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The Gig Economy

🕑 Added 2018-11-27 02:59:23 +0000 UTC

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Matt Grayson

I was afraid I'd have to join Twitter some day....

Ted Van Roekel

Beeps is a unusual model with an screen for a face, so she's much more emotive than most. Source is Jeph's twitter account.

Magic Chopstick Games

Please let Beepatrice's roommate be named Dootie

Bagge

We need to check old May strips to answer that

Bagge

So, do you have a roomba and is it named after Hannelore's roomba?

Am Queue

I originally read this in a book of short stories. I just went looking for a pointer, and found it's entirely online! <a href="http://www.larryniven.net/stories/Man_of_Steel_Woman_of_Kleenex.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.larryniven.net/stories/Man_of_Steel_Woman_of_Kleenex.shtml</a>

Am Queue

I have... no. no, I don't have any questions. None at all.

Ann M

I have for almost as long as I've purchased electronics named them after QC AIs. I need a new laptop and have been worrying about the fact that I've run out of AIs. Yes, I checked the wiki. Thank you for Beepatrice!

Matt Grayson

And can all robots do full-face blushes? Or is that a feature found only in the Deluxe Limited models?

VC

About 8 words.

Brian

“Do what you love” I guess?

Brian

It makes sense. They don’t have the luxury of having an awkward stage as children or teenagers. They’re trying to figure out a place in the world that works for their personality and isn’t entirely centered around what their bodies were designed to to.

Matt Grayson

How long before someone starts calling her Beeps?

sjlxndr

giggity

Jim Feldman

Would a sex toy for Roko be a toaster? She could get a side job at a bakery

Matthew Foweraker

How is this part of the gig economy?

Trigon Manthree

In Beepatrice's case, maybe Giggityconomy works better.

Creepy Cat Lady

I want to work with Beepatrice.

Summer Sudbrink

Sexual Appetite for Destruction

Fart Captor

Oh god, now I'm imagining flesh lights being tested with shaped charges like they need to be able to withstand a load from Superman

Paul Grodt

I welcome beepatrice as a new regular character. I can't wait to ship her with...basically anyone.

Peter Jensen

Jamie from Girls With Slingshots would say they're using them right.

Peter Jensen

She did change it, but mainly because she felt it was a bit too on the nose for her side gig.

Bagge

I will be honest. I'm not confident Ursula will make it through testing

Autistic Observer

I believe Roko said she was going to apply to be a case worker, kinda like what Winslow was doing before he and Hannelore set off for their journey.

ysth

What is Roko applying for? Did we know? If so, I've forgotten

AI-rika Moen

Leak

So she's basically dual-classed Hydraulic Press Channel/Oh Joy Sex Toy?

Nobilis Reed (personal)

Are you kidding? Of course we all love Beepatrice.

Bagge

I love how she is introduced. A few lines of dialoge, a cute blush and we already know a lot about her and have reasons to like her.

Fart Captor

I love her

Beepatrice blush is cuuuuuuute! Roko Uber FTW

Anton

Oh no Beepatrice is CUTE!

URSULA! We may finally get to know you!

Luzahn

I love AI culture’s apparent fondness for punny names. =D

Roz Powers

Oh no I'm love

Chris Crowther

I had a friend who used to go through a disturbing number of toys by burning them out.

kaitou

It's the ones that catch fire you gotta watch out for.

z

There has to be someone out there that does sex toy reviews, disassembly, noting where there's possible issues (cheap Chinese bearings, they'll seize up after a hundred hours of use or flimsy plastic that'll break if you use high-end batteries, etc, etc, etc...).

Dylan T

I feel like awkwardness is just a constant in AIs at this point

Sleepy John

The kind of job where you can get a good buzz on.

Gamera

Benis?

Captain Button

I used to test equipment for a living, but the closest I came to sex toys was a battery they told people to put in their armpit.

Mitchell Sealy

Heard some horror stories about shoddy Dildo manufacturers. Sounds like if you're a reputable business it's pretty important to make sure sex toys are safe. They'll be interacting with some very vulnerable and tender parts of human anatomy.

Kyle Major

And more questions arise for Beepatrice

Miyaa

Oh god no…

BobC

Testing ain't no joke. I've worked on several products where testing was way over half of both the development budget and the schedule. Aircraft instruments, nuclear power plant monitors, spacecraft avionics; the kind of things that if they fail it will be the definition of a "very bad day". The same thing goes for condoms. Which also can be toys!