#but they clearly are sentient

[softness-and-shattering]

So I put on this netflix show, in their tradition of being extremely obvious with names its called Mech Cadets, and its an alien-mecha human-pilot fight-the-giant-bug-aliens story. My first complaint is that the alien mechas are called Robo's. Wow exciting /sarcasm. Anyway thats totally forgiven because 1 the story actually makes choices and puts the characters through consequences instead of like hinting at oh it something bad gonna happen psych we dont have the guts for that. Its a kid/teen show so its not super dark but it follows through and goes the places it needs to.

2, and maybe most importantly, I gotta talk about the disability rep. There's four teens chosen by the alien mechs to be their drift-compatible pilots (I think im using that correctly? Im not super informed on the genre but I know some), and we see straight away that one of the guys has a prosthetic leg from the thigh down, and uses it as an example to tell the main protagonist, hey none of us are perfect we dont have to be perfect we just need to be human. The next episode the mechas are given human-designed weapons to fight with, and the disabled kid gets these flippy sticks I cant quite work out. One of them gets a staff, the other gets this glove for punching, story moves on. Then a bug-alien-antagonist gets into the teens dorm and while fighting it, the alien dismembers the guys prosthetic. He immediately grabs his crutches and goes to town on it with his crutches, and balancing on them to kick with his one good foot*. Then they disconnect the rest of the prosthetic and use its sharp edge to kill the alien. And then he just moves around on his crutches with no comment and Ill cut myself off there so I dont spoil the whole thing.

Except, a couple episodes later, Im watching him in the mech fighting and moving around, and I realise that his giant fuck-off monster attacking weapons ARE A PAIR OF CRUTCHES. Theyre his fucking WEAPONS. Thats cool as fuck!

#is it mech and not mecha and im making a fool of myself? I just cant quite bear to call them Robos im sorry #Mech Cadets #Theres more nice stuff about the disability rep but I want to leave some surprises for y'all when you watch it #The animation is ok theres one character who's face sometimes looks a bit plastic and moves a bit janky imho but otherwise its alright #I also definitely want more about the robos as people because theyre intelligent but theyre also a bit treated like machines #and not sentient beings #but they clearly are sentient #theres definitely themes happening about how alive they are but its not properly dug into yet. if they get a second season I definitely wan #more on them #like why did they just show up to earth to partner with people and fight the bug aliens? where are they from? whats their motivation? #but in a I want more world building way not in a wow this is shit world building way #anyway #mine #disability rep #disability representation #its got some really fun vibes #*his one foot. he doesnt have a good foot and a bad foot he just has a foot. getting him mixed in my head with Kaz Brekker and his cane

[adobe-outdesign]

hey. you guys wanna hear something extremely cursed

#pokemon #pkmn #outdesign posts things #WHY WOULD CANDY TASTE LIKE DOG FOOD... #why would you be giving your sentient pokemon dog food-tasting stuff anyway when they clearly enjoy normal human food #greatest hits

[find-me-in-hell]

oh you meant lesbian relationship? what am i supposed to do with this then.... *looking mournfully at the aurora*

#get it because lesbian ship #sorry this post is Nothing #its absolutely nothing #the mechanisms #the aurora #the mechs #the starship aurora #150+ notes? thanks for coming to my shit post #funfact when i wrote this post i knew nothing about the auroras... history #read the wiki and i now im confused but intrigued by the concept of a sentient moon that clearly has some concept of aging #100

[aromacaque]

you want to analyze a cartoon that is something children can watch? ok here's the first and most important lesson ever.

have you ever heard of "suspension of disbelief?"

ok. next step. do you know what an unreliable narrator is and can you separate the character's perspective and opinions from the writers? because i promise you that the beliefs of the main character do not always reflect the writers and the point of analyzing media is to dissect that.

