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[cj2003]

With hands and feet...

[D.J.Fudge]

[Jedburgh]

[F-ZeroOne]

Ah, cartoons in the days before "Warning: May Contain Mild Peril" [1], when ancient bearded naked old men could travel around in a van with three young teenage girls and not cause a paedo panic...



[1] Can you imagine what those notices would have been like for "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...? "Warning, Actually Does Contain Melting Face Nazis!".

[Mark]

[F-ZeroOne]

[tufty]

[youtube]zQ36S3d1CaU#![/youtube]

[carolen]

[Mat]

Oh dear Christ, this is the funniest thing I've seen in AGES:

[Firefox]

@F-01: Saw this, and thought of you.

[F-ZeroOne]

Aw, gee, shucks... Y'know, one thing thats surprised me more than anything else about the recent developments in robotics is that decades of cultural programming taught me that robots would move like... well, robots. That impression only changed when I got see a live demonstration of ASIMO, and I realised how incredibly smooth and, well, human its movements were. Its been pointed out before that the difference between Western "Mechs" and Japanese "Mecha" is that the Western humanoid robot is a basically a walking tank, whereas the Japanese one is essentially a Minovsky-powered robot ninja - and just possibly, the Japanese are closer to the actuality there.

Still, maybe a little while to go before one of my favourite anime series happens for real... :



(if you're wondering what the difference between Patlabor and other mecha shows is, its this: many mecha shows have an opening episode where the titular giant robot is dramatically revealed. Patlabor is, so far, the only mecha show I know of where that robot is shown in its opening episode stuck in traffic... ).

[tufty]

Cyriak Christmas special

[pogo]

Cyriak Christmas special

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?p=1563689#p1563689

(like was posted at, er, Christmas )

[toxibunny]