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[EnigmaticHat]

Loosely related, but I've always headcanoned it that Jedi can stop physical projectiles in midair matrix style and that's why people try blasters.  Its always seemed to me that if it was possible to shotgun Obi-wan to death someone would have thought of that by now.

I dunno, it seems to me that throwing a grenade at a Jedi Master is a good way to get yourself blown up.

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I remember various sources from the old EU detailing how to kill Jedi. Physical projectiles (because these just get vaporized by the lightsabers instead of reflected) and flamethrowers were noted as weapons of choice.

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Yeah, and I've always thought that was a stupid interpretation of the OT.  Lightsabers are overrated, all of the powerful force users seem to agree.  Obiwan always prefered non-violent or indirect means, Yoda implies that a true master of the force could do a lot more than what Luke can.  Palpatine doesn't have a lightsaber and doesn't respect them at all.

And if you think about it, why would a Jedi need a lightsaber when they could just snap someone's neck with the force.  Because the light side isn't FOR killing.  Obiwan never physically harms anyone with the force.  Thus if a Jedi has to defend themselves they use a weapon.  The lightsaber makes perfect symbolic sense because it can harm but it can also protect, and it makes practical sense because being force sensitive helps you use it but the force isn't the thing that actually does the killing.  Darth Vader uses a lightsaber because he used to be a Jedi, but he has no compunction against killing, which is why he uses telekinesis for violence.  In fact pretty much every ability or power Darth Vader uses is light side, and his general style of fighting emphasizes invincible defense rather than offense.  Its almost like a perversion of what Jedi are.  The only Sith we see never actually fights, because really he's just torturing Luke.  I've heard a really interesting interpretation of that scene which is that he could have killed Luke almost instantly but he wanted to kill him slowly.  And then of course once he's falling to his death since he's a dark side user, which (in the OT at least) seems to emphasize direct violence, he doesn't have any powers that would save his own life.  We never saw the extent of what Palpatine or Yoda were capable of.

I've always figured that the Jedi must have been truly formidable and what we see in the OT is just a dying shadow of that.  Its never said that the powers we see are the only thing you can do with the force, in fact the implication is the opposite.  The Jedi Masters of old must have been something else, and Palpatine must be a real monster to have been able to overcome them.  Instead what we get with the prequels was a bunch of gullible, violent mooks with the exact same powerset as Luke.  Whose been a Jedi for like... what, two years?

There's a really great cartoon out there where Mace Windu loses his lightsaber while fighting super battle droids and proceeds to kung fu the shit out of them while disassembling them with his mind.  That's what the prequels should have been (that, and more varied uses for the force like healing the sick and such).

Edit: "Size matters not," surely "number matters not" as well.

[Akura]

Spoiler: KoToRII tips on fighting Jedi (click to show/hide)

Go for their friends.

...That was dark.

[Persus13]

How many dark side points did you just gain there?

[AzyWng]

Completed a terror mission with only three civilian deaths, no soldier casualties, and a rating of "Excellent!"

Laser weapons kick a surprising amount of ass. A welcome step-up of the days (read: 5 minutes ago) of soldiers shooting Floaters with cannons only to be slain by the return fire.

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X-COM: UFO Defense

EDIT: Still having no luck with installing mods, though. I don't care if it's relatively ineffective now, I want my shotgun, dammit!

[TheDarkStar]

Final battles are fairly anticlimactic if you clear out the enemy base beforehand.

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Starcraft 1. In both of the final missions at the end of the zerg campaign, the protoss have a defense-heavy base but are not very aggressive. A large enough group of devourers (and mutalisks for anti-air/meatshields) is pretty much unstoppable. So I removed the heavily-defended second bases that were probably intended to be too difficult for the player to attack.

[Tiruin]

There's a really great cartoon out there where Mace Windu loses his lightsaber while fighting super battle droids and proceeds to kung fu the shit out of them while disassembling them with his mind.  That's what the prequels should have been (that, and more varied uses for the force like healing the sick and such).

There was more from Tartakovsky's Clone Wars Cartoons :3 But this is a short video of it where Windu also uses Force Speed.
Actually why didn't we see that at all in anywhere in the movies @_@

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X-COM: UFO Defense

This reminds me of my current game.

Spoiler: XCOM: EW; Long War (click to show/hide)

I had gone into the .ini files to make Long War pretty much THE SAME TIMING as the original (set one of the variables to 0.2 under Dynamic Long War to adjust the length of time) but with the scaling difficulty and alien tech research. Playing on Impossible Ironman (because that one steam achievement :V) and the most annoying thing is that ONE 'lower will, panic panic domino effect' that keeps plaguing me in that I keep a full roster of 10 folks [plus 2 to make the 12 man max upgraded squad mission roster] in which only 40% are my main team, and the rest are meatshields/support meatshields due to how difficult everything is.

