TNDG Night 4 - tokusatsu marathon

[weeabird]

[ Gather round in Peewee's Playhouse, weebs and weebettes! It's time for The Steel Samurai: Warrior of Neo Olde Tokyo! ]

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[proficient_in_photoshop]

He knows this whole thing?

[robosb4bros]

Yep. Not afraid of spoilers, are you?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

I am not... Especially afraid, no.

[robosb4bros]

Is this your first foray into the world of children's television shows?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

I mean, I watched them when I was a child.

[robosb4bros]

You're into all that nerd stuff, too?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

What, no. I just said, only when I was a kid. I got over this stuff pretty quickly, actually.

[robosb4bros]

After that was the cheesecake?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

[snorts]

Never really got into that either. Went straight to B-movies.

[robosb4bros]

The kind that are trying to be bad? Or the kind that are trying to be good?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Tough question. Hmmm, but I think the ones that know they're bad are the best.

[robosb4bros]

Sometimes the self-awareness does help kick things over from annoying to endearing. What's your favorite?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Tough... House is great. I like Marebito too, though that one is actually pretty interesting.

[robosb4bros]

Does being "interesting" take it out of the running?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Naah, quality doesn't hurt sometimes. How about you, do you watch a lot of movies?

[robosb4bros]

I play them in the background while I'm at work. I've probably seen Sharktopus more times than anyone not covered in cheeto dust should.

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Aaahh, I love that one. I usually just put a movie on to fall asleep to. I run my own business, so distracting myself during the day does me no good.

[robosb4bros]

You just sit around in complete silence, praying for work?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Hey, I'm busy these days. And before that it was just mindless Internet, thanks. Ah, what do you do for a living?

[robosb4bros]

I'm a roboticist with the space program. You? Freelance artist for Tom's of Finland?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Uh. That's amazing. I'm a professional psychic and spiritual consultant. I think you're the only person that's blown that out of the water.

[robosb4bros]

I'll wear the honor with pride.

What all do you actually do when you're consulting people's spirits, what all does that generally entail?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

[vague hand wave] You know. Someone has a problem they think might be sourced by supernatural causes, like chronic pain, or severe unluckiness, or they're seeing things or took a haunted photo. I look into the cause, find if it's a real case or a false flag, then handle it either way.

How did you get into the space program?

[robosb4bros]

GYAXA was putting together a new program creating artificial assistants they could send up alongside human astronauts to provide companionship while out of communications range, and I was just out of school with a dissertation on creating robots for commercial use, so it was a natural fit. I generally focus on the mechanical aspects, though I've worked on neural net programming as well.

...How do people figure chronic pain is caused by a spirit and not just poor posture?

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Eh, people are superstitious. Plus Spirits exist so it just makes people even more paranoid. Artificial assistants, like, robot helpers? You make astronauts robot assistants?!