Why did the Empire spend billions of credits developing a Quips Droid?

>>80628499
He was reprogrammed.

So that Disney could make a movie about it and make billions. It's like poetry.

>>80628499
More to the point, this guy can hack through their security with one hand, fend off a whole squad of Stormtroopers with the other, and take multiple blaster shots and keep on quipping,

Why aren't these droids the Empire's shock troops to begin with?

>>80628499

>look at me, I'm so bitter and twisted inside I don't like any humour.

>>80629176
They're probably very expensive.

>>80629176
Imperial soldiers have very stromg unions

>>80629239
More expensive than growing, training, and outfitting an entire squad of Stormtroopers? That's about the only logic that holds.

>>80628499
>when you film is so shit and devoid of characters that the jarjarbinks of the film is the best part

JUST

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>>80628499
>Identical droid Jyn shoots earlier in the movie dies in one shot
>K2SO takes a huge amount of shots before he is killed

>>80629496
That bothered me too..

>>80629329
>growing
They're not clones anymore. But probably.
Although earlier in the movie woman character easily takes out one of those droids with some kind of blaster, so I don't know. The movie is trash.

>>80629329
also the danger that they get reprogrammed and take out an entire squad of stormtroopers.

>>80629239
They had the budget for the two death star at least. It's not an excuse

>>80629239
The Empire has all the resources of the entire galaxy and has no problem using slave labor. I don't think cost was much of a problem for them.

>>80629738
Those death stars weren't made possible by wasting money on droids that can't destroy planets.

What practical function is there to have a robot that says so many quips?

>>80629496
It matters where it is shot.

>>80628499
reprogrammed by the meme rebellion.

proof that they are a bunch of reddit autists.

>>80629874
He has a side gig as a screenwriter for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's a useful second income stream for the galactic empire.

>>80629496
>Leia and Luke running around the death star in plain sight with Stormtroopers firing at them
>not a single stormtrooper hits

>>80629176
because HAL

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Why did america spend billions of dollars losing a war to rice farmers?

>>80630708
Keeping the USSR at bay because we had more money

I'm glad Disney is fucking up the franchise so badly.
hope shitwars dies.

>>80629496
>>80630526
Rebels use hotshot weaponry that punches through armor better but requires constant maintenance to prevent explosions.

>>80628499
Because they watched Interstellar and thought it was a good idea

>>80631231
Which EU book is this asspull explanation from?

>>80631231
She was using a standard Stormtrooper blaster

>>80631461
I mean, it's not that hard to understand even if you don't read EU.

Not all guns shoot the same ammo, not all blasters would shoot with the same power or accuracy.

>>80629496
Dont you dare steal the feeliest moment of the movie, by pointing out the flaws. Dont you dare.

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>>80632047
what an embarrassing post

>>80629176
My theory is that the very fact that he was being heroic and on the "good guys" side of the Force is what made the REPROGRAMMED droid capable of so much.
The average imperial droids are probably roger roger level of idiot.

>>80629496
The Imperial droid shut himself down. The rebel droid "wanted" to keep fighting.

>>80631231
fuck off

>>80631461
He made it up

Why does /tv/ download and watch movies the second they leak just to complain about them?

>>80631231
disruptors

>>80628499
Why weren't these droids in Episodes IV-VI?

>>80629329

It's cheaper to breed a pack of wild niggers and give them sticks than build a tank.

>>80630708
see Domino theory

>>80629176
I understood it was a combination of ridiculous expense and the fact that they're easy to hack and reprogram if you don't get killed capturing one.

No point in unbeatable troops if all it takes to turn one is a net and a half decent hacker.

>>80633930
yea, except that theory didn't actually pan out did it?

>>80628499
>Why did the Empire spend billions of credits developing a Quips Droid?
>was actually captured and reprogrammed by rebel scum to be a quips droid

dumbass. pay attention while watching a movie and if you can't do that for fuck sake don't start a shitpost about it. you just might embarrass yourself.

>>80630708
The rice farmers were the ones who ended up fucked the most, we fought alongside south vietnam and now their country doesn't exist anymore after northern troops ran wild, they also had way more casualties than the US troops who were pretty much just for show at the end of the conflict.

>>80633914
It isn't if you have ready access to a tank factory. It's a "once you have it, why not make more of it" kinda deal with tech like the droid, whereas niggers have a rather inelastic supply.

>>80628679
>>80628499
>>80629018
>>80629738
>>80629874
It's been months since I've seen it, but I don't remember him making quips, I remember him saying statistics or making comments with autistic social timing or just at inappropriate moments, and that's why they were funny.

Like C3PO saying the line about the odds of navigating an asteroid field to set Han up for, "never tell me the odds!"
It wasn't a quip, just a computer not knowing when it's appropriate to comment or not.

K2-SO is literally the best droid in Star Wars.

>>80634051
Every analyst in the West thought there was a global communist conspiracy until the late 60s when they realized that things weren't that simple and that the North Vietnamese weren't Chinese or Soviet proxies

>>80634190

But can your manufactured tanks jump 8' straight up and produce themselves

>>80630708
Hippies said we had to go home early

>>80629176
Because they did that already in the clone wars and had a robot army

>>80635134
>not IG-88

They got the completely wrong voice actor for this droid. It just didn't sound right at all. ffs, at least give him a slight synthesized voice effect or something.

>>80634315
All his lines are quips. All of them.

>K-2SO: I'll be there for you.
>[Jyn looks at K-2SO quizzingly]
>K-2SO: The Captain said I had to.

>K-2SO: There were a lot of explosions for two people blending in.

>K-2SO: Do you want to know the odds of her using that blaster on you?
>Cassian Andor: Let's get going
>K-2SO: It's high. It's very high.

>K-2SO: I'm surprised you're so concerned with my safety.
>Jyn Erso: I'm not, I'm just worried that they might miss you and hit me.
>K-2SO: [quietly, so Jyn can't hear] Doesn't sound so bad to me.

>>80635486
>Did you know that wasn't me?

not a quip

>>80635486
>quips to itself

Why would a rebel software engineer waste valuable time, money and resources writing such a feature into the robot's AI?

Why does /tv/ get so triggered by quips?

>>80629176
They do, it just never gets shown on screen because it wouldn't make for a good film

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>>80629738
Actually they didn't even have budget for one Death Star. The Admirals objected to the weapons several times. The Imperial economy got BTFO trying to build the first one. It's one of the reasons the Rebels basically won the entire war right then and there.

>>80634315
>It's been months since I've seen it

stopped reading here. shut the fuck up. you might as well have started your post with "i don't know what i'm talking about but,"

>>80635486
>I see the council is sending you with us to Jeddah. That's a bad idea. I think so and so does Cassian.
not a quip
>Cassian, I'm sorry about the slap
not a quip
>Our optimal route to the data vault places only 89 storm troopers in our path. We will make it no more than 33% of the way before we are killed.
Not a quip
>Sealing the door now. Goodbye Cassian.
Not a quip.

Have you only seen the trailers or something?

>>80629239

4(You)

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>>80636666
Be quiet. It's a Star Wars movie, there's not allowed to be any fun whatsoever.

Unless it's a bunch of fags dancing around with lazer penises or cuddly teddy bears waging war.

@80628499
>wah wah wah I'm a joyless /tv/tard who hates everything! Muh memes! Muh shit posting! I'm here all day, every day! Someone please pay attention to me!