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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How else am I going to protect myself from all the flame-throwing robot dogs?

Build a tesla coil for $100.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What if their flame thrower range is longer than the range of my Tesla coil?

Also, how will I get my revenge?

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, how will I get my revenge?

With a fire-extinguisher robot dog?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I can't kill my neighbor who sent the flamethrower robot dog to my house with a fire extinguisher robot dog! Not without plausible deniability anyway.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not quite doable: https://youtu.be/Ry5YEknaxBk

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A 5 minute thing blown up to a 50 minutes action sequence with cars drawing circles in the desert and a helicopter filming infrared and tüdelü, all in 10x repeat, is a sad new high for me.

But of course someone tested that already.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well...That's TV shows for you.
But even better: Between each repeat would be an ad break. :)
At least we don't have that (premium and/or ad blocker) on youtube...

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't notice the ads. Newpipe with sponsorblock i guess?

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What if their flame thrower range is longer than the range of my Tesla coil?

Put your Tesla coil on a long boom. Worked for pikemen.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The nice part of that is that the fire conducts along the electricity

Edit: this was like two weeks ago but it was the other way around I am dumb

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Make use of the only ~~good~~ usefully informative scene in Small Soldiers, and use a power transformer to create a city block radius EMP