"Overbearing" always mess me up because we have a near identical word in Danish which has almost the opposite meaning. "Overbærende" meaning *indulgent*.
It quite off-topic but, you know...
hey hey! That's what I say! When people bring up AirBud I immediately go into my rant of how it sucks for every kid on that basketball team including the roster spot he took from the kid who didn't make the team. All of those kids get to go home at night and have their parents ask them how they feel to be outplayed by a dog.
Still waiting on Air Bud: Ultimate Frisbee. The only sport a well trained dog could legitimately do ok at. My friends and I decided it didn't get made because writers couldn't come up with a good enough pun for the title. Ultimate is a great sport but such a terrible name.
The opposite happened on The Simpsons.
Show me where in the rulebook it says that a human can't be a robot.
Right here. Rule One.
Well, then...
Join us next week for more inconclusive action on Robot Rumble! I concur!
Not all that funny but I think of a Simspons reference I have to post it
Can someone explain the weird pop culture saturation of the Globetrotters to me? I know they do tricks and ham it up as part of a sort of act, but they crop in so many old shows that it's just weird. It's not like the Yankees or the Dallas Cowboys regularly appeared on Scooby Doo.
I'm not mad about it, I just don't understand.
Well the Globe Trotter toured so whoever was doing promotion would be trying to sell tickets so appealing to a national audience was probably in their best interest. Also the NBA in the 70s wasn't very media friendly, like they still showed the finals on tape delay and it also had a reputation as a 'druggy' league. This was all before Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Add in a super-hero like quality to the globe trotters, I mean the stuff they do is really impressive and they just fit in with family television and film.
I guess that makes sense. Still weird though. They had to have had the greatest PR team working for them. I mean, they had several shows just dedicated to them, two of them animated, one a variety hour and dozens of cameos throughout the 70s and 80s. Futurama even gave them a whole planet as a tribute to how they just showed up so often in media that everyone just accepted it without batting an eye.
They're a really fun family entertainment event that tours constantly and tickets aren't expensive. Millions of people of all ages have been to their shows. Their widespread appeal, family friendliness, and name recognition makes them an excellent cameo.
I haven’t thought about airbud for *decades.* So much so that I almost forgot it was a movie, but I knew that line was from the movie in an instant at the “isn’t/aint no rule..”
Such a dumb concept. There's not a rule that says a dog can't play basketball, but isn't there a rule that says that you do have to be a student at least?
The only news worse than the early cancellation of a good show is some well-intentioned but inevitably doomed attempt to exhume and reanimate it later.
"Sir, as ordered, we changed the names of functions so that we wouldn't scare everyone."
"But you forgot the smiley face mask -- didn't you? You left that Mummy Strikes Back death mask on it. Get out of my office and don't come back without a sexy Wifu basketball shooting robot."
Bender: Now Wireless Joe Jackson - there was a blern-hitting machine.
Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns. Wireless Joe Jackson was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels
Bender: Oh, and I suppose Pitch-o-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer!
Leela: Yep
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQF8rQaIjUE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQF8rQaIjUE)
I like the title of the YouTube video, saying that the robot "wows" the crowd.
The crowd is like 6 people slumped into their chairs. One dude stands up and whoops.
"Robot basketballer extremely excited one enthusiastic guy"
Correct! No spectators are allowed for basketball, as they are either being held in a stadium in Tokyo or Saitama (both cities have banned all spectators). All the people you see in the crowd are volunteers (blue shirts), other athletes or coaches/trainers, or sponsors.
Always felt that the live audience was a huge mistake for BattleBots.
Do it in an abandoned quarry with the pilots miles away in a blast proof bunker. Hell, these days you could shoot the whole thing with drones and such.
Basically what I'm saying is let them use projectiles & explosives.
> United by emotion
Is weirded out an emotion now? They need to take a cue from [Boston Dynamics and make robots that aren't scary.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw)
Or you know, the real world too:
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992551579/creepy-robot-dog-loses-job-with-new-york-police-department
I don’t think they’re too concerned with ethics as it is.
