Star Wars 7 shit talk

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The entire series starts with cutesy bullshit droids, they're kind of its thing.

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link

I take it you are not an engineer by day xp

valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link

yeah Andrew I can't see how it would work without an axle connecting the upper and lower halves

xp

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link

i know but

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link

1 rollers moving in opposite direction of travel
2 gyroscope in ball

valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link

I don't think the ball is part of the droid fwiw

18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link

hurting you're all right but that post makes me want to kick you through a fishtank

goole, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link

GO PLAY OUTSIDE ALL OF YOU

goole, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link

occurred to me it could be a lil droid on top of a ball, sure

valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link

MacGyver never needed no gyroscope

Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link

that's what I was thinking, but then how does the droid stay on top like that. I mean it looks like its using it as a method of propulsion, but if it can just float on top of the ball and direct its motion well why have a ball at all

xp

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link

do they even have soccer in the future/past

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link

goole OTM

the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link

Yes, the future past does not have soccer anymore yet, no.

Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link

how do u even soccer in star wars

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link

gyroscopes?

Evan, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link

in the future they call it football

a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link

This thread is slowly working through everything already covered in the Red Letter Media series.

tbf we've done all this stuff in the crimes of george lucas thread many times over

Number None, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link

We need to cycle through it every year like the Torah

18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link

oh I'm not suggesting we stop

Number None, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link

this is our trade federation

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link

It's like poetry

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link

it's always may the fourth somewhere

a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link

We are no match for droidekas.

Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link

ha that's amazing

piscesx, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link

of all the things posted on this thread, people not understanding how something could have a rolling base and relatively stationary top in a robot form made me the most exasperated

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link

It's basically a hipster unicyclist droid.

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link

Especially in a series full of hovering droids and vehicles which do not appear to be Force-controlled xp

nashwan, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link

haha yes, there is faster than light travel, vehicles and robots that hover around, but one plausible yet impractical balance-on-a-ball thing that looks funny, dunno, man

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link

Maybe it's a pinata droid and the base is full of delicious space candy.

Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link

I'm watching "Lost" for the first time because of this trailer. I suppose we are in for a more documentary-style Star Wars?

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link

Kind of crazy that after 6 movies no one has yet explained what lightsabers are or how they are made in any of them.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link

Anyone watched this Ralph McQuarrie doc? It looks pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlcjTqxzWEk

jmm, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link

Episode Eight: The Saga of Sabermetrics

a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link

I thought of something

What if the vehicles we saw in the prequels were almost all atmosphere- and space-capable vehicles, so they had to have more aerodynamic exteriors and no stuff sticking off the outside like the Millenium Falcon had?

The x-wings are the multi-purpose tool of the rebellion so they have to be aerodynamic and work in both but are built less flashy because the rebels are broke. Other ships are repurposed transports or stuff like star destroyers that are meant to always be in space.

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link

(No friction in space travel, shields help against friction on the ground)

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link

M. Falcon seemed to fly okay around cloud city, kibblety bits and all.

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link

not understanding how something could have a rolling base and relatively stationary top in a robot form made me the most exasperated

to be clear my issue is primarily with how the two parts are attached, cuz it doesnt look like there's an axle, it looks like the top part is just balanced on the bottom.

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link

If its using repulsor lift (lol) then why bother with the ball

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/xa4Tkkd.png

           (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link

The new droid that accompanies Daisy Ridley and John Boyega’s characters on their journey through JJ Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens is basically a ball with a small R2-D2 styled head. Inside the body of the droid, there is a weight on a pole. The weight is heavier than the head, which is constructed out of a light metal, allowing the head to always remain upright as the body rolls on the ground. The artist, Jason Ward, separated the sphere, as the official Lucasfilm concepts did, to show how the mechanisms work. However, the new droid does not do that in the film. An abundance of gadgets can be stored inside the droid, including many mechanisms and defenses. To allow the droid to operate functionally on screen as a puppet, the ball is allowed to role on two tracks that are either obscured or digitally removed.

           (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link

There ya go

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link

What's this droid's function supposed to be? It seems like it might work as an off-road one of these: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/MSE-6-series_repair_droid

jmm, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link

imagine the top is a hat, with an inside rim filled with ball bearings

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link

where does the hamster go

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link

up yr butt

valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link

Lol

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link


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