So uhhhh like a HUGE shoutout to @heckmate, couldn’t be happier with my commission :) I love having a part of Knock-Knock in my room now, like a real tangible part of it. I forgot to take pictures during the day, but if I remember to, I’d love to get pics of The Lodger if I remember to bring him to outings!
Как-то я говорила, что не могу назвать себя заядлым геймером, но есть несколько игр, которые очень люблю.
Одной из таких игр я могу назвать "Тук-тук-тук" от российских разработчиков студии Ice-Pick Lodge, или, как они себя называют, "Ледорубов". Изобразила двух персонажей: Добрую Буку и Жильца.
I once said that I cannot call myself an avid gamer, but there are several games that I really love.
One of these games I can name is "Knock Knock Knock" from Russian studio developers Ice-Pick Lodge, or, as they call themselves, "Ice Pickers". Portrayed two characters: Good Buka and Lodger.
Round 1 poll 22: Leonardo the Robot from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology vs The Lodger from Knock-Knock
Propaganda under the cut:
Leonardo
Leonardo is a social robot who was created by MIT in the early 2000’s. He is designed to be accessible and user-friendly for people who want to work with robots but may be inexperienced. He can learn and perform tasks on par with what a toddler is capable of. He’s designed to be cute so you’ll want to bond with him. He has a whole visual tracking system to respond to emotional cues and even mimic expressions the same way a pet dog or cat might mirror you to bond with you. He can emote with a great deal of complexity while responding to human interaction and the stimuli around him. One day I was bored and thumbing through my college psych textbook that I way overpaid for because we barely used it. I ended up on a page about Leonardo, found him fascinating, and had to learn more. And then there was a sentence that absolutely floored me. It might be slightly inaccurate because this was years ago but in essence it said: “Leonardo will never know love.” Something in me died that day and I started crying over a robot. To be so complex, years ahead of its time for the advancement of technology and robotics in the early aughts. To be purposefully engineered to be endearing, and for humans to pack bond and want to form connections with it. To even be intelligent enough to distinguish between itself and other beings, to help humans with tasks while accounting for human error, and to even understand the difference between intention and action. Feats of engineering and innovation that remain impressive over 20 years after its creation. And yet. The soul-crushing pathos that Leonardo will never be able to give nor receive love. It’s a lot. It’s all deeply heavy, but also deeply fascinating. He’s definitely hit blorbo status for me, he’s such a little guy who I just have very intense emotions about.
The Lodger
Aside from the fact that the fandom has like 5 people in it, this odd little man looks slightly akin to a weird baby and speaks in nothing but nonsense as he walks around his house. And I would do anything for him.
It was a cold, wet, autumn day. It would become night soon and the dead trees left a foreboding prescence to the lost child roaming the dead forest all by herself. She was scared, hungry, and lost. She escaped from The Program and was being hunted by the guards. They knew it would be detrimental for any child to escape and show the whole world what was going on at such a facility. The healed scar over her eye was enough of an indicator as to the kind of misfortune befell the children that were taken there. Lucy was one of the lucky few to escape. Fortunately for her, she would soon meet a man that was caring enough to give her shelter and give her a small sense of safety. Unfortunaetly for him, this visitor would cause old wounds to open that he healed by pushing them far away into the back of his mind.