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− | [[Megan]] invokes her smart device | + | [[Megan]] invokes her smart device with the keyphrase "Okay Google", intending to follow up with a voice command (e.g. "Check the weather forecast" or [[1807: Listening|"Order two tons of creamed corn"]]). But before she can continue, the smart device interrupts her with a comical cacophony of assorted noises, as an alleged human assistant living in the device clumsily rushes from a distant room to Megan's location. The sounds can be interpreted as: tromping down stairwells, knocking over a fragile antique, opening a locked door, taking a quick pit stop in the bathroom, going back through the door, running across another hardwood floor, opening and slamming another door, and finally running up to Megan, greeting her while clearly being out of breath. |
− | + | [[Randall]] is amused by the idea of a smart device's virtual assistant being an actual person at the owner's beck and call, and being a rather clumsy assistant at that. In fact, Randall finds the concept so humorous that he would like to troll smart device owners by hacking and re-programming their devices to play this sound file whenever the VA is invoked. He makes it clear that he doesn't want to create a {{w|botnet}} with them, perhaps in reference to the infamous [[wikipedia:Mirai_(malware)|Mirai]] attacks of 2016, whose creators pled guilty in court a week before the comic was posted. | |
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The title text extends the concept further. If the owner attempts to disable the feature, rather than refrain from playing the clip, the virtual assistant apologetically promises to be quieter next time; thereafter, the device plays a modified version of the clip where the noises are only slightly diminished and punctuated with additional apologies from the live-in assistant. Randall has characterized the assistant as being incapable of answering without causing a ruckus. | The title text extends the concept further. If the owner attempts to disable the feature, rather than refrain from playing the clip, the virtual assistant apologetically promises to be quieter next time; thereafter, the device plays a modified version of the clip where the noises are only slightly diminished and punctuated with additional apologies from the live-in assistant. Randall has characterized the assistant as being incapable of answering without causing a ruckus. | ||
− | + | Sounds of things falling over and breaking off-screen is a {{tvtropes|OffscreenCrash|comedic trope}} used in movies. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT!!! delete this tag too soon.}} | |
:[Megan stands next to a small table with a Google Home sitting on it.] | :[Megan stands next to a small table with a Google Home sitting on it.] | ||
:Megan: Ok, Google– | :Megan: Ok, Google– |