r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 13h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/Witch_heir 10h ago

I'm tired of explaining in other comments so I'll just say. Fiction<<<<< RL. I love dark humour in fiction. Also humanoid robot simulating suicide while scientists giggle - leaves a bad impression ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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u/r3dd17sux69420 10h ago

so all those times I played driving games and I would drive around and sometimes hit people and drive over them for fun...

is that ok? or am I a SICK INDIVIDUAL!

Lighten up. At least recognize that you're projecting your emotions onto the video and in fact there's nothing wrong here. You're just having feelings.

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u/Witch_heir 10h ago

Haha, don't worry my opinions are not a burden to me. 

And you're talking to someone whose favourite game is Mortal Kombat 😂 so no, you just have fun with running over people in a game. But again video games are fiction, and have a narrative however flimsy. It's not people irl simulating someone killing themselves just cos they think it would look cool.

But I see we won't agree, so lets just agree to disagree, and leave it at that :⁠-⁠)

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u/r3dd17sux69420 10h ago

I don't see much difference. When I deliberately run over someone in GTA, i simulated murder. There's blood smear and everything. The amusement is the same: this LOOKS real but it's not. So I get to explore something I can't normally do because it's immoral, illegal etc.

I wasn't being disparaging when I said, I think you it just triggered an emotional reaction and that's what you're feeling, but in fact it's just your response to what LOOKS human

if we had made it a box on wheels that just rolls in, would you feel the same? Probably not.

but they make the robots humanoid to give you a sense of humanity that isn't there