Could have just traded in the non-working Nubian ship and bought a junker. It’ll get you to Coruscant just fine.
‘What’s a Nubian?’
‘Shut the fuck up!’
Mr Gin just didn’t want to criminally implicate himself. Cheating in a casino creates a lot more opportunities to be noticed and caught. Pod racing has better plausible deniability.
We have half a movie to fill with padding, Padawan
And then he still cheats by force manipulating the dice.
Why is Qui-Gon replying with “made in mematic”
He’s so strong he can break the fourth wall.
He did too many midichlorians
Nono you see… after my plan, we get to keep the boy.
(also he did try to free his mom but then like… gave up after receiving one no, but at least the attempt was made or something?)
It translates to a more profitable video game
Do you remember the arcade version? That was awesome!!
I had the Win98 version growing up, but i think the Dreamcast one may be better.
I’ve never played any Star Wars game, I just knew this bit of trivia
I do. Do you remember how the N64 version emulated the arcade version by being played with two controllers? You held one controller in each hand and used the joysticks as the left and right engine throttles.
I do! Too bad the N64 version looks like old ass.
Hell yes it was.
I think Dreamcast ran at a much higher frame rate, it looked amazing.
if any franchise needs a reboot is that podracer game.
high speed gladiatorial races. Mario kart with more boomboom
I played this demo for a game called Ascent: Rivals at a convention last year. It was like a modern pod racing game, it was pretty cool. They have a demo up on steam that I’ve had in my wishlist for a while now, tho I haven’t really looked at it in a year.
hope that instead of getting a cease and desist, they get offered to make an official podracer
Deathgrip is another spiritual successor in the same vein as the one you linked, although it’s been stuck in development hell for a while now I think. I haven’t heard anything about the project since the demo hit and it’s still set to release into early access in 2025
I’ll have to check that one out, thanks!
And, it works with the Dreamcast VGA cable. Very nice picture quality.
At the time, the Dreamcast seemed a generation ahead of the competition, I’m still in disbelief that it failed
It was mainly the fact that the games could easily be copied by anybody with a decent CD burner.
Shortly after a game dropped, a guy would come around my work selling shady copies on cdr in jewel cases with bubble jet printed covers for $20.
Can’t sell a system if nobody is buying games.
Also, had a buddy that used a bootloader on it to watch downloaded anime back when only the must mainstream stuff was available in the West.
If it had two sticks and a DVD drive, it would have been really great. But they stuck with the kinda dumb Saturn layout, despite the Dual Shock being out for a couple years at that point. The keyboard and mouse support was an awesome addition, but a dual analog controller would have been awesome.
It just occurred to me that this meme needs like 2 modifications to be about Paul Atreides
Still gets to be a force ghost for some reason
so did Anakin the Orphan Crushing Machine, the bar for entry seems to be somewhere between normies and force-choking your babymom
He’s not in trouble at all. Now… We should be able to take a little child blood without consent on sand world.
He’s like of the first ever force ghosts. He’s REALLY good at it.
Qui-Gon: Credits will do fine. [while attempting a mind trick]
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: Credits WILL do fine.
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: [Walks down street to money exchanger] Trade me these credits for Hutt bucks [Does mind trick]
Money Exchanger: Okay!
[Qui-Gon returns to Watto]
Qui-Gon: Here’s a pile of Hutt bucks. Sell me a functional hyperdrive.
Watto: Okay!
[Roll credits]
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.
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Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else’s problem.
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Selling an obvious narc deathsticks? Yeah, maybe going home and rethinking your life is the right call here.
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Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.
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.
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
“Yeah, sure, whatever you say, man. I just work here.”
Look, they pay them to man the checkpoint. They don’t pay them enough to deeply care about every benign person passing through…
“I’m not even supposed to be here today!”
And stormtroopers are supposed to be very disciplined and resistant to bribery.
Resistant to bribery, yes. Not resistant to light sabers.
Look dude I’m just here on bring your clone to work day
Is it a bad deal though? Are credits worthless to money changers in this context?
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
That’s not a bad explanation.
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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Wait why do they need to mind trick a money exchanger? Isn’t it just their job to exchange money? You just need to hand them the credits. OK maybe you’ll get gouged on the exchange rate but it’s not like they were poor. Alternatively I’m sure there’s something of value on a fancy vessel that they could just sell.
They didn’t need to mind trick the money exchanger, they just did it cause it’s fun mind trick hand wave
Why not just trade the fancy vessel for a less fancy but functional vessel. I’m sure the queen could afford it.
