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Playing Star Wars Valor while watching Empire Strikes Back
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I'm sure I coudl be more Star Wars right now, if I wanted
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But I'd have to work at it
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Anyway
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- One of the dudes was like "This is Rogue Two"
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and I had a moment
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- Han and Leia's dynamic is VERY 80s
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or is this 70s?
Bolt Vanderhuge
ESB was 1980
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Production in the late 70s, though, I think
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Regardless
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It's very "If I just keep on telling you you love me eventually you'll give up and love me"
Bolt Vanderhuge
Yeah, Rogue Squadron existed starting in Empire Strikes Back as the remnants of Red Squadron, with newer pilots. They're essentially the Rebel Alliance's best elite pilots.
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Right but Rogue One, specifically
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was from two movies ago
Bolt Vanderhuge
Which... well, with Rogue One, we now have an origin for why they call themselves that
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And I rather like it.
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yea
Bolt Vanderhuge
And I think Rogue Squadron's head pilot goes by Rogue Leader rather than Rogue One.
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Rogue One are heroes
Bolt Vanderhuge
Yep, so that slot belongs to them, in a sense. I think, anyway
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ATAT and ATSTs are the most hilariously useless armored units
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Like they're intimidating as hell but
Bolt Vanderhuge
They're rad, and the ATAT is insanely heavily armored, but yeah
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I cannot COUNT the number of imperial walkers I've seen taken down by stupidly clever units
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tactics not units
Bolt Vanderhuge
They're definitely weapons of intimidation
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ATATs especially are like
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Just don't attack them from in front
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And they become pretty much harmless
Bolt Vanderhuge
I tell you, playing Empire At War made you realize how ponderous AT-ATs are. They take forever to turn.
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That said though
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They're terrifying and incredibly hard to take down with conventional weaponry
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They're behemoth monsters with a reputation for being durable and it's well earned
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I think they can even survive being bombarded by Y-Wings
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yeah their weapons and armor are NO joke
Bolt Vanderhuge
The trouble is, anything fast enough to get behind them short of a starfighter won't have the firepower to take it out from behind
kamikasei
The weirdest Han/Leia bit is when he's like "oh, you just weren't there in the north tunnels the other day, when she confessed her true feelings" And like, guy, telling other people in front of her face that she said shit she didn't is... not endearing
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it really isn't
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I will say that ATATs are MUCH more viable
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now that Jedi aren't very common
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Lightsabers make short work of them
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Take out one leg and they're worthless
Bolt Vanderhuge
Yep. XD
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What's up Yoda
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long time no see
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It's been since...I think Episode 3
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No, he appeared very briefly in Rebels
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Life on Dagoba has NOT been kind to him
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LANDO
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You old piece of shit
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How you been
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They're doing a pretty good job at selling that Vader isn't really trying at all for this fight
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Oh yeah. Luke's completely out of his depth
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And Vader's basically doing enough to get him where he wants him
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Also
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how the FUCK did they find that lightsaber agani
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after Luke dropped it into a GAS GIANT
Bolt Vanderhuge
NO SHUT UP THOUGH 
Bolt Vanderhuge
(We can only assume it ended up in one of those wacky ass tunnels in that pit that Luke fell into)
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And that someone found it
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sure
Bolt Vanderhuge
(No one should've reasonably found it)
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XDD
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R2D2 and C3P0 are INCREDIBLY married
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And Luke got a MUCH better prosthetic than his dad did
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lookit those old-ass Y-Wings
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still chugging along
Bolt Vanderhuge
The Y-Wings are like those old junker cars that just refuse to die and somehow still do the job ages after they're out of date
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One of those proven designs that just doesn't get retired
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The 1999 Toyota Corolla of starships
DSTXC
I've always loved the Y-Wing, but I've also always been just a tiny bit of a hipster about my picks in space ships and mecha
Bolt Vanderhuge
The Y-Wing is a slow, ponderous, inelegant fighter that carries a ton of firepower and sturdy shielding and sometimes that's what you need
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(I played a lot of the Star Wars flight games and the Y-Wing is both a blessing and a curse to play as)
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(It's Great)