A long time ago, a saddened mare found Time Turner tinkering in his lab late one stormy night. After offering the stallion more bits than he knew what to do with, he created Sweetie-bot. All seemed fine, until the robot started doing things he didn't program it to do.
And then it started getting taller.
And healing on it's own.
This is going to get complicated, isn't it?
A story by me! Sweetie-bot belongs to the Friendship is Witchcraft series.
I made the cover art using Blender, and then drew Sweetie quite poorly in my notebook, then traced over her using Paint dot net.
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That was a fun read.
I would love to see more stories in this version of equestria.
Technology changing due to everpresent magic is a fascinating topic.
...something, something, giant hat... Yes I love my sister Rarity!
Dawww
That was a good story.
This was absolutely delectable! I love it!
Really good
You accidentally typed ‘fore fitting’ instead of ‘forfeiting’.
Lmao great note to leave off on.
Wonderful.
So I like the story, but one criticism, as a hard-sci-fi writer...
I've decided that this is my new peeve, this "LCD Eyes" thing. Where did that come from? Why did people start writing about this strange concept? Why use screens and not animatronic eyeballs/eyelids with cameras? Wouldn't LCDs be useless in terms of actually seeing like an animalian lifeform?
I'm wondering if people saw the black camera-eyes with iris-lights of some mid-to-late 1900s scifi, and thought they were just a display and not a mechano-electric mechanism, because they kind of DO look like they might be screens if you don't know what they are. The issue is, it feels like a lack of thought on the practical design: LCD-eyes makes no sense, because you can't see out of them and they wouldn't look realistic like, say, animatronic eyes that pivot in their sockets when the robot is looking somewhere.
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Meh. I think it looks cool. If you wanna get real technical about a robotic unicorn from a parody of a show for children, I would say look to under screen cameras by Samsung. Problemo solvedo.
*college
Correction aside, I wonder how my daily interactions with others would go if immediately after introducing my name I went "I failed college twice" with a sincere smile
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Actually you can put camera behind display. It won't be great, but there are already smartphones with this technology.
Here a little video on this topic.
Love the story, refreshing to see Time Turner not being knock off Dr. Who, even if the show more or less confirms such correlations. Also, great to see an origin story for Sweetie Bot. That said, there are some places where you don't seem to grasp grammar or spelling, nothing super big, but words like "chastised" come out as "chat sized" and "forfeiting" comes out as "fore fitting", which could come down to autocorrect or an erroneous spell check. I'd love to see more stories about Sweetie Bot from you if you're interested in writing them. I do find the concept of technology in a magical world where everypony has some magic inside of them fascinating, and who knows, maybe that's all AI really needs anyways, just a spark of quantum magic.
There aren't enough Sweetiebot stories. This one is really good.
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lmao i didn't realize time turner just kinda says that without prompt. the reason why is because in an earlier draft of the story, there was more dialogue where turner failing college is brought up first, therefore the witty comment about failing college makes more sense. behind the scenes action.