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[keaalu]

I'm sure he feels so picked-on.


I'm such a geek. I've now been inspired to - wait for it - Terrahawks fiction. ARGH. Mind you, 101 is hard to resist writing about. Come on, robots capable of temper-tantrums have got to have SOME worth in the scheme of things, even if it's just to write about.

And oh-my-lord there's going to be DALEKS in next saturday's Doctor Who. I AM IN HEAVEN. 101 on DVD, Daleks on telly, real live robot to play with in the dispensary... *swoon*

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And again I can't be bothered with editing... :)

Drawn and inked in 30 minutes while watching "Mock the World" or whatever it was. (It was cool, whatever it was called. :) Like "Have I got News for You" with impressions. Yay!)

"The Worm Turns...?"

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Ping and Blip? Who are they? They sure seem cute. :)

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BTW, Ping and Blip are two little mad foxish creatures I designed after I fell in love with Bong (a little fluffy six-legged dog-thing) off Tiny Planets (a program about shapes and colours designed for 3-5 years olds, but surreal and psychadelic and good for university students too. :) ).

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Peh, I was hoping they were some sort of lifelike robots. ;)

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Heh, no. Gotta have SOME biologicals in there somewhere. ;)

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

Robots capable of temper tantrums? I've seen very few robots in standard sci-fi that AREN'T capable of that. There are too many robots that act exactly like humans IMHO.

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Well, all right, that was just my way of saying "OMG love must WRITE now" ;) There's just something that I found hugely entertaining in 101. :) He was adorable, and woefully under-used, in my ever-cynical opinion.

I see what you mean about the "exactly like humans" part, though (even if I've not come across too many that engage in all-out slanging matches with their counterparts over trivial things) - sometimes seems like just paint an actor silver and "OMG robot!" Nothing to make them different or anything. Although to be honest, I do much prefer a synth with at least a large spark of humanity in there. ;) They're a lot easier to empathise with, for one.

Anyway. Might have some fiction that's halfway uploadable later tonight. But for now, because I'm dying to post SOMETHING... This would probably fall close to the beginning. Whee! Lunchbreaks rock.

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     He had yet to work out why in Space it was that Hiro had decided to give most of them humanity rather than intelligence. He claimed it was all to do with their power-source, but Ninestein was of the growing opinion that THAT was just an excuse.
     After all, if they wanted a human to do a particular job, they’d employ one, simple as that; the point of a computer was surely to compute? Hiro claimed it was an experiment, to see if it made them more astute, more capable of making educated decisions in the absence of human controllers, but Ninestein thought it was actually more a case of “to see if I could” on Hiro’s part.
      That wasn’t to say they were worthless. Some were fairly good tacticians – some were excellent tacticians – he even had to grudgingly admit that Sergeant Major Zero was rather good at his job (even if most days that job seemed to be exclusively to wind him up). But like so many of his “brothers”, Zero was not, unfortunately, the brightest of sparks when it came to academia – he still had yet to grasp the rudimentaries of mathematics, of all things. A robot incapable of adding up? – and some days Ninestein felt he’d gladly excise all trace of “personality” in favour of something that could add two and two together and not make five. It may have seemed unfair to the outside, but it was what they were for, goddamnit! They were meant to be intelligent, expendable (well, moreso than a human) battlefield computerised personnel, not sneaky, wilful, argumentative things to trip over in the corridors!

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

It's always good to strike the right balance. You want a being that is very empathetic, but at the same time, you want to explore their capabilities and true nature. Think about how they function differently as AI beings compared to organics that have had their thought process changed through long evolution. What parts would be more efficient for an AI? What would an AI struggle with? What sort of personality quirks would an AI have that are noticably different from organic beings? That's what I like to look at when writing dialog and actions for my synthetic beings.

In short, yes, it's important to have parts of the AI that we can empathize with, but it's also very important to not make them too organic in action that the whole concept and potential of them being AI-driven and synthetic isn't even explored.

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Oh, absoulement! It's that part I enjoy - trying to get under the skin and see out through new eyes - especially ones that aren't too comfortable with the idea of emotions and the associated baggage. ;) Although I always feel like I'm picking on my characters (I'm sure 101 would be forced to agree at this juncture), since it can't be too easy forced into an adult world without the benefit of a childhood to learn how to BE an adult...

Myeah. I go write now. :)

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

By the way, what did you think of my Dungan story? And did you see the picture of Lurdanjo and Dungan that's mentioned in my journal?

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the story - where did you post it? LJ seems to be "hiccuping" for me, I've refreshed some pages a couple of times and nothing happens, then WHAM I get a billion posts.

The picture's cute. I see what they mean about the lunchbox, though. ;)

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

Everyone sees the bulge. I'm extremely curious now as to whether or not Sskessa meant for it to be that way, but judging from her other pictures, I think it's at least a subconscious trademark for many male characters.

The story about Dungan is in my merdoian journal, called "Emerging Punk". It's a cute read, though far from my best work.

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Ohh, yeah, I saw that, I didn't realise you mean that one - thought you were meaning something new. To be honest I was a bit confused about what was going on in some of it, but it was a nice little story anyway. :)

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

I'll answer any questions you may have about it. MERDO's story is quite the complex one, and there's plenty of back story and history and terms and characters that are important to know. The point of that story was to keep people in the dark about the "anthroid" nature for as long as possible, though, while making them wonder why Dungan had such a flawless body and seemed to enjoy pain and be so submissive at the same time as punkish. ;)

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Ah, right - I wasn't sure, since you seemed to imply he was "more than human", so to speak, from the word go. But then I know your tendencies, so I'm probably not the best person to critique in that respect. ;)