OT Things to ponder

[Lecivius]

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[BBfanboy]

On the subject of things to ponder - I just heard that Britain and France are engaged in Scallop Wars!
Good! It's about time someone gave those creepy little buggers their comeuppance!

Did you know that they have eyes everywhere and are checking out all the human swimmers to see how tight their swimsuits are? I heard they aren't even particular about the gender of the swimmer! And Fox News says they are scouting out the hulls of ships to let the barnacles know which ones lack barnacle colonies!

And then there is the way they filter our pollution out of the water, after we worked so hard to get it there - no consideration for our efforts at all!

And finally, there is the way they taunt us prairie dwellers by being delicious and far away! Cheeky little things even call themselves scallops so we will confuse them with the equally delicious scallions!

So go get them, Britain and France! Vive La Grande Alliance![:)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

On the subject of things to ponder - I just heard that Britain and France are engaged in Scallop Wars!
Good! It's about time someone gave those creepy little buggers their comeuppance!

That's a Hell of a way to talk about the French! [:@]

[Anachro]

Where's Warspite to give comment when you need him?

[Lecivius]

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[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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Not quite accurate. The crossbar underneath the thighs is very uncomfortable. He should have his hockey pants on to deal with that!

[Lecivius]

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[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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[:D][:D]

[Zorch]

Hey Gorn, check this out!

'Robotel: Japan hotel staffed by robot dinosaurs'

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-robotel-j ... robot.html

The reception at the Henn na Hotel east of Tokyo is eerily quiet until customers approach the robot dinosaurs manning the front desk. Their sensors detect the motion and they bellow "Welcome."

It might be about the weirdest check-in experience possible, but that's exactly the point at the Henn na (whose name means 'weird') chain, which bills itself as offering the world's first hotels staffed by robots.

The front desk staff are a pair of giant dinosaurs that look like cast members of the Jurassic Park movies, except for the tiny bellboy hats perched on their heads.

The robo-dinos process check-ins through a tablet system that also allows customers to choose which language—Japanese, English, Chinese or Korean—they want to use to communicate with the multilingual robots.

The effect is bizarre, with the large dinosaurs gesticulating with their long arms and issuing tinny set phrases. Yukio Nagai, manager at the Henn na Hotel Maihama Tokyo Bay, admits some customers find it slightly unnerving.

"We haven't quite figured out when exactly the guests want to be served by people, and when it's okay to be served by robots," he told AFP.

But for other guests the novelty is the charm: each room is staffed with mini-robots that look a bit like spherical Star Wars droid BB-8, and help guests with everything from changing channels to playing music.

Even the fish swimming in the lobby run on batteries, with electric lights in their articulated bodies flickering on and off as they work their way around giant tanks.

"The dinosaurs looked intriguing, and I thought my son would love it," said Chigusa Hosoi, who was at the hotel with her three-year-old.

"My son is really happy. There's an egg-shaped robot inside the room. He was playing with it a lot."

The first Henn na Hotel opened in Nagasaki in 2015, and was certified the following year by Guinness World Records as the world's first hotel with robots on its staff.

The travel agency group that operates the chain now runs eight hotels across the country, all with robots on the staff, some of them dinosaurs, but others taking a more humanoid shape.

The Henn na Hotel in Nagasaki was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's first hotel with robots on staff
Some humans are also on call to intervene in case of glitches, which customer reviews online suggest are a not infrequent problem at check-in.

But Nagai said relying on robots for everything from front desk duty to cleaning had proved an efficient choice in a country with a shrinking labour market.

"It's becoming difficult to secure enough labour at hotels. To solve that problem, we have robots serving guests."

[BBfanboy]

Judging by that last line, they would hire our Gorn on the spot! But he would have to negotiate for 6 hours a day play time for WITP-AE, 4 hours for reading AARs and posting to the forums, and a couple of hours for watching birds to try and catch one for his supper ...

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Judging by that last line, they would hire our Gorn on the spot! But he would have to negotiate for 6 hours a day play time for WITP-AE, 4 hours for reading AARs and posting to the forums, and a couple of hours for watching birds to try and catch one for his supper ...

And he'd fall in love with the 'room service'.

[MuguNiner]

If the following auxiliary ships made it into the game and located at a port would all the units in the port hex have their moral improved and perhaps fatigue raised?

[rustysi]

If the following auxiliary ships made it into the game and located at a port would all the units in the port hex have their moral improved and perhaps fatigue raised?

No, while moral would improve, disablement's would in fact rise.[:'(]

[Lecivius]

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[geofflambert]

Apparently, AW1Steve has been kidnapped by this fellow. I haven't heard from him since he left for Korea.

[Lecivius]

Send lawyers, guns and money!

[geofflambert]

I think I better call Dennis Rodman

[geofflambert]

His line's busy [:@]

[Zorch]

AW1Steve is researching Korean industry so he can prep his marines for a landing.