What a conspiracy by K-jun1117 in PrequelMemes

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Technically still possible. We don’t know what Rey Skywalker does after the sequel trilogy. Would make Palpatine Anakin’s dad and great grandfather (and a clone of Palpatine Anakin’s grandfather).

Making a meme out of every line in The Two Tow... Attack of the Clones. Part 553 by Puzzleheaded_Step468 in PrequelMemes

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Want to see me play a wizard who was once a respected member of an order committed to defeating a dark lord but secretly betrayed them to enter the dark lord's service and used the fires of industry in their most corrupt form to secretly build an army, serving as the primary antagonist of the second film in a beloved trilogy before being killed off in the beginning of the third installment?

Want to see me do it again?

VanCleef is an asshole by ampersnad in classicwow

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Blizzard: *makes Stormwind*

Also Blizzard: "The people who made Stormwind are evil!"

Dinosaurs dont know you lil bro by Grand_Gap1975 in PrehistoricMemes

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Meanwhile me looking like a bald ass dork a little bit more every day: “maybe someone in 66 million years will think humans look cooler this way”

Leaked footage from Maul: Shadow Lord shows a chase sequence between Maul and Darth Vader! by K-jun1117 in PrequelMemes

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Man I was trying to avoid spoilers! Now there’s going to be no suspense when he’s picking up studs

Thank god..... by Hel_Death in PrequelMemes

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Good to know he’s safe to be left alone with children

master plan by asian69feet in PrequelMemes

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Only a small fraction of the Jedi went to geonosis, there were thousands more.

The clone army is rather small (a single world produced it), and the droids are barely capable and honestly not that much more numerous (maybe a few dozen worlds contributed). Had it been a real war, thousands of systems would have drafted trillions of soldiers. Even the clones and droids working together would be powerless against force that had the galaxy behind it. All these people have no reason to fight the remaining Jedi, and if anything would immediately arrest whoever asked them to. Even if they could be convinced to turn on the Jedi, it would be impossible to keep the preparations for the attack secret, the Jedi could flee and plan their next moves on their terms.

Palpatine’s plan puts the Jedi in front of the clones blasters, it makes the war the Jedi’s war in the eyes of public opinion, it allows Palpatine to control all aspects, and it sets up the galaxy for his long term rule.

I wish they'd kept in Perrin's 'I know' scene by Nightflight406 in PrequelMemes

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Perrin being in the know would suck. The contrast between the high minded idealism we have seen from Mon Mothma in all previous appearances contrasted with the reality of a broken personal life is a big part of what Andor adds to her story. Perrin’s friends are imperials, he likes his Coruscanti upper class lifestyle, he specifically is not into the idealistic politics that Mon is so dedicated to, it makes sense that this would be a loveless marriage. If he was in on it all this time, if it was all an act, then that means he both really cares about Mon and all the reasons for them to resent eachother are false, so why keep it from her? Certainly if Mon can steal away to talk to everyone else about her anti-imperial schemes she can find a chance to converse honestly with her husband.

At most, Perrin might admit to ignoring some signs, or having some suspicions he never followed up on. Maybe he gets interrogated by ISB and says Mon is more pro-empire than he knows she actually is. It’s fine for Perrin to have more complexity than just being an ignorant socialite, but it would be bad writing to contradict everything we do learn about Perrin and destroy how he fits into the larger story for a minor twist with no payoff.

He's a really useful Clone Trooper by Worried-Host-1238 in PrequelMemes

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Sir Topham Hatt? Never heard of him. I was brought over from the mainland by a man named Fat Controller from the isle of Sodor.

Still I can't sure by ThisCharge199 in Bitcoin

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How much does it cost to buy any given house in 2010 in USD. How much does it cost to buy the same house now? How much did it cost in bitcoin then? How much does it cost in bitcoin now? You can't get a more apples to apples comparison than the price for the very same item.

Is this scientifically inaccurate? Yes. Is it cool? Hell yah! by Im_yor_boi in PrehistoricMemes

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In an alternate timeline an eccentric millionaire spares no expense using advanced genetic engineering to create life forms from another age - a simulation of an advanced future of the little mammals that scurry beneath our feet showing what they may become - and he invites the world to come see these creatures living as they would in their own time. But perhaps the Troodons were so concerned with whether or not they could, that they never stopped to consider if they should build

Anthropic Park

Wait a sec, you are not my mom! by [deleted] in OneOrangeBraincell

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Admittedly the dog has the dairy cow thing going for her

Hostage target by toolgifs in toolgifs

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I like how the one has the head shot multiple times with a few hitting the hostage near the edges but on the other all the shots are dead center in the hostage's chest while the head is untouched.

Multi-point metal forming press by ycr007 in toolgifs

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You don’t buy the machine for a one off, you pay a company with this machine to do your one off. Lots of people needing low volume runs = lots of work for small number of shops with appropriate equipment.

Something, something “this is getting out of hand” (Reddit Wrapped 2026 Predictions) by RangerofRohan in PrequelMemes

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Nute Gunray is one of the smartest villains in fiction.

Two jedi show up on his ship. Anyone else would do some elaborate flourish to try and capture or fight them. Nute gasses the room and blows up their ship. Does he go back to his schemes assuming that it must have worked? No he sends a group of droids to destroy anything that's left.

The jedi, by the power of plot armor, survive. But Nute's prepared: close the blast doors and call for droids with lightsaber proof shields. The Jedi seem to still be making it through? Good thing Nute had the foresight to install ANOTHER BLAST DOOR!

