• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Some of the most insufferable “measure Star Wars characters in 'who would win in a fight based entirely upon imagined midi-chlorian count” nerds tend to be not only accepting but pleased with the retcon where the Imperial Guardsman who fought and died alongside the Emperor against Horus is sort of pushed out of canon history because his magic space eugenics power level was too low to matter. scared-fash

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        I used to be very earnestly naive and thought it’d exciting nerd talk about X-Wing technical specs and maybe exploring the mysteries of the Force…

        But no. The most active ongoing threads daily were “who would win in a fight” pissing contests that were all debated entirely on midi-chlorian count. Some even did nerd accountant “fantasy football” style team matchups that compared the sum of these midi-chlorian counts to these midi-chlorian counts to decide who won. They even did body mass percentage deductions for Darth Vader’s missing limbs as part of their magic microbe math. lea-why

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          I remember “energy output of a turbolaser based on this effect of an asteroid being destroyed” with some spurious pixel counting. And how it would totally destroy the Star Trek ship. Or vs 40k stuff. Gotta make sure your fictional guys can beat up their fictional guys.

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            The most exhausting versions of those “X vs Y” debates were “dae le Q would just kill everyone in enemy universe” which is nothing like the character or what they would do. They’d have started the versus match to watch if anything.