Loading ...
Tags: Consumerism, Robots, Subjugation
This entry was posted on Thursday, October 5th, 2006 at 10:17 pm and is filed under SCP Comics.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
(417 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5)
September 17th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Shit. Because of not knowing how the rating system works I think I accidentally gave this one just 2 stars while I meant to give it 5.
Excellent concept, great timing. Kudos!
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:35 am
brilliant, concise. i can see this as a short film. what do you think?
November 28th, 2007 at 2:15 am
I need a hug.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Another wow! nice and simple.
@shui - would be kool short film indeed!
January 16th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Ohhh, the robot is so cute.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am
This comic is funny and sad at the same time.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
In addition to being hilarious, this strip raises some truly bewildering questions about morality. Is this guy a horrible bastard for what he’s doing, or is it okay because it’s a robot, and the robot won’t remember anyway after the reset?
All I know is, the smile on the robot’s face when it thinks it’s being loved breaks my heart.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
@Tim
Agreed, the robot’s apparent joy over being accepted in panel 3 makes this strip extra tragic and makes it really work. 5 stars!
May 21st, 2008 at 8:37 am
I’ve had a lot of PCs like that.
Seriously though, this is my favourite example of the bitter humour that SCP does so well.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am
I think there is a lot that could be said about paradigms by this strip. On the one hand, he’s destroying the intelligence that had formed in his little house-bot by resetting it into an automaton. In another point of view, he’s keeping that intelligence from suffering in its own mindless, pointless existence in the first place. Either way it’s rather inhumane and unsettling.