Nice picture, but the article implies that "Field of Dreams" is anything but eminently bearable. If your "Field" watching experience was anything but spellbound awe followed by a few seconds of weeping ("Let's have a catch, Dad"), you're dead inside. Dead.
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Well it's certainly not a slave! I told it that it was free to do what it wanted, but it stayed there on the bun so I figured, "might as well."
Well as long as the boss is Tom Brady, he will.
who could honestly play Picard
It's more of a matter of legacy code compounding in detail. EA's Madden series has a whole section of code (its "Spaghetti Ball") that's left basically untouched year-to-year because its so indiscernible, and it would take more man-hours to rewrite and document than it would be profitable. The code "just works" and is…
Anywhere but io9 would I let you get away with that, but neither lightsabers nor blasters in Star Wars are "lasers." They're all plasma-based and particulate in nature (which is why they're visible from multiple angles, able to terminate at distance, etc.).
"Tempering" one's good feelings is a bad thing (or at least it is not a good thing). It means "to moderate."
It's not Tony Hawk without a little Goldfinger! Like the above, this was what started playing in my head as I looked at the screenshots.
I've enjoyed our conversation, but I think we are at an impasse here. I clearly believe that technical manuals (such as they fit into the canon) are reliable sources because they are canonical. You believe that they should be held to a higher standard. I believe that to discuss this further with you would only become…
Like I've been saying all along, I'm not trying to debate whether the numbers given in any technical manual are reasonable or not - it's all fictitious anyway. My point is that they're the sole source for hard numbers within the canon, and that that's the most solid basis for comparison.
...and neither should you need to make physics calculations to determine the distance sound would travel through space provided it only had the atmosphere inside the exploding object as a medium. You should clearly be able to tell the difference between sound traveling a few meters and hundreds of kilometers, right?
"I don't see any way to reconcile the two sets of numbers" - There's only the one set of numbers!
I don't want to oversimplify, but books like Incredible Cross-Sections fit into the canon (right up there in C-canon, along with the rest of the books that are published under Lucas's aegis). Anything that the movies don't explicitly contradict should be considered the final word, given the nature of the organization…
You're not really presenting a front that seems very amicable to debate - you're simply saying "wrong" and then going on the defensive.
They come from technical commentaries, which are part of the canon. You may not agree with how the numbers in the technical commentaries were derived, but we're talking about fictional universes! It really wouldn't matter if they were made up on the spot.
I didn't know that the goal was to assess the viability of these kinds of things, but rather their canonical metrics. (Besides, there are "handwavium" solutions for anything you throw out -i.e. "too much force? Inertial dampners!" "Grievous in space? Ray shields not particle shields!").
Balmorra gets pretty long, but it doesn't feel as draggy as Taris did. Tatooine is long, but it was more fun than Taris. The later-level planets seem to go by quicker (especially Quesh, which is a nice, short, breath of fresh air after Balmorra).
Why, it's all in the technical commentaries for both canons!
Pretty sure purple being dark-only is a counterbalance to cyan being light-only. Aren't they both the high-level rare crystals for either alignment?