Star Wars Memes
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:
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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.
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We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
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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!
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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.
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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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Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.
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Real world reason for lightsabers: sheer, unadulterated, cool-factor.
In-universe reason: useful for force-users, useless in the hands of their opponent. In a universe without safety features like handrails or seatbelts, something that automatically locks itself and is drop-safe is a powerful thing.
Alright, so this is one of those things where I keep reminding people that Star Wars movie canon and Star Wars franchise canon barely overlap.
The reason Obi Wan gives Luke for lightsabers in the first place is just cool factor, too. Lightsabers just seem classy. Nobody says it's particularly powerful, just that they're old fashioned and "less random and clumsy" than blasters. Luke handles his like a toy, Obi Wan pretty much gives it to him as a memento, he says he "almost forgot" he had it stashed because Luke's dad wanted to hand it to him but his uncle didn't let him. Obi Wan uses one in plain view of people and nobody even goes "Hey, look, a Jedi, I thought they were gone". Hell, they sit down for a pint and a bit of bartering with Han immediately after that. The Empire officers, who at this point clearly don't particularly respect Vader, seem to think he looks like a goofball waving that thing around and making grandiose claims about the power of the Force when they're literally sitting inside a showstopper doomsday device.
All the justifications for how little sense lightsabers make and why only Jedi seem to carry them is after the fact retconning of the barely-coherent implications of the original movie.