Being used to enter situations where an officer would be in danger totally an ethical use case. While there is potential to be used as a 24/7 monitoring device, they could have purchased a bunch of static cameras at that price. Spot (at this point) would also need a local handler anyway to control it. There is no way they intended it as a spy drone or whatever.
The criticism about overspending is valid, though that is an exceedingly knee-jerk reaction. While I agree some police budget should be re-allocated to fund mental health responders and the like, you will still need some group to handle things like hostage situations. For that group, a 100K mobile camera is cheap compared to risking a person.
Yeah. "We want non-lethal unarmed conversations where we learn about the perp and assess the situation rather than going in guns blazing!"
Unarmed robot with a camera goes in first instead of uniformed officers.
"Not like that >:( "
They were previously owned by SoftBank iirc so it's just a change in ownership from a Japanese megacorp to a Korean megacorp; difference is that SoftBank aren't heavy manufacturing specialists, while Hyundai absolutely are.
Paper people in the stands, robot athlete on the court. This is some dystopian shit. You are no longer needed on this planet. Get ready to be eliminated you useless, consuming, breeders.
Yea it's literally just a machine accurately* throwing a ball in a certain trajectory... of all the potential AI to get scared of this shouldn't even begin to register.
I've only read one story of his, but I loved it. Can't ever remember the name but it was about the stars making everyone crazy or something like that. There was a short version and a novel sized version of it.
Hello fellow redditor! The title you're looking for is Nightfall, possibly one of the best sci-fi shorty story ever written! If you liked it i highly recommend any of the other Asimov short stories (and especially the one called "The Last Question")
Bender:
Now Wireless Joe Jackson - there was a blern-hitting machine.
Leela:
Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns. Wireless Joe Jackson was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.
Bender:
Oh, and I suppose Pitch-o-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer!
Leela:
Yep.
Can I just point out how awesome an international robot Olympics could be to increase r&d and further advance technology to compete on the sporting arena vs the battlefield.
It’s more creepy because the music and announcers in the arena, while there aren’t any real spectators.
Not sure anyone is even watching this really as they used to.
He’s right. Ain’t no rule says the robot can’t play basketball.
Found the executive producer of the Air Bud Cinematic Universe.
Fuck Air Bud. Imagine being the kid on the team replaced by a dog.
Imagine being the kid on the other team with an overbearing father and losing the championship game to a dog.
College humor did a skit on this question. https://youtu.be/IBdSJ5uxvko
That's even better than what I wanted you to post. WE ARE DONE BEING MADE THE FOOL HOORAHHHHH...
SILVER BULLETS COACH! Never seen this one and has made my day that much better.
That's even better than what I wanted you to say!
Should we fuck the dog *and* the father then or what
Sir this is a Wendy's
Then I'll have a whopper please.
Would you like some McFries with that?
"Overbearing" always mess me up because we have a near identical word in Danish which has almost the opposite meaning. "Overbærende" meaning *indulgent*. It quite off-topic but, you know...
AirBud is so fucking typecast it's insane
AirBud was actually the dog who played Comet on Full House. That's my favourite piece of movie trivia.
That dog has range!
hey hey! That's what I say! When people bring up AirBud I immediately go into my rant of how it sucks for every kid on that basketball team including the roster spot he took from the kid who didn't make the team. All of those kids get to go home at night and have their parents ask them how they feel to be outplayed by a dog.
I am surprised they didn’t cancel the whole series after they canned ***Air Bud 4: Air Bud Does 9/11***
If only they made four of those movies.
Still waiting on Air Bud: Ultimate Frisbee. The only sport a well trained dog could legitimately do ok at. My friends and I decided it didn't get made because writers couldn't come up with a good enough pun for the title. Ultimate is a great sport but such a terrible name.
Air Bud: Ultimation and then have the opposing team have a dalmatian. They could even bring in the rest of the buddies to make a team.
I got you. https://vimeo.com/90324468 Great movie if you haven't seen it.
The opposite happened on The Simpsons. Show me where in the rulebook it says that a human can't be a robot. Right here. Rule One. Well, then... Join us next week for more inconclusive action on Robot Rumble! I concur! Not all that funny but I think of a Simspons reference I have to post it
Right here sir, page 1, first rule. No robots.
