Why I Love Wikipedia

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Thursday, August 20. 2009

Posted by The Mad Giggler in Personal Entry

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Why I Love Wikipedia

After reading another ill-informed article on Slashdot, I came across this awesome wikipedia article in the comments.

Principle of Evil Marksmanship

I especially enjoyed this:

Imperial Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars trilogy, despite overwhelming numbers, professional military education and training, full armour, military-grade firepower, and noticeable combat effectiveness against non-speaking characters, were incapable of seriously harming or indeed even hitting the film's protagonists. At one point Obi-Wan Kenobi even comments on Stormtrooper effectiveness to Luke Skywalker when the pair find the destroyed Jawa sandcrawler, saying "These blast-points... Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise." In fact, at the beginning of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the Stormtroopers are portrayed as lethal when invading a rebel ship, overwhelming it and killing most resistance in what seems like mere moments, whereas later the main protagonists would dispatch many of them without ever receiving a scratch in return.

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Daboo on :

It's because the protagonists have the FORCE surrounding them! Everyone knows that laser beams are repelled by mitoclorians.

The Mad Giggler on :

I'm killing you with my mind right now.

Daboo on :

/single tear

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