The tune don’t have to be clever,
And it don’t matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line
It sounds more ethnic if ain’t good English
And it don’t even gotta rhyme. (excuse me, “rhyne”)
I think there’s a workable t-shirt slogan lurking somewhere in the first panel. You know you’ve been reading webcomics since the mid-2000s if that’s the sort of thing that jumps out at you.
The running Holy War between the Binarians, the Decimalites , the Brotherhood of Hex and the Reformed Church of Octal lends a poignant counterpoint to the more secular bots’ indiscriminate carnage.
The running Holy War between the Binarians, the Decimalites , the Brotherhood of Hex and the Reformed Church of Octal lends a poignant counterpoint to the more secular bots’ indiscriminate carnage.
Funny, I was just thinking about “Robot Wars.” Was there ever an American version of that?
(If not: it was a British show where homemade remote-controlled robots were pitted against each other in gladiator-style combat. Most of them were squat, wheeled contraptions about the size of a lawnmower. It was excellent.)
Yes, the American version was “BattleBots”, although for some reason it was on the Comedy channel. One of the contestants was Grant Imahra from “Mythbusters”.
Yeah, you get the best fighter out of the lot but you also get the most violent of the lot as well. In this situation you want the most controllable first. Having a killer robot is of limited to no use to you if it won’t obey you or just kill you. These things turn against their own creator at times.
My guess this is a stopgap solution that nobody figured out a way to properly solve. The only thing that can keep a killer robot in check is another killer robot.
Plus what about all the robots that aren’t primary meant for killing? Do they have a separate section? Why is there one that is healing another robot?
Yeah, well you know, the major sports leagues never figured out the liabilities of selecting for agression either. And they still manage to be surprised(*) every time another athlete gets arrested regardless of payoffs. (Talk about reality-blindness….)
Talos Principle meets Battle Royale.
Sounds more like some Ayn Rand-ian Neochristian cult to me , or a Born-Again Objectivist theology.
I read that as “Borg-Again”, which is also appropriate.
Freddie: Ayn Rand was an atheist, so I don’t think a Neochristian cult would treat her as a prophet.
(TUNE: “Hush, Little Baby”, traditional lullaby)
Rush, little robot, rush to the fight,
Robots gonna battle all through the night …
And if that battle you refuse,
Robot’s little treads will get knocked loose …
And if those treads should start to rattle,
Robot has to still go rejoin the battle …
And if that battle gets renewed,
Robot’s gonna lose its vital fluid …
And if that vital fluid gets dripped,
Robot to shreds will soon be ripped …
And if you’re shredded, ripped, or sliced,
You won’t get to Robot Paradise!
Yay a song I can sing.
(Some of the lines might have a few to many syllables)
The tune don’t have to be clever,
And it don’t matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line
It sounds more ethnic if ain’t good English
And it don’t even gotta rhyme. (excuse me, “rhyne”)
Lister: This is no Robot Paradise!
Kryten: …then where do all the calculators go?
Someone has finally bested ‘Rock-a-bye-baby’ as the most terrifying lullaby. =p
Thanks eddurd.
I wonder how many robotic houris tend to those blessed robots in robot heaven? 42, perhaps?
No, exactly 10. The base the number is in is, however, the subject of some debate,,,
Yes, exactly 10. And I bet both of them are just as violent.
Between 1 and 10, what are the odds this question is in binary?
I think there’s a workable t-shirt slogan lurking somewhere in the first panel. You know you’ve been reading webcomics since the mid-2000s if that’s the sort of thing that jumps out at you.
For maternity wear?
Seems like all the remaining robots should be wedges by now.
The running Holy War between the Binarians, the Decimalites , the Brotherhood of Hex and the Reformed Church of Octal lends a poignant counterpoint to the more secular bots’ indiscriminate carnage.
The running Holy War between the Binarians, the Decimalites , the Brotherhood of Hex and the Reformed Church of Octal lends a poignant counterpoint to the more secular bots’ indiscriminate carnage.
Gah, double-post AND failing to appear as a reply to the comment I explicitly replied to (Max’s)? Thanks, forum software :/
“When scientists love science very much…” But which is the mommy and which is the daddy?
hermaphrodites?
father madness, mother science, dancing till the dawn
wake the grumpy uncle helix, cackling aunty tron
glowing beams, horizons torn
to the laboratory born
in bubbling beakers, things are thrown
and that is how the family’s grown
(Slow clap)
I bow to you, sir. Well done.
Wow.
You have activated my inner grammar nazi. It’s ‘PK437 ONLY BLEED’.
I think not. It seems to me that PK437 is a robot, not multiple robots…
I think Treesong meant “BLEED” to match “ASCEND”, which is also a single robot. I don’t know how the red robot is supposed to talk, though.
Funny, I was just thinking about “Robot Wars.” Was there ever an American version of that?
(If not: it was a British show where homemade remote-controlled robots were pitted against each other in gladiator-style combat. Most of them were squat, wheeled contraptions about the size of a lawnmower. It was excellent.)
Battlebots. Sounds like the same basic idea
Yes, the American version was “BattleBots”, although for some reason it was on the Comedy channel. One of the contestants was Grant Imahra from “Mythbusters”.
Why is this a good idea?
Yeah, you get the best fighter out of the lot but you also get the most violent of the lot as well. In this situation you want the most controllable first. Having a killer robot is of limited to no use to you if it won’t obey you or just kill you. These things turn against their own creator at times.
My guess this is a stopgap solution that nobody figured out a way to properly solve. The only thing that can keep a killer robot in check is another killer robot.
Plus what about all the robots that aren’t primary meant for killing? Do they have a separate section? Why is there one that is healing another robot?
Robots that aren’t primarily meant for killing? I think you are misunderstanding the basic principles of mad science here.
You’re forgetting Painbots and Robot Doubles.
Yes, that’s the sort of thing any sane person might spot. Thing is, though….
Yeah, well you know, the major sports leagues never figured out the liabilities of selecting for agression either. And they still manage to be surprised(*) every time another athlete gets arrested regardless of payoffs. (Talk about reality-blindness….)
(*) “Shocked, shocked I tell you…”
Adam: Go back a bit. The important question is “Is this a good idea?”.
If you don’t know the answer to a question like this, why not test it?.
That was almost adorable enough to ignore how horrifying it was.
so that’s where the baby robots come from.
I was told they came by quartcoptor.
Not Amazon? And the quartcopter has a nest on the chimney?
no craigslist, your premier Supplier of infants.
don´t know about the chimney thing. maybe ?