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The opposite of [[Walking Techbane]].
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** This is [[Truth in Television]] for older soda vending machines. Proper abuse would frequently result in merchandise or a failure in the coin-return system, causing the machine to spit soda and cash everywhere.
== [[Tabletop RPG
* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', if an Ork [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|thinks a machine will work]], it will.
** A character in one of the [[Ciaphas Cain]] novels notes "Give an Ork a stick and convince him it's a gun and it '''will''' shoot bullets."
* In the ''[[Deadlands]]: Hell on Earth'' setting, a junker can assemble scrap into a machine that just ''looks'' like it could work, then get a technology spirit to inhabit it and finish the job.
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' has the mutant powers of Mechanical Intuition (which gives you an uncanny insight into how machines work) and Machine Empathy (which makes bots and other [[A Is]] like you and generally do what you want). Confusingly, Mechanical Intuition is an example of the [[Machine Empathy]] trope, while Machine Empaths are examples of [[Technopath
** Yes, Machine Empathy works on The Computer - until It figures out what's going on, and [[Berserk Button|wipes your entire clone family]].
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