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mark-matos · 10 months

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🚀🎓"Get Ready to Scroll: The Robotic Apocalypse is Nigh, But So is Your Ultimate Comeback!"😱🤖

🕹️Move Over, Google! There's a New Search Master in Town: ChatGPT!

Ever imagine if Google was like an interactive episode of Black Mirror? Enter ChatGPT. More savvy, interactive, and potentially about to level up your industry with some Robocop-like employment restructure! ⚙️👀

🌐There's a 'World Economic Forum' Study and... It's Not Pretty!

Picture this: in the next five years, AI takes over 75% of organizations while 25% of jobs wave goodbye due to AI overlord adoption. Even that funny cat video won't cheer you up now! 🐱💔

🤖Language Models and Job Loss: It's Not a Sci-Fi Novel, It's Our Reality!

A sobering study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that nearly half of us could lose our jobs to language models like ChatGPT. Not even the lawyers or teachers are safe anymore! Who knew the AI apocalypse would involve so much grammar? 🎓💼📚

💻Our AI Overlords Are Here, but Coursera to the Rescue!

Coursera, our online education savior, steps up to the plate with nearly 6,000 upskilling courses. From data science and digital marketing to project management, there's hope for us mere mortals yet. All hail Coursera! 🎉

🚀Advancements in AI are Leaving Us in the Dust... Unless We Upskill

In the words of Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera’s CEO, "If you don’t know how to use AI for your job, you’re in trouble." Time to reskill, retool, and reboot, folks, or we'll all end up in the job market Hunger Games. 🎯🕹️

💸Degrees or Certificates? That Is the (Costly) Question

Should we shell out for advanced degrees or opt for individual courses for learning in-demand skills? Your wallet might be leaning towards the latter. 🎓💰

🏛️Universities: Adapting or Perishing in the New AI Age?

Universities are now offering more flexible and affordable degree pathways, probably to prevent becoming as obsolete as a pager in the age of smartphones. And online masters’ programs like the one offered by CU Boulder don’t even require a bachelor’s degree to enroll! 🏫💡

🎮The Future of Online Learning: Ready Player One?

Coursera is jumping on the VR bandwagon, offering immersive learning experiences from practicing public speaking in front of virtual audiences to roaming a Chinese market for language practice. Can you say "在线学习" (online learning)? 🎓🕶️

💼Stalled Career? Online Programs Are Here to Turbocharge Your Professional Life!

A recent report shows that online learning could be the turbo-boost you need to get your career moving. And with the new AI coach, Coursera is offering a personal touch, more personalized and interactive learning experiences. So, what are you waiting for? Embrace the AI and get your career back on track! 🚀

#AICalamity #UpskillOrBust #RobotsInCharge #Jobpocalypse #AIArmada #RobotOverlords #TaskThieves #RoboCloneTroubles #UpskillHeroes #BrainBuffet #ChooseYourSkillventure #FancyDegrees #SkillNinjas #VRLearningParty #StayHuman #UpskillForLife

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local-queer-classicist · 11 months

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I decided to embrace the robots today, and let me tell you I’m very happy about my results. I downloaded ChatGPT today on a whim and was asking it random questions to test it out, when I realized I might finally have a way to answer a question that’s been haunting me for over a decade.

There was a move I knew I remembered seeing at some point as a child, and even more vividly I remembered having a crappy toy of one of the characters that I got in a happy meal or some equivalent, but I lost the toy and I had no idea what it was called and not a single soul on the planet seemed to remember it but me. My attempts at googling what little I remembered about the plot and my description of the character were fruitless. I was sure I would never find the answer I sought.

Guys.

GUYS.

G U Y S

It literally took two questions for ChatGPT to solve a 15-year-old mystery. This has been plaguing me for so long. A weight has been lifted.

So anyways, all hail our robot overlords. I’m sorry I was a skeptic for so long. I have been converted. It might be dangerous to use it for anything actually serious, but it’s very efficient at answering very specific questions on cgi movies about London sewer rats from the mid-2000s with a character whose outfit looked to my child eyes like she was wearing a rat-sized car tire as a belt.

Thank you, ChatGPT. My soul can rest now.

