Jan 6, 2009

More on that last video and Star Wars
I read a few of the comments, including fanboys jumping to Qui-Gon's defense. One that I saw attributed his embarrassing post-saber-battle exhaustion and goofy impalement mishap to his preference of "Ataru style". Curious, I looked up Ataru on Wookieepedia. This is like looking up the meaning of the Klingon gibberish Worf barked out in anger when his honor came into question for hesitating to take Picard into the neutral system. Which I did not do. Because I already knew. Just kidding.

I always liked Star Wars, but never geeked out hardcore on it. But for some reason I couldn't help but read about the seven forms of lightsaber combat. The philosophies, stances, strengths, weaknesses, and main users are given for each one. Since any boy growing up in the 80s would be demented not to love Star Wars, I figured at least a couple of you might want to look this up too. I also found the Galen Marek/Starkiller story interesting.

Even mo' fo' yo' inner Star Wars geek
It just so happened that immediately after I unearthed this critical information, my brothers and I each received Star Wars Heroes & Villains playing cards. This set consists of two 55-card decks of normal playing cards (3 jokers), one for heroes and one for villains. We had a good time (a) guessing who the jokers, aces, kings, queens and jacks were, and (b) laughing at all the other random characters thrown in to complete the deck, which only a true hardcore would know about (like my younger brother, who was able to verify information with his library of Star Wars reference books). So feel free to take a guess at which were the top characters in each deck, and then I can post the answers later on.

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