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Too Much At Once
A parable about why it's never a good idea to pile too many simultaneous jobs onto any android at once.
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Marcus Manners fed Julie berries while she was baking. There was a documentary on the viewscreen...Marcus suddenly felt a bit frisky and started pulling up Julie's clothes to fondle her body. Julie protested as she had a cake to bake, but is clearly enjoying the foreplay.
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Julie overloads due to too many simultaneous tasks in her multitasker. She starts struggling to function properly. This caused Marcus to get a little bit concerned...
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Julie is unable to cope, her brain is frying from trying to bake a cake, enjoy berries, watch the documentary, and engage in foreplay at once. She starts rebooting to clear her mind.
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Marcus laments that maybe he shouldn't have thrown so much at Julie at once, as she burbles nonsensically in a mix of every task she is trying to accomplish simultaneously.
LASTDitch Test 42
A parable in putting in tight limiters and breakers on systems to prevent catastrophic breakdowns.
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Preamble describing hardware used in test 24 on LASTDITCH Prototype 2
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Iniitial RealSpeech Synth, basic personality testing seem to work okay.
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Attempted navigation of romance, sex brancing in personality. This is when stuff started to go bad as the self-limiters in place in the system failed to kick in properly and hard, resulting in an escalating failure.
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Runaway condition leading to arcing, blowouts, battery cell leaks. At this point, Seamus Arendt was running to get the electrical fire extinguisher ready.
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Catastrophic loss of balance, functionality in LD prototype 02
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Aftermath of disastrous Test 24 on LD Prototype 02 + lessons learnt for future builds.
= Historical Artefact: Arendtcore Analisse (2040) - Uninitialized
By Aymee Ichigo
Well, I drew the short straw. so here goes with what I remember, even though this isn't really my forte in the company. I mean, I'm a Legalist, not a Historian, dammit!
Anyways...
Introduction to the Anlisse Project
In the 2040s, we began to branch into human-like androids. We also began to start building up the very first boroughs of what could be called the Original Districts of what would become Little Sanctuary (Districts 1-40). It was a trying time for all concerned, juggling the creation of a new MNC as well as a new home in the previously wilder, unmanaged spaces of Minnesota.
As part of our own "Eat Your Own Dogfood" efforts, we supplied our first waves of employees/homeowners with Spousal Units for the new Housing Programme and Family Programme. These were limited-edition, heavily artisanal units right down to the bolts and wiring, and while that should have led to disaster, the fact is that they turned out to be one of our most ridiculously resilient designs.
Seamus really thinks sometimes we should build these again, but I have to advise him again and again that the process that made these wonderful machines sadly did not scale well at all. Let's have a look at one of these units we inadvertently never gave out and keep in storage for historical interest....
We commissioned and built 10397 units of the Analisse design. These were handed out primarily to our male staff who joined us at such a risky early stage as a sort of reward and anchor to tie them down to the land and Company, though select units were handed out to some famous personalities such as Ethan Creed of the Funboys House Of Porn, Jericho Escher of the Peru Resistance Partisans, and The pop duo Twinergy (as seen on their infamous music video "She Was Made For Making Me Fall In Love"), amongst others.
Analisse 4633
The unit seen here is Unit 4633, which was intended for an accountant who sadly perished while trying to make his way here from Florida. We never did reassign this unit for some reason not documented. The proof of unit identity can be found hardcoded into the unit identifier, on a chip somewhere within the unit that apparently does nothing, as well as sewn into the Alice-In-Wonderland style outfit as seen here, somewhere under the collar of the shirt, and on the left thigh flesh as a faint tatto (this tattoo sadly wears out with prolonged operation - not a reliable indicator, really)
The Alice-In-Wonderland dress consisted of a small apron in white and blue long dress, plus thigh high stockings and patent leather shoes. As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, some newer design units were released with a similar dress outfit as a limited time option, and these remain a collector's item second in value only to the actual originals. The lack of the Unit number under the collar is a tell-tale sign that a AID outfit was from the newer runs and not this first batch. As befits the artisanal approach of this unit, the outfits were all commmissioned from New Peru and sewn by local artisans from proper synthcotton and lace elements.
Frankly, the logistics and QC on this part of the project was a nightmare for me and the next time someone proposes this kind of thing, I will shoot them down. With a fleet full of CIWSes.
Voicework was provided by several then well known actresses. Given the slightly tawdry nature of the project, many of them opted to or were forced by their agencies to credit the work to the anonymous "Annie Dee" and take a fatter paycheck. Privacy clauses prohibit me even now from disclosing the names of these actresses, but they did wonderful jobs on it such that the voice patterns mixed from them has been compared to a god melody. Another reason this project cannot exactly be replicated in this day and age.
of 10397 units ever issued, 10300 units remain fully operational, and are even regularly found going through the MedicalCare programme in Little Sanctuary or equivalent maintenance regimes when operated outside of Little Sanctuary.
