Daily floof 2017-08-08

@Derpy I just woke up and was coming to post a floof, but this will also do :D

Here is a pup chewing plush Chewie.

Shape-fitting floof

Awesome video of foxes chasing each other while a doggo doesn't care.

Dude, another of these stupid questions that try to assume that spells have no cost. Yes, people, magic is overpowered, but no, it's not free everything. Just because some magic is possible doesn't mean it's easy or that anyone can do it as many times as they want without costs.

I suggest the standard reply for such situations.

Bonus anime somehow-floof cat, from a game called "Castle Cats" I found while searching for a mobile game for a friend that is always talking about cats (basically was trying to find a way to keep said friend busy for a while)

seems the cat is called "Bunny2, which somehow doesn't seem very surprising.

so is it a cat or a bunny?

Maybe its a cross. A bat or cunny.

Bat?

1/4 of mammal species are bats.

that sounds batty

Just spent about 20 minutes updating the ISFDB entry for Galactic Adventures, only to find with a later search that the book was already present under a different title (on the plus side, ISFDB was unaware that they were the same book).

Oh, I think this is an easy one. Quick, let me try to find evidence in the book!

Which one?

@SQB scifi.stackexchange.com/q/166764/4918 "Why did Dumbledore appoint Firenze to teach Divination?"

The SE overlords have replied to my account merge request with a stock text email in just ten days. Yay for speed!

^ floccinaucinihilipilificationa.tumblr.com/post/163952518061

Art by one imGuss.

G'night, folks.

@b_jonas You have become a god.

@DukeZhou re scifi.stackexchange.com/a/166786/4918 , I don't think the Cyberiad really talks about artificial intelligence much. Sure, most of the heros are robots, but they never talk much about how their mind differs from that of meat beings. I guess I should have listed books in my answer that I thought don't involve artificial intelligence, but I was lazy.

@DukeZhou Do you have a specific part or story in the Cyberiad that you think is relevant here?

Not that I want to dissuade you from reading the Cyberiad, mind you. It's a brilliant book, one of Lem's best.

@DukeZhou oh, "Mortal Engines" is an english title for Bajki Robotów? That's why the title wasn't familiar. Anyway, same is true about that as well.

@DukeZhou If you don't want it too central to the story, then I guess Return from the Stars counts too. They do have robots doing most of the dangerous jobs, like firefighting, which allows that humans don't have to perform them, which I guess is sort of important for the plot.

(And also black boxes that make car accidents almost impossible.)

I might actually add Return from the Stars into my answer. The robots are important enough of a plot point now that I think of it, even though we never see them or learn more about how they behave.

@DukeZhou hmm, actually it might be right to count Bajki Robotów, and Cyberiad, the former because the programming of a new robot is shown once, and there it's significant enough that the method of creating robots is very different from creating a human; and Cyberiad might count because of the monster

So even though I thought of these books and discarded them as potential answers, you are probably right to include them.