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[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 month ago

This is the plot of Horizon Zero Dawn

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

I guess I should get a bow and some arrows.

[-] Case@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Probably should spoiler tag that.

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

It's really not much of a spoiler.

[-] elvith@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

This is also something you find out fairly early into the game

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Isn't it more towards the end of the first game, that's when it's fully revealed

[-] elvith@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you think about it, any diesel powered vehicle is a robot that eats organisms for fuel.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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.)

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 month ago

oh hey isn't that the backstory to horizon zero dawn?

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, at least there isn't a narcissistic tech-billionaire around who doesn't care about human lives and is closely associated with the government.

[-] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah! Thank god that isn't a thing! Also does anyone have the blueprints for tearblast arrows?

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[-] marble@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago

Paging Elisabet Sobek!

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus“

[-] nectar45@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 month ago
[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 month ago

Bitch do you know what happens in Horizon where they make SELF REPLICATING SELF THINKING ROBOTS THAT CONSUME BIOMATTER AS FUEL

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago

What's really concerning is that I have no idea if this is satire.

[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think this is actually a real thing, but from like 10 years ago.

edit, there was a DARPA project that created a robot that could consume biomass as fuel, its acronym is EATR. According to wikipedia, it could "only" consume certain types of vegetation. But in the initial proposal, the developers also proposed chicken fat. So honestly, this probably exists and there might be a version of it that can consume meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot

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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

the orphan crushing machine is complete

[-] fungalfelidae5@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago
[-] galanthus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

I read it as "robot that can eat orgasms for fuel. My version is better.

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[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Mankind is dead. Blood is fuel. Hell is full.

[-] gerowen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

There's a whole video game series on why this is a terrible idea. (Horizon Zero Dawn)

[-] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I really like those games. I just don't want to be a character in them.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago

Something something fuck Ted Faro

[-] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

EAT THE RICH! wait, what…?!

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 5 points 1 month ago

Not like that!

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] lovely_reader@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The photo, however, shows search and rescue robots.

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

"EXTERMINATE!"

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 1 month ago

Robot: please remain calm, I'm here to assist you.

Patient: you're choking me!

Robot: squeezes harder

[-] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Ooo, I think I've seen this one

I love how people think this is the robot apocalypse and not the robots that the wealthy already use to fuck us over

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[-] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I actually hope this is fake

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
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[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for the black mirror episode based on this, as if the dog robot wasn't terrifying enough.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It's literally the plot to Horizon Zero Dawn

[-] 123nope567@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

BLOOD FOR THE OMNISSIAH

[-] HKPiax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

angry War of the Worlds tripod noises

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