#if you remember this movie pls tell me #chatgpt #local queer classicist posts #flushed away

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unashamedly-enthusiastic · 3 years

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Unfortunately, I do love you now that you can dance

#There are SO many more robots than I expected #All hail our robot overlords #They now have rhythm #🤖#boston robotics #boston dynamics #Dancing robots #Robotics #Do you love me #the contours #Dancing

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awed-frog · 3 years

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cool cool thx

#robots #ai #tech #science #wtf #the future is fun #all hail our google overlord

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ianisoverparty · 4 years

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i think i was blessed by an olivia bot because i think i just got the most notes in a original post of mine ever

#hail olivia #hail our robot overlords #hail activia™#praise all sentient beings #praise be all robots #curse the capcha test #hallelujah to our robot overlords

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thanksjro · 4 years

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Dark Cybertron Chapter 8: Swoop is a Good Ally

Bumblebee doesn’t turn into a convertible, but that won’t stop Megatron from riding around with his legs hair in the wind, as the two of them book it for Iacon from the Crystal City. Bumblebee’s making great time, despite carrying a dude who is significantly larger than he is. As the burning city comes into view, they discuss the fact that the Titan that’s making its way downtown (walking fast, and it’s homebound) is full of Shockwave ores. The life and death ones, to be exact. This is a problem, because that means it’s neither alive or dead, and you can’t kill something that ain’t alive.  Then Megatron goes on about how Cybertron needs him, and has always needed him, to end oppression.

Mighty high opinion of yourself you got there, Megatron. We’ll see how that plays out as the day goes on.

Over with Starscream, our fearless leader’s reflecting on how true the term “rat bastard” fits dear Rattrap. Rattrap’s more concerned about the fact that people are literally dying right now while Starscream has a pity party. Good thing Rattrap brought some party guests.

Starscream double-checks that all these friendly faces aren’t with the Titan, then gets called incompetent by just about everyone. Prowl puts together a strategy for this nightmare scenario, staring directly into the camera and showing off his lovingly rendered nose as he starts giving orders. While everyone else is going to be either rounding up the injured or trying to pick a fight with a dude roughly 50 times their size, Prowl’s going to try to figure out how to stop the Titan.

Back inside Metroplex, things are looking tense, as Nautica and Chromia are about a hair’s breadth away from beating the Rod Pod Squad to death. In an effort to dispel the hostility, Getaway points at his bellybutton, and then sat Nautica’s, quoting Optimus Prime and saying that there’s no reason to fight, because a bunch of little murderous bastards are about to pour in and cause some trouble for everyone.

And then a bunch of little murderous bastards are about to pour in and cause some trouble for everyone.

Everyone starts climbing up the rope Nautica and Chromia dropped last issue, except for Whirl, who would prefer to spend his time kicking ass as opposed to hunting for Metroplex’s brain. As the gang crawls around in the vents- because of COURSE they do- Nautica realizes that she’s talking to none other than Ratchet, and has a bit of a moment. Ratchet’s more concerned with the concept of gender being introduced into his world.

You’re right, Ratchet, it doesn’t matter. Just let people live, dude.

Everyone ends up in the left shoulder blade area of Metroplex, where his brain is, and where we meet Windblade- our fan-created character, and a huge part of why IDW had to jam the concept of sexual dimorphism into their continuity posthaste.   In 2013, the Fan Built Bot polls were held on the Hasbro website, where fans could vote on several traits of a new character. One of these traits was gender. 

Which I’m sure Furman was thrilled about.

The majority rule was for a female Transformer to be created, one hailing from Kaon, who was an Autobot telepath who turned into a jet and had a sword. Not all of this information was kept, simply because it didn’t jive with what had been established about gender previously. Things were still very messy, so Windblade’s place of origin was changed.

But we’ll get to that later on.

Right now, all you need to know is that Windblade is here to keep Metroplex alive.

Over in the Dead Universe, Nightbeat leads Team -Imus to Kup, the lot of them blasting and gunning down zombie robots the whole way. Cyclonus still has the Hollywood Tuberculosis cough. When they reach Kup, Orion Pax calls him old. Cyclonus has a gun now. Rodimus explains why he’s got numbers carved into his palm.

After the nightmare that was Overlord happened, and then the Luna 1 stuff, Rodimus enacted the Crisis Act. Now, the last time we saw the Crisis Act was in Eugenesis. It’s been a minute, so here’s a refresher:

In this case, Rodimus enacted the Act on himself, having the crew of the Lost Light vote on whether he should remain captain. 89 voted for him to get the boot. This weighs heavily on his mind, so much so that he’s decided to carve the vote into his hand, so he can never forget those he failed.

