From posts made by Mal, BA, me, Foxboy, Cobalt, and Ebony to the http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/6569]Even More Inspirational and Meta Sites thread. Work-in-progress, feel free to add to this in-character. Story title subject to change once somebody comes up with a better title.
Extraced from the Hansard of the discussion at the panel "Secret Masters of Fenspace Tell All" during the 2014 Convention.
(S. Malaclypse Fnord, Soviet Air Force-In-Exile)
I have a question for those of you who have built robotic shells for your AIs. How did you go about picking out your companion's genitals for him or her? Did you go by species and ethnicity averages for the dimensions, or try to give them an ideal, hoping that it will help them to become popular and successful in life? Or did you give them something very basic in the expectation that when they're older and have developed more of a sense of who and what they want to be, they could make their own modifications if they want to?
(Noah Scott, Stellvia)
Er... Ah... Um... Huh?
(Gina Langley, Roughriders)
Living proof, here!
(N. Scott)
All right, I may as well set the record straight.
(Yayoi Fujisawa, Crystal Millennium, Stellvia)
Is this mic on? Oh, good. So, how did you choose?
(N. Scott)
I didn't. You're based on one of Ryou Azuki's characters, remember?
(Y. Fujisawa)
How could I forget? Ah, you're saying Azuki-san chose.
(N. Scott)
Right. Probably subconsciously.
(Y. Fujisawa)
But if you created an android who wasn't based on someone else's character, how would you choose?
(N. Scott)
That's a completely hypothetical "if," and I see no reason to answer it.
(Y. Fujisawa)
Oh. Are you afraid to answer?
(N. Scott)
No, I'm just no good at sculpting. Remember, it was A.C. who made your body along with Kohran, Yoriko, and Natsuko's. And Agatha's, too.
(Y. Fujisawa)
And Sora's body.
(N. Scott)
Sora's original body, yes. And Vulpine Fury made the other angels' bodies. But it was the wondergoop that made you look completely human.
(Y. Fujisawa)
Are you blaming my anatomy on the handwavium? (pause) You are blaming it on the handwavium!
(Vulpine Fury, unaffiliated)
They just happen, okay? Except for that one time... and poor Karen, according to the "mother-in-law."
(Lime Sorrel, unaffiliated)
What are we talking about, Dad?
(V. Fury)
I'll tell you later.
(A.C. Peters, Justice League Interplanetary)
Oh for Belldandy's sake. Right, whatever.
(Lebia Maverick, Justice League Interplanetary, Hacker Underspace)
Do go on, this is interesting.
(A.C. Peters)
You were the one who designed your body, I just built it.
(Adonis McMurdo, Justice League Interplanetary)
And well built it is too.
(L. Maverick)
Likewise.
(A.C. Peters)
If you're going to flirt, do it elsewhere.
(Kasumi, Justice League Interplanetary)
Oh my, don't be like that.
(Greenpeace Crolis, Justice League Interplanetary)
Yeah. C'mon A.C., pleease?
(A.C. Peters)
Fine. Yayoi, Noah did ask I make you girls as realistic as possible. Which was tricky, given what I had to work with. So... Anatomy books. Lots and lots of them. And that was just to get the basic reproductive system analogue sorted. After that, it was all down to the 'wave. Unlike a certain blonde.
(S. Fnord)
Another victory for the Discordian faction of the Soviet Central Committee!
(Benjamin Rhodes, Roughriders)
Yeah, yeah. All the same, this shit's hilarious.
(Blackstone, Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information)
Don't look at me. Nobody tells me anything.
(Nezumi, Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information)
That's because when they do, you cover your ears, and chant, "La la la. I'm not listening! La la la. I'm in my happy place!"
(Blackstone)
So? Doesn't everyone do that?
(Nezumi)
No, Blackstone. Only you.
(Blackstone)
Oh, good. I'd hate to be a conformist.
(Buckaroo, Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information)
Wrenching the topic back onto track ... I'd have to say that the variables surrounding AI avatar choices are drawn from a wide selection, based on a number of choices made by each AI's "parents" and a collection of environmental influences. These choices affect gender, behavior, and final manifestation, either as a cyberspace spirit or in a physical form, in such fashions as to be as intimately personal and individual as a quest for enlightenment. I could tell you what brought about my own manifestation, but to you it would seem hardly significant. It is only important through my own perspective on the world.
(Chaos, Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information)
Wait ... what?
(Buckaroo)
AI appearance depends on the AI.
(Chaos)
Oh. Why are we talking about this again?
(B. Rhodes)
Sweet Lady Skuld, preserve us.
