• tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    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.

    • Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        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

    • Uli@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”

      “Yeah, sure, whatever you say, man. I just work here.”