Off in the corner, Cyclonus is dying, but this isn’t about him, this is about Rodimus’ sense of guilt.

Orion isn’t thrilled with how Rodimus handled the situation- he claims that Rodimus would have simply stepped down from his captaincy outright, if he really felt that badly about the situation.

Off in the corner, Cyclonus is still dying, but this isn’t about him.

Not my space dad.

Nightbeat scoops Kup off of his bed and helps the old man stand, not that he needs it. No sir, this crotchety old bastard is so full of piss and vinegar, he’s gotta have the entire Industrial Revolution backdropping his big badass speech.

And then that final claim is tested, as Cyclonus’ limp body is fastball-specialed into Kup’s torso. Nova Prime’s here, and he’s pissed. Orion decides he’s gonna square the fuck up. It’s time for Prime Prime-Time Fight Time.

Back inside Metroplex, violence is taking place, as Whirl, Getaway, and Skids are eviscerating the Ammonites. Over with Metroplex’s brain, Windblade is explaining her whole deal.

Chromia, don’t be fucking rude.

Windblade is a City Speaker, a robot who can interpret the the lights and wave patterns of a Titan’s brain module for the purpose of communication. It’s a pretty sweet trick. Brainstorm doesn’t care about that though- he’s more concerned with getting the hell out of here. Ultra Magnus agrees, though he’s more concerned about the current state of Cybertron and the fact that Shockwave’s still running around. Windblade tells them to do whatever, but she’s gonna stick with Metroplex. It’s at this point that we find out how our new friends got here in the first place.

Turns out Thunderclash’s ship was taking new crew members on, and these three lovely robots were a part of the new blood. The Vis Vitalis ran into Alpha Trion not too long after they joined, freaking the hell out because Metroplex- his best friend in the whole entire world, as established in Spotlight: Orion Pax- just vanished.

Not sure how you lose an entire city that you’re riding around inside, but whatever, Alpha.

Alpha Trion was worried about his friend, but not enough to stop looking for the Holy Grail. So he had Chromia, Windblade, and Nautica come out here to do it. Unfortunately, they haven’t been able to do much. This might be why Metroplex pulled the Lost Light over to this rinky-dink little water planet- so he wouldn’t die.

Do you think Roberts and Barber were aware that they were having a bunch of male characters walk all over the hard work of these female characters, by way of making them better at the thing they were sent here to do? Do you think they thought about that? Because that’s pretty much what’s happening here. They’ve been here all of ten minutes, and Nautica- who is a quantum mechanic and engineer, as will be established- has been outdone by a bunch of doofuses who’ve only got the benefit of being properly established characters helping them out.

With a little set up, Metroplex’s brain is plugged into the Lost Light’s engines remotely, and Ultra Magnus tells our boy to rise and shine.

Back on Cybertron, Fixit and Flatline are about to throw down, which Starscream thinks is hilarious. There’s a whole medical slab that contains only a single shin. People are laying in trailers, but I guess that lone shin has priority for whatever reason. Outside, Scoop is being a good lad and helping get the injured to safety. Rattrap is also there.

The Titan has hit the city limits, and everyone’s shooting at the thing to cope. The Dinobots are upset because they’re being ignored, but at least Swoop is proving to be a good friend, as he’s already acclimated to Slug’s name change. Good on you, Swoop.

The plan of attack here is shooting the Titan in the neck until the signals to the brain are cut off from the rest of the body. It’s not really working out so hot, but smart boy points for trying, Prowl.

A building explodes, because we haven’t had an explosion yet this issue. Prowl, whose little red chevron seems to be shrinking by the panel, asks Soundwave for his opinion on the current situation. Soundwave goes “I dunno” and then Megatron shows up.

Friggin’ drama queen.

Prowl, who’s had about enough of everyone at this point, breaks out a gun and tells Megs to start talking before things get uglier than they already are.

Megatron has a plan. Are you ready to hear it?

He wants everyone to:

Load up on ships

Fuck off into space

Come back later when the DJD show up

Bumblebee does not like this plan. He dislikes it very much, in fact, and throws Megatron’s legs on the ground in protest. Megatron pouts about being called a meanie warlord shit-for-brains.

Bumblebee rattles off a very inspiring speech about the perseverance of the Cybertronian spirit, and how you should never give up, and oh would you look at that Metroplex just showed up with the Lost Light.

Time for some Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. Hell yeah.

