Smile and Nod: My Favorite Villain is Me

carpathic

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First off: Tie Fighter...awesome reference.

Secondly: I totally agree with you. Companies are busy trying to convince us that commercial decisions to buy stuff is actually in some manner a moral decision. This is shallow and untrue. Live life, love it. Help people by giving them a hand up, not just by buying recyclable bottles.
 
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I never had the good fortune to enjoy Space Sims back when they were most popular, including the Star Wars ones. Maybe Steam will get them in.
 

Lord Legion

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Grand Admiral Thrawn is the greatest thing to come out of the Star Wars mythos in my opinion. His strength in stategy was unsurpassed, and outwitted everyone. He didn't lead through fear and intimidation, but through example.

And if you ask me, the books really skrewed up the ending with a wtf moment when the nohgri assassin just kills him, and his second in command calls off the final attack that was still completely in their favor...an attack that would have ended the "new" republic and returned the empire to their glory.
 

Elf Defiler Korgan

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SirCannonFodder said:
I say old chap said:
A game mixing TIE fighter with scenes like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9yj_BXRp0&feature=related

would be supremely fun.
Or perhaps with scenes like this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpZ8EkK3eWY].
It would be absolutely marvellous. Self-reflection and doubt in the evil intergalactic empire.
 

Kilaknux

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PedroSteckecilo said:
Yeah it's easy to forget all the racism, genocide and horrible crimes committed by the empire in the name of "order" and so easy to roll over and accept that you were "just following orders"... sound familiar anyone?
This always bothered me a little. I mean, I know the Empire are supposed to be the bad guys, but ignore the expanded universe for a moment and just look at the films: What do they actually do that was evil? The Death Star, but when you think that our governments have enough nuclear weapons to blow up a planet, it gets a little blurry. Granted, the head of the Empire is pure undistilled evil, but as a whole, the Empire doesn't do much you could point to and say "Bastards" in the films.
Then came the expanded universe and it clarified the issue, but still.
 

008Zulu_v1legacy

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Rule Number One; Live life how you choose and make no apologies for it.

Its sad that when most games give you the option to be evil you have to rename yourself Baron von Puppykicker and start eating babies. Thrawn is the kind of evil that you should be able to aspire to and eventually be in games.
 

KarumaK

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008Zulu said:
Rule Number One; Live life how you choose and make no apologies for it.

Its sad that when most games give you the option to be evil you have to rename yourself Baron von Puppykicker and start eating babies. Thrawn is the kind of evil that you should be able to aspire to and eventually be in games.
Thrawn isn't evil;

He's a soldier.
 

TheMatt

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Dear Russ,

I'd be much obliged if you edited your article to read "Grand Admiral Thrawn" as opposed to "Admiral Thrawn". He worked hard on the outer rim to earn that title, I think you should respect that.

Besides, he's just fucking awesome. To anyone who doesn't believe that read the first chapter of "Heir to the Empire" then try to disagree. Just one chapter, it's all it takes.
 

Del-Toro

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A large part of me still sympathizes with the Empire, and if I hadto throw my hat in somewhere, I'd be an Imperial.

I get that it's a rather racist group of people, but if you look at the expanded universe you can begin to understand why the Empire would just start ignoring the other races opinions and just have them follow orders. Seriously, non humans are incredibly lazy compared to humans, which formed and spearheaded basically every relevant thing in Galactic history. Major alien involvement was rare and might have been limited to one or two go-getters. Besides, after Palpatine the Empire started to change for the better. They even started trying to wash their hands of the Sith lord.

One thing I found interesting about the rebellion is that it's foundation was very much a "rich man's club" of senators who, despite how they nobly tried to justify it, in my opinion just found the power that came with their priviledged positions withering away along with the stagnation that came with their idea of freedom. Seriously, fuck the republic, if the desires of one planet are enforced on disagreeing planet in the name of democracy because of some BS majority vote then it's not freedom is it? Say what you will about Imperial totalitarianism but at least they didn't use a veil with the word "freedom" on it to mislead the galaxy.

So I havn't been able to watch Star Wars the same way since TIE Fighter. It's also a sure sign of nerd-dom that I actually care enough to write all that.