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[mammal_robot]

[In the background there is the sound of rain. He must be outside somewhere.]

Did you know this world also had a Nikola Tesla? He still died seventy years ago but...he existed. It's like a little slice of home, almost. This place even looks the same...

He was the smartest man I ever knew. He built me in 1923, just for a start, and they say my brain is 100 years ahead of any technology that exists now. He was kind, caring, and only wanted to help mankind.

He was also kind of a weirdo. Wouldn't eat anything he couldn't calculate the exact volume of. Not many people know that.

I don't know. Maybe it's spending the holidays in another dimension that's doing this to me. Who do you miss from back home?

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[helpline]

This isn't fair. I can't be grumpy to you about this.

[ this is sad and totally something the Doctor deals with on a daily basis, this is completely unfair Robo, he needs to be grumpy. ]

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[mammal_robot]

I'll tell you about Thomas Edison's immortality process later.

permavid!

[helpline]

That's perfect, I can get grumpy at you about that easy.

[audio]

[hands4healing]

I wish I could say I don't miss anyone but it would be a lie. Evne though I know I'll see them again.

I miss my best friends.

[Her boyfriend and his brother, she means.]

[mammal_robot]

How do you know you'll see them again?

Permavoice

[governorkang]

You already know.

[He'd talked a bit about his family during the live interview and how he wanted to go home.]

It is difficult, being separated on holidays like this one.

[mammal_robot]

It is. I don't exactly have a family any more, but I had friends.

Humans are...they're short lived. I don't want to say I got used to them dying, but it's easier to accept after a while. This is different, though.

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[bloodpressured]

No, I've never heard of him.

What fucking good is it to whine about people we miss, anyway? It's not going to change anything.

[mammal_robot]

Let us have our moment. Emotional venting stops people from going insane.

[mightthinkthat]

My wife. Friends. [ Though the latter is very much his own damned fault. ]

[mammal_robot]

Dead, or just left behind?

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[grimreaping]

My partners, my friends and my father.

Nikola Tesla had a profound impact on a number of worlds, it seems.

[mammal_robot]

Did he have one on yours?

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[thelimitdoesnotexist]

the ones who took me in when I was first on my own.

[mammal_robot]

That's rough man. What happened to them?

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[bonely]

[ He supposes that Robo counts as a friend, maybe. He's certainly a fellow robot.

Where is he, anyway? He's going to start walking. ]

...My brothers. My creator. [ Even with all his mixed feelings...

He would have liked to spend a little more time with him. ]

[mammal_robot]

[He's almost hesitant to ask the weird combat bot but...]

What happened to them?

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[megabytes]

My family. And my friends.

...this world had a Turing, too. And a Newell and Simon. [And a Searle, but Searle was a jerk.]

[mammal_robot]

There are a lot of similarities. The biggest difference is this weird thing going on with the Soviets.

text | id reads "Mr Fletcher"

[doesntdomuch]

[Huh, he never knew Tesla built robots. You learn something new every day.]

I guess I miss my family, although I guess that's a pretty obvious answer from most people.

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[mammal_robot]

[He didn't, in most universes.]

I generally was leaning more towards people who are dead, not just lost in another dimension.

That sentence sounded less ridiculous in my head.

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[shutterbugged]

You were built by Nikola Tesla? Would it be weird to, uh, totally geek out over your progenitor-slash-dad? 'Cause I don't want to be a creeper, but I mean... Nikola Tesla. Cripes.

[mammal_robot]

He was a remarkable man. Might as well get it out of your system.

[inchesofevil]

My sister, mostly. All of them, but Missie especially. And my parents. This is my first Christmas away from home, actually.

Of course it would've been my first Christmas away from home anyway, but at least Missie would've been there.

[mammal_robot]

It would have happened sooner or later, but I wouldn't have guessed the phrased "In another dimension" to be relevant.