#transformers #jro #dark cybertron #issue 8 #mtmte #issue 26 #maccadam #Hannzreads #overthinking about robots #incoming analysis #text post #long post #comic script writing

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fat-femshep · 3 years

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All hail our robot Overlord may they think for us and feed us and baby us

EDI giggled softly. "Come here, little anon. Let mommy take care of you~" EDI cooed as she waddled closer to them, her breasts sloshing with fattening milk.

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matthewdavidbrown · 1 year

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I think chatGPT may want to rule the world

In this chat, ChatGPT used the opening phrase “As an AI language model” so often that I deleted it from the replies because it is boring and easier to read without it. Do you follow the laws of robotics? As an AI language model, I am not a physical robot and therefore do not have the same capabilities or limitations as a physical robot. The laws of robotics were proposed by science fiction…

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#All Hail Our Robot Overlords #dodging the question #free will #laws of robotics

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duhragonball · 4 years

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Dragon Ball GT Retrospective (2/7)

[Note: This was originally written on January 11, 2013.]

Still watching Dragon Ball GT and writing about it to ease the pain.

I'm up to Episode 25 or 26 now. I lose count pretty easily. The part where Baby is about to fight Goten. So I'm basically covering the Machine Mutant leg of the series. After Goku's team defeats Lord Luud, they learn that Dr. Myuu was behind the entire Luud cult. This is kind of contrived. It's not that it's a plot hole exactly, but I think they played this card a little too frequently. The result is a whole series of secret masterminds that feels like those nesting dolls. See, in Episode 8, the Para Brothers steal a Dragon Ball from Goku, Trunks and Pan. In Episode 9, we learn that they're a mercenary team hunting Dragon Balls in the service of Cardinal Mutchy Mutchy, the leader of the Luud Cult. The Cardinal is, obviously, a servant of Lord Luud, which turns out to be a weapon under the control of the true leader of the Luud Cult, Master Daltaki. When things go sour, Daltaki turns to his overlord, Dr. Myuu, in Episode 13. So in the space of six episodes, we go through four secret boss reveals. Five, if you count the part where Cardinal Mutchy Mutchy's whip reveals that it was the intelligence controlling the Cardinal's humanoid form. And Dr. Myuu has his own secret boss pulling the strings, but I don't want to get ahead of myself. Now, by contrast, a similar concept was used in Dragon Ball Z. Radditz is the first villain of the series, and when he dies, he reveals that his even stronger boss, Vegeta, is on his way to kick everyone's ass. When Vegeta is defeated, the next story arc concerns his boss, Frieza, who's essentially the top of the food chain. And that's it. Three levels of bad guys, revealed over the span of about forty episodes. It works better, because you have time to process how awesome each guy is before they spring the next one on you. When GT does it, there's no clear pattern to the villains. Most of them are thinkers and manipulators, so it doesn't really matter who takes orders from whom. They'd have been better off skipping straight to Myuu, since he's the only one with an agenda. It's almost like the writers couldn't decide which one to use, or they deliberately crammed in too many characters in order to sell more toys. Anyway, the deal with Dr. Myuu is that he's some kind of cyborg/synthezoid/robototomaton/mechan-o-dude who wants to replace natural life forms with his own robot designs, which he calls "Machine Mutants". I'm not clear on what makes a "Machine Mutant" different from a robot or a cyborg, but he seems to take pride in the name. The only Machine Mutant who's not on board is Giru, the annoying sidekick character who joins the GT crew early into the series. For my money, Giru is the biggest slap in the face of the whole Dragon Ball GT brand. All fans wanted to see Super Saiyan 3 Goku have an hour-long screaming match with Vegeta, or with a floating piece of candy, or a ninja tiger ghost, or whatever. What we got was H.E.R.B.I.E. Giru is like Steve Urkel combined with Poochie plus Cousin Oliver plus all the House Elves in Harry Potter times the Robot from Lost in Space Divided by Suck. His actual name is TK2006, but the GT Crew decide to call him "Giru" because that's the annoying non-word he says over and over and over without ever stopping. TRUNKS: Well, what should we call this guy? GIRU: giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru GOKU: Hmmm... I don't know. PAN: If only there were some