Wildstar Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 I bought a crock pot for myself during my Xmas shopping, and I took a try at making beef stroganoff in it yesterday...I thought it came out pretty good.
Rogue15 Posted January 20, 2014 Posted January 20, 2014 The only thing worth keeping in the post RotJ EU is Zahn's Heir to the Empire Trilogy. Everything else is trash. Either some thinly veiled Mary Sue character or some super weapon that is going to destroy everything. There are some things i would LOVE to get trashed, the stupid light saber styles, and the Vong the vong were interesting...xwing series was good too
edlib Posted January 20, 2014 Author Posted January 20, 2014 Spent the long weekend cleaning and organizing my cellar. Not fun... but it had to be done. Set up some new shelving to help keep it orderly down there. And it's still only a start... I haven't gone though any of the boxes yet to see if any of it is stuff I actually want or need to keep. I've just been moving them into better locations and throwing away the stuff in the open that's obviously junk. Next is to tackle the crawl spaces off my bedroom in the attic. That's going to be a long weekend's work in itself.
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 The Vong were trash when they killed Chewbaca.
K_Kinnison Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 My main beefs with the X-wing series: Corran Horn is a Mary sue type character. all the space combat mechanics was based of the X-wing games. Limited fuel on X-wings fighters became a plot device. The Vong: How can a Xenophobic race, that relies on killing a superior to advance, or killing a subordinate to gain favor from the gods, ever possibly have a society that develope space travel? and why the heck would you think you could even possibly negotiate with them? As mentioned before, Chewbaccas death was stupid and poorly done. RA salvator can do fantasy but he cannot do sci-fi
Rogue15 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 no, i want to see how vader gets free, what happens to the secret apprentice, and what happens to juno.
Keyan Farlander Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 My main beefs with the X-wing series: Corran Horn is a Mary sue type character. Corran Horn was kind of a boring character, but his books were still OK. But the X-Wing series really got good under Allston, and I'd hate to see those go. all the space combat mechanics was based of the X-wing games. Limited fuel on X-wings fighters became a plot device. The fighters didn't have limited fuel in the games, though. And I don't remember that being a big issue in the books except for the first one, and it didn't seem problematic to me. I may not be remembering everything, though. I never had any interest in reading the Vong the books, so I don't know about any of that. Thrawn Trilogy was definitely the best of the EU, though. Even the later Thrawn Duology or whatever wasn't that great.
Rogue15 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 i read star by star and dark journey, great books. wish i could've got into it more, but then there was a slew of star wars games that came out and i got hooked.
edlib Posted January 21, 2014 Author Posted January 21, 2014 Other than the official novelizations, the first run of Marvel comics, and a few books that came out between the movie releases of the original trilogy (Splinter of the Mind's Eye; Han Solo at Star's End; maybe a couple of others I borrowed but didn't own...) I never bothered much with the EU books, so this doesn't bother me much. And it's not like you can't read the existing books that are already printed... It just means that they may not reprint the ones that directly conflict with the new story lines. I wonder what this is going to to all the various Wikis and SW database websites out there that try to fit all the universe stuff into a coherent unified canon. Are they going to trash all the old stuff as well? Or will the new and old entries live side by side with a note to the effect of parallel universe branching of the EU? P.S. - Happy Birthday 15!
K_Kinnison Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 no, i want to see how vader gets free, what happens to the secret apprentice, and what happens to juno. And that is why they come out with crap, cause people like you want more crap, just to see what kind of crap it is In Force Unleashed the main character is dead... so you bring him back to life as a clone in the sequel, and somehow the clone has memories of the original and other plot specific information to move the story along like a 2 year old learning how to drive a stick shift.
Rogue15 Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 jesus k_k, it's fiction.....not like they're rewriting the ****in bible...god damn. -6 degrees out, OF COURSE SCHOOL DOESN'T CANCEL FOR ME. should be an interesting mini death march there. thanks ed!
edlib Posted January 22, 2014 Author Posted January 22, 2014 Snow day. Woot. Gotta head out and shovel the walks soon. Bleh. It's freezing out there. I don't wanna!
Keyan Farlander Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 Did a lot of shoveling yesterday. I don't mind it, really.
edlib Posted January 22, 2014 Author Posted January 22, 2014 I don't mind the shoveling if it's in the 30's... or even the 20's... This single digit temps stuff is brutal. That's the part that's gonna get to me today.
K_Kinnison Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 I don't like the piddly trace amounts that just put a coating of snow down. and don't mind the cold, when you got indoor heating, wool blankets and a snuggling cat
Wildstar Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 Just to add to the "intel" on the FB group during the downtime, they may have also found a hack for 32-bit color ("high color") textures.
Rogue15 Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 i got no snow...walking to class and back was a bit cold (2 miles 1 way) decided against the bus since it's a sunny day out. love all my classes so far! only take 1 tomorrow "applied ethics"
megarock58 Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 The only thing worth keeping in the post RotJ EU is Zahn's Heir to the Empire Trilogy. Everything else is trash. g I disagree, Dark Forces 2 was great too.
Rogue15 Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 burnt roughly 800 calories walking today. not bad not bad at all!
Kuuki Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 feeling more and more rejected. oh btw: Rogue for higher's neighbor's house got burnt down. 6 Survived, 3 died. I know it's bleak. The hell I care. I cant even beat a bot match on star craft 2.
Rogue15 Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 scar if u ever need to talk or text im on aim alot (got it on my phone)
Keyan Farlander Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 burnt roughly 800 calories walking today. not bad not bad at all! Wouldn't that be like 15 miles of walking?
Rogue15 Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 not according to my trusty pedometer app which takes my height, weight and stride into account.. 5'9" weighing in at a fat-ass 215 pounds lol...i walked 7 miles altogether
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