#like guys sometimes the silly jokes in the cartoon are JUST silly jokes you gotta let them be silly jokes #sometimes the shenanigans are super outlandish because it's a FICTIONAL CARTOON where sentient AIs and magic exist #i promise you. I PROMISE YOU that rottmnt's mind meld was not some elaborate problematic take on eugenics of all things #<- an actual thing i read with my own eyes #like i promise you that is literally not what the episode was doing #'they kept saying they made his brothers smarter which is incredibly ableist because it implies they weren't smart before' #ahem. it was donnie's idea of smarter #you know donnie. the one who constantly puts his intelligence on a pedestal to boost his ego #it was HIS definition of smarter and that is not the narratives definition #i think the series makes that abundantly clear with how much they make fun of donnie for whatever superiority complex he's got going on #and (in the nicest way possible) if you watch the episode it's not actually that they're getting 'smarter' what is actually happening #is that they are beginning to act more and more like donnie personality wise #and that the conflict starts with donnie feeling like they don't fully understand him. #and since donnie is a flawed character his way of coping with that is by being like 'well clearly they're inferior to my intelligence!' #(which .. if you really dissect his character is not actually what he means he just doesn't know how to constructively word his feelings)

[vexangle]

regarding the clone vs robot poll. everyone who voted 'clone' owes identical twins $100

#its their REASONING. ​having the same DNA does not make you less of a person oh my goddddddddd #'who am i do i have a purpose separate from the original' literally yes #the answer is yes #answer me do you treat twins as pairs instead of individuals #if the reason was different then fine but so many responses were this #ur not in the movie 'the island' u are clearly living ur own life as an individual #maybe ur the result of an experiment but like. evidently after it succeeded you're getting to live as a person #like what is even the issue #its like if ur bio mother participated in clinical trials while pregnant with you. it doesnt say anything about your /purpose/ #and. so many of the other concerns with being a clone also applies to being a robot #but the robot has the addition of HOW??? #clone is WHY #robot is WHY and HOW #current technology is much closer to creating human clones than creating a robot out of human tissue in the same configuration #so the sheer contrast in resources required for an unclear goal leans towards the robot option as being fucked up #literally it is just such a waste #if i found out i was a robot id straight up be offended #and. a clone being sentient and having personhood makes sense #WHY would you make a robot sentient. on purpose #.vxt

[bluebeetle]

I love lyla/miguel for a few reasons but honestly it may be best for no human women to date miguel. Also his gf and closest friend being an AI is funny bc this loser cant keep up relationships and cheats on women

Plus lyla makes fun of him all the time. Deserved.

#also i like the drama of sentient ai and human... never able to rly touch... always unsure how real it all is.... #and miguel clearly cares about lyla a lot #miguel o'hara #marvel #spiderman 2099 #xina is great bur she deserves better tha. miguel

[raayllum]

the way i can feel in my heart that sir sparklepuff is going to get his neck snapped in s5 but what i really want for him is to get adopted by ezran so they take him back to the castle and opeli can go “absolutely fucking not” and he lives in the rafters and eats bugs to his heart’s content anyway

#tdp #the dragon prince #sir sparklepuff #can i make myself sad ahead of time over sir sparklepuff?? you tell me #headcanons #ezran's council #listen just the ethics of Aaravos Creating a life he is going to entirely discard that has zero purpose but to #provide sustenance for his machinations #while also clearly being some level of sentient on itsown #i didn't love frankenstein for nothing

[mothwiingz]

another new oc i love her

i do not know how to draw digitgrade paws

#btd6 #bloons #bloons oc #bloons tower defense #bloons fanart #bloons td 6 #monke #oc stuff #the legion was trying to create hybrids between monkeys and other animals #hoping that they would be super powerful super-soldiers that would heartlessly tear through everyone in their path #but instead one of the kids was super sickly and died as a baby #she eventually breached containment and ran away #they ended up in the monkey military and became an alchemist #she’s part lion actually #can’t roar but they’ve definitely tried to #honestly though for some reason i have a huge thing for anthro characters that are like. feral? idk how to describe it #like clearly still intelligent and sentient because otherwise that would be very wrong #but when they just seem wild and fierce and untamed. it’s just #ughhhkshdksksbfksbrbjd #would not at all complain if she bit me #oc: bramble #my art

[bee-in-a-box]

Marcus was controlled by the triton app his whole life and he couldn't fight back because he wasn't human in this essay I will-

#I also posted this on my twitter but lets get real no one's going to see that #lab rats #marcus davenport #something about his horrifying lack of autonomy while also very clearly being sentient<33

[braisedhoney]

I feel like you'd like Inscryption

y'know i feel like this would be a super accurate suggestion but i just. couldn't get into inscryption back when i first saw it?? no clue why.

i really liked the first part a ton!! i'm a huge sucker for immersive games/sims so the d&d mixed with horror and also whatever the hell was going on in the cabin really vibed with me, but it didn't ever click for me the way other games have for some reason after that part. maybe i should give it another go one of these days! i can watch mark play it maybe, i remember seeing videos for it.

