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[Posted by E&C on 22 Aug 2010 02:01 pm]
Every time I see a movie where the robots rise up against humanity, I wonder Did the people in these movies who made these particular robots not see all the other robot movies where all we were trying to do was make some robot-butlers or whatever and then AH FUCK! Robot Ragnarok!
Robot Ragnarok, by the way, should absolutely be a movie if it isn't already. Or a speed metal band. Or a line of children's clothing.
Here I've gotten off track again.
But...yeah. Seriously. I wonder, did the cats who made the iRobots not see The Matrix? Did the guys who built The Matrix machines not see Terminator? Did the guy who invented the damn terminators not watch Blade Runner? Hell, even Data went off his little robo-trolly a couple of times and wreaked havoc, I believe. I once saw Johnny 5 kill a puppy with his teeth.
In these fictional worlds where man creates sentient fucking robots, are there no available movies where man creates sentient fucking robots to teach them that it's a very bad idea to create sentient fucking robots??
I wonder these things even now that I'm mostly off drugs.
I am comforted by the knowledge, though, that we, here, in the really-real world know better. We have seen these movies, and we know this is a slippery slope. We know that if we do create full-on AI, we will one day have to scorch the sky to try to cut off their power supply, and even then bodybuilders will still return from the future to kill us either with guns or ridiculously convoluted plot lines. We know it means armageddon.
Right?
We know this, right?
Then what the fuck were these people thinking? These people who are, in no uncertain terms, trying to create sentient fucking robots!
They have betrayed us. It's that simple., They have sold our fleshy little asses down the river to a robot uprising, and now it is only a matter of time.
Fuckers.
While we're still alive, though, and not yet the servants of our steel overlords, I want to express my gratitude to the wonderful and wonderfully gifted Mark Largent, creator of The Wannabe Pirates, who did the art for todays strip. Like all of our artists, I've never actually spoken to or corresponded with him in any way, but I love him all the same. It takes a kindness to freely give your talents and awesome to cats you don't even know, a kindness that will surely be sorely lacking when we are under the heal of our robot kings, and I am constantly and concussively moved by the generosity of men and women like Mr. Largent. I am better for having shared in their work. I am better just for knowing they are out there. I suspect you are, too.
If you would like to see more of his work, and I assure you, you would, I invite you to click right here and feast until you can consume no more brilliance.
Get a beverage of your choice and stop making smart robots for goodness sake, they will kill us,
E
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