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"Why do you have to zip up your pants every time you get out of that X-wing, Luke," Chewy said. I nearly fell off the X-wing, aghast. "You got a pussy in that thing?" I coughed and gulped. "Hahahaha, nice one, Chewy," I said
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Improbable Lobster posted:"Why do you have to zip up your pants every time you get out of that X-wing, Luke," Chewy said. I nearly fell off the X-wing, aghast. "You got a pussy in that thing?" I coughed and gulped. "Hahahaha, nice one, Chewy," I said lol
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painted bird posted:idk C3PO can clearly pass the turing test. dunno about R2D2, though yeah you're right, it's 5am and i'm  ing incoherently.
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Nov 17, 2015 01:23
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why the heck are you awake. granted it's 1 AM here but i have an excuse
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Nov 17, 2015 01:24
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wait you're not fishmech i was freaking out a little there when you qualified your opinions
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Nov 17, 2015 01:25
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insomnia is a hell of a drug
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Amethyst posted:wait you're not fishmech the really weird thing is fishmech is posting again with the original account so confusing
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Nov 17, 2015 01:27
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people were mistaking me for blue stymie in another thread, lol
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Nov 17, 2015 01:28
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big trouble in little yospos
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C3PO is obviously male, but I have never thought of R2D2 as having a gender at all. The closest analogy for me has always been a little beeping, whistling Lassie.
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at the date posted:C3PO is obviously male, but I have never thought of R2D2 as having a gender at all. The closest analogy for me has always been a little beeping, whistling Lassie. lassie is a girl
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Amethyst posted:lassie is a girl I'm aware but like I said, closest analogy. The dog's interactions with other characters, role in the plot, and basic personality would be identical no matter its sex, and I never thought of Lassie as a "girl" or "boy," just a kickass dog that's smarter than everyone else and gets them out of bad situations.
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Nov 17, 2015 01:40
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at the date posted:I'm aware but like I said, closest analogy. The dog's interactions with other characters, role in the plot, and basic personality would be identical no matter its sex. i don't think 3po would have struck r2 in the head, for the audience to laugh at, if r2 was gendered female
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Nov 17, 2015 01:41
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not in the 70s, at least. 50s and earlier is more likely.
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Amethyst posted:i don't think 3po would have struck r2 in the head, for the audience to laugh at, if r2 was gendered female My point is that R2 isn't "gendered" male either. Stop trying to make soda cans on wheels conform to your binary gender paradigm, bigot.
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3po: I don't think he likes you R2: Beep beepy beep beep? 3po: No, I don't like you either. R2: (sad beep) This scene is culturally coded as funny. Part of the fabric of that encoding is the implied male gender of R2.
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Nov 17, 2015 01:43
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the scene rules lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_030i5C7xA4
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That doesn't come across to me at all. That scene in particular makes R2D2 seem more like a chastised family pet than a man or woman.
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at the date posted:That doesn't come across to me at all. That scene in particular makes R2D2 seem more like a chastised family pet than a man or woman. he's comes across as a young boy, to me
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also, i don't know anyone who refers to r2 as "it". it's always "he"
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Amethyst posted:he's comes across as a young boy, to me your cultural context is clearly more sexist than mine  ^^^ I don't refer to pets as "it" either unless I'm in a conversation, like this one, where using a gendered pronoun would be confusing.
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Amethyst posted:also, i don't know anyone who refers to r2 as "it". it's always "he" right. including the two robots themselves.
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Nov 17, 2015 01:48
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Amethyst posted:i don't think 3po would have struck r2 in the head, for the audience to laugh at, if r2 was gendered female
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Amethyst posted:the scene rules lol
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JawnV6 posted:but you're presuming 3po is male shut up
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JawnV6 posted:but you're presuming 3po is male the droids are refered to as 'he' multiple times infact i can't recall any droids being called 'she' in any of the movies.
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what planet is at the date from where family pets can engage in meaningful discussion about anything. R2D2 is way above a dog's level of intelligence.
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Oh cool someone is posting about retarded poo poo nobody cares about outside of the internet in the scifi thread again sweet
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at the date posted:shut up it's a fun loophole in the presumed argument that's easily countered by several examples already brought up, knowingly emitted in bad faith in a way i'm fairly certain didn't punch down (as alternate phrasings did) why the gently caress are you around again? why do you hate fun?
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Larry Parrish posted:Oh cool someone is posting about retarded poo poo nobody cares about outside of the internet in the scifi thread again sweet it's a sci fi concept discussion. no different from when we go into the mechanics of time travel. deal with it
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Nov 17, 2015 01:52
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I guess we're at the point in the discussion where painted bird starts referring to me in the third person to mock me. I give it a page before he brings up the fact that he's a gay depressed retard to try to win an argument about Star Wars.
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Nov 17, 2015 01:54
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painted bird posted:what planet is at the date from where family pets can engage in meaningful discussion about anything. R2D2 is way above a dog's level of intelligence. eh, i see what he means. some times gender is assigned purely for linguistic convenience
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Nov 17, 2015 01:54
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oh wait he did that last page
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Amethyst posted:some times gender is assigned purely for linguistic convenience player of games had a chapter on it
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that's because iain m. banks was a good writer, unlike lucas
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star wars isn't the kind of movie that questions these things, it's just part of the cultural axioms behind it. I don't think the gendered robots are bad writing.
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if they had done the prequels entirely in the droid beepboop language it would probably have been more enjoyable
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nah, not at all, but IMO it could've easily gone real south if the robots were more than the comedy relief cum plot helpers
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fishmech posted:if they had done the prequels entirely in the droid beepboop language it would probably have been more enjoyable the sound engineering behind r2's beeps is incredible
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fishmech posted:if they had done the prequels entirely in the droid beepboop language it would probably have been more enjoyable oh god  in the flesh
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