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[chaospersonified]

I'm a major arachnophobe, and I spent years trying to learn as much as I could about fucking spiders to try and convince myself they weren't actually the spawn of hell.

If only those books had talked about spiders' big ole booties

[SubaruStephen]

Why is everyone so afraid of spiders?



<----*had tarantulas for pets*

[chaospersonified]

Why is everyone so afraid of spiders?



<----*had tarantulas for pets*

Look, if a spider be chilling in its web, not moving, we're cool. It's those fucking LEGS, man, with the skinny, skittering little limbs and the half-dozen shifty fucking eyes.

Not to mention the unholy size of the goddamn banana spiders around here, who always put their fucking webs right where you're cutting the grass, riding the mower until you're suddenly surrounded by Satan's silk and there's a fucking octopod with fangs on your body somewhere, crawling down the back of your neck. Then you hit the side of an 80 year old equipment barn, and you KNOW what caused it.

As you see. Horror stories.

[chaospersonified]

Try being less than 10 and reading the scenes in LotR with Aragog, then learning some spiders build nests underground with trapdoors, so they can quickly snap up and snatch their prey, in this case, hobbits and similarly-sized folk. I'm cool with spiders in THEORY, but I can't look at them, and I'm literally making myself nervous reliving childhood nightmares by typing this.

Spiders are fucking horrifying. Essential to life as we know it, fucking fascinating, but oh my god can we just not?

[hedgie]

Just for you, Chaos:

https://youtu.be/fYAlB1Kxayc

[chaospersonified]

Just for you, Chaos:

https://youtu.be/fYAlB1Kxayc

I ain't pressing play. Don't even fuck with me, bro. I had to re-do an hour's worth of paperwork my last year at camp because this fucking child thought it would be funny to shove a spider in my face while I was holding coffee over the papers.

In other news, I think Gordon's candy-like color scheme is working, because I kinda like the dude.

Maybe it's the non-moving bit, I'm cool with unmoving arachnids in general. Like I said, if they chill, I don't fuck with spiders. They built their web, they can STAY there. It's the legs and the skittering that get me, and Gordon seems largely skitter-free

[chaospersonified]

Okay, I lied and now I have an even greater reason to find SOME way to finally see Red Dwarf because my god, that was great and I want context

[Is it cold in here?]

I'm a major arachnophobe, and I spent years trying to learn as much as I could about fucking spiders to try and convince myself they weren't actually the spawn of hell.

If only those books had talked about spiders' big ole booties

If you hate spiders, why did you spend years learning how to fuck them?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[BenRG]

Poor Gordon! Imagine the torment of his existence: He's a friendly guy who genuinely wants to be an asset to the community and a pal to all. Unfortunately, his chassis creeps everyone out to the point where even fellow robots don't like being in physical contact with him! Someone, somewhere, is pulling a horrific prank at his expense!

[osaka]

But he's completely adorable. I want 5 of them.

[Akima]

Do you imagine Gordon talking in a tachikoma voice?

[Zebediah]

For some reason I imagine Gordon sounding a bit like Robin Williams.

I like Gordon. I'm not at all afraid of spiders. Gordon is cool.

Now, hornets, wasps, yellow jackets, and other related spawn of Satan can go back to the hell that they flew out of.

[Detachable Felix]

For some reason I imagine Gordon sounding a bit like Robin Williams.

See, I imagined him as sounding like someone with a deep voice, like, unnervingly so for a small robot. Like, Keith David, I guess?

[DSL]

I imagine Gordon being able to modulate his voice into whatever he wants, but mostly choosing to.sound like a Speak N Spell just to fuck with people. (Rollin' with the running joke)

EDIT: Or maybe Twiki. Or even Peepo.

[Method of Madness]

For some reason I imagine Gordon sounding a bit like Robin Williams.

See, I imagined him as sounding like someone with a deep voice, like, unnervingly so for a small robot. Like, Keith David, I guess?

I don't have voices for any of the characters but I think I have one for Gordon now. That is just too perfect.

[hedgie]

play. Don't even fuck with me, bro.

Glad to see you watched it in the end.  Even I'm not enough of a bastard to post a video with actual arachnids.  Your previous comments in this thread *strongly* reminded me of Lister in that scene.

Do you imagine Gordon talking in a tachikoma voice?

