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Personally, I would be very disinclined to allow anyone actively seeking a moderator role to fill the part.

You may have decided you dislike the forums, but I wish you luck with whatever you do anyway, Gunner-Chan.

Harlan addressed the junk weapon shop owner.

: "Want one more for your pile? I'm selling this Slim Sword of mind. It's seen better days but I figure you could at least melt it down for scrap."

: "And Ketsuki, too. You're not still sticking with this lost cause, are you?"

: "Haven't any of you tried to identify yourselves? These people or golems or whatever they are are probably just defending this place, and think you people are robbers."

Tir has a character?

Okay, I'll get around to giving it to her.

Reminds me, who wants that Clockwork Crossbow? Who even uses crossbows?

Bay12 will certainly be different now

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I don't see truckers getting replaced by robots any time soon. An automated truck would face a vastly more complex job than any automated car and would need to be able to make snap decisions any time, anywhere. Even a truck given a simple point-A-point-B route can still encounter any number of complications inherent with trying to get a 60-foot-long vehicle from place to place.

Truckers often need to get out of their vehicles in order to walk around the environment and judge the best course of action. This is especially true when backing up. No matter how many cameras you stick on every surface of a robotic truck, there will come a time when a different perspective will be needed and the truck will fail.

A robotic truck would also require entirely new equipment. Most trucking companies get by because they use equipment that has been in service for years, even decades. A company wanting to give automated transport a shot would not only need a purpose-built tractor but also trailers equipped with cameras, motorized doors, any amount of monitoring equipment, and I don't even know what else. How will a robotic truck get fuel? Pumping attendants are a thing of the past. And then of course, when things go wrong they become a lot harder and a hell of a lot more expensive to fix.

So it would fail points 3 and 4, and whether it would be better would be a matter of opinion. I'm willing to admit that a robotic truck might be faster, if only because it would likely not require breaks, but that's it.