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@Frustration is officially even cooler in real life.
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Indeed it was.
XP also has some mad smash bros skills.
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@Frustration is officially even cooler in real life.
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Right back at you.
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Guys, I need some good reasons for me not to leave the shard.
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Well @Ancient Elantrian it would help if I understood why you want to leave?
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I could probably count on my hands
all of the things I did today
Instead of being one to understand
I'm the kind of guy who takes away
the world from other peoplebecause they think I need it more
It doesn't matter than I'm less than null
they think I have great things in store
But I don't
that should be obvious
I'm tired of growing up and fighting on
And I won'tmake any promises
just so I can keep on breaking them upon
the hearts of people I've betrayed-
Fadran, what happened, what do you need and how can we help?
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I have no intention to create a political forum here. I have a few words to say and I'll leave it at that. I got married two days ago. To the woman that I love most in the world. A woman about whom I have written many a poem. I regret nothing, but the timing. As you may or may not have heard the worst war in the history of Israel. The carnage is unspeakable and sure to get worse. I almost felt wrong getting married amidst the death and slaughter. We were I suppose a light in the darkness that has fallen as a cloak so thick as to be blinding. Remember to be the light in the dark never feel guilty for being happy because you deserve it!!!
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Thank goodness you're okay, I've been worried about you man. As I was reading this I thought you were about to say something horrible had happened to you, or someone close. My thoughts and prayers are with Israel right not.
Congrats on your marriage, may you be able to turn darkness to light.
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What ignoring social media for a few hours can do for you:
1635 words written :D
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It's also great for your state of mind, you feel so much better.
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I would like yalls thoughts on this question that our resident channelknight posed to me in DMs earlier
A single star destroyer from the galactic empire at its peak suddenly appears in orbit around earth, with the intent to occupy the planet for the empire. Can the united forces of earth defeat it?
If you think we can defeat one, what about 2? how many of the empire’s forces can we withstand?
the empire’s goal here is occupation, not annihilation, so no need to worry about a death star or anything.
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LOL, easy dubs for Earth.
The USA on its own could win the entire thing.
In ep 5 we see an Ion Cannon is able to disable a Star Destroyer, a nuclear weapon can easily produce more ions while also breaching the hull and destroying the entire thing.
The US has (publicly confirmed anyway) 450 Minuteman 3 missiles which are capable of reaching high atmosphere, and could probably enter orbit if we tried to get them there, so that's 450 Star Destroyers minimum right there.
Then we get to ground troops. The fact of the matter is that Galactic Empires ground vehicles are comically flawed, and easily destroyed. And hopelessly outmatched by US armored vehicles, and anti-tank weapons.
During the height of the Iraq war an IED was going off once every 45 minutes, with the US Heartland under attack I could easily see that number dipping into the low seconds.
So there goes who knows how many forces.
And that's just the military:
US civilians own around 390,000,000 guns and over a Trillion rounds of ammo, and they aren't giving up without a fight.
Bombs are hilariously easy to make, as are Napalm, chemical gases, powerful acids, etc.
Basically I think Earth could take the entire Galactic Empire so long as they focused on subjugation rather than destruction.
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just got a new phone
tell me what i should set my wallpaper to, and i’ll take all the replies and put them in a rotating playlist
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The Adobe Flash and Dannnnex J. Trump, because those are my favorite edits you've done.
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I don't advocate for Communism, but I'd just like to point out that the current Deepest Hole Ever Drilled was made for the express purpose of Finding Oil; while the previous record-holder was made by Soviet Russia, who did it Because Why Not
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the current Deepest Hole Ever Drilled was made for the express purpose of Finding Oil
*Capitalist American Heavy Breathing Intensifies*
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Youtube: [Recommends a video chronicling all the lightsaber duels in Star Wars]
Me: I guess it's time for a TIER LIST
Spoiler(I didn't actually do that I'd need a lot of screenshots)
First of all:
Garbage:
- Luke vs. Leia (Rise of Skywalker): Apparently this one counts? I gave it a 1/10, and frankly I think it deserves less. It's approximately three seconds long and absolutely nothing happens.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Asajj Ventress (Star The Clone Wars Wars): 2/10. It's awkward and jumpy and Kenobi is kind of annoying throughout the whole thing.
- High Inquisitor vs Kenan Jarrus, Rematch 2 (Rebels): 2/10. There were an awful lot of these semi-fights, and this one was the worst.
- Kylo Ren vs Rey (Rise of Skywalker): 2/10. Their first fight in this god-awful movie. I really needed Rey to stop grunting all the time - this will become something of a theme
- Master Yoda vs The Senate (Revenge of the Sith): 3/10. On the notepad I gave this 0 for the Sin of Interrupting Duel of the Fates, but honestly it deserves better than all the above pieces of garbage.
- Anakin vs Dooku, feat. Sand (Star The Clone Wars Wars): 3/10. Out of the two god-awful lightsaber duels this god-awful movie had, this one was almost acceptable. Gets points for tactical usage of sand.