I do now.

[chaospersonified]

I'm a major arachnophobe, and I spent years trying to learn as much as I could about fucking spiders to try and convince myself they weren't actually the spawn of hell.

If only those books had talked about spiders' big ole booties

If you hate spiders, why did you spend years learning how to fuck them?

We all have urges we can't resist. You have to know which specific pair of legs to look between, of course.

[osaka]

First off, chaos, that's a wonderful save. I actually laughed out loud at that.

Now back to the topic at hand (Grodon's voice): I always imagined him to have a voice like Claptrap's, or maybe lower pitched.

[Neko_Ali]

Just to be different, I am now imagining Gordon sounds like James Earl Jones.

Pintsize... I am your father.

[BenRG]

I've always voiced him as Steven Moffat (Wheatley, from Portal 2) in my head.

[Method of Madness]

Merchant, not Moffat.

[Zebediah]

If you want a deep voice, always go with Sam Elliott. Just imagine Gordon drawling "Don't worry, there ain't no wrong answers" in Sam Elliott's voice. 

[FunkyTuba]

There's usually a plaintive nasally eager-to-please whine in my head when listening to Gordon. Somewhere between Peter Sagal and Woody Allen

[Kugai]

I wonder if Gordon sounds like Christopher Lee?

[MrNumbers]

3 foot tall spiders are scary?

I'm... sorry? Are-

OH! Oh. To a CANADIAN, sure. As an Australian, I just call him Skitters and train him to eat rats.

[chaospersonified]

3 foot tall spiders are scary?

I'm... sorry? Are-

OH! Oh. To a CANADIAN, sure. As an Australian, I just call him Skitters and train him to eat rats.

To anyone not living in the hellscape that is the land down under, three foot spiders are horrifying. Australia is horrifying. Even the fucking koalas are out to get you.

[electromgneticDstroyosaur]

It's looking like Sven is actually learning how to be a decent person.  I'm excited.

[Method of Madness]

Mmhmm. And Faye seems to be liking her job.

[chaospersonified]

quintuple my certainty we're on our way to a Faye/Dora peace-making moment. Whether it's for the best is still up for debate, but I'm not arguing against it

[DSL]

Mmhmm. And Faye seems to be liking her job.

She is naturally abrasive.

[chaospersonified]

Mmhmm. And Faye seems to be liking her job.

She is naturally abrasive.

Which is a strange thing, considering she's straight up REPAIRING a robot. Not so much with the abrasion, more with the mending, at least today.

[Nepiophage]

To anyone not living in the hellscape that is the land down under, three foot spiders are horrifying. Australia is horrifying. Even the fucking koalas are out to get you.

And the drop bears!

[Nepiophage]

Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!

[chaospersonified]

Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!

I didn't see any welding equipment. Who knows what methods she's using? Maybe she knows secrets

[Nepiophage]

Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!

I didn't see any welding equipment. Who knows what methods she's using? Maybe she knows secrets

That's an angle grinder that she's holding. Swarf in the eyes is very unpleasant.

[chaospersonified]

Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!

I didn't see any welding equipment. Who knows what methods she's using? Maybe she knows secrets

That's an angle grinder that she's holding. Swarf in the eyes is very unpleasant.

You use words I don't know, so I assume you know what you're talking about.

On the other hand, I'm about as well-sighted as Faye (My vision is 20/1600, where legally blind is 20/400) and I can say personally that at least on gun ranges, they consider glasses as thick as mine to be equal protection to protective goggles.

[electromgneticDstroyosaur]

Faye is certainly enjoying her new job. But she should use some protective gear. No eye protection except ordinary spectacles! Wearing a T-shirt! Eeeek!

I didn't see any welding equipment. Who knows what methods she's using? Maybe she knows secrets

That's an angle grinder that she's holding. Swarf in the eyes is very unpleasant.

You use words I don't know, so I assume you know what you're talking about.

On the other hand, I'm about as well-sighted as Faye (My vision is 20/1600, where legally blind is 20/400) and I can say personally that at least on gun ranges, they consider glasses as thick as mine to be equal protection to protective goggles.

They don't even test me without the glasses anymore, because it always goes "... um, E?"

[ReindeerFlotilla]

Debris from grinding can come at the eye from many angles. It's not quite the same as blowback. Goggles would be the thing.

