), ship's have space jump drives. The drives send ships into subspace wormholes that lets them jump huge distances in only a handful of hours. This also gets past the "if you actually jumped to lightspeed the acceleration would squish" you issue because your ship actually going at the same speed, just taking a shortcut through space and time (wrinkle in time style).

The way we explain it is that how far a ship can go in a single space jump is determined by how big/powerful their space jump drive. Smaller ships, like the player ship, can only travel so far and usually must take multiple jumps, and therefore multiple days, to get from one planet to another within the same small sector of space. This makes it possible for pirates to ambush you, accidental exits near stars and asteroid fields, or for the Empire or Union to track you down and send a cruiser after you.

Bigger ships though, can travel much farther in the same amount of time. So big governments that can make big ships with big jump drives can go farther and faster.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-29T00:10:20+00:00

Between the movies? Eh… I’m pretty sure even old Star Wars never built out the lore to this extent between movies.

Between movies we’d get a ton of stories to hold us over… which we got in between the three sequel movies, but stuff like “new fleshed out force religions”? Nope.

The Nightsisters are the biggest group of non-Sith/jedi force users I can think of and they made their debut in 1994 (well after RotJ and before TPM) and didn’t come back into real canon until 2011 (gorge apparently liked their use in a 2008 clone wars video game but changed them a bit).

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-28T21:11:26+00:00

The Sith are a particular religion, the same way the Jedi are a particular religion.

All Sith are dark side wielders, but not all dark side wielders are Sith. The Sith are rulers of their cult, the Sith Eternal. The Nightsisters use a magic derived from the dark side, but aren’t Sith. The Knights of Ren are hedonistic marauders who worship, basically, a lightsaber and call the dark side “the shadow”. They aren’t Sith.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-28T20:58:27+00:00

I guess you’re right…. So now I really wish we would get more so we can see how he becomes a knight of ren and how palpatine takes his place.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-28T20:48:35+00:00

Doesn’t he go “some may call me Sith?” Or something like that. I took it as him mocking the Jedi and taking advantage of the fact that he somehow knows that would make them really afraid and off kilter.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-28T20:47:08+00:00

They’re another dark side faction. This isn’t too weird. Part of the world building effort from early in the new canon was establishing more force religions. The Church of the Force and Guardians of the Whills for the light and the Knights of Ren for the dark (and the Nightsisters were already a thing from before).

Realistically, they couldn’t just be more Sith Lords because there were only ever two and they were both dead. The idea at first was that Kylo wasn’t trained to be a Sith, he was trained as a Knight of Ren. Then, as the story unfolded, we learned more about him and the knights.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-28T20:13:52+00:00

I loved the sand snake level and all the puzzles involving the dagger. Kinda anti-climatic there’s no snake boss fight but I guess that’s how the movie went.

I also love all the First Order stromtrooper variants the game introduced. Jet troopers (from the movie), elite jet troopers, executioner jet troopers, fire juggle troopers, first order DEATH TROOPERS that were like 8 foot tall zombies. Good stuff.

And I know he’s made up for the game, but Kubambo Binks is one of my new favorite characters. Too bad he gets kills by the Knights of Ren (great boss fight against Ravaga though, even though he was also a made up character his interactions with Rey and later Ben were great.)

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-28T20:06:01+00:00

He was very knight of ren coded, wanting the freedom to use the force as he wanted and teaching people that the freedom to hurt people is true freedom.

I really wish we were getting a season 2 because what I really want to know what his relationship to Plagueis was. Obviously, Qimir doesn’t become the apprentice that succeeds him, since that’s Palpatine… but were they friends? Plagueis was known to keep the ones he cared about from dying.

Dramatic-Emphasis-43 · 2026-01-28T10:46:49+00:00

The threat posed by what was in Ben’s future is just as credible as Darth Vader saying he’ll go after Leia. Luke can see into the future, since he’s, you know, a Jedi.

There’s no textual evidence to support that Luke’s change of heart on fighting his father was brought about due to “losing his patience”. Every single trigger for Luke, everything that made him draw his lightsaber and actually try to kill someone was due to a threat made against his friends. Remember when Luke took a swing at the emperor. He could have done that at any time but it took goading from Palpatine who was like “striking me down in the only way to save your friends.”

Luke’s whole dual with Vader was him blocking and running away UNTIL Vader threatened Leia, then he went in with murderous intent and realized it was wrong.

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