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Skynet and BBGU make no sense


Skynet is fully programmed with gender studies (Terminator knows not to wear women's clothes in 1984 - what if it arrived in 2022, though..?)

OR, is Skynet _NOT_ fully 'diversified', when it still thinks there can be a 'man-looking robot' and a 'woman-looking robot'? Wouldn't a 'female robot' be better for infiltration anyway, as it has more social power and can make men do its bidding so easily, if it looks attractive, and thus it doesn't have to do everything itself? Basically, able to do a hundred tasks simultaneously, because 99 men are simping for it to make it happy.

By 2029, are people even allowed to THINK 'men' and 'women' exist? Skynet should have created some non-gendered .. oh, wait.. flashback.. dawn of something, AAGH, I take it back, I take it back!!

How well do they program TERMINATOR robots that only need to know how to terminate people, and 'infiltrate' a secret base in 2029?

They program them with 'pet names mothers use for daughters' in the eighties, how to use phone books, how to know what an 'address' is (surely they don't exist in 2029), what a 'mom' and 'cabin' are, and and and..

Wh does Skynet know this a word like 'sweetheart', as if it's surrounded by 1980s social american culture (it should seem like a 'seasoned body part' to its cold, robotic brain)?

Just HOW exhaustive is a terminator robot's programming?

Now, I have ALREADY talked about how the 'bad breath' makes no sense (I SO wish they hadn't included that stupid line in the movie - looks fine on the surface, but when you think about it, holy cow..)

First of all, the robot has no lungs or proper mouth, so bad breath can't happen organically as a side-effect of mimicking people (which would be fine).

So it has to have like a BBGU - a Bad Breath Generator Unit somewhere in the mouth area. What if that gets damaged, will it abort every infiltration mission, because now it can't be convincing? How can Skynet be so stupid to think that bad breath is INTEGRAL to mimicking people, and that it's worth all that hassle, design, energy and work?

Also, it lets its infiltration units blow up police stations (figuratively speaking), murder ANYTHING in sight with loud weapons, behave aggressively and loudly without a care in the world, but it thinks designing, mass-producing and installing 'bad breath generator units' into each infiltration unit is ESSENTIAL?

Wouldn't people kinda guess from all that explosive action that it's some kind of abnormal thing instead of a regular dude? How about letting it dress in leather, punk clothes and sunglasses AT NIGHT, wouldn't that arouse about 8900 times more suspicion than NOT HAVING BAD BREATH?!

Interrupt someone's phone call by throwing them aside is FINE for infiltration, as long as you have BAD BREATH, you see, no one will ever figure out you're something abnormal.

WHAT was Skynet thinking?

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I disagree

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