Don't Miss Chewbacca's Galaxy-Trotting Documentary on Free-Market Economics

May the market forces be with you.

Just in time for the holidays, The Star Wars Libertarian Special features Senate filibusters, border patrol stops, eminent domain, a guest appearance by Edward Snowden, and rarely seen footage from Chewbacca's galaxy-trotting documentary series about free-market economics.

This parody is not affiliated with the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), though you should watch it if you haven't already.

About 3 minutes. Written by Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, and Andrew Heaton.

(This video was originally released on December 4, 2015.)

Comments

[UnCivilServant]

That's terrible.

You woulnd't need to build a dyson sphere to keep the gungans on naboo, you could get away with a planetary shell, which is well within the Republic's engineering capabity, especially given the later projects they engaged in.

We could also use that shell as a research center for weaponizing fail.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Should you even build a Dyson Sphere around anything but a star?

[UnCivilServant]

I confess I had given them the benefit of the doubt and assumed they actually meant around the whole system (including the star).

Silly me.

[Ms. Eleanor Lavish]

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. If I see another Star Wars themed post I'm going to go on a murderous rampage*.

YOU ARE ALL FUCKING NERDS!!!!!

*JK

[AlmightyJB]

So you wanna go see the new Star Wars?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Here's some sports stuff.

Happy now?

[OneOut]

What a waste of resources.

I hope when Bernie is elected the first law he passes is no more Weird Al Videos.

There are millions of children starving to death and dieing on the streets and sidewalks of America every day because they don't have Obamacare and we waste money that could help the Government save them on crap like this.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Pistols.

At dawn.

[Contrarian P]

Why wait?

[Heroic Mulatto]

You know how hard it is find ammo nowadays?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Stockpile

[Crusty Juggler]

I'm with you. No more Star Wars and no more lobster girl and no edit button.

[Almanian's Rusty Woodchipper]

no edit button

*BLOCKED*

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

YOU ARE ALL FUCKING NERDS!!!!!

*absolutely not kidding. go out and find a vagina

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Have you ever kissed a girl?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Got one pregnant that way, in fact.

[Heroic Mulatto]

The aftermath

[C. Anacreon]

Wrong, after math we have social studies, then a free period

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

That's the problem. There was no period.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Here is the actual aftermath.

And yes, I let my kid walk around Costco barefoot because I'm not a huge pussy. Skenazy take note.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Adorable.

[C. Anacreon]

How did you teach your kid to hypnotize a pony? Nice work.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Oh, he got airlifted to Harbor UCLA. I call those "learning experiences".

[Crusty Juggler]

The kid is a barefoot hippie who is into Star Wars and ponies?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I don't know what's in the season aisle until I get there

[AlmightyJB]

Off topic. Not that there is one. Whoever thought that suppliment ads with pictures of maggots, gross memrane looking things or other disgusting who knows what was a good idea?

[GILMORE?]

I know what you're talking about. I hate them. they seem to think cross sections of plants that look like tumors is "Sciencey" or something.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Fox Business' Human Resources Director lived long ago in a galaxy far, far away?

[Winston]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwyjSD3195o

[Heroic Mulatto]

I agree with the removal of those scenes as they hurt pacing of the film; however, that line about the Empire "nationalizing" industries as a point of grievance for the Rebellion is precious.

[GILMORE?]

Since this seems to be an "open thread for Nerdism" =

I finished Fallout 4 last week. So i wandered into Boston Harbor like Lawrence Kohlberg and walked deep into the middle of nowhere-ocean... and found Plenty O'Stuff on the ocean floor. Conclusion = Underwater DLC pending. Someone else independently determined this as well. Seemed obvious from beginning that 25% of the map is basically being held in reserve for other stuff...but its clear that there's plenty of basic landscape/environment building already done in preparation for that.

[Heroic Mulatto]

That's what they did in Fallout 3 and FNV, so that comes as no surprise. That's also why I always wait for the Game of the Year editions of Bethesda's games.

[GILMORE?]

I don't recall DLC from the prior 2 using the same vanilla map, so much as creating separate new maps that you could "link" to from some hidden door.

I mean, there will clearly be new interior maps for the structures on the sea floor.... but my point was more that 'parts of it are already there';

it does seem a little bit of a gyp that given the work they did building that environment, that they didn't utilize it in any way in the base-vanilla game. I think the institute's 'secret underwater lair/labs' would have been far better than the corny 'hey, you have to build a teleporter out of scrap to reach them'-Magic-Trick. the way they actually did it was less-sensible and used the base-map LESS than if they'd simply utilized part of the entire SE corner of the map.

[Heroic Mulatto]

If I remember the bunker that had the VR simulation chamber and the area around it that was part of Operation Anchorage was accessible in F3 proper. Then again, it may have seemed that way to me as I had the GOTY edition.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

You need to go to nerd therapy.

[GILMORE?]

i'm not even a 'gamer'. the only thing i've played in the last 10yrs (more or less) are the various Fallout(s) and Borderlands.

I Fallout hard, however. Its a very appealing combination of "lowbrow-RPG" with "blow mutants heads off with vacuum cleaner that shoots teddy bears"

[Heroic Mulatto]

Don't apologize.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Sorry, but I'm not sorry.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Not you...

Nevertheless, what Gilmore was trying to say is that (from what I understand) the dumbed-down Fallout 4 is a bit of a brogame; whereas, the action-RPG true wizards were waiting for was Xenoblade Chronicles X.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

The future Mrs. Glimore is slipping away.
PUT DOWN THE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS

[Almanian's Rusty Woodchipper]

The Lions, mercifully, did not play a football game today.

[Episiarch]

I bet the Vikings and their fans wished they hadn't played today either.

[The Hyperbole]

and Cleveland.

[Episiarch]

When it comes to the Browns, that's every weekend.

[The Hyperbole]

fair point, yet ,today was even worse than the normal horrible.

[C. Anacreon]

Something - something pallbearers

[Trshmnstr, terror of the trash]

I was hoping for a joke, but you let me down one last time.

[C. Anacreon]

Or the Chicago Bears and "Pick-Six" Cutler.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Never let it be said that Rita Repulsa wasn't fucking hardcore.

[Trshmnstr, terror of the trash]

Things that you don't notice when you're 6, but are obvious as an adult: Her Madonna tits.

[Suthenboy]

*facepalm*

[Troy muy grande boner]

::"open thread for Nerdism" =

1) I still don't have a tier 10 World of Tanks tank. Please give to AZFloyd's tank fund.

2) I have tickets for the 20th to see Star Wars. In fucking IMAX no less. Take that haters!!!!!!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I don't even know what those things are.

[UnCivilServant]

Tickets are bearer instruments which permit you to enter private events by showing that someone has paid for the priviledge of you being there.

In this context, tanks are large armored vehicles intended for military applications, usually involving bringing heavy weapons to bear on an enemy.

A fund is a designated collection of money for some pre-defined purpose to separate it from other expenses in an attempt to ensure that it gets spent on the intended purpose.

IMAX is an expensive marketing gimick that I really don't see the point of, even after having been subjected to it.

'Haters' are people who don't exist, in the same vein as strawmen, created for the purposes of defying them.