Mankind is dead. Blood is fuel. Hell is full.
Screamers was about these war robots that became self aware and began killing not just because you were an enemy soldier but because they could use your body parts to lubricate their gears. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/
Written by Phillip K. Dick
Robot: please remain calm, I’m here to assist you.
Patient: you’re choking me!
Robot: squeezes harder
oh hey isn’t that the backstory to horizon zero dawn?
Well, at least there isn’t a narcissistic tech-billionaire around who doesn’t care about human lives and is closely associated with the government.
The image is old enough for that.
There’s a whole video game series on why this is a terrible idea. (Horizon Zero Dawn)
What’s really concerning is that I have no idea if this is satire.
I think this is actually a real thing, but from like 10 years ago.
edit, there was a DARPA project that created a robot that could consume biomass as fuel, its acronym is EATR. According to wikipedia, it could “only” consume certain types of vegetation. But in the initial proposal, the developers also proposed chicken fat. So honestly, this probably exists and there might be a version of it that can consume meat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
Phew. Chicken fat doesn’t seem very good, as we have enough meat eating already, but man a robot that runs on lettuce would be cool!
The game ‘high on life’ does it better.
MANKIND IS DEAD
BAH GAWD
Nothing is the way it seems / Discerning man from machine / Dominate as to erase / Wiping man off Earth’s face / Fueling engines through deceit / To eradicate humanity / Man is obsolete / Erased, extinct
Defaced by all inept justice / Shamed by the mental abuses / Branded “inferior weakness” / Ordered to cease and to desist! / Man is obsolete!
Our world, obsolete!
-Fear Factory, 1998
“EXTERMINATE!”
It’s called EATR.
of SOLES
Ooo, I think I’ve seen this one
I love how people think this is the robot apocalypse and not the robots that the wealthy already use to fuck us over
Bitch do you know what happens in Horizon where they make SELF REPLICATING SELF THINKING ROBOTS THAT CONSUME BIOMATTER AS FUEL
Fuck Ted Faro
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus“
the orphan crushing machine is complete
finally…
This is the plot of Horizon Zero Dawn
I guess I should get a bow and some arrows.
I had some, before I moved.
Let me just say this, what came easy to young me in boy scouts… well, I’m just glad if I hit a safe area in the general direction I’m aiming.
The other issues is as a boy I shot off the right of the riser on a longbow, and this was an off the left takedown (recurve) bow - still the amount I sucked surprised me a little, lol.
So hopefully you have time to practice.
Probably should spoiler tag that.
It’s really not much of a spoiler.
In general yes, but… that game is now 8 years old, has a successor AND a remaster. So… I don’t really think this is a spoiler anymore at this point.
This is the first time I am knowing of this, that makes it a spoiler.
On the other hand, I don’t plan on playing the game, so I guess it is not a spoiler.
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This is also something you find out fairly early into the game
Isn’t it more towards the end of the first game, that’s when it’s fully revealed
IIRC the full reveal - and also why the game is titled Horizon Zero Dawn - is quite late. But I think the general theme, that those robots run on biomass is mentioned quite early, although not quite in the sense as it is portrayed in the reveal.
