@Kaitensatsuma This is also the society that had golems that seemed to be built purely for entertainment, but had never considered something as fundamental as water pumps. They were on track to invent a golem that stands at a well all day pulling up buckets of water before they had so much as a water screw.
Lying Bastard Robot: "Be careful not to cause vital injury," he said to the fighter pilot 'bots shooting down enemy balloons. Yeah, because we don't want to hurt the people blasting the crap out of the city filled with innocent civilians, but who cares about the people in the houses that these plummeting war-golems crash through? I said it before, but it bears repeating: this MC's no-killing rule only applies to villains, not innocent bystanders. Because apparently screw those guys.