My boss would not appreciate me swapping a company car for a beat up prius. Imagine Mace Windu’s scowl
Isn’t the ship the queen’s? It’s a Naboo diplomatic ship.
Ope yeah. Its been a while🤦♂️
Doesn’t matter. Mace Windu can still scowl.
Fuckers were trying to stop a planet blockade, you guys, someone could have been blockading our planet for billions of years and we’d only have noticed this week.
Just for shits and giggles
Yeah… why the fuck didn’t he do that? I mean the place he was in was hosting a giant ass pod racing championship with tons of visitors, are you expecting us to believe that no one would appreciate republic credits there?
It would be like if you time traveled to 2001 and tried to spend USD with some drug dealer in some backwater country and they laughed in your face… are you kidding me? USD then and now (though it might be in decline) is often preferred to local currency.
The Republic in ep 1 is about to get in a war with the Trade Federation over taxes. If a group of space traders think they can win a fight against the galactic government, then maybe the economy is poor and Republic credits aren’t trusted.
Not in Episode 1… that war wouldn’t start until many, many years later. At that time it was a highly localized trade dispute that even the Jedi didn’t think was that big of a deal until they tried to kill them.
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Child endangerment is the Jedi way.
That’s why they are given laser swords that can cut through anything at age six!
they are given laser swords
You mean those kids didn’t go through the Jedi ritual of constructing their own lightsabers? What has happened to our cherished traditions?!
Palps strip mined Ilum so it’s probably better that we don’t send younglings there any more.
Ah yes because Dantooine and it’s fucked up dark side giant cave spiders is so much better.
At least before the fall of the republic, it was apparently common for Jedi Padawans to be locked in a cave to face a trial against their deepest fear to get a Kyber Crystal to even make their lightsaber in the first place. If they failed to conquer their fear, they died.
Edit: apparently they don’t die per se, but are meant to believe they will and also if they fail, they might be stuck there. It’s weird and still not ethical
Disney happened, that’s what.
You want those younglings to be defenseless against the Jedi that kill them with their laser sword?
The only thing that can stop a bad Jedi with a laser sword is a good Jedi with a laser sword
What about a medium jedi with a bunch of Jim’s Cole Slaw
Don’t forget blindfolding them while they use their laser swords
Anything aged six too!
Hey oooooooooo
Training swords! They just sting like a bitch. They don’t make their own until well later.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much space-weed do you reckon Qui-Gon Jinn smokes in a given day?
12 parsecs
Yes.
You don’t get that hair from smoking cigarettes.
About 27.3.
I think you mean about 42.0
Even Master Yoda doesn’t have a space weed count that high!
I believe he could be the stoner of legend, that he is the one who will finally bring balance to the clouds with the perfect THC/CBD ratio.
That’s only because he swaps between drugs to avoid building tolerance.
Yes, because the Hutts would be totally cool with a couple of Jedi rolling up to their gambling dens and blatantly cheating for several hours. Screwing over one random used car salesman on a single bet is much easier to get away with.
Not to mention the whole “he could be the chosen one” angle, at which point freeing Anakin was just as important to Qui-Gon as getting off-planet.
…Me? Overthinking a silly meme? Noooo…
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:-).
Canonically the actual gamble was qui-gon vs Darth maul. If qui-gon had lived, the universe would have been fine. But he lost, so it was doomed.
The force on star wars is weird, because if you’re strong enough in the force things are basically fated.
Anyway, that’s the long reason why the background music during that fight is called “The Duel of Fates”.
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?
While that’s all a good question and thought provoking… unfortunately it’s literally just word of god that if Qui-Gon won, the light would win.
A common problem in Star Wars- the fans have put waaaay more thought and worldbuilding into it than Lucas ever did.
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 still hold that an Anakin did exactly what he was destined to do. At the end of the 3rd move he destroys the Jedi. A light side exploiting dogmatic order that had, at the time, near total monopoly on force sensitivity in the galaxy. At the end of the 6th movie, he kills palpatine and dies himself. Thus ending the reign of the sith. This leaves only Luke, who never completed his training to be a true Jedi and was not above force choking people and allowing worldly attachment to sway him but is also generally good aligned.
No light, no dark, just folks. Perfectly balanced.
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!)
Calvin’s dad says it builds character.
He could’ve just put Renton on the game.
Crap fanfiction!
The Prequels, I mean.
Makes me so angry. Imagine the plot of the prequels but written and produced like Andor.
And don’t imagine the sequels at all.
That’s fair. But alas.
Better than 7-9.
Sad isn’t it
Ok grandma let’s get you to bed
Take your blasted midichlorians and your ridiculous child actor and get off my greatest film of human history!
*grumble* *fuss*