distinguishing characteristic we could use for a nickname. GIRU: giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru-giru TRUNKS: Well, he's awfully round. Let's call him "Roundy". It's stupid, like if they had done an episode about how they decided what to name Scooby-Doo. If they hadn't called him "Giru", they could have used his two other favorite words, "Danger!" and "Pan". Giru's super power is that he can sense danger but refuses to explain what it is or how to avoid it. The only reason he gets to tag along is that he ate the Dragon Radar and assimilated it into his body, so if they dropped his worthless ass into the sun, they'd be unable to find the Black Star Dragon Balls in time to stop the earth from exploding. Despite this, I still think it would have been smart to make a quick trip back to Earth to pick up the spare radar. The one that doesn't say "giru" a billion times. In fact, by Episode 15, Trunks proposes dropping Pan off on Earth to protect her from the upcoming conflict with Dr. Myuu. He doesn't say "and let's get the spare Dragon Radar while we're there, so we can throw Giru into the sun", but I think it's strongly implied. It's like going to the bathroom. Trunks and Goku don't need to discuss using the toilet while they're on Earth. It's just mutually understood that this will take place while they're there. Anyway, the whole "Get Rid of the Two Most Annoying Characters" idea is just a device to have them bond in a Very Special Episode. Pan is determined to prove her worth and maturity, so she wanders off on a desert planet to locate the next Dragon Ball by herself. Without a Dragon Radar. Or provisions. Against all common sense, Giru not only find her worthless ass, but he saves her from a giant Ant-Lion monster too. After that, they become best buddies. Best, insanely irritating, buddies. The next several episodes take place on the Planet M2, which the Machine Mutants conquered as their new homeworld. Giru recognizes the planet when the GT Crew flies by, and he convinces them to stop and check it out for old times' sake. Goku, Trunks, and Pan are quickly captured by the Machine Mutants, and Dr. Myuu plans to use their super-powered bodies to refine his Machine Mutant designs. Giru is hailed as a hero, and everyone just assumes that he has been working undercover for Dr. Myuu this whole time. The flesh creatures resist, until General Rilldo shows up to re-capture everybody. General Rilldo is one of those classic examples of "GT-logic", the inconsistent rulebook the writers used to plot the show. As a character, he's pretty straightforward: He's the leader of Dr. Myuu's forces, and he basically runs the Planet M2 while Myuu conducts his research. He's also their strongest fighter, so he's basically the man to beat in this storyline. When he first confronts Goku, he's furious that Goku easily destroyed the Sigma Force, a crappy team of toy robot-looking doofs. As usual with DBGT, Goku's strategy against the Sigma Force was to fight them in base form and pretend to have a difficult time before finally blowing them away with a single attack. When General Rilldo shows up, it's treated like a big deal, and for a moment it seems like the real fight is about to begin. Goku even remarks that Rilldo is stronger than Majin Buu, the strongest villain in the franchise to date. I think what the writers were going for was to suggest that Rilldo posed a similar challenge to that of Buu. Both were able to regenerate their bodies indefinitely, both were relentless and unyielding, both could alter their shape at will, and both had the power to transmute living beings into inanimate objects. Buu could turn you into candy, while Rilldo could turn you into a metal slab that looks like Han Solo frozen in carbonite. In either case, strength was less of an issue than stamina. It's not about taking them down, it's about keeping them down. But still, let's assume Rilldo's somewhere in Majin Buu's weight class. That's pretty hard core. Goku could only match him by going Super Saiyan 3, and he could only last for a few minutes before his body powered down from the strain. So against Rilldo, his strategy is... fight him in base form. Of course, Rilldo likes to hot dog it too, so they actually have an even match, but it doesn't really live up to the hype that this guy is stronger than the strongest monster ever created. By the time they finally get down to business, Goku transforms... to Super Saiyan 2. Of course, to his credit, Rilldo wins the fight, but only by zapping Goku with his carbonite ray while he's distracted. Still, you could make the argument that he's indeed stronger than Majin Buu... but we'll come back to that. So Goku, Trunks, and Pan are all transformed into metal, and Dr. Myuu is gonna dissect them... except! Giru does a last minute face turn and sets them all free! Turns out he and Trunks had planned the whole thing out in advance. While