the four hour Defunctland robot video starts at Turing
somebody definitely talked him down from starting at the abacus
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the four hour Defunctland robot video starts at Turing
somebody definitely talked him down from starting at the abacus
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meanwhile stitch just out there being a fucking transphobe
okay yeah I do get why you can't do that kind of thing with Michael Mouse
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@The_T At one point the Disney parks had a screen on which a Cast Member-controlled and -voiced Stitch would interact with park guests, fully in character, for several minutes at a time.
In one video featured in the Defunctland doc, Stitch, when asked "How many genders are there [on your planet]?", responds, paraphrasing "two, like here on Earth, well, okay, there's a third androgynous one, but those exist not to create but to destroy."
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@The_T The Cast Member clearly realises they're not quite in-character, and so I guess attempts to course correct with that weird turn of phrase.
The characterisation of this Stitch was... inconsistent. Sometimes they'd play him as a child, like he is in the movies, sometimes they'd play him as a ladies' man type, which I guess comes from the marketing. And sometimes I guess he was a Republican.
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in reply to HashRaydamon • • •@hashraydamon It takes it about half an hour to properly get into the actual subject matter, but after that it's a detailed start-to-finish history of Disney's attempts to create autonomous robots and such. After that initial pre-history, it's, well, it's exactly the long, detailed video you're probably picturing.
But really, this thing should've been cut into four 45-minute episodes covering the pre-history, the Walt era, the post-Walt era, and the modern era.