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Jedi must live by a code

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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.
  Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else's problem.
  Selling an obvious narc deathsticks? Yeah, maybe going home and rethinking your life is the right call here.
  Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.
  
  "These aren't the droids you're looking for."
  "Yeah, sure, whatever you say, man. I just work here."
  
  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.
  
  Is it a bad deal though? Are credits worthless to money changers in this context?
- 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.
  
  Why not just trade the fancy vessel for a less fancy but functional vessel. I'm sure the queen could afford it.
  
  They didn't need to mind trick the money exchanger, they just did it cause it's fun mind trick hand wave
  
  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.

- 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 like of the first ever force ghosts. He's REALLY good at it.
  
  He's not in trouble at all. Now... We should be able to take a little child blood without consent on sand world.
- It just occurred to me that this meme needs like 2 modifications to be about Paul Atreides

Why is Qui-Gon replying with "made in mematic"
- He's so strong he can break the fourth wall.
- He did too many midichlorians

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.
  
  Disney happened, that's what.
  
  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
- 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
- Don’t forget blindfolding them while they use their laser swords
- Training swords! They just sting like a bitch. They don’t make their own until well later.
- Anything aged six too!
  
  Hey oooooooooo

And then he still cheats by force manipulating the dice.

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 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 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
  
  Hell yes it was.
  
  I've never played any Star Wars game, I just knew this bit of trivia

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?)
- "No? Oh well, I didn't want her anyway, she'll just cause trouble along the way. But that way I can trick the boy into thinking I did everything I could."

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!'

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much space-weed do you reckon Qui-Gon Jinn smokes in a given day?

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.

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".

Calvin's dad says it builds character.

The hell is a Palawan
- It's a humorous way of saying he's his apprentice AND his friend!
  
  This is canon now, great answer 😄
- @TastyWheat @ThePicardManeuver It's a jelly in training
- It’s a beautiful island! - me, someone in Palawan right now :-)
  
  I now know more about the Philippines

We have half a movie to fill with padding, Padawan

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*

"Exactly. This is why I am the master, Obi-Wan. You have a lot to learn about the ways of the Force."

Even the people who don't kidnap children to survive aren't exactly concerned with safety in this galaxy.

He could’ve just put Renton on the game.

Honestly the original scene was real shit. Obi-Wan is Qui-Gon's apprentice, he's not about to point out how Qui-Gon's plan is just bad.

Would then being Jedi mean they could sense when the cards are about to change values?

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