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Changes stupider than Greedo shoots first
Posted 2 Sep 2011
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The Star Wars creator this week landed himself in hot water (again) after fans noticed he'd been ''tweaking'' the originals (again) for the latest Blu-ray DVD release of his films. Mostly they're fairly innocuous things, the kind of stuff only a true fan would notice (like a new painting hanging in the background of Jabba the Hutt's palace). But one has truly set them off.
That would be the moment in Return Of The Jedi where Darth Vader decides he won't stand by and watch his son, Luke Skywalker, be killed. In the original print, it was one of cinema's most poignant moments, Vader wordlessly exchanging his life for Luke's and saving his own soul in the process. But not any more. Now Lucas has decided to add Vader screaming: ''No! Nooo! Noooooooo!'' over the top, turning it into a cringe-worthy farce.
Now cut to a speech Lucas made in 1988 where he pleaded that US Congress to legislate against monsters who dared to change a film once it had been made...
Read More: http://www.smh.com.a... 0902-1jovk.html
A new edition regardless so fanboys must buy it. That's fanboy law. -
The Science Behind Fanboyism
Posted 15 Jul 2011
Once we were fanboys too, but we look on those still clinging to Star Wars in bewilderment.
Slashdot is quoting a blog quoting some research that concludes once we make a choice and throw our lot behind something, the commitment switch is thrown in our brain to convince us that what we have chosen is just way too incredibly freakingly fantastic.
Some of us eventually wake up and smell the roses, but others are doomed to being pudgy balding middle-aged men in toy stores staring longingly at cheap plastic Star Wars crap.
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We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained fingers, extolling the virtues of their product or brand of choice. They angrily accuse even the most impartial reviewers of taking handouts from reviled competitors of a beloved company, and they casually and systematically dismiss any evidence that might conflict with their worldview. Scientific studies have pointed to the existence of a basal process that, when one chooses between two roughly equally desirable items, causes the brain's perception of the two items to change significantly.
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Are you starting to feel compassion for belligerent fanboys yet? Clearly, they can't help refusing to see reason. Their brains have automatically and unconsciously re-wired themselves to view their product of choice as markedly superior. Competition that might have seemed just as good before now appears clearly inferior to them. In their minds, everyone else is irrationally refusing to see the world as it is. Why wouldn't they get mad and write angry rants on message boards? To make matters worse, everyone seems to behave that way—yes, even you—albeit to varying degrees. We all possess a natural propensity to engage in that kind of behavior. Luckily, as humans, we're blessed with the ability to tone down natural behaviors and use higher levels of thought to see and interact with the world more rationally. All it takes is admitting that you have a problem...
http://techreport.co... ussions.x/21294
http://science.slash... ehind-Fanboyism
Now my reformed Star Wars crack addicts, do you wonder if you are truly reformed? Well this story is tagged on Slashdot with the tags: "linux android apple google science story" Yes, Star Wars is so off the radar these days that a discussion of fanboys it doesn't even warrant a mention. Does this offend you? If not, you are cured.
And if you thought nothing could be pathetic than a Boba Fet fanboy then, wow:
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Star Wars Galaxy Multiplayer Game shut down
Posted 12 Jul 2011
My word! My second post in a year.
SONY is putting the Star Wars Galaxy SWG game out of its misery. The game will be shut down at the end of the year. SWG was rushed out too early in the hope of making $$$ despite the bugs. After WoW hit the big time they tried to turn it into a WoW clone, but the WoW players stuck to WoW and the non-WoW people who wanted their own Star Wars universe to play in were sacrificed for the cause.
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The saddest thing I ever saw in SWG was the night before the NGE on the Euro servers... Creature Handlers taking out their favourite pets one last time, petting and playing with them. Perhaps they thought they'd still be able to pull them out; maybe they knew. I am not joking when I say that the conversations I overheard between them then brought a lump to my throat. And I knew then that what SOE was doing was a breach of faith. I became then as angry as the rest of us. (Terra Nova blog, "Order 66," comment by Chewster , 12/16/2005)
http://www.escapistm... ing-Up-Galaxies
The idiots who oversaw this explained at the time that the drop in subscriber numbers after this was fine because people would have a whine and come back. Interesting business plan, except they didn't come back. But why admit you screwed up when you can choose instead to remember only the good bits?
http://www.escapistm... r-Wars-Galaxies
EA Bioware is doing their own Star Wars multiplayer game which is the official reason for shutting down SWG. Interesting to see if this succeeds. If it doesn't, the franchise is surely dead. (The space combat sounds like it sucks BTW, but good luck to them)
http://en.wikipedia.... he_Old_Republic
Other day I was in the shops and saw a Stormtrooper released in the original Kenner packaging, but when I looked closely saw the head was a different shade of white than the body. Cheap and Nasty, George!
Last word to Anon on the shutting down SWG.
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OMG by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 11, @09:54PM (#36729072)
I wish anything to do with star wars would just die. I mean, this is the most overly marketed product in history and it is actually sad and retarded when another star wars "something" comes out. I mean, I was browsing a toy store looking for a gift for my nephew and could not believe that 1/2 of the lego isle was devoted to start wars lego sets, I mean, what 5 year old has even watched star wars? I remember when the special editions re-releases came out hearing 13 years old's say they never saw star wars and whether the movie was good enough to see.
