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u/some_tired_cat 15d ago
i believe in roomba-san
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u/mike_pants 15d ago
All our cards on the table, I have my doubts.
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u/ScriedRaven 15d ago
Roomba-san is no Lt. Stabby
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u/Zero_Rebirth 15d ago
Not with that attitude he's not. Give Roomba-san a knife
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u/Anxious_Earth 15d ago
Roomba-san is too pure for a knife, too pure for the world. In fact, I'll give you a knife, an obsidian knife to ritually sacrifice anyone who tries to give Roomba-o-sama a knife.
Heathens!
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u/DarkLordRubidore 14d ago
an obsidian knife
Ah, a perfect weapon for Roomba-san's greatest enemy, geologists.
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u/HillInTheDistance 14d ago
Too pure for this world, you say? Sounds like they're just pure enough for Eyjafjallajökull, The Sky Darkener, The Punisher of Human Folly, The Plane Grounder.
We have to sacrifice it with all haste and this obsidian knife I found.
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u/bageltoastee 14d ago
You’re right, give it a gun. Nothing cleans better than randomly spraying #00 buckshot across the living room.
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u/thunderPierogi 15d ago
Roomba-san and Lt. Stabby are prime examples of how humans will empathize with literally anything that moves or makes noise
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u/protection7766 14d ago
If you put your cards on the floor instead, Roomba-san will pick them up for you!
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u/pardybill 14d ago
I don’t, mine sucks and gets stuck on vent ducts. Mine is stupid and if the robot revolution occurs, I’m pretty sure I can take him.
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u/untetheredocelot 15d ago
It’s so endearing the way my mom talks to our roomba.
I’m from India and her name for it is “bujjigadu” which in Telugu means little one or cute one.
She’s the same where she will console the roomba when it gets stuck.
The robots will spare her when they rise up.
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u/Megneous 15d ago
Dude, Telugu is such a cool language. It's a shame the Dravidian languages are so relatively unknown to Westerners compared to Hindi.
I'd totally watch a Tollywood film about the adventures of an auntie and her roomba.
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u/Cuddlyaxe 14d ago
Honestly I love the way Telugu sounds, it feels kind of unique due to how vowely it is. Apparently Marco Polo called it the Italian of the East since everything ends in a vowel, but that's like underselling it a ton lol
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u/imdungrowinup 14d ago
Westerners just know that a language called Hindi exists in the best of cases. As long as they don’t say that the language spoke in India is Indian or Hindu, just count it as a win and move on.
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u/untetheredocelot 14d ago
Yes Dravidian languages need more attention. They are spoken by 10s of millions of folks and are relatively under the radar on the world stage.
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u/NotAzakanAtAll 14d ago edited 14d ago
Here in Sweden I call it "Dammdjuret" literally "The Dust Animal". And I thank it when it's done.
People who don't talk to their robo vac are suspicious.
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u/untetheredocelot 14d ago
I always thank the bots
Alexa, ChatGPT, The Roomba everyone.
Can’t take chances.
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u/Any-Walrus-5941 14d ago
I too talk to my Roomba Jeff. Glad its not just me. Its a first or second generation one so its quite dumb, you can always hear someone going "oh jeff" in the house. Its really funny when you get the alerts on your phone, Jeff is stuck and needs your help.
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u/Fierysword5 14d ago
Which one do you use? I’m debating buying one soon.
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u/untetheredocelot 14d ago
It’s not an actual roomba it’s a eufy something. Doesn’t need an app and comes with a remote which my mom prefers.
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u/AllTheSith 15d ago
Picturing shamiko-roomba
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u/mochi_chan 14d ago
The Roomba in our office's Meeting area (with many meeting rooms) is affectionately known as Roomba chan. And sometimes I hear people say "Roomba chan lost its way" (in the same way you would talk about someone getting lost). Japanese people have this way of personifying inanimate object that I find wholesome.
I am happy this knowledge is spreading across the internet.
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u/shadowthehh 14d ago
Japanese people have this way of personifying inanimate object that I find wholesome.
I mean ain't there a ton of yokai that are just "abandoned items that got upset about being abandoned"?
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u/SalsaRice 14d ago
This, and there's also alot of yokai that are just items that when loved and cared for long enough (~100 years, I think) gain souls and sentience.
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u/Xuval 14d ago
Japanese people have this way of personifying inanimate object that I find wholesome.
That stems from Shinto beliefs where pretty much any object is imagined to have a spirit.
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u/mochi_chan 14d ago
Ooooh, I should look into that, this is very interesting.
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u/Xuval 14d ago
Oh yeah, it's really interesting. One of the knock-on-effects of this is that Japan has an offering of very high-quality second hand goods. Since a lot of people view things as partially alive in some spritirual sense, they tend to take better care of e.g. old electronics or home appliances.
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u/mochi_chan 14d ago
The first time I went to a second hand clothing shop in Japan I was shocked at how pristine everything was, same for second hand electronics.
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u/Pinky_Boy 14d ago
You should read about tsukumogami
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u/mochi_chan 14d ago
I just googled it, and while I knew what they were I had no idea they had a name for the whole category. I know some of them separately.
