WALL-E or R2? (RAR!)

[Zor]

And now for something Friendly and Lighthearted.

One Day, Q appears before you and says that today he is not going to be a jackass, sending you off to some god forsaken corner of the galaxy, back in time, putting you in a a bizare life or death scenario or forcing you to make a hard moral decision.

Here he simply desires to give you a gift, you can have either R2-D2 from Star Wars...



Or WALL-E from WALL-E



Which do you choose?

Zor

[Karmic Knight]

Isn't WALL-E's purpose that of garbage clean up? (I have not seen the movie)

It seems to me that R2 would be a much more versatile and useful addition to life.

[Samuel]

R2-D2. With luck, I will screw up the star wars time line and save the galaxy from the abomination that is the New Republic. Taking WALL-E would deprive mankind of its last best chance.

[DPDarkPrimus]

R2 probably doesn't stink to high heaven.

[Ohma]

Didn't you already post this thread?

EDIT: Yeah you did.

[Samuel]

Didn't you already post this thread?

EDIT: Yeah you did.

That was who could kill the other. This is who you want.

[Karmic Knight]

Didn't you already post this thread?

EDIT: Yeah you did.

This, while similar, is quite different from that thread. It is not asking who would win in a fight, but who would you would choose as an acceptable gift from the omnipresent bastard.

[Ohma]

This, while similar, is quite different from that thread. It is not asking who would win in a fight, but who would you would choose as an acceptable gift from the omnipresent bastard.

On re-reading the OP I find that you are correct...whoops...

[open_sketchbook]

To pull Wall-e away from Eve would pretty much be the height of evil. Meanwhile, the astromech could help me assemble a hypermatter reactor and make a trillion zillion dollars cornering the world energy market. R2-D2 it is.

[Shroom Man 777]

R2D2 has useful shit while WALL-E can't do jack aside from compressing cubes and crap. But, mang, I can't forget that sadistic discussion over how WALL-E would slowly cut R2 to pieces with his laser, and we'd see the two lovely little robots screaming in pain as they try to murder one another.

[Samuel]

To pull Wall-e away from Eve would pretty much be the height of evil. Meanwhile, the astromech could help me assemble a hypermatter reactor and make a trillion zillion dollars cornering the world energy market. R2-D2 it is.

I don't think he can do that- for starters, hypermatter stores energy. You need input in the first place.

[DesertFly]

To pull Wall-e away from Eve would pretty much be the height of evil. Meanwhile, the astromech could help me assemble a hypermatter reactor and make a trillion zillion dollars cornering the world energy market. R2-D2 it is.

I don't think he can do that- for starters, hypermatter stores energy. You need input in the first place.

I think the point is that R2-D2, as part of his function as a maintenance/repair/support droid for multiple groups and militaries, probably has all sorts of useful information and schematics in his memory banks. Hell, even if all you did was have him hack into some bank's computer and have them have an error in your favor (just as one example) you could live very comfortably.

[The Grim Squeaker]

To pull Wall-e away from Eve would pretty much be the height of evil. Meanwhile, the astromech could help me assemble a hypermatter reactor and make a trillion zillion dollars cornering the world energy market. R2-D2 it is.

I don't think he can do that- for starters, hypermatter stores energy. You need input in the first place.

I think the point is that R2-D2, as part of his function as a maintenance/repair/support droid for multiple groups and militaries, probably has all sorts of useful information and schematics in his memory banks. Hell, even if all you did was have him hack into some bank's computer and have them have an error in your favor (just as one example) you could live very comfortably.

Apparent;y "thousand bit triple floating point encryptions" are child's play for him to crack (Dark Nest trilogy, and there are other examples), anything modern human technology has should be absurdly easy for him to crack, rewire and control. So i'll be taking him, to gain power, fortune, control of non closed networks (and control of any he can plug into), and to have a dvd projector handy at all times.
That, and he has a better sense of humour. And technological know-how.

[Napoleon the Clown]

R2D2. For all the reasons above. I could even hide shit in his compartments. I can't imagine it'd be too hard to get him set up so he could even speak to me in English, rather than a series of beeps and whistles. That way he'd be able to communicate back with me easily.

[charlemagne]

R2D2, of course. I've wanted one since I was a child, propably like most people who've seen SW

[Zixinus]

While I would like W-E, he wouldn't be very useful around here (except maybe clean up after the naughty bunny but I am sure that R2 could do the same with a vacuum cleaner). He was only useful in the absurd hope of cleaning trash by compressing it, ignoring

Overall, I have to join the crowd and ask for R2. While he might increase the power bill perhaps even absurdly, he can provide me stuff and functions that W-E can only dream of.

I am pretty sure that somewhere in there, is a diagram of a fully-working fusion plant. Give me the schematics and properties of it, help me gather up some plasma physicists, electromagnetic engineers, etc and live happily after from the patent.

Who knows what else is in the little guy's brain.

However, I'd make it a point for him to adopt some kind of sympathetic human speech or something. Or at at least display something in plain English. Perhaps he could play MP3's.

[Ryushikaze]

R2D2. For all the reasons above. I could even hide shit in his compartments. I can't imagine it'd be too hard to get him set up so he could even speak to me in English, rather than a series of beeps and whistles. That way he'd be able to communicate back with me easily.

He has a speaker already- in his holoprojector- his limitation to Binary communication seems intentional, not a hardware limitation. The question is how difficult is it to patch the two? I recall one EU Droid, X9, IIRC, started life as an R-series and modified himself to be able to speak.

[Coyote]

I love WALL-E, but it's true that R2 ha smore useful applications. The problem is, I'd have to be careful and try to come across as a genius inventor type guy and release some of R2's knowledge into the world slowly. Just showing up with a fully-functional astromech droid will guarantee he'll be scooped up by the military for 'tests'.