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CTrees

Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 3772
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Actually I fully believe the novel continuity will be broken. Seems the most likely option, really. I'm sorta okay with that. I mean, I already pick and choose my canon, so... really the only worry is that it makes future books worse.
Doesn't mean the nerd rage won't exceed Crystal Skull levels. _________________ “Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation”
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Sam

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11230
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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The fanboys by and large don't care anymore. The rage is confined to sperglords who rage about fucking anything anyway, but they're safely disregardable in the first place.
For everyone else, the pertinent fanboy thought on the matter is that there's really nothing to lose with this transition. Disney could just 1. continue murdering the franchise as utterly as Lucas was, or they might 2. make a decent new star wars movie or show or something and breathe some life into the IP. The only thing that's changed is that there's now a chance of improvement. That's pretty much it. |
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ShadowCell
Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 7395 Location: California
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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christ almighty, the novel continuity is such a mess that overturning it would be an act of mercy. |
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Darqcyde

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11917 Location: A false vacuum abiding in ignorance.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | Fuck me, the last thing we need is yet another massive IP grab by Disney. |
Worst case, we get this:
Here's hoping that someone like John Lasseter is given the reigns.
Afterall:
 _________________ ...if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.
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Kilgore

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2834 Location: The Marine Corps
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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My first thought on hearing this news is that this ensures that Star Wars will never, ever pass into the public domain.
My second is that maybe now it will be possible to buy a DVD version of the original trilogy that doesn't include the later perversions (Han shot first, etc.) If that is all that is one of the things that comes of this, the rest will be worth it.
Also relevant:
 _________________ "Whatever afflicts thee, their asses I shall kick"
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WheelsOfConfusion

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14325 Location: Unknown Kaddath
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Any scientists might want to take advantage of the temporary Open Access spree from the Royal Society. Until the 29th of November, all their journals are OA. As in free to download. |
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Dogen

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11274 Location: PDX
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Just in case you were curious, science has informed us that bats give head. _________________ "Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman |
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CTrees

Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 3772
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:42 am Post subject: |
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Dogen wrote: | Just in case you were curious, science has informed us that bats give head. |
Pics or it didn't happen. _________________ “Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation”
yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. |
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Guest

Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 2178
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Him

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 4367 Location: On edge
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:05 am Post subject: |
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Cop used Taser gun on 10-year-old boy _________________ A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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Dogen

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11274 Location: PDX
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, they talk about it relatively a lot here. It was even a question at trivia one night. One theory is that it's related to a less-deadly disease found in European bats and the fungus may have hitched a ride on a traveller. Fungi on a plane. Then it turned into a rabbits-in-Australia type of situation. I don't know if that's true, but I know the universities out here spend a lot of time and money monitoring local bat populations to see if white nose has crossed over the Rocky Mountains. _________________ "Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman |
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Dogen

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11274 Location: PDX
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:53 am Post subject: |
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The leaves are turning, the weather is getting colder. There's only one thing left to do. Get gay married and smoke some weed.
Because I live in an awesome state. _________________ "Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman |
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Mizike

Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 5146 Location: Iowa City
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:54 am Post subject: |
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You can't get gay married now?
Seems pretty backwards to me. _________________ Scire aliquid laus est, pudor est non discere velle
"It is laudable to know something, it is disgraceful to not want to learn"
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Dogen

Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11274 Location: PDX
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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It's true, it is pretty backward, but we're working on it! We (along with possibly Maine and Maryland) will be the first state(s) to have passed it at the ballot box, rather than via the courts or legislature, which is kind of cool and also kind of backward (no one voted on my right to wed). Still, I'll be happy to live in a state where people have the right to marry the person they love.
The pot thing doesn't mean much, although it's arguably just as unique (if less important). We'll be the first state to vote to fully legalize marijuana, too. _________________ "Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman |
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Mindslicer

Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 2545 Location: North of the People's Republic of Massachusetts
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/2012_ballot_measures
Colorado, Oregon and Washington state all have legalization initiatives on their ballots this year. I hope they all pass, but I doubt it would stop the federal government from prosecuting legal establishments. CA has had many perfectly legal medical marijuana facilities raided by the DEA since medical marijuana became legal there, both under Bush and Obama. |
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