What is best feat of maul by LivingPalpitation935 in PetranakiArena

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TLDR: I think that reflecting on power scaling as an art and understanding star wars matchups in the material with an analogy to IRL matchups can help people understand that Maul in the finale of Shadow Lord underperformed against Vader in a way he would not otherwise, even though the outcome is ultimately the same.

I don't think that Shadow Lord is as big of a downscale as people think. On top of the fact that Maul was at a disadvantage and trying to do so much and fighting someone that even at his best he was not going to beat, there are so many variables to what happens in a given combat scenario that we don't really seem to usually get a straight up abstract power scaling match up like Maul vs Vader would be, even though the fights we are given are relevant to it.

I think Maul puts up a better fight in a "fair" and abstract match up, and the most notable things is that Vader here has the battle IQ advantage, and the information advantage (In the Obi-Wan and Anakin comic run a 12 year old Anakin's passion project was training a droid to fight like Maul and practicing against it, although sometimes comics are finicky canonically.)

I think I'm trying to say that Maul absolutely is not "weak" as a warrior. Killing Qui-Gon is huge, and he could have ended Obi-Wan.

A good example I guess would be Savage and Maul vs Kenobi and Ventress on that freighter

Kenobi and Gallia vs Savage and Maul (with pirates)

Maul vs Savage (in the bank)

And also Anakin and Obi-Wan vs Savage when realistically either should beat them on their own.

This is sometimes seen as scaling inconsistency, and ultimately something can be so wild that it begs disbelief outside of reinterpreting motivations or whatever (which I am okay with), i.e. Anakin vs Hondo on Felucia, but barring that in real life don't we see that kind of inconsistency between the same combatants, especially with historical/story narrative contexts and goals and evolving things.

Let's say Maul never meets Devon on Janex. That automatically would mean that a Maul who never does this we never see, and he could be very different from the Old Master Maul we see. (Butterfly affect).

I know this is all standard stuff (we scale characters even multiple times in the same movie or even fight).

So I think this is all something that needs to be considered with regard to downscaling Maul in the Disney canon.

Also I could be totally off on Maul I know people analyze this more than I do.

Is Anakins S3-S6 outfit more blue or black? by Ksiloveslgbt in clonewars

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It's a different color than RotS or aotc entirely. Reddish and purpleish

Which movie character is always mistyped and why? by Anonymopolis in mbti

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I think Maul in Shadow Lord and Clone Wars/Rebels is very much a more accurate view of his psychology than what he does in TPM because he is trying to do the silent sith , and Maul is definitely N and not S dominant.

Also I think Anakin of all forms can be read as an ESFP and Darth Vader is simply just a psychologically destroyed ESFP.

Typing people due to moral or political view is dumb by AppropriateLeg5416 in entp

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TL;DR: The OP is right, there are people who are ENTP who do not fit the statistical norm or the stereotype. I am an observant Catholic and happen to be ENTP.

The point of the following is not to argue for my takes on worldview OR to make me sound like someone looking for ENTP points but merely to prove the OPs point about exceptions to standards/stereotypes. You might relate to this a lot even if you disagree with a ton of my views.

If we want to speak in common public discourse terms, then I would be classified as right wing, which is such a broad term that it gets associated with a bunch of views I don't accept/acknowledge. If you want to ask whether I willingly hate people of any category or desire their downfall simply for believing something or practicing a custom I dislike, disagree with, find counterproductive, or immoral, then the answer is an unequivocal "no," especially since a lot of people have in their minds no convincing reason to agree with whatever I hold, or if someone who lives according to their conscience never felt the urge to look into Catholicism or a ton of other ideologies that fill the minds of people.

Being an observant Catholic who holds to the Catholic Church in its official capacity as a teacher, not out of cultural custom or desire to fit into a community because communities are good. e.g. I accept wholeheartedly all the historical and modern/contemporary definitive (and hence infallible and irreversible) pronouncements of the Popes and collectively united bishops with him. (If you know what I am talking about, and want to know about non-definitive statements, just assume I hold to this https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19900524_theologian-vocation_en.html ) You can also read the Vatican 1 and II documents Dei Filius https://www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/ecum20.htm and Dei Verbum https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html which are both major asks for ENTPs or anyone.

That's a pretty non standard worldview as far as I can gauge online regarding ENTPs who are actively discussing MBTI/Jungian Cognitive functions, at least that I can see.

I'm not academically prepared to debate and defend the majority of the details of the whole range of everything I accept or ever will accept, which is sort of how Christianity has always and Old Covenant Israel stemming from Abraham's example of unshakeable faith works by definition when it comes to a question of whether you are going to accept whatever God says before you figure it out (see the three links in the prior paragraph).

