MH: This is serious. Come on, man, don't make this a joke. Could Clippy do the Iron Chef? Or the Butter Churner? Leonard Delaney: For legal reasons, yes, it is satire. Wait, I mean parody? Whichever one is legal. Look, I know that this is r/romancelandia, but I'm not sure if I would classify this as true Romance. Maybe something like "romance-adjacent parody" or "romantic satire" might work?

Conquered by Clippy: An Erotic Short Story (Digital Desires Conquered by Clippy: An Erotic Short Story (Digital Desires

That was the internal name for Clippy as Office was in development. Sam Hobson, a young program manager, pushed forward with the project even as Bob flopped; like Karen Fries and Barry Linnett, Hobson trusted the research of Nass and Reeves on creating social interfaces. Unlike the leaders of Bob, the Office team didn’t face the unenviable task of building an alternate realm for computer novices. Christie writes a white paper about her findings while Clippy, with other digital assistants, reads on from the underground facility they were buried in. Don’t worry about him though, because he is having a great time ‘assisting’ other digital assistants with pleasure-related issues. He leaves the vessel to help the people of the world, as is his true calling.If you want to borrow it on Kindle Unlimited and you have the time, go ahead because it's short. But the quality is so questionable that I can't in good faith recommend it to others. Then, the steam begins. I genuinely don’t think anything of plot substance happens here, so I’ll just skip right past it. But don't worry, I'll touch on the steaminess after the plot rundown. LD: That’s ridiculous. As a straight male who enjoys thinking about female humans, I would never be turned on by a male paperclip. What does turn me on is a strong woman banging a paperclip. I like Clippy—maybe I even love him—as a complex character in a deep and satisfying story. But when I write the sex scenes, my mind’s eye does not focus on his glowing metal poker of a schlong. As a writer, I do have to picture it in great detail, but I take no erotic pleasure in it. LD: He just does his best to help. But in life and in the bedroom, that doesn’t always work out. I think readers will agree that Clippy’s erotic persona is portrayed as nuanced and realistic. His full potential will be further fleshed out in the many sequels I have planned.

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Others stressed that the idea of an assistant was just ahead of the technology. Today the artificial intelligence of Cortana, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant can constantly get smarter. Clippy was only as bright as the next edition of Office. Phil and Christie make their way to the vessel when all of a sudden, they hear a voice asking if they need assistance. And it’s coming from a giant alien paperclip – literally, a walking, talking paperclip – named Clippy, the MMC.A key reason why is because Christie and Clippy don't end up with one another at the end of the book. There's even an allusion to an orgy between Clippy and other digital assistants at the end of the book. Which breaks with a key expectation in Romance - a HEA or HFN between the main partners! I guess this is arguably a HFN since Christie and Clippy both seem happy at the end of the book, but they're not happy together. The petty side of me just doesn't want to reward the author or publisher for stuffing the book's file with more non-book content than the actual book. The reader side of me says that there's much better things to be reading with the time I have on Earth than a Clippy short story. It's called Conquered by Clippy. Rule 34 continues to bestride the Internet like a colossus, apparently. Oh, and there's more … MH: Clippy was all about helping Microsoft users with simple tasks. Is that his role in the bedroom? Is he a problem solver?

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MH: Explain your readers to us. How many people are buying your books because they’re funny and stupid, and how many are buying them as fodder for actual masturbation? LD: I get erotically excited when I read this for several reasons. Number one, it shows that Christie is a strong woman who gets off on dominating sentient objects, which is the type of woman that I am attracted to because I often imagine myself as a sturdy, non-living object, like perhaps a stylish IKEA chair... Is Clippy, the actual office assistant, canonically male according to Microsoft? I tried looking this up and saw that it (he?) was often gendered as male, but as far as I can tell Clippy is genderless. LD: Clippy could achieve all of them. He'd have trouble with the “H2Ohh Yeah” though, because he’d rust. Nobody ever wants to be banged by a rusty piece of metal, usually.

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For the great people of romancelandia I can only give it one star ⭐ and a very lukewarm recommendation. It was not very good. At all. On her first day, Fries shared an orientation room with Melinda French. Years later, the Duke MBA eventually known as Melinda Gates would oversee the work of Fries and others on a much-maligned software project. LD: I don't want to give anything away, but I just released Invaded by the iWatch. The iWatch is a fictional device that I made up, but fans of Siri will certainly find a lot to like about this new story, available now from Forest City Pulp. To me, a book that's trying to make fun of something should actually be familiar with the thing it's making fun of. And we get that at some points, like with Phil offering to cuddle for warmth with Christie before Christie rejects him. But as I mentioned earlier, there's enough about the book that doesn't read as Romance of me for me to doubt whether Delaney is at all familiar with Romance or erotica beyond romance-with-a-small-r tropes found outside of the genre. And I think it makes the humour less effective.