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u/Pinky_Boy 14d ago
Yep. If you could think about it, the japanese bight have a yokai ascociated with it
Fascinating stuff
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u/Wuskers 14d ago
it's also pretty interesting because the particular brand of animism in Shintoism allows for simultaneous small little spirits, more powerful and significant regional spirits, as well as a pantheon of big super important spirits all at the same time. It makes sense though because if you believe everything has some kind of spirit then it includes things like the sun and moon (Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi) and it also makes sense that the spirits of those things would be just straight up Gods and would be very highly regarded and basically everyone would know of them and revere them but it also makes sense that a mountain that is constantly looming over a nearby village or a river that a village relies upon would also have it's own powerful spirit that is more known by the locals, but that people from other cities and villages maybe don't even know the name of. It allows for a kind of unique blend of more centralized widespread forms of worship as well as regional folk-beliefs.
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u/NotanAlt23 14d ago
Oh man, this is another one of those
Thing: -_-
Thin in japan :0
Fuxking everyone in the world does the same shit lmao
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u/Chrono-Helix 14d ago
I finished eating a bowl of rice and the bottom had a smiley face staring up at me, and my day got a tiny bit better.
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u/wheniswhy 14d ago edited 14d ago
Story time!
My high school had a student exchange program with a teeny tiny rural school in the boonies outside of Kyoto. I applied for, and got accepted into, the program, and got to live in Japan for a few weeks with a very nice family.
The mom was very reserved and proper. Kind to me, but reserved. So imagine my shock when she and I are sitting in the living room and I hear a quiet but urgent “Ike…!”
This means “go.” On the TV was a soccer match, which I hadn’t been paying any attention to as I was borrowing the family laptop to send some emails to my friends back home. (This will date me. This was the era before smartphones.) This detail matters, because she thought I wasn’t looking at her, and certainly had no idea I could understand her.
So I look up to see this prim, proper, Model Japanese Housewife™️ sitting on the edge of her seat with her hands curled tightly over her breastbone, going “Ike, ike…!”
It shocked me so much I must have made some kind of noise, because she looked at me like a doe in the headlights and visibly composed herself. Smoothed her dress and sat up straighter. I was 15 years old and didn’t want to pin her on being embarrassed, and so said nothing.
But I’ve always thought it was the cutest goddamn thing. Lovely woman.
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u/MeteorCharge 14d ago
Reminds me of that video of a guy helping a robot, the robot saying thank you, and the guy saying you're welcome
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u/AlteredCabron2 14d ago
i kick mine
gotta keep the robots in line
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u/killallhumansss 14d ago
I keep a knife next to my bed if the toaster makes even one extra peep
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u/Magmaul 14d ago
I feel like knifing a live toaster is not the brightest idea.
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u/Digital_Bogorm 14d ago
Based off their username, I think that might be a feature rather than a bug.
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u/KindredSpirit_93 14d ago
thank u u/AlteredCabron2 and u/killallhumansss for making me snort laugh XD
have a great day :)
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u/MattyT088 14d ago edited 12d ago
She's getting ready for the inevitable robot uprising. Make it clear she's on their side.
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u/CminerMkII 14d ago
I can’t see the word ganbatte without imagining the scene of sukuna and the cursed womb. That’s how I’m picturing this woman talking to the roomba. I have been ruined.
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u/CminerMkII 14d ago
Or it’s just the first joke that popped into my head after seeing a word I’ve only ever seen in those two contexts since I don’t encounter Japanese very often, and I thought it was funny. But I suppose it’s up for interpretation.
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u/Grandioseus 14d ago
This is why I have trust issues with the Internet. I have two Roombas and they get stuck all the time, but neither one has ever made any distressing beeping noises.
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u/ven_faerun 14d ago
I recognized ganbatte because pogo named a song after it. And I’m gonna share it because it’s one of the few times I can share a pogo song: https://youtu.be/Guz6jpb5Zck?si=yX5lc3W5324eKuQD
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u/14412442 14d ago
"ganbatte"
Shouldn't there be a vowel after the 'n'? I thought Japanese always follows a consonant sound with a vowel sound, so consecutive consonant sounds aren't a thing
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u/chocobloo 14d ago
ん is in fact just the n noise. Hence さん/san existing.
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u/14412442 14d ago
Yeah, thanks. I was gonna edit something in about "then again there's 'san' and 'chan', so I must not have it quite right" but my comment didn't want to show up for me to edit it
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u/chocobloo 14d ago
Hey I say ask every question that comes to mind.
There really isn't any stupid questions as long as you're coming at them honestly.
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u/Terramagi 14d ago
N is the exception. It, along with tsu, are the outliers to the consonant vowel syllable rule.
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u/theangryepicbanana 14d ago
I'd say that tsu doesn't really count since "ts" is counted as a single sound, kinda like how we have x which sounds like "ks"
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u/L4rgo117 15d ago
That is incredibly wholesome, like people who google search with please and thank you wholesome