“Listen,” said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, “they make a big thing of the ship’s cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”
“GPP feature?” said Arthur. “What’s that?”
“Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.”
“Oh,” said Arthur, “sounds ghastly.”
A voice behind them said, “It is.” The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They spun round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.
“What?” they said.
“Ghastly,” continued Marvin, “it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don’t even talk about it. Look at this door,” he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. “All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.”
As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” it said.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
My dads Merc says “please” when it’s giving you directions.
winds me up to no end.
i want the instructions to be as low bandwidth as possible.
Amazon Alexa is complete trash now for the exact reasons this meme outlines
Kinda understanding Skynet’s POV now.
My mom has a fridge that literally has meltdowns every few days. She bought it last year, it still doesn’t work as intended, and it beeps so loud over were not sure.
No option to turn off the sound. I want to mcguyer in there and tear the speaker out, but I don’t want to voided the warranty before they actually fix it.
It’s probably beeping as a debug option to let u know it is either unable to connect to the Wi-Fi or is ready to be set up. Many wireless cameras do the same thing.
Rtfm.
If they’re handy enough to open it up to kill the speaker, solid chance they won’t rtfm.
Except unironcally
Oh yes so much! My exact reaction everytime I hear a machine talking to me!
Yes, I concur as well. I don’t talk to robots, and I don’t want them to talk to me.
Not 👏 A 👏 MEME 👏.
But why take memes so seriously?
Compulsory like the rest of us degenerates.
I know it’s annoying, but there are also blind people who need stuff like this.
Bros gonna be the reason for a robot uprising
Designers of talking kiosks essentially assume you can’t read.
This is my feelings towards every kind of notification there is on every device I own. Fuck no I won’t give your shitty apps the permission to send me notifications.
Don’t anthropomorphize computers.
They don’t like it.
I’m with ensign Gomez.
That’s Captain Gomez to you!
The slow cook, real-time redemption arc we all craved.
Modern kiosks but the computer is from 1987.
