Maybe you'll get an idea?

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this:

Yeah this is also the guy from the truck thread going around. That's what prompted this post and in retrospect I should have said so explicitly.

He claims he just uses AI to translate his posts from Japanese. He also says the art on his website isn't AI generated. I think he is full of shit on both counts.

I only gave a couple of examples but even on a brief look through his twitter it was apparent that he posts a LOT about UK politics to the point where he's quite patently British. He is a Restore supporter which is a party that split away from mainstream far right party Reform due to feeling they weren't right wing enough.

It might not surprise you to hear he does not seem to know shit about Japan? Both the salsa story and the truck story failed the smell test for people who are familiar with Japan. There's also a story about going to a potluck where he seemingly couldn't come up with a single Japanese dish for the character to cook??

First thing the sales guy did after I laid down the rules was turn to Sean and go, "What's your number?" And Sean said. "Oh, no, you negotiate with Gayle."

So, strike one for the sales guy. Could not divide and conquer us by implying THE MAN would not surprised at what I laid down.

Sales guy then had to confer with his manager and left us at his desk for several minutes. I have a vague recollection (this was 16 years ago) of Sean and I amusing ourselves doing bits about the other people there to look at cars. I am sure we did not give off the stressed or nervous energy they were hoping for.

Guy comes back. His first offer is fifty dollars a month more than I told him we could pay. I looked at him and said "I gave you our upper limit."

"Well, but what's another 50 bucks a month?"

"Something I can't afford."

He didn't know what to do with my open and unashamed admittal that I had a budget because my money was finite.

He went back to talk to the manager again.

It took two more rounds of "I told you what I can afford" before he finally came back 20 bucks under what I'd stated as my max.

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OKAY BUT HAVE YOU READ MURDERBOT???

listen. LISTEN. if you haven't discovered The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells yet, i need to personally escort you to your nearest bookstore/library/online retailer because your life is about to change.

who is murderbot?

imagine an android security unit who is:

deeply sarcastic and anxious in equal measure

absolutely DONE with corporate nonsense

just trying to hack into the entertainment feed and watch their favorite shows in peace

forced to actually care about humans (much to their dismay)

the most relatable protagonist in sci-fi, honestly

murderbot doesn't want to be a hero. they don't want to save the day. they want to be LEFT ALONE. and yet??? here we are.

why you need this series in your life

✨ character-driven sci-fi that actually HITS — this isn't just plot-driven space adventure. this is about autonomy, identity, and what it means to be alive

✨ corporate conspiracy meets found family — the stakes are real, the danger is real, but so is the found family dynamic that'll make your heart ACHE

✨ humor AND depth — martha wells writes with this perfect balance of laugh-out-loud moments and genuinely profound emotional beats

✨ award-winning excellence — hugo award and nebula award winner. this isn't just good, it's CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED good

✨ LGBTQ+ representation — and it's done with such natural, beautiful authenticity

✨ the perfect length — novellas that are meaty enough to satisfy but quick enough to devour in one sitting (you will binge this)

ISBN: 9781250350862

start with All Systems Red and prepare to have your entire existence changed by a grumpy android who just wants to watch their shows.

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND READ THIS SERIES.

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One of its main features about it is that it could run stupidly fast, like, a solid 100 MPH (at least thats my best guess from a dream) but more impressively or eerily is that it could go from 100 to 0 almost immediately, stopping in a stance where it stood up straight and at attention

I assume this is for artists so sure thing

I imagine that this dog is very tall and sleek (like a good five feet tall), with a sickly pale (with just a hint of light blue hue). Its eyes are a pure empty (yet still piercing somehow) white. Along its front half across the back and its legs are pale green sets of stripes, almost like racing stripes.

As for how the ghostly “back legs” worked, they looked sort of like this

with his physical form slowly transitioning into an pale blue ectoplasm, and there were amorphous hints of what could have possibly once been legs. Despite completely missing his back half, the posture seen here is still its regular posture, standing straight up, as if a soldier at attention.

SO TRUE BOOZOI

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There is an easy excuse in real life! You may not be able to get both a pacemaker and a DBS device because they're both pieces of sensitive equipment that could theoretically interfere with each other, and nobody engineered them not to. Trivially you can extrapolate this to all cybernetics. If your various augs weren't Specifically designed not to mess with each other (and of course the various megacorps might take things a step further, making their shit actively hostile to mix-and-matching), you might have problems; and obviously, the more pieces of hardware you've patchworked yourself with, the worse things get. You'd have to be one real crazy motherfucker to tell a back-alley doctor to load you up with whatever they've got.

Think about it: you've got a threat analysis module loaded into your optics and a lighting-reflexes aug patched into your arm muscles all the way down to your trigger finger. Both have programming that's been told to optimize its function because that's what you want out of military grade hardware. How long do you think it's going to take for your eye to start talking to your trigger finger and for them to come to the conclusion that the most "optimized" course of action is to stop consulting the sluggishly squishy meat brain they're patched into and start identifying/eliminating threats before they begin?

The danger of plugging too many unregulated mods into your body shouldn't be that you're less human for it, it's that your slowly building a killbot in your own body that's more and more likely to start treating YOU as the disposable peripheral.

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