Mechalich
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Today, 04:31 AMThe Internet in 2002-2004 was nothing like what it became. That's pre-youtube, pre-social media, and before modern Google. It was impossible to hear...529 replies | 18473 view(s) -
Today, 12:41 AMIt would only be morally superior for the Jedi to command the clones if that choice was the best option for winning the war with a minimum of clone...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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Yesterday, 11:31 PMSure, the operational space in which the Jedi Order has to operate post-Geonosis is highly constrained, but it's not like they have no options at...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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Yesterday, 05:22 PMIn this case it's also of dubious accuracy. The Star Wars franchise has always referred to the destruction of the Jedi as a purge - ie. Great Jedi...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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Yesterday, 06:07 AMWhile I would not say there has been anyone claiming the Jedi Order was perfect there have been claims advanced that the Jedi Order has no...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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2024-04-20, 09:21 PMRight. Many, many fantasy series go quite in-depth into their own politics. So do traditional adventure sagas from real world history. Heck, there's...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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2024-04-20, 07:17 PMThe funny thing is that he did that, under the Empire, and it didn't work. This strongly suggests that while the Republic still functioned and the...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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2024-04-20, 06:02 PMI don't actually think Palpatine could save the Republic effortlessly, the structural problems go too deep. Also, if he suddenly pulled a 180 many of...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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2024-04-20, 04:35 PMThere does seem to be a lot of trouble accepting a multi-casual explanation for the fall of the Republic and rise of the Empire. I identify at least...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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2024-04-19, 02:42 PMNo. Obi-Wan is on the Council and holds the rank of master. Obi-Wan was placed on the Council immediately following AotC. He replaced Coleman...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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,...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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 | 118463 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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...842 replies | 97552 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...619 replies | 16027 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 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 | 2686 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...529 replies | 18473 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...529 replies | 18473 view(s)
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