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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Meanwhile, in real life, we don't have space wizards who can perform magic, yet we have generals who live in fear of magical leaders of make believe religions.

[–] thinkyfish 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

because they have millions of followers they don't want to piss off.

[–] ceenote 25 points 2 months ago

Cult followings are the highest form of magecraft.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

... more powerful incentive than a telekinetic force choke

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[–] PugJesus 80 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Bruh, we're trying to get this project done on time and under budget, talking about space magic isn't going to-"

[–] DaddleDew 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"we need to stop cutting corners and put a cover over that hole that blows up the whole station if someone drops a rock in it"

[–] marcos 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You seem to have too much time to waste. Here, I've just cut your jira ticket deadline by a week. Pray I don't cut it further.

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[–] Anticorp 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't be silly, every moon-sized station has a hole that destroys the entire structure if someone drops a rock in there. That's the way it's always been done. That is industry best practices according to our stakeholders.

[–] Num10ck 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] EleventhHour 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Vadey-poo weweaseee himmm

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Calls Vader's religion bullshit

Gets telepathically choked out

Vader: "Oh I guess it doesn't hurt since it's all bullshit, huh? I find your lack of faith disturbing. Especially since you've seen me do this shit, like, a million times before."

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He was actually criticising the mystical thinking of the Sith, not the scientific reality of midichlorians.

[–] SmoothOperator 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't he more criticizing the scale? Like, a sith warrior is great, but he can't really compete with the power of the Death Star when it comes to sheer scale. Just ask Alderaan.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] spicystraw 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In case someone also wondered who this is, here is a summary. Dude is hardcore

Darth Nihilus: A Sith Lord's Hunger for Power and Destruction

• Darth Nihilus, a Human male, rose as a Dark Lord of the Sith after the Jedi Civil War, driven by an insatiable hunger for Force energy.

• He was found by Darth Traya and trained to feed his hunger, eventually becoming one of three Sith Lords in a triumvirate.

• Nihilus' hunger consumed him, leading him to destroy entire planets and absorb their Force energy, including the devastation of Katarr.

• He formed a powerful bond with his Shadow Hand, Visas Marr, who could support and weaken him in battle.

• Nihilus' pursuit of a growing Force presence led him to clash with Meetra Surik, a former Jedi, and ultimately met his demise at the hands of Surik and her allies.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Nihilus

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[–] MeekerThanBeaker 47 points 2 months ago (3 children)

When I saw this scene as a kid, I thought Motti coughed up the yellow button on the console. I didn't know what it was at the time and thought Vader somehow put some yellow choking pill inside him. It was very disturbing to me. This was before I knew what a Force choke was.

yellow button

[–] FlyingSquid 16 points 2 months ago

So you're saying you find his lack of puke... disturbing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to think roughly the same thing. I thought that Vader choking him caused him to puke up an egg.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought the same! We had to use our imagination watching these movies on VHS on a 14" CRT TV from eight feet away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ahahaha I’m amazed there are three people who had that same impression with something I never even noticed!

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[–] Alexstarfire 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Fucking ballsy considering tons of Jedi existed when he was a kid.

[–] teft 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

"Tons"

The galactic empire (and the republic before it) spanned billions of inhabited star systems. If each world was billions or trillions of inhabitants that means the galactic population is 10^18^ or more people. There were only ~10,000 Jedi at their peak. The chances of any galactic citizen seeing a Jedi, unless they lived on Coruscant near the temple, are vanishingly small. They were mythical beings to almost everyone.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TBF a 9 yr old slaveboy on an outer rim planet knew what a Jedi was.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and with childlike naivety he believed those mystical heroes really exist.

An admiral of the imperial navy is above such childish myths.

[–] half_built_pyramids 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Are you saying that scene was the first time that admiral ever met or heard of Darth Vader?

[–] RoidingOldMan 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That's what the scene implies. The whole scene makes no sense after the backstory that the prequels added.

The idea of the scene is that we, the viewer, have no idea what the force is yet. Just like character who learns the hard way. Because this is the first Star Wars movie and they haven't even started calling it Episode 4 yet.

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[–] piskertariot 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you want to play that way, technically using a 2000lb ton, you'd only need 20-30 Jedi for there to be "Tons"

[–] angrystego 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was looking for this kind of comment ready to make one if there was none. Thanks for absolving me of the duty.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

More than that if the Jedi are Yoda-sized. Less if they're Jabba-sized.

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[–] Alexstarfire 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm going off what was in the movies and other than Coruscant there's nothing to suggest there's that many individuals. There are a lot of representatives in the senate but that doesn't say much about how populated the planets are.

And, the Jedi had an actual HQ on the home planet of the republic, didn't they?

EDIT: And as another counter-example, there's not that many Secret Service agents but most people in Earth probably know they exist.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Jedi by that point were as accessible as the heads of the Catholic Church. To most poor people throughout the galaxy, the Jedi didn't give a shit about you or your suffering, notice how they didn't do shit about slavery in the galaxy? To most people the Jedi were nothing but self righteous religious do nothings that live in a big palace

[–] Wogi 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Found the imperial officer guys

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[–] FlyingSquid 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right? And Han's never heard of The Force.

[–] Alexstarfire 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Yea, I don't think this George Lucas guy knew what he was doing.

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[–] Curly722 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine you were to do this shit after someone talking about how Jesus will strike sinners down, then suddenly a buff Jesus appears and chokes you out a little bit. Thats what this guy went through.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Leave Korean Jesus alone. He ain't got time for yo problems. He busy. With Korean shit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think he wasn’t believing in the force, he knew Jedi were real, he just wasn’t buying the mysticism surrounding it and didn’t think it’s such a big deal. He knew Vader is a powerful force user, but the Death Star is literally one shotting entire planets, so the force didn’t feel that significant to him in the grand scheme of things.

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

He said he didn't know about the force before he even knew the Death Star existed.

I think it's very silly to think there is a galactic civilization but the people in that civilization don't know, even though there's absolutely no secret about it, that magic exists.

Is Han really that ignorant of what's going on around him? I doubt he'd be that effective a smuggler if he didn't pay attention to news and politics.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And he (Admiral Motti) got the first name of Conan by George Lucas while on the Conan O'Brien show!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Damn. Conan has been on TV forever.

[–] Tylerdurdon 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure he was celebrated for his strength. His body wasn't just tossed out with the rest of the garbage. Not at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

True heroes aren't appreciated in their time.

[–] Jeffool 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

People are complaining about Motti not knowing Jedi were real. But how many times did we see things written down, much less recorded video/holograms?

In this essay on how recorded media was made illegal by the Empire to clamp down on shared knowledge and control the public, I will prove without a doubt...

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[–] RedFrank24 6 points 1 month ago

He was correct too in a way. It wasn't The Force that was keeping the Galaxy in line, it was economic and logistical power. If anything, it was the Sith's constant need for conflict and backstabbing seeping into the officer corps that hampered The Empire, and the Tarkin Doctrine is what happens when you base your military strategy on the whims and wishes of an autocratic religious fanatic.

[–] WhatYouNeed 5 points 2 months ago

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

And you think you're so clever and classless and free

But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

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