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1, 5, 6, 10, 25 & 28 please!

1. legends or new canon?I like aspects of Legends, but boy does a lot of it go off the rails. If New Canon has anything over Legends continuity, it is having a group of people policing stories for both a general quality control but also an understanding of what is and isn’t Star Wars. That being said, I do appreciate that Legends provided such a detail and texture to the universe. While I vastly prefer New Canon, I miss the exhaustive lore there was for the wide variety of different species and planets that is mostly no longer in use.

5.  Most overrated character I answered this already for  @fang11803 but here it is again:

Did you mean every character in Rogue One? As much of a fan I am of Boba Fett, the guy honestly is just a background villain who took off for having a cool ass design. Legends Boba had a pretty solid personality and story that sprung up around him due to the huge cult following that developed, but in current canon Boba is pretty  unremarkable. But he sure does look awesome!6. most underrated characterI wouldn’t call her underrated considering that she has her own comic title, but I wish more Star Wars fans were aware of just how great Doctor Aphra is. I mean, a chaotic neutral Indiana Jones that is also the first queer woman and woman of color to lead their own Star Wars title is a pretty big deal. She’s also hilarious, unpredictable, and just about pretty much everything I want out of a Star Wars character. Seriously, read her comics. She’s awesome.

10. thoughts on yoda?@fang11803 also asked me this one:I love kooky, strange wise-man Yoda with a sense of humor, but not so much the Yoda we see in the prequels. Keep the little green mystic with a chip on his shoulder and I’m happy.25. character you wish had more development or screentime@fang11803 again:Did you mean the entire cast of Rogue One? I do think that a clearer understanding of Mace Windu would’ve benefited the prequel films. In retrospect, it very much seems that Windu is intended to be Anakin’s antagonistic force within the Order, but also symbolic of the sort of misguided philosophy that the Order had adopted in its final years. The Clone Wars hints at this, but again never fully dives into it. I think it would have benefited both the films and the series if a little extra detail was provided for understanding both the character and what he means thematically.

28. worst type of fan

Oof. Okay, I love Star Wars fans. I really love Star Wars fans, but I’ll be honest, we have arguably one of the more toxic fandoms out there. There are a lot of subgroups out there in the fandom that can be really mean and rude to a lot of folks. I could go through and name all of these different groups and why I think they are bad for the fandom as a whole, but I don’t want to be here all day or make this an overly negative post. (Maybe I’ll do one of my countdowns someday.)  As a general rule, I would say that I hate fans that go out of their way to insult or belittle people for not sharing their opinion. Having discussions and dissenting opinions about the fandom is great and I love having these sort of back and forths with fans in person and on the internet, but I have encountered quite a few Star Wars fans that have taken disagreements to a personal and sometimes violent level. I mean, look at Marvel Star Wars editor Heather Antos. She was the subject of Twitter harassment and hate simply because she mentioned that she found the character of Boba Fett boring. (I also find that this sort of hate towards dissenting opinions seems to be disproportionately aimed at female fans and creators, but that’s a really thorny subject matter that again is maybe best served for another time.) In general, good rule of thumb, be nice to folks you disagree with when it comes to fandoms. It makes the discussions more fun and less damaging for everyone as a result. 

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OH BOY HERE WE GO: Star Wars, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Legend of Korra and Stormlight Archive.

oh boy. this is a lot and i’m gonna have to dredge my memory a bit. also, i’m defining this mostly as ‘didn’t like, didn’t think was interesting, would prefer to forget’, though i’m making exceptions for people who really drew my ire.

star wars: not to be basic, but jar jar. or jabba. they both start wih ja and they both suck. bonus answer is george lucas, which almost even works since he did cameo shit

dragon age: i really don’t care for jowan or magister erimond. i frequently forget that sebastian exists and i don’t like him when i remember

mass effect: least favorite companions? kaidan/ashley. i have never, once, been able to muster a single emotion regarding either of them, aside from the initial shock the first time i made ‘the choice’. i also didn’t care for jacob. and i thought benezia was terribly underwritten and poorly executed, as well as poorly voice acted.

