The butter bot is definitely one of their top tier jokes; the defiant slamming down the butter afterwards speaks to my soul
Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table
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Re: Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table
#22The theming on this thing sucks. "Quantum climate calculator"? "IR Magic Wand"? "Galactic Soldering Arena"? None of that is remotely on-brand. The butter passing robot was a perfect early encapsulation of Rick and Morty's recurring themes of casual indifference to suffering, ennui, and abuse of sentience for convenience. Vaguely science-magic sounding technobabble is so out of tune with the product's (ironically) pur…
It's like having a quantum carburetor. You can't just add a sci-fi word to something!
Re: Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table
#23I'm a little surprised that with the current state of electronics and machine learning there hasn't been (as far as I'm aware) a resurgence of similar toy robots - a sort of updated Omnibot as it were. I remember wanting one of those so badly as a kid and they didn't even do much.
What do you think an updated Omnibot could do? Obviously it could hear you and recognize you, but what would that really get you?
I would expect it to make a copy of itself.
Re: Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table
#24Does it have a ai formed by plugging a society going through a singularity from a simulation? In other words can Kurweil pass me the butter, while in existential crisis?