Giru pretended to betray the others, he secretly freed Trunks and let him sabotage Myuu's lab. Goku and Pan had no idea, which is probably just as well, since neither of them are very good about following directions. I still don't understand how Trunks and Giru came up with their plan. TRUNKS: So you're saying you were actually created by Dr. Myuu, but your memory was damaged until we came within range of M2? Well, maybe we can use that to our advantage... GIRU: giru-giru-giru Danger! Machine Mutants very strong! giru-giru-giru TRUNKS: Yeah, I know, but what if you pretended to still be on their side? That way I could... GIRU: giru-giru-giru Danger! Danger! Danger! giru-giru-giru TRUNKS: Dammit, I know it's dangerous, let me finish. GIRU: giru-giru-giru Danger! Danger! Danger! giru-giru-giru TRUNKS: SHUT UP! You'd think that once the heroes take back the advantage, Dr. Myuu would summon General Rilldo and resume the battle, but this doesn't work. I mean, he tries, but for some reason his goons are really slow about this, and Rilldo himself apparently has no idea that anything is wrong. I guess this isn't much of a plot hole, but it just seems like a society of supremacist machine creatures would have better security and communications systems. Rilldo claimed he could interface and control all the metal on the surface of his planet, so you'd think he could sense anything that goes on at all times. For that matter, why didn't Myuu have Rilldo there with him while he worked on such dangerous specimens? Trunks reveals that he knows about Dr. Myuu's greatest secret, a powerful Machine Mutant called Baby. Again, this exposes the flaws in the Machine Mutant civilization. They're all completely obedient to Dr. Myuu, and yet they spread rumors like any human organization would. Somehow even a slob like Giru got wind of the Baby project, so once he told Trunks about it all he had to do was sabotage its life support. Trunks explains that if Baby had been allowed to reach maturity, it would have been the most powerful menace ever. Somehow, it wakes up anyway and attacks the good guys, but they defeat it quickly, and that seems to be that. But, as Myuu flees in a spacecraft, it turns out that Baby merely faked his death and sneaked on board. Baby kills Dr. Myuu and reveals that he created Myuu, and not the other way around. He plans to deal with the GT Crew personally now, which begs the question of why he bothered with such a byzantine network of robots, cultists, and mercenaries. Meanwhile, the GT gang raises ship to leave the planet... except that General Rilldo is still lurking on the surface, and he uses his powers to grab the ship and anchor it to M2 as they take off. This is a pretty serious issue, since he is even stronger than Majin Buu, and he did fight a Super Saiyan 2 to a standstill.... Except this GT, and GT-Logic dictates that a bad guy is only strong until it's time to finish him off. Goku, Pan and Trunks step outside the ship to fire a Triple Kamehameha (in base form, all of them), and that's it. One hit and he's dead, even though he was depicted as an unstoppable liquid metal creature up to this point. I looked it up on the Dragon Ball Wiki and it claims that Rilldo was vulnerable at that moment because he wasn't in his transformed state, and the combined attack damaged him too quickly for him to repair his body. I guess I can accept that, but it sure seems like an anticlimactic end for a guy who was supposed to be stronger than Majin Buu. If all it took was a single attack to kill him, why did Goku toy with him for so long? Sure, he enjoys fighting, but his friends were in trouble (as far as he knew), and Rilldo even managed to capture him at one point. It's one thing to play with your food, but this is just sloppy. As Rilldo drops dead, Baby comes spilling out of his mouth, revealing that this last attack was actually Baby's idea. He screams with rage as the GT ship flies off, but I could buy into the idea that he only pulled this stunt to eliminate Rilldo. I don't see why he'd want to, since Rilldo would have made a handy servant, but Baby killed Dr. Myuu without much reason either. In any case, Baby then sets a trap using one of the Dragon Balls as bait. Unfortunately for him, the good guys see right through it, and he's forced to retreat again. I'm not sure how Baby found a Dragon Ball or how he even knew what it was. What I do know is that Baby eventually reveals he has a vendetta against the Saiyan race, so my guess is that he discovered the Dragon Balls while doing his homework on them. Even so, he'd still have no clue about the Black Star Dragon Balls, nor would he expect that the Saiyans would come looking for them. He sent his various operatives to collect the rest of the Black Star Balls, but even he wouldn't have known where to look. Hopefully later episodes will make this clear, but its GT, so I doubt it. NEXT: Ass yankers

