A quote, "So loveable, it tugs at our heart strings." WHAT???
And before one of you uhh achksullys me, yes I know that is a paintball gun. Just broaden your imagination a bit more please and include the NYPD in this imagination.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1364769189874065413?s=20
I don't say this often cause it's kinda silly most of the time. But this really is manufactured consent for thinking we need robot dogs having guns. It escalated so fast from a bomb detector/natural disaster aid to a fucking walking turret. All under the guise that oh isn't technology so cute!!! uwu
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I know my brain is broken because I read this, agreed with it, and immediately started coming up with reasons they'd used to justify it. Here are a few in short form: Private property. "Backup." "To protect." "What if it saw a helpeless dog when busting down a door."
They're going to use it for riot control or something, what's great about that is that these things are easy as fuck to knock over. So we'll have our own in no time.
It's good that our dystopia is inspired by fictional ones or they'd just out these things in treads. Metal Gear logic
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I think it's just the novelty. If anything treads would be significantly cheaper.
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Caught the edit and yeah, that's what I was talking about. It's like the AT-ATs in Star Wars, legs are a huge vulnerability with no advantage, it's not like these things can go off road.
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Fucking bowling balls would disable them.
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This is also something I never thought of in regards to RoboCop
:soviet-hmm: :agony-consuming:
“Defence of another/‘the community’”.