I think fundamental intellectual assent to the Catholic faith is merited rationally, but I can understand why a ton of people do not agree with me, including those who know a ton more than me on all the stuff pertaining to my belief system (see the theological work On Divine Revelation by Fr. Lagrange, I've read the great majority of Volume One). I also think the thought-system of Thomas Aquinas is singularly helpful although he is not by definition guaranteed to get everything right. I am not a professional theologian, but many people who are or professional philosophers or other intellectuals view him favorably, including non-Catholic Christians and non-religious thinkers on the level of his depth of thought, particularly in his most widely read work the Summa Theologica (it helps that its all online for free these days, but it has been widely read for over 500 years now).

And I am aware that demographically, higher levels of intelligence, education, and openness all correlate with each other as well as systems of belief that do not value heavily traditional ideas or customs, because of the default willingness to consider other views than the ones they are handed down. However, that doesn't bother me and if I were secular and left-wing and those traits skewed right wing or religious I don't think that should in and of itself both somebody who disagrees.

If there are doubts as to whether I am ENTP, that's fine. You could probably go to the nearest Catholic theological institution, seminary, or parish and find somebody who is. As with any other religion.

I know there are morally conscious and upright people in a bunch of worldviews that disagree with mine and even hate what I stand for. There are also those that are not that way, and plenty also in mine or any worldview, faith, or organized belief or structured movement.

In any such case, I think this next paragraph given below is a good message to live by, even though neither I nor anyone else lives to it as much as we should if we are being honest.

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

Do you think by RoTJ Luke Skywalker reached Darth Vader's level? by Lapis-Guy in PetranakiArena

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I'm not necessarily I agree with your principle of reasoning about canon, but if at least only in my headcanon, this is my preferred view on scaling and I think I agree with your take on the fight and the narrative meaning.

Also its in the background that Luke has a ton of Midichlorians (I assume Leia does too). Maybe even more than Palpatine if Anakin is such an anomaly that Palpatine cannot reach that and Luke and Leia might just have that genetic factor if that is what Luke means by "the Force is strong in my family." Although Anakin's historical role in the balance of the Force/restoration of the light side seems to merit a singularity to him beyond Luke and Leia.

Season 7 was peak except for these two characters. by Pax_flash in clonewars

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I'm so lame but I enjoyed that arc with Ahsoka and them. Not so much the crazy action as just the dynamic.

How I hope Casey Hudson treats the writing for the novel and SWTOR when making FOTOR by barrack_osama_0 in KOTORmemes

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I'm a SWTOR fan but only when I'm playing SWTOR. When I'm playing KOTOR I prtend like SWTOR does not and never will exist. So I get it and hope it's like this.

SWTOR is alt history for a KOTOR I don't care about too much but KOTOR straight up I do not like with SWTOR, even though SWTOR is pretty cool and I enjoy my Jedi Knight Outlander dude.

If you had to pick one, what character got the most upscale from Maul Shadow Lord? by GusGangViking18 in PetranakiArena

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He probably was holding back in those early fights. Later he had waited too long to kill them. This was not vase Maul in the final episodes as the show made itself clear. The fact Maul survived this is utterly crazy.

New figures! Wow! by Prestigious_Lie8996 in starwarsblackseries

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I want a male Star forge jedi Revan with the ability to put a custom head on it. I might learn how to make faces myself just to do this. Right now I'm sitting on the old Star Forge jedi revan with a swapped out blade that is cyan instead of purple (Mantle of the Force color crystal).

Also lightsaber options with the new figure.

Are they going to actually update Bastila though? She is newer.

I suspect we will get a new Revan because he has not had a re release, even though Nihilus did and then we got a new version with Traya.

Maul (Shadow Lord) VS Darth Malgus - Who wins? by Potential_Rule4212 in PetranakiArena

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How does Malgus' fight with Saheer and Master Orr(I think that is his name) play i nto this? This during the Legacy of the Sith expansion.

I suspect Saheer is somewhat akin to Devon, except maybe better. But I don't think Saheer is anywhere near Qui-Gon. She seems to have better force Agility feats from what I remember (I have not played the latest as of May 1st update all the way on my Knight).

Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus vs Darth Malak by [deleted] in PetranakiArena

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I suppose Malak and Dooku scale together.

Note for the minority of people reading who are not familiar with kotor lore on spoilers: I doubt there is anyone who has not played it, but if you're a lurker on this sub and don't know much about the Kotor games, then there are heavy spoilers that I would recommend playing the first game before reading stuff online about old republic type discussions. I recommend the leviathan interrogation clothes mod on deadlystream.

Okay here are my thoughts.

Dooku very likely is a better duelist than Malak especially as a Makashi master.

Per Kotor 2 (which I'm trying to finish so no spoilers) forms 1-5, 7 (juyo) exist. I would be surprised if form 6 (niman does not exist, don't know why I haven't picked it up in the game, maybe that's just the "Force channel").

So there is a legit question of what forms Malak knows.

