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Jedi must live by a code (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The thing with the Jedi mind trick is that only Jedi's think it works.

Everyone else just see a scary lightsaber guy asking them to repeat a sentence and are more than happy to comply if it means they get left alone.

There's a limit to how much you can pretend though.

  • Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else's problem.

  • Selling an obvious narc deathsticks? Yeah, maybe going home and rethinking your life is the right call here.

  • Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    "These aren't the droids you're looking for."

    "Yeah, sure, whatever you say, man. I just work here."

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And stormtroopers are supposed to be very disciplined and resistant to bribery.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is it a bad deal though? Are credits worthless to money changers in this context?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I took it more like galactic credits are banned on Tatooine , and no trader who didn't want any trouble with the Hutts would be dealing with them. Taking them on would be a world of trouble, like fencing stolen goods

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Thanks for explaining it. I'm not well versed on Star Wars. Seems like a galatic credit would have huge value compared to a local currency and someone would take that risk. Like trying to use USD in Argentina last year, illegal but worth it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I could see your perception of it changing based on how you watched the movies. If your first time watching the movies was in numerical order, you might come away thinking the Jedi mind trick doesn't work very well. It's not really explained until episode 4. IIRC, it's shown two times in the prequels, once against Watto (which fails) and once against a rando drug dealer in a bar (which works). It later works against Bib Fortuna but not Jabba.

    The explanation of "works against the weak minded" doesn't come until you're several hours in. If the movies were produced in that order, it would almost come off like a cop out explanation.

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