Progressing extremely well given tactics and time. Gauss weaponry, and a list of elite sniper/scout/gunners keeping the aliens at bay \o/

But goodness is this very hard--missions are sparse and in between, and it is **common** to have sectoids with 5+ health; thin men with 7+, and mutons with three lines or more of 5 health each.

...This doesn't bring up the topic of Mechtoids and those Cyberdiscs.

Disabling fire is my best friend. BEST FRIEND, alongside accuracy!

[SeriousConcentrate]

Force Speed.
Actually why didn't we see that at all in anywhere in the movies @_@

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon use it to run from the droidekas at the beginning of Ep1... Strange that neither did when fighting Maul.

[Tiruin]

Force Speed.
Actually why didn't we see that at all in anywhere in the movies @_@

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon use it to run from the droidekas at the beginning of Ep1... Strange that neither did when fighting Maul.

I finally noticed that bit.
... So many opportunities.

[NRDL]

For all we know, they could have been using force speed the entire time, and the normal speed of the fight is just from their perspective. Anybody else watching would just see a bunch of blue and red blurs.

[Rolan7]

Woah, I never noticed that!  I assumed they just leapt away or something - the explosion grabbed my eye.  That's really cool!

[Tiruin]

For all we know, they could have been using force speed the entire time, and the normal speed of the fight is just from their perspective. Anybody else watching would just see a bunch of blue and red blurs.

O_O
This makes sense in everything now, and made me recall my try in Star Wars: Republic Commando. (Repeating laser rifles \o/)

Woah, I never noticed that!  I assumed they just leapt away or something - the explosion grabbed my eye.  That's really cool!

Yeah, back in my childhood I loved physics and reading all that, I could recognize those bits but how many things happening on screen had me seeing more explosions rather than...well, that.
But I did wonder how the hallway was empty as I assumed they ran to the right.

[Game noted right at top]
So playing on the hardest difficulty because I can, having fun with tactical positioning, panicking because of being overwhelmed with fire on all sides, and getting familiar with all these fancy grenades gets me in the most adrenaline filled situations at the end of Mission 2 (aboard a Republic starship...the ending being very intense), and a less intense Mission 3 on Kashyyk. Because Grievous' bodyguards are no joke and are extremely annoying (or at least they are his body guards--those double purple plasma bladed robots are very annoying and the NPC I have to defend keeps dying to them x~x)
I feel like winning that one mission and then not having to guard the NPC anymore is a win, on the hardest difficulty.

. . .Also remembering what grenade does what. A bit of playing on shared games of (Star Wars: Knights of the Ol' Republic) had me understanding grenades even better (Sonic, Thermal, etc...) when I got back into playing and trying to finish that last mission area.
Also the Wookies keep dying ;~;

[AzyWng]

Just destroyed an Alien Base with no losses.

Granted, I did lose the US as a funding partner (they signed a pact), but the other nations are all still in.

Personal Armor was only marginally better than Coveralls (My units looked better but still died as fast), so I upgraded to Power Suits and never looked back. Now my troops can actually stay alive long enough for others to use Med-Kits on them!

I may actually be getting good at this game!

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XCOM: UFO Defense

[Greiger]

Came in first place on bowser's castle with room to spare as yoshi, and utterly smoked the one guy who has been dominating everyone else in the lobby for once.  Felt good.

Of course all the highlight reels of the races after that, could be summed up as "30 seconds of dinosaur abuse", "Yoshi almost places then gets shelled to 11th on the last quarter of the last lap", and "30 seconds of Yoshi fucking up shortcuts and running into bananas"

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

[ArchAIngel]

I have completely skullfucked Abbadon's plans for the Gothic Sector by hiding away both the Eye of Night and the Hand of Darkness. Slowly beating off the Chaos assaults, with Nova Cannon and hunting down their admirals.


Current foes in order of difficulty:


4: Eldar. Buncha wimps get blown apart so easily. Nova Cannons are love.
3: Imperial Traitors. I do what they can, but better most of the time, and I'm building for high shields. Tank v Tank, and I'm the better tank.
2: Chaos. Their bloody Cruisers are the same speed as my Frigates. If I can catch them, I rip them apart. If they have an objective they need to get to... yeah.
1: Orks. I now understand Imhotekh the Stormlord's issue with them. How the fuck do I fight these guys? Their Light Kroozers can fight my Cruisers! I just avoid the Greenskins at this point, too hard to kill. Better to hunt for Eldar, easy fights.


Also, fuck Convoy and Planetary Defense.


Battlefleet Gothic: Armada.

[Akura]

Once again, Red decided not to use the fact that Mawile is very, very flammable and make an easy win. Only this time, Blue was standing next to him to laugh at his foolishness - at least Blue managed to take out Garchomp.

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Pokemon Sun, Battle Tree Multi, facing all 20 matches with Pokemon Breeder Rada because I never bothered to scout anyone in any of the other modes. She's actually good, her Barbaracle is actually quite powerful.

Also, I looked it up, both times I faced Red's Charizard, which was holding a Charti Berry(not that it saved it from Stone Edge), that Charizard knows no Fire-type moves.