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Comparisons Using Star Wars Similes

Started by ghost rat, September 13, 2007, 02:34:44 PM

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ghost rat

September 13, 2007, 02:34:44 PM
The Big Purple is like the Galactic Senate. It's big, slow, ponderous, and despite claims of equality, there is a firmly established pecking order. There is very little overt violence but copious amounts of posturing and politicking. It's rules are polite and usually enforced. The mods are like the Jedi Council, ready chop your arm off with the bansaber if you get huffy.

theRPGsite is more like Jabba's palace. It's smaller, rowdier, and thoroughly corrupt. It too has a pecking order, although its smaller size means there's more wiggle room for a free agent. You have Pundit as Jabba on top, Sett as Salacious Crumb, J Arcane as the rancor, and, umm...Kolkar as Slave Leia. Hostility is permitted and even encouraged.
 

Ian Absentia

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September 13, 2007, 02:39:02 PM
Quote from: ghost ratIt's smaller, rowdier, and thoroughly corrupt. It too has a pecking order, although its smaller size means there's more wiggle room for a free agent. You have Pundit as Jabba on top...
Stop. Right. There.

This is sounding like some kind of weird slash-fic.

*shudder*

!i!

Koltar

#2
September 13, 2007, 02:45:53 PM
Quote from: ghost ratThe Big Purple is like the Galactic Senate. It's big, slow, ponderous, and despite claims of equality, there is a firmly established pecking order. There is very little overt violence but copious amounts of posturing and politicking. It's rules are polite and usually enforced. The mods are like the Jedi Council, ready chop your arm off with the bansaber if you get huffy.

theRPGsite is more like Jabba's palace. It's smaller, rowdier, and thoroughly corrupt. It too has a pecking order, although its smaller size means there's more wiggle room for a free agent. You have Pundit as Jabba on top, Sett as Salacious Crumb, J Arcane as the rancor, and, umm...Kolkar as Slave Leia. Hostility is permitted and even encouraged.


 Think you mis-spelled a name there. Also, I wouldn't fit into that outfit ...this young woman , however  does : http://home.att.net/~amyschultz/costumes/leia.html

...her name is Amy and she has been a friend of local fandom Klingons for years.


- Ed C.
The return of \'You can\'t take the Sky From me!\'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

Still here, still alive, at least Seven years now...

Blackleaf

#3
September 13, 2007, 02:51:14 PM
thoroughly corrupt?

pecking order?

:confused:

Spike

#4
September 13, 2007, 02:54:48 PM
What the fuck does that make me? One of the bounty hunters hanging out for the dancing girls???



Hmm... actually, that doesn't sound half bad... :hmm:
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Christmas Ape

#5
September 13, 2007, 02:57:02 PM
Okay, Koltar?

This "now I want to talk about this at least moderately attractive girl who is at least tangentially involved in geek activities, though it has only the smallest amount to do with the topic" schtick you're working?

It's really, really weird. I mean, it's better than Sett's semi-coherent ravings, which feels like having a conversation with Gygax's letters column persona on six hits of high quality acid, but it's weird.

I just had to get that out there.

And who's the Twi'lek dude in the robe, then? Bib Fortuna, I believe?
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Ian Absentia

#6
September 13, 2007, 02:57:39 PM
Quote from: Koltar...her name is Amy and she has been a friend of local fandom Klingons for years.
And, in spite of outward appearances, is totally a guy.

!i!

Christmas Ape

#7
September 13, 2007, 03:01:22 PM
Quote from: Ian AbsentiaAnd, in spite of outward appearances, is totally a guy.

!i!
Wow. Yeah. That's the first time I actually clicked the link...I just kind of assumed.

That's absolutely a born gent.
Heroism is no more than a chapter in a tale of submission.
"There is a general risk that those who flock together, on the Internet or elsewhere, will end up both confident and wrong [..]. They may even think of their fellow citizens as opponents or adversaries in some kind of 'war'." - Cass R. Sunstein
The internet recognizes only five forms of self-expression: bragging, talking shit, ass kissing, bullshitting, and moaning about how pathetic you are. Combine one with your favorite hobby and get out there!

ghost rat

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September 13, 2007, 03:03:34 PM
Quote from: KoltarThink you mis-spelled a name there. Also, I wouldn't fit into that outfit ...
Doh. Yeah, my bad. :(

I couldn't think of a good Slave Leia, so I was grasping at straws.
 

The Good Assyrian

#9
September 13, 2007, 03:08:43 PM
Can I be one of the Gamorreans?  You know, the thoughtful one with the wistful look in his eye?


TGA

P.S.  I think that theRPGSite is more like the Cantina in the first film.  Filled with some weird folk and a place that can erupt in violence at the drop of a hat.  But somehow still filled with cool.

That's how I want to see it, at least.  

Oh yeah, and I am Han Solo. :cool:
 

ghost rat

#10
September 13, 2007, 03:11:35 PM
I'd hate for it to be the Cantina, 'cuz then I'd have to be Greedo and get shot by your ass. In cold blood. Jerk. :mad:
 

Blackleaf

#11
September 13, 2007, 03:20:17 PM
Yeah, this place is the Cantina.

beejazz

#12
September 13, 2007, 03:32:58 PM
So... uh... where's cloud city?

Skyrock

#13
September 13, 2007, 03:35:43 PM
If this is the Cantina, where's the Jazz band?
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Gunslinger

#14
September 13, 2007, 03:39:44 PM
Well then sign me up as one of the dazed moisture farmers that go right back to drinking after the commotion.
 
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