That said, lots of people with tool skills will flaunt best practice and carry the scars to prove it.

[Is it cold in here?]

Yes, no substitute for side shields, even though my optician told me once that my polycarbonate lenses could stop a .22.

[BenRG]

It's pretty clear that this is close to Faye's dream job - cutting open someone so they can go back to inflicting destruction!

Here's my concern: Working for the URFC (Underground Robot Fighting Championship) is ultimately going to turn out to be destructive and negative for her. For all the enjoyment and fulfilment it gives her, it's ultimately reinforcing negative personality qualities, to wit sadism and using others for her own amusement. I wonder if she's eventually going to have to quit because she doesn't like the person that it is making her become.

[Is it cold in here?]

Indeed, I thought there was something disturbing in her facial expression tonight.

[BenRG]

I'm wondering if Bubbles is going to be Faye's voice of conscience. Confronting Bubbles' disdain for the URFC and its associated culture of violence is going to force Faye to realise things about the job... and about herself... that normally she keeps completely suppressed.

Faye is excellent at ignoring her own better nature. However, there are people in her life whom she respects and, when they tell her that she's in the wrong, it tends to batter through her stubborn personality and tear off the blinders.

[Akima]

You use words I don't know, so I assume you know what you're talking about.

Swarf. I would wear gloves, a long-sleeved top, hearing protection, and goggles as a minimum for grinding.

Faye's expression is a bit disturbing. Is she about to grind off that robot's spikes? Or sharpen them?

[hedgie]

Yes.

[anahata]

I thought about that Faye face, and I looked again, and I'm not sure it's all that disturbing.
I mean, that is one possible interpretation, but another is that she has found a job that is a perfect match for her skills, and she's simply really enjoying doing something that she is good at and that not everybody else could do, not only for the required skills but also because she doesn't apparently have a problem with the context.
And after all, she is doing repairs, not damage, like an army surgeon.

[swapna]

I thought about that Faye face, and I looked again, and I'm not sure it's all that disturbing.
I mean, that is one possible interpretation, but another is that she has found a job that is a perfect match for her skills, and she's simply really enjoying doing something that she is good at and that not everybody else could do, not only for the required skills but also because she doesn't apparently have a problem with the context.
And after all, she is doing repairs, not damage, like an army surgeon.

Yeah, I think it's that. I really hope it's that.

Also, for all the arachnophobes: This is how I got over mine. Peacock spiders. Tiny (half a centimetre), completely harmless spiders from Australia (yeah, I know), but all you need to know is in the name of a subspecies: Sparklemuffin. No, really! Those are miniature, colourful jumping spiders who dance and wiggle their butts if they want to mate.

[MrNumbers]

I thought about that Faye face, and I looked again, and I'm not sure it's all that disturbing.
I mean, that is one possible interpretation, but another is that she has found a job that is a perfect match for her skills, and she's simply really enjoying doing something that she is good at and that not everybody else could do, not only for the required skills but also because she doesn't apparently have a problem with the context.
And after all, she is doing repairs, not damage, like an army surgeon.

Yeah, I think it's that. I really hope it's that.

Also, for all the arachnophobes: This is how I got over mine. Peacock spiders. Tiny (half a centimetre), completely harmless spiders from Australia (yeah, I know), but all you need to know is in the name of a subspecies: Sparklemuffin. No, really! Those are miniature, colourful jumping spiders who dance and wiggle their butts if they want to mate.

Got a better video for you.

[osaka]

On the protective gear thing, Faye has been shown doing metalwork without any amount of protective gear worth noting. I just chalk that up to artistic preferences and not care too much.

[chaospersonified]

The sparklemuffin spider has me seriously conflicted.

I laughed in (low-level) terror. I did not know that was a thing.

[ReindeerFlotilla]

I don't think Faye has ever been shown welding with an appropriate mask and apron. Having known welders and seen their slag-burned hands and arms, this is consistent with the real world. Her failing to use proper eye wear when doing griding is also consistent with such. It's still a bad idea.

I know way too many people who only learned that proper safety equipment is a good idea after being injured in a manner safety equipment would have prevented. Very few weren't trained in the use of said equipment. In my misspent youth, I made the same stupid choices.

Artistic choice or not, it's still a fairly bad idea to grind without goggles.