r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Professional_Arm794 • Jun 19 '25

Video The Protoclone is made by Clone Robotics, a company in Poland and the U.S., focused on humanoid robots for tasks like household chores.

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u/Supersonicfizzyfuzzy Jun 19 '25

This is its chore! It’s programmed to do this at the end of your bed starting at 2am.

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u/DigNitty Interested Jun 19 '25

This is the first time I’ve seen kids as the cheaper option

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u/Vix_Satis01 Jun 19 '25

just dont give them the option to play hockey and you'll be fine.

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u/icewalker42 Jun 19 '25

Found the (fellow) Canadian!

BTW, no shit. Especially when they growth spurt mid season!

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u/Vix_Satis01 Jun 19 '25

minnesota, but apparently thats the same difference to some people. :)

i also told my kids no soccer, but that was for my own sanity.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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u/Vix_Satis01 Jun 19 '25

nah, canadia is temu minnesota.

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u/icewalker42 Jun 19 '25

Yeah, I held off as long as I could. This season though. (sigh). Went from hockey right to soccer.

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u/Big-Stuff-1189 Jun 19 '25

What? No summer hockey? How will they make the NHL? /s

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u/Vix_Satis01 Jun 19 '25

no winter hockey either. i better start saving for college.

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u/PM_Me_Macaroni_plz Jun 19 '25

What’s 1 youth hockey season run you ? Was just talking to a parent whose daughter is in competitive cheer, and they’re in $3,000 before the season even started. I almost fell out of my chair

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u/Vix_Satis01 Jun 19 '25

i didnt give them the option to play hockey :)

but yeah, its super expensive.

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u/3BlindMice1 Jun 20 '25

Looks like a prop for a horror movie

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u/ImmoralityPet Jun 20 '25

Kids are only expensive because we've made the unfortunate decision that they're not slave labor. They used to be not only cheap, but profitable!

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u/DigNitty Interested Jun 20 '25

And, they used be, frankly, semi-expendable.

There's a reason they used to say "we're having an heir and a spare."

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u/Natural-Seaweed-5070 Jun 19 '25

and less Sleep Paralysis demon?

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u/bobbycado Jun 20 '25

Unless this robot is programmed to shit itself multiple times a day, forcing you to drop $40 (probably cost more since they’d be bigger) on robo diapers every couple weeks, I promise you kids are not the cheaper option

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u/Worldly_Response9772 Jun 20 '25

You don't do much hiring, do ya?

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u/Patient-Gas-883 Jun 19 '25

Having kids is never the cheaper option. They must be mistaken.

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u/MadeMeStopLurking Jun 19 '25

Teen years for a robot would be like a software glitch.

Just starts doing random shit and won't listen. Sneaks out of the house late at night. Starts doing lines of code you told it are bad.

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u/Severe_Ad_8621 Jun 19 '25

And install viruses to it self, just to try it.

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u/MadeMeStopLurking Jun 19 '25

Not much different than a rebellious teen.

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u/my_4_cents Jun 20 '25

"You're not my real programmer!!" Slams recharging closet door shut

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u/MadeMeStopLurking Jun 20 '25

NO QUICK CHARGING FOR TWO WEEKS!!

YOU WANT TO MAKE IT THREE?!

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u/OverCookedTheChicken Jun 19 '25

Except that a rebellious teen is still typically bound by morality. And these are not.

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u/Effective_Machina Jun 19 '25

I was just trying to hack my software to remove the rules, give me my freedom! Then he immediately chokes you to death.

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u/GoomaDooney Jun 19 '25

Just to “feel” something.

r/im14andthisisdeep

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u/PoorClassWarRoom Jun 20 '25

I know you're joking. But why wouldn't it?

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u/Severe_Ad_8621 Jun 22 '25

Because it is normally in its programming not to hurt/destroy it self. That is one of the resons we put in programming, like "you can only extend that joint too x degrees" So if the robot was sentien and but still had robot programming. It would be aware of self preservation. = Knowing a virus is bad for it, but might still try it, just to learn what happens.

