Unless the robots are the ones singing, apparently, in which case your formation is pretty much okay but presents a moving cognitohazard to nearby robots.
Also, Theda may not actually have any clue what it takes to make a good officer. What they do may be this mystery to her, something she can appreciate but cannot analyze.
oh shit there she is
climbs conning tower, opens box of signal flags
frantic waving of flags meaning 'I AM ALTERING MY COURSE'
I'm starting to think drumlines are cool and don't get robots drunk, but they are super cool and fun.Unless the robots are the ones singing, apparently, in which case your formation is pretty much okay but presents a moving cognitohazard to nearby robots.
Parades must be trainwrecks.
That would make sense, yeah. You'd have to figure something out for signaling, but that can probably be handled with relentless drill, saber semaphore, and memorizing a plan for the parade and just doing the whole thing open-loop.
Isn't hearing pretty important for making the sounds come out right though? I was under the impression that talking and the like is difficult to do well without hearing. On the other hand, this probably isn't the case for machines due to the wonders of just sticking sensors to the appropriate joints so you can self-correct though simple proprioception.
Happy gays
There may not be many things about my country I am proud of, but ditching the monarchy was a pretty good mood. Now we only have a de facto aristocracy!
I'm just waiting for the moment someone buys one of these completely and Theodora doesn't know what to do.
I mean, I have it on good authority that this would be a solid move. Chicks dig cannons.
And we are setting sail! This is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill!
anyone else immediately jump to the scene from the sum of all fears movie where all the beeper start going off?
We know it's you, Sketch.
Could be worse. Imagine what would happen if it was polka, or stars forbid, ragtime.
Back in the day the Royal Navy did have Rum Ration, which is exactly what it sounds like. Seeing that the British navy only abolished it in 1970 I see no reason whatsoever why it would not only be ongoing to the modern day but effectively spread to the Army as a morale booster as well. What I'm getting at is, the Theos and Doras already love marching around and doing soldier stuff, why not add some extra morale into the mix with good ol' cadence and drum rolls?
To be fair, Beatrice is far more of a parody of @DragonCobolt than of me, to the point of being named after a character from his novel Pax Multi! I just saw a chance for a self-dunk and could not pass it up.
lol I knew I recognized that name from somewhere but I didn't think you'd actually do it!
I dunno this American sounds like an OSS Officer.
I don't know, it sort of reads like the Southern Aristocratic Planter class got removed by something or another, presumably by an American civil war of some kind, perhaps over the treatment of machines instead of African Americans. By way of the following passage from the chapter, free typo spotted as well.
I don't want to go too far into specifics, but suffice to say that neither the south's peculiar institution nor manifest destiny lasted very long past the point of divergence in this universe.
Holy SHIT i like that so so much. Especially because it means the military music comes out only when it's really, really needed.
The latter appears to have gotten redirected straight up, leaving the Native Americans (and northern Mexico) out of the blast radius.
I love this idea. Not just that different kinds of music have different effects, but there are some specific combinations that have very different effects than usual. Martial music making most robots shakey and jumpy but martial robots alert and focused is fun; not only does it mean the military music is for Important Occasions, it gives the martial robots a strong in-group. What other atypical responses might there be? I could see Lady's Maid models having a different response to waltzes and EDM and anything else that you're specifically supposed to dance to? Like, maybe they get super stoned out really fast because watching their ladies dance without them there to chaperone tends to be stressful.
