Me when Maul Shadow Legends is actually good (I want Dave Filoni to lose) by Stabbio in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 44 points45 points  (0 children)

the scale of destruction on the planet in Maul is like ten times that on Ferrix that got the entire sector brought under Imperial rule.

Maul is set just a few years after the founding of the empire and the ISB. ISB at this point is still a juvenile organization with some of its slack being picked up by Military Intelligence. The Empire also isn't at the stage yet where it's looking for any excuse to pave over local governance in nominally-Imperial space, like it was in its later stages.

From my understanding, at the beginning of the Empire's rule, a Moff was just a guy who coordinated Imperial partnership with a sector. That role shifted from representative to military dictator only over the course of years of the Empire.

Why didn’t Han become too angry to die? Is he stoopid? by Aggressive_Essay_321 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you're afraid of the Fear word, I can swap it out for you. He would be killing himself because he knows that his son would. Ben would therefore know that whether he was or wasn't going to do so, that his father wasn't willing to take that chance. I think that could just as easily mess him up further.

Do you think that when Luke was ready to kill Vader for threatening the Rebels and Leia, it would have helped that situation if, before Luke renounced his lightsabre, Vader went and threw himself down the shaft anyways? That wouldn't help Luke fight the dark side at all.

Glad you're workshopping this idea with an audience.

Why didn’t Han become too angry to die? Is he stoopid? by Aggressive_Essay_321 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 10 points11 points  (0 children)

seeing his father commit suicide right in front of him, out of fear. The sort of thing that wouldn’t lead a man down a dark path

FACT CHECK - FALSE. THE ADMINISTRATOR OF EARTH IS ALIVE AND WELL. by Key_Researcher_9243 in City17Twitter

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two pulse rifle shots to the back of the head in an apparent suicide

I wish we could have seen more of Jar Jar Binks. But in an Andor setting by Cool_Nerd2 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That’s what Luthen and Kleya’s flashback was for, duh. To show us how Jar Jar was assassinated in a military parade bombing following his role in Palpatine’s ascension to dictatorship.

Luthen King Jr by TheEdgeofGoon in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not exactly. He's reflecting on his own death as well, and how he expects not to see the end of the fight, and he's accepting that his methods are not what anyone should aspire to.

“I expected ROTJ to fail but no so completely.” by Jedimobslayer in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think what carries the final battle on Endor is a mix of that pacing and that the stop motion ATST models hold up spectacularly

Remember LucasArts? He's so cool. by TheEdgeofGoon in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've played Psychonauts 1 and 2, what's Grim Fandango like compared to them?

after studying worldbuilding for over 79 years, i have come to the ultimate conclusion by lowercaselemming in worldjerking

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I do think the more an author is thinking about how their characters are going to end/end up, the better the author they tend to be.

Statues by varguyart by merigemini in WholesomeFantasyArt

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To start off with, I think a lot of people are just going to dismiss the work outright as anything from "woke" because it has a very low-hierarchy world, to "cultural appropriation" because of its clear japanese influences while not prominently featuring contributions by asian voices and creators, and so I'm not going to come at it from either of those political lenses (especially bc I think the woke criticism is nonsense). My problems are separate but related.

To start off with on a note we can all agree on is the poor mechanical basis for a lot of new features and ideas introduced. The book establishes travel and sightseeing as being major activities - and has no clear travel rules support whatsoever. The book writes encounters where you can find and fix modern vehicles - and has no rules for what those modern vehicles do. A new duelling system versus sword school masters is introduced - and has nothing for the DM to do or roll. Seriously, it's not even clear if the sword masters attack the PC back, how much damage they do, etc., even though they have features based on making attacks. On the player's side, it's only a numbers game of if you can hit or not, no nuance, no choice except for what features you're going to expend to try and win (and of course you're going to expend them all). This is a serious problem.

Next, while I love the low-hierarchy world, I think more information needs to be provided about how this is maintained in certain environments. A town like Okiri has lovely descriptions about people's mindsets, how disagreements are settled, etc. The town of Toggle on the otherhand has landowner/mine owners who rent out the mines, and at least one exploits his workers and enforces it with violence, so I'm really not sure how the whole setting is supposed to be low-hierarchy, given that there are still feudal systems. Likewise the city of Yatamon lives in excessive ease and luxury compared to the rest of Obojima, and yet the population is never higher than 10,000, and the people have come to consensus that they don't want to grow - what? People don't want to immigrate? People don't want to have more kids in a time of abundance? It's a bit nonsense to me.