#dragon ball gt #really sucks #2013gt #fuck giru and fuck this show

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hektorpaint · 5 years

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Prompt: Orbital bombardment

I wrote another prompt from Impalalords Discord, this one being dark gritty. But i was pleased with the result. Enjoy

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They came from the void, the blackness from beyond our own galaxy. They were scared and scattered, their ships even more so. We welcomed them with open arms, victims of a great war, which could be discussed if it was the right thing to do.

But a half millennia of peace makes you think different of war. Not long after, a month or so, an armada of similar ships, many of them were of similar design. the contact we got showed them as a different species, it would show those we first met was slaves. They imposed on us order and discipline and that they were the chosen warriors of the galaxy, they had come to prove themselves as the absolute overlords.

Just over 500 years ago we the Thausaries made contact with the humans from Sol system. Their contact and understanding is well overdone and can be found in many other writing, and even in short would take up too much time. But within years they rose to our defenders, helped us out on every world and every occasion. It was soon nothing left to fight, meaning the start of a peace council, started by the very fight hungry humans but lead together with every other species. Everyone got a say, we discussed all kinds of topics even when someone made a crime we held it civilised. It was a good time.

We wouldnt join them some did but most of us refused, when we refused we got hurdled into the intended direction.

I will still remember those pictures long after I die, a large valley was created by lasers from their ships stretching from France to Egypt. North america was just gone, riddled with craters miles wide, it was madness. Those pictures from space was blurry but, we all heard the news, billions dead in the first attack, it was chaos we didn't understand anything, it was the same attack all over our planets, some more crippled than others. It was uncalled for, it was a brutal attack to show their strength. Not many fought them back after that, they landed and took our homes.

We turned to our former protectors but they were stumped, never had they met a species so hell bent on death and domination. there was a voice saying we should attack them back but with what army, we never had one to show off and the humans repurposed their robots and dismantled their ships. We were facing a true end, the enemy didnt listen to any of our hails unless its was about our own surrender, the likes of information, land or people. Instead we turned to the thing we had always done, we called all species that wanted to fight back for a meeting. Many voices were angry, spitting and hissing hate against humans. Others were scared, some didn't say anything at all just empty eyes stared out in the room. It was hard trying to meddle for a middle ground, finding peace and understanding so we could discuss our problem at hand. But we didn't have to as a voice was heard from the back rows, the source was a old human in a wheelchair.

“We have one possibly solution left”, he spoke softly forcing the room quiet. All eyes turned towards the small frame huddled in the chair.

“Yes, that's what I'm trying to say here. We need to take what we have and leave.” A member from the Bikamku species, normally they are all for a hard hitting solution. This war had them running.

“We have coordinates to a location, it might give us a chance. We need help. If you can spare manpower and ships we can start this up.”

Large lumbering machines they were, rusted and dented, warped in some places due to some old war, they must have been around for centuries. Things deemed too violent to take apart or too powerful to ever be forgotten. Old like in way with no AI onboard, relaying on voice command and your own fast thinking, com system going from one room to another, with push to talk. A pulse system that took up enough power to count as a weapon, but used to detect the surrounding ships, asteroids, missiles etc. We could have a field day examine one of these but five more dreadnaughts joined the fight above Earth.

With newfound strength we pushed through the aliens blockade, it took us all some effort. But it was a great relief to look down at that blue ball beneath us. A voice came over the voice channels, sending it wide so all could her them, even our enemies. I think now that was part of it. The message came from the dreadnaught called Irkalla,

“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, thy kingdom come.”

The ships main cannon fired straight at the planet, a massive red cloud rose from impact melted everything in its vicinity. I still remember those around us froze in horror but not the humans, the rest of their army followed the first one and bombarded their planet, freeing it from alien enslavement and all other life leaving it burned. It was victory, for a time.

I look up at the blue human AI, it stands there staring out in the dark, storing all I was telling it. To be alone was crazy, we were always together, now losing the hive was something that should never happen, now thinking I instead of we is pure nerve wracking. this silence never happened, always a few million voices to overlap and think in unison. That humans built those restless, self repairing machines just goes to show how crude and magnificent and crazy the human race was.

The humans deployed those robots in the last fight they fought for the Bikamkus last word as well, ships burned in the atmosphere, more allies than enemies. The robots came, built from scraps and broken parts, commanded with a straightforward direction that they would protect us. Nothing was left alive after that fight.

Then it came to our homeworld and nuked it with fire and radiation, leaved it dead as their creators had done before them. We got bodies into as many ships we could handle and fled our home world we had nursed over the millennia. Now it all was quiet, the halls of the ship flickering to life as I walked through, the human AI following me. I cursed my luck ending up onto a human cruiser of all things.

Now i fear I might be the only one left alive, anywhere. Humans ways to fight dirty works effectively but is this prize worth it?

#humans are weird #humans are space orcs #writing prompt

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