Star Wars and Wizards. A nerdy treatise...

[ps238principal]

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[red_tailed_hawk]

One reason touched upon a bit in some extra material is that Jedi are prohibited from marriage for the reason that they don't want to form close attachments(attachment leads to fear of loss, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering and the Dark Side).

They also don't want to form Jedi 'dynasties', where a single strong Force-sensitive bloodline can come to begin dominating the Jedi order simply by consistently producing Jedi-caliber descendants.

(It's notable that Ki Adi Mundi, a Jedi Master in the prequels, was given dispensation to marry several wives due to the low number of individuals of his species.)

[kevinbunny]

The Geek is strong with this one.

[vulpisfoxfire]

Like the Skywalker lineage eventually does, you mean? ;-)

[red_tailed_hawk]

Yup, that's exactly what they were trying to prevent. :>

[lurkerwithout]

Oh good, I was worried I was the last Dresden fan to have his brain broken by the end of "Changes"...

[kishi]

One of my friends hasn't finished reading it yet. Both my wife and I have had to bite our tongues from saying things that would give away too much.

I've resorted to making up obviously false spoilers to tell her, like "Harry figured out that Merlin was secretly the Red King all along, so Harry totally punched him into the sun."

[killiara]

It's been 24 hours and I'm still whimpering and screaming in my head over that book.
http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/

Also, knowing how much Dresden loves to quote Star Wars, his reaction to the picture above would be "Hell yeah, GIMME!"

[kishi]

The more I think on the ending, the more I grow to love it.

Though there was sputtered profanity towards Butcher when I first read it. =)

[kevinbunny]

Douglas Adams had a book, 'The Meaning Of Liff', in which various towns and locations in the UK were given definitions. The town of Weems was defined as 'A collection of dreadful-looking dental instruments'.

Thunt (of Goblins) is six flavors of awesome on toast. He should probably submit this to the 429 Eater forums, if he hasn't already...

[merryharper]

I had that book! I still use Woking, "Standing in the kitchen wondering what the hell you came in here for."

[ps238principal]

And I thought my copy of a dirty limerick book by Isaac Asimov was a treasure. I need to add that volume, methinks.

[cjthomas]

The console prototype page was fascinating reading. I still have fond memories of "Dactyl Nightmare", so it was interesting to hear of a video game system that'd planned similar capabilities.

[makabriel]

Being cursed with stubborn teeth as a child and weak enamel as an adult, I've always said that we could do away with all forms of torture. All one needs to do is bring in a dentist to work on the "patient" without any form of anesthesia..

[ps238principal]

Oh, there's a scene from a movie called "Marathon Man" that would probably fit the bill.

They played the audio portion once on the radio and that was quite enough to make the rest of the day a bit of a blur.