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"One of the great film nerd Twitter accounts" - Vanity Fair 99% space fiction (licenses) and its creation. Here are all my accounts: http://linktr.ee/thespaceshipper

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Sep 24

[Thread of threads]

I'd forgotten I'd made threads as soon as I got here. It wasn't very practical, but I couldn't help myself. 😅

Until I have a system for grouping them on my profile, like on the other network, I'll gather them here. 🖖

1/ George Lucas and the three-second rule:

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6h

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 4h

Only once a decade :)

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 17h

Tron (1982): Solar sailer, art by Jean "Moebius" Giraud

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

Hey mais c'est Roger.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

haha I remember!

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

Both Rebel Assault games were pretty unpleasant to play, but I love them.

Rebel Assault 1 brought CD-ROMs (a revolution!) into many home including mine, and Rebel Assault 2 was just incredible when we hadn't had a SW movie for 12 years.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

I, Rookie One, am on the verge of taking a YT to complain to Lucasfilm, but first I have to survive crossing these damn narrow tunnels filled with lasers and moving machines and changing corridors, and we hit the wall and we hit the wall and damn joystick and frak!

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

Nah, I don't think I knew BSG back then.
I was discovering the TIE phantom in real time. Funny.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

It's clearly a phantom, not a viper 🤷‍♂️😂

a cartoon ghost with a surprised look on his face is standing in front of a rock wall .

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

Okay, that's long enough. 😊 At the very beginning of season two of Andor, when Cassian steals an experimental TIE fighter from a secret Imperial facility and is then pursued through a canyon, I, Rookie One, literally reacted like this.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

Can't be 1993 because there is the Defender. Definitely end 1994 - early 1995.

I'm three times older dammit 🤣
But I prefer now.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

I didn't know the name of the TIE phantom yet, so it was school year 1994-1995 ☝️

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Apr 24

Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2: The Hidden Empire (LucasArts, 1995): TIE/ph phantom, modified V38 assault fighter

That's the original asset by LucasArts lead artist Richard Green, with a newer render.

A detailed, three-dimensional rendering shows a TIE Phantom spacecraft from the Star Wars universe against a stark black background. The spacecraft is depicted from a slightly elevated side view, highlighting its angular and menacing design. It features a central cockpit pod with hexagonal window panels. Extending outward and upward from the cockpit are two large, sharply pointed solar collector wings, also characteristic of the TIE interceptor. These wings are framed by thin, angular struts.

A low-angle, slightly blurred shot features a TIE Phantom spacecraft in flight. The spacecraft is primarily gray with black solar panels. It has a central cockpit and three angled wings. The background is indistinct, but suggesting a hangar.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5h

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 6h

I found one of the many drawings I used to do during German class in middle school circa 30 years ago. 😁

(I don't remember anything about German, but I learned everything about fictional spaceships. 🤷‍♂️)

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

Dark Forces 6: Jedi Knight 5: Jedi Outcast 4: Jedi Academy 3: Jedi Fallen Order 2: Jedi Survivor: Mysteries of the Present

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

Dark Forces 6: Jedi Knight 5: Jedi Outcast 4: Jedi Academy 3: Jedi Fallen Order 2: Jedi Survivor

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

Here, most media outlets are owned by billionaires, which is already a problem, but above all we have Vincent Bolloré, who buys up lots of media outlets to turn them into vehicles for xenophobic propaganda. Millions of French people are trapped in this media ecosystem.

Then, social networks.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

Jedi Knight 5

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

Here in France, there used to be a cordon sanitaire, but since Sarkozy, they have been increasingly disregarding it. So much so that a few days ago, the leader of the right declared that people should not vote for the left in a local election against the far right.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

Always happy to help!

a man in a red jacket is reaching out to help another man

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

That's why 🤗

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

I know it's BD1 behind the smiley

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

The money classes?

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 8h

Please note that Tron was released in Japan in September 1982, and Katsuhiro Ōtomo began publishing the manga Akira in December.

And Tron: Ares gives Akira a wink. 😇

Katsuhiro Otomo On Creating 'Akira' And Designing The Coolest Bike In All Of Manga And Anime

For most people outside of Japan, Akira is probably their first contact with manga and anime. The original manga is an epic work and the movie is arguably one of the finest animated films ever made. S...

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