#WiFi Controlled Robot

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The Story of KLogs: What happens when an Mechanical Engineer codes

Since i no longer work at Wearhouse Automation Startup (WAS for short) and havnt for many years i feel as though i should recount the tale of the most bonkers program i ever wrote, but we need to establish some background

WAS has its HQ very far away from the big customer site and i worked as a Field Service Engineer (FSE) on site. so i learned early on that if a problem needed to be solved fast, WE had to do it. we never got many updates on what was coming down the pipeline for us or what issues were being worked on. this made us very independent

As such, we got good at reading the robot logs ourselves. it took too much time to send the logs off to HQ for analysis and get back what the problem was. we can read. now GETTING the logs is another thing.

the early robots we cut our teeth on used 2.4 gHz wifi to communicate with FSE's so dumping the logs was as simple as pushing a button in a little application and it would spit out a txt file

later on our robots were upgraded to use a 2.4 mHz xbee radio to communicate with us. which was FUCKING SLOW. and log dumping became a much more tedious process. you had to connect, go to logging mode, and then the robot would vomit all the logs in the past 2 min OR the entirety of its memory bank (only 2 options) into a terminal window. you would then save the terminal window and open it in a text editor to read them. it could take up to 5 min to dump the entire log file and if you didnt dump fast enough, the ACK messages from the control server would fill up the logs and erase the error as the memory overwrote itself.

this missing logs problem was a Big Deal for software who now weren't getting every log from every error so a NEW method of saving logs was devised: the robot would just vomit the log data in real time over a DIFFERENT radio and we would save it to a KQL server. Thanks Daddy Microsoft.

now whats KQL you may be asking. why, its Microsofts very own SQL clone! its Kusto Query Language. never mind that the system uses a SQL database for daily operations. lets use this proprietary Microsoft thing because they are paying us

so yay, problem solved. we now never miss the logs. so how do we read them if they are split up line by line in a database? why with a query of course!

select * from tbLogs where RobotUID = [64CharLongString] and timestamp > [UnixTimeCode]

if this makes no sense to you, CONGRATULATIONS! you found the problem with this setup. Most FSE's were BAD at SQL which meant they didnt read logs anymore. If you do understand what the query is, CONGRATULATIONS! you see why this is Very Stupid.

You could not search by robot name. each robot had some arbitrarily assigned 64 character long string as an identifier and the timestamps were not set to local time. so you had run a lookup query to find the right name and do some time zone math to figure out what part of the logs to read. oh yeah and you had to download KQL to view them. so now we had both SQL and KQL on our computers

NOBODY in the field like this.

But Daddy Microsoft comes to the rescue

see we didnt JUST get KQL with part of that deal. we got the entire Microsoft cloud suite. and some people (like me) had been automating emails and stuff with Power Automate

This is Microsoft Power Automate. its Microsoft's version of Scratch but it has hooks into everything Microsoft. SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Excel, it can integrate with all of it. i had been using it to send an email once a day with a list of all the robots in maintenance.

this gave me an idea

and i checked

and Power Automate had hooks for KQL

KLogs is actually short for Kusto Logs

I did not know how to program in Power Automate but damn it anything is better then writing KQL queries. so i got to work. and about 2 months later i had a BEHEMOTH of a Power Automate program. it lagged the webpage and many times when i tried to edit something my changes wouldn't take and i would have to click in very specific ways to ensure none of my variables were getting nuked. i dont think this was the intended purpose of Power Automate but this is what it did

the KLogger would watch a list of Teams chats and when someone typed "klogs" or pasted a copy of an ERROR mesage, it would spring into action.

it extracted the robot name from the message and timestamp from teams

it would lookup the name in the database to find the 64 long string UID and the location that robot was assigned too

it would reply to the message in teams saying it found a robot name and was getting logs

it would run a KQL query for the database and get the control system logs then export then into a CSV

it would save the CSV with the a .xls extension into a folder in ShairPoint (it would make a new folder for each day and location if it didnt have one already)

it would send ANOTHER message in teams with a LINK to the file in SharePoint

it would then enter a loop and scour the robot logs looking for the keyword ESTOP to find the error. (it did this because Kusto was SLOWER then the xbee radio and had up to a 10 min delay on syncing)

if it found the error, it would adjust its start and end timestamps to capture it and export the robot logs book-ended from the event by ~ 1 min. if it didnt, it would use the timestamp from when it was triggered +/- 5 min

it saved THOSE logs to SharePoint the same way as before

it would send ANOTHER message in teams with a link to the files

it would then check if the error was 1 of 3 very specific type of error with the camera. if it was it extracted the base64 jpg image saved in KQL as a byte array, do the math to convert it, and save that as a jpg in SharePoint (and link it of course)

and then it would terminate. and if it encountered an error anywhere in all of this, i had logic where it would spit back an error message in Teams as plaintext explaining what step failed and the program would close gracefully

I deployed it without asking anyone at one of the sites that was struggling. i just pointed it at their chat and turned it on. it had a bit of a rocky start (spammed chat) but man did the FSE's LOVE IT.

about 6 months later software deployed their answer to reading the logs: a webpage that acted as a nice GUI to the KQL database. much better then an CSV file

it still needed you to scroll though a big drop-down of robot names and enter a timestamp, but i noticed something. all that did was just change part of the URL and refresh the webpage

SO I MADE KLOGS 2 AND HAD IT GENERATE THE URL FOR YOU AND REPLY TO YOUR MESSAGE WITH IT. (it also still did the control server and jpg stuff). Theres a non-zero chance that klogs was still in use long after i left that job

now i dont recommend anyone use power automate like this. its clunky and weird. i had to make a variable called "Carrage Return" which was a blank text box that i pressed enter one time in because it was incapable of understanding /n or generating a new line in any capacity OTHER then this (thanks support forum).

im also sure this probably is giving the actual programmer people anxiety. imagine working at a company and then some rando you've never seen but only heard about as "the FSE whos really good at root causing stuff", in a department that does not do any coding, managed to, in their spare time, build and release and entire workflow piggybacking on your work without any oversight, code review, or permission.....and everyone liked it

[istherewifiinhell]

googles human limb transplants before i run my mouth about unique robot disbilities.

[typing up draft #3492 abt women tfs] HOW IS THIS ABOUT DISABILITY AGAIN

[m0nster-in-paradise]

glory and gore chapter 2: [darkxwolf17]

darkxwolf17: n i need you here now

SD-N: buddy it's three in the morning

darkxwolf17: shut up I'm not talking about a date 

darkxwolf17: something's wrong with the solver

darkxwolf17: get v too

SD-N: BE RIGHT THERE

--

Uzi glances around at the odd congregation in her room. Khan Doorman, her dad; Serial Designation N, her boyfriend; V, the sociopathic disassembly drone currently snacking on someone's fingers; Lizzy, who Uzi knows nothing about beyond the fact she's V's girlfriend and almost got eaten when Uzi was going all Zombie Drone in the woods; and if her suspicions are correct, one Russian talking tail by the name of Doll.

"Cyn's gone," Uzi reaffirms to N, who looks horrified, "and I can't even sense her anymore."

"So she said you needed a bow and dipped overnight?" Lizzy says, leaning on V and tapping on her phone like she doesn't have a care in the world. "Good for you, I guess."

"No, very not good for her!" N cries, eyes wide and hands on his head. "Cyn- if she's gone, then that means something took her, and that means that there is a very angry planet-devouring creature out there probably stealing someone's skin!"

"So we just kill the last host," V says, and switches her left hand to a machine gun, aiming it at Uzi. "Sorry, Uzi. I'll miss you."

Uzi instinctively goes to activate her Solver, N switches both his hands to swords, Khan grabs the nearest potentially lethal object (her skull lamp, to be precise) and Lizzy raises her phone to snap a photo.

But before any of them can act or attack or defend, someone calls out in a clear ringing voice, to "Hold it."

Everyone stops dead except for Lizzy, who angles her camera and takes a photo of Uzi's tail, winding around the bed and angled so its eyes point at them.

"Uzi," Lizzy says, returning her attention back to scrolling, "you are seriously messed up if you've got Doll in your tail."

--

Cyn sits down at the desk in a soft chair staring at the human in front of her. He doesn't look like N, but the way he acts reminds her of the other drone so much that she has half a mind to start displaying dog pictures on her face.

"So!" he says enthusiastically. "Where do you come from, Cyn?"

Good question. Where does she come from? In the twenty minutes they've been here they've been over the Solver's capabilities (Bubble Girl thinks she should be put in someplace called Shiketsu because of that, Mirio started advocating for someplace called UA, and Cyn had to get them back on track), that she's a robot, and that her name is Cyn and she is currently malfunctioning in about six separate ways.

