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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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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):
!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:
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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.
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We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
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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!
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.
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If I had a talking appliance, with a unique name and a personality, I'd probably remember it. If someone tried to sell you an old game console, and it had your gamertag saved on it, you'd probably recognize it. Or maybe you named your first car, and 20 years later someone tried to sell you the same model and mentioned it was called Cecilia, you'd be like "I used to have a Honda Civic named Cecilia! What a coincidence!"
Again, you're making droids a bigger deal than they are in Star Wars. To us they're characters. To them they're toasters.
You're being down voted, but you're absolutely right. More characters are shown straight up ignoring the droids except when they need their function than talking to them like people. Even Anakin himself doesn't seem to regard 3P0 as a friend, or even as valuable, once he grows up a bit.
That's not how humans work though. Just look at how people get worked up over ChatGPT conversations or romantic relationships with Replika. So at best, the Star Wars characters are not credible.
The Star Wars characters are from a galaxy far, far away. Are they even human, or just human in appearance?
I'm really not. I'm using appliances in my examples. If your toaster had a name and a personality and you had to ask it to make you toast every day, you'd probably recognize it if it showed up 30 years later, even if it was now gold instead of gray.
That name and personality is like the name and personality of siri or google assistant. I wouldn't be able to differentiate my old note 10 in a stack of SM-N970U's even if the assistant on it remmebers my preferences on news feed and autocorrect words and whatever. Even the wallpaper may be a default and stuff like that.
But everyone has the same siri or google assistant. Droid designations are relatively unique.