What's a VAT?
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I'll take a Victory II-class Star Destroyer over any vessel from Star Trek.
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What, not the Sun Crusher?
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Superweapons aren't really my style.
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The Sun Crusher just sounds like a ship designed by a little kid "Oh, your ship has lasers...well mine has armor that resists all lasers and other damage, and it's weapons can destroy suns".
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Oh, I agree fully. "Quantum armor"
It's up there with Thrawn in literary failures as a result of Star Wars.
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Been a while since I read the Jedi Academy trilogy, but didn't it even survive being dropped into a gas giant and Kyp pulled it out using the Force before going on his rampage?
Also, it bugged me he became a respected Jedi Master later on. Dude killed billions and basically got away with it.
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i mean when docked together a full two thirds of the weapon points on the prometheus couldn't fire without firing through another part of the ship!
That's quite the design flaw…
Then again, if I was to have a ship, I'd want this:
Doesn't look like much, does it?
It's called Krukal'Righ.
It kills planets.
Like this:
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The only way they could destroy it was putting it in a black hole...and not just any black hole, but the Maw (which was another entirely stupid concept in my opinion)
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"His name has an extra 'u' in it...he must be a clone!!" It's kind of interesting reading that and realizing they had no idea what the clone wars actually was at the time.
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Also, despite all of that, he isn't in the list of the top 10 force users. The top two are from the disney show.
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I wonder how that worked with the Palpatine clones? I never read any of the comics and missed that story line. Paalpatine, Paaalpatine, and Paaaalpatine?
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I prefer the more usual method of Exterminatus, whereby an Inquisitor commands that the Imperial Fleet bombard a planet with nuclear weapons until nothing is left.
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No, same name...Palpatine managed to learn some secret macguff--I mean force technique that allows him to transfer his soul to a new body. There are times I get upset that the old republic is no longer canon, then realize just how stupid the EU ended up getting.
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Didn't the Covenant in Halo do the same thing?
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Halo also has Tyranids and Space Marines. So? At least they didn't also take DOOMRIDER.
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y'all are thinking wrong... if i were to have a spaceship it would be hotblack desiato's...
http://www.naderlibrary.com/hitchhiker.screen3.htm
@http://www.naderlibrary.com/hitchhiker.screen3.htm said:
Ford] It's so black! You can hardly see it. Light just falls into it.
[Zaphod] Hey, feel this surface!
[Ford] Yeah ... Hey, you can't!
[Zaphod] It's just totally frictionless! This must be one mother of a mover. Well, what do you reckon, Ford?
[Ford] You reckon we should just stroll off with it? Do you think we should?
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Where I work, the building number is 3102, but it's not on the 3100 block, it's actually on the 3000 block. This confuses people on a regular basis.
Over here in Germany they recently strove to simplify the addresses. My hometown has about 7,000 citizens with about 6 smaller villages nearby, all situated next to a forest (called the "Elm").
The "simplification" mandated that instead of writing the villages' names on a letter, they were now to use the town's name exclusively.
All of the villages and the town have quite long streets either leading up to or pointing in the general direction of the forest, called "Elmstreet". Genius!
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All of the villages and the town have quite long streets either leading up to or pointing in the general direction of the forest, called "Elmstreet". Genius!
Obviously, they need to bulldoze that forest in its entirety so as to deal with the bureaucratic confusion in the street names.
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Obviously, they need to bulldoze that forest in its entirety so as to deal with the bureaucratic confusion in the street names.
And rob my friend Freddy Krüger of his home?
That's an actual person and his actual name. Seriously. We're still debating what his parents were thinking.
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And rob my friend Freddy Krüger of his home?
But it's for the convenience of the bureaucracy! Surely he can give a little bit for the easing of the life of someone in an office on the other side of the country? ;)
That's an actual person and his actual name. Seriously. We're still debating what his parents were thinking.
I've heard of people being called Michael Hunt. Yes, he shortened it to the common form Mike…
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I've heard of people being called Michael Hunt. Yes, he shortened it to the common form Mike…
I went to high school with a guy who had almost that name. His last name wasn't Hunt but it started with Hunt.
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Huntitches? Huntsbleeding?
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It probably ended with a number.
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I've heard of people being called Michael Hunt. Yes, he shortened it to the common form Mike…
I went to high school with a girl named Holly Anne Wood, and that's exactly what she went by.
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Some names that got used when playing AoE with buddies over GameRanger:
York Oxweird
Mike Oxlong...and that's all I remember. There were 5 or 6 more such names, guess I'll have to log in and check them.
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I've heard of people being called Michael Hunt. Yes, he shortened it to the common form Mike…
Well, I have to give his parents this: Given that their last name is "Krüger" and that they're living on Elm Street, it was almost unavoidable.
