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Post by Dane on Mar 20, 2013 23:18:32 GMT -5
Your best bet would be to mind control the entire UN and have them elect you as Emperor or something. Then you'd effectively have control of governing the world. But it'd also put a huge bullseye on your back.
And some hitherto unsuspected hero would rise and kill you. Because that's what always happens.
Even if you just pulled their strings, bills wouldn't get passed without the support of the people, which you couldn't have. So... I guess even your fantasies wouldn't work out if fantasy land was a real thing?
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Post by Dane on Mar 21, 2013 3:04:35 GMT -5
In other news, wouldn't say no to a Harry Potter RPG
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Post by Power NeXus on Mar 21, 2013 16:07:43 GMT -5
This is all coming from the guy I made for the Harry Potter RPG that never went anywhere.
What is your name? Jacob Berri
Are you a muggle-born, half-blood and pure-blood wizard/witch? Muggle-born
Are you good, bad or neutral? Good
What type of wand do you use? Maple. Phoenix tail feather core. 8.5 inches. Good for charms work.
What is your companion? (Owl, Toad or Cat) Cat
Does it have a name? Esau
Have you attended, or attending Hogwarts? Attended and graduated
What house where, or are you in? Gryffindor, though everyone says he would have been great for Ravenclaw
Are you related to any of the known characters? No, due to being both muggle-born and American
What spells, if any are you most familiar with using? (If the Patronus Charm, what animal is it?) Prodigious skill with charms. Really likes the glacius, firestorm, incarcerous, and stupefy spells. Also self-trained in controlling Fiendfyre. His patronus is a bat, and his boggart's form is an inferius.
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Post by jakefury on Mar 21, 2013 16:56:14 GMT -5
I have NO IDEA what's going on in this thread.
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Post by Dane on Mar 21, 2013 17:27:27 GMT -5
...muggle.
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Post by Power NeXus on Mar 21, 2013 18:39:39 GMT -5
I have NO IDEA what's going on in this thread.
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Post by Dane on Mar 21, 2013 21:08:39 GMT -5
I don't get it.
Is homophobia a new meme or something?
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Post by jakefury on Mar 22, 2013 11:56:23 GMT -5
I have NO IDEA what's going on in this thread. It also means I was 26 when the first film came out.
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Mar 22, 2013 12:59:12 GMT -5
Maybe he means happy?
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Post by Crom-Cruach on Mar 22, 2013 17:52:28 GMT -5
Your best bet would be to mind control the entire UN and have them elect you as Emperor or something. Then you'd effectively have control of governing the world. But it'd also put a huge bullseye on your back. And some hitherto unsuspected hero would rise and kill you. Because that's what always happens. I'd apply the evil overlord list scrupulously. The hero would be dead before he learned to levitate his first feather.
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Post by Dane on Mar 22, 2013 21:42:29 GMT -5
Gee, I don't know. See Emperor Palpatine had his whole galaxy on lockdown and Luke Skywalker still managed to take him down.
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Post by Crom-Cruach on Mar 23, 2013 11:46:31 GMT -5
Gee, I don't know. See Emperor Palpatine had his whole galaxy on lockdown and Luke Skywalker still managed to take him down. As Forbes proved Palpatine sucked at running an empire. Taking example from him is a terrible idea. I'm not going to be stupid like Palpatine. My United Alliance for Wizardly Villany and Profit (Name pending) will not be so stupid as to make the mistakes Palapatine did. My organization will have none of the flaws the galactic empire had. See here: www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/02/13/five-leadership-mistakes-of-the-galactic-empire/
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Post by Erik-El on Mar 23, 2013 12:40:40 GMT -5
Gee, I don't know. See Emperor Palpatine had his whole galaxy on lockdown and Luke Skywalker still managed to take him down. As Forbes proved Palpatine sucked at running an empire. Taking example from him is a terrible idea. I'm not going to be stupid like Palpatine. My United Alliance for Wizardly Villany and Profit (Name pending) will not be so stupid as to make the mistakes Palapatine did. My organization will have none of the flaws the galactic empire had. See here: www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/02/13/five-leadership-mistakes-of-the-galactic-empire/Ugh... can Alex Knapp or Forbes Magazine at least edit his shit before posting it? How can I take that article seriously when it looks like a high school student wrote it?
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Post by Dane on Mar 23, 2013 16:27:23 GMT -5
uh yeah, Forbes magazine also thinks Hogwarts is more expensive than Harvard, completing ignoring the fact that education is free in Britain. So, not actually particularly sold on their ability to analyze fictional institutions.
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Post by Erik-El on Mar 23, 2013 17:10:29 GMT -5
uh yeah, Forbes magazine also thinks Hogwarts is more expensive than Harvard, completing ignoring the fact that education is free in Britain. So, not actually particularly sold on their ability to analyze fictional institutions. That's true. No child is ever mentioned to have paid for school. Hell if that had any weight, Harry would have had to raid his gold stash when he was picked up to go to school.
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Post by Crom-Cruach on Mar 23, 2013 18:40:48 GMT -5
uh yeah, Forbes magazine also thinks Hogwarts is more expensive than Harvard, completing ignoring the fact that education is free in Britain. So, not actually particularly sold on their ability to analyze fictional institutions. You're purposely ignoring the point of why they say Palpatine sucked at running the empire over meaningless semantics that have nothing to do with the article which is entirely about proper leadership for an effective organisation not money. Read the article instead of complaining about grammar or trivialities that have nothing to do with the article. The point of the article was that based on how he ran his empire was that he was creating a weak self-destructive organizational culture that promotes action in his members that undermine the organization and his whole plan's cornerstone was predicated on funneling resources towards a totally inefficient means to success that ended contributing to his undoing. The author makes excellent points.
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Post by Erik-El on Mar 23, 2013 19:56:32 GMT -5
uh yeah, Forbes magazine also thinks Hogwarts is more expensive than Harvard, completing ignoring the fact that education is free in Britain. So, not actually particularly sold on their ability to analyze fictional institutions. You're purposely ignoring the point of why they say Palpatine sucked at running the empire over meaningless semantics that have nothing to do with the article which is entirely about proper leadership for an effective organisation not money. Read the article instead of complaining about grammar or trivialities that have nothing to do with the article. The point of the article was that based on how he ran his empire was that he was creating a weak self-destructive organizational culture that promotes action in his members that undermine the organization and his whole plan's cornerstone was predicated on funneling resources towards a totally inefficient means to success that ended contributing to his undoing. The author makes excellent points. The problem with that is that if it had not been for his underestimation of Vader's love for Luke, he would have won very easily. Going farther back, if it had not been for Luke's existence, the first Death Star would never have been destroyed. On that note, the Death Star was hardly inefficient, nor were any of Palpatine's military decisions self-destructive. We made fun of the article because it is bullshit. I personally was just finding a way to not be so rude about it by poking at the "trivialities".
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Post by Dane on Mar 23, 2013 22:34:38 GMT -5
k, since you're deadset on it.
Mistake #1: Building an organization around particular people, rather than institutions.
Key phrase: "Perhaps the biggest mistake of the Galactic Empire made is its singular focus on the preservation of power for the Emperor and a few of his chosen lackeys."
Not actually true. The Empire itself was an institution. Moffs and Admirals were replaced often (sometimes on Vaders whims). The article basically says that only the Emperor himself had any power. That's not even vaguely true. That's completely ignoring the Imperial military's chain of command. Moffs and regional Governors replaced the Galactic Senate. The distribution of power is effectively the same as Galactic Republic, except the Emperor replaced the Supreme Chancellor (of which, Palpatine already was) and instead of having a Senate represent the people, he had people loyal to him keep control over regions of the galaxy. It's pretty obvious that the writer did no research and assumed, incorrectly, that the only leaders of the Empire were the ones who got face time in the original trilogy.
Mistake #2: Depriving people of the chance to have a stake in the organization.
Key phrase: "By consolidating his power, the Emperor didn’t just ensure that his organization wouldn’t survive his death."
The hilarious thing about this part is that not only did the Empire survive his death, they actually retook control of the galaxy by the era of Star Wars: Legacy with Emperor Roan Fel in place. So yeah, what an awesomely accurate article.
It's also borderline retarded because lot of people did have a personal stake in the Empire. In fact, statistically almost everyone did. Most people who showed aptitude in any reasonable area were either directly or indirectly working for the Empire. See those gigantic starships they all cruise around in? Built by Kuat Drive Yards on Kuat. That provided employment for an entire planet of people who built starships for the Empire. Before you say it, no it wasn't forced labor, they did that before the Empire came along, but business boomed when orders for star destroyers started coming in. 90% of the pilots or starship crews who grew up on Corellia (Han Solo's home planet) were employed by the Empire also. Scientists terraforming new words, arms manufacturers, the list goes on and on. The Empire wasn't full of bad people any more than Nazi Germany was full of bad people. These were average people who wanted to earn a living and feed their family. The Empire provided that. The writer seems to ignore the fact that the Galactic Empire was, weirdly enough, galaxy spanning. People got pissed off because they guy in charge was a nutjob. It didn't mean the rank-and-file personnel (of which there were trillions) were actually wronged.
Furthermore, the Empire itself didn't change or oppress the average person. Arts, music, sport were largely unaffected by the change in government. The only real changes came in terms of religion, i.e. Jedi are bad, let's not be Jedi. Since your average person wasn't a Jedi, it didn't actually matter to them. Did Han Solo seem pissed off that he wasn't allowed to worship the Force? No, he didn't care because the Force meant nothing to him.
Mistake #3: Having no tolerance for failure.
Key phrase: "Enraged by this error, Darth Vader used the Force to choke Admiral Ozzel to death. Captain Piett, Ozzel’s second-in-command, was then promoted to Admiral and given command of the Imperial Fleet."
This is actually mistaking the actions of a single individual for the actions of billions. Not the same thing.
While Force choking the Admiral, did Vader quote Imperial policy? No. Because it was just Darth Vader losing his shit. If every person who made a mistake was summarily choked to death they wouldn't have anyone to fly their ships.
Mistake #4: Focusing all of the organization’s efforts into a single goal and failing to consider alternatives.
Key phrase: "When it came to the success of the Galactic Empire, the Emperor had one single idea that he was absolutely obsessed with: building the Death Star."
Another weird assumption made based on only ever watching the original trilogy. Yes, the Death Star was part of the plot of those films, which focused pretty much around that. To say it's the only thing they were doing is pretty insane. It was probably the most ambitious project they had, but it wasn't the only one. Even in the events of Dark Forces and the SW comics they plainly had a lot of crazy shit going on. Shadow Troopers and a cadre of Palpatine's personal clones not the least of which. The Death Star is what you saw in the movies. Let's not forget the fact that the Emperor had already won. If Darth Vader didn't throw him down a fucking shaft he would have won in an extremely decisive fashion against the Rebel Alliance.
Mistake #5: Failing to learn from mistakes.
Key phase: "After it was built, the Death Star only successfully completed one mission before it was destroyed by the Rebels. And the Empire’s response? Build a bigger, newer Death Star to serve as a target for the Rebel Alliance."
Yes. That's actually the point. The Emperor himself says that he only built the second Death Star because he wanted Luke to come after him and he knew he would if he built another one. That's actually his extremely successful plan that is only undermined by Darth Vader jacking his shit down the aforementioned shaft of doom.
Any other reasons why you think you'd make the next best Doctor Doom/Voldemort hybrid?
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Post by Supreme Marvel on Mar 28, 2013 12:23:42 GMT -5
A short period bio added. Check first page.
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Post by Dane on Mar 28, 2013 19:06:09 GMT -5
Suddenly, RPG.
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