The Fool and Star Wars

(Feature Image: Illustration by Elan Rodger Trinidad / Theory of Everything)

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lol I played PS4’s Star Wars I for the first time today! (7 year old been asking forever for me too, and in order to celebrate our rainy Saturday at home, I said YES finally).

I feel the Fool’s energy in this because I made a jump and tried something brand new and the experience was HILARIOUS and fun! And there was no control anywhere in the equation.

So this is what the screen of my games looked like:

• My Power Hungry Shooting Spree as a … that metal thingie that walks around…

     

That’s what I did. Mowed down trees for a while…. I didn’t kill anybody except the poor trees. Alex was HORRIFIED. Because I am a tree friend in real life! I tapped into a whole different side of myself lol!!!! But that’s another Tarot card for another day!

• When I got stuck IN A BUSH. And had to be jet packed out BY MY 7 YEAR OLD. This is what that looked like:

Until Alex took the controller and jet packed me out of it. I was too panicked and hysterical and wouldn’t know a jet pack if it smacked me in the face anyway. Thank God he was there.

• When I got squished by accident. By a falling ATST:

That was pretty traumatic, seeing that thing coming down on top of me.

• The many times I died: Many. Multiple. I can’t find any pictures of the death screen surrounded in red … I guess it’s not something other players brag about. I, however, have to work with what I’ve got.
• When I got shot at.
• I spent a lot of time doing this:

With Alex yelling “MOM! PULL DOWN!!!!!!!” lol Until I finally figured out how to aim myself … and walk at THE SAME TIME.

• My most challenging moment (besides getting shot at and squished by an ATST … learning to follow a path!

Harder than it looks.

And without my path and surroundings turning into this:

Seasoned Battlefront players will understand this pic. I got sick of the gray areas! But Alex said (and I agree) that I would never survive playing online so I had to deal with the limitations of the offline game.

In the end,

… we came to the conclusion that “Mommy can’t survive on her own. At all.” lol!!!!