Yeah, it's full of darths and yodas and Chosen Ones and robots so dumb they drive HAL9000 to drink. It's not my thing, either.
R-2 D-2 has been working on drinking himself into a coma, ever since they replaced him with that derpy soccer ball. (Disney kills, kids)
C-3PO is a "protocol droid" who can speak or translate six million languages. It seems he has to accompany R2D2 everywhere because, for all his super-high technology, R2D2 can't speak even one human language! Sheesh, spare a language chip for R2D2, you daft engineers, PLEASE! It sure would save on C-3POs. That's just one example of the technodumb of Star Wars.
Which seems odd considering years before SW, there was movie about a woman with a talking cooch. Robots that can't talk makes about as much sense as a cooch that can.
It seems dumb until you realize that R2 and C-3PO were conceived of in the 70's, where computers were not exactly what we have today, so it would make sense that some robots would be specifically designed for some things and not others. When you think of it, though, even today, how many computers actually 'speak' human languages? How many times has Windows crashed and you exactly in plain English what's wrong with it? Even Google with their acres, if not miles, of servers hasn't really made a computer that can do that.
NHIE played NHIE ever again after a scarring night in a hookah bar in the Netherlands when I learned way too much about people I was supposed to face the next morning in a professional setting. Okay, something mundane... NHIE been to a football game. NHIE eaten a corn dog. NHIE won at Monopoly (if my memory serves).
This answer doesn't work because R2D2 and C-3PO exist in a galaxy far, far away, in a time when faster-than-light travel exists, as does a form of magic, and some other (stupid) things I won't discuss in this post. These droids have nothing whatsoever to do with 1970s Earth technology. You can't apply the laws of physics the writer/creator must follow to his creations. If you did, you wouldn't have any science fiction at all, mostly, and no fantasy, either.
Then I guess we shouldn't insist it's stupid based on our own limited understanding of the world the writer created and decidedly geocentric interpretation of how it should work.
You got me curious. Now I'll be searching through your posting history to find out what kind of sci-fi that might be. I'm probably more of a drama queen myself.
I'm more into your dark, gritty, earth-bound futuristic scenario type stuff. Think Blade Runner and you won't be too far off.
Same. NHIE been invited to a party (other than birthday parties), as I said earlier in another thread. NHIE been in a limo. Everyone else in my family has been in one but me. NHIE had a Snapchat like most everyone my age.
Nosy question: Is it that they've never offered to chip in, or that you always refuse when they offer? (I always offer. Parking being crazy expensive in L.A., they'll usually at least let me cover the parking if they're not comfortable with going Dutch for dinner.)
Few have offered, but it's mostly just that is seems rude to invite someone out and then expect them to pay for it. Parking is usually free up here, so that's never been a problem.
NHIE been in a boat (while conscious, but according to my parents I was with them on a cruise as a baby, doesn't count). NHIE touched a cactus. NHIE washed my face with snow. NHIE smoked weed legally. NHIE worn earmuffs. NHIE been waterboarded. NHIE written a screenplay (someday, after I've got a couple of bestsellers out there). NHIE listened to Phish while sober. Okay, I'm done.
[Takes four drinks] NHIE been to Canada. NHIE been to Japan. NHIE had a shot of straight tequila. Heh, heh, heh...Methinks I know some people who just had to take virtual drinks!