(G. Langley)
CHAOS! SHUT UP AND PAY ATTENTION!
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Extraced from the Hansard of the discussion at the panel "Secret Masters of Fenspace Tell All" during the 2014 Convention.
(S. Malaclypse Fnord, Soviet Air Force-In-Exile)
I have a question for those of you who have built robotic shells for your AIs. How did you go about picking out your companion's genitals for him or her? Did you go by species and ethnicity averages for the dimensions, or try to give them an ideal, hoping that it will help them to become popular and successful in life? Or did you give them something very basic in the expectation that when they're older and have developed more of a sense of who and what they want to be, they could make their own modifications if they want to?
(Noah Scott, Stellvia)
Er... Ah... Um... Huh?
(Gina Langley, Roughriders)
Living proof, here!
(N. Scott)
All right, I may as well set the record straight.
(Yayoi Fujisawa, Crystal Millennium, Stellvia)
Is this mic on? Oh, good. So, how did you choose?
(N. Scott)
I didn't. You're based on one of Ryou Azuki's characters, remember?
(Y. Fujisawa)
How could I forget? Ah, you're saying Azuki-san chose.
(N. Scott)
Right. Probably subconsciously.
(Y. Fujisawa)
But if you created an android who wasn't based on someone else's character, how would you choose?
(N. Scott)
That's a completely hypothetical "if," and I see no reason to answer it.
(Y. Fujisawa)
Oh. Are you afraid to answer?
(N. Scott)
No, I'm just no good at sculpting. Remember, it was A.C. who made your body along with Kohran, Yoriko, and Natsuko's. And Agatha's, too.
(Y. Fujisawa)
And Sora's body.
(N. Scott)
Sora's original body, yes. And Vulpine Fury made the other angels' bodies. But it was the wondergoop that made you look completely human.
(Y. Fujisawa)
Are you blaming my anatomy on the handwavium? (pause) You are blaming it on the handwavium!
(Vulpine Fury, unaffiliated)
They just happen, okay? Except for that one time... and poor Karen, according to the "mother-in-law."
(Lime Sorrel, unaffiliated)
What are we talking about, Dad?
(V. Fury)
I'll tell you later.
(A.C. Peters, Justice League Interplanetary)
Oh for Belldandy's sake. Right, whatever.
(Lebia Maverick, Justice League Interplanetary, Hacker Underspace)
Do go on, this is interesting.
(A.C. Peters)
You were the one who designed your body, I just built it.
(Adonis McMurdo, Justice League Interplanetary)
And well built it is too.
(L. Maverick)
Likewise.
(A.C. Peters)
If you're going to flirt, do it elsewhere.
(Kasumi, Justice League Interplanetary)
Oh my, don't be like that.
(Greenpeace Crolis, Justice League Interplanetary)
Yeah. C'mon A.C., pleease?
(A.C. Peters)
Fine. Yayoi, Noah did ask I make you girls as realistic as possible. Which was tricky, given what I had to work with. So... Anatomy books. Lots and lots of them. And that was just to get the basic reproductive system analogue sorted. After that, it was all down to the 'wave. Unlike a certain blonde.
(S. Fnord)
Another victory for the Discordian faction of the Soviet Central Committee!
(Benjamin Rhodes, Roughriders)
Yeah, yeah. All the same, this shit's hilarious.
(Blackstone, Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information)
Don't look at me. Nobody tells me anything.
(Nezumi, Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information)
That's because when they do, you cover your ears, and chant, "La la la. I'm not listening! La la la. I'm in my happy place!"
(Blackstone)
So? Doesn't everyone do that?
(Nezumi)
No, Blackstone. Only you.
(Blackstone)
Oh, good. I'd hate to be a conformist.
(Buckaroo, Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information)
Wrenching the topic back onto track ... I'd have to say that the variables surrounding AI avatar choices are drawn from a wide selection, based on a number of choices made by each AI's "parents" and a collection of environmental influences. These choices affect gender, behavior, and final manifestation, either as a cyberspace spirit or in a physical form, in such fashions as to be as intimately personal and individual as a quest for enlightenment. I could tell you what brought about my own manifestation, but to you it would seem hardly significant. It is only important through my own perspective on the world.
(Chaos, Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information)
Wait ... what?
(Buckaroo)
AI appearance depends on the AI.
(Chaos)
Oh. Why are we talking about this again?
(B. Rhodes)
Sweet Lady Skuld, preserve us.
(G. Langley)
CHAOS! SHUT UP AND PAY ATTENTION!
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
