video, the first | day #71

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[Buffy's face is close to her wrist band. A little too close. And she doesn't seem happy with this turn of events.] If this is a joke, can someone please relay to the joke-tellers how unfunny this is? It's like when peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth and it should be funny when really it's just full of the peanut-buttery goodness that could've been. ...Your mouth, that is. Is full of--

Metaphors are stupid. And so are... are robot bears! Bears of any kind, really, I don't think their IQs are that high and I don't have a high opinion of robots either. Call it a childhood trauma. Even if that was like, two years ago.

Alright, someone be spill guy. I'm running out of babble. [a beat] ...How do I turn this thing off?

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Oh. That was probably a good call.

Still! Howdy, robot-building neighbor Tony. ...None of them turned evil, did they?

[manofiron]

Nope. Not that I know of. JARVIS might still surprise me, though.

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Jarvis?

[manofiron]

One of my creations.

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What's it--he--do?

[manofiron]

Navigation. Organization. Babysitting. He does a lot of things.

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You trust a robot with your kids?

[manofiron]

I don't have kids. Mostly, he babysits me.

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Oh. [This conversation is getting so off-track, but she can't stop herself.] Why do I get the feeling like that's a fulltime-ish job with small-ish benefits.

[manofiron]

Woman's intuition?

[ He's not so arrogant that he can't make fun of himself. ]

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You could call it that. We tend to be able to scope out the high-maintenance types.