Not bad

I think a bigger copout would have been to let the kid live.

"What's the matter? Can't you outrun a bloody moped?" - Princess Di

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Well, I don't get why Blinky killed him instead of doing what he was asked in the correct order.

He asked it to kill his parents, and then himself and then everybody else, right?

And before and after that he asked it to clean the paint. Once before the glitch and once after the glitch, and once while it was glitching, the mom said she should ask Blinky to serve her son as dinner, which it later did, so why didn't it kill his parents first and then kill him and serve him as dinner? In that order.

Why did it act like it had no current orders until the kid threw the remote at it and asked it to clean up the mess? Why did it go back to the former order his mom sarcastically made? Why did it agree to clean up the mess, and then instead got the electric carver to kill him?

I really have no problem with the family being murdered, and then having the cops get murdered as the ending, but I have a problem with the robot not following the orders correctly. I mean,
if the problem is that the robot is too obedient, then show it doing exactly what it is told.
If the problem is that it is truly broken after receiving so many orders at once, it should act glitchy after that, no? I just felt the ending didn't follow any particular formula to make it clear why the robot did what it did.

Who called the police anyways? Why would the robot kill the parents after they called the police? Or did Blinky call the police and report itself?

I would think that as soon as he finished cleaning up the paint, he'd move on to the less urgent orders of killing the parents, then the boy and then everybody else. And then serve some kid meatballs. Or maybe the last thing it would do is clean the paint. I can see how the boy giving so many orders in a row would either cancel out past orders (like hide and seek) or add them to a less urgent queue, but one has to be the case or the other, not both. A 3rd possibility would be that the reset button cleared out past tasks, resulting in no one being murdered. The robot can't choose it's own list order of demands and what the owner wants and doesn't want as much, it can only do what it is programmed to do.

I'm trying to imagine I told my computer to do 5 tasks at once, and how it would process the tasks. Would the easier task be done first or would the last request be completed first as highest priority? Once it froze up on too many tasks, it would either forget the tasks upon reset or it would reexamine it's queue with a fresh start? Would it ask for confirmation to continue with past tasks? Like when my browser closes wrong, and it shows me that I had tabs open, but it doesn't open the tabs automatically. I guess it depends on the software and settings, but reset means reset everything, right?

Once I restart the computer, all the old tasks are forgotten, right? It should be the same with blinky. No kid meatballs, and no killing. Just cleaning up paint and spilled beverage as asked, and whatever tasks asked of him after he is reset.

yea it wasn't bad. it's an absolute DISASTER!!