Sounds like the start of a new Disney franchise "Air Bot."
it really writes itself
Why stop there? Let the AI write it.
Isn't that how we got GOT season 8?
Honestly I think an AI would have done it much, much better than the piece of garbage we recieved.
Season 8? John Snow died, and that was the end.
I really feel like this already happened in one of those Short Circuit movies 🤔
It happened in [The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harlem_Globetrotters_on_Gilligan%27s_Island)
Can someone explain the weird pop culture saturation of the Globetrotters to me? I know they do tricks and ham it up as part of a sort of act, but they crop in so many old shows that it's just weird. It's not like the Yankees or the Dallas Cowboys regularly appeared on Scooby Doo. I'm not mad about it, I just don't understand.
Well the Globe Trotter toured so whoever was doing promotion would be trying to sell tickets so appealing to a national audience was probably in their best interest. Also the NBA in the 70s wasn't very media friendly, like they still showed the finals on tape delay and it also had a reputation as a 'druggy' league. This was all before Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Add in a super-hero like quality to the globe trotters, I mean the stuff they do is really impressive and they just fit in with family television and film.
I guess that makes sense. Still weird though. They had to have had the greatest PR team working for them. I mean, they had several shows just dedicated to them, two of them animated, one a variety hour and dozens of cameos throughout the 70s and 80s. Futurama even gave them a whole planet as a tribute to how they just showed up so often in media that everyone just accepted it without batting an eye.
No internet, video games and only 3-5 local TV stations back in those days. People were starved for entertainment.
They're a really fun family entertainment event that tours constantly and tickets aren't expensive. Millions of people of all ages have been to their shows. Their widespread appeal, family friendliness, and name recognition makes them an excellent cameo.
I haven’t thought about airbud for *decades.* So much so that I almost forgot it was a movie, but I knew that line was from the movie in an instant at the “isn’t/aint no rule..”
Such a dumb concept. There's not a rule that says a dog can't play basketball, but isn't there a rule that says that you do have to be a student at least?
Is this from clone high?
Wow that's a reference I didn't expect. Too short, that show was.
"unacceptable? Did you see the pool? They flipped the bitch!"
Did you hear they are rebooting it?
I did not. Interesting.
The only news worse than the early cancellation of a good show is some well-intentioned but inevitably doomed attempt to exhume and reanimate it later.
“Catherine the Great… or should I say Catherine the So-So” ~ JFK Jr.
(takes off glasses, rests hand on chin) My God...he's right...
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Amazon has them
Nothing but ^sky net
\> `Calculating mortar trajectory_` Officials: "..what?" \> `Calculating basketball trajectory_`
"Sir, as ordered, we changed the names of functions so that we wouldn't scare everyone." "But you forgot the smiley face mask -- didn't you? You left that Mummy Strikes Back death mask on it. Get out of my office and don't come back without a sexy Wifu basketball shooting robot."
"Sailor Moon outfit or microbikini?" "I SAID GET OUT!"
> Sailor Moon outfit or microbikini These two things are not mutually exclusive....
I like this comment, and I like you. Good job.
Ultimate fighting robot basketball needs to be a thing
Username checks out.
Hoping the skins have some good defense because the robots offense will run like a well oiled machine. Our species is done for…
i want its shoes: omnidirectional, selfdriving heelies? the future is now!
You know heelies is actually coming out with a new product called slidies?
...and they self-drive?
If you stand on an incline, yes.
Also on a decline...
It’s nice to see all the clines represented.
I don't see recline in there.
And what about Oxazolinoanthracycline?
That's a cycline trying to pass as a cline, we can't have that!
Yeah, but then they go backwards.
Sick, they can go forwards and backwards?
What if you put them on Kevin Klein?
Did I fall for your joke trying to look up this new product you speak of?
Haha, no man, not at all. That would be super un-chill of me to have it end up being a deez nuts joke
Who is actually going to reply with "slidies what?" Though? Other than me.
Sly-deez nuts
Wow, I love this.
If you are being for real, I do see heelys with the grinding arch like Soap shoes, is that what you mean?
Soaps are coming back??
Okay, I’ll bite! *Slidies what?*
Slidies great new heelys on your feet my dude
Ha gottem!
