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This is a much better explanation for how Boba escaped the Sarlacc. Headcanon accepted.

 

nooooooooooooooo

also that was the damn medbay for me

I'm such a coward

 

Wow this even can be made to fit some of the old theories! Boba got especially plastered one evening and dreamt he was talking to Susejo the Sarlacc "victim," who was actually just a distillery worker. Another time Dengar visited the distillery and was so wasted afterward he came up with the "I save Fett" idea to explain those lost hours.

This is the theory that keeps on giving!

 

alcohol is the cause of and solution to all of life's problems so it makes sense

 

The score to Shadows of the Empire popped up on shuffle today... so good... spoilertagging music links:

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I really admire people who can pour their all into what must seem like quite silly projects, and considering Joel McNeely's work on SOTE and the fantastic score to the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, he's one of them. He also conducted and oversaw a fantastic rerecording of the entire score to Sunset Boulevard:

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Anyway, back to the SOTE score... for anyone who enjoys it, worth mentioning: it was primarily inspired, it would seem, by Khachaturian. Particularly the Masquerade suite. Get up on that, kids:

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This is cool enough that it may end up being the first thing I post on Facebook this year.

 

Neat.


Though some part of me wonders about those manuals. Sure, they were really from them, but did knights take them seriously, or were they the equivalent of some of the overenthusiastic amateur stuff you see today?

 

So almost through with KOTOR, but there's one thing I have to ask:

When Bastila asks you to join her on top of the temple, there are three options:
1) No, I'm a good guy now
2) Yes, we will rule the galaxy together
3) I don't trust you, I'll just kill you!

I have never before chosen 3, but now I did, and instead of a fight Bastila just says "Fine, I'll go to the Star Forge and be on Malak's side!" and runs away. Juhani and Jolee stay alive. Hey, what a nice way to stay on the Dark Side and still get Jolee and Juhani... I get light side points? Enough to put me from the bottom to the middle? What is this wizardry?



Someone has a faulty moral compass.

 

Ah Bioware and your illusions of anything but a binary moral compass. My brother managed a true neutral playthrough of the game once, it took him a very long time and he got the good ending anyway.

 

I like the implications of Bioware's system, that you can compensate for morally dubious acts with good ones.

 

I like that the b'omarr monk constitutes as a cameo.

 

And the fricken Gonk droid.

 

Hey, if saving your son by killing a Sith makes up for decades of dark side life then threatening to kill a Sith surely makes up for a couple dozen dead and robbed citizens.

Edi is not right!

 

At least he was in the film.

Indulging myself by taking the subject seriously for a moment, I think the problem people have is by viewing the Star Wars afterlife as a punishment/reward scenario. The ability to transcend death seems to be one achieved through personal enlightenment or self-mastery, put simply: "know yourself, your true self, and then let go." The Force isn't an intellect or mind that passes judgement.

 

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"The good act does not wash out the bad, nor the bad the good."

 

So I finally paid GOG the $5.99 for Rebellion on Friday evening, and the next thing I knew it was 2:30am Sunday morning. I'd captured Coruscant in around 500 days, grabbed Vader in the Corellian Sector a little later, then spent several hours chasing Palpatine around the Outer Rim before finally nabbing him, and Jello will love this, at Gamorr. A more ignominious end I could not imagine.

 

Even better, the last place I spotted him before that was Toprawa.