The Grumpy Old Man Thread (or, Why Today Sucks)

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

He didn't kill anyone though. He was just there. I'm not an R2 apologist, but this is turning into a witchhunt!

You're a simple minded cretin. R2 provided the means to kill those people and without them those pilots would have been helpless. And he wasn't just along for the ride as a mindless robot, he was the impetus for the entire movie and went to ridiculous lengths to complete his mission. Considering that he was a slow, tri-wheeled droid I think the amount of effort he put into killing all of those people on the Death Star outpaced anyone else in that movie.

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by Frownland

I wish I was old enough to bitch about how much better it was before everyone and their mother decided to geek out on Star Wars.

No you don't.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

You're a simple minded cretin. R2 provided the means to kill those people and without them those pilots would have been helpless. And he wasn't just along for the ride as a mindless robot, he was the impetus for the entire movie and went to ridiculous lengths to complete his mission. Considering that he was a slow, tri-wheeled droid I think the amount of effort he put into killing all of those people on the Death Star outpaced anyone else in that movie.

As opposed to a cretin with a really complex mind?
Are you talking about the plans? That was Leia, so if that's your point then she's the mass-murderer. Still, they did blow up her planet. Hey, was that the biggest blow job in all history or what?

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Frownland

I wish I was old enough to bitch about how much better it was before everyone and their mother decided to geek out on Star Wars.

You had a good sixteen year gap between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace. Oh how they were the halcyon days for Frownland.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

I wish I was old enough to bitch about how much better it was before everyone and their mother decided to geek out on Star Wars.

You’d have to have been born before the first one came out. People went ape**** for it the day it was released and haven’t calmed down since.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

You’d have to have been born before the first one came out. People went ape**** for it the day it was released and haven’t calmed down since.

I hate my country's culture.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

I hate my country's culture.

It is a ****ing ****hole.

[Trollheart]

Thing is, R2 was (wait for it) a robot and he was (wait for it again) programmed to do everything he did. So there was no personal emotion, decision or action attached to anything he did. He and C3P0 were merely following their programming. They were tools (well, 3P0 was anyway): would you call Fat Man and Little Boy mass murderers, or should the blame go to Oppenheimer and Truman et al?

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

You’d have to have been born before the first one came out. People went ape**** for it the day it was released and haven’t calmed down since.

Originally Posted by Frownland

I hate my country's culture.

#DownWithStarWarsHaters

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Thing is, R2 was (wait for it) a robot and he was (wait for it again) programmed to do everything he did. So there was no personal emotion, decision or action attached to anything he did. He and C3P0 were merely following their programming. They were tools (well, 3P0 was anyway): would you call Fat Man and Little Boy mass murderers, or should the blame go to Oppenheimer and Truman et al?

AI has no free will but neither does organic life. You have to ignore that.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

#DownWithStarWarsHaters

I like Star Wars as much as any other shiny action flick but goddamn do you dumb ****s need to hop off of the franchise's dick.