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  1. Dedicated Inactivity You call it slacking, I call it Dedicated Inactivity(from a T-shirt my wife gave me).
  2. It seems auto-update was off. I don't remember having done that, but... I can believe I did lol. When I had replied to your first post, and mentioned that it had been progressively getting worse before it quit working, my brain caught up to my typing and I said to myself "maybe the time is off?"
  3. ^ I was saving that for after posting here, just to see if anyone had a similar issue. Over the last week to ten days I've noticed the code was a bit... off sync. If it was towards the end of the time period, the launcher would reject it and I'd have to wait for the next code to generate. Sort of like it's a time sync issue. EDIT: And now it works. Looks like my phone's time was incorrect and that was the cause of my issue. I feel rather stupid I didn't think of this sooner.
  4. My security key stopped working yesterday, or to be more precise, it generates keys but the website and launcher say they are incorrect. Ok, no problem, log in via one-time password, remove key, uninstall from phone, reinstall, enter code, attempt to sync key.... Doesn't work. I've tried this multiple times now with no success. Is anyone having a similar issue? How do I go about resolving this?
  5. I saw TLJ late on Thursday after vowing I would not see it after a coworker told me it was basically my worst fears confirmed... I decided I needed to see what the die hard fans were complaining about. And yeah. Worst fears confirmed. First, let me say I know exactly why the reviews were off the charts. A movie critic is going to look at this movie in the context of it being just a singular movie - and if this were some stand-alone thing not connected to 40+ years of lore, then sure, it was great. But when judged (rightly in my opinion) in the context of being one small part of this vast universe we love... Maybe it's possible it is a good movie, but a terrible Star Wars movie? If that makes any sense... Visually it was incredibly impressive. I honestly believe that some of the shots were among the best I've ever seen in a movie. There were entire sequences I disliked, but thought looked amazing. I suppose I can sum it up like this: my eyes thought it looked fantastic, but my brain, and my Star Wars loving heart walked out unhappy. I have a laundry list of things I hate about TLJ, many have been discussed here at length. From SuperLeia (and I love me some EU, so I have no issue with Leia using the Force, but that was just BAD) to forgetting to top up the gas tanks to Star Wars walrus blue-milking (why?!)... But at the end of the day, the thing that has me most unhappy is Luke Skywalker. I think it fair to say I'm one of the world's biggest Luke fan-boys. As a kid, when all my friends wanted to be the cool Han Solo, I was the one who wanted to be Luke so I could have a lightsaber and use the Force. I'm nearly 39, so, I grew up with the OT. (Quick aside, one of my friends is a bit younger and his first SW was really the PT - he loves them, and thinks Anakin is the most ****** dude ever - he thinks Luke is overrated and HE thinks they pooped on Luke in TLJ) Luke will always be the eternal hero to me, and I've gotten into many an argument as to whether Luke was awesome, or just some whiny pain in the rear... And I know that Disney has relegated the EU to "doesn't count for crap" status, but I own all those books, I've read all those books. They carried on the story, and I watched (well, read) Luke grow from a new Jedi Knight into a powerful Jedi Master. So, here we are in TLJ, finally to see Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, and he's a bitter old crumudgeon. He's cut himself off from the Force, he's sulking, he wants to croak. He thinks the Jedi need to end... Wait a minute... Why is that again? Because Ben had some darkness and split, became Kylo Ren... And Luke just says "well, poop. guess I suck then, best to chill here until I die, screw the galaxy and all that..." No way. Luke is the guy who ran off half-cocked in ESB because he saw his friends were in danger. Yoda warned him, Luke still ran to help his friends. This is the Luke who continually tried to redeem his father because he saw there was a tiny sliver of good in him. During that portion of Jedi, Luke was completely on passive - fighting only so much as to defend himself while imploring Vader to