- Anakin & Kenobi vs Ventress (The Clone Wars): 3/10. She grunts too much.
- Ben vs Rey (The Rise of Skywalker): 3/10. This fight is garbage. Too much grunting.
Watchable:
- General Kenobi vs General Grievous (Revenge of the Sith): 3/10 - one point for about every second of actual lightsaber vs lightsaber combat there is in this "fight"
- Darth Maul vs Qui-Gon Jinn (The Phantom Menace): 4/10. Remember when they fought for about three seconds on Tatooine? It was okay.
- Darth Maul vs Pre Visla (The Clone Wars): 4/10. It's a decent action scene, but hardly any of it is actual Lightsaber Duel
- Anakin vs Barriss Offee (The Clone Wars): 4/10. The fight itself is a little uneventful, but does come with a great meme
Spoiler
and yes - this is the best-quality image I could find.
- The Senate vs Master Windu (Revenge of the Sith): 4/10. First few seconds of Palpatine just killing off random schmucks is a little weird, but his duel with just Windu is pretty solid. Obv I don't like the grunting but it's kind of part of the effect with Sheev.
- Ben vs Vader (Kenobi): 4/10. Yeah it's okay.
- Grand Inquisitor vs Kenan Jarrus, Rematch 1 (Rebels): 4/10. Tries to be like Dooku vs Anyone, but ultimately comes up short.
- Ezra & Kenan vs. Inquisitor Bros (Rebels): 4/10. The action is okay, but it suffers from Conversationitis
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Ezra, Kenan, & Ahsoka vs Inquisitor Bros (Rebels): 4/10. Again, the action is okay... but this time there are just way too many lightsaber blades to make sense of any of it.
- And then Maul shows up: 3/10. The action actually becomes worse now.
- Blind Kenan vs Maul (Rebels): 4/10. It's okay, but also about three seconds long.
- Sabine vs. Mandalore guy (Rebels): 4/10. It was kinda boring.
- Rey vs Kylo Ren (The Force Awakens): 4/10. I would rank it way lower if the CGI wasn't as good.
Decent:
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Darth Sideous vs. Maul & Savage (The Clone Wars): 5/10. Would've been better if there'd been more Lightsaber and less Force Pushing
- Maul vs. Darth Sideous: 11/10. After Savage is killed, this fight becomes wildly incredible.
- Count Dooku vs. Anakin & Kenobi (Revenge of the Sith): 5/10. It's actually kinda lucky it got this high - the whole thing is carried by the last few seconds of Anakin vs Dooku. Otherwise it's just some weird Force shenanigans.
- Darth Vader vs. Third Sister (Kenobi): 5/10. Respect any fight that lets Vader give absolutely no craps about his opponent.
- Inquisitor vs Kenan Jarrus, Rematch 3 (Rebels): 5/10. And another one gone... this one's okay. Ezra shows up later on and the fight tries to be Maul vs Kenobi & Qui-Gon, which... no.
- Finn vs. Kylo Ren (the Force Awakens): 5/10. Remember earlier when I said Rey's first duel with Kylo was bad? In fact, it was so bad that Finn's loss was actually better than her win.
- Kenobi vs Vader (A New Hope): 5/10. It's the first ever lightsaber duel and it honestly goes pretty hard.
Pretty Good:
- Kenobi vs Dooku (Attack of the Clones): 6/10. 'S okay.
- Padawanakin vs Dooku (Attack of the Clones): 6/10. 'S okay
- Kit Fisto vs General Grievous (The Clone Wars): 6/10. Was better than I expected and remembered.
- Ventress & Savage vs. Count Dooku (The Clone Wars): 6/10 here we have the first Prime Example of Clone Wars Dooku kicking name and taking bubblegum.
- Ventress vs Ahsoka (The Clone Wars): 6/10. This is the one a little way's in when Ahsoka's been framed or whatever... maybe I should've dropped it lower. There wasn't much Lightsaber going on the whole time.
- Inquisitor vs Kenan Jarrus (Rebels): 6/10. Yeah, that's right - there were four of these. And the first one was the best.
- Ahsoka vs Maul (Rebels): 6/10. For all five seconds we have, it is glorious.
Really Good:
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Darth Maul vs. Qui-Gon Jinn & Obi-Wan Kenobi (The Phantom Menace): 7/10. A legendary duel, if a tad slow in the middle.
- Maul vs. Kenobi: 11/10. Those last thirty seconds are incredible.
- Dooku vs. The Ghost Witch Ladies (The Clone Wars): 7/10. Did I mention how epic Clone Wars Dooku was? He's the only one who could take completely unnatural-looking movements and a pair of pajamas and make it look metal as hell.
- Kenobi vs. Darth Vader (Kenobi): 7/10. I liked it. Dropped off near the end.
