fstab
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
devdoggy@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?

message-square
message-square
55
fedilink
77
message-square

How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?

devdoggy@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
message-square
55
fedilink
  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    44
    ·
    2 days ago

    I don’t think he understood binary during a New Hope. C3PO has to translate for R2 when they first meet.

    • teft@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      37
      ·
      2 days ago

      Also he reads what R2 says via a screen in his X wing in ESB. I don’t think he understands binary until at least RotJ. Maybe he got bored in mechanical hand physical therapy and also studied droidspeak.

      • remotelove@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        21
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        2 days ago

        I doubt he got bored. That mechanical hand probably felt like someone else’s until the nerves fully adjusted.

        • catharso@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          24
          ·
          edit-2
          2 days ago

          Luke Skywanker

          • kambusha@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            10
            ·
            2 days ago

            Use the force, Luke

            • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              12
              ·
              2 days ago

              Use more force, Luke

          • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            2 days ago

            I love how quickly this became about masturbation.

          • kambusha@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            2 days ago

            Lube Skywanker

        • warbond@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 day ago

          I bet it has a few vibrate modes

    • devdoggy@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 days ago

      He understands him perfectly in ESB.

      • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        23
        ·
        2 days ago

        I think it’s implied that having spent enough time with R2, he eventually picks it up. I know that according to the lore, all X-wings are equipped with a translator, so that pilots can understand their astromechs. Given enough time flying together, it makes sense that Luke would need the translator less and less.

        Not to mention it just helps move the story along, considering all the scenes they spend alone together in ESB, without C3PO. In a New Hope, C3PO is always around to translate when R2 has something to say.

        • devdoggy@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          2 days ago

          Well, I guess that clears up my shower thought. Thanks!

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 day ago

        Usually through the text translation on the X-Wing screen. Once on Dagobah, he’s picking up the same context clues in tone that the audience is.

Showerthoughts@lemmy.world

showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !showerthoughts@lemmy.world

A “Showerthought” is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

  • Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
  • When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
  • More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as “capitalism” and “communism”. If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy’s Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 325 users / day
  • 3.89K users / week
  • 6.53K users / month
  • 18.1K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 37.2K subscribers
  • 2.51K Posts
  • 72.2K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • vatlark@lemmy.world
  • forkball@lemmy.world
  • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
  • SuperEars@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org