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[reunified]

[ If you don't know Altman's voice, the first few seconds are your only real indication of who's working the camera right now--there's about a second and a half of his face as he flips on the wearable, then the video immediately swings down to... track pants, running shoes, and what looks to be an oversized roomba

Comments

[notsoloyal]

There is nothing wrong with drones you know.

[reunified]

Drones? You mean these things? [ Casually shoves the robot away again. ]

[notsoloyal]

Yes. The robot. There is nothing wrong with them.

[reunified]

I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with this one.

[ If he sounds annoyed it's only because the 'bot is stubbornly trying to drive into his foot. ]

[notsoloyal]

Perhaps it just likes you. There does not have to be something wrong with it for it to follow someone around.

[reunified]

It's a cleaning robot. I doubt it has the brain power to like anything beyond sidewalk.

[notsoloyal]

However it is not impossible.

[reunified]

Great, so I'm being stalked by a freaky mutant robot?

[notsoloyal]

That is a bit harsh.

[reunified]

It's unsettling. These things aren't supposed to think. They're just here to do whatever Hypatia programs them to.

[ He's frowning so hard at the cleaning 'bot right now. ]

[notsoloyal]

How exactly is that unsettling?

[reunified]

Where I'm from, robots are supposed to do what you tell them to, nothing more. The idea of one of these things running around making decisions for itself is just a little bit creepy.

[notsoloyal]

I cannot say I share in your thought process. What is so complicated about one having a bit more personality, than the rest? It is rather similar to humans.

[reunified]

Robots aren't supposed to have personalities in the first place. They're just machines.

[ Er, wait. Shit. Damage control time, Michael. ]

Normal robots, anyways.

[ WAIT THAT... probably doesn't help any. ]

[notsoloyal]

... Excellent save.

[reunified]

I didn't mean it like-- You know.