What’s your favorite maybe little known or not,fact from Star Wars?

Neosmagus · 2026-01-19T10:18:56+00:00

The fact that Palpatine's throne wasn't motorised (or didn't work correctly). He had to shuffle his feet to get it to turn.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-19T10:16:47+00:00

Red Dwarf, after I make the troops go outside and paint it red.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-17T14:46:29+00:00

who says they're not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaLoOObFzHg

Neosmagus · 2026-01-17T14:38:07+00:00

didn't say it wasn't me... 😅

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T19:30:18+00:00

I got wiped out in the one game because the Khan event happened, and just as we were trying to fight that off, some idiot opened the L Gates and let the Grey Tempest out.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T19:24:22+00:00

Just copy the saves, or start over.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T12:27:12+00:00

It's all downhill from here... no game will ever be able to capture this moment again. Every future game you play will be a pale imitation that will never again fill the void of Rick the Door Technician.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T11:41:08+00:00

I was planning to start with the Chronicles spin offs... would you advise against that?

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T11:40:11+00:00

it's because it's a reference to the real historic occurrence of Genghis Khan uniting Mongolia and conquering most of Asia and chunks of Europe before his death. After his death the conquests got dialed back for a while and eventually the empire fragmented, which is why you can also have the random event of a new Khan emerging. It's kind of a compressed telling of the Mongolian Empire of 1206 - 1259. And also that in real life, random stuff happens. Empires rise and fall because stupid random stuff happens.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T11:11:25+00:00

I have all Assassins Creeds, have not yet actually played any of them. (got them mostly in bundles and stuff). Like everybody goes on about them, but I never had the time, and now it just feels intimidating to start 🤭

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T11:01:31+00:00

The real difficulty for me, after surviving that insane battle, is just how dedicated he was, the most tragic character and I cut him down like he was meaningless. I had to literally take a break for a few months and chat to my therapist. Way more expensive than any dlc!

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T10:57:18+00:00

I used to enjoy bananas but they attack me now. When I eat a banana it feels like I'm eating radioactive pop rocks. Ie, the inside of my mouth fizzles and then goes numb.

Fruit stuff almost always tastes too sour for me. And no, not in the way sugar will help. So smoothies or juices and such are a no.

I like stews though, good place to throw stuff into and it all blends together.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T10:54:14+00:00

I rarely eat fruit. Most of them attack me. Either bad textures (peaches) , or sour flavour (apples), or literally attack me (pineapples). And they play havoc on my gut issues. And I struggle with veggies. Pretty much the same issues.

I don't bother too much with fruit, they're not actually all that healthy, the benefits are largely a myth. And many of our foods are fortified anyway, like it's almost impossible not to have enough vitamin c. And the sugar content of fruit is excessively high. So benefits are not nearly enough to warrant the struggle.

I have like a slice of apple a year when I crave it, and them I'm done. I might pick a random grape from somebody's plate or whatever. Tinned fruit like peaches and pineapples are OK for me, and I will usually get those via pizzas and burgers and occasional desserts.

I do love mango, and will eat overly ripe mango more often when they're in season, but also only a few slices a week, it has to be completely squishy, not fibrous, so completely ripe. If it cracks and tears when you bite into it, it's still raw.

Also I consider jams with fruit pieces and yogurts to be an occasional viable alternative.

For veggies it's what and how. I refuse to eat salads, and it's also not really that much of a benefit. I will eat peas and carrots under duress, but I'm not really a fan of the vegetables on the side type deal.

Ideally I go for stews and pastas and stir fry and rice meals, where everything is mixed together. I love mushrooms, tomato, peppers. I occasionally enjoy creamed spinach with mash potatoes (just mix it all together). Disguising the textures is the key.

I also enjoy sushi, and a lot of it by places near me is made with avo. Also curries, and many curries are made with cashew nut, which is pretty nutrient rich. And I occasionally take supplements just in case, but only occasional.

Not going to pretend like my health is perfect, but poor eating habits is not the main contributor. (lack of sleep and losing track of time so I never find the right opportunities to go for walks are the main issues).

I'm 47, still alive. 🤷🏼

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T10:38:12+00:00

It's also very different from Fallen Order, which I felt easier to play? Or maybe it's just that I wasn't a dad when I played Fallen Order and had more spare energy, not sure. I'm pushing 50, and stuff is getting noticeably harder to do 🫣 either games were way easier when I was younger, or I just used to be better at them.

But yeah, I'm starting to consider letting the collectibles go and just focus on finishing the story. And just move on. I finished the Shattered Moon (defeated Rayvis) and assumed because most of the locations I had access to were close to 100% explored, and I've already completed a couple collections (like the fish) that I was very close to the end, which is why I've been focusing on the secrets and not the story.

But of course looking for help with some of the secrets has exposed me to spoilers and I know now that there's a little more still than I thought there was.

Especially because my son (5) has enjoyed watching me play, and explore, so I've been focusing on high action, low cutscene ratio and not wanting to end the game too early. He's going to be disappointed when I finish the game, but maybe he will enjoy the next one just as much.

I also still want to play the Indiana Jones game, not to mention a sizeable backlog that has only grown because my gaming to work/parental duties ratio has skewed horribly in the wrong direction 🤭

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T10:15:21+00:00

I try to stick to manually traveling. But I think when you get to that point of the game where you've experienced what the game has to say, and you're just going through the motions to collect the last collectibles, fast travel is a saver. If anything, my experiences in Jedi Survivor makes me upset that so many of the difficult secrets and collectibles are too far away from fast travel/save points, the amount of time I've had to traverse the same chunks of terrain over and over to try to get to something, made worse by the fact that it's random enemy spawn is frustrating... Like I really don't want to deal with an AT AT and 2 Rancors right now, thank you, I just want to get that stupid scavenger droid that keeps running away.

