I always found it fascinating that Darth Vader created C3PO.
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C-3PO was a parts kit. It wasn't that Anakin designed his own brand new droid, he gathered enough parts from scrap yards to mash together his own based on schematics that would have been available to anyone who regularly works on droids. In our time it was about as impressive of a feat as building a bookshelf out of lumber you salvaged from a local dump pile. Impressive for a boy that age, but anyone with the time and tools could do it.
He also built a race car. And won a race with it.
In our time it was about as impressive of a feat as building a bookshelf out of lumber you salvaged from a local dump pile.
Ehhh, I would say it's probably more like assembling a functioning PC out of various parts found in dumpsters, etc. Definitely a much more impressive feat imo
I'd say assembling a functional PC from dumpster parts is far far far far far easier than even building a bookshelf from raw lumber. Computer parts are designed to go together (excepting Macintosh computers of course). You just have to wait for one that functions.
From well kept recycled parts which are labeled? Not much of a challenge.
From DUMPSTER parts? I'd say that's more impressive, as you need the knowledge and tools to know what works and what doesn't.
Yeah, sure, given a limitless timeframe, you can sit there until you get lucky enough for someone to drop a completely functioning but disassembled PC on your lap. But building one? You might need to clean parts, research what they are to get the proper drivers and OS even if you manage to find a set that actually fits together. Tracking down and fixing tiny shorts in circuits? That's not the same skills as putting together some Legos.
I've been in IT support in cities and schools and even when there's a massive pile of computers and hardware that are known to not be broken, it's sometimes a challenge.
You know how hard it is building a bookshelf? Take a piece of wood. Put book(s) on it. Now you've a bookshelf.
My son is about Anakin's age from SW I. LOL, he's too uncoordinated to learn a box knife, let alone a power saw.
My fascination is with the derpy friendly nature of C3PO and him aiding in his own creators downbringing. The stark contrast between Vader and C3PO. One would not assume they were related. Im indifferent to Anakins tech skills.
I guess the implication is that given it's a kit build, anyone else building to such schematics would get a droid with the same derpy friendly nature since that's presumably what it's designed to be like.
Killing multiple people all at once is mass-murder, not genocide.
Yeah.
Blowing up Aldaran? Genocide. Killing all the Jedi? Genocide. Killing a village of Sand People? Not genocide.
Padme, listen to yourself!!
Well he started early with the violence so it wasn't unexpected if you ask me.
I just realized that Anakin committed a mass murder in each prequel movie.
First one is the ship, third one is the childeren.
What did he do in the second one? Clone wars is a huge blank in my memory haha
Tusken Raiders
Sand people (I don't recall their actual name)
Sand people
Holy shit dude, it's 2024
I just laughed way, way too hard at this.
I'm sorry! Anakin killed them all, so I couldn't ask what their preferred name is! 😢
Dude, "sand people" is not the preferred nomenclature. Tatooine-American, please.
Inb4 "the whole Outer Rim is AmErIcA" group.
We’re all living in Amerika. Coca-Cola. Always war.
Isn't the original line "sometimes war"? Or am I misremembering the lyrics.
You’re correct, it is. But when has Amerika ever not been at war with someone?
pushes glasses well akshually....The US was not involved in an armed conflict from 1795 to 1798, 1805-1810, 1815-1816, 1828-1832, 1924-1939, 1961-1964 and finally 1975 to 1982. Out of the US' 248 years of existance, it has enjoyed 38 years of official peace.
Dude that’s awesome if those are real stats. Bravo. Can you further refine to include proxy wars?
Were there any living beings on that thing? I only remember there being droids
There were Nemoidians controlling it from the central orb. Probably not very many but at least a couple dozen if not more.
They don't count.
I don't know why, but this comment made me burst out laughing. Well played.
I subscribe to the view that droids are people too. A consciousness is a consciousness.
Anakin also subscribes to that idea, given how well he treats R2D2 and C3PO
That's droidist.
Not to worry, they're still flying half a space station
Well thats a very liberal application of genocide. The Sand people incident might be spun as a racial killing, but genocide? That's way too much.
Yeah. What he did to the Sand People was a hate crime.
Yeah he hated they made him do it. /s
"Just" terrorism.
I'm going to see this comment in my history in a year and be like "...huh?"
Bibi moment
Anakin murdered one village, he didn't prosecute a war of extinction against an entire people.
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