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Yesterday, 05:17 PMBy the end of the Clone Wars Palpatine had been in office for years beyond legally mandated term limits under the guise of a 'galactic emergency.' He...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-17, 09:41 PMAnyone who serves in a leadership role needs to know their subordinates and to assign them positions and tasks that are appropriate to their skill...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-17, 07:55 PMThere's a very bad tendency in Star Wars media to make Jedi characters Jedi Masters rather than Jedi Knights to make them seem important. This is...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-17, 05:42 PMBroadly I agree, and there's the additional and highly salient point that the Jedi Council is obligated to push back against Palpatine attempting to...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 08:00 PMExactly, fictional narratives are biased towards statistical outliers, whether those are events, characters, or really any other element. A really...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 06:56 PM'Abducts' is inaccurate and pejorative. Children who become Jedi Initiates are not illegally taken from their parents by force. They are willingly...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 10:38 PMThey should have divided their efforts, which, based on what we know, would actually have been more effective. The Jedi are, with few exceptions,...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 08:25 PMThey can lose less badly. If the Jedi refuse leadership of the Clone Army, it still fights - it's far too large to conceal once brought off Kamino...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 06:47 PMThe Jedi Order created an exception to the rules in choosing to train Anakin. Their failure, following this, was not recognizing that he would need...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 04:51 PMConsidering how dangerous Thotep 'a simple vozzler' manages to be, and how the Dreen seem to be similar high-dimensional entities only with a...1336 replies | 117821 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 04:41 PMThe Republic has no army. More than that, it specifically has a law forbidding it from having an army. The opening scene in AotC is of Padme arriving...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-14, 09:49 PMI only got as far as Light of the Jedi (the first book) when it came to the High Republic, but it was very, very clear from the start that the people...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-13, 06:02 AMWar of the Worlds does operate with the conceit that the aliens are from Mars, making it an interplanetary rather than interstellar war, and...834 replies | 96357 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 06:44 AMMechalich replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Okay, but by that standard the Empire has no leash on anyone operating in their territory. Skyrim is absolutely bursting will all kinds of hostile...609 replies | 15330 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 03:42 AMIt's not that they don't, it's that they can't. Sith philosophy doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's a framework for how they relate to the Force. In Star...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 07:21 PMThe Force Ghosts do! Jedi who are sufficiently in tune with the code transcend death and achieve oneness with the Force. The Jedi Order is a...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 10:42 PMTPM is quite clear that things have gotten bad, like really bad. The Trade Federation not only openly blockades Naboo, when the Jedi arrive on a...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 06:20 PMIn my experience phrases like 'the end of science' or 'the end of discovery' are generally thrown around only with regard to particle and quantum...70 replies | 2536 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 06:06 PMIf you extend from this, it pushes a lot of fault onto Qui-Gon. By the time Anakin arrives on Coruscant, the Council is in a huge bind. Anakin is...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-08, 08:12 PMOrganizations that have rules enforcing celibacy/chastity often have really huge problems addressing them because it's hard to handle something that...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-07, 04:28 PMTarkin was, arguably, highest ranked official with any degree of operational independence in the Empire - various imperial advisors like Sate...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-07, 02:19 PMMas Amedda probably could in the event of Palpatine's death, execute Order 66. The likelihood that he would do so, however, is very low. Amedda is a...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-06, 11:15 PMIf the Jedi stay alive, they will save the Republic, period. You are absolutely correct that, from a logical, balance-of-power perspective that...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-06, 09:21 PMHe's almost won at that point, though it's an extension of the wins he's been accruing since before TPM. However, the way the Force influences...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-05, 05:22 PMThere's something of a disconnect in the franchise. The PT-Era Jedi Order is absolutely the worst iteration of the Jedi Order. It's as flawed,...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-04-05, 02:50 AMMechalich replied to a thread Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here in WebcomicsReading someone's dissertation - which is what Clinton says he did - would be kind of creepy, mostly because a dissertation averages 250-300 pages in...1505 replies | 149302 view(s)
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2024-04-01, 09:07 PMIt's not unclear in the slightest, it's just economic and political and therefore cannot be explained on this forum. Suffice it to say that even...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-03-29, 09:58 PMThe point I was making is that Godzilla Minus One is a very bad example of trying to do things cheaper in Hollywood, since it's not a Hollywood...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-03-29, 06:01 PMGodzilla Minus One was made in Japan by a Japanese studio. There are various economic and labor reasons why it was possible to make that film as...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 04:20 PMCaptain America: The Winter Soldier, cost $170 million dollars to make (in 2014 money, so around $220 million now). The most recent MI movie, Dead...411 replies | 14630 view(s)
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