Re: Offseason General Show Chat




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ROBOT B9
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Rarietty wrote:The humans in WALL-E didn't just become fat sacks of lard because they were lazy. They became fat sacks of lard because they lived on a spaceship and their bone density decreased. We're not moving to space, inventing floating chairs or creating robots as smart or humanlike as WALL-E or EVE anytime soon so I think we're good for at least a few more generations. Us humans still have to get stuff done by ourselves, and even with computers it's pretty hard to just sit in one place your whole life unless you have someone else taking care of you.
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Rarietty wrote:The humans in WALL-E didn't just become fat sacks of lard because they were lazy. They became fat sacks of lard because they lived on a spaceship and their bone density decreased. We're not moving to space, inventing floating chairs or creating robots as smart or humanlike as WALL-E or EVE anytime soon so I think we're good for at least a few more generations. Us humans still have to get stuff done by ourselves, and even with computers it's pretty hard to just sit in one place your whole life unless you have someone else taking care of you.
Throbulator wrote:Back in the days the play grounds were all built upon asphalt. Imagine going down the slide a little too fast and -woop- here comes asphalt! Fall off the swing? Heeere's asphalt! That's the kind of shit that builds character.
The telephone is the most dangerous of all because it enters into every dwelling. Its interminable network of wires is a perpetual menace to life and property. In its best performance it is only a convenience. It was never a necessity. In a multitude of cities its service is unsatisfactory and is being dispensed with. It may not be expedient that it should be wholly abolished, but its operation may be so curtailed and systematized as to render it comparatively innocuous.
At present our most dangerous pet is electricity—in the telegraph, the street lamp and the telephone. We have introduced electric power into our simplest domestic industries, and we have woven this most subtile of agents, once active only in the sublimest manifestations of Omnipotence, like a web about our dwellings, and filled our atmosphere with the filaments of death. Already the conservative public has taken the alarm, and it has become our urgent duty, in the interest of personal safety, to clip the pinions of the winged messenger and draw its claws.
For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.
Headless Horse wrote:It takes guts for a show to decide to base a character's schtick around rock puns when you'd think that well had been mined dry fifty years ago by The Flintstones.
SoundMonkey44 wrote:
Remember class....... The only thing that matters in Life are rocks.
what about family?
..... The only two things in life that matter are family & rocks.
Frosthawk wrote:
A real geologist would never admit that anything other than rocks and binge drinking matter.
Foxfyre wrote:Oh no, people are making our lives easier and less uncertain through technology! Now they won't enjoy traveling fifteen miles uphill through the snow both ways to do fun things, which literally everyone did before the existence of computers.
I mean, like, sure, maybe it was an 'adventure', but it's also the romanticization of inconveniences we can easily get around nowadays. It wasn't objectively more interesting or fun, and it certainly won't be to the coming generation that never even grew up in that time.
Headless Horse wrote:It takes guts for a show to decide to base a character's schtick around rock puns when you'd think that well had been mined dry fifty years ago by The Flintstones.
Mechanical Ape wrote:When I was in grade school we'd see safety videos which were all, "Be careful when playing, because even a short fall on blacktop/cement can be very harmful!"It was an era when people were smart enough to know this was dangerous, but not smart enough to say "Hey, maybe we shouldn't build playgrounds this way."