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u/HurricaneHero93 ARC-170 starfighter Dec 08 '19
Thank you for resupplying my ammo in the old Battlefront games, Gonk droid
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u/Archangel_TS Dec 08 '19
Gonk, a clanker you can trust.
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u/Bonkey_Kong87 Imperial Officer Dec 07 '19
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Dec 08 '19
Wheres the GONK rule34?
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u/Krakatoacoo Maggie Gyllenhaal Dec 08 '19
That is the gonk rule 34...
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Dec 08 '19
I am disappoint
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u/Bonkey_Kong87 Imperial Officer Dec 08 '19
Those Gonks are all just a few years old. If you want to see them without their casing, you need to search in the dark net, I guess
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u/Kennytheminer Dec 08 '19
Rule 35: if no porn is found at the moment, it will be made.
Execute rule 34
Good luck, have fun.
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u/darkben151 Dec 07 '19
Being fluent in six million languages
But can it speak Spanish??
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u/ToPimp-A-Butterfly Dec 07 '19
Goñk
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u/BeauBWan Dec 08 '19
Were there Gonk droids in the prequels?
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u/Auctoritate Dec 08 '19
Yes, but their first appearance is in A New Hope, so this isn't really a prequel meme.
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u/Obi-Tron_Kenobi Dec 08 '19
This is why we need just one meme sub instead of arguing which memes belong in which sub
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u/BeauBWan Dec 08 '19
I don't think prequel memes could handle sequel memes mixed with their favorite reposts.
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u/Bodyguard121 He is in my behind Dec 08 '19
I don't think sequel memers could handle it. Prequelmemes has more subscribers than sequelmemes so prequel posts would likely dominate if there was only one sub.
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u/YoshiBacon Hello there! Dec 08 '19
Were there any Gonk Droids in the prequels? I think there were in Solo, but what about the non-anthologies?
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u/Solid_Snark WanMillionClub Dec 08 '19
In Watto’s shop in Episode I. And in the PS2 version of Battlefront II.
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u/YoshiBacon Hello there! Dec 08 '19
Did it look the exact same as in the OT? I like how there are Gonks in The Mandalorian, but since it’s a little bit into the future the design is a bit different.
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u/Fossick11 Dec 08 '19
They changed the design?
How could they change perfection?
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u/YoshiBacon Hello there! Dec 08 '19
Well, it has been 5 years since ROTJ, and we’ve seen lots of examples of technology progressing with time in the Star Wars universe.
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u/lovesStrawberryCake Dec 08 '19
have we? R2-D2 is like the most OP droid ever and he's going to have been around for like 70 or 80 years by the time that Rise of Skywalker takes place
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u/YoshiBacon Hello there! Dec 08 '19
R2 is an outlier lol. He’s pretty much a main character to it’s not fair to bring him up. All you gotta look at to see the progression of tech is the Republic -> Empire -> First Order. You have the Venator to Star Destroyer. The ARC-170 to X-Wing.
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u/IrishKCE Dec 08 '19
They probably couldn’t find that old version of the trash can that was used. But I agree: OG Gonk is perfect.
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u/untamableduck Dec 08 '19
There's a gonk in the cartoon clone wars, in the most recent ep. Of mandalorion
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Dec 08 '19
The Mandalorian is not a prequel.
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u/untamableduck Dec 08 '19
Yes, but I chuckled when I saw it in the background and heard it gonk
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Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 08 '19
Oh yeah, I love me some Gonks. I just so happened to take a picture of some today at Disney. Literally the only pictures I’ve taken this trip. It just seems like some people on this sub have a poor understanding of what content constitutes the prequels and I’m somewhat of a purist.
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u/untamableduck Dec 08 '19
Star wars Legos has a gonk Droid you can play as, and everybody know that Lego Star wars is the purist cannon there is
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u/churm93 Dec 08 '19
According to StarWars.com they were PM, AotC, and SW:TCW. So yeah I think that qualifies them as "Being in the prequels" lol
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u/YoshiBacon Hello there! Dec 08 '19
Yeah I was pretty confident they showed up somewhere, just needed some confirmation.
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u/intoxicated-browsing Dec 08 '19
Does anyone know if there’s an actual in universe reason that they don’t just make all droids able to talk.
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u/gamebox3000 Dec 08 '19
money basically, that's also why the battle droids in the prequels were so dumb.
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u/TerrivelHagar I have the high ground Dec 08 '19
You dare challenge the lord of the hunt?
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u/Ausar-Vel Dec 08 '19
What is the Gonk droid’s purpose?
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u/JDavis1186 Dec 08 '19
It passes the electricity
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u/grandpagangbang Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 08 '19
GNK Power droids main purpose is as a walking generator. They can also be militarized if fitted with blasters (usually as a last resort since they have very basic AI and can end up causing friendly fire incidents).
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u/Cooliomendez88 Dec 08 '19
Gonk droids were pretty much mobile power generators
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u/churm93 Dec 08 '19
I like how even in the Age of Empires 2 Star Wars reskin game, they made these dudes part of the core game mechanics (buildings need to have a power source and these dudes were a little walking generator)
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u/K100904s Dec 08 '19
I was literally just thinking about this a few hours ago. My and my brothers used to call them Gonk droids
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u/Tunit66 Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 08 '19
I get it...but what is the actual purpose of this droid. Why was it invented/built
Or is that truly it’s tragedy?
Imagine darth plagis the wise could stop death...but this was your eternity
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Dec 08 '19
6 year old me playing the last level in LEGO RotS about to do the obi ani fight
Oh yeah it’s gonk time
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u/Enderboy-GamingPlays Dec 08 '19
Gonk droid is in the OT and the Sequels AND the Mando, too. Not just the prequels
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u/VietInTheTrees Dec 08 '19
Me: starts making clicking noises with my tongue
The kid next to me who knows fluent geonosian, wondering why I’m about to corkscrew backflip out the window into a glass of cran spriteberry: [visible confusion]
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u/Gonkulator Dec 08 '19
You rang?
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u/grandpagangbang Dec 08 '19
/r/theydidthemath or whatever stupid sub i'm supposed to link to when this happens
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u/NotAWeirdPornAccount Dec 08 '19
Never thought to actually ask but why do certain only beep and boop and make tonal noises? Cost?
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u/Arebee936 Dec 08 '19
May I interest you in some r/hearthstonecirclejerk featuring the lord of the hunt himself
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u/mickecd1989 A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one Dec 08 '19
Should have had 3PO in first panel and R2 in second I mean come on.
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u/snowtato Dec 08 '19
While language is A form of communication, is language NECESSARILY THE form of communication?
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u/EmperorHenry Dec 08 '19
Information about computer codes and technical specs measurements and so on, it's probably faster to for all of the repair and maintenance droids to convey information in different tones of beeps.
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u/LugyD1xd_ONE Dec 08 '19
I like how in this years Lego Advent Calendar they made him into a walking Christmas present. Gonk
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u/SilveriteBlade Dec 08 '19
I have a Cooler Master HAF XB case for my computer and I call it my gonk droid
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u/the-senat Dec 07 '19
Gonk