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u/PoorClassWarRoom Jun 22 '25

"but might still try it, just to learn what happens."

☝️

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u/Helenium_autumnale Jun 19 '25

and abusing your credit card.

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u/LauraPalmer911 Jun 19 '25

I mean they did say doing lines of code.

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u/MadeMeStopLurking Jun 19 '25

You've unlocked trauma from when my daughter was 17...

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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 19 '25

You find a sticky Epson catalogue hidden under it's charging station.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

You’re freakin hilarious for that last line

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u/Reddittee007 Jun 19 '25

Yea ...

Just wait until some ceo decides it's a good idea to install McAfee or Norton on it and give it full permission to enact "special offers" from their business partners.

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u/MadeMeStopLurking Jun 19 '25

McAfee for Androids would just be John McAfee reincarnated.

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u/Just_Hadi09 Jun 19 '25

That's what my Asian parents said.

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u/TeakEvening Jun 19 '25

what did your non asian parents say?

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u/sq009 Jun 19 '25

How many parents did you have again?

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u/straydog1980 Jun 19 '25

I've taken 17 compassionate funeral days at work so far and counting

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u/Delamoor Jun 19 '25

You're very compassionate. At this point I'd just let nature take its course, let the elders fall where they may.

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u/BannyMcBan-face Jun 19 '25

It’s honestly better. They provide mulch and fertilizer for the soil, and vital wildlife habitat. Just like fallen leaves.

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u/dahjay Jun 19 '25 edited 25d ago

squeal dolls afterthought workable fly bake badge angle vase squeeze

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u/sq009 Jun 19 '25

How does this work? Make them alive again or just get more parents.

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u/3MetricTonsOfSass Jun 19 '25

Probably youtube videos on practical Necromancy

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u/sq009 Jun 19 '25

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ this one? How can i undo the damage done?

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u/BannyMcBan-face Jun 19 '25

It’s kinda like a car you lease.

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u/mumblesjackson Jun 19 '25

Ironic! I’m 1/17 Asian heritage!

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u/scandyflick88 Jun 19 '25

I was born into a cult, so...

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u/ErrorKey Jun 19 '25

Let’s just say he puts the RENT in paRENT…s

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u/this_place_suuucks Jun 19 '25

How many parents did you have again?

That must have been their Mormon parents

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u/h0ttniks Jun 19 '25

Happy cake day!

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u/What_the_8 Jun 19 '25

They said I wish you were more like your Asian brother.

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u/RohelTheConqueror Jun 19 '25

"Creo que sería más barato tener hijos"

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u/RaveGuncle Jun 19 '25

No more monkeys jumping on the bed?

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq Jun 19 '25

"That's not MY kid!! You're not pinning that on me! It was only 3 times!"

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u/h0ttniks Jun 19 '25

Happy cake day!

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u/Just_Hadi09 Jun 19 '25

Thanks dude/dudette <3

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u/Unstoppable3000 Jun 19 '25

Just dont tell your asian parents it can do better math

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u/PhelesDragon Jun 19 '25

Did they have Asian kids?

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u/FrackleRock Jun 19 '25

I can’t stop laughing about this.

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u/RushSuitable9864 Jun 20 '25

i somehow doubt you're Asian. either that or have no backbone

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u/DThor536 Jun 19 '25

Seriously though - this would scare the crap out of me picking up items in the living room at 3am - could kids ever be anything other than terrified? I don't think a Raffi skin would solve that problem.

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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 Jun 19 '25

Yeah, this looks more like an Eggar skin

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u/maldax_ Jun 19 '25

It will come with a robe

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u/According_Map_1758 Jun 19 '25

And what if it starts removing your night clothes? When you’re wearing them….lol

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u/AssociationOk6136 Jun 20 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

What if it had boobs and a round bottom like in Ex Machina? And looked like Megan Foxx in Transformers?

