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Star Wars turns 30!

May The Force Be With You!


How has Star Wars changed your life? How can you not love the AT-AT (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/At-at.png)s or The Empire Strikes Back?

Once upon a time, a very young German Nightmare decided that it was time to go to the movies by bike on his own and partake in the story that everyone knows somehow and yet it hasn't been told this way which makes up Star Wars.

Happy 30 years!

Yaaaaay! :cool:

Yaaaaay! :cool:
Hi, you! It's good to have you around. :p

Can you believe it? StarWars turned 30. :D:D:D

*snip*
I was hoping this was actually going to be about Stargate: Atlantis, using the Star Wars-esque title as a ploy. :(

Star Wars forever changed me. I was sure i had the force, this one time. I was sitting here and meditating like I usually do. Well, I was done, and needed to start studying, and i was going to turn the light on, well i turned around and pointed my finger at the light, and it turned on. My roommate at the time(this was last year) freaked out, as did i!. I tried to do it again, but to no avail. Officially it was just a weird coincidence as the switch was weirded out, but secretly I am a sith ready to take back the galaxy ;)

Star Wars forever changed me. I was sure i had the force, this one time. I was sitting here and meditating like I usually do. Well, I was done, and needed to start studying, and i was going to turn the light on, well i turned around and pointed my finger at the light, and it turned on. My roommate at the time(this was last year) freaked out, as did i!. I tried to do it again, but to no avail. Officially it was just a weird coincidence as the switch was weirded out, but secretly I am a sith ready to take back the galaxy ;)

You know what they say (http://www.grrl.com/StencilSithHappens.jpg) . . .

I remembered first watching it in a drive-inn theater. I still think that it is the biggest movie event of all time. Given the place in time the movie came out. It was far ahead of it's time for the 70's. It was one of those movies that was epic.

I find the general lack of celebration of this anniversary... disturbing...

Somebody had to do it.

I was about -6 months when SW came out. I'm not sure it changed my life, except in the sense that it was a gateway movie, leading me down the dark path of SF geekdom. It probably turned me into a gamer, too. I wonder if I could sue?

I realized the other day that most of what I do in my free time, except for nation-states, is somehow connected to Star Wars.
Most non-political books I read are Star Wars novels or comics, most of the video games I play are Star Wars related, and just last Saturday myself and a couple of friends sat around all day and watched the original trilogy.

God, has that piece of crap really been around for 30 years? Destroying potential nerd minds for 30 years! Great fucking job, Lucas!

God, has that piece of crap really been around for 30 years? Destroying potential nerd minds for 30 years! Great fucking job, Lucas!

GTFO. Go watch babylon 5 or something.

I thank George Lucas for creating the universe that brought us Darth Vader, the Death Star and lightsabers.

When I grow up, I want to be Count Dooku.

I intend to celebrate by going out and buying a Force FX lightsaber.

Can we celebrate by going back in time and preventing Lucas from becoming a tool?

yay :)

i still like ST better, but lets not go there ;) :p


SW changed my life a little recently, in that last summer (and again recently) glitzi and i played Lego Star Wars 2 a lot, and really enjoyed it :)

SW changed my life a little recently, in that last summer (and again recently) glitzi and i played Lego Star Wars 2 a lot, and really enjoyed it :)

Yeah! LSWII!

Although everytime I play coop it degenerates into a lightsabre/force fight between the two.

Honestly, Star Wars wasn't very good.

*awaits flames*

But y'know, happy birthday and whatever...

More importantly.... May 25th is Towel Day!

Yeah! LSWII!

Although everytime I play coop it degenerates into a lightsabre/force fight between the two.

lol too true :P
we also like jumping and spinning around in co-op....... not really sure why :p

basically, in co-op we turn into a couple of kids :D


i'm 90.1% finished with it though, just got the annoyingly long super stroy modes to do and i'll be a happy bunny :)

I was hoping this was actually going to be about Stargate: Atlantis, using the Star Wars-esque title as a ploy. :(
No. Just... no.
Star Wars forever changed me. I was sure i had the force, this one time. I was sitting here and meditating like I usually do. Well, I was done, and needed to start studying, and i was going to turn the light on, well i turned around and pointed my finger at the light, and it turned on. My roommate at the time(this was last year) freaked out, as did i!. I tried to do it again, but to no avail. Officially it was just a weird coincidence as the switch was weirded out, but secretly I am a sith ready to take back the galaxy ;)
Reminds me of Silent Bob using the force and then toppling the shelf. :D
I remembered first watching it in a drive-inn theater. I still think that it is the biggest movie event of all time. Given the place in time the movie came out. It was far ahead of it's time for the 70's. It was one of those movies that was epic.
Absolutely. Besides, how can anyone not appreciate the Battle for Hoth?!? Or Yoda, for that matter?
I realized the other day that most of what I do in my free time, except for nation-states, is somehow connected to Star Wars.
Most non-political books I read are Star Wars novels or comics, most of the video games I play are Star Wars related, and just last Saturday myself and a couple of friends sat around all day and watched the original trilogy.
Hehe, there're worse hobbies than Star Wars, and while I didn't really enjoy the prequels... (But let's not go there)

Star Wars is great and I'm happy that it has been around for almost as long as I have.

