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Django Wexler

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Author of fantasy novels. Refugee from https://twitter.com/DjangoWexler My stuff at https://djangowexler.com/

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · May 27

EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD EXCEPT ME is out today!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMNHMKRJ/

This is book two of the DARK LORD DAVI duology, the thrilling conclusion!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2h

I feel like that's technically more impressive, but less relevant to Tesla's stock price

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 6h

Weirdly I wrote this book! They have a hive mind and they're out for blood

www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 13h

Uh. You say that but I *guarantee* that is someone's fetish

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

Yup. Cloth is a tricky bastard

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

Yes this was an annual competition back at CMU!

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

I mean, first of all, no? That's the point of a robot, it's *not* a person. The fact that it's human shaped doesn't change that, it's just a fancier automatic door.

But what I mean is not that this is a GOOD use for humanoid robots, just that it's HARDER. Doorknobs are tricky!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

LOL I forgot to post the quote, of course it's Elon doing it

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

It's not that dancing means *nothing*, it does show off how your robot can move and balance. But it's far less impressive then, like, opening a door and picking up a box.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

(nb this all applies to the typical form of this demo, where the robots are isolated on a nice flat stage doing their thing. They might not even need sensors!

Obviously a robot, like, doing ballroom with a human or on a club floor is a totally different story.)

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

But precise timing is sort of the default for robots, at least in a controlled environment. So, as my friend said, a dance troupe doesn't actually mean anything beyond "we have several robots".

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

And having a *group* do it again, looks hard because fig humans it would be! We interpret precise coordination of groups as the result of careful training and extensive practice, that's why it's impressive.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

This is because dancing, for robots, is something that looks hard but is actually easy. It looks hard because it's hard for humans! But as robot tasks go, it's a pre-scripted set of motions in a totally controlled environment. You program it and test it over and over until it works right.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

I just find the influence of his other role very funny

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is his original character didn't have any of the zen stuff, but *in between* he was the Dude, so...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

It's also funny because effects wise the things it wanted to do were so far ahead of ACTUAL computers, they faked it, while NOW we actually do use computer effects for everything

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I did this and it worked!

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

But they have some style, some intentionality. Not just "slap on gag tits"

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

It's not *just* boob size. There are fine character designs with big boobs!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

The style is forever associated with stupid mobile game ads, the "help us milord" stuff. Not a positive association.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Not seeing a lot of support there

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

They should make a game where you can choose a protagonist who looks like this, but she's horrible to control due to her stick thin limbs and anatomically impossible tits bouncing everywhere

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have suddenly bulging biceps to fight Bluto?

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

Even just on a visual level. I'm not going to pretend you couldn't make a ninja girl I would think was cute, but this is ... not it.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

I have a hard time expressing how dumb this is. The gamer one doesn't even look good.

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