Recent content by crackersncheese

This is a great idea, Faeelin, and I'm going to be following your AAR closely. :) By the way, is Darkest Hour much better than Armageddon patched to 1.3b?

I really can't do anything but golf clap at that ship. Well done!

I support this idea. If we need religion, we can put that on a different scheme, maybe with R representing the religion and B the degree to which that religion is enforced (or suppressed) by the state.

Here's some licensed material that ought to stick around. This too. But this is a big no-no.

Alright, thanks.

Or, how much data will I download if I go for digital distribution? Wikipedia says 2 GB of HDD space is necessary, but I've heard conflicting figures from other places. Anybody have it?

Statistics! Marginally on-topic: Can anybody give me a somewhat reasonable asspulled number for the standard deviation of a Star Wars human's lifespan? I'm thinking of a mean of 125 years, but I need the freaking sigma. If you perchance know the modern standard deviation, I'll take that too...

It's a show vs. tell thing. We're told he's a sympathetic villain, but we're shown him crossing the Moral Event Horizon. Basically, it's a writing failure.

It absolutely must include the Otto Skorzeny Saga. Heck, you could probably make an entire miniseries on just his exploits during the war.

Right on the money. You know how MacCaulay's always up about how nukes are telltale signs of lazy writing? Superweapons are Star Wars nukes.

I think she's drawing precedent from when Daala gasses all the warlords except for herself and Pellaeon. EDIT: What's even more hilarious is the Anvilicious way in which the new series points out that Daala did not in fact get her position by giving Tarkin blowjobs. Or so she says. There's this...

A thought: if the EU were to be redone along the lines being favored in this thread, we'd lose the motivation for one of the best Fix Fics in English literature: The Hand of Thrawn Duology. We'd make up for it by having better overall storylines, but that's a damn good plot that will never come...

Heh. I didn't realize ALL of those were from the same author. I was under the impression we had a bunch of authors putting these scenes in to add 'maturity' when it's really just Denning being Denning. Weird.

Which is one of the things I'd focus on most: a decent map of the galaxy. Getting the plot mapped out properly is a very close second, but if the astrography (cosmography if you're Russian) is a mess you're making stories in a vaguely defined world. I'd put up a giant map of the galaxy in...

Seapole is cool, but I still think Jaredia was the best of his worlds. It was the only one that made me actually wish I could go exploring there.