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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!tenforward@lemmy.world

Separatist systems:

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

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Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always felt the poor information sharing in Star Wars contributed strongly to the universe being so interesting. Usually people would get on a spaceship and fly to another planet to learn something new. A lot of secret info being passed around on USB equivalents. Anything they have coming close to an internet sucks and is going down constantly. If one of them has a walkie talkie then it has no other functions, and will probably stop working mid mission.

My point being that the second Anakin left Tattooine, no one who knew him probably ever heard about him again. Hell, in the original Star Wars movie they made it seem like Vader himself wasn’t even well known to the common people.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I thought the issue is that wireless transmission can only go the speed of light, which is incredibly slow on galactic scales. Interstellar communication generally relies on ships transporting that data through hyperspace.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Could be true, but they have hologram communicators that work on an interstellar scale in real time. Technology is just weirdly lopsided in general there, I like it.

[–] Aqivex@fedinsfw.app 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the current (and best imo) 'retconned' explanation. It's been the one the series has kinda quietly operated under for a while, and when you have the rest of the tech in the plot play along with the paradigm, it works well.

I know Star Wars Outlaws got a lot of (deserved) flak, but the way the technology worked in the background of the setting was a master class in utilizing this paradigm.

Basically, the Wild West spirit has always been a part of SW. They literally operate under 'The Pony Express' rules as it comes to information dissemination, to spread the news out to all the disparate ~~homesteads~~ planets out in the big expansive ~~praire~~ space.

Yeah, thinking about it, there’s a lot of examples of interstellar wireless communication, though it seems very limited, spotty, and often traceable (which is why the Rebellion is always delivering by hand).

[–] saimen@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Couldn't you just send only light/information through hyperspace?

Canonically, physics works differently in hyperspace, so idk.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 1 day ago

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