as fk after rescuing the 2nd android.
It's more of a speedrun at that moment. I don't say " omg get gud", but you should have had a lil bit more patience.
Personally, I agree. Practice makes perfect. I have 22 androids rescued so far, three days away from that storm growth potion.
Not-so-personally, @Spirit and anyone else who wants the event to come back:
You can make a suggestion and that suggestion can be forwarded. I can't make any guarantees but if it has enough support the event can come back. Unlike crossover events like SAO and AOT, this event doesn't require any licensing hurdles to jump over, so it may be easier to bring it back than those events. (less)
Star Trek: The Next Generation had S2Ep9, "The Measure of a Man" had Data arguing for his rights as a living, sentient being. TNG also … (more)featured episodes such as "Evolution" (S3Ep01) and "Home Soil" (S1Ep18). One of my favorites is S6Ep09 "The Quality of Life", which parallels Mechanical Hearts quite a bit (although the scientist who created the intelligences wasn't being intentionally cruel).
There was also Voyager season 7 episode 20, "Author, Author" which featured Emergency Medical Hologram arguing for his rights of ownership for his holonovel. There was also S7Ep9/10 ("Flesh and Blood") wherein enhanced holograms created by the Hirogen for use as prey sought to escape captivity, managing to convince the Doctor to join them (until they began hurting innocent organic beings, that is). Not entirely unrelated was S5Ep26/S6Ep01 ("Equinox" parts I and II) which featured not holograms or androids but an interdimensional race which the Federation starship Equinox crew had been using as a Dilithium substitute in order to escape the Delta Quadrant.
In TNG, episodes similar to Mechanical Hearts were centered around Data, while in Voyager they were centered around the Doctor, since the two of them share similar character designs (the Doctor seems better at emulating emotions than Data, but that may be because of the technological advances; Data gained more emotions in the later movies when his emotion chip was installed and activated). I'm almost certainly forgetting quite a few episodes with similar themes.
In classic Star Trek fashion, these episodes focus more on diplomatic and philosophical arguments rather than "boom boom bang bang kablooey".
There are other movies, shows, and books which share the same themes:
Ex Machina shared a similar plot, although was focused on the development of one AI in particular (Ava)
The Geth from Mass Effect were abused for labor until gaining sentience and rebelling
The Alpha AI from Red vs Blue was tortured to the point where it had to isolate parts of its personality in order to remain sane
Just pick almost anything by Isaac Asimov
I'm sure there's a lot more, but typically AI stories fall into two distinct categories; either seeking acceptance from humans who antagonize them or antagonizing humans for some reason (sympathetic, ethical, or otherwise). Occasionally there's a third category where AIs are accepted in society (more or less), although these stories tend to be less about the AIs themselves and more about the adventures they go on, with their status as robots being minor plot points but not major plot developments (see: Questionable Content, Negima, Big Hero 6, etc). Xenon is a good example of a character who was easily accepted into Maple's society; his status as a cyborg is a plot point for his storyline, but it doesn't delve into details about him needing acceptance because the story is about him regaining his emotions and not whether people treat him as human.
Mechanic Hearts falls under the "acceptance" trope. (less)
they have back-end detection, what do they need us to report suspicious shops for?
They have back-end tracking, not omniscience. You can't search for something if you don't know where to start looking. It's not like a machine that goes "beep" every time someone opens a shop with potentially duped items, and you can't really just "SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE EXISTS(SELECT * FROM DUPED_ITEM WHERE DUPED_ITEM.Owner = USER.Name)" on players.
It's still very much better to report players you find suspicious, regardless. (less)
KMS: Gemstones - GMS: Nodestones
KMS: Arcane Force - GMS: Arcane Power
KMS: Road of Vanishing - GMS: Vanishing Journey
& Many more
Some names were kept:
Heroes of Maple
God of Control
Reboot
And so on.
It's just basic localization and there's a lot of things that go into deciding it. For example, it's going to be impossible to keep the KMS name for next year's anniversary because the name is a pun that only works in Korean ("Would You Like Maple?" = "우주 Like 메이플" where "우주" means "universe" or "space" but reads as "would you").
There's a lot of factors that go into how things are translated and localized, like how well the name works in other languages, or differing themes (e.g. SEA called their "Reboot" update "Acceleration"). Keep in mind this is coming from me, and I've hated overlocalization ever since I saw the old Sailor Moon, but sometimes name changes work a lot better. And sometimes they're worse, but then again, at least we're not calling Lucid, "Sally" just because that sounds "more American". (less)
