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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Today's flash fiction #AQuickHumanComediansGuideOnHowNotToOffendRobots

“Don't put all your eggs in one basket!”
The Easter Bunny*



       As planned CJ and I Pokemon battled and discussed my book over the weekend. He really went deep into my concept of my book. Very helpful but also put me into deep thought. More to contemplate.
As for the Pokemon battling...now that we are older our battles are much more complicated than when were young. When we were young it was mostly “Attack attack attack”(as was nigh everyone else) But now the games become us adults playing against each other with our much superior brain powers trying to predict each other making it...
       “I know that you know that I know that you know...”
        Yeah, kinda like that.
        Anyway onto the flash fiction!



A Quick Human Comedian's Guide on How Not to Offend Robots

      Touring the 2075 comedy circuit can be rough. Especially when your dealing with all your robot audiences and your a human fresh to those crowds. Circuits on the circuit can have very different sense of humor. Sentient robot brains are very similar to humans, but there are a few key things you must consider, usually touchy subjects. They'll forgive you for most things, but there are some things just in bad taste for them. Here's a quick guide for new comedians dealing with robot crowds.
       One: Don't joke about the weather. You think it'd be a tiny thing, but for robots the weather is a big problem. Rain without protection would be rusting. Imagine if something like rusting happened on a human! See why they don't like it? Never talk about the weather.
      Two: Don't talk about mechanical sentience before robo-brains were made in a social sense. Really avoid it all costs. You're a comedian. I use the term sentient robot, but that term is fairly politically incorrect in this time, and I did this on purpose to bring this up. If I said sentient robot some of the machines would toss me right out of the club. You say WB, wired brain. We avoid calling robots robots in front of sentient robots now for a reason right? We call them controlled tools. They're sentient now. Treat them that way. Don't talk about the days when all machines were just tools.
     Three: Do not talk about smelling, touching or tasting things. Most wired brains are in bodies that are made for seeing and hearing only because they have to devote so much effort to other tasks. Talk about any other sensory human experiences and they will get mad, out of jealousy, or even feeling your bragging. It's like saying “ha ha you can't taste!” to them.
     Four: Be very careful how you talk about family. Wired brains build children, based on mixing properties of their loved ones, but they can't make lineages or ancestries like us. They won't have the same family identity.
    If you haven't figured it out, there are many things the machines don't have that we do. This guide could go on almost forever just listing all the things that you could avoid because of that fact. And that is wired brains, no matter how little or much they voice it, do not have many of things we biological beings do. So avoid talking about those things and you won't offend them.
And one thing I found out through sheer trial and error through my 20 years as a comedian is that you never, ever joke about techno around a machine. They hate techno. Joking about the robot stereotype that they like techno will get you a metal fist to the face.

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