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/duell.gif

I find the general lack of celebration of this anniversary... disturbing...

Somebody had to do it.

Heh why? It's only a film. Celebrate a birthday, or a weding aniversary, or the end of war, but the aniversary of a film?

It's like madness gone errr mad!:eek:

Heh why? It's only a film. Celebrate a birthday, or a weding aniversary, or the end of war, but the aniversary of a film?

It's like madness gone errr mad!:eek:

Madness?

THIS IS STAR WARS!

Rejoice, NSG!

Star Wars turns 30!

May The Force Be With You!


How has Star Wars changed your life? How can you not love the AT-AT (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/At-at.png)s or The Empire Strikes Back?

Once upon a time, a very young German Nightmare decided that it was time to go to the movies by bike on his own and partake in the story that everyone knows somehow and yet it hasn't been told this way which makes up Star Wars.

Happy 30 years!

Happy 30th Anniversary Star Wars. May the force be with you.

Madness?

THIS IS STAR WARS!

Heh and there is goes again, madness. It's just a film!

Heh and there is goes again, madness. It's just a film!

But a wonderful film none the less :)

More importantly.... May 25th is Towel Day!

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u20/missamy42_05/untitled.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u20/missamy42_05/untitled.jpg

Don't worry I will... that's the second time I've seen that picture on this forum in response to the Hitchhiker's Guide.... the first time was me :D

Don't worry I will... that's the second time I've seen that picture on this forum in response to the Hitchhiker's Guide.... the first time was me :D

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q196/chrispeazo/towlie.jpg

Heh why? It's only a film. Celebrate a birthday, or a weding aniversary, or the end of war, but the aniversary of a film?

It's like madness gone errr mad!:eek:
Heh and there is goes again, madness. It's just a film!
I find your lack of enjoyment disturbing! *force-chokes*

Sure it's a movie, but not just any movie. It's Star Wars. And when I take a look at which things get celebrated...


Besides, I don't care for towel day. This is about Star Wars only.

I realized the other day that most of what I do in my free time, except for nation-states, is somehow connected to Star Wars.
Most non-political books I read are Star Wars novels or comics, most of the video games I play are Star Wars related, and just last Saturday myself and a couple of friends sat around all day and watched the original trilogy.

Same here, plus I spend most of my time on the computer at night playing Star Wars Battlefront II. :cool:

Heh and there is goes again, madness. It's just a film!

Blasphemer!

Two words:

Ewoks

Jar-Jar

Damn, I still don't have a lightsaber ...

Two words:

Ewoks

Jar-Jar
I heard that the mining facilities on Kessel have demand for you. :p

I heard that the mining facilities on Kessel have demand for you. :p

Midi-chlorians.

We'll ship you off to Rura Penthe wearing nothing but a speedo. :eek:

Star Wars nerd!

its all lies star wars is 21 today! (though it died in 1999)

Ewoks

I'll have you know I quite like the Ewoks...

its all lies star wars is 21 today! (though it died in 1999)

LIES LIES!!! *uses jedi powers to influence your mind that Star Wars is 30 and not 21*

I'll have you know I quite like the Ewoks...

YAY!!

LIES LIES!!! *uses jedi powers to influence your mind that Star Wars is 30 and not 21*

These aren't the droids we're looking for :D

Rejoice, NSG!

Star Wars turns 30!

May The Force Be With You!

Happy 30 years!

You know... you're a month off

Did you know today is also World Penguin Day?

http://www.shacknews.com/extras/quake3_linux/index_files/evilpenguin.jpg

May the force be with them

I just saw Return of the Jedi again with all the fucking changes. My memories are ruined. I say that for the thirty year anniversary we tie up George Lucas and put him in a room with a few dozen rabid ferrets (maybe we'll wait until after the new Indiana Jones - if we fucks that up we move to castration) and take our movies back.

We'll ship you off to Rura Penthe wearing nothing but a speedo. :eek:

Star Wars nerd!
But I didn't kill the Klingon chancellor!!!
You know... you're a month off
Uh-oh. Shush you. :D

You're absolutely right! (Well, we could celebrate for a month?)

Somehow my mind didn't grasp that it's still April. Duh!!! (I blame one of our TV stations - they had a little segment about SW turning 30 yesterday - and I didn't really check on the month, only the day...)

Two words:

Ewoks

Jar-Jar

-force chokes-

Start Wars? Haven't seen it..

Ah this makes me think of the heady days when there was only Star Wars, no sequels had come out yet. I remember seeing a teaser for Empire Strikes Back and Luke saying "Darth Vader is my Father?!?!?!" (Ironically, that scene doesn't appear in the actual movie. Must have been a different cut, I guess.)

I also remember my older brother explaining to me that Vader was a cyborg that had lost much of his body in a pit of acid and or lava during a duel with Obi-Wan long ago. I always wondered how he knew that, and always assumed there was a novelization or something somewhere.

