[accidental video]

[honestcop]

[It seems Togusa has not been posting enough, because the community is hijacking the feed from his eyes to his cyberbrain. Again.

Togusa is in a large room scattered with complicated-looking equipment. He's talking to Batou, who is leaning against a machine that resembles nothing so much as a giant blue spider. Batou looks inquisitive, and

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[video]

[roboterpolizist]

[Have a rather concerned looking robot. His voice has a definite edge of urgency.]

Mr. Togusa? What's wrong?

[video]

[roboterpolizist]

[Something seems vaguely off about this conversation, but then it's hard to tell anything for certain with that graphic.]

How common is it?

[video]

[honestcop]

[Hooray for technology!

Togusa would not be answering this many questions that skirt his job if he weren't so worn out from the virus. His judgment's not the best right now.]

More so than anyone would like. It's the cost of a technological society, I guess.

[video]

[roboterpolizist]

[One side of Gesicht's mouth twitches upward a bit.]

I guess so.

[video]

[honestcop]

You asked if I was a robot. Do you have androids in your world?

[This should be fun.]

[video]

[roboterpolizist]

[There's a word you don't usually hear. Almost everyone uses "robot."]

Yes.

[Let's see how long it takes to get to the "I'm a robot" part.]

Re: [video]

[honestcop]

[With Togusa's world, it's usually "gynoid." They don't have skeevy gender issues or anything.]

That seems to be the exception around here.

[video]

[roboterpolizist]

Robots are common in all lines of work here.

[It's amazing how long he can speak in generalities on this subject.]

[video]

[honestcop]

[Togusa will notice eventually. Bear with him; it's been a rough day.]

What, just...undirected? Not just support jobs?

[Even the tachikomas need supervision. ...Especially the tachikomas.]

[video]

[roboterpolizist]

Yes.

I'm a robot.

[Oh hey, he actually said it.]

[video]

[honestcop]

[Togusa's computer-generated face shows surprise. He's used to his sentient AIs being a lot more...chirpy. Give him a second.]

Oh. AI in your world must be more advanced than in mine.

[Gesicht sure acts like he has a ghost, and there's no freakin' way the tachikomas could handle investigations on their own.]

[video]

[roboterpolizist]

[Gesicht takes that reaction quite calmly. Togusa is already being more reasonable than many people in Gesicht's own world.]

It seems our worlds have developed along different lines.

[video]

[honestcop]

Looks that way. We're still closer than most of the worlds, or at least convergent.

[Now that he's past the initial surprise, Togusa's demeanor returns to normal. He doesn't have any fundamental objection to AI; his ambivalence about the tachikomas is based on their behavior, not their nature.]

[video]

[roboterpolizist]

[It doesn't show, but Gesicht is grateful for that acceptance.]

Most worlds seem to use technology that's outdated here. [And, Gesicht expects, in Togusa's world as well.]

[video]

[honestcop]

It's strange. By 2009, we already had cyberization, but people here either have no idea what I mean, or react like they're talking to a cartoon character.

[video]

[roboterpolizist]

[Slightly surprised look.]

What year is it in your world?