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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[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?!

[robosb4bros]

People are idiots. I'm sure that most ghosts have better things to do than punch the living in the kidneys more than once or twice.

And yes, basically. It's expensive and dangerous to send humans into space. But just sending someone alone tends to not turn out well in the long-term, so our goal is to have a more "human" robot to bridge the difference. We've been able to create systems to successfully read human emotions, but I don't incorporate all of that into all of the assistants--it just gets extraneous.