• Makan ☭ CPUSA
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            41 year ago

            Quite the coincidence… but also a likely coincidence, imho.

            I mean, a lot of Star Wars names during the “Legends era” of novels were basically coming through a “name generator”-style of, well, naming characters (which I never liked, tbh).

            And, not to disrespect Albania or anything, but for English-first speakers, Enver Hoxha sounds random enough for an English-speaking author to come up with and probably is.

            Hell, some words and names in English are ironic and weird when said in Chinese as well; you get sound equivalents too, though Chinese/English may not be the comparison to make in that regard.

            • I don’t think he came with it, he probably just really used name generator from internet, and those are wildly varying in quality. Especially for Star Wars which always at least tried to not have Earth names for people.

              • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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                11 year ago

                I hated that.

                I like Earth names in my Star Wars.

                Or even those goofy names that clearly meant something.

                Names like “Borsk Fey’lya” never did it for me.

                IMHO.

                • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlOP
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                  1 year ago

                  I like it, i only don’t like inconsequences when some people do have Earth names. Although it naturally pose narration challenges, but even at worst it’s still way better than the Rowling naming sense. Also it’s fitting for Star Wars where even humans never lived on Earth (long ago, galaxy far far away etc. same thing was done in the Culture) and the mainstream galctic culture (most of what we see no matter the species belong to it) is largely uniform and it took 20000 years to reach that state. Note some cultures like Hutts do have distinct naming.

  • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    41 year ago

    On the one hand - very cool. On the other hand - the Jedi are a cult in cahoots with a deeply corrupt oligarchy that steals children and turns a blind eye to rampant slavery in the outer rim

    • I have sith Stalin too

      He would not be either though. Force, if real and existing, would be compatible with dialectical materialism and used not as a base of some esoteric imperialist sect or raging ancap nihilism, but for the liberation of galactic proletariat.