A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@edsullivan @salixsericea weed whacker! 🤭

[curiously@mastodon.au]

@benroyce oh dear, it's all happening again.
[Checks fuel in flamethrower, quietly hides in cupboard]

[yourautisticlife@mast.yourautisticlife.com]

@benroyce

I think the chainsaw sells the whole thing.

/sarc

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@curiously

how do you hide in the cupboard?

nevermind, i admire the skill. i'm picking you for the team

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@yourautisticlife

/satyre

[macacator@mastodon.social]

@benroyce THEN IT IS A BATTLE IT SHALL HAVE!

[elbeetoots@mastodon.nl]

@AubreyDeLosDestinos @benroyce You can sit on it and hold its horns like you're riding a motorcycle.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@ElBeeToots @AubreyDeLosDestinos

you try first, i'll watch

[benaveling@mastodon.ie]

Or if not exactly hands, for they are certainly not hands in any form that a human would recognise as being hands, but they are still appendages that serve a similar function, for the strange creatures that control them.

@xChaos @plantagolabs @benroyce

[epistomai@mastodon.social]

@benroyce I saw it three days ago, and thought it was the most heavy metal prop like the gigantic spider in the entrance of Hellfest on France

[florapis@toot.wales]

@benroyce it has a sheeps head! Nope, I'd hide

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@benroyce @fruchti
I concur, Ben.
And even anti-dystopian art can be serious and tongue-in-cheek at the same time.

[oyu_fka@mastodon.social]

@VWDasher @benroyce No, it's perfectly safe...as long as you have a gun or knife to shoot/stab it - apparently that will stop it in it's tracks, lol!

[earwigplanet@mastodon.social]

@benroyce That's an enemy from Doom.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@earwigplanet

yup

a vassago

id software released new official material for the original game, two years ago!

old guy here, i played through the new levels

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Oyu_Fka @VWDasher 🥴

[elbosso@mastodon.social]

@benroyce this has to be a meek try at satire/sarcasm. It *has* to...

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Guillotine_Jones @fruchti

i admire him

not for the dystopian or frightening quality of the project, it does turn many off

i admire him for committing so heavily to a vision, whatever the vision

how many of us have passing visions, we amuse ourselves with it and then... nothing. it passes to oblivion

not this guy

and no investors

so the techbro accusations are invalid

he's just a quirky dude with a quirky vision, working hard on it. it's not his fault douchebags might like it

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@elbosso

we've been discussing it

we've rejected the notion it's fake for the sake of media drama

he has no investors and has been working in obscurity on it for 2 years

so it is authentic

but authentic what?

is he an absurdist artist? or is he a sincere dude with a sincere vision, and the rest of us find his sincere vision a little off?

that's the question

[semantikast@openbiblio.social]

@benroyce Well, that's the other half of what @pluralistic is talking about.