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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We delivered the car to spec. We have a hamster on a spinning wheel in the engine block now. You can upgrade the engine as part of our enhancement package, which costs an order of magnitude more money for a linear scale in performance.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I'd like to think that hamster wheel to V12 isn't on a linear scale in terms of step-wise upgrades, but you're right that there's no guarantee that they wont just swap in a larger hamster.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At some point going as far as trying to genetically engineer an even larger hamster instead of just changing the design so that it could use multiple smaller but parallel hamsters

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they could invest in hamster-breeder reactor engine, which with enough money injection could create an endless supply of hamsters on wheels competing only for space and attention

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

In fact, maybe we should run offices like that. Just breed developers in a closed system

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 3 days ago

I can't wait for hamster wheel version 12! So much more range than v1

[–] EntirelyUnlovable@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

No no of course not, please feel free to try our new "12 hamsters chained together" package