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EpicKingdom_ posted...

@ASithLord7

You don't think Disney checks off on anything Star Wars related?

Who or what are you talking about? Are we talking about someone like Bob Iger forcing political messages in the scripts or something?

Are we considering Lucasfilm to be Disney? Because if so this whole conversation is pointless.
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Damn the GOTG cast all seem pretty pissed off over the firing.
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George Lucas in 2012

"Why would I make any more, when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?"

Seems like this proud tradition has carried over to the new guys.
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A similar situation arose with Star Wars: The Force Unleasheds protagonist, Starkiller. [That name] was only supposed to be a nickname or call sign, not a proper name from the beginning, a former LucasArts employee says. The development team hoped that Lucas would give Vaders apprentice a Darth moniker, which at the time, was something that didnt happen often.

The team threw a Hail Mary to George, saying the game would have more credibility if the apprentice had a Darth title, a Force Unleashed team member says.

Lucas agreed that this situation made sense for Sith royalty, and offered up two Darth titles for the team to choose from. He threw out Darth Icky and Darth Insanius. There was a pregnant pause in the room after that. People waiting for George to say just kidding, but it never comes, and he just moved on to another point.

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VandorLee posted...

Darmik posted...

To be fair a lot of public figures are expected to have some sort of social media presence.

They should literally hire a person to make it and say random feel good pc things while posting random pics of themselves.

A lot of them probably do lol.

I wonder when we'll see the first big social media controversy where a PR person is blamed.
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To be fair a lot of public figures are expected to have some sort of social media presence.
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No. For the same reason I wouldn't consider The Simpsons a shit franchise.
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Knowledge_King posted...

I mean he'd just expand into some really hard material (Thanos) and kill himself.

But where does the hard stuff begin? Are the bowels of Thanos hard? He just needs to expand until he does some pretty good damage. Maybe to the point where Thanos needs a colostomy bag. I'm sure he'd sacrifice himself if he needed to.
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It sounds like the streaming console does some stuff to help deal with latency but we'll see. Still needs to be cheap.

Bacon_Pancakes posted...

Isn't calling something next gen stupid

What do you mean?
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https://www.thurrott.com/xbox/163896/details-microsofts-xbox-scarlett-game-streaming-service

Back at E3, Microsoft mentioned that they were working on a next-generation console. At that time, I noted that this new console is a family of devices and was going by the name of Scarlett.

Since uncovering that little bit of info, I was able to dig up a few tiny bits of content about how Microsoft is developing its next-generation consoles. And yes consoles because right now, they are planning two different pieces of hardware.

First, Microsoft is building a traditional console that you would expect from the Xbox brand. I think its important to point this out so that those who prefer to have all their hardware locally, will have an option with the next generation Xbox.

As for specs for this device, thats still not known at this time as its the early days of development for that piece of hardware. But what I am starting to hear more about is the second device, a streaming box that is designed to work with the companys upcoming game streaming platform.

Scarlett Cloud as one person called it, is the game streaming service that we have all been envisioning ever since Microsoft showed off a demo game streaming at its all-employee meeting back in 2013. But this time, Microsoft has a path to bring it to market.

The second console that the company is working on is a lower-powered device that is currently planned to ship with the next generation device that is designed for game-streaming. But the catch here is that Microsoft thinks it has figured out how to handle the latency sensitive aspects of gaming.

The cloud console will have a limited amount of compute locally for specific tasks like controller input, image processing, and importantly, collision detection. The downside of this is that it since more hardware is needed locally, it will raise the price of the streaming box but it will still cost significantly less than what we are accustomed to paying for a new-generation console which should help expand the platforms reach.

When it comes to games, all Scarlett games will run on all Scarlett devices. Meaning, both consoles will be first-class citizens and there is not expected to be an awkward this game only runs on the non-cloud Scarlett.

The cloud version of Scarlett is further along in the development cycle than the traditional console that will also be released in 2020. This device does make me wonder if it has any relationship to the Xbox Hobart streaming device that was nearly released two years ago but was canceled late in the development cycle.

Interesting. Surely they plan for the streaming service to be on Windows as well.
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No one wants to discuss how strong the Thanus is?
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Steve Irwin
Heath Ledger
Michael Jackson
Robin Williams

Those are all of the ones I remember finding out vividly. All taken before their time.

Heath Ledger and MJ really stick out because they had big stuff coming out in a few months after their deaths too.
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Starts around 1:45

Do you think it would work? Should Captain America consider this tactic?
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