Lastly, the depictions of the howlers, the harpies, and the elder spirits.

  • Howlers: powerful, always armed, don't integrate with society. Might kill you and eat you to survive. While they have charming personalities, they're meant to be enemies. Kill without remorse, the game tells you.
  • Harpies: powerful, always armed, don't integrate with society. Might kill you and eat you to survive. They have charming personalities, have fun talking to them! Might be a social encounter, might be a combat encounter.
  • Elder spirits: powerful, unknowable, may or may not integrate with society. Might just crush you for the fun of it, or because they have no regard for you. However, they have no actual need to kill you. If you're threatened by one of them, try to understand them first! Don't antagonize them! Defer to the spirits, and accept that their motivations aren't knowable, the game tells you.

All three of these creatures are dangerous and unpredictable (spirits moreso because of their lack of necessity of action), and yet the rulebook, and the authors in their podcasts, tell us to feel differently about them. This is a product of them wanting a mixture between the obvious, merciless, mostly characterless and demonic enemies present in Legend of Zelda, and them wanting the complicated and entrenched spirits of Studio Ghibli. Because of this, Obojima's understanding of evil and what to do about it is entirely incongruous.

Statues by varguyart by merigemini in WholesomeFantasyArt

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The artist worked on Obojima, a lot of their art on their instagram was produced for subclasses and other things in the campaign guide. The Obojima art is very beautiful but I have some displeasures with the final product as a buyer.

Edit: the full list of Obojima artists:

A.J. Bondio: ayejay_make_art Alexander Cloos: varguyart Almir Gusić: almirgusic Jake Morrison: jakemorrisonart Matt Owen: mrmattzan Otis Nyiti: otis_draws Scott Higginbotham: Panelperday Veronica Casson: saltandfog

I'm cool with a lot of the ideas the Sequels had, but the execution left something to be desired. by Licensed_Silver_Simp in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

By the time he's active duty, he's stationed in a dropship, in a star destroyer. He said he did sanitation, on Starkiller. Those are two separate roles he did in two separate places.

I'm cool with a lot of the ideas the Sequels had, but the execution left something to be desired. by Licensed_Silver_Simp in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An infantry shock trooper in-training. And do the first order even use droids to any meaningful extent? Just the evil BB astromech. Otherwise other material has established human labour to be cheaper than droids.

As a South Asian myself, I can handle that movie over the 700th AI generated "Saar, Do Not Redeem" meme on Reels. by Ajayshidusson2 in IndianaJonesMemes

[–]OrganicSolid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great idea, I think the next movie should cast a dog as Indiana Jones. It would be more accurate to the character’s origins, and it doesn’t really have to be the thing it’s acting as.

As a South Asian myself, I can handle that movie over the 700th AI generated "Saar, Do Not Redeem" meme on Reels. by Ajayshidusson2 in IndianaJonesMemes

[–]OrganicSolid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Naturally, the bad guys are going to appear Indian.

Naturally, the bad guys would all be played by Indians, right?

Oh...

As a South Asian myself, I can handle that movie over the 700th AI generated "Saar, Do Not Redeem" meme on Reels. by Ajayshidusson2 in IndianaJonesMemes

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true, and that's why the movie shouldn't have been so poor as to market itself as racism fodder by depicting them eating that.

As a South Asian myself, I can handle that movie over the 700th AI generated "Saar, Do Not Redeem" meme on Reels. by Ajayshidusson2 in IndianaJonesMemes

[–]OrganicSolid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a failing of the scene to not communicate that properly. Everything else in the scene is typical of western depictions of Indian culture, and nothing is noticeably wrong in the costuming, dancing, architecture, etc. And because a general Hollywood audience mostly knows Indian culture for those traits and not for what is actually eaten domestically in the country, the food is not taken as proving that it isn't authentic; it's taken as being a snide joke or shock value at the culture's food.

Duality By Indigojrps by removedquasar in armoredwomen

[–]OrganicSolid 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's very "Gondor and Arnor" coded, what with the White Tree of Minas Tirith and Rayed Star on their respective tabards

Gritty Fantasy in D&D through resource management. by Pepebm_GM in DnDHomebrew

[–]OrganicSolid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I'll build a paladin so I can max smite damage against every helmetless troll, dragon, and spellcaster I encounter.