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[Xantalos]

I would have a shelf full of Furbies if they did that. What a beautifully horrible idea.

I'd buy a warehouse over the years and torture them into an army of Furby serial killers.

[misko27]

What if someone went super-evil and started mentally torturing the Furbies? Toying with them psychologically. Do we really need to breed another race of psychopaths? Bay12 is already a massive statistical anomaly.

I would have a shelf full of Furbies if they did that. What a beautifully horrible idea.

I'd buy a warehouse over the years and torture them into an army of Furby serial killers.

And then Xan came. And Ninja'd me,, sorta.

Can we use them as Dwarves?

[FearfulJesuit]

I would have a shelf full of Furbies if they did that. What a beautifully horrible idea.

You'd have to make sure they couldn't throw themselves off the shelf. And you'd have to quarantine the psycho Furbies so they didn't abuse the others.

[Flying Dice]

Oh. Ye gods. Give them the capability for some form of environmental manipulation and independent movement (to a useful degree) and we've got real life dorfs.


The future is here, and it is an all-consuming horde of deranged, industrious Furbies.

[Scelly9]

Is it bad that I am really exited for simulated intelligence just so we can put them in solitary and do terrible things to them?

[misko27]

Is it bad that I am really exited for simulated intelligence just so we can put them in solitary and do terrible things to them?

No, It is dwarven.

[Reudh]

There are new Furbies out, apparently. This has given me an idea.

There should be a line of Furbies that have an upper bound on happiness, but no functional lower bound on it. In other words, you could take care of your Furby, and it would act healthy and happy. Or, you could lock it in a dark box, give it its Furby food through a hole in said box, and take it out of the box just to beat it on its head at a random time every day. It would quickly start whimpering, then scream obscenities and muffled pleas for Uncle Furby not to touch it at random, especially in the middle of the night. After a while, it would develop one of a number of preprogrammed psychological disorders; the owner can plug the Furby into the computer for a psychological readout, and nurse it back to health by being calm, kind and predictable, although the Furby will still act irrationally for several weeks and would, depending on disorder, have to be kept away from high ledges or other Furbies (which it might try to abuse or otherwise act inappropriately towards; a hard choice as some disorders might be sped up with socialization of the Furby!). Furbies which were sufficiently fucked up for a long enough period of time can only become functional again up to a point, and all have a possibility, no matter how small, of relapsing and screaming or trying to self-harm.

A perfect gift for the child who has a tendency to forget toys!

Someone needs to crack the things and make it happen.

It would be even more realistic if, just like with people, there were a few Furbies in every hundred or thousand manufactured that developed psychological disorders no matter how you took care of them. You never know what you'll get!

Oh, god. Counterfeit Furbies dropped onto store shelves.

When my sister was younger, she got a Furby for her birthday (in about 1999). Its brain overheated and it shut down. I presume she was shouting at it too much; what happened was its eyes half closed, it uttered a constant 'arhgghghhhhhhghghghgh', and generated a LOT of heat.

:/

[Mego]

There are new Furbies out, apparently. This has given me an idea.

There should be a line of Furbies that have an upper bound on happiness, but no functional lower bound on it. In other words, you could take care of your Furby, and it would act healthy and happy. Or, you could lock it in a dark box, give it its Furby food through a hole in said box, and take it out of the box just to beat it on its head at a random time every day. It would quickly start whimpering, then scream obscenities and muffled pleas for Uncle Furby not to touch it at random, especially in the middle of the night. After a while, it would develop one of a number of preprogrammed psychological disorders; the owner can plug the Furby into the computer for a psychological readout, and nurse it back to health by being calm, kind and predictable, although the Furby will still act irrationally for several weeks and would, depending on disorder, have to be kept away from high ledges or other Furbies (which it might try to abuse or otherwise act inappropriately towards; a hard choice as some disorders might be sped up with socialization of the Furby!). Furbies which were sufficiently fucked up for a long enough period of time can only become functional again up to a point, and all have a possibility, no matter how small, of relapsing and screaming or trying to self-harm.

A perfect gift for the child who has a tendency to forget toys!

Someone needs to crack the things and make it happen.

It would be even more realistic if, just like with people, there were a few Furbies in every hundred or thousand manufactured that developed psychological disorders no matter how you took care of them. You never know what you'll get!

Oh, god. Counterfeit Furbies dropped onto store shelves.

When my sister was younger, she got a Furby for her birthday (in about 1999). Its brain overheated and it shut down. I presume she was shouting at it too much; what happened was its eyes half closed, it uttered a constant 'arhgghghhhhhhghghghgh', and generated a LOT of heat.

:/

So, the standard reaction to being yelled at by a female.

[Bauglir]

So, the standard reaction to being yelled at by a female.

[Scelly9]

Holy crap that is the coolest business card ever.

[MonkeyHead]

Me and 2 mates once took a furby belonging to one of thier younger sisters to a nightclub as a means to meet new and interesting females. It was desperate for sleep, but couldnt due to the noise and lights and so on. It died. She was not impressed.

[misko27]

Me and 2 mates once took a furby belonging to one of thier younger sisters to a nightclub as a means to meet new and interesting females. It was desperate for sleep, but couldnt due to the noise and lights and so on. It died. She was not impressed.

Taking a animatronic to a nightclub is not considered a valid way to meet females in this country.

[Mego]

Me and 2 mates once took a furby belonging to one of thier younger sisters to a nightclub as a means to meet new and interesting females. It was desperate for sleep, but couldnt due to the noise and lights and so on. It died. She was not impressed.

Taking a animatonic to a nightclub is not considered a valid way to meet anyone in this country.

I need to try that. I will, of course, post the results here.

[kaijyuu]

Me and 2 mates once took a furby belonging to one of thier younger sisters to a nightclub as a means to meet new and interesting females. It was desperate for sleep, but couldnt due to the noise and lights and so on. It died. She was not impressed.

Taking a animatronic to a nightclub is not considered a valid way to meet females in this country.

Honestly, it might work.

[misko27]

I'm sorry, do all of you live in Japan or something? Becasue where I come from, having Robot-based life accompany you to a nightclub is a indicator of insanity.
NOT TROLOLO NOOBS
Again, If any of you aer from Japan, this is moot, I apologize.