Of course his first name is actually "Frederic" (to get the name passed by the registrar*), but no one ever uses that one.
*Yes, in Germany the names for newborns have to be allowed by the registrar. This usually weeds out the more cruel and unusual names some people want to inflict on their children, but they occasionally show considerable lapses in judgment. "Solarfred" was an allowed name, for example, while "Atomfred" wasn't.
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My friends and I played random WC3, Armagettron, and whatever else we felt like at random lans throughout the years, and one of our running jokes was about just how bad people name things. xXDanteNarutoKingXx and such of course, but we also quite liked Hellgate's Bladeslayers, and this one character from a WC3 map, Andrew The Bloodfiend. But usually we went with Demon Blood Lord.
Did I ever show you guys the edgy name generator I built? It's pretty awesome. I named it the Edgemaster Zero 9000.
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I usually played as Admiral Motti, since we didn't actually play AoE but Galactic Battlegrounds which was the Star Wars version of AoE. I also had a strong fondness for fully-upgraded AT-AT's.
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I went to high school with a guy who had almost that name.
I went to Jr High with a kid named Guy Hunt.
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The wonder race ai in Galatic Battlegrounds was actually challenging, unlike the AoE counterpart that just gives up after reaching age 2.
Also, try 'that's no moon' in the chat window on a single player game.
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Also, try 'that's no moon' in the chat window on a single player game.
I preferred to spam "simon says".
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Tagline: “Whoever crashes, we all win!”
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is..... is that a tricycle car‽
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Effectively.
My Dad drives one because hhe doesn't have a full car license but his motorbike license covers him for Reliants as they're light cars"
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no, seriously, why three wheels?
As @Jaloopa hinted at, and as the video explains, you can drive a Reliant on a motorbike license; that's why it has three wheels.The stupid thing is they put the single wheel at the front.
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As @Jaloopa hinted at, and as the video explains, you can drive a Reliant on a motorbike license; that's why it has three wheels.
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ooookay...
is it easier to get a motorbike license than a car license or something?
Because AFAICT it's easier to get a car license than a motorcycle license on this side of the pond
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Simpler to build, and lighter. As @RaceProUK's video shows, not the most stable design, single wheel at the back works better (although the Top Gear stuff was a big exaggeration. I think they weighted one side down to make it more likely to flip)
you can drive a Reliant on a motorbike license
Only if the license was obtained before a certain date, sometime in the 80s IIRC. The idea was that a bike license should allow you to drive a trike, which are counted as light cars, so anything else on that designation got in ass well.
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Because AFAICT it's easier to get a car license than a motorcycle license on this side of the pond
Easier on this side of the channel too...
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is it easier to get a motorbike license than a car license or something?
Used to be a lot cheaper.
It does tend to be quicker to get a bike license. The usual way is to take a week's worth of lessons at once. The test is a lot more involved than a car though.
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the Top Gear stuff was a big exaggeration
The department of redundancy department would like a word.
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is it easier to get a motorbike license than a car license or something?
It used to be; you used to be able to get a motorbike license at 16 too.You still can get a bike license at 16, but nowadays, you're limited to engines no bigger than 50cc, and a top speed of about 30mph. Plus it's not really a bike license, it's a moped license.
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Since 2013, If you start at 16 it takes about 6 years and 4 tests before you have a fully unrestricted license
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That reminds me of the time the EVE character that this account is named after broke the IT systems of the alliance he had joined with his name -- some stuff had to be done manually, because the automatic rights-granting stuff vomited a 500 error upon seeing it.
Filed under ObBobbyTables,no, my current alliance isn't that dumb
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It used to be; you used to be able to get a motorbike license at 16 too.
In the US there's at least one company that makes a tri-motorbike, although I can't remember the name. And those Elio people are making a trike "car" (with the two-in-front configuration) that IIRC counts as a motorcycle for all the same reasons.
They're claiming their "car" will be available sometime this year, IIRC: An enclosed 2-seater for $6800.
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en.wikipedia.org
Reliant Robin
The Reliant Robin was a small three-wheeled car formerly manufactured by the Reliant Motor Company in Tamworth, England. It was produced in several versions (Mk1, Mk2 & Mk3) over the course of 30 years. It is the second most popular fiberglass car in history, with Reliant Motor Company being the second biggest UK-owned car manufacturer for a time. MK1 Reliant Robin
My Dad drives one because hhe doesn't have a full car license but his motorbike license covers him for Reliants as they're light cars"
This is just about what I'd expect from the country that gave the world Morris dancing.
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Sounds like a nightmare.
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In the US there's at least one company that makes a tri-motorbike, although I can't remember the name. And those Elio people are making a trike "car" (with the two-in-front configuration) that IIRC counts as a motorcycle for all the same reasons.
the Piaggio MP3?
Reliant Robin - Wikipedia
