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| A Sailor Moon Question |
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 05-10-2010, 03:30 PM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel
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What, if anything, exists as canon backstory for Haruka and Michiru? When were they activated as Senshi, how did they meet, how did they get involved? Is any of that ever explored anywhere in a canon source?
Thanks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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| [DRAFT][RFC] Artificial Intelligence in Fenspace |
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Posted by: robkelk - 05-10-2010, 03:42 AM - Forum: Fenspace
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A first-stab at one of the wanted FenWiki pages - as usual, please criticize, supplement, and/or nitpick. This definitely needs more; it ends abruptly.
'''Artificial Intelligence''' (or '''AI''' for short) is the condition of a non-organic system that possesses intellect and self-awareness.Occasionally this is combined with '''Artificial Stupidity''', the condition of an AI that displays human levels of irrationality which interferes with rational behaviour. Purists, especially those at the [[Vesta Institute of Robotics], insist on calling the phenomenon '''Cybernetic Intelligence''' (or '''CI''') since the intelligence is almost always housed in a computer system of some sort.AIs most often turn up in waved computers because most Fen expect AI to appear only in computers. Artificial Intelligence in Fenspace was a property of '''[[Handwavium]''' until the publication of the [[Whole Fenspace Catalog]; many researchers believe AI to be an emergent property of handwaving a computer system.
A cybernetic intelligence housed in a PC or other immobile computer can use the computer's perhiperals for communications with the outside world; considering the state of the art in 2005 supplemented with handwaved enhancements, this means it is possible for a computer-based CI to appear to be fully human on a video link. After mid-2014, a computer-based AI can also use one of the holographic emitters developed by the [[Trekkies] to appear to be fully human. Alternately, an AI in an immobile computer can obtain a "puppet" robot shellUsually, but not always, from [[Vulpine Fury]., and use that as a mobile perhiperal as long as a connection can be maintained between the AI and the shell.
It is also possible, though usually expensive, to install a CI in an robot shell before first awakening it. This process, first performed by [[the Professor], leads to a CI that trades the computing power of a fixed-location host computer for the mobility of an android body. While nobody has ever performed a censusIt is believed that [[Noah Scott] is the individual who has created the largest number of androids, having successfully built five on his own and six more with the help of [[A.C. Peters]., the sheer number of android CIs of verious types who have taken up residence on [[74 Galatea] shows that many Fen have created at least one android.
Splitting the difference between a fixed-location computer and an android, the most common form of AI in Fenspace is the type awakened in a vehicle's computerized-control system when the vehicle is handwaved. There are more auto-based AIs in Fenspace than all other types of AI put together. The communications options of this sort of AI are limited by the equipment installed in the vehicle - at one extreme, some can only honk their horns and blink their lights, while at the other extreme others can show a face on an installed video display and hold conversations with their drivers. Most vehicle-based AIs fall somewhere between those two extremes.
== Notes ==
[[Category: Fen Technology]
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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| Kick Ass! |
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Posted by: Sofaspud - 05-09-2010, 06:14 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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I saw Kick Ass today.
It is... not a good movie. It is, however, so bad it's awesome. I laughed so many times my cheeks hurt, and I facepalmed so many times that my wedding ring left a mark on my forehead. Nicholas Cage as a Batman wannabe is so hilarious I have no words, and he's obviously enjoying the hell out of the role.
I recommend seeing it at matinee prices, with a friend (or several), and quite possibly after having a few drinks. If you don't catch it in the theater, rent it and laugh yourself silly in the privacy of your own home. There is no depth here, but they obviously have a firm grasp of the geek and comic fan mentality and they play merry hell with your expectations.
A competent villain. An incompetent hero. Waif-fu that doesn't work. Real death. Really unbelievable life. And plenty of humorous head a-splosions.
I'm gonna buy it when it comes out, because I collect bad movies. 
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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