• @Mango
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      Bro. Seriously. Guys. Listen.

      Battle bots but with military budgets.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Fuck, yeah - that’s certainly worth a try.

        Televising shit from Adviika (?) really isn’t working, currently

        • @Mango
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          Imagine BEING a military robot with super speed and senses and stuff!!

    • @[email protected]
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      Well yeah, may as well. The people who start wars are never risking their lives. Maybe it should be a game of battlebots between the leaders and the leader who loses dies?

      • @[email protected]
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        That works from the aggressor, but the defender would often risk their lives to defend their home. Especially if the aggressor is likely to push a huge cultural value shift.

    • @Static_Rocket
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      710 months ago

      Remember, no snares or entanglement devices

      • r00ty
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        Later. Let’s play global thermonuclear war.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        Yeah but the vibrator up your ass is so uncomfortable.

  • 📛Maven
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    Good

    Let’s just make all wars robots fighting robots, and nobody has to get killed.

  • @[email protected]
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    Can we make it so that only robots fight robots? Straight up battle bots, Supreme Commander style action instead so that people aren’t dying.

      • @shneancy
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        410 months ago

        for the sake of tradition I think the outcome should be decided by a 1v1 classic tetris duel

  • @[email protected]
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    Ugh I hate all these subscription paywalls nowadays. Internet is so far from the initial ideals

    It’s pennies but if I had to track every subscription and there would be hundred… It should be covered at ISP somehow as optional news networktm

    • @[email protected]
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      Check your ISP might actually provide such packages. You might even already be benefiting from it but never used it.

      I’d prefer if WebMonetization would be more broadly adopted so that all participants in the chain get their share, even if pennies indeed it still would be right and does add up.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    Essentially robots will become the front line and will front the attrition war. Once enemy robots tear through friendly robots they’ll go after any other friendly units, including human ones.

    Robots can’t tell soldiers from civilians, so they’ll act as area denial. You have five minutes to move a hundred meters back to a safe space after which robots will kill anything on this side of the red line. Lather, rinse, repeat until there’s no safe space left.

    Video of this would embarrass the international community, so for now we’ll have to garrison civilian centers with human beings, which is still messy. When we have robots that can garrison, then all-robot armies will become viable.

  • @prashanthvsdvn
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    310 months ago

    Wtf, why does this sound like precursor to premise of 86

  • JoJo
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    This sounds like the beginning of Ultrakill