• @njm1314
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    246 months ago

    Are we ever giving any indication that being a moisture Farmers all that hard? Other than the fact that they have slaves, I’m sorry droids, to do most of the hard work for them what do they actually do? I mean harvesting moisture is about setting up an apparatus and just letting it pull moisture from the air right? He maintain the machines is that right?

    • @KaiReeve
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      6 months ago

      Man, just existing on Tatooine is hard work.

      -It’s a desert planet run by crime lords.

      -The natives carry rifles and kidnap people just to torture them to death.

      -There are little goblins driving tanks around the countryside stealing anything that isn’t sand.

      -The sand is rough and coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere.

      -Krayt Dragons

    • @misterundercoat
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      256 months ago

      What 20 years of moisture farming does to a MF:

    • @Maalus
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      106 months ago

      Well, it’s always easy to do a little of something. When you are producing as an actual job, then that’s entirely different. Scale is a problem in it of itself. “Just maintaining” machines is actually a lot of work.

      • @njm1314
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        56 months ago

        I’m sure it is for the droids

        • @Maalus
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          86 months ago

          Especially since we see them buy second-hand droids that are decades old. Or assembling their own from scrap.

      • @Sludgeyy
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        36 months ago

        You could tell he was acting

        • Possibly linux
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          36 months ago

          Honestly Star Wars is a made up story played by actors. Change my mind

    • @Glytch
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      36 months ago

      It wasn’t just droids either, Owen’s dad had human slaves as well.