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Star Trek vs. Star Wars (and a collection of memes)

Star Trek or Star Wars; which do you like better?

  • Star Trek

    Votes: 19 23.8%

  • Star Wars

    Votes: 61 76.3%
  • Total voters
    80
Killer Angel said:
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I remember going to see RotJ as an 8 year old and trying to figure the out. Best I could come up with was that the sarlac had tons of little vine like things in its stomach that hooked into the people inside it and provided them with nutrients and something that somehow extended their lives.
 
xoid said:
I remember going to see RotJ as an 8 year old and trying to figure the out. Best I could come up with was that the sarlac had tons of little vine like things in its stomach that hooked into the people inside it and provided them with nutrients and something that somehow extended their lives.
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There was an extended universe novel that covered this, basically like you said. It was a very lousy short story in a mediocre book of short story. 20% of the story is summed up in one sentence "Boba Fett climbed out of the Sarlac because his armor took most of the damage." 80% explaining how the people in their avoided dying of dehydration.

In any event, between the ages 13 and 15, almost 100% of my non-school reading was Expanded Universe Star Wars novels. I got to say not every EU Star Wars novel was good. There is a reason why George Lucas was vague on whether it was canon. He wanted to cherry pick the good stuff and nix the dumb stuff.

Also, parsec is a unit of distance. There was an extended universe novel that explained how Han's statement actually made sense in context that actually was pretty clever.

The parsec thing, and the sarlaac pit are two examples, no matter how good of a story teller you are, you need a trusted friend to say "I like your story in general but that particular setting detail is stupid."

Case in point, I am creating a fantasy world, and it's only 50,000 years old, so there was no Carboniferous Period, but I wanted my world to have coal mines.

It took me two friends to talk me out of making dragons feces be coal and that coal mines were abandoned dragon lavatories.

Now my explanation for coal is that the god of blacksmith ceded the world with coal so smiths could make steel.

NIGHTBRINGER said:
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A repeat but one of the best LOTR memes ever.
 
Scalenex said:
It took me two friends to talk me out of making dragons faeces be coal and that coal mines were abandoned dragon lavatories.
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Lizards of Renown said:
No idea why they did that. This is a fantastic idea.
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While I'm sceptical at it being 'fantastic', it's definitely an original idea, and makes sense given some ancient peoples did indeed use dung to fuel fires in the real world, in particular areas where there were no trees to use as firewood and nations that hadn't yet learned to mine coal successfully, such as on the Orkney and Shetland Islanders and rural Viking communities in Scandinavia. It also means the races in Scarterra will never have a 'non-renewable resource crisis' as we are enduring ;)

Simply having a god scatter the coal across the world, on the other hand, I think is too easy and unoriginal an explanation - anybody could have thought of that in their sleep.
 
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