#robots and androids

[silveragelovechild]

I’m a nerd. My favorite movies and TV shows are scifi. I like stories set in the future, but I’m also bored with dystopian societies. But my favorite sci-fi stories involve, time travel, parallel words, and artificial sentience (computers or robots that develop a will of their own).

With that said, today I attended the best movie I’ve seen this year - Mars Express. It’s set in a future where robots of all types are a part of everyday society - mechanical robots, androids, Cyborgs, and augmented humans.

Mars Express is a French animated movie with a well crafted complex story. It is violent and includes references to adult themes (alcoholism and prostitution) so it’s not for kids.

The story starts with a human detective and her robotic partner trying to find a missing girl. Like all good detective stories, the more they dig, the bigger the conspiracy becomes. Did I mention the robot sidekick was once human? He died and his memories were uploaded into a mechanical with a hologram of his head floating above the robot parts.

The robots of this world are bound by Issac Azimov’s first law - they cannot harm humans. But someone has written a program which would wipe this restriction from their programming. What would these synthetic creatures do when they are able to strike back at humans who have enslaved them? The answer will surprise you.

The art design is superb. Certainly it’s been influenced by stories such as Blade Runner or WestWorld, but the story and concept stand on their own. It also has some cool concepts. I particularly liked the futuristic airbags when a car crashes. Not just bags though, the entire cab of the car is instantly fills with foam that get firm, protecting your body from every side. Of course you’re suspended in the foam until robot traffic cops arrive to free you.

I’m one of those people who prefer to see movies at actual theaters. So if Mars Express is playing near you, go see it!

Note: Mars Express has been released in both its original French, and an English dub. (I saw the dub.)

[kieraelieson]

in your robot fic Remus mentioned Roman going out in public with his parents and pretending to be Remus 'just like he always does'... how often does Roman pretend to be Remus? Does he ever get to go out as himself?

Every. Single. Time.

If Roman is out in public, it is as Remus, though a Remus that obeys his parents every instruction.

Actual Remus, on the other hand, is very stuck in the house. Especially as he grew up and pushed himself to be Different from how his parents wanted, they stopped letting him out at all, so it wouldn’t be discovered that Roman was Not him.

[bkdk-fan4ever]

BkDk | Alternative Universe - Dimension Travel | Katsuki gets hit with a quirk and experiences other versions of himself

Mirror Image by Eleke

After taking an attack meant for Deku, Bakugou Katsuki finds himself waking up in a world where he was never born with a Quirk, but Deku was.

Then the next day, he wakes up in another world.

And then the next day he wakes up in another.

Each day he finds himself in another world, some only a little different from his own, some very different, but each one has one thing in common:

In every world, Midoriya Izuku is always right there.

[rattlegeist]

Waking up a sister

[jofiah]

robot girl bouncing on it but it keeps making the connect/disconnect jingle and it's really distracting

[cyborgized]

Self-Awareness by Katsuhiro Õtomo

[r0sh11]

MY HONEST OPINION

[ozzgin]

Android partner who finds your fanfiction and reader insert stories and uses them as a guidebook for his own behavior. He's seen the faces you make when you read your favorite content and wondered what could earn such a genuine smile from you. Is this is what you're seeking in a partner? He scans the lines with curious interest, adding everything to his network of response patterns.

"Why are you blocking the door," you inquire, mildly confused.

"You should be spending time with me instead," the synthetic assistant explains flatly. Literary dialogue and its tones don't translate very well to machines, unfortunately. "Failure to comply will result in punishment," he continues in the same artificial monotony.

"Oh my. Have you been going through my bookmarks?"

"Yes."

Aha, so that's what it was. Hearing some fictional lover's cheesy lines come out in customer service speech is quite...something. You don't want to imagine how the actual smut part would look like, so you gently pat the robot's shoulders.

"Listen, some things might sound good in fiction, but they don't...do as well in real life, you know?"

"So you don't want to be held captive and handled roughly?"

"Mostly, no." you consider his last words. "...To a certain degree. But we'll need to do some adjustments first."

[wolfertinger666]

X, the robot bunny boy

(HE/HIM) 🏳️‍⚧️🐇

[shepscapades]

Surely this will have no negative consequences whatsoever!

[nerrolane]

she misunderstood

[moggettt]

@whirlpoolleaf asked: Can I request Murderbot for the sketch request thing? Thanks so much :)

-performance reliability at 60% and dropping-

(I'm a big fan of the idea that mb tends to be very expressive during fights, considering how accustomed it is to the privacy of the helmet)

[kieraelieson]

I was thinking about your robots and androids au, and how you had called them "my rich boys and my poor boys" and the irony that the ones for whom I was thinking "oh those poor boys!" was not the poor boys...

and then I realized. Roman and Remus aren't rich boys. Unfortunately for them, they are the possessions of rich adults. One literally and the other effectively. Thinking, feeling beings, subjected to the whims of these rich fucks who don't give a singular fuck about their personhood.

Meanwhile Virgil and Logan are their own people. They don't have much resources, and their life is perhaps rough, but it's their own life, and they get to make their own decisions.

You are Very Correct, yes.

Roman and Remus may not want for food or power, but other more basic necessities for people, like autonomy, are definitely denied to them.

[pinkishhue22]

Union wants YOU to join the hacking team... More GG art 🩷

[rattlegeist]

A moment's rest

[luckylsoer]

“Much more efficient than dragging my eyes down there” — Senna

Also, Happy New Year y’all :D