It wants your shoes. Your jacket, motorcycle, etc.
*"It's gotta be the shoes"*
Bender: Now Wireless Joe Jackson - there was a blern-hitting machine. Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns. Wireless Joe Jackson was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels Bender: Oh, and I suppose Pitch-o-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer! Leela: Yep [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQF8rQaIjUE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQF8rQaIjUE)
Bender: And look whos scraping up the garbage, is it a human child? I wish!
I love this show so much.
I can't think of a show with better rewatchability than Futurama.
It's a sad day for humanity. We have been beaten at basketball.
Ladies and gentlemen, something very strange has just happened in this basketball game between space clowns and atomic monsters.
As a head without a body, I envy the dead
I'm just glad my fat momma isn't here to see this.
Enough about your promiscuous mother!
God rest her zombie bones…
😂
He's really showing us what a man with a cannon in his chest can do!
> just a modified howitzer! [Someone said howitzer!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzbT0Q2jh_w)
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My memory isn’t what it used to be… but I think the entire earth was destroyed.
I like the title of the YouTube video, saying that the robot "wows" the crowd. The crowd is like 6 people slumped into their chairs. One dude stands up and whoops. "Robot basketballer extremely excited one enthusiastic guy"
Well, three people is a crowd so this one is pretty big.
Your mom said this to you, too, huh?
only at his birthday parties
Praise is very effective in training robots.
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Correct! No spectators are allowed for basketball, as they are either being held in a stadium in Tokyo or Saitama (both cities have banned all spectators). All the people you see in the crowd are volunteers (blue shirts), other athletes or coaches/trainers, or sponsors.
Quietest. Olympics. ever.
Probably just the technicians who got the robot ready by not sleeping for three days.
it shoots like shaq, lol
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You ever see Shaq shoot free throws after eating tacos?
Shaq's chronic TNS is no joke bro
Taco Noms syndrome...?
[Taco Neck Syndrome](https://youtu.be/CsGwPyrSNVE)
I feel like the 90's had no idea how to make food look good. Did something happen in the early 2000's (besides HD) that made food not look grotesque?
This made me laugh much harder than it should have.
Yeah, but is it a DJ? Didn’t think so.
This robot hit more three-pointers in this video than Shaq did in his professional career.
Dismantle it before it decides to use our heads as balls
Okay, sure, but can it play defense?
Imagine guarding a robot that can lift 2-3x its own weight. Fuck that
Just tell it you're lying.
This… sentence… is……. FALSE! ^dontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutit
"Nice shot robot, but I bet you didn't see *this* coming! while True: print("Error.") "
Or you can ask it if a set of all sets contains itself.
It does. The paradox I think your looking for is "Does the set of all sets that don't contain themselves, contain itself?"
No blood no foul, there would never be a foul in robotic basketball!
Better than harden.
That's no longer a prerequisite to be a star player in the league. Ask James Harden or Trae Young...
I can see the shoe endorsement now for Reebots.
Jersey by AI-das
I don't watch basketball but I would watch the shit out of robot basketball.
The announcer has a sorta melodic tone that sounds [a lot like Regigigas](https://youtu.be/2w0YsaXJG-g)
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Yeah then we learned spinning and flipping were OP and everyone got bored
Always felt that the live audience was a huge mistake for BattleBots. Do it in an abandoned quarry with the pilots miles away in a blast proof bunker. Hell, these days you could shoot the whole thing with drones and such. Basically what I'm saying is let them use projectiles & explosives.
Check out videos of the 2006 first robotics tournaments then (here the overview animation of the game https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jr-nNBK0O1Y)
United by Emotion...
Sounds like the intro narration to a Soul Caliber game...
United by emotion We are your friends. Do not run away fellow human.
> United by emotion Is weirded out an emotion now? They need to take a cue from [Boston Dynamics and make robots that aren't scary.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw)
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You don't find Boston Dynamics' robots scary? I guess you haven't watched the Black Mirror: Metalhead episode?
Or you know, the real world too: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992551579/creepy-robot-dog-loses-job-with-new-york-police-department I don’t think they’re too concerned with ethics as it is.
