Let's Talk About Star Wars
 

Light Sabers are awesome.

And Purple Light Sabers are even more awesome. I has proof.

An on-topic Wing-Wong (oxymoron?) from last month:

RickZarber: I'm still hoping Lucas Arts will develop their own game for the Wii independent of the other systems. All I really want is a good lightsaber fighting game. Story isn't necessary. I can play KotOR if I want story.
Mauve Mage: hehehee. That WOULD be pretty awesome.
RickZarber: I just want to be a Jedi, is that too much to ask?
Mauve Mage: Apparently it is,for Nintendo.
RickZarber: Screw Nintendo. Gimme a real lightsaber, know what I'm sayin'?
Mauve Mage: Oh, I like your idea much better!!!
RickZarber: I'm sayin' I want this to be real outside my computer:
http://www.geocities.com/zarbervserc/Lightsabers.jpg
Mauve Mage: hehehe!! Only if you get one for me too.
RickZarber: Definitely. And together we shall rule the Galaxy! Muwaha! Muwahahahahahah!
Mauve Mage: .....you apparently need a red lightsaber. XD
RickZarber: Er, I mean, restore peace to the Galaxy! Yeah, that one.
Mauve Mage: Sure.... We'll restore peace through BENEVOLENT TYRANNY!!
RickZarber: Basically, it'd go down like this.
Mauve Mage: Ha! That's awesome! Yes, I want that.

Well the Wii version of the Force Unleashed is apparentely getting the amount of lightsabering amped up hugely which is a good thing.

Yeah, it's to make up for the fact that the bigass physics engine they developed is too much for the Wii to handle, which is fine by me. I'll take actually getting to use my Wiimote like a lightsaber over debris crashing about in fancy ways any day.

Defineatly.
And I mean, on our computers in the flat we have all manner of top end shooters and things for multiplayer. But we still play Jedi Knight most often cause hacking stuff up with lightsabers never gets old.
All I'm hoping is that they don't stuff it up. All I want is to have the lightsabers tracking to the wiimote. Not some stupid "deviate off centre and it'll go that way" bollocks that some games give.
The rest of the game can be terrible but they have to get saber fights correct and it'll be awesome.

Yeah, Force Unleashed is actually what spawned that conversation. But I'm still betting the lightsaber stuff--as the Wii version was almost an after-thought--will be glitchy and frustrating.

Anyways, the real point of that was the Youtube link at the bottom. Three in the Morning (and its sequel, which I only just discovered) has been one of my favorite fan films for years.

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It shows how much of a geek I am that the weather warming up makes me giddy because it means I can work on lightsaber choreography again.

Wikipedia: Lightsabers
Lightsabers: Science
Lightsabers: Build Your Own

I have a Starwars question.

If they've managed to explain almost EVERYTHING in Star Wars rationally...

...how do they explain Han Solo's "Parsecs" comment? As in, he did the Kessel Run in less than... some number of parsecs? Because a parsec is a unit of distance. That's like saying you did a 100m dash in only 100 metres.

One of the books (I forget which) explained that by saying that the Kessel run brought you past a black hole. Han shaved both time and distance off his run by plotting a course dangerously close to the event horizon.

Yeah, Star Wars is master of retcon...