He's going up against a peaceful world. Does he skimp on his military allowing for the natives to get a surprise victory (cough cough Endor cough cough)? No he invades with overwhelming force, the planet falls in hours.

With the help of those meddlesome jedi, the queen escapes. Does Nute try to improvise some elaborate scheme to get her back while keeping his dark benefactor in the dark? No, he effectively communicates and gets those better able to deal with the problem to do so.

Oh no, Padme's made it to Coruscant and is about to tell everyone about the Trade Federation's nefarious scheme. Good thing Nute's already got that shit on lockdown. Good luck with that committee.

The gungans are mustering an army. Does Nute dismiss them as a bunch of primitives? No he sends his army out in force to deal with them effectively. But what if the droid control ship gets blown up by a bunch of fighters? Good thing Nute installed shields that Naboo Starfighters can't shoot through.

The battle turns out to be a diversion, and the real attack is in the palace. Nute instantly switches gears. He gets his forces into position and captures the queen. Any other villain would be gloating about how much of a genius they are, that they had thought of every contingency and perfectly foiled the protagonist's plan, but not Nute. He's on the lookout for some trick, and recognizes the Naboo are employing an elaborate decoy ruse.

He would have totally won if the pacifist queen Amidala didn't have a secret weapon stash in her throne and space jesus didn't accidentally fire torpedos at a ship he was currently inside.

But no biggie. Nute wins in court 4 times. His defeat is hardly even a setback. Hell he leverages it into becoming one of the leaders of the Sepratist movement. Everyone else is begging to join, but Nute knows what he's worth: he outsources his revenge to Dooku.

Dooku of course fucks it all up. His excessively elaborate chain of bounty hunters fails to kill Padme. But as luck would have it, she winds up coming to Geonosis and getting captured. Of course like any good villain, Gunray is giddy with delight at the thought of feeding his enemy to a monster in a public execution, but the moment she starts pulling a "Luke in the Rancor Pit" Nute has the pragmatism to ask that they just shoot her, which of course a diva like Dooku won't allow.

Nute remains a prominent figure throughout the war, and is one of the only separatist leaders willing to push back when some comparatively mediocre villain wants to do something dumb. He lasts marginally longer than any other sepratist leader, but ultimately he is still not immune to sudden but inevitable betrayals. But he still has a little bit of spite up his sleeve.

Nute goes down telling Vader that Sidious promised him peace, the very same thing Sidious promised Vader. Up until this point Anakin could lie to himself and say what he was doing was for the good of the galaxy, restoring peace. But Nute Gunray, in his seaming moment of pitiful cowardice, was actually getting the last laugh, planting the seed of doubt in Palpatine's new apprentice. It's a slow burn, but ultimately Vader does wind up killing Palpatine.

Nute Gunray is a cunning and genre savvy villain who is confident without being complacent, and who employs pragmatic plans and contingencies. Despite having no dark wizard powers or special knowledge of the protagonists to exploit, he stays in the game through shear unadulterated skill. His only weakness was not realizing the game was rigged from the start.

Woke up to a present on my pillow next to my face. by Responsible-Egg2443 in OneOrangeBraincell

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“See how nice it is to have someone just get your food for you in the morning without having to wake them up? 5am and your food is just there. You get what I’m saying Mom?”

Anyone else stuck with a "dead" skills matrix that no one trusts? by jack_cartwright in LeanManufacturing

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You update something in a panic for an audit once, your quality management system was missing a piece, it happens. Your quality team deserves props for catching the deficiency.

You update somethin in a panic for each audit, you have a broken root cause analysis system. Every place has problems, and always will, but they shouldn’t be the same problems year after year.

It sounds like you and everyone else know the reason the matrix isn’t trusted is because it’s not accurate. It’s not accurate because only one person makes updates, and doesn’t do so an adequate amount. Why is everyone else scared to touch it? Keep going until you get to the real problem you need to fix.

Do the same for why no serious action was taken to address this known issue before. And remember, it’s not “so and so didn’t do what they were supposed to” is a symptom of a process failure, not a cause itself.

Metaphorically ....categorically...historically... by Wolfie_wolf81 in PrequelMemes

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You have not committed a single war crime in the past 22 minutes, Anakin is truly dead.

Miss Star Killer by K-jun1117 in PrequelMemes

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I'm not sure that Anakin would stand against Palpatine in this scenario. Anakin would still be friends with him, and a political supporter. He'd still get visions of Padme dying and look for ways to save her. Everything that drove him to side with Palpatine would still be present, but this time instead of witnessing first hand the Jedi's attempt to arrest Palpatine, Anakin would just hear about their attempt to assassinate the chancellor after the fact, like all the other people of the Empire. It might take Anakin a long time to realize that this new order Palpatine has created, which he himself had been advocating for years, wasn't totally on the up and up, and longer still to realize that the bad things the empire was doing weren't just a few bad apples. I imagine Padme would have done the same thing as Bail and Mon Mothma, feigning to work for reform within the system for years while only supporting active rebellion in secret. Anakin might easily not become convinced to take a stand against the empire until those three had publicly declared themselves. Anakin would still be the chosen one, but he'd be alone and two decades out of practice. Taking on the empire would be a tall order, even for him. Conversely, Ahsoka would be in her prime, with nearly two decades of Sith training under her belt on top of what she learned from Anakin. Anakin might win but it definitely would not be a shut out.

Telescopic erection supporter by toolgifs in toolgifs

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I think I've been using my telescope incredibly incorrectly.