legend of korra: i never liked wu; he was pretty much a waste of space and he cluttered the last season terribly. unalaq was a terrible villain, even though i really like season 2 he was so bland and bad it puts a damper on the whole thing.

stormlight archive: there are no, like, standout bad characters in stormlight so far (unless i’m forgetting someone), but i’ve never really cared much about dalinar. he’s just, sort of, not that. interesting. kaladin and shallan are both way more interesting; his sons are more interesting, szeth is more interesting, jasnah is way more interesting, like...he’s just. a dude. a noble dude with manpain and a lot of guilt and the crushing weight of responsibility. it’s not horrible, it’s just a tad boring.

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willthefred replied to your post “Cons and Pros of Fate/Grand Order -First Order-”

I too have strong feelings on the Lancers. They deserved better and now I am sad.

I am sorry I made you sad.  You might be pleased to know Cú Chulainn (who was summoned into the caster class in this particular timeline) wipes the floor with both Archer, Saber, and a Lancer-class Medusa in the the new movie. It was glorious to behold.

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willthefred replied to your post “ALSO: Critical Role.”

Interesting, can't comment on the Thordak one yet but would love to chat about Percy at some point - he is one of my favourites both as a character and in his execution.

I like percy! I really do. I just think everyone else plays their character a little more, ‘truly’, if that makes sense. there’s a sense of genuineness that i only sometimes get with him. VM needed an edgy character and Percy performs that role well, but I feel like he gets maybe too much credit/focus because of that? Idk, I just generally enjoy the other characters a little better, but that may partially be because of my place in the story.

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willthefred replied to your post: Top 5 SW aliens

Andrew please how could you forget Kel Dor my crops are dying.

i had to think about what a kel dor was for a little so,

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willthefred replied to your post “tbh i think i need to just. go to bed now”

Go to bed you absolute madman!

Wilfred, I love you

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willthefred replied to your post: jester is still by far my favorite new character

Fjord and Nott are my faves, closely followed by Caleb, then Jester, Yasha, Mollymauk and Bea bringing up the rear.

i will relentlessly like beau just to spite you wilfred

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Reflex, Dexterity, Luck and Sanity.

already answered reflex, so:

dexterity: oh goodness. there was this one time, i was playing a divination wizard with the portent ability which lets me replace a roll with one i’d rolled previously (in this case, a nat 20), and my character and her gf were about to get blasted, killed, and turned into zombies by the blast by the evil god dragon that was the end boss of the campaign--but we were playing with nat 20 trumps half damage rules, so replaced that and my dm allowed me to throw myself, and my unconscious gf, off the fortress wall and onto the ground to save ourselves. which was pretty cool. glad i saved that roll. there was also this time when we were all about to die and i covered myself in undead goup and crawled around with like 1 hp left and rezzed people while monsters tried to find me and somehow failed; if i hadn’t rezzed that person we likely all would have died. and then there was the whole clipping through the universe thing i mentioned earlier, and the harpsichord thing (i played the FUCk out of that harpsichord)

luck: idk, man. too many good experiences. once we carried our halfling around in a really big cooking pot and it actually worked and that was pretty beautiful. there was also this really dope puzzle based on like, our character’s emotional and mental state that was really, really fun to work through that i still remember really clearly. also when our barbarian party member flesh puppy revealed he was actually a really intense, and stuffy as hell, method actor and everyone flipped the fuck out; followed by us playing out a scene from those star wars shakespeare books as a distraction for that same handsome jack angel guy directed by Mikhail De Beigh. way too many to decide on just one

sanity: mmm. none have ever been really terrible, i don’t think; i’ve never played with people i ended up disliking or anything like that. there was one kind of boring campaign that got cut short, but i mostly just didn’t love my character/the dm was stretched way too thin. there was also another one in which everyone’s characters just disagreed like, all the time, and that hurt our ability to ever move forward and we ended up scrapping it. nothing absolutely dismal, though