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Tags: Consumerism, Robots, Subjugation
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(931 votes, average: 4.8 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.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Well, just because the robot doesn’t remember doesn’t make taking it’s life okay, or the same would hold true to humans - if you don’t believe in life after death.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I want to cry now.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
It is all too true.
People often need this kind of reset, especially when they travel to exotic locations to overcome the repetitive circles of their mind.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
awww… i would have given it a better job on top of the whole doing housework on the side thing. Like maybe World of Warcraft.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
LOL, dude that is too funny! I love it.
JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi
August 5th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
D:
oh God.
August 5th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
today is just yesterday’s tomorrow.
with insight towards the computer, it has realized that life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. it’s only existence is to serve the man. it may be one robot, but it’s longing for more. more work, more enjoyment, motivation comes and goes like gas station patrons.
for the man; he reassures this by resetting the robot back to it’s stock condition. he initializes the robot to know of itself, that there is nothing else left. with irony he includes the use of the word ” grown” which is an understatement that the robot cannot grow but can become no more than what it already is.
the longing or seeking as it were, the robot accepting the hug shows of the relationship that each individual can relate to: being lonely.
hugging the man gives reason for finding a value, a place of being. love if you would. to put one’s guard down which in return leads way for mistakes.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
It does raise a interesting issues about rights of self aware intelligences. Anybody else ever notice how in all Sci-Fi movies when a synthetic intelligence discovers that it isn’t human they get really upset. Never, “WOW this is great, it would suck to be human. Thank God…” Maybe that shows us something about how we portray what we don’t want to become. Maybe not.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Poor robot.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:19 am
It’s like a wife! Only the reset button would be a dinner out, or a present…
August 6th, 2008 at 6:07 am
[...] When you’re robot servants become too self-aware (Pic) [...]
August 6th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Where is the joke?
August 21st, 2008 at 1:38 am
panel 4 is the joke, as its assumed that the guy was told by the factory to be a friend / hug the robot every once and awhile, but panel 4 shows that he was told about the reset button that would solve the whole “self aware and mopes around all day” thing, which would also have been solved by being a friend.
August 30th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Wonderful!! I truly appreciate the tragic humor of the comic. That it can create such philosophically relevant questions shows your insight into the human condition in relation to ourselves and our machines…. great indeed.