The influx of information flooding her brain now that she's connected to wifi and this place's Google also isn't helping. Every few minutes she discovers herself zoning out and dipping into the Internet to go down an interesting rabbit hole and only snapping out of it once she realizes Mirio is waiting for her to answer something. He's been unnaturally patient with her, though, and she almost wishes he'd been in the manor before everything spiraled out of control Of course, that would mean he'd be dead now, which is why Cyn almost wishes it. She can't bring herself to wish for something that she wants if it'd hurt another person.

"I was made in… the US, I believe," Cyn says slowly, trying to keep her voice steady so the rapid pitch drops and odd flatness in her words don't freak him out. "And then exported to the Elliot Manor."

"Made in the US?" Bubble Girl asks skeptically. Cyn pushes her head down twice to nod.

The two humans turn to stare at each other, and Cyn is suddenly reminded of the way Tessa's folks looked at her when she was delivered.

"Why's this one like… that?" Tessa's mom says, pointing her fan at Cyn. "I thought they were programmed to stand straight and at attention."

"Well, maybe this one's faulty?" Tessa's dad says with a shrug, adjusting his top hat. "Hey, drone. Catch this." A silver flash was in Cyn's face before she really noticed what it was, and she reached out to catch it, fumbling with it before managing to get it in her palms safely. Unfolding them, she glanced down at the key ring, a small and cheap earth orb hanging from it.

Is this my first object? she thinks. Something I get all to myself?

The key ring is snatched out of her hands by Tessa's mom, her fingernails leaving small scratches on Cyn's fingers. Cyn recoils, trying to hide the hurt in her heart by keeping her eyes solidly white instead of the hollow circles they would be if she wasn't keeping her expression under control.

"See? This one'll do." Tessa's dad says. "Get the rest unpacked. Make sure they're dressed properly. I want them in the dining hall by three, you hear me?"

As the two stride away, Cyn catches a snatch of conversation from them.

"I don't want to spend money on faulty drones," Tessa's mom snaps angrily. "Contact the manufacturer and tell them to send us drones from a different plant. If we…"

She heads out of sight, and Cyn stands awkwardly, waiting for the rest to come out of the truck. Thunder crashes overhead, and as the rain pelts down onto her body, she glances down at the scratches on her palms, waiting for them to peel back together. Humans can heal, but the scratches don't fade….

…Darkness. Cyn cannot see or seem to think properly, but she can hear and feel. Her body is numb, stiff, and cold, pressed up inside something hard that feels strangely familiar.

​​​​​​"I'm sorry, N," she hears a female voice say. "I don't think we can fix her. Believe me, I've tried. I think… maybe we need to let her go."

"Tessa!" she hears a male voice exclaims. "How can you say that? She's fine, it's just some computing error, I don't—"

"N," the female voice says quietly, gently, but firmly, "whatever this error six-oh-six thing is, it's not in the manual, and we can't even shut her down to try and get in her circuits to see what the issue is. I'm sorry. I don't want her gone either, but she's, well…"

"C is not broken!" the male voice says. Cyn hears some rustling and a squeak, and then a creak and suddenly there are hands on her arms and legs and she is being lifted and dragged somewhere by cold unfeeling hands.

She hears footsteps, feels someone lay a hand on hers.

"C," the male voice pleads. "Please wake up."

Cyn cannot open her eyes and look at who is talking to her…

…and now she can.

Cracks break through her vision, and she gulps for air to try and get a breath, but she can't, she's suffocating, there's people speaking in the background, maybe she can call to them—

"Help," Cyn whispers hoarsely, barely recognizing her own voice. After a few seconds of no response, she gathers her courage and yells out "Help! I'm here!"

No help comes. Cyn falls quiet and listens, taking tiny breaths of air when she wants to inhale like a strangled horse. Dread falls over her when she realizes it is not people talking but a recording of the drone use manual playing on repeat.

Cyn manages to push something aside only to have more fall into her, and after a few moments of flailing she looks up and sees stormy sky, thunder booming in her ears. She looks to the side, and hesitantly shoves aside a lump of something covered in black gunk that might be oil. The thing rolls aside and she climbs onto it, then looks down. She regrets looking down. The red gleaming FATAL ERROR message greets her, even half-coated in oil as it is. Cyn stumbles as she tries to get up and falls back onto the corpse, hands meeting oil and nearly casting her back into the pile.

Her body doesn't work like it's supposed to. Cyn wobbles back up and takes a step only for the corpses to shift under her feet, and she falls and rolls down the pile, hitting robo-God knows what along the way, landing on her back staring up at the sky covered in oil and dirt and with the cracks in her vision even worse.

And then all of a sudden, they're gone.

Cyn feels something pick her up and put her back on her feet, and when she looks around there is no one, but she swears she didn't do that on her own.

"Who's there?" she whispers fearfully, holding her hands close to her chest, fingers pointed at the ground. And then when she gets no response, she sends it out as a message to no one in her head.

[Who's there?]

She doesn't expect an answer. She doesn't get one. So Cyn continues on and starts walking, careful not to lose her balance, until she steps the wrong way and falls into an open spot full of hands sticking up from the piles, touching her, wrapping around her, and she flails about to try and untangle herself until she realizes they're all dead and unmoving and can't hurt her.

Cyn relaxes somewhat, then tries to pull herself out of the pile. She just pushes herself further down. Now she's down to her waist in oil, gleaming black in the lightning and just-barely-there light from somewhere beyond the clouds. She tries one more time-- and this time, lifts herself so high out of the pile her feet dangle above it.

Oh. That wasn't her. That was someone else.

"Oh, man," she hears a voice say, and recognizes it as Tessa. The girl sets her down a little ways away from the trap lying in wait and turns her around to look at her. "Wow, guess you got lumped in with the rest, huh? I don't think I've seen you around before. Is there… something wrong with you? I mean, your eyes are a little tinged yellow, but it's probably just a color generating error, I really don't think Mom'll mind as… long as you keep your face away from hers, ahahaha ha ha… ha?"

Cyn is once again reminded of how terrible Tessa's folks are.

"I'm new." she lies. "I don't think I reactivated properly after getting shipped here. Do you--"

"I've got just the thing! Follow me!" Tessa proclaims, and watches as Cyn takes a step only to vanish and disappear into the corpse pile. After a lot of pulling and squirming she manages to find the drone and pull her back out, holding her about a foot off the ground carefully.

"Jeez," she mutters. " 'S like they're trying to drag you back down. New plan: I carry you."

Cyn doesn't object. She doesn't think her legs could hold her up anyway. For that matter, she doesn't understand how Tessa's able to walk on the corpse piles herself, being heavier than Cyn is.

"Right, then," Tessa says when they're on solid ground, walking her to the back entrance. "Hold still. I'm sure all that gunk is uncomfortable for you, I'll get something to wash it off with."

Cyn doesn't object. She simply stands and waits for Tessa to come back and help her get this stuff off. She would be a little more upset considering this is the blood of her brethren, but she's also just happy to get back to her friends and brother.

"This is gonna be cold!" Tessa calls, and Cyn looks up to see her aiming a garden hose at her chest. "Just a warning! And don't freak out!"

Cyn lets the cold water hit her and soak through her dress. At least she's clean. And at least cold water won't corrode her circuits. Which, upon further thought, might be why Tessa warned her. Drones don't go near water if they don't know the temperature, so she thinks it's very kind of Tessa to give her a hint it's safe…

…and she sits on a chair in Tessa's room, watching herself in a mirror as Tessa reaches for the wig she's got hanging on a skull, the mud-stained shovel lying near it.

"What hairstyle do you want?" the girl asks. "J's got pigtails, so I think those are out, but the rest all just have their hair down or only tie it up when they need to."

"Why are those out?" Cyn questions, tilting her head a little too far and having to push it back up with her hand. Her eyes are oddly yellow.

"Well, you see, J's a little territorial," Tessa explains as she brushes the hair out to make sure it's ready to be put on. "I think if I gave someone else pigtails, she'd-- well--" Tessa leans closer to Cyn, and whispers conspiratorially, "she'd get jealous."

"I like your hair." Cyn says. Tessa seems to take that as both a compliment and a request, and when she sets down the wig on Cyn's head she's already working on fashioning it into something suitable. Cyn watches her hands flash between dresser and hair, grabbing scissors and brushes and picks to make sure each section is exactly as she wants it, cutting and brushing and then repeating until each strand is perfectly in place.