#ney's chatter (ask answers) #i think i really liked the commitment to horror and sentient cards in a bloody card game #hm... #maybe i went into it with warped expectations too y'know #bc like i REALLY liked the opening bit with the bush guy. i felt like he was a really interesting and genuinely kinda freaky character #who probably wasn't quite what he seemed #but it's the only part i can remember clearly

[graciecatfamilyband]

Ugh, I hate to crawl back onto this site to be negative- especially when I know I wasn't around for Han x Leia week and need to catch up on those submissions!- but I don't have another place to complain.

I got the following "review" today on a nonviolent smut piece I published in 2017:

According to their bio, reporting people for violations that include but are not limited to using copyrighted song lyrics in their fics, among many other potential FF.net offenses, is this person and their friends' THING.

I've just blocked and am going to ignore. I've saved the reviews on my story in case this person succeeds in getting it taken down. I assume my stories get more traffic on AO3 anyway (which this person has so helpfully suggested I host it on 🙄).

But ugh, such gross behavior. They seem to belong to a group where they post exchanges between them and the (often confused) authors, so I assume they get high on the righteous and/or public arguing of their position.

But GROSS. Not a good way to be a community member, my dudes.

#that fanfic life #rude reviewers #why do peolle always like to start shit??? #thanks to whoever sent me those crabs #i needed those today #now if you'll excuse me #i'm going to go block all the bots that have followed me in the last three months #(shout out to you 🫵 clearly real sentient being in the notes! you're safe)

[mummer]

this interview with an AI that an ex google employee believes could be sentient is fucking me up

#i dont think it’s sentient but i also am. thunderstruck #okay. edit. the ai is obviously not sentient and tbh the ex google guy is kind of a wackjob. #i do think that it’s reflecting what the guy clearly wanted it to say in some ways. #i just think the generated answers are wild #please do your own reading on this! i dont know anything abt ai or philosophy of mind so. Just a cool crazy thing #btw the guy literally hired a lawyer to defend lamba’s rights which is insane behavior #like im sorry but this piece of software is acting as if it is an ai with personhood because you asked it to act as if it had personhood.lol

[bfdifan26]

judging by the fact that playdoh was the first to kill someone, I think it's fair to say that playdoh should be allowed to lose his fucking mind first.

fair but also

#yeah im still not over the fact that this happened 2 months later #the way she just did that. stop sign was 100% clearly another sentient object who had just been sprang back into consciousness #and rosey just. slammed his head against the floor killing him immediately. she’s seriously so good #rosey pls Never Change

[esoraluco]

'i want strong female characters!' play touhou

'i want masculine female characters!' play touhou

'i want trans female characters!' play touhou

'i want well written female characters!' play touhou

#thats a post i made! #sorry if this sounds harsh but like. genuinely your problems would be fixed if you played touhou #for those uninformed touhou's cast is almost entirely women/girls. #there's like 2 guys in the games one being a turtle and the other is a sentient cloud. #there's also genderless characters in the first games. #and yes some of the girls are trans. but trans or not all are amazing characters #with great designs music and concepts. #you can find the games on steam to be bought but also. elsewhere thats all i can say #and yes as you can guess: since all the characters are female the lesbian possibilities are endless. #only one has clearly romantic feelings for another girl but a good bunch can easily be seen as being together #just play touhou if you want to find more good female characters. youll def find ones you like

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

Still working backwards to try to pull my 40k oc's out of 40k and so far it is going ok actually but I am like doing math to figure out how to maintain Lupus accidentally selling his soul and getting turned into a big dog man as a direct result

#I am mostly pulling away from 40ks gothic aesthetic to do a sci fi future that I Feel more accurately #presents a like future hell world. like as much as I love clunky 80s/90s sci fi #aesthetics. At this time the future is clearly touchscreens #My real only major decision is Tiffany has a AI in her ship that she regularly threatens #to execute and nobody can get her to stop #Its not sentient it does not care. Shes getting into fights with space siri #Ok anyway.

[snappjawz]

this is just so funny to me that im posting the sketch early for ya guys, happy megafig monday

#bugsnax #lizbert megafig #eggabell batternugget #when a sentient banana split rocks ur ass #this clearly isnt the first time shes attempted it #she definitely didnt have snorpy make a saddle for it too #megafig monday