So when we finally got to see that duel in Episode III, I had literally been waiting to see it for almost my whole life. (I was 3 when Star Wars came out.)

WOO!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/SithHolo.gif Now, before I get accused of gravedigging... When I started this thread I was a month off.

(Yeah, I know. Don't ask! Or repeat after me: "I will make it... legal!")

So, this time - do rejoice and celebrate. And watch the originals, the pre-cut, pre-extended, pre-special versions with your kids and younger friends who don't know that there was a good life before digital effects!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/YodaOwnz.gifhttp://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/sithlord.gif

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/vader.gifhttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Sith.gif

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/xwing.gif

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/duell.gif

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/wookie.gifhttp://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/letsparty.gif

May the force be with you... always!

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG

:p

May 28, 2007

History Channel

9:00 PM

Be there or else.

he said he thinking of making one more

Like Star Wars I do. :D

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG

:p
*force chokes*

I find your lack of faith disturbing! ;)

*force chokes*

I find your lack of faith disturbing! ;)

Let him go!

Worthy of a read: BBC presents - What is it like to watch it for the first time? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6680279.stm)

It's 30 years since the release of sci-fi classic Star Wars, considered by many to be among the greatest films of all-time.

But what would it be like to watch it now, for the first time?

BBC News entertainment reporter Kevin Young's sole exposure to science-fiction to date consists of lusting after Gillian Anderson in The X-Files for a while in the 1990s.

Despite fearing it was two hours of his life he'd "never get back", he offered to lose his Star Wars virginity.

Yay! I celebrated by watching Episode IV A New Hope this afternoon. I love Peter Cushing as Moff Tarkin!

Star Wars - the great story about a little robot who save a galaxy from the forces of evil. Oh, yeah, there are some guys with glowing swords too.

Worthy of a read: BBC presents - What is it like to watch it for the first time? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6680279.stm)
Wow!

I couldn't even imagine what a world B.SW. was like.

I was born in 1976 and the movie was already around when I first took on the world. I do remember the huge (well, for a kid) Darth Vader stands with the newest Star Wars toys on them.

Those are now called "the classic line". Huh.

Anyway - I first saw The Empire Strikes Back on the big screen in the summer of 1986 when I decided I wanted to go the movies alone.

And wow, what an experience it was.

To this day, I consider the Imperial assault on Hoth as one of the greatest movie scenes in history. :D

Yay! I celebrated by watching Episode IV A New Hope this afternoon. I love Peter Cushing as Moff Tarkin!

That's GRAND MOFF Tarkin! *orders you executed*

Ep. 4-5-6 were awesome.

Ep. 1-2-3 were Teh Suxxs.

No. Just... no.


You're right. Mod forbid you enjoy some actual decent sci-fi instead of that kiddy crap that shouldn't be entertaining for anyone older than ten.

I likey the linky in Kyronea's sig *nods*

Most over-rated fantasy film ever. And yes, it is a fantasy series, not a sci-fi series. Sci-fi has some basis in reality, some slim connection to actual science. Star Wars was nothing but magic and sword fights. Then it became emo with ep 2 and 3, making it just plain suck.

And yes, it is a fantasy series, not a sci-fi series. Sci-fi has some basis in reality, some slim connection to actual science.
Well, there goes Trek, Andromeda, Bab5 and a half-dozen other "scifi" series...

That BBC read was interesting, makes me remember the first time I saw the movies, gives one that warm fuzzy feeling, like a lightsaber through the gut :D

Well, there goes Trek, Andromeda, Bab5 and a half-dozen other "scifi" series...
Star Trek's warp drive is based loosely on a real theoretical side-stepping of the physical laws that limit matter to travelling below c. Phasers are particle weapons, something that has been experimented with in real life. B5 spun to create gravity, even the Earth ships had spinning sections for gravity. And B5 fighters, though stupid because space fighters offer no tactical advantage, were at least designed to actually operate in space, have several RCS thrusters pointed every which way.

Just sticking something in space doesn't mean that it's sci-fi. If it'd be dungeons and dragons were it set in Middle Earth, it'd still be dungeons and dragons in space.

Most over-rated fantasy film ever. And yes, it is a fantasy series, not a sci-fi series. Sci-fi has some basis in reality, some slim connection to actual science. Star Wars was nothing but magic and sword fights. Then it became emo with ep 2 and 3, making it just plain suck.

I like you. :)

I'd definatly say I'm a Star Wars geek. I can't remember when I first saw the movies, only when I first actually began to understand the story. Its undenieable that Star Wars has had a big influence on American Cinema, and Sci-Fi culture, and I did Like that Lucas bothered to finish it. Just wish that II wasn't such a waste of time. Because Attack of the Clones sucked, it also means that III sucked.
As for all the games, well about 4 months ago I spent nine hours on a LAN at a mate's house, playing Outcast, Sabres only, no powers, learnt a few things, mainly that Lando's AI can't manage a lightsabre and is single-handedly the most dangerous opponent for his own team. Other than that KOTOR 1. Never played Lego