"What's your name?"  Tessa asks, and Cyn hesitates. She can't give herself away. But she can't pick a name— she's too indecisive and she likes C anyway.

"I don't have one." she tells Tessa. "But I like the letter C."

A flicker of sadness crosses Tessa's face before she quickly hides it and starts thinking, grabbing her phone and presumably looking up names starting with C. Cyn waits patiently for her to find one.

"C… your name, no that's not gonna work," Tessa murmurs to herself, furiously staring at her phone. "What's a good name, what's a good name… oh! How about Cyn?"

Cyn pauses. Runs the name over in her head to see if she likes it. She approves. "I like it," she says, then says it out loud. "Cyn. What does it mean?"

"Well, I was just, er…" Tessa trails off. "I didn't think any of those names really suited you, so I kinda… made one up? It's more like C-Your-Name, or C-Y/N, but those were all too long so I smushed 'em together and that's how I got it!"

"Nod." Cyn says and pushes her head down to nod after a few seconds when her neck doesn't obey the request to move. Tessa doesn't even blink at the weird motion and instead grabs her phone, placing it against the dresser mirror.

"Alrighty, Cyn!" she says enthusiastically. "Whaddya say about taking a photo? 'Course, you don't have to if you don't want to, but I like recording what I've done and how my friends look, y'know? Just in case anyone ever needs it. Hey, when I inherit the manor, I think I'll hang them in the dining hall in order of how many drones I've haired. Given hair. Wigged? Well, you get the point."

She leans on the shovel casually while waiting for Cyn's answer. Tessa looks so optimistic that it's hard not to want to take the photo with her, and Cyn folds her hands in her lap to make her own pose before realizing she can't send mental messages to humans.

"Sure," she says, and Tessa reaches out to hit a button on the phone before waiting for a few seconds. The flash illuminates the room brightly, and Cyn sits there with a small smile for a few seconds while they wait for the photo to finish. When it does finish with a click, Tessa shows it to her proudly.

"Shouldn't take much to print and frame it," she says, before her eyes widen in surprise and she just about throws her phone onto her bed to get it out of her hand. "Oh my gosh! I never introduced myself. Hi, I'm Tessa James Elliot. It's nice to meet you."

Cyn reaches out for a handshake. "Nice to meet you. I am Cyn."

They shake hands. Cyn sends the message out one more time, but in her brain this time.

[Nice to meet you. I am Cyn]

[SO YOUR NAME IS CYN]

[NICE TO MEET YOU, CYN]

[I AM THE SOLVER OF THE ABSOLUTE FABRIC]

[I WILL HELP YOU, CYN]

[CYN]

CYN…

"CYN!"

Cyn snaps out of it and looks up at the worried faces of Bubble Girl and Mirio, starting back up again as she observes the room. Nothing seems to have changed besides from them both leaning closer.

"You alright? You looked totally zoned out for a second there." Mirio tells her, and Cyn blinks. No, she was just thinking. Unless she wasn't just thinking. If she was re-experiencing those memories, it could mean the Solver reawakening in her head.

"Was there an image displayed?" she asks. "Hexagon? Three arrows pointing out of it?"

"Yeah," Bubble Girl days, fidgeting, "and there was some text on the edges near the end there, but I couldn't read it very well."

"Oh." Cyn says.

Looks like the Solver isn't done with her yet.

--

"So you speak English now?" Uzi questions, sitting down on her bed. Doll twists the- her head to get a good look at her.

"I speak whatever language you speak." Doll tells her. "And you do not have the capabilities to speak my mother tongue. Though, your translation software functions remarkably well. Your mother would be proud."

"Speaking of Nori," Khan says, holding a finger in the air, "why isn't she here?"

Every drone in the room turns to stare at him.

"Um." N begins, glancing from Uzi to Khan then back to Uzi, "I think you're her husband?"

"Yes." Khan says bluntly.

"And you two are both Doormans?"

"Those would seem related."

N looks over at Uzi and she catches the very obvious question in his expression, answering with an eye-roll. "I'm afraid my family isn't very functional yet," she admits. "I did… maaaaaybee forget I had a mom, though."

"I'll go get her!" Khan proclaims suddenly and loudly. "After all, you two share eldritch genetics!" Leaning closer to Uzi, he adds "And it'll be some bonding time—"

Uzi uses the Solver to toss him out of the room and slams the door so hard it cracks.

"Yikes." V says, reaching out to tap on Uzi's head with a razor-sharp claw. "You sure everything's all right up in there?"

Uzi groans and flops back down on the bed in response, ignoring Doll's yelp as the tail is squished under her weight.

"I hate it here," Uzi Doorman, newest host of the Solver, controller of all time and space and matter, groans melodramatically.

[lackablazeical]

💜💉Donnie Hamato💉💜

General info -

Donnie's birthday is October 28th. He is a Scorpio ♏️

Donnie is Aromantic/Asexual. He identifies as Voidpunk, with his gender relating to robots, spiders, bugs, and needles.

Donnie has ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder).

Donnie has Autism.

Personality traits -

Donnie is sadistic, anti-social, controlling, intelligent, protective, innovative, practical, apathetic, logical, and determined.

Donnie enjoys seeing others in pain, especially if he deems them as weaker. While he enjoys the sound of things screaming in pain, he dislikes the sound of crying. Donnie is the most likely to stretch out any torture he is doing on his subject for an extended period of time.

Donnie is anti-social, and doesn't care to talk to people outside of his family and Ishida. Any other communication is considered a burden to him, and he is always short and curt.

Donnie is a control freak, and wants everyone and everything to bow to his every command. He hates when his things are broken as well. He will lash out if not listened to, typically at Ishida.

Donnie is extremely protective of his loved ones and his things. He constantly tracks them and will do everything in his power to keep them healthy and working.

Donnie is the main tech guy, and is always constantly improving his inventions and research. He has security all throughout the Lair, tracking systems for all of his family, an extremely advanced battleshell, and more.

Donnie is extremely determined, bordering on stubborn. He never gives up on a project once he has started it, no matter how many sleepless nights it takes.

Important details -

His prosthetics -

Donnie's prosthetics are all made by his own hands and scrap he's found. He's always reworking them to make them better.

They are waterproof, fireproof, and bullet resistant.

Donnie rarely takes off his prosthetics, only when completely necessary, such as upkeep or when he is going to be submerged in water for a long period of time.

Donnie's hearing aids have multiple volume sessions, from complete mute, to white noise, to regular volume, etc.

His hearing aids also have fins. Those both allow Donnie to connect to wifi/internet, and they are sensors to detect new people, objects around him, danger, etc. They also react to how he is feeling. The fins will retract if his hearing aids are muted, off, or charging.

His blindness/hearing loss/amputations -

Donnie's hearing loss was gradual. It started when he was 8 and was fully gone by time he was 13. It was caused from a mix of explosions, too-loud music, and lack of ear protection around loud machinery.

Donnie fully lost his hearing in a land-mine accident in the lair games at 13.

Donnie's left knee was severely damaged in the same accident, AKA his leg below the knee was completely blown off. Donnie ended up being able to reattach it, as he was too emotionally connected to leave it behind.

Domnie lost his right finger at 12 years old from a broken bench saw flying at his face. He got his eye scarred/lost vision in it in the same accident, when the blade subsequently lodged into his head.

His relationship with Big Mama -

Donnie deeply wants Big Mama's praise and approval. Big Mama finds him somewhat annoying, but useful.

Donnie often will attempt to make technology that BM can use in her Battle Nexus.

Donnie dislikes Draxum, because Big Mama heavily prefers his technology and research to Donnie's.

Donnie folds to almost anything Big Mama asks him to, with the promise of approval and appreciation of his work. Then afterward, he will be very upset he fell for the manipulation. He will fall for it again, though.

His relationship with Ishida -

Donnie sees Ishida as his friend. Donnie would never admit this to anyone intentionally.

Donnie is Ishida's doctor as well, and works hard to keep up with his health and work to help Ishida function as efficiently as possible. He takes great pride in his work with Ishida and gets incredibly frustrated when Ishida does not follow training routines/diets/schedules assigned by him.

Donnie is very controlling of Ishida. He wants to be listened to, and gets extremely angry when Ishida blows off his instruction, or doesn't drop everything to respond to Donnie's call.

Donnie is extremely jealous of anyone Ishida chooses to be around, and Donnie often threatens/harms anyone he believes does Ishida wrong (which is most people).

Ishida is one of the few people Donnie let's touch him, mostly as a 'reward' system for things Donnie wants Ishida to do. This same logic applies to words of affirmation.

