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just remembered i had a friend in salt lake who worked in a hotel where they hung up pictures of the tin man to discourage people from having sex

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In my heaven

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it’s 4 am and me and @bootychomper are being the funniest people alive. welcome to the exploding saga

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i just felt like doing this for some reason

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Note passing

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I have a strong feeling that robot stories are about to change, and I’ll always welcome new ideas and relevant commentary with open arms, but don’t mind me over here clutching onto I, Robot for dear life

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It wasn't there 😔

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Why does it work so well

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i find berties financial lifestyle so interesting, like with inflation for example his nyc flat costs almost $10k a month, when he wrote a cheque for the hemmingways pearls it was $213,000 that he pretty willingly gave without much thought, when rainsby asks for money to bail out berties cousins ($700 or so) he doubles it to $1400 just to buy them a drink ???. i know its a big part of his character that hes a bachelor with more money than sense but i enjoy the actual evidence of it. and moreso i like that he probably has never had any head for investing or making income (except casual gambling), just spending it, because in his eyes he's never going to marry or have a legacy so there's nowhere for that money to go once he's gone anyway. which is why i think he only starts to have any sort of investments or securities or liquid assets when jeeves comes along. not sure if this is just a headcanon i made up or if its actually referenced somewhere (i do know that jeeves often wins him money through bets etc, though he doesnt always give it to bertie, like with corky's painting which he sells to mr prysock for ONE POINT THREE MILLION and takes a percentage of the sale, i imagine a hefty one) but i firmly believe that he invests some of bertie's money without him knowing, very wisely ( like hedge fund level trades lmao) to get maximum returns. and bertie doesnt notice because he didnt even realize he was draining money since he has so much of it, but now they're actually living more lavishly than they used to. also in my head i think jeeves invests both of their money jointly, because he just assumes they're basically married for life and their household finances are shared ones

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I just don’t think we’ll get anything quite like Robert Sheckley’s Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? again. This story about a sentient vacuum cleaner is silly, sexy, and hauntingly sincere, and I will never stop singing its praises. I can’t tell you how many times these quotes have been relevant in my own journey as a storyteller

I have a strong feeling that robot stories are about to change, and I’ll always welcome new ideas and relevant commentary with open arms, but don’t mind me over here clutching onto I, Robot for dear life

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I have a strong feeling that robot stories are about to change, and I’ll always welcome new ideas and relevant commentary with open arms, but don’t mind me over here clutching onto I, Robot for dear life

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i HAD to whip out this jeeves and wooster because @giddlygoat's robot jeeves design is just TOOOO GOOD FOR WORDS RAAAAH LIKE LOOK AT GIDDLYGOAT'S DESIGNS????

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Note passing

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i have to know. what’s inside robojeeves? is he hollow??

Partially. His components are compacted to be somewhat slimmer than his outer shell, which is mostly just shaped for cosmetics. So there is extra room in there, but it’s really only put to good use in his abdomen. He’s got a glove box in his tummy region that’s just the right size for storing something like his user manual. It might help to think of RoboJeeves like a nice bag of chips. Good percentage of chips, but there’s always gonna be some air in there for cushion. He’s still heavy as a truck though

Bonus fact: his forearms have Swiss Army knife-esque compartments equipped with basic tools that he can switch between at will. Hand goes down, feather duster comes up. That was more of a novelty thing thrown in for marketing purposes that isn’t necessarily helpful in every case, and combined with the general negative reception of humanoid-style robots exhibiting ‘creepy’ behaviors, Jeeves typically just uses external tools.

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Some of my favorite pages from Charley Harper’s art book.