Revenge of the 6th

I have a friend who owns lightsabers. He is consistently adding more to his collection, and frequently updates his Facebook profile picture to an image of himself posing with his newest saber. He's actually gotten pretty good at taking a decent shot. A couple of days ago - May 4th, Star Wars day, to be exact - I noticed the following pop up on my Facebook feed.

Bored, and more than willing to procrastinate on meaningful, productive work, I jumped at this opportunity. Vulcan is his new cat, but I didn't think that Vulcan had any potential, so I left finding the cat to Google image search - I searched "Star Wars cat", "Cat lightsaber", "Cat Darth Vader", etc. Eventually, I stumbled upon this image, which I felt had massive potential.

Yes. Perfect.

Possessing no skills of my own, and having already exhausted my free trial of Photoshop, I took this task to the gestalt consciousness of the internet. Specifically, I went on NeoGAF. Now, the internet will usually do this kind of thing for free, but you never know what you're going to get. In ordinary circumstances, this would be a liability, but in this case, the internet's wildcard status was the perfect environment. I posted a request asking for lightsaber cat to be added to the picture of Bryan wielding his sabers. Checking back an hour or so later, I discovered a goldmine.

"The Twist", user 8 X 11 Printer Paper wrote as he posted the following.

"You're welcome", user Firehead proclaimed.

JJDinomite turned both pictures into an internet meme, which was pretty impressive.

8 X 11 Printer Paper returned for a second contribution. "Now you can get a robot hand like Luke Skywalker", he snidely remarked.

The request turned out better than I could have hoped for. I did end up showing these to my friend, but I think I (and the users of NeoGAF) found it much more amusing than he did. I'd say it was a worthy use of time, and one of the more fruitful procrastination ventures that I've had. The rest of the thread is here.