video; @crowley

[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

This isn't London either.

[That much, it would seem, is completely obvious... but the young man on the screen isn't addressing his audience when he says it. He looks like he's just stepped out of the decontamination area after retrieving his belongings and more or less booking it away, and he doesn't look like he's impressed with any of this despite the dark sunglasses concealing his eyes.]

Look, this is getting ridiculous-- and don't tell me, people here haven't figured out a way to get the-- Somewhere back home either?

[He pulls in a breath, sharply and through his teeth, and grimaces.]

At least tell me there's a decent bar.

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[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

Oh, yeah, the robots. [Hmmmmmm.]

They're interesting.

[kaballin]

Not a lot of robots where you come from?

[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

Ehh, not like these ones. They don't turn around and talk to you like they're people.

[But humans are all about that kind of thing right now, so who knows...]

[kaballin]

These ones think they are people. Hell maybe they were. That happened back home, weird ass clan of ninjas turning people into robots for some reason. To make an army I guess. Always seemed fucking stupid to me.

[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

[Hold up.]

Yeah. Yeah, sounds something like that. [Sounds like the plot of some kind of sci-fi show.]

Why not just use the people? Tried and tested.

[kaballin]

No fucking clue. The one I knew was way better at literally everything as a person than as a robot. Also it just pissed him off so there's that too.

But some people have dumb ideas and then run with it. Who knows.

[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

Yeah, seen a lot of that.

[And the things he could quote from history...]

But the curiosity of humans seems to work out well in the long run, as a general rule.

[kaballin]

I guess? Too bad the curious ones go and get themselves killed - because we're running out of fodder for bad decisions.

[saunteredvaguelydownwards]

You think so? I haven't noticed. There's always more than enough humans willing to do something stupid.

[kaballin]

You see a never ending supply here? Cuz I don't.