Uh.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

...Did I really just hear my coworkers having trouble spelling C3PO?

I did. Fuck.

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do they spell it Z6PO?

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Coworker1: I don't know.. is it C-three-P-zero or C-three-P-O?
Coworker2: I'm not sure. Toxico, do you know?
Me, from across the room: ...I'm going to smoke.
Me, from down the hall: WHAT IN THE FUCK?!

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

I was making some fun as in the French version of StarWars (French dubbing / subtitles) he is called Z6PO. :-)

[toxico.livejournal.com]

I had no idea. That's awesome.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

...I knew I wanted to see the French dub of that for a reason!

(Well, except Yoda's voice in the Episode I preview was all kinds of bad and wrong.)

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

one of my WoW guildmates spells it CPTHREEO. we love him anyway.

[kageneko.livejournal.com]

At the risk of being pedantic, it's C-3PO if you want to get technical about it :)

Sorry. Former Lucas employee. It's hard to break the habit :P

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Uh.

Would you like a job here? You'll fit in nicely. :P

Just kidding. I actually didn't know that, but I really dislike Star Wars, to be honest.

[kageneko.livejournal.com]

I'm a Star Wars fan. I admit it.

Just don't mention SWG (the MMO) to me unless you want me to go into a homicidal rage.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Eh, I played it for thirty minutes, and then promptly demanded that I be sent thirty minutes by first-class mail. I still prefer WoW over any of them.

[kageneko.livejournal.com]

How do you think I feel? I worked on that damned game for 3 years. :)

That's 3 years of my life I can't get back. I have a free account and refuse to install it. That should tell you something.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Call it "an educational endeavor on how not to design an immersive interactive player experience."

[kageneko.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeah.

Fortunately, I just was working hardware compatibility, so I take no blame for that.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Oh, the "Creative's Drivers Blow Goats" department. Gotcha.

I can say I've not known anyone to actually have a hardware incompatibility issue with SWG, so cheers I suppose.

Except my wife, with her Mac. That was another deciding factor.

[jecook]

Reminds me of the "our program can't abide Winmodems; you'll have to pop $$$ for a USR sportster" department at my first employer over a decade ago. (This was just after windows 95 came out, and before the Age of the Intarwebbernet)

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

what about See-Threepio?

[kageneko.livejournal.com]

That's also an acceptable spelling. :)

[altorogue.livejournal.com]

Your icon is disturbing yet incredibly awesome.

[canray.livejournal.com]

We called 3PO units "Target Practice" in our Star Wars D6 RPG group. ;-P

[ateji.livejournal.com]

High Jawa body counts are pretty fun, too. (Serious game devolved into insanity? Never!)

[jecook]

That would explain why there's a metric ass-ton of Jawas in that particular stage of the Lego Star Wars game. *been loving on the DS version of it*

[ateji.livejournal.com]

I have the clunky DS version; what platform are you playing it on? ^_^ I keep thinking I want to try the PS2 version but not if it's equally crappy.

[jecook]

Crimson DS lite.

There's... parts of it which could use some improvement, but overall it was worth the money, I think.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Well, crap. Must be my fingers, then. I cannot get Chewie on the log in the Endor forest level.

[adythiel.livejournal.com]

I play the PSP version. For me, it both looks better and has a better control system. I played the hell out of that game.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

I've heard it's a better version, which makes me want a PSP too.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!!

I can't tell you how much I hate seeing people write it like Seethreepio or shit like that. I mean, why do people not understand that it's not words, it's letters and numbers???

[ateji.livejournal.com]

The "Seethreepio" bit is pretty well canon, though, since it shows up in the novels. (It drives me insane, too, but there's a long-standing precedent for it.)

[laviededavid.livejournal.com]

so why'd ya quit???

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time I yoosta see it spelled See Threepio.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Could be worse. He could have been having problems with R2D2.

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

you mean Artoo Deetoo?

[toxico.livejournal.com]

No, Artie Deco (http://www.amazon.com/Hardware-Wars-Sonny-Buddy-Jr/dp/B0000633TI).

[zendequervain.livejournal.com]

RRDD!

Hahaah~

[jjjiii]

I like seeing old-ass Star Wars shit where the droid names are spelled out phonetically, like See Threepio and Artoo Detoo.

Like, audiences in the 70's weren't sophisticated enough to be able to pronounce their names as letters, and needed help making sense of the high tech names they gave droids.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

It always drives me nuts to see it spelled phonetically. :/