u/Pasta-hobo

Given that nearly 5,000 years has passed since the start of the war, you'd think Homeworld's tech would be a bit more advanced than what they have now. But the only real major advancement we can say for certain is the upgrade from Ham Radios to Analog TVs, as well as either cheaper production of Black Hole drives or just them becoming standard in lower ranking ships for strategic reasons. Because Pink's ship had it, it's not a new technology.

There's been some advancements in weaponry, with destabilizers and plasma cannons, but that tech was clearly still AROUND towards the start of the war, the weapons utilizing it just weren't being produced yet. You can't tell me rejuvenation, which is clearly a similar tech to destabilization, is an era 2 exclusive technology. Spinel wouldn't have known about it if it were.

Robonoids seem to represent some major technological innovation given how unfamiliar the CGs were with them, but if that's the case it shouldn't have taken them thousands of years to develop them, looking at the tech in the dropships and the temple, this should only represent decades of progress, not millennia. Those are insect-IQ drones.

It wouldn't be surprised if Gems never actually underwent a scientific revolution and their technological advancements are still result of slow mutation of traditional practices. They definitely live long enough for that to be the case.

Given how slowly Gems advance their technology, I wouldn't be surprised if Gems didn't actually come up with their more advanced tech, like interstellar ships and warp pads, but rather inherited them from their creator race or pilfered it from conquered worlds.

Maybe they're like the Combine from Half-Life, where it's clear _they're_ not the ones doing the science.

To quote the immortal Ross Scott, if you go back in time and conquer cavemen with a fighter jet, it doesn't really matter how smart they are, you still have a fighter jet.

It's telling that the most impressive technological advancement we've seen from a Gem was the Breaking Point. It's basically just a drill bit on an arm-mounted pneumatic piston, but it's actually technology. It's something made to solve a problem, confirmation kills, and it didn't take 3,000 years to figure it out.

This would've been the Gem equivalent of figuring out gunpowder.

I think if the Gem War started during, like, WW2 or Apollo era earth, humans would've been able to hold their own against Homeworld. I think their biggest weakness would be guns.

Sideshow Bob is in place of William Afton in Hurricane Utah late 70s onward, with the goal of of childsnatching, covert haunted animatronics, and remnant and agony production, all with the facade of a children's entertainer.

William Afton is in place of Sideshow Bob in Springfield USA, with the goal of killing Bart Simpsons specifically and getting away with it, both legally and in terms of evading any vengeance from friends or family.

Resources are the same, Bob having William's half of Fazbear Inc and possession of Afton Robotics LLC. William having Bob's... essentially nothing.

Who does better?

I'm asking for a specific model, not just an engine type. because obviously Wobbler Steam Engine would win that.

I'm asking for mass-produced engines for actual work that were so highly optimized for as cheap and easy of production as possible.

Chapek 9 is a planet I'm Futurama inhabited entirely by robots, founded 400 years ago by radical robot separatists.

given that we see a wide variety of robots, including the monks of the Order of the Binary Singularity, who view Mom™, who's robotics company wasn't founded until well after Chapek 9, as their creatrix, it seems likely that Chapek 9 has plenty of immigration and modern robotics imported. so these aren't just pre-Farnsworth battery operated units living here. there's plenty of alcohol-powered modern robots.

In the episode Free Will Hunting, we see a farmer robot on Chapek 9 growing what appears to be corn. the stalks look mechanical, but the ears don't, so these might just be odd-looking hydroponics setups.

Corn IRL is the biggest alcohol feedstock, with more than 95% of the words alcohol being produced from it.

the farmer robot also mentions that he has a "sick child to feed" while growing the corn. "feed" is an interesting choice of word for a robot. I think this implies that the corn this robot's growing will be used to produce alcohol to fuel his family.

it's worth noting that this farmer robot is noticably more modern than many of the other robots living on Chapek 9, as are the monks of The Order of the Binary Singularity.

we also have precedent for robots fermenting their own alcohol in survival situations, even if the situation itself was a fabricated memory. in Obsoletely Fabulous, while stranded on an island, Bender attempts to make yam schnapps from foraged yams once he runs out of alcohol. he fails, but the other robots on this admittedly fabricated island seem to have succeeded, as they pour some alcohol-containing liquid into his mouth to revive him. again, while the events were fabricated, they do set a precedent of robots fermenting their own alcohol fuel for survival.

TL:DR

in futurama, any robot produced within the past 75 years are powered by robust yet heavy-polluting alcohol fuel cells. on Chapek 9, a planet inhabited entirely by robots, we see them growing corn, which is the biggest feedstock for alcohol production in real life, as well as the farmer mentioning that he has to feed his child, implying that the robots of Chapek 9 are growing corn to make alcohol in order to fuel themselves.