SoVi3t
August 3, 2015, 6:36pm
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Philadelphia may be the City of Brotherly Love — but that compassion apparently does not include robots.
The child-sized robot, hitchBOT, had hitchhiked across Canada and parts of Europe, was damaged beyond repair in Philadelphia, according to its creators.
The robot was designed to be a talking travel companion. It could throw out random factoids.
“We want to see what people do with this kind of technology when we leave it up to them,” Frauke Zeller, one of the creators and an assistant professor in professional communication at Toronto’s Ryerson University, told the AP. “It’s an art project in the wild — it invites people to participate.”
And participate they did. In Germany it attended a wedding, in Amsterdam a weed cafe…in America, it straight up got jacked and left for dead. Stoned Nazi Hookers fell in love with Hitchbot, but degenerate Yanks couldn’t handle all that awesome.
When Skynet kills humanity, we can fondly look back at this day and wonder, “what if”.
first cecil the lion and now this? could any two events matter any less!??
SoVi3t
August 3, 2015, 6:54pm
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…so you’re saying Canada should send robotic lions into USA? I like the way you think!
somebody should send robotic lions SOMEWHERE
Robot’s down. Drake and Justin Beiber to go.
You’re losing this war, Canada. Stop sending us your shit.
Even Voltron would be at risk on the mean streets of the City of Brotherly Love.
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They just had to destroy Hitchbot in my city.
I feel so ashamed being from Philly right now. Fucking animals.
SoVi3t
August 3, 2015, 7:19pm
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Should have invented the snitchbot™ instead and we’d caught the bastards already :grimace:
Nwm hitchbot was mostly black so it was probably da police that did it.
SoVi3t
August 3, 2015, 7:22pm
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omg I’m picturing the robot at the side of the road, spitting out facts, then just mentioning how many police related deaths are caused every year, and cops just laying into it while it continues to spout police brutality facts. omg my sides!!!
on a somewhat related note, I wonder how many people used Hitchbot’s glove hand to jerk off with.
We just saw Hitchbot for what he really was and offed him before he tired something fishy.
America don’t play them games Canada!!!
SoVi3t
August 3, 2015, 7:58pm
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…so no nuclear powered Hitchbot 2.0?
Are his fucking limbs covered with pool noodles? How cheap can you get
No we saw as a product to sell. We had to snuff out the original before someone else would bring it to market. CAPITALISM!
And if they didn’t destroy it cell would reach his perfect form. We should be happy.
I DID NOT DO IT!! I’D FUCK ANYONE UP WHO’D DARE INFLICT HARM ON HITCH!!
Haven’t see it on the news yet, though. Will check out the evening news to see if they talk about it there.
Edit: They just talked about it during the afternoon segment. Hitch’s destruction is a big deal!!
Speaking the truth.
“HItchhiking” yea good one. We all know it was a Skynet spy. I know what city I’m rushing to when the robot apocalypse is about to go down.
thread needs a poll
KILL THE ROBOTS
SAVE THE ROBOTS
That GamesDoneQuick reference… I respect it.
Kill the Robots.