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Just how complex is Bubbles' chassis?
SpanielBear:
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30 seconds from now.
Bubbles undoes her ponytail and whips her hair around...
"Wh... Why, Miss Bubbles... You're... you're BEAUITIFUL!"
(And a half-million shippers dreams are answered.)
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She whips her hair back and forth, she whips her hair back and forth (just whip it)
:laugh:
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When Bubbles whips her hair back and forth, she creates a four-foot diameter zone of death.
"Cause of death, doctor?"
"Decapitation by artificial hair folicles."
"Dammit, when will people learn?"
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As the old poem says; "if you can keep your head while all around you are losing theirs, park your helicopter somewhere quieter."
fayelovesbubbles:
Poor Bubbles. Can’t even enjoy the simple pleasure of whipping her hair back and forth without causing destruction!
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 28 May 2018, 18:41 ---
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 16 Apr 2018, 05:32 ---...Both have a military chassis, that was developed, if I remember correctly, at the same time. However, it seems they went with Bubbles' "Valkyrie"-model, as a standard.
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You want a more humanoid chassis so that an AI can step in and use equipment designed for organic use, whether it's driving a tank, a HUM-V. using a mounted machine gun or ... well, anything, really. Although there might be tight squeezes in some spaces, I'm sure her joint flexibility helps a bit with that.
After all, the military's all about interchangeability on the field.
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Which begs the question: Why did they make Bubbles' chassis so big then? It wasn't necessity since other robot bodies can be much smaller and still mimic human mobility. My theory being, since Bubbles was in an experimental unit combining human and AI soldier that they designed her to be the 'heavy'. Specifically made to be a larger target because they could armor her up better, and when damaged repair her faster. She would alternately operate as the lead, especially in urban environments. She can take anything short of an anti-armor round when in her armor and can open a locked door or go through a wall without a battering ram or breaching charge. Alternately in a more open environment her greater strength means she could lug around more gear and a larger weapon.
The greater question to me is why was she allowed to keep her military issue body and armor when she was discharged. Perhaps it was an oversight, kind of like with Pintsize's built in laser. Maybe it was allowed at the insistence of one or more of the psychiatrists who was seeing her for her PTSD. A recommendation that forcing her into a smaller, commercial chassis would compound her feelings of vulnerability and loss, so they at least temporarily recommended she be allowed to keep her military issue chassis and armor. And then she slipped from the radar and was forgotten like so many veterans. Or the least likely to my thinking, since the experiment was being disbanded they just couldn't afford or be bothered to switch Bubbles to a civilian chassis when they discharged her.
mgrayson3:
There are plenty of extremely strong chassis running around - DROID 06 is my favorite - but there is the droid that is trying to hunt down Pintsize in an early strip. It, or a similar one, appear in the background sometimes in street scenes. Bubbles kept her sensors and strength, but probably not her beam weapons.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: mgrayson3 on 29 May 2018, 07:44 ---Bubbles kept her sensors and strength, but probably not her beam weapons.
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My guess is that Bubbles, as an infantry android, had no in-built weapons at all and was intended to use standard military infantry weapons and other equipment. The reason for this is purely logistical - The more different pieces of equipment you have in any given unit, the more complex the logistical chain it needs to support it in the field.
FWIW, I'm waiting for someone to post a picture of Bubbles carrying a AER-9 laser rifle and an M72 gauss sniper rifle (both from the Fallout franchise) slung over her back. Possibly from a US Army recruitment poster aimed at AIs.
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