Heads up folks, this is one of the people who profits from the current, unofficial, iteration of BotCon, a convention that is currently trying to sell vendor slots for a convention that has no date or city… and seemingly no COVID policy.

And this is far from the first bit of awfulness.

There are other, better, SAFER Transformers fan conventions out there that are far more deserving of your time and money.

lipstickluchador:

horse-is-a-horse-of-course:

cactme:

memewhore:

This might be the worst offer I’ve ever received but it would take all of my strength to not accept.

werewolf boyfriend simulator

you will not see the gates of heaven

therobotmonster:

modern-alebrije:

haljathefangirlcat:

anglerflsh:

I love post like “you all are against rich people until they’re a fictional character” because it’s completely true. I am against rich people until it’s a fictional character. I don’t think liking Scrooge McDuck makes someone a class traitor

#I also dislike murderers until they are a fictional character. That’s how it works.#there is nuance and critical thinking involved in it but I think I can separate a fictional murderer or exploiter from a real person.#but the fact that there’s people that genuinely cannot separate liking a character from liking a real person just baffles me every time

litcherally

A likable billionaire requires a bit more suspension of disbelief than a unicorn, but regardless, they can both exist in fiction.

ampervadasz:

Unmute !

exe-cute-ioner:

You guys, the funniest fucking thing just happened. A group of creators made a crypto currency based off of squid games. The catch was you could buy it, but you COULD NOT sell it. Multiple sources warned it was a scam, citing multiple spelling errors on a hastily put up website that has now vanished. Despite this, $2,000,000 of the currency was bought by crypto traders before the creators pulled the plug and ran with the earnings. Now a whole bunch of crypto bros are crying out about the “fake” currency and lack of regulation which is the selling point of crypto. Paired with the critique of capitalism that is Squid Games it literally couldn’t get more poetic 😂

midnight-defender:

whotfisgina:

please watch this

wow, this might be the only realistic portrayal of metalheads I’ve seen in media

spiritsonic:

spiritsonic:

While exploring death isn’t off the table doing a deep dive on the horrors of war is, IMO, too much. Although the starting status quo for the book was very Sonic Forces, we don’t really want to book to be about Forces forever.

(It’s really messed up that Forces made Knuckles responsible for the deaths of an unknown number of people, and just kept on truckin’??? I think it’s better to just pretend that never happened because with Sega’s preferences for character development, we are not equipped to deal with the appropriate emotional and moral fallout)

don’t say I never did nothin’ for ya

nudityandnerdery:

unmistrusting:

weissfire:

humandryersheet:

luisonte:

Me duele la cabeza

This is actually examples of the field of mathematics called topology and it’s fucking bullshit wizard shit.

finally, applied mathematics

mexicain-sans-frontieres:

eldritchgentleman:

aqueerkettleofish:

alexseanchai:

fucktheflagandfuckyou:

folly-of-alexandria:

g-r-a-v-e-y-a-r-d:

papasmoke:

if you see one of these things take one for the team and light it on fire

oh god. in a very serious way that makes them much harder to fight. previous quadrofracts could be dealt with by use of a hammer to the mid-section. im assuming a well placed .45 round might do the trick now, but that means not getting noticed by fidobot. lets hope it has bad eyesight.

This is always where these damn thing were going and when we said it people would always say we were being killjoys and why couldn’t we “just enjoy the dancing Robots?” I guarantee these things will be deployed for “riot suppression” in only a few years.

THIS THING SHOOTS 6.5mm CREEDMOOR WHAT THE FUCK. FOR REFERENCE, THIS IS WHAT THAT ROUND LOOKS LIKE COMPARED TO A 9mm

GOOD TIME TO SHARE THE BATTERY INFO AGAIN SO YOU CAN SHUT THESE DUDES DONE

[image: first tweet in a thread by Dr. Sarah Taber, who is quote-tweeting The Verge’s tweet that reads “They’re putting guns on robot dogs now” and depicts the said robot dog. Dr. Taber’s full thread is quoted below:]

PSA for anyone who might be dealing with robot gun dogs, from a farm robot specialist who wasn’t really looking at robot wrangling from the public safety standpoint but here we are.

I haven’t worked w police/military robotics so I can’t speak to exactly how these are built.

But I can tell you, IME roboticists can be really naive about environmental conditions: making robots sturdy enough to handle rain, dirt, & other outdoor realities.

For example! I’ve worked w a couple startups that do fruit picking robots. They build the thing, *then* call me in to figure out how to clean it.

And half the time you can’t. Bc the picking arm has all these delicate cameras & servos that can’t get wet.

Folks who build robots at this time tend to be focused on making it do cool things like see, jump, run, & somersault. So they can release teaser videos that make everybody go “wow what a fancy robot”

They tend to be less focused on actual service performance: DURABILITY.

What’s this mean?

The joints, motors, cameras, & other sensors are more exposed than they should be.

It’s easy for water, road salt, grit, etc to get in there and cripple the robot.

I mean look at this thing. That housing’s got more nooks & crannies than a dang English muffin. You think that’s watertight?

For robots that work outside, not even watertight is good enough.

Farms add surfactants (like dish soap) to sprays. They make the sprays stick to leaves & get into all the nooks & crannies of the plant.

So farm robots need surfactant-proof seals. Not just waterproof.

Otherwise after a few hours in the field, you have a mix of dew, mud, soil & grit, and whatever surfactants you put in your last pesticide

mixing together & working their way into all the robot’s delicate parts. Scratching up the cameras. Jamming up the joints & motor.

If there’s any salt or acid in the mix, it’s even worse!

Some soils have a lil salt in them, or an acidic pH. It’s actually pretty common!

The salts or H+ ions work their way into the machine & corrode the shit out of EVERYTHING.

Bye-bye expensive farm robot!

Now let’s apply this to street settings.

Water. Dirt & grit. Road salt.

Just a little salt destroys metal! Even faster if it’s mixed with water, acids, surfactants, &/or grit.

And again, dirt & grit destroy joints.

They scratch up camera lenses & otherwise interfere with sensors.

They also scratch up any corrosion-proof coatings the engineers may have put on there, & expose the metals to water, salt, & acid.

These robots look super-vulnerable to normal wear & tear.

They look even more vulnerable to a super-soaker filled with common household items like salt, vinegar, & just a lil dish soap. Maybe with a lil diatomaceous earth to bump up the scrubbing power.

If they don’t go belly-up from short circuits immediately, they’re still looking at either an expensive tear-town, clean, & rebuild (takes the robot off the street for a few days)

or it’ll go belly-up within a week or two.

Both options are REALLY expensive & frustrating for own

Especially if they get hit with water/salt/acid/grit/soaps ASAP the moment they hit the street again.

Then the robots wind up spending more time in the shop on life support than actually doing their job.

That’s actually a pretty common outcome for automation!

Everyone gets excited about this fancy new machine that’s going to replace people. Then in real life it turns out to be broken all the time, can’t do shit, it’s a giant money pit, & eventually the sponsors give up.

idk just some thoughts on outdoor automation from someone who buries the corpses of failed robots for a living

it’s just really funny to me that these are supposed to be scary but probably can’t stand up to a water balloon full of pickle juice

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Important safety tip. Do not expose robots to dish soap, vinegar, or salt. That would be bad for the robot.

I really really hate how I became disillusioned towards Sci-Fi. All this really cool stuff… but we live in the Cyberpunk dystopia where governments and corporations Will use it to screw us over.

You think cops cause collateral damage? Wait till Spot-209 here starts spitting AP rounds indiscriminately.

isa-ghost:

everythingfox:

tiny hug

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