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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.

Technical note: if you're coming from another star system and are getting a "Subscription pending" message when trying to dock, that's just the console being slow to display the right message. The connection is already established. (Probably.)

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IMPORTANT

Do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Special days!

Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.

Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.

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Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!risa@startrek.website

Separatist systems:

!didyoueverhear@lemmy.world

!prequelmemes@lemmy.ml

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

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

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwars@lemmy.world

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Prequels weren't great, but they were decent. I'd recommend watching them.

There is a lot to live up to being prequels. People going to judge harshly.

7-8 were just plain bad, I enjoy Star Wars stuff a bunch. I like the prequels more than most I feel. I don't even have one single care to watch the 9th.

I doubt it will change in 10 years.

Memes, sure, but they will be only how bad they suck. People who meme about the prequels usually enjoyed them at least a little.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I love giving first time watchers the machete watching order. Watch episode 4 and 5, and then watch 2 and 3 to give Vader some backstory after he reveals that he's Luke's dad. Then cap it off with episode 6 as the conclusion for Luke's and Anakin's story.

Or I can start with Rogue One. I know one of my friends became a fan after watching Rogue One.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My new favorite order is been Rogue One, 4, 5, then 1, 2, and 3 of the Hal 9000 edits, then 6. The fan edits are generally a little shorter, so the watching them all between 5 and 6 is less of a slog than the original 1, 2, and 3.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The prequels are bad. The third one started getting it right, but then they were done.

They had good ideas to expand the Star Wars lore, but bad acting and bad writing ruined them.

I actually prefer the sequels, but imo The Mandalorian is the best Star Wars project to date.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

but imo The Mandalorian is the best Star Wars project to date.

You spelled Andor wrong.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Taste is subjective and mine is terrible :p

[–] Glemek@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The mANDalORian

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

May I introduce you to Knights of the old republic 1 and 2 and the extened media projects?

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah those were great. I wasn’t counting games and comics and stuff

[–] uSpetzWon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

8 killed Star Wars for me. I don't think I will ever watch the 9. Or what ever cash grabs they try next.