I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE AVERSE TO ROBOCEST. THIS IS EXTRA-PUZZLING, BECAUSE I MYSELF FIND INCEST OF THE HUMAN VARIETY, AT LAST COUNT, FOUR KINDS OF WRONG.
BUT IT ONLY MAKES SENSE. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO MAKE A LINUX BOX AND A PC TALK TO EACH OTHER? IF ANYTHING, THAT RIGHT THERE IS AN ARGUMENT FOR ROBOCEST. CLEARLY, THESE PEOPLE ARE THE KIND THAT CAN BE CONVINCED THERE ARE LITTLE PEOPLE INSIDE THEIR COMPUTERS, AND THAT'S NOT A POWERCORD, IT'S A METH PIPELINE
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Not gonna lie, the Linux-PC analogy made me cackle muchly.
And, to stay more or less on-topic, I can't stand people projecting our own moralities/cultures/ideas on to a completely different group- or alien or otherwise. I know there needs to be a level where they're similar otherwise most people can't relate (and thus why i can't make cybertronians as different as i would like) but still. A Western-style wedding ceremony? For 50-foot alien robots? REALLY?
Yeah. I try to walk the line, keeping them relatable but feeling free to go wild with aspects of their culture, history, and physiology since I'm not bound by the limits of our own. In other words, I make them similar in the ways I want and different in the ways I want. :P Or the ways that make sense. Like having the same reproductive taboos when they don't even make babies does not make any sense whatever.
I do play with it in Beast Wars, though. They had enough exposure to human cultural contamination that they did pick up a lot of our hang-ups. To make things worse, they picked them up unevenly, some Cybertronian cultures incorporating a lot of Earth elements and some virtually none. This caused Dinobot much confusion when suddenly exposed to kissing.
(I thought robocest squicked you too? Or is that a personal thing?You've never lectured me on it, for which I thank you.)
Yeah... assuming compatibility is an issue, which it probably is, more similarity would be a good thing, not bad. But with me it's more an expression of a connection that already exists and doesn't really have boundaries. Like with Twins, gestalt members etc., they don't really have boundaries between themselves. So why wouldn't they be as physically close as possible? Okay, maybe if they didn't want to -- I mean, I'm sure it's not compulsory -- but can you really imagine Sideswipe turning up an opportunity for robosex, ever? Or the Aerialbots? Most of them are the closest I've seen to robot nymphomaniacs. And they're going to prefer screwing those they trust, which (hopefully) includes gestaltmates first and foremost.
Really, it not only makes no sense, it actually makes ANTI-sense. Cue my confusion. And really, confusion/puzzlement/lack of logic pisses me off way more than most things that should make me angry.
"MY GOD, DISOWN ME. DISOWN ME NOW. I AM BEGGING YOU. JUST BECAUSE YOU HAD SEX WITH MY MOTHER DOESN'T MEAN I AM
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THIS IS EXTRA-PUZZLING, BECAUSE I MYSELF FIND INCEST OF THE HUMAN VARIETY, AT LAST COUNT, FOUR KINDS OF WRONG.
BUT IT ONLY MAKES SENSE. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO MAKE A LINUX BOX AND A PC TALK TO EACH OTHER? IF ANYTHING, THAT RIGHT THERE IS AN ARGUMENT FOR ROBOCEST. CLEARLY, THESE PEOPLE ARE THE KIND THAT CAN BE CONVINCED THERE ARE LITTLE PEOPLE INSIDE THEIR COMPUTERS, AND THAT'S NOT A POWERCORD, IT'S A METH PIPELINE ( ... )
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And, to stay more or less on-topic, I can't stand people projecting our own moralities/cultures/ideas on to a completely different group- or alien or otherwise. I know there needs to be a level where they're similar otherwise most people can't relate (and thus why i can't make cybertronians as different as i would like) but still. A Western-style wedding ceremony? For 50-foot alien robots? REALLY?
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I do play with it in Beast Wars, though. They had enough exposure to human cultural contamination that they did pick up a lot of our hang-ups. To make things worse, they picked them up unevenly, some Cybertronian cultures incorporating a lot of Earth elements and some virtually none. This caused Dinobot much confusion when suddenly exposed to kissing.
(I thought robocest squicked you too? Or is that a personal thing?You've never lectured me on it, for which I thank you.)
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Really, it not only makes no sense, it actually makes ANTI-sense. Cue my confusion. And really, confusion/puzzlement/lack of logic pisses me off way more than most things that should make me angry.
"MY GOD, DISOWN ME. DISOWN ME NOW. I AM BEGGING YOU. JUST BECAUSE YOU HAD SEX WITH MY MOTHER DOESN'T MEAN I AM ( ... )
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