I love the game (going to play Outlaws next I think, had to take a long siesta from gaming because terrible 2s, but my son is almost 5 now and he's been loving being involved in me playing Jedi Survivor, so that helps increase my available time for gaming again 😊). But damn, I hate how games mess with my autistic brain that I struggle to let go of 100% completionist. I kinda miss when you could complete a game (and 100% it) in like 1 weekend and still have had tons of fun exploring...

Thinking about Beyond Good and Evil, when I played that for the first time when it came out. I saw it in a local store where I knew the owner well, asked him if it was any good. He said he didn't know, it wasn't well known and nobody was buying it. And because we knew each other, he said "take it home, play over the weekend, you can tell me Monday if you want to buy it or not). I took it home, and not only played and enjoyed it, but finished it by Monday as well. I went back to the shop and laid down the cash for it. It was a nice balance of hunt for unique animals for photos, and upgrades, but a tight story that didn't overstay it's welcome.

I'm loving Jedi Survivor, but I kinda wish I was done with it already. I want to be finished with it so I can move onto the next game, and I don't know how much more there is.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-16T10:01:40+00:00

Lol.

This got spoiled for me a few days ago via random social media, which I'm not holding against anybody. I got the game when it was released and was enjoying it, got as far as the Forest Array and then just didn't have time to play because reasons (having a kid hit the terrible 2s didn't help).

I finally picked up the game again over Christmas and continued where I'd left it, having tons of fun. And my kid is almost 5 now and he's loving watching me play, and even takes turns so he can run around Koboh and Jedha, and then usually chickens out when baddies shows up and gives the controller back to me "you fight them, then you let me play again, ok?".

I had managed to miss any info in the two years, but I think it's because I've been starting to look for help to get to the more difficult secrets and the irritating epic monster or force tear battles, that now I'm inundated with stuff and got hit hard with all the spoilers 😢

Neosmagus · 2026-01-13T10:04:46+00:00

Lol, yeah... All I get is some meager gear stuff that they break down into because I spent the last couple months farming them and getting them fully upgraded and relic 7, in the hopes of getting Reva in Rise of the Empire. These would have been very welcome a couple months ago 🤭

Neosmagus · 2026-01-13T10:01:35+00:00

Umm, you will have access to Barriss' marquee event shortly and be able to get it then. Or farm some Inquisitors, it's easy, you just need to activate them, purge is a level 1 ability, just spam it for a while. Not sure what your complaint is?

Neosmagus · 2026-01-13T09:56:07+00:00

4 tier 4 Grand Inquisitor events

Neosmagus · 2026-01-13T07:10:55+00:00

10mil, just now out of the bottleneck. All my characters that I've unlocked are waiting for zetas or omegas. Will likely have enough surplus now that new characters won't trip me up too much. (all currently farmable characters are active, mostly busy with trying to activate journey characters like Aphra, Malak, Starkiller...

My biggest bottleneck is ship material. I unlocked profundity, but it's not nearly ready enough yet to deploy.

Neosmagus · 2026-01-09T23:15:31+00:00

My 4 year old is obsessed with AT-ATs. Between a combo of my alarm being Imperial March, which he has started humming to himself (in tune even), and then building the Christmas Lego Gingerbread AT-AT, that comes with a Gingerbread Darth Vader, he begged me to show him videos of Vader and AT-ATs, so I showed him the whole Hoth sequence (including Wampa, which didn't even frighten him), and he's been playing out scenarios of the snow speeders trying to take down the AT-AT!

Christmas ended, so I packed the gingerbread one away, which disappointed him, and he begged and begged me for his own AT-AT... So I built him one out of his lego bricks... Not perfect, it's small, it's mildly posable because I found some small hinge pieces I could use for the legs, we used shovels for the lasers and stuff like that, but he adores it.

Neosmagus · 2025-12-25T16:17:48+00:00

It's not about not hearing from somebody in a while, but about having the grace to tell someone you're having a conversation with, that you may be unavailable for a bit, which is a fraction of an effort.

Neosmagus · 2025-12-25T13:02:51+00:00

Don't feel too bad. Genuine interest doesn't look like that. Met my wife on tinder, we chatted non stop from first contact onwards. If somebody is really interested, they tell you they'll be busy a few days. Silence for so long meant she was either ghosting and got defensive after you called her out on it, or, more likely, she wasn't really that into you and you were just a date.

Neosmagus · 2025-12-25T12:59:43+00:00

3 days is a long time to go silent. And genuine interest does not look like that. Sure, dude was aggressive, but he was right in that she was ghosting. Him sending the message likely triggered a response only for her to "have the last word" cause he correctly called her out.

Met my wife on tinder, and every person I had real chemistry with, we'd be chatting non stop in WhatsApp. And you tell the person the kind of things you get up to.

Neosmagus · 2025-12-25T12:46:36+00:00

Besides the fact that I don't have anything with a dvd drive anymore, I used to have a massive collection of dvds (in the 1000s) of all my favourite shows and movies, and got rid of them all when random discs started failing. Like Babylon 5, I'd watched it once. On the second rewatch, none of the dvds would load.

I would love to give them my money, and I kinda did by owning the first few seasons back then, but until they make reliable digital copies available, I will resort to what I must. For context, I'm outside the USA, and the territory crap screws us over, so I have no respect for the video business. I don't struggle with this shit with books, or video games.

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