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Robot characters who are given names like SL-308-62 but instead of their human friend going Well let's call you Sally for short, they instead ask the other if they Like their current name.

"Do you like your serial number?" they ask. "Yes, quite. It reminds me of who I am" the robot replies. "I have heard others like me go by different names after some time, and maybe one day I'll choose one for myself, too. But right now that is my full name, yes" they continue.

Because it's not your decision to make whether or not the robot will receive a new name. It should be theirs only. What's the difference? One is more complex and the other is simplified. They were both given by strangers instead of themselves.

"62 will do," they conclude. "It's my model number - there will be no other 62 after me."

quasi-normalcy

Robots who instead start assigning numbers to their human friends

dragonkidalumnus

“Not that I mind,” I tell SL-308-62 one afternoon as we enjoy our shared lunch break (I have my packed lunch, and 62 has connected themself to their portable power bank) “but why do your call me ‘four’?”

The LEDs along 62’s appendages twinkle- a tell that they’re mulling over an answer.

“It’s a nickname,” they explain, “you are my fourth acquaintance aboard the station, and I’ve assigned you a serial number. Your full designation is F-001-04.”

“What does the ‘F’ stand for?” I ask, curious and charmed.

“Friend,” SL-308-62 says, their tone fond. “It stands for friend.”

parkchanwoohoo

This such a funny yet succinct way of expressing how so many people approach these issues, which is that there are The Real Asians who don't care about these silly things and are happy to share their cultures with the west, versus The Other Asians, who aren't really Asian but who make a big fuss about "cultural appropriation" and "Orientalism 🙄"

Like once you start noticing it you can't stop noticing it, how everyone acts like Asians in the west are a merely watered down form of the Truly Authentic Asians back home, and that THEY'RE the ones who are the true authority on the matters of what's racist or not, and everyone else is a whiny SJW or whatever*

*Unless of course those Authentic Asians™ do say something inconvenient in which case westerners are more than happy to flip through their file cabinet of common excuses not to listen to them either

parkchanwoohoo

This is doubly funny because

1) Pretty much everyone should know by now that a minority in a country is impacted differently by negative depictions of that minority vs back where they would not be the minority, like this is super fucking basic stuff

2) Even in a discussion about orientalism people can't stop constructing the Asian identity as being defined by a lack of proximity to the west and that people who bridge that supposed cultural chasm are somehow "less" Asian

thankskenpenders

Yeeeeeeah. Honestly, Death Battle has a real problem with reaching logic. I think my 'favorite' example of that was 'Zero was designed to kill Mega Man, and Mega Man can dodge force beams which are pure light. Ergo, Zero is faster than the speed of light.' I personally subscribe to rule zero; whoever the author wants to win, will win.

It’s so funny because it’s like, the logical extreme of that particular type of nerddom. Stories are not mere stories written by human beings to evoke specific feelings or to get a certain point across. No, they’re puzzles to be solved. They’re little windows into a fully formed fictional universe that the author is simply guiding us through, and there HAS to be a logical way to fit every single thing together, to explain and measure everything objectively for the wiki. Characters don’t do things simply because it was how the author decided to tell the story, but rather because each character’s potential actions must be defined by their DnD character sheet. These two stories made by different creative teams don’t have inconsistencies because they’re separate works with different creative goals, there has to be an explanation in the lore

There must be an objective, correct reading of the ending of Twin Peaks. The entire Mario franchise must have a master timeline. Rey must be a part of a special bloodline to explain her Jedi powers. There must be a scientific explanation for why Utena turned into a car. There must be an objective answer to whether Goku or Superman would win in a fight, using science

No meaning, only lore

#thanks ken penders

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Places you should add to your little town/city in your fantasy world!!

Post offices. Wild, I know. But give me the unhinged kind. Pingeons and little postal dragons all over the place. You enter. The most disgusting smell fucking assaults your nostrils. You know what it is. Letter in hand, you go up to the counter. The postal worker is just a slightly bigger pigeon. You shed a tear.

PLAYGROUNDS!! Create the most dangerous kinds of playgrounds, the ones suburban moms would TRIP if they ever saw one. Monkey bars that are way too tall, swings that go full circle... The metal slide stays the same, it's already painful enough.

PARKS!! MAKE IT ALIVE!! Show people going on walks, reading beneath trees. C'mon most of them are already hundred years old (And are going to die after that CR 15 creature wrecks the town) anyways!! Show couples and picnics, show a family enjoying the sunday, give me someone picking flowers for their loved ones.

A bakery! Do you know how much these places are underrated? And do you know how much plot potential they have? Every good story starts with food poisoning or granny's recipe! Give me a place your players/readers are going to treat like home and, for once, it's not a tavern or a guild.

Government buildings! Give me a town hall that has a kilometric line in front of it. Give me a registry that is as old as this town. Give me police stations! Give me courtrooms! Make one of your players get arrested and now all of the party has to go through burocracy like a bunch of normal people!

(Who am I kidding? You don't need to make them get arrested. They are going to do that for you.)

Touristic attractions! Give me a full-on statue of the country's leader! Give me museums! Give me streets, ruins and whatnot that attract thousands of tourists everyday! Give me an annoying city guide that tries to get the party's attention everytime!

Magazine stands! Magazines don't exist? Newspaper stands! From the Queen's Journal to the most questionable new piece of Fox's Tailtracker, you have it all! Make your players doubt what's actually happening, sprinkle a little fake news... Or is it fake at all?

...Toy stores. OK HEAR ME OUT. Make magic toys; miniature skyships that actually fly, metal toy dragons that expel fire, little wands that make little light spells, wooden creatures that can move and make noises... Make children happy! And your players too because they will waste their money on these stuff.

Instrument store!! Make your bards happy with special instruments or just weird ones! Give me a battle in one of those that is just filled with funny noises and the worst battle soundtrack ever!!

Not exactly a place but... Cleaning carts!!! Show me people cleaning the streets, picking up the trash, cutting trees!! Make the town look clean!! Give me an old man that is really proud of his work!!!

(or ways to make your players feel even worse when the villain destroys the town later on :) )

#writing advice