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WCDT 15-19 August 2011 (1991-95)
Is it cold in here?:
Maybe the problem with employing AnthroPCs is the lack of opposable thumbs. Even a high end model like Momo-tan didn't get fingers until a quite recent update.
stoutfiles:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Aug 2011, 21:20 ---Maybe the problem with employing AnthroPCs is the lack of opposable thumbs. Even a high end model like Momo-tan didn't get fingers until a quite recent update.
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Who said anything about only AnthroPC's? Different, more efficient robots would be built for certain jobs; they would work 24/7 and never complain or want money, because they would be programmed that way. Just like a robot on a car assembly line in our world. Any human that does a simple labor job would have to worry about being replaced.
--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 19 Aug 2011, 15:25 ---
--- Quote from: Blackjoker on 19 Aug 2011, 15:10 ---*puts on serious penguin hat* Actually using computers instead of the AnthroPCs isn't all that weird. Assuming that they (anthroPCs) are a fairly new thing most people would still be used to computers as normal. Plus, a lot of the features that would make the AnthroPCs practical as computers are either expensive addons (early on Faye mentioned stuff like hologram projectors and the like) or are impractical. Pintsize's mannerisms aside, just using him as an MP3 player would likely be hideously boring for him if all he could do was sit around, especially given that at his size he'd be awkward to carry. And to be blunt, most companies might be worried about their data being on something that can get angry and walk off if offended or on a whim so regular computers would probably be quite commonplace.
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Given that I basically agree with all your points, it raises an interesting question. What is the point of owning an AnthroPC? Is it what I already said, they make nice (if expensive) pets? Is there some other reason? Leaving aside such purely individual quirks as Pintsize's malevolence, Winslow's slight crush on his owner and Momo's tendency to produce electric shocks and eels, is there a useful purpose to owning one? If not a useful purpose, then can we say it's sufficently enjoyable for the owners? I can't imagine they are cheap...
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The same reason people buy an expensive dog I suppose, the big difference is that one is a living creature and the other isn't. It would be weird for me to be friends with a computer, but for the QC cast it isn't so it must be commonplace. A lot of questions to ask there such as Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 19 Aug 2011, 21:53 --- A lot of questions to ask there such as Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
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Guessing what Pintsize dreams of? It may occasionally involve sheep, but I don't think I want to know the exact role the sheep have in his dreams.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Pintsize ---I don't have dreams, but I do have some lovingly-rendered computer animations that work just as well.
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Method of Madness:
I'm about 756,827,000 seconds old. Because of this, I also figured out that May 4, 2019 (late evening) is when I'll have been alive for one gigasecond.
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