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J... just to be sure, you do know that jelly and jam are two different things, right? And that the former is significantly more common in many places in the US?

Jelly does tend to be the catchall instead of jam, which is basically treated as a subdivision of jelly-like-things, but people are actually capable of differentiating between them in the states, most of the time. There's just not terribly regular need, since jam's often a bit less used.

Y'know, I didn't really ken to the possibility of it until I actually saw it, but apparently bacon soda really is a thing. Didn't actually try any 'cause carbonation and me don't get along too well these days, but... it was there. Seems like someone else in the family walked off with it, too, so now the chance is gone.

Which is fairly common, so far as I'm aware. You pretty regularly hear about folks booked (at least in part) for weapons carry or violating probation for similar reasons. Debatable how much that's a good thing, considering it's often in regards to folks that are otherwise non-violent or didn't commit other law violations, but it happens.

That would be most of it, yes. Concealed carry permits also apply to weapons that aren't guns -- technically, if you're going to be toting a pocket knife of any meaningful size (which a lot of people do in more rural areas, because the things are damn useful), you require a CCW permit to do so legally in many states.

Now, basically no one does for that reason, and there is a shit ton of people in a lot of states that can be brought up on charges for that at pretty much a moment's notice, but it's another reason to have one.

Some of them, sure. There'd be both light (jedi healers) and dark (sith alchemy) side techniques that could manage that, and probably weirder stuff, too.

What if a stealthy droid assassin were to employ a flamethrower against a Jedi meatbag?

Dunno if it's what they used, but there was a droid bounty hunter or two with several dozen jedi kills under their belt, iirc, not even talking the meatbag yammering one. They've obviously got something that works :V

Gamewise, anyway. Insofar as the canon-ish stuff goes, just about anything can be used to kill force users -- plenty, even very strong ones, are killed in straight up 1v1 situations by non-force sensitives with a blaster or just whatever, nevermind things actually stacked against them or fun stuff like orbital bombardment -- it's just significantly more difficult than it would be against someone that's not a trained user. They're quite kickass, but there's a reason armies and special forces and whatnot still exist in a universe crawling with force sensitives and other weird stuff.

And yeah, there's stuff in the universe that just flat no-sells lightsabers and most direct force counters (dodging or TKing the weapon itself might still work, ferex). Pretty sure sonic weaponry worked like that, amongst other things. The sabers and force sensitive critters get played up more than a little due to narrative, honestly. Y'gotta' remember that jedi got slaughtered pretty much en masse by freaking droidikas, nevermind the stuff that was actually vaguely competent. Impressive buggers, pound for pound, but most of their really notable work was via social-fu and whatnot. Even a lot of the sith stuff was about non-combat (or at least combat-via-proxy) applications. They were at their best as force multipliers rather than direct combatants, more or less.

Eehhh... lotta' dudes in this area, anyway, that walk around with some fairly notable gemage, usually in rings. Ones that actually have any money worth note, at least. Do tend to be the darker stones -- rubies et al -- but there's still sparkle that matches or outdoes the ladies, at times. Seems fairly common for masonic type wuzdingers, as an example -- some of the groups like that've got fairly sizable stones as part of their normal wear, and the blighters more or less infest a number of places.

Definitely different framing, though. Seems a lot like better off guys are supposed to wear sparkly shit, but they're supposed to downplay it or somethin', whereas the ladies are completely unsubtly encouraged to bling the buggery out of themselves. Kinda' weird, honestly, paying marginal attention to the phenomena.