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Heh, while we're on the Star Wars topic for a while, I saw some "physics-based" critique of the Death Star's design on youtube which didn't make a single lick of sense. The main criticisms were these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8mRS5zAro

This one claims it would take 830,000 years at current rates of steel production to make enough for a death star, then you'd have to blast it all into space on rockets, thus leaving the Earth's atmosphere uninhabitable. So, no Death Star. Uh, really, that's a terrible argument. Common sense would suggest that you'd use material in the asteroid belt to make it, and once you have space industry kickstarted, then you'd clearly expect capacity to grow exponentially. Assuming that steel production capacity never increases from right now is plainly idiotic. How could anyone think that such a line of "logical" argument made any sense at all?

also this one:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/the-math-of-why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-spherical-death-star-in-space/

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a sphere is the maximally symmetric shape. But it's hell on the aerodynamics, since how much force an object experiences from air molecules as it travels through an atmosphere
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As Grand Moff Tarkin points out, unlike the sensibly designed Star Destroyers, where air molecules mostly glance off the sides as the spacecraft travel through the atmosphere

What "air molecules"? It's in space, dickhead. For a physicist you're really good at the math calculations but obviously not so great at common sense.

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That brings up another issue. The Death Star was constructed in space, a realm where massive things (moons, planets) tend to take on a spherical shape due to gravity. But when Orlin did the calculations, he found that the size at which objects take on the shape of a sphere is about 400 kilometers in diameter, which is significantly larger than the ~160km Death Star.

What sort of retarded point is this? Can you see the labored train of logic that lead to this brain-melting point. Massive things don't form into spheres due to gravity until 400km diameter. The Death Star is less than 400km diameter, therefore it cannot be a sphere. Checkmate, atheists.

It's as if a million nerds and physicists cried out in agony...I fear we have witnessed terrible idiocy.

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Ah, whoopsie-daisy. I missed the skeleton pulling the robe out of its face. Thought she was still blinded.

Hey, it's everyone's favorite eldritch abomination. How ya doin'?

I thought that went down before the forum went poof. My bad.

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Would laguz be completely helpless while untransformed? I mean, from the sound of it a laguz player will either have to wait 15 turns to transform or get into (one-sided?) fights that would probably wind up in a lot of avoidable downing. We already know how lethal FEF combat is/could be considering how many knockdowns occur every map. Forcing players to deliberately sacrifice themselves in order to contribute in any meaningful timeframe will just put more pressure on the healers.