Yea it is a case of found it years ago and worked so incredibly well I haven’t had the slightest interest in using anything else.

Excellent track from CT. How about one extra since you like Mitsuda’s work with Chrono Trigger.

This is from an orchestrated reimagining of some of the music of Xenogears. Not some fan project either, made by Mitsuda himself.

Xenogears Creid - 03 Balto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwnNVOl4fx

I would put something from the Kirite album form him but it is basically not available anywhere for streaming at least not in English searchable websites. I did find a torrent for it along with hundreds of other songs of his but didn’t want to go that far in sharing on this sort of thread.

I’ll add that I probably should have just posted a Chrono Trigger track in the first place since while I’m unsure of my favorite music the game itself has been my personal number one game for a couple decades now.

Theme Song for The Secret of Monkey Island (Using the Roland MT-32 which was an external and semi professional music synth device for those that aren’t familiar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3dB0qEcG20

And to show what the difference is and why I find it amazing here is a comparison with just a few seconds of the song on each of a bunch of different sound devices. This was possible with live synth at home in 1990 or actually earlier but this is one of the best examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a324ykKV-7Y

Like many people I’m not sure I actually have a real favorite but this is what came to mind first along with several songs from the Chrono Trigger soundtrack. Chrono Trigger is also one of the shining examples of taking a limited older sound device and wringing every last drop of capability out of it. So clearly an obsession of mine with music is created under technical limitations.

And a replacement battery even when it dies drop below 80% is cheap enough to be reasonable and batteries are highly recyclable.

I would love to live in the range of a eBike for my office commute. At least I live in the battery range for my PHEV and it is only some days I have to go.

I also agree that the fast talking Han messing with a hick kid is the better option.

However I have to at the same time admit that if you are going to make it actually hold up as something literally accurate then it is one of the best retcon jobs ever written to actually make it work.

Sadly it comes from one of the more painful old expanded universe series because Kyp Durron is one of the most insufferable overly perfect wonder kids ever written. Plus also being the books with the Sun Crusher which is fighting for the most overkill super weapon in all of Star Wars. Which is really saying something considering the huge range of super weapons through the franchise.

I’m well aware that across most of the rest of the franchise Stormtroopers generally are bad shots.

However I argue that it is easy to view the entire original trilogy as Stormtroopers being competent. A New Hope is easy as you already pointed out that they were supposed to let them go. Plus the off screen extremely effective results against the Lars homestead and the Jawas which is both combat and effectively following the droids.

Empire Strikes Back they are extremely effective with invading the Hoth base. Luke is supposed to get to Vader so that part can be ignored. Then for the rest escaping Lando arranges a lot of surprise trouble for the troops as well as R2D2.

Then for the Ewoks I think almost everyone has it backwards. They all look at how tiny and low tech they are and draw conclusions from that. The more important thing to look at is their results. Not just the main battle but look before that.

1. A scout (Wickket) is smart enough to make a reasonable level of basic communication with absolutely zero starting point with Leia.
2. They successfully trap/ambush a Jedi and a Wookie and a droid with sensors. Ok yea required some stupidity on Chewies part but still incredibly impressive on the Ewoks part.
3. They were literally planning to eat several of the heroes.
4. The traps everywhere. They clearly didn’t make the big traps just in the day or two when the heroes showed up. That forest is an absolute death trap and miracle that the trap the heroes triggered didn’t kill them.
5. Battle morale at large not breaking under attack from mechanized and ranged weapons.
6. Immediate willingness to ride a speeder and a successful dismount in spite of zero clue how they work.

That is just what I can think of off the top of my head. I’m sure there is more. Honestly they are closer to facing an army of fantasy dwarfs than what people say they are like.