We are using their tools though…

Well, you are, while I am on PieFed:-P If you do not like what you’ve heard here, then consider switching to Piefed.World (Lemmy.World’s recently-announced PieFed replacement for Lemmy)

The meat is not just armor though - a skeleton alone has no capability to move itself, the meat provides the translation between thought and action, while the skeleton is merely a framework upon which the meat rests.

Meh, I mean you do seem excited so… there’s that.

It depends on whether the asshole has a title of Professor.

(Comment a full week later just out of the blue for no reason…)

The excuse used to be that it was new and would eventually get around to it.

I gave up waiting and moved to PieFed, personally.

I lolled so hard at the OP… then did again at your reply!

Everything you own in the box to the left…

Sadly true, he seemed to see Star Wars as his meal ticket 🤑 . I much prefer the books that were written by great authors, each with their own world-building talents set inside the Star Wars universe.

I wonder what Qui-Gon would think of that ending? Probably “it is the will of the force…” and so at least nominally approve.

And then that leads me to wonder if knowing that, would he still have had the courage to do it - and die as a result, even though obviously becoming a force ghost?

Now that is probably crossing the line into over-thinking it! 😄 (/s btw, bc there is obviously no such thing!)

Wouldn’t that depend on your interpretation of The Prophecy, with someone (perhaps Anakin? perhaps Luke rather? perhaps Leia’s 3rd son Anakin?) slated to “bring balance to the force”?

Though again, was that Anakin who helped Palpatine overthrow a corrupt and dying democracy (never you mind what it got replaced with…)

Or was it rather his son Luke who then overthrew that, allowing the cycle of death and decay and authoritarianism and then revolution to restart? Or, throwing it back was it rather Anakin but for a different reason (more locally minded to concerns directly related to force-users) since he overturned the corrupt establishment not of the Old Republic but of the Jedi Order itself, which had perverted its original intention by allowing themselves to get suckered into helping the rich stay rich and sticking it to the poor i.e. “defending the status quo”, ignoring things like slavery while stopping things like robbery of the existing oligarchy?

Is “balance” a good thing? Although conversely, can anything in nature exist without it (bc of entropy or whatever)?

(And above I was entirely ignoring here the ass whooping handed out by the Yuuzhan Vong, but yeah that still works too: by overthrowing the Empire Luke restored the Republic to the cycle of conquer or be conquered, i.e. “balanced” in that manner of being animals that exist within the constraints of the natural order rather than perched on top of it.)

All of which is to say that while nothing is ever guaranteed in life, except the Force, Qui-Gon knew that the lad was somehow important, though for what… who could say.

Maybe we here though can say that it wasn’t Obi-Wan that wanted to “gamble”, with the assurances of a force-assisted victory, but rather it was Qui-Gon who wanted to gamble for real?

Using Boost I don’t know. But I use the markdown syntax, so I put an exclamation mark, then square brackets (any helpful alternative text goes there, in case the image won’t load or for screen readers like for blind people), then the image URL goes into curved parentheses. It’s super annoying to type it all out, but I love the gifs so…

And let’s see if I can display the above in a code block…

![image](https://forumus-uploads-production.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/8/f/8fe49c77c0ecba566731bb9f269c7685d9a306a4.gif)

Yes! 🙌

Edit: now I will be curious what dark hells I have helped unleash in this, our darkest timeline.

Or horizontally swap only the middle dragon.

Btw Star Trek has some fantastic side eye content, like:

Or here:

See how well he hides it, even directly pointing it out!? 🤪

It just wouldn’t be as much fun any other way:-).

Qui-Gon is gambling at much higher stakes, placing the fate of the entire future of the galaxy into the hands of that boy, who Yoda had strongly recommended against being trained. So it’s not that Qui-Gon was against Obi-Wan wanting to gamble, he just wanted him to significantly up his game:-).

Except for the news channels you mean? 😉😕😞

FAAFO?