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Um, no. Not all of my 2000+ posts are about SW, mind you. There are discussions here about plenty of other topics, not all as trivial as this particular one. But at any rate, this thread just proves how seriously I take SW. And you are quite wrong about my postcount being an investment of precious time. You see, I only post around here when I have nothing better to do. Therefore, it's not "precious" time. It's just time I can't find anything else to waste on. But thank you for a totally unwanted and rather clueless analysis of my personal situation and your fine disquisition on the intentions of posters in trivial threads and their effect on the coherence of the discussion of a completely irrelevant subject.

Um, so? Are you really trying to imply that a debate about which fictional character is the most adept at a fictional fighting style with fictional weapons in a fictional universe is something to be taken seriously? Don't make me f*cking laugh.

This is interesting. From the moment that nature itself makes us all different, any theory, philosophical or otherwise, that is based on the concept of universal equality is bound to fail when applied on a real world situation. We have had plenty of examples through History that illustrate one point: trying to rearrange reality into what we, in our human conceptions, think it should be is a lost battle and the process usually yields unpleasant results. The fallacies known as "innate rights" and "justice" are proof of that. Sure, it's better than living in a cave, but it's in no way what it was conceptually supposed to be. The same can be applied to communism. Carry on with your on-topic discussion.

Yeah, I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And then some dude dropped a spoon and the ninja went and killed the whole town. This is so sweet. We finally drove the thread to a truly interesting subject.

I was going to say that. But I thought it might ruin my serious and literate poster fa

Mace does that in the Clone Wars cartoon. I guess it would not only be anti-climactic, but it could be considered evil to use the force to grip him to death.

No. When fighting like that the Jedi might be putting at risk others' lives (not to mention his own), which is obviously unacceptable, even for the Jedi. The Jedi are as proficient in the killing trade as the Sith. There was an explanation for this, I think I read it in one of the D20 books. "If the Jedi are pacifists, why do they carry such lethal weapons as lightsabers?" The answer was that the lightsaber should only be used as a last resort. But once the lightsaber is drawn, the Jedi must be ready to take a life. Yeah. Only Dooku's choreography wins by default. Mace's is a bit awkward from what we see in AotC. And Yoda is just a green ball leaping and spinning around. Dooku is graceful, and deadly.

Elaborate.

I think that's it. Socialist policies are defined by a strong intervention and overseeing of the economy by the state, in a protectionist sense mostly. In this sense, since the USSR was a planified economy, it was socialist. Combine that and a totalitarian regime with an emphasis on propaganda, and you have real world "communism".

And I'm still not convinced that he was weakened in any way. He just tried to drain you dry... and failed because there was nothing to drain. Nothing more. That gave the PC a chance to fight him, but it doesn't mean that Nihilus should be absolutely incompetent with a lightsaber or the only Sith Lord that can't spam Force Lightning.

Star Trek is a good example of a truly communist society. A society like that is as likely to happen in the real world as photon torpedoes. That is, very unlikely for all of you Star Trek analphabets out there. In the USSR something that begun as the people's revolution turned into a totalitarian regime even worse than the one they had rebelled against. Was it communism? Well, it depends on who you ask. Probably if you asked a low rank soldier or a peasant they would tell you to shove it... even though they had to suck down the hardest part of "communism" (rationing charts, collective restrooms, etc). While if you asked someone in the higher echelons of the military or the Party, they would gladly give you a speech about the wonders of communism and then drive home in their Rolls. It sure as hell worked for them. The USSR was the perfect example of why utopian societies can't exist. Russia had everything to make it work: plenty of natural resources, a large population, and most importantly, the willingness of the majority. It only took the greed and powerthirst of a handful to bring it all down. But let's not forget that it wasn't only these people that brought down the USSR. The western world had a hand in the downfall of the soviet block, and it was our late Pope's personal obsession to bring it down. Bottom line is, the USSR was as communist as it can be in the real world. That's what happens when you try and put a philosopher's ideas to the test. "

You post here, too. It doesn't mean you do it well. ) If he was toying with a padawan and then got owned, he wasn't only weak with the saber, he was stupid as well.

Well, Dooku managed to beat both Anakin and Obi-Wan. Granted, Anakin was still a padawan at the time, but Obi-Wan was a fully fledged Jedi master, and a good one at that. Not even Yoda could gain a clear advantage against Dooku. I'm curious as to how Anakin manages to best him in EP3. And on a totally unrelated note, I doubt you could hit the broad side of a barn with your B/B bat. ) EDIT: Oh, and you forgot to add General Grievous as well.

Damn, this thread is making me want to replay JK and MotS.

Is that like some kind of transformer thing? where the jedi all physically join up to become: Jedimus Maximus or Ultimax Jeditron etc No, it's more like "By your powers combined, I am Grand Master Jedi!"

Ki-Adi-Mundi was a knight too when he was accepted into the council.

I hate NJO, too. But TotJ still sucks. :ph34r:

Spot on. Old news, anyway.

Then it's their fault for favoring a retailer that will force them to keep a defective product.

Return it.

[insert snide remark about TotJ and Nur Ab Sal here]

That still wouldn't be the "True Sith Empire" that is spoken about in KotOR, Sith remnants, if anything. Still, it's a lame idea. Clinging to small scrapes of other people's stories usually yields bad results and is a mark of a drought of ideas. And the idea of "researching SW" is just laughable.

Abso-freakin'-lutely right. That would be like so totally sweet. You should be head of the KotOR VII dev team. There is no emoticon to describe the emotion I feel right now. :iwetmyself:

Close between JK and MotS. But I have to go with the original JK. Tracking down all of Jerec's cronies while searching for the Valley of the Jedi and learning the way of the Jedi was so much fun. Lots of mercenary action, too. If only Force Jump wasn't so clumsy. Come think of it, if they remade that game using Raven's modded Q3 engine, it would mop the floor with both JK2 and JA. MotS was great too, up until Dromund Kaas.