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    Well, untill someone develops an affordable way to construct an effective DEW / EM ‘cannon’ out of old microwave magnetrons, that is actually man portable, and also won’t irradiate the user…

    (Please for the love of god, this is a joke, you will probably seriously injure yourself or worse if you attempt this)

    Best tactic is uh, use a gun.

    Specifically, try to ‘button’ the thing, roughly.

    Aim for the cameras.

    You can’t see it in a still picture, but I think all these models, the main camera is rapidly spinning to capture a 360 visual/lidar image at a very high refresh rate.

    On I think all these models, they’ve got a protective, ‘roll cage’ type construction around these main, spinning camera units.

    For whatever weird reason, in the US, it is much more legal and easy to get ammunition that has good armor penetration properties, than it is to get hollow points, rounds designed to maximize damage to an unarmored fleshbag.

    AR 15 in 5.56 will almost certainly do the job at under 100 to 200 meters, really any very fast caliber that leaves your muzzle at over ~2000 ish fps will probably take out the camera if you can get one solid hit into the spinning part of the camera.

    Alternatively, 12 gauge shotgun slugs are probably beefy enough to significantly fuck these things up with a body or limb shot at … under 100 yards/meters? 50? … 5.56 may be sufficient as well, unforunately, there is a lack of publically available field testing data on this subject.

    Another thing working in your favor is that… this gets dubbed out of many videos of these things… but they are fucking loud, whole lots of actuators and such, they are much easier to hear coming than a similarly sized human or animal.

    Alternative possibly effective strategies would be extremely high lumen, narrow field flashlights, long distance lasers, again aimed at the camera… this will likely reveal your location, but may ‘dazzle’ or stun the bot temporarily.

    Also also: Nets.

    Throw a goddamn high tensile strength trawling net around one of these things, maybe decent chance it does its best impression of an AT AT on Hoth.

    Also x3: They are very heavy, compared to similar sized humans and animals.

    Get them to move over a pit trap, a false, breakaway floor thats over a deep enough pit with water.

    Swimming is not in these things retinues, and they can probably be tricked into thinking a board of shitty plywood is more solid and load bearing than it actually is.

    Or just a sufficiently deep pit.

    Everything I have just mentioned can be done with fairly easily, legally obtainable items in the US.

    (Not that uh, actually doing any of these tactics would be legal.)

    (So uh, don’t.)

    There are lots of illegal things and tactics you could use against these, but my FBI handler is telling me I should maybe slow down a bit.

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      Please for the love of god, this is a joke, you will probably seriously injure yourself or worse if you attempt this

      Kreosan did something like that: https://youtu.be/FIU8WZR9DNA

      Don’t worry, these guys also made an omnidirectional X-Ray “gun”, so their health points probably dropped so far it experienced integer overflow, and now they have superpowers (that’s how it works, right?): https://youtu.be/1gq6Mj49X_8

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      Powerful enough lasers are able to permanently damage CMOS sensors rendering the camera inoperable.

      These are compact enough to be concealed on your person. Great for security cams too.

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        Yes, but…

        1 - To the best of my knowledge, though I could be wrong; lasers that powerful are often not actually generally legal for a normal person to possess/purchase/carry, in many states and cities.

        2 - The cameras on these things are rapidly spinning. I am not 100% certain, but… depending on exact range and power of the laser, the fact that the camera unit is rapidly rotating, would that not diminish the ability of a laser to do a permanent CMOS burnout?

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        1 - My FBI handler suggests you also slow down

        2 - How and or why would making shrapnel include neodymium… do anything special?

        … an… exploding magnet does not generally create some kind of EMP pulse.

        That is maybe how video game / movie logic works, but not actual physics.

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    Don’t worry there will be plenty of police backing the robots up.

    The future of humans will be those that protect the robots and those that need water.

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      “Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.” –Immortan Joe

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    Isn’t gonna be much of a fight when it detects you as a threat and instantly headshots you from 100 feet away.

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      Farenheit 451.

      Montag gets chased by… roughly, robotic cheetahs or leopards, with hypodermic needles for teeth.

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        As one of the many the gets horrible nauseating headaches and emesis at just the tiniest dose of morphine, that scene stuck with me…

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          Sorry to hear that…

          It stuck with me as well, read that book 20+, almost 30+ years ago, in I think 6th grade…

          But conversely, despite having been in many situations in my life where I have been in extreme pain, at a hospital/clinic, I’ve never had or been given morphine or oxy or anything like that.

          Docs/Nurses just don’t believe me, I guess because I am not screaming and flailing and moaning… because I have a higher than normal pain tolerance… they just give me acetometaphen.