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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 7300558" data-attributes="member: 6777696"><p>I prefer this analogy:</p><p></p><p>Bob is controlling a robot through a radio uplink. Bob can't see what the robot is doing, but he gets basic descriptions over the radio. Fortunately, the robot has a bank of skills and knowledge, and is able to do most things on its own. Unfortunately, the robot has decision paralysis, and can't do anything unless Bob gives it instructions.</p><p></p><p>Realistically, Bob is going to have a hard time telling the robot how to do anything it doesn't know how to do, because Bob is thousands of miles away and can't see what the robot is doing. But, hell, if Bob can pull it off, giving the robot instructions using the simple skills that it possesses, good for Bob.</p><p></p><p>Bob likes to think of the robot as having a personality, in part based on what the robot is good at. Sometimes, Bob will decide not to have the robot do things that it could probably accomplish, because it just doesn't seem like what Bob's robot would do. (I mean, really, a +3 to History and a +1 to history is not that big of a difference. Bob's robot actually has a pretty good chance at explaining the War of the Meatsacks to that other robot. But it just doesn't feel like something Bob's Robot would do.) Sometimes, Bob gets drunk and his robot just stands around shouting things in an ever-changing but decidedly thick accent. Then he randomly hits things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redrick, post: 7300558, member: 6777696"] I prefer this analogy: Bob is controlling a robot through a radio uplink. Bob can't see what the robot is doing, but he gets basic descriptions over the radio. Fortunately, the robot has a bank of skills and knowledge, and is able to do most things on its own. Unfortunately, the robot has decision paralysis, and can't do anything unless Bob gives it instructions. Realistically, Bob is going to have a hard time telling the robot how to do anything it doesn't know how to do, because Bob is thousands of miles away and can't see what the robot is doing. But, hell, if Bob can pull it off, giving the robot instructions using the simple skills that it possesses, good for Bob. Bob likes to think of the robot as having a personality, in part based on what the robot is good at. Sometimes, Bob will decide not to have the robot do things that it could probably accomplish, because it just doesn't seem like what Bob's robot would do. (I mean, really, a +3 to History and a +1 to history is not that big of a difference. Bob's robot actually has a pretty good chance at explaining the War of the Meatsacks to that other robot. But it just doesn't feel like something Bob's Robot would do.) Sometimes, Bob gets drunk and his robot just stands around shouting things in an ever-changing but decidedly thick accent. Then he randomly hits things. [/QUOTE]
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