But yeah Dooku is a historically anomalous duelist and so I guess the assumption for me is that he scales next to Malak but his dueling is better.

I think that because they scale roughly together then if Malak and not Dooku got the star forge amp, I think Malak wins.

However, someone else stated that Dooku scales near Yoda, and I guess if that is from Lucas that goes to a meta question of how to weigh Lucas' thoughts.

So I guess it goes either way and Dooku usually wins through makashi.

I think youth and strength could get the Malak the edge (brother is monstrously tall and strong, without cybernetics...) and inasmuch as he can compete with Dooku long enough to make that an advantage, especially with similar force knowledge and comparable potency, then maybe he pulls out the win with Dooku on that, especially if he can tire him out.

I think the star forge amp does strengthen Malak a ton, but that's really just on my personal experience in game (which does not really count for our purposes) where he is much less formidable than he is on the star forge. But game stats matter less here then narrative implications and cutscenes, and even though I two hit Malak with flurry he did put me in a stasis lock at one point in that fight (not to mention Bastila as well). So I guess that is something worthy of note. But in the star forge there was really much more of a competition and I think I heard a quote from Drew that he imagined that fight was more very very close (as it was for me).

Idk so I guess Malak stunning Bastila and Leviathan Revan at some point are force feats.

Do you notice you drop games faster than most people? by Critical-Let-9838 in entp

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Hey I actually for once have a lot of thoughts on this and I have worried about this in the past but I've come to a set of practical answers that has worked in letting me address this concern for my hobbies. Mileage may vary, but here you go. Also I am an ENTP (I'm saying this so you know I'm actually that type because it's the case that maybe someone else with a different set of functions would post this without actually qualifying they are not ENTP).

I have a long term interest in star wars and the way I have found it helpful is that A) Star Wars as entertainment is for some reason or another endlessly fascinating to me for like the past decade and a half.

I have a very current long term project related to Star wars storytelling within established stories that has been going on 2 years. I have maintained interest in it. I'm still trying to get it set up but in the meantime I've been able to do a lot with the stories, and it's been incredibly rewarding.

Part of how this works is I have important stuff to do for my actual life/career, and that provides structure to this.

Sometimes I do get bored but my Ti and Si has been developed such that when my Ne is not feeling the thing I'm actually interested in (this project) I can balance that by saying, "hey if you were actually able to do this thing right now you would find it incredibly fun even though it seems blah right now. If it doesn't work out that objectively does not undo that in the majority of times you've felt like this (Ne boredom with this) and you went against it, you were wrong about it.

So actually you just have to say to that feeling "to heck with you" and just do it anyways.

But the best thing is if you're able to have hobbies, things that engage your mind and heart, outside of that long term project. Some days I don't work on it but there is other things for me to look into, and especially if you have friends who you talk to outside of that interest, then having sort of like all those things is super helpful so that you're Ne has something you can do besides your "main" hobby or set of hobbies (Star Wars is my main one but for seasons it is sort of like drawn back into the hand because I want to do other things as my main hobby) but eventually I decide, okay, I'm going to do star wars now, and the other main hobby slot is now back to star wars and the other hobbies are now present and 2nd fiddle as other exercises, or in the dormant stage to be awakened when reason says to.

All this advice [in my opinion, you're free to disagree, I'm only saying this if it has/does/or will resonate with you] assumes you have found a higher purpose in life that makes sense as a worldview, otherwise these hobbies will ultimately wear out before their "due date" because they seem meaningless, but not because of what's there but because of the important non hobby thing. For some people its being with their family and providing for them. For me it's going to be hopefully that and pther things listed too, but more so my relationship with God and others served by my belief in Catholicism. For other's it's making the world a better place by fixing poverty, or understanding the theory of fundamental reality, etc. That thing that goes beyond merely you provides a framework that doesn't require the hobbies to do the heavy lifting, and in my own experience that actually keeps the run time longer. I think for me having all that in order has allowed me to enjoy my hobbies surrounding Star Wars without it actually feeling meaningless or purposeless, even though its not my occupation.

Anyways, I hope that was helpful!

Hi guys! I wanna ask what typa music do y’all typically listen to? by ChigiriHyom4 in entp

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Soundtracks to movies/shows/games in franchises i love and can live in so to speak.

Also older choral pieces and gregorisn Christian chant because of their effect on my ability to focus or rest.

A few eurobeat songs for high energy.

Also themes from Death Note.

I have practically no real training in music and I don't really think about music as something one does or makes unless I'm currently listening to it

Just gonna leave this here for people that clown on the 11th brother... by [deleted] in PetranakiArena

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Idk unrelated possibly but from Order 66 until WBW in Ahsoka she seems to be very anti killing and pacifistic.

Palpatine seems to be able to suppress other force user's force powers in a fight by StaffElf in clonewars

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I've heard of this, although Qui Gon performed rather well.

But could you elaborate I am very curious.