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INTEREST: SoftBank's Pepper Robot Modded for Lewd Interactions


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TheFullmetalOne



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:17 pm Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
One step closer to consumer sexdroids.


I weep for humanity.
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:40 pm Reply with quote
Major Robot Chicken throwback: "Can you **** it?"
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partially



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:44 pm Reply with quote
mdo7 wrote:
After reading this article, I find this very disturbing.


Well really it is quite a tame game looking at it. Much of Compile Heart's output of games is more disturbing than this, and that isn't even going into actual porn game territory. In fact the idea for the thing is basically directly from a Compile Heart game really.

That said the head design for Pepper is really rather weird. Wondering why they went for such an unusual and creepy shaped head. It is stuck somewhere is the range of angular anime character and just plain wrong.

The rest of the design of the robot seems mostly fine, except the iPad plastered on the front. For $2000 the design of the thing is rather lacking.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:46 pm Reply with quote
It's one thing to adapt technology for sexual purposes, but why seems Japan's always about un-consensual harrassment? At which point, it's less about lust and more about power and control. Is it because of emasculation of herbivore males? Laughing
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Ryu Shoji



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:57 pm Reply with quote
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There is some risk to groping Pepper too much. After a certain amount of interaction, Pepper asks the user to stop, takes their picture, uses facial recognition to determine their age and gender, and then posts that information along with a mosaic of their face on Twitter.


If I was drinking anything, it would be all over my laptop right now.
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configspace



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:57 pm Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
It's one thing to adapt technology for sexual purposes, but why seems Japan's always about un-consensual harrassment? At which point, it's less about lust and more about power and control. Is it because of emasculation of herbivore males? Laughing

I hope you realize the creator is a woman.

Man people are taking this way too seriously.
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Hakajin



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:10 pm Reply with quote
I have to say, what did they expect? Although I am a little surprised that the person who designed the mod is a woman.
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:55 pm Reply with quote
And people may wonder why Japan has a decreasing birthrate.
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Usagi-kun



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:54 pm Reply with quote
I don't know which is funnier: The fact that they have done this, or the fact I am unsuprised they have done this. That is a seriously strange dilemma.
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SailorDJ



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:10 pm Reply with quote
What use does this even have to society? Confused
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brucepuppy





PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 10:30 pm Reply with quote
partially wrote:


Well really it is quite a tame game looking at it. Much of Compile Heart's output of games is more disturbing than this, and that isn't even going into actual porn game territory. In fact the idea for the thing is basically directly from a Compile Heart game really.


I think Senran Kagura, Valhalla Knight, Criminal Girls are closer to this? Then again, Fairy F was the only Compile Heart's game I ever played by far, so I can't tell for sure
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Admiral Pizzaman



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:39 am Reply with quote
This is just...uhm...how to put it.... Shocked

You know what? I start to believe that one day all the machines will turn on us, humans.
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:04 am Reply with quote
One weird way of looking at this is the creators are finding a loophole around sexual assault/rape.
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Azmodeus



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:06 am Reply with quote
I don't know what's more amusing:
1) How fast this turned from "Advanced new robot" to "sekuhara simulator".
2) How many of you jumped to the conclusion of "LOL/Eww, pervert", and missed the signs of potential social commentary, or maybe satire (The utalitarian app name, the main designers gender, that handy "black list" feature).
3) How little neither surprise me.
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_Cyphon_



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:42 pm Reply with quote
Aw hell no, that robot is creepy as hell.
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