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Lit Redundant, Counter-Productive Speculation Time Is Over: "The Star Wars" Announced

Discussion in 'Literature' started by CooperTFN, Feb 11, 2013.

  1. Lugija

    Lugija Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    I read a column of how these days no maker gives any scoops to interviewers. They have a list of stuff they can say, and say just that, because if they slip anything more it's everywhere in the Internet soon.

    "Our new game will be on all platforms"
    "Will it have multiplayer?"
    "We can't say that now"

    Three months later:
    "Our new game will have multiplayer"
    "What's in it?"
    "We can't say that now"
     
  2. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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    [​IMG]
     
  3. Zorrixor

    Zorrixor Chosen One star 6

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    Of all the Star Wars dancing animations people have posted in threads over the past few years, that has to be the creepiest I have ever seen.
     
  4. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    oh my god he's retconned star wars kinect
     
  5. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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    And it would be epic. And folks on the boards would be singing praises to it for years to come.
    Er. They might dance those praises, too.
     
  6. Zorrixor

    Zorrixor Chosen One star 6

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    Both of you, I mean this in the kindest possible way, when I say I hope you both fall into a sarlacc pit.
     
  7. TrandoJedi

    TrandoJedi Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    My mind has already retconned it hehe!
     
  8. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    I hear the Sarlacc Pit is totally the exclusivest dance club on Tatooine. The party don't stop for 1000 years, baby!
     
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  9. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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    Can you kindly hope for that to happen after Abel's announcement? Or even kindlier, after he publishes whatever he's written? And even more kindliest, before the hammer falls on the current EU so we can live 1000 years in ignorance of what befell our beloved warus and Goodvalors and green rabbits and lying space chickens?
     
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  10. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    Backing up for a moment--I have trouble seeing Abel's thing as being related to DH's thing.
     
  11. Zorrixor

    Zorrixor Chosen One star 6

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    Maybe he has already planned a retcon so clever that not even Disney will be able to undo Abel's pre-emptive retconning of the EU into unrebootable indestructibility.

    (That, or Abel has been sitting on years of TCW retcons that he now is able to finally release. :p)
     
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  12. Jeff_Ferguson

    Jeff_Ferguson Force Ghost star 5

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    Am I the only one hoping that Randy's announcement turns out to be an April Fool's joke that most of the forum-goers will believe because of all the hype he's given it?

    Damn, that would be awesome. I would be like "Well-played, sir," and he would be like "Shut up, TFN jerk."
     
  13. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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  14. instantdeath

    instantdeath Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Better that we pretend it doesn't exist.
     
  15. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    lol. :p

    Beat me by a few minutes, I guess (dammit!), but it was worth its own thread imo.
     
  16. Lugija

    Lugija Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    I just saw this news posted into The EUCantina Literature Forum. So it must be true.
     
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  17. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    [face_laugh]

    I'm reminded of when people post links to Onion articles on facebook and fume in outrage, believing the stories to be true.
     
  18. Skywalker8921

    Skywalker8921 Jedi Knight star 4

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    Excuse me, Lugija and GrandAdmiralJello!! I was the one who posted that on the EUC forum under my SN on there, and both of you are grossly making a mountain out of a molehill.

    Lugija, clearly you did not read my entire post on EUC. I said to take it with a grain of salt. I never, never, said it was true, only that it could be. You should have done what I did, check TF.N's news page instead of blindly believing it was true because I said so. If you want to point fingers after this, point them at Barriss Coffee. His/Her post on the previous page of this same thread was the reason why I posted on EUC. And lest you think I blindly fell for it, GrandAdmiralJello, note that I said I checked TF.N's news page. Your laughing icon was in very poor taste IMO.

    Lugija, it is false. End of discussion.
     
  19. Lugija

    Lugija Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Yes I read it, and I did not mean any offence or imply that you had fallen for it. I simply thought it amusing that it had been posted on another forum. Many of us who post here regularly saw that it was false immediately (mainly because it was written by Barriss_Coffee in humorous style and there was no link).

    I have once fallen into what someone says in the Internet without a source: http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...y-joe-schreiber.50008257/page-5#post-50325872
     
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  20. Point Given

    Point Given Manager star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    [face_shame_on_you] Barriss_Coffee
     
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  21. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    Let's settle down a bit, friend. As you said -- let's not make mountains out of molehills. In these times of uncertainty for the EU, I'm sure many of us have become more credulous for that very reason. No reason we have to take ourselves so seriously though.

    You read a satiric post and didn't get it at first. It happens to all of us sometimes. No need to make it bigger than it is.
     
  22. Zorrixor

    Zorrixor Chosen One star 6

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    I no longer know if any of this conversation is meant to be taken seriously or not so I shall just remain quiet and say nothing. :p
     
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  23. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    You can always count on the principle that I am never to be taken seriously.*











    *Except for when I am.
     
  24. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    I for one would like to know what happened to the other 8,920 Skywalkers.
     
  25. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    They were killed by Jax Pavan.


    No, I'm not telling you which one.