• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    More like creating unintelligible alarms on your appliances so they just make noise at you without conveying any information unless you dedicate yourself to esoteric study of their language. Gonk droids are walking IV pump noises.

    GONK

    Critical error and about to explode? GONK. Just saying hello? GONK. In the real world we sometimes joke these appliances are just insecure and want attention sometimes but here it might be a real factor.

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      20 hours ago

      Look, if you have an aural processing issue I totally understand, but if you’re just being racist against droids as some kind of hold-over from the clone wars, GTFO.

      There’s a massive difference between “GONK” and “GONK”. They sound nothing alike.

      Next you’re going to tell me that ewoks could take on an imperial brigade…