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Hey, my life was and is by no means perfect. I went through some rough shit to get where I am. But that's the point. I worked at it and it got better. Treating high school like the absolute pinnacle of what your life is gonna be is terrible. That's not even a third of the average life expectancy.

The thing is that a high school is a fairly small, fairly isolated community. It's quite easy for a small but aggressive and charming personality to establish a kingdom there. Up to the point of actually being called "King" or "Queen" of Prom/Homecoming/Harvest/whatever.

Once they're dumped out in the real world, that superficial charm is suddenly worth a lot lot less.

They'll consider whatever after that, no matter how much objectively better it is, a fall from grace, especially if it's something like, a great high school athlete who washes out before they land a career. In their case, the "glory days" are their high school years. It's quite an interesting psychological phenomenon.

I guess it's something like being the big fish in the small pond, and hey, maybe after graduation you'll find out you were a somewhat big fish on an objective scale, or you'll grow and be the big fish in bigger ponds, but most big fish move on and find they're not that big objectively.

I had a friend was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
But all he kept talking about was
Glory days...

Edited by HeraldAlberich on Mar 4th 2019 at 6:22:42 AM

To take a less cynical view: high school is a time of discovering your independence, learning something all the time, and exploring your interests and figuring out who you are and what you want to do with your life. You see your friends every day, and your responsibilities are pretty limited compared to what they’ll be after you graduate.

Sure, it’s hopefully not ACTUALLY the best time of your life. Your life hopefully just keeps getting better. But I feel like “only people who peak at age 17 and whose lives are a constant downhill slide say this” is an awful way to view what is essentially a gentle way of reminding teenagers to enjoy the experience.

It's obviously supposed to be a gentle way to remind teenagers to enjoy the experience, but it has got some nasty Fridge Logic. "If the first 18 years of my life are the best it gets, why even bother with the remaining ~60?"

What's kind of sad is that you can pretty much draw a straight line between the people for whom it is the "best years of their life" (the stereotypical jocks and alpha bullies) and for whom it was was some of the "worst years of their life" (the stereotypical nerds and loners). I mean, it obviously doesn't always work like that (the two most acclaimed jocks in my high school were both extremely nice guys, one of which was valedictorian and has since become a pastor), but often the ones who are on-top are staying there because of who they're standing on, and the fortunes reverse after school ends.

Sadly, there was a bit of that for our second jock. State wrestling champion, nice guy, but struggled a lot to find his place in the world after school. Ran into him at our 20th high school reunion, and it sounds like he's putting it all back together. I think balance is a huge issue in high school. If you're really good at one thing, whether it's sports, academics, or being the guy who has an older cousin who as a source of weed and alcohol, you can thrive, but after high school, it gets a lot more difficult. The first guy, well, he was blessed and driven enough to be good at a lot of things, and he thrived after high school. The second guy, he had an enormous physical talent, and that's where all of the adults kept him focusing his efforts. Unfortunately, I doubt this is going to change very readily, because colleges look for those "distinguishing activities" on the activity sheet, so parents are going to push children into those niches.

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I'm jealous of people easygoing enough to see the humor in their own dismemberment.

And sorry... that got a little rambling. I'm recovering from a cold and I think the medicine started kicking in.

It probably comes with the ease of fixing the problem. Pintsize going to pieces is a running gag and he himself treats it as such, because his body is a super-easy plug and play device. Even for higher complexity bots, it's just a day in the shop as we've seen in the fight club.

Also if you aren't getting any physical pain from it (or going into shock from blood loss and becoming numb), it probably is less worrisome

Flood of error messages over lost connections is probably similar to pain, even if the intensity is configurable, but lack of continued damage after the fact is also definitely a plus.

What I wanna know is who the hell thought it was a good idea to give that product the sheer mechanical power to be able to rip a robot's arm off.

It was miscalibrated. The explanation is right there.

There obviously would be robots with appendages that are made on the same logical basis as this thing.

It's a sex toy. It shouldn't be physically capable of that, regardless of how miscalibrated it is. That's the thing. It's like saying if you took one of those cymbal monkey dolls and just fiddled with its motor, it would be able to flatten a tin can.

Rule of Funny

Admittedly, something which has been possible with toys throughout the ages. Usually, it requires manual intervention (more powerful springs is a common mod), but sometimes it involved things like blocking a pressure valve that could happen accidentally. And sometimes, it's just a freak accident, body parts caught in just the wrong sort of shear.

My question would be, what is this thing sized for, if an entire arm for in there? Then again, if this is something like a semen collector for bull elephants for the other sort of A.I., the over-engineering makes more sense.

Edited by FuzzyBoots on Mar 5th 2019 at 3:49:59 PM

Now I'm imagining the kind of business where "sex toys to aid in collecting semen samples from elephants" is an actual line item.

Edited by danime91 on Mar 5th 2019 at 1:50:08 AM

I thiiink in a lot of farming just letting animals do it naturally is considered terribly unreliable. Though iirc males are getting a much more comfortable deal out of the equation.

Edited by Adannor on Mar 5th 2019 at 12:53:35 PM

Y'all need Jesus.

A vibrating Jesus maybe

Let the Lord inside

Let His Kingdom come.

Controlling animal mating was a major factor in early genetic engineering which has led to modern livestock. Unfortunately, due to human nature wanting the "best" available, combined with an aversion on the part of the consumer for food looking "different" has resulted in monocultures. Side effects include plagues wiping out entire pig farms... but at least your ham is uniformly the same shade of pink.

So is Beepatrice pronounced like "Beatrice" with an weird 'p,' or is it pronounced "Bee Patrice?"

I think it's "Beep-atrice." Because beep boop, robots.

This appears to be supported by her diminutive nickname in the new strip.