Wouldn't that depend on your interpretation of The Prophecy, with someone (perhaps Anakin? perhaps Luke rather? perhaps Leia's 3rd son Anakin?) slated to "bring balance to the force"?
Though again, was that Anakin who helped Palpatine overthrow a corrupt and dying democracy (never you mind what it got replaced with...)
Or was it rather his son Luke who then overthrew that, allowing the cycle of death and decay and authoritarianism and then revolution to restart? Or, throwing it back was it rather Anakin but for a different reason (more locally minded to concerns directly related to force-users) since he overturned the corrupt establishment not of the Old Republic but of the Jedi Order itself, which had perverted its original intention by allowing themselves to get suckered into helping the rich stay rich and sticking it to the poor i.e. "defending the status quo", ignoring things like slavery while stopping things like robbery of the existing oligarchy?
Is "balance" a good thing? Although conversely, can anything in nature exist without it (bc of entropy or whatever)?
(And above I was entirely ignoring here the ass whooping handed out by the Yuuzhan Vong, but yeah that still works too: by overthrowing the Empire Luke restored the Republic to the cycle of conquer or be conquered, i.e. "balanced" in that manner of being animals that exist within the constraints of the natural order rather than perched on top of it.)
All of which is to say that while nothing is ever guaranteed in life, except the Force, Qui-Gon knew that the lad was somehow important, though for what... who could say.
Maybe we here though can say that it wasn't Obi-Wan that wanted to "gamble", with the assurances of a force-assisted victory, but rather it was Qui-Gon who wanted to gamble for real?
Some people seem to think that, usually people who do not research things for themselves.
Separately it gets a bit complicated bc it really is healthier for people to be distributed more across a network as opposed to all being on the same node.
Both of these groups push for people to consider leaving lemmy.world, but for entirely different underlying reasons.
That seems to me to be akin to saying that you would like everyone to use Windows? Or less insultingly, only a single distro of Linux:-). Indeed, not everything needs to be a competition, but if someone wants to write code and make a better thing, and then turn around and allow everyone else to use it for free, then I for one am all for that!
But I do see your point, e.g. in how there are all these apps, making it confusing how people will view content when they differ in even fundamental things like how images are displayed or markdown syntax. It seems just the nature of the world, even FOSS where new features could theoretically be applied to all apps, if only people weren't as lazy, as to e.g. not integrate the new freely offered feature, or to continue to use an app long after it ceases to be updated routinely by its cohort of devs.
Using Boost I don't know. But I use the markdown syntax, so I put an exclamation mark, then square brackets (any helpful alternative text goes there, in case the image won't load or for screen readers like for blind people), then the image URL goes into curved parentheses. It's super annoying to type it all out, but I love the gifs so...
And let's see if I can display the above in a code block...
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:-).
Use of PieFed is optional though, only for those who want it?
Though as app support improves, like Voyager, more people may choose it to take advantage of features that Lemmy lacks. The list is quite extensive but includes categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable, flairs, both user and post/community, hashtags, keyword filters, true blocking of instances, and so much more. Plus being written in Python, that list will only continue to be added to as time passes, taking days to weeks to add them rather than years.
Mbin? Its largest instance iirc is fedia.io, which accesses both "Threads" (Threadiverse, so like Lemmy, PieFed, other Mbin instances, nodeBB, etc.) and "Microblog" (Mastodon).
That's neat! Technically you can see videos from the Threadiverse as well but I'm guessing that whole process is streamlined in Mastodon, and I am not aware of any such short-form video communities here.
Unfortunately, videos on Lemmy auto-play, including those WITH SOUND!!:-(
Example:
Oh neat, PieFed still auto-plays but mutes the sound, I love PieFed so freaking much! 🥰
Edit: sorry I should have warned about the political-themed content of the video - it was just the easiest one to grab, unfortunately:-(.
Edit 2: you can also upload videos as well, here is an example of that:
Thanks for the update - it looks like I need to stop spreading misinformation. Sigh, and Loops as well - people like to generate all this excitement but actually delivering is a whole other matter:-(.
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Wouldn't that depend on your interpretation of The Prophecy, with someone (perhaps Anakin? perhaps Luke rather? perhaps Leia's 3rd son Anakin?) slated to "bring balance to the force"?
Though again, was that Anakin who helped Palpatine overthrow a corrupt and dying democracy (never you mind what it got replaced with...)
Or was it rather his son Luke who then overthrew that, allowing the cycle of death and decay and authoritarianism and then revolution to restart? Or, throwing it back was it rather Anakin but for a different reason (more locally minded to concerns directly related to force-users) since he overturned the corrupt establishment not of the Old Republic but of the Jedi Order itself, which had perverted its original intention by allowing themselves to get suckered into helping the rich stay rich and sticking it to the poor i.e. "defending the status quo", ignoring things like slavery while stopping things like robbery of the existing oligarchy?
Is "balance" a good thing? Although conversely, can anything in nature exist without it (bc of entropy or whatever)?
(And above I was entirely ignoring here the ass whooping handed out by the Yuuzhan Vong, but yeah that still works too: by overthrowing the Empire Luke restored the Republic to the cycle of conquer or be conquered, i.e. "balanced" in that manner of being animals that exist within the constraints of the natural order rather than perched on top of it.)
All of which is to say that while nothing is ever guaranteed in life, except the Force, Qui-Gon knew that the lad was somehow important, though for what... who could say.
Maybe we here though can say that it wasn't Obi-Wan that wanted to "gamble", with the assurances of a force-assisted victory, but rather it was Qui-Gon who wanted to gamble for real?