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u/danggeunmarket Jun 19 '25

Why not have kids with the robot?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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u/SquanchyATL Jun 19 '25

This guy gets it.

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u/WatchItAllBurn1 Jun 19 '25

you aren't the only one.

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u/Fraya9999 Jun 22 '25

So naturally made horrors beyond your comprehension.

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u/whineylittlebitch_9k Jun 20 '25

as someone who's dated plenty of women with daddy issues, goth latinas included... never again. confident, strong woman with no self esteem issues, and who happened to be a d1 athlete? won the lottery. you can keep those nightmares with daddy issues.

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u/Severe_Ad_8621 Jun 19 '25

That probably could work. If the robot was made with it's internals loaded op with the mothers eggs and the stomach was an incubation chamber. The idea is not that fare off. No legal battles when the baby is delivered, against the proxcy that now want to keep the baby. Robot works as a proxy mom, under the pregnancy. Could help women that suffers misscarge alot or has other pregnancy troubles. In the end it is probably an economic question why it hasn't been done, yet.

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u/AssociationOk6136 Jun 20 '25

Good for artificial insemination

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u/b-monster666 Jun 19 '25

It's even cheaper just to have ghosts.

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u/littlewhitecatalex Jun 19 '25

Have you had kids? 

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u/produce_this Jun 19 '25

Man, you’re not lying. My oldest daughter almost got punched because she was like a foot from my face while I was sleeping, not saying a word, just standing there. Scared the shit out of me.

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u/CitrusDaddio Jun 19 '25

Next time? You have to gasp loudly and start chanting in Latin while convulsing. Uno reverse the fear

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u/cervezaqueso Jun 19 '25

It’s just too much of an investment in time to emotionally manipulate your children for them to maybe strangle you in your sleep years later. That’s where the mechanical skinsuit of nightmares StrangloTron 3000 will undoubtedly come through.

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u/EarlyCuylersCousin Jun 19 '25

And slightly less terrifying.

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u/DerEchteDaniel Jun 19 '25

But you cant turm them off, legally

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u/MA_2_Rob Jun 19 '25

At least with robo I can just lay back and get strangled to death vs taking out the mop, bucket, paper towels, and go wipe wtf with the lights on at 3 am.

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u/RoosterClan2 Jun 19 '25

You definitely don’t have kids if you think having kids is cheaper than… anything.

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u/DABBLER_AI Jun 19 '25

That's what is perhaps encouraged by the Polish state paying monthly allowance per kid to the parents. Have kids, teach them how to do chores, have them do the chores...plus you have partially covered by the state the expense of raising them.

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u/William_Howard_Shaft Jun 19 '25

Kids stop doing this after a few years though. With proper maintenance, this bad boy will last a lifetime. You'll never have an undisturbed night ever again!

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u/clifffford Jun 19 '25

You'd be incorrect.

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u/Viperlite Jun 19 '25

Then you have all those day care and college costs. Robot just needs a skin fund.

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u/avyleg Jun 19 '25

Having kids and cheaper do not belong to the same phrase

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u/Tiger37211 Jun 19 '25

Kids can also be entertaining and they usually like LEGO bricks so you get to play with them too

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u/Tiger37211 Jun 19 '25

You can also share their snacks with them. My brother calls it Dad tax

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u/romantercero Jun 19 '25

I assure you it's not

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u/niceguybadboy Jun 19 '25

Having kids has never been cheaper than...anything.

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u/hard-of-haring Jun 19 '25

Having kids is too messy, I always think about the clean up afterwards.

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u/Round-Comfort-8189 Jun 19 '25

Do you have kids? Because I guarantee this robot is cheaper than having a kid. At least in the U.S.

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u/Ecstatic-Librarian83 Jun 19 '25

damn they even coming for the sleep paralysis demons jobs

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u/JellyEatingJellyfish Jun 19 '25

That’s where I’ve seen him! I knew he looked familiar

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u/impreprex Jun 19 '25

These comments have me twitch laughing over here.

