sylphystia: (♢ diamonds brilliant and bel-air now)
♢ SHARKNADO ♢ ([personal profile] sylphystia) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-05-20 11:21 pm

ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ | rats are people too

Who: Dezel and you
Broadcast: Yes
Action: The Golden
When: Now

[video]

[A group of ship vermin are all sitting in a circle, waiting patiently for... something. A bowl full of scraps appears and seems to float in the air before it sits down in front of them. The rats make cute happy little noises as they dig into the food.

... And then, the greatest evil comes.

The roomba.

One of the tiny maintenance robots comes screaming around the corner at high speed. DIRT DETECTED. [...] PESTS DETECTED. It heads straight for the the poor rats. They all scatter save for one really fat one, who's too focused on the food to notice what's coming.

But what's this-- the droid is scooped up by someone invisible! Dezel's voice might be familiar to some; it's the "don't sleep in my room" guy.]


Leave. The animals. Alone.

[A thin wire appears. With a hard jerk, he shreds the cleaning droid into pieces. Imagine if that had been someone's neck.]

It's all right. You can come out now. [And then the rats come scurrying out of their little holes again. A couple of them crawl over Dezel's invisible shoes, then go back for the food.]
unbearablynaive: <user name=starcandies> (high collar)

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[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2016-05-23 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I would say similar rather than the same. The maintenance bots have a lower level of intelligence and could not perform many complex tasks. Any human-like machines you're likely to encounter here has a very good chance of being a full member of their own society.
unbearablynaive: (please listen)

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[personal profile] unbearablynaive 2016-05-23 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. What's important is to help them reach their potential, even if it's at a different level than you may think.

[Good. That's all he really wants.]

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