Okay if you were going to inflict emotions on a robot, regardless of how it made them FEEL, I think embarrassment might be the most useful because I still perfectly remember, in excellent detail, everything embarrassing thing that happened from kindergarten on. And middle school – oi, it’s a multisense explosion of lessons learned.
so i’m guessing the lighter grey stuff is “blushing all over”.
(i’m colorblind, what do i know)
BEEP BEEP NO I AM NOT BLUSHING BEEP BOOP
I think Robbie crept in there, design-wise. Into my subconscious.
I was going to say that maybe if they got the little bot some pants, it wouldn’t feel embarrassed…but then I realized then it wouldn’t feel anything at all. That left me thoroughly wrapped up in wrestling with the conundrum of trying to decide which was worse, until I remembered that time in the third grade when the teacher asked me what was the word for the brother of one of your parents, and for some reason I said “aunt” and everyone laughed at me. It was then I realized: screw the robot, I’ve got too many of my own demons dogging me.