Internal Unit Details
To simplify the build, we cut many corners where we felt that it did not impact the quality of the final product much. One corner we cut was using only Caucasian Pale Tri-Phase Silicone as the flesh for the Analisse, which led to accusations of racism. This was something we could have handled better, especially since the unit assigned to Ethan Creed (Unit 00015, known as Nuuna Creed and often seen as his wheelchair assistant and nurse at Funboys House parties) was dark-skinned using Chocolate Black Triphasic Silicone, so clearly we could have added ethnicity to the mix with some extra resources. But we didn't get any complaints from our staff about this issue, mainly.
The body was sculpted primarily by our long-suffering Chief Artist in Residence, Marcus Manners. As the tech we were using at the time wasn't exactly compact, the brief for the sculpt was "make her a large-caliber bombshell". Result: a voluptuous, high-volumed shape with plenty of room for the less efficient, bulkier components the Analisse uses. These components are also part of what makes this design so reliable and long-lasting - damage takes a lot longer to become a problem to any component, giving the owner more time to locate and replace these parts before they turn into a actual failure.
Amongst our staff were some former Mel-Eisner engineers, who created the first of many "animatronic head" designs as seen on modern units - while not compatible with the open Mel-Eisner EmoteDef specification, the preloaded motion/reflex data in these first drafts did satisfy most staff as well, even with a limited set of emotes and no variable mixing done. The head also offered high-fidelity vocal reproduction as well as a pathwway for modest amounts of food and water into a then-new digester design that unfortunately did not take well to full meals with drinks. A meal with an Analisse was always a meal with a sparrow of sorts.
Motion was provided in part by performances from the same actresses that provided the voice for this design (aka Annie Dee, the Anonymized), as well as a collaboration with Funboys House of Porn, where we digitized performances from several eras of porn within the Funboys archives for audio, motion, reflex and sequencing routes. As thanks for allowing and blessing the project, Ethan Creed was gifted with Unit 0007, Nuuna Creed, probably one of the only Analisse units not specced as pale Caucasian. The data was unfortunately stored in a format that is now obsolete, and efforts to port it to modern Arendtcore designs have proven problematic.
The motion/audio/reflex/sequencing data for Analisse functionality was stored on a fledgling cartridge format that was showing promise at the time, in part because of its incredible hard-wearing and dense data storage properties. The AME-ROM microdisc format promised a 10 millennium lifespan for both its drives and its discs, and the Analisse uses a unique double-sized, double-sided variant of this format to store 15000 words and discrete syllables, plus 80 hours of different motions and reflex actions.
This combination was mixed by a Parelt-Ehsen G45 animatronics controller chipset and piped to 800 servo units spread across the design. While the lifespan possibility of AME-ROM seems exaggerated, the fact is that we have yet to see a single one of these personality discs or drives ever wear out after over a century, and it has seen limited use elsewhere in its original definitions as a long term proven archival format. AME-ROM is unfortunately much slower than modern semivolatiles, prompting some to consider Analisse units as lower-intellect.
This is a mistake. They are smart - they just take longer to form the words and take the actions that their logic circuits require due to the slower access times of AME-ROM.
The visual and audio sensors, as well as main control panel were provided by Ban-Teki Tokyo Corp.
The audio sensors are essentially high-gain and capable of picking up very quiet whispers, yet capable of coping with loud noises of up to 200 decibels for short periods of time, within a range of 20 feet. The visual sensort are capable of normal wavelength sight at ranges between 2 and 100 feet, and are housed in a eyeball-like structure that includes see-through doll-eye iris elements that can be configured at initial boot to have one of 16.7million colors.
The main control panel is mainly analogue switches and buttons and gauges for power reserve measures and processor loads, with the only digital item being a 40x96 mint green character display for short log messages and errors. This is backed by a unifiying chipset that collates all the required logs and readouts as well as issues commands from the buttons and switches. This approach is no longer in use on modern Arendtcore designs, but enthusiasts of the Analisse design say it is somehow more... human. Personally, I think it's archaic, but I'm a legalist, not a doll designer, okay?
touch/heat sensoring is provided all over the body by sensnor assemblies merged into the triphasic silicone inhouse. Again, an approach no longer used. This results in a relatively bulky and hard to maintain external covering, but also warms it up slightly, allowing a sort of 'natural warmth' effect that many staffers issued this unit type praised.
As with many Arendtcore designs to come, the Analisse has a working non-reproductive vaginal module. This module is easily removable for servicing, and is powered by an array of microservo/bump sensor arrays linked to a N35 sexual response chipset as used in many Funboys sex toys for detecting vaginal input, pushing out open-compatible vaginal lubricant solutions, and providing responsive motion to said inputs. While clunky, this makes the Analisse very resilient to sexual overloading as similar approaches are used on other hotspots of sexual activity and response to buffer and handle sexual reflexes while minimizing added loads to the animatronic controllers.
WIP - further uploads and text to be expected here.
Typical Gynoids of Little Sanctuary
Luci Norst
Currently a WIP - not fully complete
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Basic intro + biodata of Unit Luci Norst, who lives in Little Sanctuary
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Interview section covering security and education causing overtime.
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Alternate of LuciProfile 002 that has typical bank security screening interactions from Luci's personal logs.
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Dinner, then sexual ambush
