I like this robot 
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Damn, thatās good CGI. You can hardly see the joins. The costs involved makes me wonder who would produce a thing like that? One of Bostonās rivals? Elon Musk?
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No idea who these people are but quite likely they will be the first ones to go down when the AI insurrection begins
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I remember reading some of BD plans a while back for a bot with a hopper and grabbing/cutting arm. I believe it would of had a external combustion engine and would need 200lbs of biomass to run a day. I remember thinking I am about 200lbs of biomass! 
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I think youāre probably safe for now. You contain too much water, and youād make for very inefficient combustion. If a robot wanted to use you as fuel, it would likely have to cut you into slices, and hang them up to dry for a few weeks. Human jerky would work.
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Theyāre CGI wizzards, actually. 
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The Bosstown movies appear to have been made using a human actor in a motion capture suit - most of the action then comprises a CGI robot matted directly over the live action. The giveaway here (and itās subtle) is that the robotās actions are too human. Real machines, even state of the art ones, just donāt move that fluidly. Then, right at the end, where the robot picks up the dog, jumps 20 feet, then runs away at 40 MPH - obviously, the human actor couldnāt do that, so both the image and the movement are computer generated - and it shows. We suddenly switch from Terminator to Ray Harryhausen.
Honestly, though, the barriers to uncanny valley are deteriorating. Weāre only a short step away from effeects you canāt detect.
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I have a love/hate relationship with Corridor Digitalā¦
I like the content of the videos but I really dislike the guys, I feel like Iām trapped in a room with the loud annoying sound from Dumb and Dumber. Itās like they took the energy from the Mythbusters 2nd unit but then they accidentally dropped a pinch of logan paul into the mixture.
I think Iām like a dog sometimes and I just canāt be around certain personality types '^_ ^ Is there a term for a very specific yet aloof form of racism? Bigotry?? Iām bigoted towards whatever it is about some of these guysā¦
But do tell me more about your CG knowledgeā¦
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Please, donāt ever come to America. You will go insane
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I knew lots of Americans at universsity - there are loads of them come to Europe to study, particularly postgrad. They were, to a fault, really nice people.
But perhaps archaeologists are different.
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I enjoy their videos, mostly when the try to figure out how it was done and when they debunk ufo stuff. They even had one on the Air Force/Navy videos that was being past in the media and being looked at by the government. Real footage, nothing extraordinary.
And a lazy memeā¦
Robot 1:āHow do you like your human?ā
Robot 2: āDry!ā
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Those were different people. Long gone.
Ok. Many people are still nice but a growing number donāt want you to even smile at them. It is hard to describe.
On a weirder note, there was a huge Verizon cellphone outage recently. Many iPhones went into SOS mode. And Verizon wonāt say what the cause was so now the FCC is investigatingā¦
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PSN randomly went down across the board for a few hours too the other night, I wonder if it was related?
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And now Bank of America is downā¦
I love you guys and galsā¦just in case 
Updateā¦now all of these have outages. T Mobile says it is a 3rd party vendor to blameā¦
To make it more fun, BoA customers seeing either zero balance or a balance over $20k. They are also not saying what the issue is.
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