people have been upset about Robots Taking Our Jobs for decades and the flipside worry is that they can do the jobs better. sci-fi posits impossibly strong and incredibly quick androids that are indistinguishable from humans and extremely lethal. furries are just like "he only cares about fucking" or "aaaaaaa h he does everything wrong and , does not have the latest software updates
Eternal life as a machine? Buddy, show me a computer that stays relevant for 15 years, hell one that stays working for 8 is rare enough! Machines with moving parts? Even worse! It's not like the human body isn't a machine with moving parts to start! And that's a self repairing system, I can't imagine dealing with metal fatigue.
I welcome the attempted takeover of the clumsy, horny, patchily updated, scratch built, prototype protogen furry bots and drones. It will be hilarious.
this is why clive is outdated. because that's Computer anyway. people who collect them (like me) are surrounding themselves with machines that were proud of being relevant... for the eight months they were relevant. before the next Mac came out; before the next PC came out; before the next Intel chip came out and suddenly the "i7 10th gen" that looked like a freshly waxed paint job three weeks ago now looks like a clapped out east coast oldsmobile. and very rapidly the aches and pains stack up and become intolerable, and what was a Bitchin Rig turns into a machine you can't get anyone to take. you can't throw it away, though. so it goes in the corner, and sits, and eventually gets relegated to some menial task.
clive is no longer useful. he is still here, though
i have never identified with a protogen until now.