turn. Only when Vader threatened Leia did Luke uncork the can of whoop-*** and end him in what.. 30 seconds? (Hence why I think Luke is pretty much an epic ******) Even then, Luke sees he gave in to darkness for a moment, and refuses to fall into the Emperor's trap - throwing away his lightsaber to deliver his "I am a Jedi, like my father before me" line in heroic fashion. So, that guy - he now can't be bothered? Or, he's decided he's such a failure with Ben that he's just gonna pack it in for the rest of his life? Or, hey, screw everyone else in the galaxy (which I helped save 30 years ago), but I'm on a decades long sulk-fest and you'll have to just deal with being subjugated again. I'm not buying that. I think someone here has already said that when we learned Mark Hamil's first comment to Rian Johnson was "I fundamentally disagree with every choice you've made for this character" (or words to that effect) that was our warning. It certainly spooked me, and I see why Mark Hamil was concerned. See, I believe the only person who knows more about Luke Skywalker than Mark Hamil is George Lucas. So, if I'm a director, and the guy who IS Luke Skywalker tells me he has concerns... Well, I don't just go "meh, my movie, my vision, what do you know of it?" What made this all so much worse for me is the fact that I think Mark Hamil KILLED IT in his performance. I hated every damned moment of learning bitter old Luke's story - but I was enthralled watching Mark Hamil do it. I walked out of the theater thinking how badly I felt for Mark - that he was amazing!!! in helping (not willingly I should note!) to utterly destroy his character. Further, ever since the utter crap tease that was Luke in TFA, I hoped against hope that I would get to see epic awesome height-of-his-power heir of Anakin Skywalker Master ****** Luke Skywalker... And we got two small teases of that which hurt me more than if we had gotten ONLY bitter cut-off-from-the-Force I don't do squat Luke. When Rey got all pissed at Luke's version (unsaid) of the "from a certain point of view" bit about what happened with Ben, and charged him - he schooled her. I choose to see that scene in light of it being Jedi Master Luke Skywalker showing Rey that while she may be strong - she's a kid and he's a Jedi Master. She wasn't (because he would not allow her) going to come close to touching him with her staff. It had a bit of Bruce Lee in it - a sort of, I don't even need to attack you to make you look foolish bit. She sort of cheats, calls the saber to her and even then Luke looks ******, using the Force to gently sit down. She didn't beat him so much as he showed her just how powerful he is - and she saw that (and thank god for that!). Later, when he Force astral projects himself - he does the exact same thing to Kylo. He made Kylo look utterly foolish. That was Luke saying - kid, you're strong, sure, but I'm Luke Skywalker. Hooray! And then he poofs off. Blech! Look, I had always assumed that Luke would have to die in these movies. They have to clear the field. And sure, he did it Obi-Wan style, taunting Kylo (more fiercely than Obi-Wan did with Vader)... But here is why that doesn't work for me. Obi-Wan is a thing we know and have seen mainly from the (I think, excellent) work Ewan MacGregor did in the PT. Sure, Alec Guiness is Sir-fricking-Alec Guiness! But we saw so little of Obi-Wan in the OT (awesome though he was) so his death at Vader's hands, though cool, and cryptic, doesn't nearly carry the same weight as our epic hero Luke Skywalker doing it with (a weak, nowhere near as awesome as Vader) Kylo. We had three movies where Luke was THE hero. So, if he goes out in an epic blaze of awesomeness, doing something that only a Jedi Master Luke Skywalker could do (thus clearing the way for Rey to take on Kylo, or something like that) then sure, that's a proper send-off. But Force Astral trolling Kylo? It felt cheap to me, while showing that Luke IS epic in the Force, but only for a chuckle? We don't get to see Jedi Master Luke Skywalker do... anything with his (gosh darn it!) green saber? (I have soooooo many problems with his projection using the Anakin saber, it's not even funny...) TL;DR version: A betrayal of the core of who Luke is, and a total waste of what could have been tremendous. This to me is the ultimate sin of TLJ - that Luke was utterly wasted, and yes, for some of us, he IS our childhood and he got pooped on. Mark Hamil was; however, excellent.
