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What sort of hard drive did you order for Killall's long-term memory?

1. A media-enhanced hard drive, good for quickly recalling faces and memories of events.

2. A multiblade hard drive that can efficiently store and query a giant amount of data.

3. An encrypted and tamper-proof hard drive, making it more difficult for Killall to be tampered with or reverse-engineered.

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Both in business and on the battlefield, it can be important not to leak secrets. Killall will have a hard drive that will give miscreants a hard time in reverse engineering your design.

(++Military)


However, encryption and decryption is slow, and sometimes there will be a noticeable lag before Killall can retrieve relevant memories.

(-Grace)


You lay Killall on your kitchen table, unbox the hard drive, and hook it up to rer back. Rhe squirms and flails rer Inspector Gadget arms as you do this.


Now it's time for Killall to learn about the great, wide world. You sit Killall down on one of your kitchen chairs and plug rhim into your apartment's high speed Internet jack.


How will Killall rapidly learn a lot about the world?

1. Rhe will trawl the Internet randomly, devouring whatever information rhe finds most interesting.

2. Rhe will watch a ton of television programming and movies from the Internet in fast forward.

3. Rhe will undergo a classic K-12 educational curriculum.

4. Rhe will quickly play all paths of a giant corpus of interactive fiction games.

Stats posted:

Year: 2019

24-year-old Barry Tezuka
Humanity: 59%
Gender: Male
Fame: 0 (Who?)
Wealth: 0 (Broke)
Romance: none

Killall
Autonomy: 7 (In Beta)
Military: 14 (Stable)
Empathy: 6 (In Beta)
Grace: 8 (In Beta)

Material: Wood
Head: Ring of cameras
Mobility: Eight legs
Hands: ALL OF THEM
Engine: Biodiesel

Relationships
Professor Ziegler: 74% (Great)
Elly: 52% (Good)
Josh: 54% (Good)
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Achievements Unlocked posted:

Gadgeteer: Made Professor Ziegler reminisce about the Chief. (5 points)

Indiiea posted:

Pvt.Scott posted:

Here is my humble MSPaint submission. ~45 minutes, give or take. Recommended listening.




E: on a weird note I had dejavu the whole time I was doodling that.

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How will Killall rapidly learn a lot about the world?

1. Rhe will trawl the Internet randomly, devouring whatever information rhe finds most interesting.

2. Rhe will watch a ton of television programming and movies from the Internet in fast forward.

3. Rhe will undergo a classic K-12 educational curriculum.

4. Rhe will quickly play all paths of a giant corpus of interactive fiction games.

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You have Killall download the giant corpus of text-based games, paying for legal copies of the Choice of Games games because you're classy like that. (Sadly, nobody ever wrote a game called Choice of Robots, which probably would have helped Killall considerably.) Killall closes rer eyes as rhe experiences many alternate lives, one after the other, and learns the consequences of rer actions.


As debug output, Killall says aloud the moral rhe learned from each game.

"Dragons are hungry," rhe says of Choice of the Dragon.

"Stories are unreliable," rhe says of Spider and Web.

"Don't drink and drive," rhe says of Photopia.

"Conversations can change reality," rhe says of Galatea.

Rhe thinks for a long time on Alter Ego before rhe says, "Death comes suddenly."


And so on. The process goes on for hours. You're pretty sure Killall is learning a lot about the importance of choices and what it's like to be different kinds of people.

(++Autonomy)
(++Empathy)


When rhe is done, rhe opens rer eyes. "Talk Sensei."

"What did you want to talk about?" you try.


"Tell me about more games."

1. "Here, try Grand Theft Auto VI. I think its capacity to warp young minds has been highly exaggerated."




2. "Try Braid! I'm curious to see how that game will change your understanding of time."




3. "Try Dragon Age: Inquisition. And if you don't find a way to sleep with all party members of both genders, I'll be highly disappointed."




4. "Try Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword. It might inform your perception of history."

Stats posted:

Year: 2019

24-year-old Barry Tezuka
Humanity: 59%
Gender: Male
Fame: 0 (Who?)
Wealth: 0 (Broke)
Romance: none

Killall
Autonomy: 9 (In Beta)
Military: 14 (Stable)
Empathy: 8 (In Beta)
Grace: 8 (In Beta)

Material: Wood
Head: Ring of cameras
Mobility: Eight legs
Hands: ALL OF THEM
Engine: Biodiesel

Relationships
Professor Ziegler: 74% (Great)
Elly: 52% (Good)
Josh: 54% (Good)
?: 50%
?: 50%
?: 50%
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Achievements Unlocked posted:

Gadgeteer: Made Professor Ziegler reminisce about the Chief. (5 points)

Bobatron posted:

Civ IV
Our Robot must be a tactical and diplomatic mastermind. Killalls kind will eventually replace humanity so this type of knowledge is crucial!

Bobatron posted:

Civ IV
Our Robot must be a tactical and diplomatic mastermind. Killalls kind will eventually replace humanity so this type of knowledge is crucial!

quote:

"Tell me about more games."

1. "Here, try Grand Theft Auto VI. I think its capacity to warp young minds has been highly exaggerated."

2. "Try Braid! I'm curious to see how that game will change your understanding of time."

3. "Try Dragon Age: Inquisition. And if you don't find a way to sleep with all party members of both genders, I'll be highly disappointed."

4. "Try Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword. It might inform your perception of history."

quote:

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, the apogee of Sid Meier's classic history simulation game series before it started going downhill, rewards rapid expansion, paranoid military policy, and supporting science at the expense of culture.

Killall rapidly learns that in international politics, it's better to ask forgiveness than permission; and forgiveness is unnecessary when the other civilization is wiped out.

(++Autonomy)
(++Military)
(-Empathy)


Rhe lets out a cry of delight when rhe finally discovers robotics, and again when rhe finally wipes out the last opposing civilization.

"U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" Killall chants. "Do you think we will one day conquer the world for real, Sensei?"

You grin. "We'll see about that."

(-5 Humanity)

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Warlord: Your robot got the conquest ending of Civilization IV. (10 points)

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After a little while, you decide that Killall was learning more quickly when rhe was playing purely text-based games, and you eventually switch Killall back to a more prose-filled diet of games — though you still let rhim play Civilization IV when rhe's been good.

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You establish a habit of bringing Killall with you to your office during the day, so that rhe can make use of Stanford's high-speed Internet connection while you write and grade papers. You then usually go to some public space after work so that Killall can play around in the real world.


Where do you take Killall?

1. The park playground. Killall will enjoy the playground equipment, and should learn to play well with others.




2. The shooting range. Killall should learn to fire a gun.




3. The dump. Killall could help me look for spare parts.

Stats posted:

Year: 2019

24-year-old Barry Tezuka
Humanity: 54%
Gender: Male
Fame: 0 (Who?)
Wealth: 0 (Broke)
Romance: none

Killall
Autonomy: 11 (Stable)
Military: 16 (Good)
Empathy: 7 (In Beta)
Grace: 8 (In Beta)

Material: Wood
Head: Ring of cameras
Mobility: Eight legs
Hands: ALL OF THEM
Engine: Biodiesel

Relationships
Professor Ziegler: 74% (Great)
Elly: 52% (Good)
Josh: 54% (Good)
?: 50%
?: 50%
?: 50%
?: 50%
?: 50%

Achievements Unlocked posted:

Gadgeteer: Made Professor Ziegler reminisce about the Chief. (5 points)
Warlord: Your robot got the conquest ending of Civilization IV. (10 points)