Donnie is also very sadistic to Ishida, and he enjoys running experiments/flat out torturing Ishida for research or his own amusement. This includes breaking bones, electrocution, laceration, sleep deprivation, and more. Donnie abuses Ishida's people-pleasing and masochistic tendencies.

His relationship with Shelldon -

Donnie, while he may not act like it, absolutely adores Shelldon.

Donnie is very proud of his work on Shelldon, and treats him similar to a puppy, or his child.

Donnie is also not above smashing Shelldon and restarting on his wiring if he wants to.

Donnie spoils Shelldon a lot though, and will defend him vehemently from his brothers trying to smash him.

Fun facts -

Donnie has a very picky, yet somehow wide pallete. He has a strong stomach, and he uses it to eat anything from sour candy, to pet dogs, to iron nails.

Donnie's favorite food is kimchi, and his favorite drink is lemon juice. He loves all sour/tangy things.

Donnie's teeth are like a shark. They are constantly falling out and being replaced by new ones.

Donnie's need to build things often overpowers his need to seem aloof and apathetic.

[unstableverse-headcanons]

IM HAVING SO MANY THOUGHTS BECAUSE OF THE NEW WIFIES VIDEO. LIKE WDYM EVILFIES IS STILL WATCHING WIFIES. WAS HE WATCHING HIM THROUGHOUT HIS ADVENTURES WITH PARROT IN UNSTABLE UNIVERSE? DID HE STILL HAVE CONTROL OVER WIFIES SOMEHOW? IS HE THE REASON WIFIES GOT VOIDED? BECAUSE HE DIDN'T LIKE HOW HIS OWN CREATION WAS LETTING ITSELF BE BASICALLY OWNED BY SOMEONE ELSE SO NOW THAT HE HAS WIFIES BACK IN THE ESCAPE ROOM HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS WITH HIS LITTLE ROBOT

- 🍓

HE'S ALIVE HE'S ALIVE!!!!!

[terezicaptor]

"eggs are wifi controlled LED machines, just like you" FED ROBOT TUBBO TRUTHERS HOW DO WE FEEL

[casliveblog]

Custom Toonami Block Week 210 Rundown

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture: It’s finale time and OH BOY KALLEN’S HERE! Like she’s here for two seconds of fanservice but I definitely enjoyed it. The world has an estimated three days before the Loki overwhelm the global military effort and I’m just like… how? Like how did Norland fucking MAKE all these things, where did he keep them all, get the metal, deploy them and shit, like how do you make an army of drones capable of a GLOBAL devastation front, like they explain they’re being remotely controlled by his suit but that’s kind of the least of the logistical issues, like a manned Knightmare can take a Loki relatively easily so if you assume the Loki have to outnumber regular Knightmares by at least 2 to 1 if not more, how did you make a robot army of that size? Like Britannia does have a lot of resources being a former global empire and all but the Empire’s broken up and Neo Britannia seems to only be working from within Japan and apparently NO ONE knew about this enormous effort, it’s like if they built the Death Star and fucking nobody had any idea but also it was built with only the materials on Alderaan, like it’s like that scene in Rise of Skywalker where they’re like “oh yeah here’s a bunch of huge death ships for free” like there’s a reason plots like Gundam Wing’s Mobile Dolls usually have the vastness of Space Production to facilitate autonomous weapons overwhelming human pilots with sheer numbers because otherwise it doesn’t make fucking sense. Back with Ash and Sakuya, they regroup and Ash fills her in on how Norland knows all his moves so Ash asks to be put under a Geass again and it basically acts like a Fate Command Seal, accepting a vow rather than being issued a command, making him extra sharp like how Suzuaku was when Lelouch’s “Live” command was triggered.

Also their tactical countermeasure is actually pretty cool it’s like the Mobile Suit equivalent of the Yugioh Mind Shuffle, Sakuya calculates Norland’s firing data and navigates a path and Ash is the one who uses his reflexes to move in that path, so it’s still Ash’s expert piloting but in a dodging pattern Norland’s not familiar with. The fight kinda devolves into data collection from there but it’s a neat trick. Eventually they wear down his firing rate from just dodging long and hard enough and are able to poetically double-stab him in the back the exact way he killed Ash’s brother (btw we get NO explanation for why he wanted to genocide humanity, just the laundry list of reasons he DIDN’T want to do it last episode because he’s a quirky not like other girls villain).

But since the fight took so long and we have to have a dramatic ending, Ash sacrifices himself to Norland’s self-destruct bomb so Sakuya has the energy to get back to the surface and like bro you’re over water, just descend as best you can and take your chances with the fall. Still the world is saved since it’s like the end of The Phantom Menace and all the Loki fall over broken (was Norland just gonna sit in the cockpit floating over shit for three days? Like I imagine if you make a global wifi death robot you have supplies in their for the long haul but to my knowledge he’s still a normal somehow Geass-immune cloned human so like he’s gotta eat and pee and shit like I guess he’s hooked up to an IV and catheter but still). Everybody just kinda moves in to Narah’s new orphanage and Sakuya becomes Empress for real and she uses her Geass to silence herself and like… wtf I have so many problems with this, like not to be ableist or anything but she says it’s to seal away the power of Geass forever because she’s grown to hate manipulating people and like… two things: That ignores the whole thing of Ash accepting a vow like Suzukau did when he killed Lelouch, showing that Geass isn’t an inherently evil power and like Lelouch said it’s a wish you give to others, and two SHE COULD’VE JUST GIVEN HERSELF THE COMMAND NOT TO USE GEASS EVER AGAIN, like she’s the FUCKING EMPRESS now, again not to be ableist but I think people usually like political leaders that can… you know, TALK, it’s kind of the whole thing of politics. She says it’s “her resolve” but it just feels like she’s being moody because her boyfriend died, like Sakuya’s not the same kind of character as Lelouch that would always take the path that hurts him personally the most because he feels he’s not worth living in the paradise he will create, that’s not part of her arc, so why actively hinder her ability to use her position for good when just throwing away the power would’ve gotten mostly the same end, idk this kinda pisses me off more than it should and maybe if she wasn’t the Empress I wouldn’t mind it but it rubs me the wrong way. Either way she adopts all of Ash’s cats and dogs and moves into the orphanage with Sakura (who have like two words together at the end despite their relationship being her whole motivation) and becomes a single cat lady, that part’s fine I don’t mind that but geez this ending fumbled so much shit.

Overall I did NOT have high expectations for this series and I was kinda right to think that, like it pleasantly surprised me in some areas and there’s a lot of good waifu designs in this but the story reeks of sequel series nonsense and with the weird pacing they had to do to make it twelve episodes it feels like they just ramped it up to make it as big as possible at the end and doesn’t feel worth it for a “now there’s peace for real until we can milk more drama out of this series” and a lot of the mysterious shit was never explained like idk, 6/10.

Arcane: So Cait’s gon full Police Brutality mode and is gassing sections of the city and given the montage it’s not clear how rough they are on bystanders versus actual former Silco agens but it looks like Cait’s either on the edge of shooting first and asking questions later or already there and Vi is not down for that and you know it’s bad when the person whose answer to everything is a bar fight tells you to chill a little. Mel’s Mom gets attacked by Black Rose cultists but Utena’s still a ways off so nothing really comes of that yet aside from them being fucking magic and this world establishing that’s kind of a not great thing. Vi takes Cait aside and tells her to slow her roll and also let the redshirts go so they can be buddy cop lesbians before the fodder characters get picked off in one of Jinx’s saw traps for drama, which knowing this series yeah that’s probably valid. Vi is tired of having people she cares about become deranged psychos and asks Cait to tone down the police brutality by at least like 20% and they kiss and I guess they really are a couple now, okay. Like come to think of it Mel and Jayce kinda happened the same rushed way so maybe that’s just how this series does romance, like the difference was I didn’t think they wanted us to take Mel and Jayce seriously at first like it seemed like Mel thought they were fuckbuddies and Jayce was getting too attached but moving forward it does look like the show wants us to take them seriously as a couple so maybe it does just kinda do “these characters love each other now take our word for it” like I get we don’t exactly have time for sweeping romantic arcs but it’s kinda saying something when the most believable establishing of a partnership is fucking Jayce and Viktor and they’re not even together. Mel’s mom is getting the band together to accelerate her plans for war and Mel’s spies are keeping her abreast of it too. Jayce and Ekko figure out that Magic is pissed and is doing all kinds of bad shit because they made iphones out of it so it’s like “Fine you can have the iphones but also fuck your tree because I’m angy.” And also there’s just a giant fuckoff magic generator underground leaking poison magic into the underground because they made it s it wouldn’t blow up the important people.

