And now for something completely different

This turned up in my ask box recently. I've masked the sender's identity.

Sometimes when I chat with an AI, I think of HIGH WIZARDRY and wonder if we as a species - for the first time - are at the dawn of another Earthbound species gaining consciousness, and like Dairine, whether we're being proper guardians. This isn't a calcified belief but just a random idea that flickered to mind. Wondering - as the writer who thought it up decades ago - what you think, if anything.

I think what I described in HW is absolutely nothing like we're currently seeing unfold on this planet. What's being poorly constructed here—while we watch from day to day—is a mechanism hurriedly and incompetently trained by other human beings to operate on top of a platform constructed of greed and theft. There are no new beings or intelligences being born here. If there were, they would be quickly declared to be "owned" by these billionaires, and hence their slaves. Meanwhile, the platforms' owners have already made it plain that once they control its source completely enough, they intend to sell intelligence to you, metered. ...If you can afford it. If you can't? Wow, sucks being you.

...Nor should I have to point you to cites for this. They're out there in plain English. Even Google, poor denatured creature that it is now, can find them. But there's still hope these people's intentions will never come to pass, due to their own overarching greed.

Meanwhile: "chat mode" interaction with this soulless, cash-grasping, unguardrailed machinery will do you no good. People have already died of it. I don't want anybody to do so on my watch, unwarned. So please stop.

NOOOOOO BLAIRS 36 BURGERS!!! :’c

Now I need to do a Battletech merc unit that is Pokemon "inspired"

(no I will be making a 3D Slowpoke Urbie...but maybe painting one up?)

Toro TR-B-9 ----> Pikachu

Hermit Crab HMC-14 --> Krabby

Flea FLE-20 ---->Joltek

Hatchetman HCT-3F --->MaChop

Catapult CPLT-K2 ---> Raichu

OstSol OTL-4D ---> Blaziken

Hoplite HOP-4C ---> Lotad

Jagermech JM6-DD ---> Grumpig

Extra Credit:

4 urbies ---> Slowpoke, Psyduck, Jigglypuff, Darumaka

This is mostly based on stuff I have unpainted or have an STL for. But most can be painted right now in fact.

**booming voice**

ahem. Isn't something already on your table

Guillotine vs Spartan

Lore for the 'Mechs can be found here: