Tenzhi

It's a movie starring that guy I want to punch. I doubt there's anything about the movie you could tell me which would influence me more than that.

I've never seen the Star Wars Christmas Special. Thus: terrible things that have been avoided are better than terrible things that have been endured.

Indeed. I'd say that both Group Fly and Team Teleport need to somehow be "tweaked" so that they aren't minor griefing tools, or else they need to be "tweaked" right out of the game.

Judging from that, perhaps it's the Jolting Shocks power from Electric Control they mentioned in one of the recent interviews, though said interview made it sound kind of like Chain Induction with knockdown.

If you are a happy shapeless mass of energy that suffuses the universe who suddenly finds itself given shape/direction by some Jedi muckity-mucks and a natural consequence of that shape/direction is a dark blight, then removing said blight whilst still beng forced into said shape/direction puts you all out of whack.

The creator is an inconsistent source.

The Dark Side only exists because of people mucking around with the Force. If it's a blight on the Force, then so is the Jedi way. In short, the only way to really remove the Dark Side is to stop using the Force altogether. Because as long as sentient beings are using the Force there will inevitably and naturally be those who succumb to anger, fear, and hatred; as well will there be those who seek power for power's sake, or simply seek expedient means to desired ends. Shining a light will ultimately create shadow.

I was replying specifically to someone seeking game mechanic reasons, however the two ideologies (that is, game mechanics and concept) need not remain alien to each other. Conceptually, I like the idea of being super strong and uppercutting someone way up into the air, or smashing the ground with super strong force and flooring the enemies around me in a decent-sized area. Mechanically, Super Strength accomodates this where Martial Arts does not.

Super Strength is more than just having punches, I'd say. Indeed, ideally Super Strength should have some raw power kick animation options thrown in for good measure.

It also lacks a sucktacular but patented super clap, a ground smash of doom, an uppercut of Popeye-ian proportions, perma-strongest-one-there-is mode, and those satisfying super strength impact explosions.

Dominators deal the same damage as Blasters?

Super Strength has a ranged attack, a knock up, a better AoE, and Rage.

The Force itself has no sides, it simply is. The way we interact with it creates sides, and these sides are themselves clearly created by emotions. To say that these emotional states - good or bad - should not exist is foolish.

On the contrary, by removing it you create a dangerous imbalance. One that will eventually (and likely catastrophically) right itself. As it apparently did in the prequels.

You don't have to call it the "light" side, but the fact that there is a Dark Side clearly means there is a non-Dark Side. Whatever you call it, the reality that there are opposing/contrasting sides remains the same. If one simply calls it The Force, one is arrogantly implying that this side is the one true side, and such self-righteous arrogance will ultimately come back to bite you in the Younglings.

From a thematic standpoint, Shang Chi doing more damage than Superman is ridiculous.

I like the Young Jedi Knights series more than a lot of the EU stuff, and certainly more than the prequel movies.

Indeed I have. There are various humours and when they are out of balance you have too much of one or more humours and/or too little of others.

Yin and Yang for instance. Or the seven kinds of chakra energy. Or the five elemental energies. I'm rather familiar with the concept. All it does is highlight the fact that there has to be more than one side for a balance to exist.

Rice is awesome and has been the basis of many of my meals. And while I love my rice cooker, I often just end up cooking rice in a skillet the same way I do Rice-a-Roni. The exception is sticky rice, which I almost invariably prepare in the rice cooker unless I'm making rice pudding with it.

But we're not talking about abandoning Paragon City and going to the Rogue Isles.

If there isn't more than one side, there can't really be balance. If the Dark Side is cancer-like and shouldn't exist they would speak of bringing purity to the Force rather than balance.

Dagnabbit, now I want some steamed hams.

Having only one side of the Force wouldn't be "balanced."

I prefer my grits sweet rather than savoury. I take them with butter and honey or syrup. If I'm not in the mood for sweet I'll just take them with butter. I find them to be very similar to Cream of Wheat.

And I love fried mush, but that's a somewhat unusual item to find around here.