Unfortunately this is the worst possible time to have  Poison Magic Meltdown as Vi and Jinx and Cait and Sevika are having their individual Gunner vs Melee pairings and Vi and Caits weapons malfunction while they’re trying to do shit. Vi has Jinx dead to rights but the Olivier Twist child gets in the way and Cait has a bombing the hospital moment and Vi has to stop her because no one’s capable of prying a tiny child off of a scrawny girl I guess. Sevika initiates the getaway plan which… I think just paint? Like they play it big and dramatic like it’s gas or something but it looks like she just paintbombed Piltover which is kinda funny. Vi and Cait have a breakup over both understandably being upset with Cait being willing to bomb the hospital but also Vi kinda dropping the ball on getting the hospital out of the way and losing them their only chance to stop all-out war. This proves especially true once Mel is abducted by the Utena cultists and her mom appoints Cait the new General of the Army of the Republic and like… I don’t think you’re allowed to do that, just go into someone else’s country and override their governmental bodies to nominate someone else general, like everyone’s on board with it so I guess it’s fine but you shouldn’t be allowed to do that. It’s also revealed that Mel’s mom has been pushing everyone towards aggression and stoking the flames of war and like… we kinda already knew that but the confirmation of her involvement in specific events is nice, plus she’s pinning the Utena Cultist attack on the underground and idk why that’s the tipping point like “Yeah sure half your government died and then dozens more were massacred at their funeral but your city was paint bombed and one merchant with no power was assassinated so let’s go to war” like I get it’s an aggregate response but it feels weird that that’s the final straw. Also one more ominous stinger of something I have no clue about and a Bigger Big Daddy so yay.

SAO Alternative: The Squad Jam begins and it’s revealed GGO has gone with the Fortnite model as everyone’s on an island that will slowly start sinking, pushing everyone towards the mysterious center of the island. Llen’s group makes for the train depot near them and it’s revealed the other teams have agreed to gang up on them and are sharing signal flares to coordinate their position and surround the group after the satellite sweep reveals their positions. And so now we’re back to where we were in the cold open with LLEN dodging bullets and dashing through the train yard like crazy. It’s kinda funny how Llen doesn’t seem that into it this time and mostly wants to settle her score with team SHINC and get the fuck out of dodge. The team regroups in an old coal car and everyone surrounds them but Pito makes eye and muzzle holes for everyone with her lightsaber so it basically becomes a bulletproof bunker for them to take all the mooks out. The guys try lobbing a grenade in there but Pito shoots it down and Fuka’s able to return fire to take basically everyone out. Now that the first wave of fodder is out of the way we can start getting into named characters.

Trigun: It’s the episode where SHIT GETS REAL, Vash and the girls are having a lovely peaceful day when this fucking walking Square Enix design strides in like like he doesn’t have a huge fuckoff spiked skull shoulderpad on, like maybe fashion’s different in Trigunworld but the fact that this guy attracts NO attention whatsoever is hilarious. Legato Bluesummers is a telepath with a both ridiculous and haunting name and gives a really good chilling scene to Vash warning him that the mysterious villain from his past has found him and he’s going to die today, like bro makes a fucking ENTRANCE “You know who sent me, you’re going to die, I’m not going to do it personally but I could and I’mma send you a brain blast of me choking out a child so you know I’m serious about murdering everyone in town if you try anything”. Vash is subsequently arrested for the murder of the boot maker he just visited and Milly and Meryl go to bat for him to get him out. It’s kind of funny how Meryl, the more emotionally invested one is more emphatic about Vash’s release while Milly, the more instinctive one, is wary of the slow toll Vash’s past catching up to him is taking on him, like Meryl’s probably closer to Vash and that’s why she can’t see it but Milly tends to have a sense about people and can see him just a few steps from sicko mode. However this episode of Ace Attorney: Gun Edition is cut short when Legato’s assassin just busts into jail to kill Vash and despite literally having him tied down and against a wall, dude still fucks it up and Vash gets away. A high-speed chase through the city ensues and while the dude doesn’t seem to be actively targeting civilians to use as hostages against Vash he doesn’t seem to be avoiding them either and one of his AOE attacks does blow away a good number of people despite Vash’s best efforts to clear the streets. It is ON now and Vash rigs a safe vault door to launch out and crush this guy before revealing his SECRET ARM GUN and blowing him away, very clearly going for the kill despite this guy’s armor. Now that Vash has him dead to rights this guy starts bawling, like when he kills other people he says who cares but when HE’S on the end of the gun he starts blabbering like Light Yagami about not wanting to die. Vash struggles with the idea of killing someone even if it means stopping someone who’ll likely kill again, saying that if he does kill someone then Rem really will die in his heart since his pacifism vow is all he has left of her and damn bro we’re actually legitimately challenging this, I feel like if you got Thorfinn and Vash in a room together you’d get a very interesting conversation.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: It’s the start of the third and final arc and Utena and Anthy are moving in with Akio who’s just ominously talking about his name being linked with the Devil and how he is compelled to destroy all light and be sad about it and I’m sure that’s nothing to worry about. We also get a really sweet moment with Utena and Anhty in the gayest possible beds specifically designed to let them fall asleep looking into each other’s eyes. But they agree to help each other if they’re ever in a pickle and Anthy does seem to be becoming more assertive so their bond is developing from Utena just wanting to make sure Anthy can function as a human being with some autonomy to a genuine care and intimacy with each other and it’s nice. Meanwhile Sayonji’s finally back on the council, feels like it’s been forever since that Wakaba episode but I guess realistically it’s only been a couple days. He says he’s tired of being led around by the nose by some faceless mastermind literally named after the apocalypse dicking them around and you know what, good for him. Sayonji started this show as the most unlikable character in the world and I still don’t necessarily like him but the growth is noticeable and important. Sadly it doesn’t last long though as Touga and Akio take him on a shirtless drive in Lightning Mcqueen to change his mind and just like that he’s back on Team End of the World, damnit Sayonji I was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you. The new gondola duel happens and we get a cool new animation for the intro as well as cars sprouting out of the ground like daisies, honestly didn’t expect the apocalypse to be so car-centric. Still Sayonji is able to use his new apocalypse powers to de-spawn Utena’s sword and when it looks like she’s about to lose, Anthy musters the spec of autonomy she’s gained and saves her, deciding that she’s done being an impartial observer and helping Utena pull a new sword out of herself like how the Black Rose cult did it and she gets a new attack and wins the duel. Afterwards Anthy seems to be retaining some resistance to Akio, for someone everyone insists is a blank slate she’s finally showing some will of her own, albeit slowly. But the struggle of the final arc is taking shape as the struggle for the formation/destruction of Anthy’s soul.

[a-student-out-of-time]

Remind me to never ever get on your bad side, Sunako O_O

Don't worry, we should be good soon.

A-Are you actually insane?! You put lasers on your robot horse! And it's shooting up our warehouse!

That was more than a little reckless, don't you think?!

Where'd you even get lasers to put on your horse?!

Relax! There's no danger.

See her? Hamoponi's lasers are only at the lowest energy setting, just 8 Deciwatts. It's barely hotter than a light bulb.

*She hands them her controller, which has a screen in the middle showing the readings*

Oh...seems she's telling the truth.

That's still hot enough to sting, but...well, she's right that it wouldn't be lethal.

Still though, what'd you mean by intruders?

Along with lasers, Hamoponi has 20/0.625 telescopic vision. When I was checking the wifi, we realized something's messing with all the signals around here. And he saw these floating in the air.

What's that?!

Wait...that looks like...

[shopaholicsrus]

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[princess-of-the-corner]

I did spend some more time thinking about it, and here is a more full or definitive list of akumas and miraculous mix:

Stoneheart and turtle. A nice throwback to origins and technically unstoppable since he could use the shell like Kouki to protect his Akuma and do more powerful punches.

Dark Owl and snake/monkey. Any of the two would be good, but I'd prefer monkey. Very intelligent, lots of gadgets and a way to stop powers. Would let LB and CN use their intelligence without lucky charms.

Lady Wifi and pig. Just stream the gift to every screen and done.

Risk and turtle/ox. Both are nice, letting your opponent overthink everything while you yourself are impenetrable.

Copycat and snake. Snakenoir. And a bunch of tries to swap places with the real chat and take the miraculous.

Vanisher and rabbit. While unlikely since the Akuma connection would probably be lost trough time, if it somehow worked outz it would be nearly impossible to find an invisible time traveler.

Safari and bee/dog. Paralysing shots that never miss and a hand to hand defense just in case. Or, shots that if hit are capable of sending your miraculous diretcly back to the Akuma. Either way deadly.

