Sean arrives to the Machine Control Compound, exercising impressive leadership skills. Mr. Stomps performs poetry about stomping. We interview people on the subject of telepresence for a full session of Machine Court. We talk about fighting and being tough, and when it is appropriate to use a robot for your combat. There is a large amount of bickering and incompetence.
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Really liked it. It’s much better than the first one :).
One remark – when the robots were ecstatic, it was easy to hear that a looped sample is playing. I don’t know if it was intended or not, but it felt a little off in my opinion.
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Yeah, the looping was intended to make the robots sound more unnatural and out of control. But I feel the whole robot orgasm noise thing needs more experimenting and refining. It is sometimes not straightforward how to make a sound be funny. See if my next version of the robot-O sounds better.
And do you want Sean to come to Poland to train you to be a fighter? He was ready to go.
-Erik
Nah, I’ll pass, I’ll stick to keeping hand grenade in my pocket or something. I’ll look forward to next episode, and by the way, I am very interested in lending my voice again!
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Maurycy, it would be cool to have you back on for an interview. Can you join the “Event Announcements” email list? (It is the form on the left side of this page) This is how we’ll announce the next round of interviews in maybe a week or two.