- Vader vs. Ahsoka (Rebels): 7/10. Darth Vader's movements seem a little weird, but otherwise it's a great fight.
- Obi-Wan vs. Padawanakin (Kenobi): 8/10. Say what you will about this show, but it had some pretty solid lightsaber duels.
- Yoda vs. Count Dooku (Attack of the Clones): 8/10. Yeah, yeah... the screaming is weird. But otherwise it's definitely the best fight in the movie.
- Count Dooku vs. Yodette (Tales of the Jedi): 9/10. Started weird; got better.
Really Good:
- Count Dooku vs. Anakin & Obi-Wan, Drugs Edition (The Clone Wars): 9/10. Peak Dooku! Peak Dooku. I will take no criticisms at this time.
- Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader (The Empire Strikes Back): 9/10. Did you know that this movie is actually really good???
The Best Ones:
- Luke Skywalker vs. Anakin Skywalker (Return of the Jedi): 10/10. Did you know that this movie is actually really damn good???
- Maul vs. Ben Kenobi (Rebels): 11/10. They finished Maul's story with a duel against Kenobi... it lasts three seconds.
Tied for First Place:
- Anakin Skywalker vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Revenge of the Sith): 12/10
- Ahsoka Tano vs. Maul (The Clone Wars): 12/10
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Kylo Ren vs Rey (Rise of Skywalker): 2/10. Their first fight in this god-awful movie. I really needed Rey to stop grunting all the time - this will become something of a theme
@dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnex if you slow this fight down you can clearly see the lightsabers go through each other on this fight.
Multiple times.
Like they weren't even trying.
I'd honestly have given this one a negative score personally.
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My legs have never felt more unattached before.
Maybe I'll run again. Or maybe not.
But hey, I finished so...yay?
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How'd you do?
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So I just finished my third book, the first draft anyway.
And um, I killed the main characters father. Again. For the third time.
And I killed the secondary characters mother. And her father, though she didn't know that.
I think I have a problem.
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Trauma is good.
Always getting it by killing their parents is predictable.
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So Brandon averages 2% on Stormlight Archive 5 a week assuming a 400,000 page book.
That's only 8,000 words and he does 6 days a week, and 4 hours of writing a day.
That's an average of 333ish words per hour.
I've been getting close to 500 per hour.
Am I faster than Brandon?
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@dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnex I have no way of knowing.
@ΨιτιsτηεΒέsτ I already said that Brandon is assuming that it will be 400,000 words when he says he does 2% a week. He knows the book will probably be longer, but that is what he is assuming in order to get a percentage.
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So Brandon averages 2% on Stormlight Archive 5 a week assuming a 400,000 page book.
That's only 8,000 words and he does 6 days a week, and 4 hours of writing a day.
That's an average of 333ish words per hour.
I've been getting close to 500 per hour.
Am I faster than Brandon?
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@Nameless* that is true, but he says in the weekly updates that his percentages are based on KoW being 400,000
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So Brandon averages 2% on Stormlight Archive 5 a week assuming a 400,000 page book.
That's only 8,000 words and he does 6 days a week, and 4 hours of writing a day.
That's an average of 333ish words per hour.
I've been getting close to 500 per hour.
Am I faster than Brandon?
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@Experience no they aren't. I'll let you have the second, but the first one will never again see the light of day.
Unless you ask nicely and promise not to make fun of me for failing to do a high fantasy/zombie apocalypse.
@Thaidakar the Ghostblood thanks man you too!
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Have you ever played Sanderson Elimination?
Would you like to?
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No.
Um, sure. How do I do that?
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So Brandon averages 2% on Stormlight Archive 5 a week assuming a 400,000 page book.
That's only 8,000 words and he does 6 days a week, and 4 hours of writing a day.
That's an average of 333ish words per hour.
I've been getting close to 500 per hour.
Am I faster than Brandon?
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@Experience not as many as you might expect, though I am close to finishing my third novel.
@Thaidakar the Ghostblood I can keep it up pretty consistently, and have for months. Now I have a job separate from writing, so I can't spend as many hours writing a day as Brandon can, and I guess I can't tell if I can keep that up for 4+ hours. So Brandon is getting more words per day in, but my words per hour is higher.
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I consider myself a grammar American.
Also I'm addicted to commas, help.
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So I am running a half marathon tomorrow.
I haven't raced in over a year.
Cue the anxiety.
Yipeeee
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Nice man, I wish you luck.
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counting until someone messes up day #9
high score: 62
here we go again
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It's not even xp's fault.
Ancient Elantrian put 18 instead of 17
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Yeah, that's, a, common, format, for, memes.
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Names update:
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I am subtly inquiring as to why one would assume a fantasy language should adhere to modern lingual charts instead of in-world dialect evolution
I am subtly inquiring as to why one would not use the scientifically recognized symbols for every sound in spoken language when making a pronunciation guide.
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Names update:
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I had not.
Is that important?
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