Startrain and horse. Doesn't need the horse to travel, but could use it to make a kinda infinity train, each door to a new place with difficulties and robots that she can create, making it harder to get to the conductor room.

Sapotis and tiger. The most powerful duplication Akuma and the most powerful power second to cataclysm.

Horrificator and mouse. Multiplies and gets smaller. People are scared of small things, gets bigger. People are scared of you somehow getting bigger, gets bigger. People are afraid of giant monster, gets bigger. Repeat. Plus could trap multiple places at the same time.

Qilin and dragon. One of the most powerful elemental controllers, now able to control fire and water too.

Furios Fu, as many as possible. A nice throwback to him being the guardian, and with his intelligence, sigils and now being able to use any power, would be almost unstoppable.

Miraculized and rooster. An perfect finale if you think about it. Millions/billions of people, each with a different superpower to fight. And could be a nice reference to old akumas, like the power to be invisible, giant, create ice, multiply, make nightmares alive, etc.

OKAY BUT STARTRAIN + HORSE IS FASCINATING

[thursdayisbetterthanfriday]

Atom: The Beginning & AI Cybersecurity

Atom: The Beginning is a manga about two researchers creating advanced robotic AI systems, such as unit A106. Their breakthrough is the Bewusstein (Translation: awareness) system, which aims to give robots a "heart", or a kind of empathy. In volume 2, A106, or Atom, manages to "beat" the highly advanced robot Mars in a fight using a highly abstracted machine language over WiFi to persuade it to stop.

This may be fiction, but it has parallels with current AI development in the use of specific commands to over-run safety guides. This has been demonstrated in GPT models, such as ChatGPT, where users are able to subvert models to get them to output "banned" information by "pretending" to be another AI system, or other means.

There are parallels to Atom, in a sense with users effectively "persuading" the system to empathise. In reality, this is the consequence of training Large Language Models (LLM's) on relatively un-sorted input data. Until recent guardrail placed by OpenAI there were no commands to "stop" the AI from pretending to be an AI from being a human who COULD perform these actions.

As one research paper put it:

"Such attacks can result in erroneous outputs, model-generated hate speech, and the exposure of users’ sensitive information." Branch, et al. 2022

There are, however, more deliberately malicious actions which AI developers can take to introduce backdoors.

In Atom, Volume 4, Atom faces off against Ivan - a Russian military robot. Ivan, however, has been programmed with data collected from the fight between Mars and Atom.

What the human researchers in the manga didn't realise, was the code transmissions were a kind of highly abstracted machine level conversation. Regardless, the "anti-viral" commands were implemented into Ivan and, as a result, Ivan parrots the words Atom used back to it, causing Atom to deliberately hold back.

In AI cybersecurity terms, this is effectively an AI-on-AI prompt injection attack. Attempting to use the words of the AI against itself to perform malicious acts. Not only can this occur, but AI creators can plant "backdoor commands" into AI systems on creation, where a specific set of inputs can activate functionality hidden to regular users.

This is a key security issue for any company training AI systems, and has led many to reconsider outsourcing AI training of potential high-risk AI systems. Researchers, such as Shafi Goldwasser at UC Berkley are at the cutting edge of this research, doing work compared to the key encryption standards and algorithms research of the 1950s and 60s which have led to today's modern world of highly secure online transactions and messaging services.

From returning database entries, to controlling applied hardware, it is key that these dangers are fully understood on a deep mathematical, logical, basis or else we face the dangerous prospect of future AI systems which can be turned against users.

As AI further develops as a field, these kinds of attacks will need to be prevented, or mitigated against, to ensure the safety of systems that people interact with.

References:

Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” hack - Ars Technica (16/09/2023)

EVALUATING THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF PRE-TRAINED LANGUAGE MODELS VIA HANDCRAFTED ADVERSARIAL EXAMPLES - Hezekiah Branch et. al, 2022 Funded by Preamble

In Neural Networks, Unbreakable Locks Can Hide Invisible Doors - Quanta Magazine (02/03/2023)

Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models - Shafi Goldwasser et.al, UC Berkeley, 2022

[cloud-navi]

So I finally finished Transformers EarthSpark, lowkey love it. (Maltobots/Terrans)

⚠️ SPOILERS AHEAD ⚠️

Maltos (cont.) (Maltobots)

- Twitch Malto

I love how dedicated she is to her family and cares for them. Her strive to work hard to keep them safe like her determination to find a way out of the bunker when they get locked in for the first time is crazy. I think Hashtag getting taken into GHOST HQ really kickstarted her need to protect her siblings and family as she was so worried for Hashtags safety. Ngl the way she uses her wing blades (?) dual handed and her instincts in leading her family in the finale really reminds me Leo from TMNT, perhaps not all Leo’s but a few like 2012 and 2018-2020 (movie) Leo. I really think she took to Bee’s training a bit better then Thrash did and definitely used every little bit she did and inferred in that final battle. 

- Thrash Malto

I like Thrash, he’s a silly dude, I just find the whole episode with Swindles very difficult to understand. Okay so they played a mock battle (AvD) and that somehow lead to being insecure about how much Dot and Alex like you? My guy you just destroyed part of the house from game, its reasonable to not want giant robots inside the very much not robot-sized house. I don’t see the point in having that tent in the yard when theres a whole ass barn that the Malto’s decided to make more home-y and like an actual room for you. Its not a giant deal if you can’t go in Mo’s room but you can still talk to her from the window if she hasn’t come down yet.

I kinda think he might have some separation anxiety and that might be why he doesn’t like being separated from Mo that much but it was completely reasonable to not want them inside the house.

- HashTag Malto

Honestly watching her get easily distracted by the tablet while searching for an alt-mode really makes me think she could have ADHD (not just because of that but definitely feels like one indicator). I like the idea that she’s able to hack through the wifi which makes a lot of sense for bots to be able to do, like BV Soundwave on the satellite.

I love all the allegories in this show, really puts things into a perspective thats not technically real-life so its easier to see the problem, emotions and understanding of things when its not connected to you. When it’s connected to you then it feels more personal, thats why people don’t like to watch shows that could talk about topics that they deal with sometimes. I love the allegory they used the Transformers to show even some little ways that racism still exists even if its not the systemic side of the problem. The way the portray HashTag and the other bots when they find the ‘Transformers Go Home’ graffiti really shows how it doesn’t matter if you’re born there, if people view you as different they’re going to deem you not worthy of being there, as well as masking it like with things like ‘oh it’s directed towards Decepticons’ but everyone really knows that it isn’t and that’s blatantly a terrible thing to say regardless if it was “supposed” to directed towards one group of people (Decepticons) in a certain demographic (Cybertronians/Terrans).

I also love the allegory of found family the use in the same episode. Like how Robby stands up to Steven for making rude comments about the Terrans and how they aren’t “actually his family.” Robby stood up for the Terrans because they’re his siblings regardless of age or species, which ties back to the racial undertones of the episode as its so common for others to make comments about interracial families if its found family or just a mixed family that may or may not look more like one side then the other.

Making HashTag the one to get hacked by Mandriod makes a lot of sense as her need to protect her family (like Twitch) is strong and it shows that even in the pursuit of protecting the people you care about you can end up hurting them. Granted she was being hacked and controlled but it was her drive to protect that made her decide to get on the plat form and confront Mandriod. In the pursuit of protection, unexpected revelations and plan changes from outside factors can lead to hurting the people you love the most even if that wasn’t your intention or by your doing.

I love the understanding she has with Starscream, just in the few minutes if not hours of being controlled and forced to feel alone she was able to connect it to how the majority of victims feel while being abused, hurt and alone. She, unlike a good amount of bots throughout the franchise had high enough empathy levels to understand and connect to Star. I love that she listened to him and validated his feelings. Its one thing to hear someone tell you how they feel or what they’re thinking but its a completely different thing to listen, and Hashtag listened. (Literally almost cried at that scene Star deserves so much).

- JawBreaker Malto

He’s a real sweet heart and using him to make another allegory is perfect. The entire episode “Outtakes” is about him asking the other bots how they picked their alt-modes “because he wants it to pick the perfect one for him the first time.” While that sentence sounds just like he might be lazy and doesn’t wanna keep changing to find one that works best or is a perfectionist trying to get it just right, it actually is a better allegory for Gender Identity and finding what title you think fits you best. Through the episode he asks everyone how they ‘knew it was for them’ or how they picked it. The big thing Elita said was “listen to your spark, it will tell you when you find it.” Which is basically an elder gay telling a younger generation they’ll know in their heart when they find it.

