{"id":4053,"date":"2019-11-05T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2019-11-05T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:45:55","slug":"an_elegant_weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/an_elegant_weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"An Elegant Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If there was another moment that blew my mind when I was first saw Star Wars<\/em> when I was 10 years old, it was this scene:<\/p>\n

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Actually, it challenged my brain more than blew my mind.<\/p>\n

HOW WAS SUCH A WEAPON POSSIBLE?!?!<\/p>\n

I didn’t recall seeing a laser sword of any kind up to that point in my limited viewing of science fiction material.<\/p>\n

That’s probably when I realized just how advanced things were in a galaxy far, far away.<\/p>\n

Well, and droids.\u00a0 And spaceships.<\/p>\n

But a lightsaber?<\/p>\n

Probably one of the reasons I identified with Han instead of Luke.<\/p>\n

Ranged combat vs. Melee combat.<\/p>\n

Which carries over to this day, preferring a blaster to a scrapper in City of Heroes, for example.<\/p>\n

I’m continually, subconsciously influenced by a movie from 1977.<\/p>\n

Though nowadays I do prefer to play a paladin-type.\u00a0 Not quite a Jedi, but close.<\/p>\n

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If there was another moment that blew my mind when I was first saw Star Wars when I was 10 years old, it was this scene: Actually, it challenged my brain more than blew my mind. HOW WAS SUCH A WEAPON POSSIBLE?!?! I didn’t recall seeing a laser sword of any kind up to that … <\/p>\n

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