Being picky, I would have thought the personality was an aspect of the installed AI rather than the chassis.
She meant aesthetically. Cars have personality for example, whether it's a homey van or a lean mean sports car. A home can feel cramped or airy. A chassis can be bland and uninteresting. Tova explained it well too.
Either way you're disgressing because the argument is about who is the most famous AI and HAL 9000 definitely isnt it.
And you base that well supported analysis on... Seriously, don't use absolutes on a matter of opinion. Also, it's a discussion, not an argument.
Wait, didn't I promise myself a while back I'd stop reading your comments because you didn't put much thought into them? *Checks archive of my comments* No, but I sure have ridiculed you a lot for it. I should probably stop.
Is that a Transformer in the bottom right of the last panel? Is Charlotte's super-neat hair a shout-out to AI?
I just saw a wheel, and a hair style seems like a really vague way to make a reference.
She's gonna want the Number 8 model (comes with Tahmoh Penikett's phone number).
The toaster reference did it for me - my wife and I have been introducing our 12 year old to BSG....
Tell us how he reacts when someone gets airlocked (yes pedants, it's a verb now. Battlestar Galactica made it one).
My favorite solution would Marigold getting a chassis like she had in this comic. That one was really cute.
Oh, and I didn't get what "deluxe" was about either. I think its mostly because those tits are simply grossly oversized. Marigold already has the biggest size that is still looking natural and the "deluxe" model has like 2-3 times bigger ones. That's nothing that's still attractive.
No no, stopping now.
Something else comes to mind as well...
Actually, the first thing that I thought when I saw the toasters was Red Dwarf
i could have sworn the Brave Little Toaster was from the early 90's.
I can understand how Momo is done with the whole Japanese schoolgirl look, (not to mention the scary realities as to why that model is VERY popular). Regardless of her maturity the schoolgirl look hinders her efforts at being taken seriously, and while a Miko design may be cute, it wouldn't help her case. Then of course there is the question of gender, but I don't think Jeph will change that.
I don't think that she doesn't want to be a schoolgirl, she just doesn't want to be that particular character. Where did miko come in? I see no mention of Shinto shrine maidens.
That would certainly explain why my first thought was how odd that style looks on a fembot.
It's fine on a gynoid, it's just an old style that women today don't use. Darned if I know hair style names though- is it a bob?
Gah.. don't wanna be nitpicking like this, but wouldn't a robot body like that consume massive amounts of energy? Providing it doesn't run on some kind of atomic battery.
Processing power is no more than in the little robots, so the majority of that huge torso is battery storage and power recovery hardware so that unplugged operating time is maximized...
I have no idea what I'm talking about, but it sounds good.
They probably have induction coils in their butts and/or backs and better and safer batteries than we do. They probably have induction pads all over the place, like we
should have (cue examples and images of things with wired power in the QC verse.)
He probably means it would be extremely expensive to power the robot each day, unless we're assuming energy in the QC world is much cheaper.
Carl didn't mean that he didn't understand VonKliest, he meant that he wasn't sure his explanation worked. He understood the point: how do the human sized models stay active for extended periods of time, not how are they
paid for. And it's not like energy is expensive for us.
I don't know how many times I looked it over before noticing the difference in bust size, but even if it was the first thing I noticed, it's a physical attribute so I'm not going to worry about it. It's not whether you notice it, it's whether you care. That's my enlightenment.
Oh damn, I'm doing my chain of responses thing again.
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