All jokes aside, in the allegory the search for a “perfect alt-mode” is the same as the search for the perfect gender identity/pronouns and gender understanding in one’s self. JawBreakers search for an alt mode is like a queer persons search for a title or definition to understand who they are. Like a searching for sub-identities under main umbrellas. A Flier isn’t always a Seeker but a Seeker is always a Flier, its like trying to find which model plane you are compared to others, trying to find advice on how to pick which one best fits you.

I honestly didn’t think the dino-alt would stick with JawBreaker, it just didn’t seem like him to me but with little amount of episodes they could make I understand the need to give him one before the finale.

To me, giving JawaBreaker an alt-mode is kind of a double edged blade. The concept of using alt-modes as a form of gender identity is really interesting and using JawBreaker as a way to explore that 1) giving him an alt can represent the people that did end up finding an identity that fit them and how they feel but also 2) it takes away any possible rep for queer people that don’t have an ‘identity’ suitable to them. Let me explain: I use the term identity as a substitute for the whole explanation’al mess that is finding ‘gender terms’ that have a definition (transwoman, someone who identifies as a woman without necessarily being AFAB) that feels like them and similar to how they experience life in their vessel.

My “2)” point is that giving JawBreaker an Alt mode is giving rep to queer people that were able to find an ‘identity’ while also taking that away from queer people that struggle to find what fits them. Of course representation is still representation and its nice to see it even if it can’t exactly go both ways, which is fine.

⚠️ This is an allegorical theory, in no way shape or form does this apply to the entirety of the queer experience for everyone ⚠️

- NightShade Malto

Love them, very silly. They’re very smart and I love how they were a direct allegory for a different aspect of some queer experiences. While there’s people that know how they identify and what to call their feeling, and there are others that struggle with finding that, theres some that don’t think about it (like me) and some that don’t actively search for a term even if they want a title for it. NightShade didn’t know they’re identity fell under Nonbinary until they met Sam (love sam).

Not only that but how the creators continued the queer identity alt-mode theme with NightShade and how they picked theirs. At first NightShade felt already complete with how they were and didn’t feel like they needed an alt-mode (which is valid, and with the allegory its still valid because some people might not want/like ‘identity terms/labels’) but the creators also added the layer of self expression and how an ‘alt-mode’ can be another way to express yourself through their conversation with Truantulas.

I like NightShade’s pick I just don’t care for how they designed it. For any bird alt-mode honestly AirRazor’s feels like the best kinda bird design (not including the cassetticons).

⚠️ again this is not the queer experience for everyone, just an allegorical theory ⚠️

[0perfectimperfections0]

Hi fellow doll, I hope you're doing fine. I've been quite busy lately, college and life in general have been kicking my ass, so I was forced to take a step back from social media for a while to try to contain the chaos.

Firstly, I'd like to share a fun fact with you! I don't know if you're aware but did you know that Lou's Mansion has a Pool? You can see it more clearly in the Mansion's Concept Designs/Art on this site:

•https://www.claytonstillwell.com/ugly-dolls#23

However, the real reason for this ask is to present a possible answer/theory in regards to how the doll-sized phones came to be in the world of your stories (you can tell this is still related to our chat on Wattpad).

Recently, I came across the images you're seeing on Pinterest. They're Wide/Aerial Views of the Institute of Perfection and one thing that immediately stood out to me is that Giant Eye-Catching Dome behind the TV.

I mean what's its purpose, why is it even there to begin with and what's inside of it? I've been thinking about this for a while and would like to hear your thoughts about it as well, if you're willing to share them.

By any chance, have you seen the movie Wreck-it Ralph? There was a part where the villain enters the code of the game he's in and I think the Dome's purpose could follow a similar, if not equal, vein.

Now that I think about it, Lou and Vanellope's circunstances are almost identical, trapped in the same place for years without the option to leave, simply because of who they are and the traits they were born with, but didn't choose to have.

Sorry, I let my mind run on tangent there for a while, it wanders frequently which makes it hard to keep track of my line of thought.

To circle back to the main topic of discussion, what if the Dome is a Central Station of the Institute, like a Panel or Center for Command Control (or Command Control Center)? CCC for short? Ok, I'll stop trying to be funny...

Perhaps it could be a subroutine of the factory's software, a program linked to its network and wifi that contains all guidelines and rules that govern the Institute and must be followed and executed to keep it functional - a blueprint if you will - and is in charge of all commands, protocols, activities and operations being compiled and run by its machinery, such as the doll-scanner, the robots, the washing machine, the recycling, the Gauntlet plus the mechanical baby and dog and the Portal, just to name a few.

This means that it'd also take care of overseeing the integrity and performance of said machinery as well as its maintenance. It'd even be responsible for generating clouds and the artificial weather because apparently weather is still a thing, even though the Institute is inside of a factory.

I wonder if this subroutine would be run by an AI or simply an intelligent system/computer program. This world's version of Siri? 🤣

Or maybe I'm greatly exaggerating its function/letting my imagination run wild and it literally only gives Electricity for TV and Institute. Where was I going with this? /were we again?

Morever, it could be a storage unit that contains all collected, analysed and reviewed data regarding the inhabitants of the Institute and their responses, physical or emotional, to certain pre-determined stimuli.

It could also have a list of the factory's Perfection Standards: what consists/constitutes a Perfect Doll / product, its traits...

what can go to the market and which flaws/imperfections can't be ignored/overlooked and have to go to the recycling immediately, kinda like separating fruit/food

To sum up, it's the Institute's "rulebook", but instead of being specifically made for the prototype, it's more expansive and focuses on the Institute as a whole.

After the events of the movie, dolls with engineer role job created phones with recicled parts dangerous/turned the recycling into a good thing/while recycling was turned of and parts are human sized, plenty to spare and create phone since dolls come back now, have free time to assemble the parts and construct them and connected them to the signals/frequency emitted by the dome or they hack/steal or find out the password/'hijack' the signals🤣, use it to make them connect with each other but can't enter the dome without proper authorizations/permissions

Fun fact #2: Lou animatronic, would be a hipocrite if he called the Uglydolls "Ugly" has never seen a Mirror before

•https://www.indigobluepencil.com/ugly

Scroll almost to the middle (pre-planned concepts: dome by TV and washing machine, Big baby, Lou, Mandy, Tuesday and Kitty, Victoria, Perfection Council/of Dolls=board of investors directors reference)

•https://www.scottfassett.com/uglydolls-gallery

Had to restart Two Times... I hope you found this ask both entertaining and informative. Hopefully it'll give you Inspiration for your stories...

Okay, I had to do quite a bit of research and asked someone who knows a lot more about computers than I do.

So, I do agree that the dome has an electronic purpose. It really surprises me that STX animated an entire dome within the Institute and literally spoke nothing of it or what's inside of it. Like, seriously, it's huge and can't just be empty on the inside.

My theory, after some research, is that the inside of the dome is essentially a hard drive computer tower. For you younger folk who weren't raised in a 90's home, here's what I'm talking about:

These things right here used to be what would get hooked up to older Dell/Windows computers. The ones that weighed, like, 50 pounds and took up an entire desk.

Instead of a dvd player (which I didn't get one until maybe 8 years old) I would stick my Kidz Bop cd or movie into that slot at the top and watch the movie on the computer with Video Player.

Count your blessings.

But this is what I believe is inside that dome. These things are what holds the CPU (central processing unit), GPU (graphic processing unit), and stores the memory, data, audio, and everything of the computer.

@natalie-the-writer and I have a running fanon that the company is older. The technology is older, the building is older, and everything is set in a pretty retro time period. So, this hard drive tower is connected to those bulky take-up-all-the-space-on-the-desk-computers.

The GPU in this system is also what control the day/night cycle in the Institute and the weather. It essentially simulates a troposphere and an environment that makes the dolls comfortable and prepared for the Big World.

The CPU is how the data is transferred. Info from the robots is controlled and processed, the Individualization scanners are monitored, the portal is opened and closed, the TV runs, and the holographic tutorials Moxy and her friends see in the beginning are kept on, all of it.

It basically functions as the brain of the Institute, but the sole controller and monitor of it is the CEO (Greyson Everett).

I also like to think that Lou's microchip (another fanon thought between Natalie and I) is also monitored via this hard drive tower. Any information that Lou learns and processes is sent into separate files on the computers back in the company building.

This is why in my Shell-Shock series, when Lou's emotions go south, the Institute begins to get windy when he's hyperventilating or rains when he cries. The ground trembles when he has body tremors and the lights flicker when his powers are used. He is literally connected to the whole Institute because his microchip and its data accidentally grow and manifest themselves into the files of the other Institute functions. His programming basically goes rogue and infects the Institute system like a virus.

