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crtastrophic · 2 years ago

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trying to come up with a reason as to why some robots in my scifi worldbuilding project have screen faces made of cultured cephalopod skin tissue instead of just like, LCDs, aside from the fact that it's possible w/ the setting's established level of technology and I think it's a cool concept

#yes this is the cybergunk setting #kitchat #my pet peeve is when robots in scifi have faces that can perfectly mimic everything a human's face can do #implying a level of technological finesse not seen anywhere else in the setting! faces are complex!!#(obviously w/ live-action media that's just how it goes when you have uh. human actors)#(and also regardless of medium it is undeniably easier to have characters that emote in immediately recognizable ways. im just insufferable #hmm. maybe the ppl of my setting tried to mimic this trope w/ their biotech??#tissue cultivation and genetic tailoring have advanced more than robotics so it's not uncommon for bots to have biomechanical actuation #wouldn't be too hard to hook up a chromatophore screen when there's already Blood In There #anyways i'm taking the uncanny valley and flooding it. creepy AND wet

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