Achtung! Christmas coming up and all I started thinking about lightsabers..

Monson

Monson

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And I'm having some issues with the concept.

Firstly, the main design flaw, generally speaking, is that the balance is obviously way off. Hence all that wild swinging, miscalculated blows and frequent damage to property. I imagine it must be like eating a wedding cake with a single massively oversized chopstick.

Secondly, mainstream lightsabers do not feature a hilt! My God, that's why hand injuries are so common!

Thirdly, and this is where it gets a bit technical: As we all know, most sword fights begin at some distance and eventually end in a brawl on the ground, but with a lightsaber half-swording is not exactly an option! Seriously. These people really ought to read the classic treatises.

Finally, I have observed that lightsabers cut and slice through conventional body armor with ease. Consequently I would abandon the baseball bat-approach and treat it more like a rapier and thus take full advantage of the length of the weapon.

Any thoughts?
 
When the power was out on Friday night The Boy took one of his big light up prop lightsabers out and ran around the neighborhood swinging it around in the dark.
 
jp_nyc said:
When the power was out on Friday night The Boy took one of his big light up prop lightsabers out and ran around the neighborhood swinging it around in the dark.
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This makes me think of George Micheal Bluth
 
Something I noticed is all the lightsabers have a lot of single-coil noise. I didn't watch the new Star Wars films, but did they ever get around to bucking the hum? Or maybe they're sticking with single coils because they cut through better.
 
They have tried to produce noiseless light sabers. Every few years they introduce new and improved... ...storm troopers watch a You Tube video, order them, then are disappointed. My best advice is to properly shield your lightsaber.

One time, I was rewatching the original and Luke was swinging one around all over the place and it was absolutely silent. Then I realized, I was was very stoned and had turned the sound off.
 
Stubby Lightsabers

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Monson said:
@Flamencology can explain it a lot better than I can.
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Outliers are outliers, but… There’s a very strong correlation between midi-chlorians and flaccidity. Yoda lived for 900 years without even owning the most modest of sex dungeons. He could lift an X-wing, but he couldn’t keep it up.
 
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Little known Jedi fact: Seth Lover attached a green light saber and a red light saber together, and replaced the crystals with CuNiFe magnets. You have to use a red and a green, if you use two green ones you get an out-of-phase tone. Incidentally, that's how Peter Green got his name. Peter Greenlightsabers was his original stage name.
 
Motorik said:
Little known Jedi fact: Seth Lover attached a green light saber and a red light saber together, and replaced the crystals with CuNiFe magnets. You have to use a red and a green, if you use two green ones you get an out-of-phase tone. Incidentally, that's how Peter Green got his name. Peter Greenlightsabers was his original stage name.
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Ah, the original Sith Lover model. I heard Ray “Jabba” Butts came up with the idea first but didn’t get his patent in on time because of the bounty hunters he encountered on Ord Mantell.
 
Motorik said:
Little known Jedi fact: Seth Lover attached a green light saber and a red light saber together, and replaced the crystals with CuNiFe magnets. You have to use a red and a green, if you use two green ones you get an out-of-phase tone. Incidentally, that's how Peter Green got his name. Peter Greenlightsabers was his original stage name.
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Are you saying that when I saw Metallica live over the summer the sound coming from Kirk’s Les Paul was lightsabers?
 
Flamencology said:
Outliers are outliers, but… There’s a very strong correlation between midi-chlorians and flaccidity. Yoda lived for 900 years without even owning the most modest of sex dungeons. He could lift an X-wing, but he couldn’t keep it up.
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This is no Penthouse Forum story.
 
Motorik said:
Something I noticed is all the lightsabers have a lot of single-coil noise. I didn't watch the new Star Wars films, but did they ever get around to bucking the hum? Or maybe they're sticking with single coils because they cut through better.
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Well, Vader set an example and managed to get the upper hand, I guess, because he was just sick of all that noise, and perhaps he felt Young Luke was applauding the wrong people, his left hand not knowing what the right was doing.

:shrug:
 
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