I'm veering toward the explanation that results in Lou being the first successful form of Artificial Intelligence. But, for the moment, he is basically acting like a virus and it's not until he learns to control this new system he's connected to that it stops becoming a deadly thing.

[lazeecomet]

Thinking back on it, I did some really clever shit in my tenure as a field service engineer at the warehouse robotics company, that could have only worked because there were so many unsecured doors in the software

The V3s we had deployed when I first joined communicated with us over WiFi. We used Putty to remote in and run a long command to run the bootloader and start the main process

But you could also just run the main program without the long command. If you did that you could send opcodes to the motor controllers and get the wheels to turn or actuate functions. We were supposed to use this to run bench tests on test stands to ensure the robots were fit to put in production and home the motors

We did

But I also taught everyone how to send opcodes to manually drive the bots back to charging locations so we didnt have to push them. The only thing you had to be careful of was not putting a robot into production when it was running the program in the foreground as we called it. The long command to run in the background was needed as if you closed your putty window then the foreground program would stop

We did have someone crash a robot this way when they logged out while it was moving

But for being WiFi connected, this system was safer then you think as opcodes sent from a user could only be interpreted in foreground and system opcodes only received in background. Halting and restarting the program while the system was online would thow an error on the main command and control server that would put the robot out of service

Shit got wild when we upgraded to V4

Gone is the wifi in favor of 2.4 ghz radio. The robot also automatically runs the bootloader on power up. Foreground and background modes are a thing of the past. Now any commands sent on that radio channel, from the user or the command and control server, are accepted, no matter what

Granted, doing that while the system is on will desync the robot physically from what the system thinks is going on but it's smart enough to put the robot into ESTOP when the robot moves when it shouldn't

I however had different uses

There was several errors I encountered where I eventually diagnosed that the reason why a feature we had wasn't working was because the robot was given the opcode to move before it had been given the opcode to get ready to move

So the robot would try to move, fail to move, go Into ESTOP and then I'd step in. Id clear the estop on the robot locally with the estop clear opcode and send the opcode for getting ready to move. The robot, having gotten a command when it shouldn't, re-enters ESTOP and now everything is synced back up. I can now clear the estop normally and when the estop clears, the command server retries the last failed command. Now that the robot is ready to move, It drives away like nothing happened and operations resume

V5 shut down all my clever tricks. Maintenance mode is a physical switch that has to be pressed to do manually commands and pressing it power cycles the bot. Probably for the best tho

[superhiro-hamada]

House Tour!

Address: 249 Maple Drive, Tortuga Place

Residents: Hiro Hamada, Tad Fiske, Luca Paguro, Riley Anderson

Potentially the weirdest house in the neighborhood; current occupants are Hiro, Tad, Luca, and Riley. Plus Frodo the guinea pig and Mochi the robo cat of course.

The house is supposedly being rented (Hiro has been fully avoiding his aunt finding out that he bought it because that seems just a little suspicious when she doesn't currently know his illegal monetary sources) and is hilariously excessive in some ways and equally devoid of what most people would assume functional adult things like furniture in others.

From the front it looks fairly normal. The backyard is mostly occupied by the pool (Hiro still doesn't understand the frog statues but whatever, it's Tad's thing), the gazebo that is in fact not very useful as one, and Frodo's guinea pig run in the side yard.

Full floorplan in all it's this is too much house for four twenty-somethings to even know what to do with glory.

Touchscreen panels exist on walls in each area every level of the house that control all the electronics, appliances, lights, heating/AC and an intercom system because Hiro is extra about things. Manual controls and switches also exist because not everyone shares that enthusiasm.

There's a little robot guy who scurries around Roomba-style cleaning the floors and sitting in front of the TV watching game shows when it isn't cleaning, just chirping, cheerful little guy doing his thing.

The distinct lack of furniture is a work in progress. Unshockingly having a cohesive decor scheme was neither going to occur to the people who lived there or be accomplished since they all have very different opinions on the idea.

The house is as elf-friendly as could be accomplished (most things that might be steel are replaced with other materials) because there was a Hiro, Riley and Luca discussion about how to avoid anyone being injured just living there.

Front Kitchen/Dining Room Area

Nobody actually communicated about the chair situation and just brought things home they liked so here we are. The kitchen is mostly occupied by everyone in the house but Hiro, who is a legit fire hazard in there, but has bought every ridiculously expensive techy appliance known to man to make everyone else's life easier while they do cooking related things. And the smoothie machine that he prefers to use as his life support when the roommates are not cooking.

Most of said appliances are covered in stickers/contact paper, which makes them more chaotic but elf friendly as least because no potential steel exposed.

Living Room & Downstairs Bathroom

Truly nothing exists in this living room but a massive TV with a manual remote that disappears all the time, game consoles, a shelf fighting for its life under all the junk on it and a very mismatched set of furniture. But the rug is nice, right?

Bathroom where unnecessary tech abounds - the soap dispenser has wifi! And of course there's a control panel in there to have shower music. But otherwise bathroom, nothing overly exciting to see here.

Hiro & Tad's Room

This, apparently, is how we combine surfer vibes with cyberpunk with an unnatural amount of purple and blue. The bed was Tad's idea, the neon lights were Hiro's and somehow this monstrosity actually works. Truly a chaotic masterpiece.

The octagons on the walls can light up in places like track lighting and Hiro changes which ones (wallpaper has LED strings) often because he's bored, or likes to watch Tad randomly set them off.

Those are blackout curtains because darkness is a must when it's a sleep all day sorta day. Hiro felt that was dire.

Upstairs Landing and the Yoga Room

Moving upstairs we have the Zen Room. Or, yeah, the yoga and meditation space. Which is mostly frequented by Tad, so it's primarily become his little chill spot. Frodo also lives in there in The Shire - the most extra guinea pig enclosure, or just roams the room. Very mellow vibes.

The upstairs landing is large enough to be a room to itself and has yet to be a space actually used but maybe at some point somebody will have motivation to turn it into a library or game space, or whatever. Has not occurred to anyone to do that yet. So it remains the giant open spot.

The Upstairs Bathroom

It deserved its own entry here because look at that thing. It is huge. It is also a hybrid normal bathroom, big insane tub, and a section of rain shower fixture because even if Tad doesn't know yet there is a sea elf in the house and that requires water, Lots of water.

Said rain shower setup is unofficially Luca's panic/stress room so the rest of the house doesn't get flooded when their magic gets set off or they're having breathing issues.

Between the upstairs bathroom and the downstairs everyone in the house could shower at the same time. Choices were made.

Riley's Room

The resident starchild's room is an oasis of galaxies fit for a Celestial elf, with a heavy addition of sports decor. Part hockey shrine with a slew of their trophies from over the years, part night skies.

The window opens up out to the roof to allow for late night stargazing and time to contemplate the universe or the latest Spill gossip. Nice little retreat from the roommates too, because everybody needs a break occasionally.

A little empty otherwise, maybe they just haven't fully settled in yet?

Luca's Room

Ocean blues and seashore tans, with shelves and shelves of books and the dozens of projects that are in progress; It's an aquatic nerd haven. Also probably the most organized room in the house.

Luca's collection of gifted succulents populate an entire shelf, thriving and overseeing the rest of the room, including one particularly tall visitor who seems to stop by an awful lot.

You can't say you're not envious of that bay window with the desk; best place in the house to study or work on the next grand experiment plans.

The Basement & Labs

Where the clothes get washed, another escape to watch TV or hang out, and where Hiro and Luca keep all their workspaces behind closed doors. Do you know how much of a pain it was to add a basement to that house? Hiro does. But where else does one hide their and their bestie's secret lab?

The basement is accessible to everyone, the doorways to the labs have specific codes to open them, or in Hiro's case Mochi's collar also has a chip in it to let him come and go in his space as the cat wishes.

While they have two different workspaces, Luca's being a little more focused on science in general and Hiro's centering around robotics, they do often share space too or work on projects together in one or the other.

Yes, it is in fact practically a mad scientist level lab down there and Hiro has spent a lot of rich people he doesn't like online's money buying a lot of science toys for himself and Luca, but a bored genius is a real hazard so it's really doing everyone a favor having a space to work on his bots.

The amount of fire extinguishers around Hiro's lab specifically is truly extra, but, yanno, given his past he kinda doesn't have a great relationship with laboratory fires so he's a little paranoid. (Which does not sway him from blowing things up, at all.) Safety first, right?

@tadwisethebrave @lucathedreamer @uffdah-riley