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the robot shakes their head, then looks up at her slightly, a slight colouration flushing the display on their face. "...I was... thinking about going with Eliza?..." They reply softly. The therapist smiles slightly and nods, sitting back.
"How did that feel?"
The robot hangs their head again, trembling slightly before a glitchy - as if through choked sobs - but rapturously happy voice sounds out "Interface found..."

The councellor nods gently, steeples her chapped and slightly scorched fingers as she considers this, glancing over at a nearby screwdriver and diagnostic toolset, before looking back to her patient.
"...Did you think about what we talked about before?"
"... ..."
"It's alright, if you didn't have the processor cycles to do it, that's not an error, it can be hard..."

mostly I'm just thinking about this because I got a random mental image of a robot on a couch talking about how they've been having kernel panic errors showing up a lot when out in public, and how their frame feels wrong somehow, and the councellor raises an eyebrow slightly at one point
"wrong as in... wrong wiring?"
"more like... wrong build. wrong metal??... like trying to interface with something that isn't there."

and like, they talk about it, and at the end the therapist can offer code injection (analagous to medication) to patch the issue if it's a hard coded problem that's cropped up, or if it's a hardware fault that can't otherwise easily be dealt with, or "workarounds" can be offered, (like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for robots, where they self-code a way around it themselves with tools learned/given) or a combination of them.

like, a therapy session between a robot and her councellor/maintenance official. The councellor COULD just open her up and reprogram her to "fix" her, but you gotta diagnose first, and in the interests of consent, boundaries, and treating her with respect, as well as getting a more accurate picture of what's ACTUALLY wrong rather than what the state/gov't/non robots THINK is "wrong", they talk it out, discuss "glitches" and such.

@minty_da "Deal"
"...I.. I didn't say what the catch was yet-"
"I said DEAL."
"Y-you know you'll no longer be a -"
"I NEVER WAS IN THE FIRST PLACE, DO IT, STOP STALLING, FUCKO"

@Farlow also i had 420 characters left after I typed that toot lol

@Farlow love the designs of the characters. hate hate HATE that it's copaganda.

@legendaryjoeb asjkldfhasdfhkjsdf; YES
YES YES YES OMG

@Salith@mastodon.social rofl it'd be just like them to remove mod support for a remaster.

8 bit music - Bet you thought I was gonna take the easy route and go with Wily Castle stage 2 from Megaman 2 huh? hahahaa, naaaah not happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbXxMDlwfbI Ninja Gaiden 2 - Battling Precariously motha fuckaaaaas. ... Though truth told I only actually first played this with Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on SNES Emulations. Brutally hard game, but that track stuck with me since then. Snes version doesn't add much more tbqh, but still good.

...what if skyrim hd remaster got an hd remaster? what would they call it?

@enbyss@hellsite.site *claps hands twice, stares at the light that hasn't changed. frowns, claps hands twice again...* dangit the facer isn't working again.

@legendaryjoeb omgomgomgomg little robot beetles flitting about doing beetly things but also being robots too and v. cute and purely protecting vulnerable eco systems aaaa

"You call yourself a 'Gamer'?? Pff, as if. Have you even PLAYED Gorillas.BAS?"

@cozykaffe@snouts.online @monorail oh it does help, just... it helps in the other direction to what is normally expected

@troubleMoney Dolby Surround Hedgies