Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

amusing as this is, I can't imagine the democrats doing much better.

 

To be fair, if you did that poll in any country there'd be that ~30% of people who didn't recognize imaginary countries from real ones.
In some countries it could be more than 30%.

But what really puzzled me personally was if there were people who knew Agraba but they just thought that Aladdin is a douche and wanted to bomb him. Because, he rose to nobility from the streets and nothing was done to improve the conditions of the poor. He's too busy riding elephants and flying with magic carpets while wooing the hot princess to give a flying fuck about the starving children.

 

Don't worry, you're still one of my favorites. After Dihm.

 

not a bad read.

http://www.gamesradar.com/george-lu...ct-prequel-trilogy-he-just-didnt-seem-notice/

also that article has nothing to do with episode 7 so no spoilers.

you could also say anakin did bring balance by saying he destroyed the jedi and the sith by having luke. anakin himself destroyed the jedi and luke destroyed the sith. so balance. neither extreme is around.

 

Yoda foreshadowed this in episode 3 when he noted Anakin would bring balance in a way nobody expected. Obi Wan was very naive when he thought Jedi could rule supreme over the Sith, tipping the balance. Ironically, pride was the downfall of both the Jedi and the Sith.

 

yeah, ive always said the prequel trilogy had an amazing story that was marred by shitty dialogue and undercut by lucas's desire for marketing toys (enter jar jar)

also always struck me that the jedi spoke of anakin bringing balance to the force when they clearly had the upper hand in terms of control over the force users with their temple and legions of knights vs only a tiny handful of dark side devotees. pretty sure somebody wasn't taking an objective look at the balancing of light vs dark when they were all excited about leveling out the scales...

good read though, well written

 

"Gift Exchange"

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZPxgN

 

Yes, he said "a prophecy that misread could have been" to Mace Windu.

I suppose it was one of those things everyone assumes resolved ages ago that everyone takes for granted while a very few Jedi start to have second thoughts about it that they don't voice in public because they would undermine a cornerstone of their beliefs and such confusion without something more concrete could cause confusion and fear among Jedi - things they kind of try to avoid.

 

Got damn idiots, the Jedi were.

 

The Aztecs and everyone around them didn't know siege warfare and their warfare traditions led them to perfect non-lethal weapons.





That doesn't mean that Aztecs weren't smart, that they didn't master great arts, astronomy and develop advanced architecture and technology for their age.

We are all bound by our social context and culture. It is incredibly hard to see past that, even the greatest thinkers fall to folly and can't see beyond their limitations.

You think you have a good thing going and then aliens show up with unprecedented forms of warfare that have only ever been theorized in fantasy and that no one took seriously.

This is how entire civilizations can be wrong without being stupid.

 

When you have completely stomped your opponent into virtual extinction and a prophecy says someone is going to come and bring balance to your struggle, I find it hard to believe that you'd interpret it as meaning you're were going to stomp your opponent even harder than before.

 

so many bowl cuts.