  6. Lost nothing of importance, and due to foresight many years ago, I reclaimed some of my originals. The very first me is... me again.
  7. I didn't want to quote the whole thing Alssaran, but I wanted to say thank you for saying a lot of what I want/wanted to say, but am currently too... pissy to say it as well and as clearly. I think you hit the nail on the head with this one - and as one who has many times many 300s (but lo, just 25%!) - I thank you for speaking for me. And Eric - man, sorry you're in this spot with us all focusing on you (I include myself in the mob, to be sure!. I will defend you in that - you're just doing your job here. But... I dunno, I wish I could see if you're shaking your head like so many of us are too.
  8. Yeah, because it's not like some of us haven't done the grind ad nauseam already. I have 25% of my characters at 300 and about 15 more in the low to mid 200s. But, sure, I can't WAIT to experience the thrill of slightly more CXP on numbers 11, 12, 13... Eric - man, I've spoken with you at the Orlando cantina this year... I totally understand this isn't something done maliciously, nor are you anything more than someone who helps to spread the word round these parts... But this "oops, our bad guys..." is getting old - fast. The official line was one thing, now we learn it was actually something totally different - and it's "oops"? You all have GOT to get it together on these sorts of things. No one here would be annoyed if it had been conveyed correctly in the first place. We would have no leg to stand on in regards to complaints. It would have been a known thing, we'd have done what we need to do... I'm just really disappointed that, once again, it's say one thing, mean something else. You all need to mean what you say, and say what you mean. Not "oops."
  9. From the Roadmap last week as found here: http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20171002-0 It specifically states characters. Not each class. Not each mirror. Each character. What happened in the span of a week that this changed so drastically or couldn't be communicated to us? So... Let me ask this. Who has the most 300s and only 25%? I'll throw my hat into the ring, as I have 9 CR300s and I'm looking at the same ******* 25% bonus I had yesterday. Why? Well, those 3 Juggs, 3 Guardians, and 3 Sents only count as 1, so you know, **** me eh? Usually I just let crap go, but this? This is NOT what they said as quoted above. Character DOES NOT equal base class + mirror. I'm used to feeling meh at best or disappointed - but it does piss me off that they say one thing and then do something else. How about we not put things out if it's not even kind of correct? Did I need to get 2 juggs and 2 sents and 1 guardian to 300 when I could have done a shadow, a merc, and a scoundrel? No, but maybe I just like my knights/warriors... Not particularly happy tonight.
  10. Lord yes it was worth it over these what? 6 years of playing or so... I've spent countless hours playing swtor - some I played as one pissed off camper, some I've played as if the game were new as in beta... But worth it? Of course it's been worth it.
  11. I'm in a queue for Ebon Hawk. The awesome part? My number in the queue is increasing, not decreasing. Cause reasons?
  12. I got legendary on Harbinger first, and then on Ebon Hawk towards early October. These are the two servers I mainly play on. Aside from random HM FP messes, I didn't find it all that tough as I had the good fortune of having a decent circle of friends to run things with. I've done eternal on Begeren Colony, JC, and Shadowlands. I've got valiant on Bastion, and will have it on Jung Ma and Pot5 by the time it's over. Why? I just want as many free boxes as possible is all. I'm frankly over DvL but free crap is free crap and how many more times can I run EV, KP, TFB..... I will say, the boxes have been unkind to me. I've gotten a few nice drops - of things I had 2+ years ago. Not a single light/dark tuning (I'm not really a fan, but not one in all the boxes? meh...) I've opened 390 total, with a whopping 20 more to go... woo hoo. It's been crap, but it's free crap.
  13. Well, I just tossed 2 more months sub time on my account about 45 seconds after finishing that trailer. I have intuited that many a person is not a Senya fan. I am. Seeing her in this trailer was amazing. I am super fingers crossed that I'm gonna have lots of Senya awesomeness in this expansion. As for the trailer itself - amazing looking. Seriously, well done you all. Looks fantastic and boy am I excited for this.
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