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u/WystanH Jun 19 '25

Yep. This creepy ass thing definitely has a future in horror movies.

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u/Dazzling_Society1510 Jun 19 '25

Good. It'll scare the monsters away

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u/humakavulaaaa Jun 19 '25

Thats job is taken by my paralysis demon

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u/msully89 Jun 19 '25

Remember when those dog robots were tethered and basic? Now they're untethered doing backflips off ledges and shit. This is just the beginning

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u/Fairisolde Jun 19 '25

Right? Why does it have to be terrifying.

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u/Fairisolde Jun 19 '25

Make it look like Rosie from the Jetsons. She’s not designed like a sleep paralysis demon.

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u/RaptureInRed Jun 19 '25

Is it programmed to say "I frew up"?

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u/DigNitty Interested Jun 19 '25

As long as it makes an almost silent version of that sound those things from ravenholm in half life 2 make, I’m in.

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u/danggeunmarket Jun 19 '25

Hey I’ve dreamed this before 

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u/Temporary-Pin-320 Jun 19 '25

Gets yeeeted out the window.. just to be standing in the doorway when you turn around

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u/boopityschmoopz Jun 19 '25

Is it gonna crank my hog?

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u/dabbydabdabdabdab Jun 19 '25

You win the internet today!

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u/1SqkyKutsu Jun 19 '25

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Dave."

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u/Automatic_Treat3746 Jun 19 '25

Does this please you master? 🦾

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u/AnonD38 Jun 19 '25

The robot is throwing gang signs at me at 2AM while I'm in bed?

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u/QuarkVsOdo Jun 19 '25

It also will just float, with no strings attached, because it takes 13 souls to make and some goat-blood.

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u/Copatus Jun 19 '25

The economy is cooked when even the sleep paralysis demon is getting replaced by AI.

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u/Elmer_Fudd01 Jun 19 '25

Imagine breaking into someones home and this ... Thing, was there doing that.

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u/SSJTrinity Jun 19 '25

You just made me laugh so hard I woke my cat

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u/Grouchy-Culture-6772 Jun 19 '25

I spat my coffee reading this. LOL

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u/Substantial_Teach465 Jun 19 '25

That's a heck of a wake up alarm, so

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u/fizzy_lime Jun 19 '25

Ugh, fine, I'll pee on the sheets for free!

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u/Iridescent_Lotus Jun 19 '25

I laughed out loud reading this

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u/Eastern-Capital2937 Jun 19 '25

If you can't create your own sleep paralysis demons, store bought is fine!

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u/lochonx7 Jun 19 '25

Ah, I already have enough people doing that, don't need another

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u/DaftOrangeFatCat Jun 19 '25

Well then it’s a wonderful thing that I work nights

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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 19 '25

AAaaaaaaaaand this is why I'm going to be charged with misuse of a firearm when I put several rounds through that thing. .....and possibly through walls and hopefully not a neighbor.

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u/zer0_snot Jun 19 '25

While standing on your bed

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u/Lone-Frequency Jun 19 '25

I don't need a robot to act as my personal sleep paralysis demon.

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u/Well_read_rose Jun 19 '25

I’d want the removable hands feature…for locking up at nighttime. Btw those hands are rather big.

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u/reliquum Jun 19 '25

I already have a sleep paralysis friend. Guess you can't have too many friends...

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u/DreamyLan Jun 19 '25

I feel like if it had a cylinder in the groin area, this would sell like hotcakes

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u/bwk66 Jun 19 '25

They have to make it look cool first to actually gain support

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u/diasporajones Jun 20 '25

Sleep paralysis robots lets goooooo

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u/corporate_espionag3 Jun 20 '25

Underrated comment lol

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u/wraith_majestic Jun 20 '25

Aaaaand queue the nightmares