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...by a certain definition.

Quote from: Xantalos on December 24, 2015, 07:27:33 pm

True neutral as in he used to care about things other than himself. Now he's solely self-interested - no matter how much the actions he takes seem to benefit others, they're for his own benefit in the long term.

Isn't that Neutral Evil?

He was neutral evil before he got Vanessa's body - he was planning on taking vengeance on almost literally everyone alive for slights both real and imagined, eventually - but now he doesn't really give a shit. He just wants ... things.

"All right, progress! I now know I'm better than the typical level one RPG character.
...
Well, better get back to the ritual sacrifice or whatever it is."

Go back to the circle with my rats.

I walk up to the two people. "Excuse me, but... can I have those rats? They, uh, belonged to a friend."

Jack pauses.

"Oh. Uh, unless you have a small living creature or ... what did the guy say? Something living that's precious to you that I can get in exchange, sorry but no. I need them for some sort of induction thing.

Or if you have anything purple, priceless, or profane. Preferably more than one of the three at once."

I'm feeling more coherent now and am back to gripe more exposit on my earlier shouting.

I had no clue what the state of the galaxy was in the movie. The opening crawl said that the First Order 'rose from the ashes of the empire'. Does that mean they're a big threat that controls a lot of territory? That would make sense, they act with impunity in the movie with no opposition from the Republic and make a planet into a solar-system buster. But if they are, why isn't the republic going to war against them instead of sponsoring the Resistance, which apparently has only a dozen or so X-wings for its entire fleet (Po guy says 'that's half our fleet down' after a bunch of ships die and there's ~6 x-wings left)? Are they a big threat or space North Korea? Should I be afraid for the fate of the galaxy? I dunno.

I know it was probably said somewhere that the planets blown up by the ... what the fuck ever they called the superweapon were the capital of the Republic, but if so it was very easily missed. I missed it entirely, and the only line I can remember that could be the reference to it is 'THIS WILL BE THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC' spoken while Space Hitler Guy is Space Hitlering right into the camera - I took this as a statement to the effect of 'with this superweapon the Republic will be defenceless against us', not that they've literally blown up the capital. I'd never seen that planet before, didn't even learn its name until I looked it up after the movie.

And also the movie's plot was basically a reskin of A New Hope. That's not necessarily a bad thing since they did it well, just a thing to note. Like I knew Han was going to die as soon as he appeared on screen because he was in the Old Mentor role that Obi-Wan had in ANH, and Kylo Ren was the Darth Vader. Easy to see coming. It also made the First Order out to be incompetent fuckwits that their superweapon that was many times the size of either Death Star could easily be blown up by some X-Wings WHEN THEY HAD EVIDENCE OF HOW THE PREVIOUS DEATH STARS WERE DESTROYED.

Also, another misleading thing, at least for me - during the Resistance strategy meeting where they're planning on how to blow the Sun Shooty Planet up, Finn bullshits something about the spot they end up shooting to blow it up, saying that that's it's weak spot. But 5 minutes later when they actually get there he goes 'yeah I don't know shit, I'm just here to rescue Rei'. I (and by extension probably other people' took from that statement that the 'weak spot' WOULDN'T blow up the Al Gore Planet when shot up, reinforced by Han grabbing him and going 'you fucktard you've just doomed the Resistance for some space poon'. Of course, it did end up exploding in the end, which was alright and all since that's how ANH ended and I caught onto the plot line as it proceeded, but there were a lot of moments like that where inserting one more line of clarifying dialogue ('so you don't know how to destroy the Sol Invictus?') would have made things a lot less confusing.

Obviously I had a lot of other questions, like who the fuck is Snoke and how'd he get close enough to Ben 'School Shooter' Solo to turn him into Kylo Ren, but those are obviously questions that will be answered in the next movie, and are character-based. I can handle those since they actually make me curious about the next instalment, as opposed to wondering whether the Republic is actually a thing or not, which just makes me frustrated.

I'm sure I've forgotten something, I'll probably edit it in later.

Incapacitate and grab as many rats as I can! If some die that's alright, just so long as I get some alive still.

Use my quick reflexes and skill in hitting things I gained from my karate to assist me in this rat-catching.

Spike all the food and water/juice/wine or whatever I can find with my collected Red Bull during the night, including the animal feed. If caught, provide no real reason for doing so other than 'I thought you could use some pep in your step'.

During the day, summon large amounts of whoopee cushions and place them all over the place. Generally be a nuisance, but also give them unreasonably large amounts of cutlery in recompense. Overflow their drawers! They'll surely be grateful.

"Excellent, it's working."

Self-reinforce the process with the power of belief! Now that I have evidence it's working it should be easier.