There’s a whole video game series on why this is a terrible idea. (Horizon Zero Dawn)
I really like those games. I just don’t want to be a character in them.
iirc this was just an engine that could run on most combustible hydrocarbons, a small gas turbine and some elaborate digestion setup I seem to remember, and the press really stretched a badly worded explanation of how it worked into ‘it eats corpses’. Which is fair, humans are mostly made from tasty biomass, but still.
edit: here’s a couple sources about it, it sounds like it does indeed run on vegetable biomass.
The photo, however, shows search and rescue robots.
angry War of the Worlds tripod noises
Paging Elisabet Sobek!
If you think about it, any diesel powered vehicle is a robot that eats organisms for fuel.
And more than likely most of us here are using thinking stones powered by electricity created by very large machines far away eating organisms for fuel. Not to mention heating, but not everyone lives where there’s only two seasons; winter and July. (Actually I pay extra to have a 100% renewables contract I think but idk how well those work.)
95% of Finland’s energy is already carbon neutral.
“Carbon-neutral” isn’t synonymous with coming from renewables.
In 2023, the electricity sold to [my energy company] customers was distributed by energy source as follows: 25% renewable energy sources, 28% fossil energy sources and peat, 47% nuclear power.
But my point was rather a rhetorical one on a global level
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 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.
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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BLOOD IS FUEL
dude remember that paper that came out that said “hey, you know we could have a colony on mars and build houses out of blood that’d be pretty fucked up right”
MANKIND IS DEAD
HELL IS FULL
CAPSLOCK IS STUCK
BABA IS YOU
Something something fuck Ted Faro
BLOOD FOR THE OMNISSIAH
Someone got a lil too excited 'bout forever winter
Zero dawn
I read it as "robot that can eat orgasms for fuel. My version is better.
It was fun the first 3 times, but now it’s starting to hurt.
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But that is not our mission, yet.
the orphan crushing machine is complete
finally…
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus“
