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Over the post limit and therefore closed. We're going to stop instituting this specific thread. If someone wants to make a new one they can, as long as it follows the forum guidelines.

I've left this thread go because of the sensitive nature of this topic until now, but now this thread has become twice as long as the allowed post limit and can safely be said to be entirely derailed. For that reason it is now closed. People are free to make another topic on the paris attacks and their fallout as long as it follows the forum guidelines.

That's what Poe's law is. When you can't tell the difference between a parody and the real deal.

Yeah, they were trying to keep it confidential but is that Kotaku's problem? They're games journalists - it's their point to find and release information. They've gotten a lot of crap in recent years for not doing their job but now they're getting crap for doing it right! The fact it was leaked is an internal problem for those publishers. Frustration and empathy are all well and good but Kotaku did nothing wrong. On the other hand, review copies and review access in all industries has always been provided as a good will gesture. Small websites don't get them because they don't register. It's not a right. "Blacklisting" doesn't mean anything and if they don't feel Kotaku has acted in good faith they don't have to do it. They did nothing wrong. What does concern me is the vigor with which games fans will defend publishers that will screw you over with broken products and nickel and diming DLC practices. There is something deeply wrong with the game community. What has UbiSoft done in recent years that deserves such defense? Everyone who takes a hardline stance in this is what is wrong with the game community.

As far as I can tell, Kotaku wasn't under NDA, Bruce. Here's the thing, people are taking sides here despite the fact both are simply within their rights to do what they did.

So now you're arguing based on how you think it should have been rather as how it is? You just keep making stuff up. The simple fact is that the double bladed lightsaber is not advantageous. Even if the hilt was longer, that hilt would not stop another lightsaber from cutting it in half, which is literally what Obi-Wan does. Even in your video, the naginata guy constantly blocks the kendo guy's attacks with the middle of his staff. Bye bye weapon. EDIT: Raithe is right though, I clearly will make no progress against delusion so I'm not responding any more.

Oh for god's sake. I did watch it and he clearly holds the staff at two opposite ends to lever his strength. Take a look at how far apart he's holding it. Take a look at the surface area a double bladed lightsaber has for holding it. http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/1/1a/Darth_Maul_lightsaber_reveal.png/revision/latest?cb=20140421143551 Gosh, it's almost like he's only got a sword hilt area to hold it, not an entire staff's length to level strength and create distance and can't use it in the same way as a staff or a naginata. Wow!

Fine, his lightsaber works like a naginata or a staff. Have fun cutting your fingers off when you use it like one, since you clearly "know martial arts". I'm done with you. Believe whatever nonsense you want.

A naginata can be held almost all over it's length and levered, which is where the advantage comes from. Seriously, use the double bladed saber like a naginata. Again, I dare you. At least with your fingers cut off you won't be able to type this nonsense. The double bladed sword does not have that. At all. They CANNOT be compared without being flat out lying. Maul's weapon is not a staff, it is not a naginta. It is this bull: Seriously, I give up. What is even the point of arguing with you when you just make **** up all the time?

Nope. I repeat. Go ahead and use a double-bladed lightsaber like a staff. Use the same "attack arcs and swings". I dare you. I double dare you. Staff advantage comes from where you can hold them and how you can lever your strength through that. This does not have it. Maul's lightsaber blades are the same length and a regular lightsaber, and he holds it in the middle. There is no arc size advantage. It is the same distance and size, except there is an impractical second sword sticking out of the bottom of his sword. It doesn't work. It's so impractical that it becomes stupid. End conversation.

You count Darth Maul's saber as a staff weapon when it is clearly not a staff weapon at all. It's a double bladed sword. Staff weapons have advantages such as where you can hold them, giving them a mobility advantage. A double bladed sword does not and is impractical. Except it's still the core of the backstory of A New Hope that this is all from a more civilized age that was lost. You can "disregard that" because it doesn't fit your argument but that doesn't make it any less true. Which really brings us to the problem with the prequels - there is no way twenty years ago was the golden age of the universe given the state of it in the original movies. Timeline wise, the prequels make no sense. If there's anything that should be disregarded, it's those.

Holographic videos in the original Star Wars are rare, with Leia's "you are my only hope" being the only real one of note - in fact, it seems to be used almost only to send messages. Obviously the technology has come out of favour, and judging by how it's always flickering and going out of focus it never properly worked in the first place. Since Leia needs to send it in an R2 unit instead of something like "e-mail" the technology must not be so advanced. It's also not a futuristic world - does "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" strike you as the future? Everything is dirty, grimy. Honestly, everything in Star Wars is more space magic than technology. Don't apply science fiction standards to a space opera about magic knights with fancy swords and pirate ships. Holovids must not be enough of a factor since Han Solo thinks Jedi don't even exist at the start of A New Hope. Hokey religions and ancient weapons and all that.

Yeah I got it the second time because I used her to defend my allies until I could fix up their laughable defenses. I mean seriously, they could barely hold out five minutes. Zagara and Artanis... I am disappoint! Alarak looks like Darth Vader lost his mask.

I loved that flick. It was such a positive, hopeful experience. am a huge fan o' walter mitty. who wouldn't like a movie with danny kaye and boris karloff? virgina mayo were one o' our favorite actresses during the 40s and she played the damsel not in distress perfect in mitty. wait, you aren't talking 'bout the horrible stiller remake, are you? HA! Good Fun! Horrible? I thought the remake did a great job coming up with its own, modernised version of the story and theme and was different enough to not be held back by the "just another remake" label, but to each their own. With the exception of that horrible subplot with his boss, anyway.

Hook is a bit all over the place, tone-wise, but I still love it. I loved that flick. It was such a positive, hopeful experience.

While I don't think he (or Wilson) are generally funny, I find the difference between them to be the movies they star in and how annoying their personas are. Not a big Stiller fan, but he doesn't actively irritate me like Sandler does.

Spent yesterday at the hospital because my dad had a heart attack scare - turned out to not be his heart or his lungs that was causing chest pains and oxygen shortage, so the short version is doctors know nothing and sent him back home.

I second this, and since my grandpa grew and sold some heavy **** when he was alive, I've seen a lot of them. They say weed doesn't affect you but I've seen dozens transform over a longer period of time from bright people into bums whose slow brain processes you can literally see grinding behind their eyes as they struggle to get through forming a sentence. Anecdotal experience, but experience none the less, and that experience is that too much weed makes you a boring idiot.

Sorry man, not going to happen. The Old Republic is still a thing and it finished the stories (poorly), and other than The Old Republic, all further Star Wars media will ignore the Expanded Universe stuff that KOTOR takes place in and is based on. Chris Avellone is no longer at Obsidian. It's not in the cards. The best we can hope for is that Disney contracts Obsidian for another, unrelated Star Wars RPG but even that seems unlikely - Disney has another company under contract for all upcoming Star Wars games until further notice.

The same here. it seemed like the main challenge in that missions was to set up joined defenses and really fast. I was expecting more of a pace from the final Protoss mission and this surprised me a bit, but then again, not being able to warp in pylons and insta warp a decent number of units along with it was also a part of forcing you to change your approach. To be fair, the final epilogue mission very nearly got me but I had just enough resources left to switch from my ground army to mutas. I didn't realize quite how much ground the big bad would literally remove - my death ball was useless again the void crystals I couldn't reach. Indeed. Screw Archimonde, seriously.

I had the same experience with the second epilogue mission. I did not expect the baddies to overrun my allies quite that quickly so I had no defense on that side ready. Should have paid more attention to how they were doing.

Hell, even Diablo 3 is also really fun now, with the changes that Reaper of Souls and subsequent patches added.