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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Well now I'm definitely going to have to save up $10,000 for a flame-throwing robot dog.

How else am I going to protect myself from all the flame-throwing robot dogs?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only defense against a bad guy with a flame throwing robot dog, is a good guy with a flame throwing robot dog

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

What about a neutral girl with a flame throwing robot dog?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, a chaotic neutral or lawful good girl with a flame throwing robot dog. There are some nuances if you’re using Pathfinder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'll take all the nuance if it means more flamethrower robot dog gladiator battles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'll take those odds!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

How else am I going to protect myself from all the flame-throwing robot dogs?

Build a tesla coil for $100.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What if their flame thrower range is longer than the range of my Tesla coil?

Also, how will I get my revenge?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also, how will I get my revenge?

With a fire-extinguisher robot dog?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I can't kill my neighbor who sent the flamethrower robot dog to my house with a fire extinguisher robot dog! Not without plausible deniability anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not quite doable: https://youtu.be/Ry5YEknaxBk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

A 5 minute thing blown up to a 50 minutes action sequence with cars drawing circles in the desert and a helicopter filming infrared and tüdelü, all in 10x repeat, is a sad new high for me.

But of course someone tested that already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well...That's TV shows for you.
But even better: Between each repeat would be an ad break. :)
At least we don't have that (premium and/or ad blocker) on youtube...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Didn't notice the ads. Newpipe with sponsorblock i guess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/Ry5YEknaxBk

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Make use of the only ~~good~~ usefully informative scene in Small Soldiers, and use a power transformer to create a city block radius EMP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The nice part of that is that the fire conducts along the electricity

Edit: this was like two weeks ago but it was the other way around I am dumb

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You gotta fight fire with fire