Lucas has raped this concept for all that is worth and it is time that the franchise dies. There is nothing NEW in star wars, no new stories, no new characters, no new concepts. its a tired rehash of a movie that came out in the 70's and we have entered second decade of the 21st century now. The people involved in anything to do with star wars are only interested in money, period. Not artistic integrity, not advancing the franchise, not doing anything relevant or meaningful to encourage a new generation of people to get hooked into the series, only to offer crap for purchase to 40-something year old shut-ins.
I am saddened by anyone that is still enthralled by anything to do with star wars. What a simple mind and life to anticipate a new game release or to crone on reciting movie quotes or buy old memorabilia. When Lucas belched out the prequels, that is when I decided that would be the last time I would waste a dime on the star wars franchise. I can't even capitalize the title of the franchise because it has become so watered down and redundant to not warrant any special distinction, its two words from the dictionary IMHO.
http://games.slashdo... r-Wars-Galaxies
http://games.slashdo... 08&cid=36729072
http://www.blistered... -shutting-down/
PS. Thanks JAMG for the invite -
Annual Star Wars News Round Up
Posted 6 May 2011
Man this forum is so dead... My hilarious picture I posted here A YEAR AGO only got 8 views. 8 freaking views!
http://www.chefelf.c... ?showtopic=9719
Anyhow time for my *annual* star wars round-up... Not much happening...
EA's new Star Wars MMOG costs $80M
Unfortunately it's 20 years too late
http://www.videogame... t_over_80m.html
Star Wars released on Blu-Ray.
But who cares anymore... The first two films were good, but life has moved on...
http://herocomplex.l... rs-blu-ray-dat/
A film "The people versus George Lucas".
But we've talked this subject matter to death in these forums...
http://www.filmjourn... 14018389b09177c
http://movies.nytime... ary-review.html
Live Action TV Series looks like it will never happen
I've heard this story once too many times. By this stage if it ever did go to air I couldn't be bothered.
http://en.wikipedia.... ction_TV_series
Toy Commercials
Clone Wars TV ads show I mean series still going. Explains the continued presence of shitty plastic toys in toy stores.
http://en.wikipedia.... 08_TV_series%29
Googling around the News there is very little Star Wars happening these days.
The odd episode of Robot Chicken is the only funny thing that still happens.
Lots of web pages like this with alienated fans moving on...
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It has been said that all good things must come to an end and those words throughout the ages have always been proven true. The best one can hope for is when something “good” approaches its end, it gets the chance to go out in a blaze of glory. Sometimes things work out that way. Often something “good” slowly starts to degrade. It leaves the rest of us with no other recourse other than to stand around its proverbial death bed and watch its flame finally extinguish as nothing but a shell of its former self.
As a life long Star Wars fanatic I had to face the facts and finally say the words. STAR WARS IS DEAD, AND MY OBSESSION HAS DIED WITH IT.
http://themovieblog.... ssion-1977-2008
My this forum is so dead. Well forums everywhere are dead. We're all too busy trying to make 50,000 friends on Facebook.
Kudos to Chef-Elf for keeping this site open anyway. I'm interested to see how long it goes...
Whatever happened to forum member Bond? We miss you... Sorry whoever that guy was threw a banana-attack at you. He tied to blame your exuberant posts as the cause for Star Wars falling popularity, but I think now George's prequel train wreck may have had more to do with it. Too bad Bond. When you left, it started to go downhill. I could keep going as long as someone said 'HEY! GREAT POST!'
See you all next year! Assumes Chef Elf doesn't send us to the big VHS cabinet in the sky.
Hey Inception was pretty cool though. Far cooler than anything George has done for the last thirty years. Here is an idea. Watch new things?
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Darth Vader turns to robbing banks (not a joke)
Posted 23 Jul 2010
Real-life Darth Vader Actor David Prose said George Lucas has been using fraudulent but legal "Hollywood Accounting" to avoid paying actor royalties. This is a common scam in Hollywood where the film studio fakes expenses so that highly profitable movies make a loss, so they can avoid paying actors their fair share of royalties.
Which might explain the recent real-life events where a guy in a Darth Vader mask robbed a bank. Customers thought it was a joke. It wasn't. He was a mean and nasty bastard. It's a nice reminder that if you ever did meet the real-life Darth Vader and ran to him like the swooning fanboy you are he would kill you without a second thought. Why do people insist on worshiping the bad guys?
Of course this criminal got away with we guess a few thousand. George Lucas has been robbing his own actors far more. Who is the bigger criminal?
http://www.theforce.... J_SE_122228.asp
http://42blips.daily... eware_of_small/
Lucas responded by cutting Prowse from future Star Wars events. What an asshole.
http://geeksofdoom.c... r-george-lucas/
More on the other robbery (puns galore)
http://gothamist.com... otos_oh_yes.php
http://gothamist.com... _wasnt_your.php
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