• @[email protected]
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    1311 hours ago

    Wanted to know if they made any real advances in muscle actuators so I looked this up. They’re pneumatic, and the model in the photo barely moves and doesn’t stand on its own. An article said they will switch to hydraulics in the future. Neither pneumatics or hydraulics is efficient enough to be useful in a standalone human sized machine, so this looks like more of an art piece aimed at fleecing some idiot venture capitalists.

  • Björn Tantau
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    3216 hours ago

    The real art lies in designing it in such a way the the destruction it will inevitably bring wrecks the building in such a way that someone entering it will find the sticks in the order that will reveal more and more ominous details.

  • @[email protected]
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    I thought stuff like this was cool when I was a kid, and I suppose it is when the technical achievement is only considered. But I’m now I’m left wondering why we would ever want anything like this? It’s meant to replace a person.

    • @Demdaru
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      Efficiency, which these machines probably will not achieve in our lifetimes. When you can simply produce another worker, stuff can be done quicker and safer.

  • @dustyData
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    It looks like Adam from Evangelion. We need to put a restraining exoskeleton on it right now.

  • @littlewonder
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    Looks like a Westworld prototype, designed by a Daft Punk fan.

  • @gedaliyah
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    3322 hours ago

    Day 2: It seems to have shifted overnight. We are adding a continuous power source to prevent failure during unsupervised hours.

    Day 11: More items have gone missing from the lab.

  • bizarroland
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    This is the time to step back and ask ourselves if women’s sex toys have gone too far.

      • @Shapillon
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        Usually clitoral stimulation is more useful than craming something up untip it tickles your eyeball :p

          • @Shapillon
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            418 hours ago

            Myeh idk. I’m probably the least qualified person to butt in.

            Vanilla sexuality makes me really incomfortable, especially penetrative sex. I prefer things like rigging people, impact play, and RP :p

            Otoh, speaking with a lot of other people with vaginas around me, length is usually one of the least important features for penetrative sex. Texture, girth, vibration, clitoral stim, etc almost always rank hier.

            But there are indeed some communities like size queens and kings who really enjoy absurdly long - and sometimes large - toys.

    • @Whats_your_reasoning
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      No need to be jealous now. There’s nothing about this toy that forbids men and enbies from trying it too. ;)

      • @Shapillon
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        There are very few toys that are exclusive to one body type.

        • @JustAnotherKay
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          Depending on how creative you are, there are probably no toys that are exclusive to one body type

          • @Shapillon
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            215 hours ago

            I wanted to avoid using absolutes but I don’t have any counterexamples.

              • @[email protected]
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                No, thats what the gelatin eggs are for. If it goes near the digestive system it must be either edible or have a flared base.

                • @JustAnotherKay
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                  Safety concerns, fair. Silicone can be warmed/chilled though right? Temperature play?

      • @[email protected]
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        720 hours ago

        Frostadottir is a badass last name… Am I wrong to surmise that it means, “frost daughter”?

        • @[email protected]
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          Yes and no. It means Frosti’s daughter because her father’s name is Frosti (Frosti is conjugated to Frosta to mean Frosti’s). All Icelandic “last names” work like that: made from the father’s name and ‘dottir’ or ‘son’. The name Frosti comes from a dwarf in the Eddur and yes is derived from the Icelandic/Old Norse word frost.

        • @Saeveo
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          It’s a patronymic, so she has it because her father’s name is “Frosti”. But that name presumably comes from “frost”.

  • @[email protected]
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    518 hours ago

    I appreciate the vibe, but this thing would be hilariously incompetent. It’d be like if all the sperm in a cum sock each individually gained sentience and tried to control the sock like a mech. That is to say - it would not be very effective.

  • @TootSweet
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    No, robot, the xenomorph is not the “perfect organism.” That’s a bad robot. Now let me inject more milk into your tubes here. I think I’ll call you “Ash”.

  • CaptainBasculin
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    418 hours ago

    man, the audio logs in Watch Dogs were a genius idea; it gives much more insight to the characters you see in the game in a natural way.

  • @[email protected]
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    217 hours ago

    Always but a self destruct on prototypes like this! They’ll never be an iron man rebellion on my watch!