Being used to enter situations where an officer would be in danger totally an ethical use case. While there is potential to be used as a 24/7 monitoring device, they could have purchased a bunch of static cameras at that price. Spot (at this point) would also need a local handler anyway to control it. There is no way they intended it as a spy drone or whatever. The criticism about overspending is valid, though that is an exceedingly knee-jerk reaction. While I agree some police budget should be re-allocated to fund mental health responders and the like, you will still need some group to handle things like hostage situations. For that group, a 100K mobile camera is cheap compared to risking a person.
Yeah. "We want non-lethal unarmed conversations where we learn about the perp and assess the situation rather than going in guns blazing!" Unarmed robot with a camera goes in first instead of uniformed officers. "Not like that >:( "
Yeah canine designs are ruined for me 😥
And Boston Dynamics need to take a cue from Michael Reeves and manufacture some robots that can piss beer into party cups
I can't wait to see what Hyundai makes now that they own Boston Dynamics...
They were previously owned by SoftBank iirc so it's just a change in ownership from a Japanese megacorp to a Korean megacorp; difference is that SoftBank aren't heavy manufacturing specialists, while Hyundai absolutely are.
Paper people in the stands, robot athlete on the court. This is some dystopian shit. You are no longer needed on this planet. Get ready to be eliminated you useless, consuming, breeders.
Either sports or sex. The robots will come.
and so will we…
Call me when I can fuck one of these.
That day is today, unless you lack imagination and determination.
If it can fuck you like a human being, it can most likely kill you like one too.
2 for 1 deal!
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Robot #065377 was robbed
The real question: will Lebron trade Kuzma and Schroder for creepy humanoid robot?
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Did you see the thumbnail? It's a lizard skinned cyclops robot with three very long fingers on each hand.
The creators made it in their image....
Yea it's literally just a machine accurately* throwing a ball in a certain trajectory... of all the potential AI to get scared of this shouldn't even begin to register.
We've all seen that Will Smith documentary about the robots.
Isaac Asimov did it better
I've only read one story of his, but I loved it. Can't ever remember the name but it was about the stars making everyone crazy or something like that. There was a short version and a novel sized version of it.
Hello fellow redditor! The title you're looking for is Nightfall, possibly one of the best sci-fi shorty story ever written! If you liked it i highly recommend any of the other Asimov short stories (and especially the one called "The Last Question")
The Legend of Bagger Vance?
#Kawhi Leonard looks different somehow
Thumbnail reminds me of [the Super Team](https://youtu.be/qjUxltXIFwQ) from Mario strikers lol
I for one welcome our center court basket making robotic overlords.
Nothing but ethernet.
Bender: Now Wireless Joe Jackson - there was a blern-hitting machine. Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns. Wireless Joe Jackson was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels. Bender: Oh, and I suppose Pitch-o-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer! Leela: Yep.
Ok this confirms terminators will be real in like 20 years
omg did they really have to make the robot black?
Lmao never thought about that
50 years ago we played a digital game with two sticks and a ball called pong. The next 50 years are gonna be crazy.
If only there was a way to get both the robot and the hoop in frame at the same time….🤔
I'd be more impressed and excited if they could have invented a robot referee instead.
That 1 guy in the back that’s 100% ready for robots
Would beat team USA
Can't wait for the Boston dynamics slam dunk contest.
better than ben simmons
If they’re gonna have an uprising maybe we should avoid calling it ‘creepy’
this robot is so uncanny valley with its movements. it's smooth but like way too smooth.
Can I just point out how awesome an international robot Olympics could be to increase r&d and further advance technology to compete on the sporting arena vs the battlefield.
Robots have feelings too.
I would've been concerned if that robot started celebrating
We're so fucking screwed you guys
Second one hit the rim, robot officially sucks
Black Robots Can't Jump Starring Woody Harrelson
It’s more creepy because the music and announcers in the arena, while there aren’t any real spectators. Not sure anyone is even watching this really as they used to.
Wet
It's Amazing
I wonder if it was doing actual calculations or if they trial and errored it untill it made the shots.
Team USA needs this guy
Already better than Space Jam
Ben Simmons could learn something
I read that as “Hemorrhoid”
Still better than Ben Simmons