Chapter 394
...gen-you-wine BobCo Dehydrated Moomoo farm! Use only with parental permission. Allow 4-12 hours for delivery! Trained praying mantis moomoo tenders included! Buy in the next 15 minutes and get a genuine P`Thok Chee-chee-chee-chia Pet! Operators are standing by!
Only from... BOOOOooooB-CO!
TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS
Oh God, I want one so bad. All of me wants one! IT`S SO AMAZING!
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
So, a Chia-Pet is just a clay bust of P`Thok that you smear gel containing grass seeds on and it grows green grass like hair?
But that`s stupid, P`Thok didn`t have hair...
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TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS
YOU SHUT UP!
DAMMIT! WE`RE RUBBING OUR CREDIT CARDS ON THE SCREEN AND NOTHING IS HAPPENING!
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AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS
Does he get like this every time he sees these commercials?
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ALL> YES!
ALL> Laughs
PUBVIAN DOMINION
Wow.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
What?
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
So, like a half hour ago I sent people to check out the BobCo facility.
Apparently it`s operational.
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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
What?
It`s what?
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
Apparently it`s up and running, producing toys right now.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
The four LawSec and two government officials received gifts that they`re blasting all over social media right now.
The Treana`ad ambassador who arrived last week was just gifted a "Genuine BobCo Autonomous Animatronic Moomoo" by the BobCo AI. Not a digital sentience, an actual AI. The Ambassador is taking vids of him petting his Moomoo and having it do tricks. He`s lording it over every other Treana`ad in existence by posting it to the Smokey Cone diplomatic site.
The Treana`ad Matron in charge of the diplomatic team received a P`Thok ChiaPet, a fishtank full of Genuine Sea Monkeys, a Robotic Nanite Circus of Wonders, two minature RealMoomoos™, and a Genuine BobCo HoloHat.
She`s currently talking to the hive matrons on Smokey Cone wearing the Holohat and petting her minature moomoos on the video conference to the other matrons.
I think one is frothing at the mouth in envy.
I better get a hand on this before there`s a riot.
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TREANA`AD> SCREAMS IN FRUSTRATION
HAMAROOSA PINCHING CHAIN LETTER
Is he going to be like this every commercial?
He`s not going to have a stroke, is he?
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Wait, the BobCo AI is online?
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
I thought AI was a racial slur?
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
It is. But the BobCo AI is... well... let`s just say it`s unique.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
And homicidal.
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DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS
Oh yes. Definitely homicidal.
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TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS
OH MY GOD THE BOBCO SOLNET STOREFRONT WORKS!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>USER TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS HAS LEFT THE CHAT (SQUEE OUT OF RANGE)
CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COOPERATIVE
AHAHAHAHAHHA!
He crashed his interface.
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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL
Wait, if it`s homicidal, why isn`t anyone worried?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Because technically it isn`t an AI or a Digital Sentience or even a digitized Terran.
It`s this weird blending of the two.
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CLONE WORLDS CONSORTIUM
Because Bob "Caveman" Johnson was a complete psycho.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Technically, he wasn`t a psychopath. He was just... over-imaginative with a lack of ethics and morals in some specific areas.
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CLONE WORLDS CONSORTIUM
Like combining Mantid and Terran DNA to create mantis-men supersoldiers to guard his toy shipments?
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Yeah, like that.
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
That seems... psychotic.
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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL
He`s been gone for a while. Is he going to be OK?
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
He`s a little busy. The BobCo SolNet "Always Online™" store is so overloaded it`s actually reverted to a 2.5D storefront with limited interaction.
AHA!
They DO still sell Fantabulosa Pond Paddling No-Windup™ Squeaky Ducklings that sing over 100 duckling songs.
OUT OF STOCK!
Dammit, there was 1.2 million left when I read that out loud, now it`s "Temporarily Out of Stock".
Oh, hey, I get a free sixty four ounce container of BobCo Muscle-Max Ultra Sick Gains Powder for my trouble.
Score!
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
About that AI...
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
It`s complicated. It`s a cross between programmed AI, one of the first baked hash shredded rainbow salted table genesis systems, and a neural recording of Bob Johnson himself all mushed together.
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
And just as crazy as the original Bob Johnson.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
How can you tell? He`s a human. They`re all crazy.
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MANTID FREE WORLDS
Everyone settle down! We`ve got a new one.
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>TREANA`AD HIVE WORLDS (IT`S A BOBCO CHRISTMAS!) has logged on
MANTID FREE WORLDS
Come over here, sweety. Let big sister help you sort it out.
You can watch Tri-Vid with the rest of us.
N`KAROO MIND DATALINK GESTALT I/O SYSTEM BOOTSTRAP
um ok
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we now return to How P`Thok Totally On Purpose and Not At All Accidentally Saved Christmas.