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by **Acala** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 6:26 pm

"I have no idea what you're referring to. I am merely stating facts."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 6:46 pm

"I'm just saying. It sounds to me like you've got a bit of an inferiority complex brewing up in there, vis a vis the computing power of squishy brain meats."

by **Acala** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:24 pm

"They are better only at a very narrow band of tasks due to their specialized nature."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:27 pm

"You know, I'm going to have to agree with you there. Being human all the time is...limiting," she hedged.

by **Acala** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 3:40 pm

"Isn't it within your capabilities to not be?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:11 pm

"Within my capabilities? Sure. Within everyone else's capabilities to be OK with that? No."

by **Acala** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:25 pm

"Because their human brains are limiting."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:51 pm

"Because...have you read 1984? Are you aware of Doublethink?" she hrmed.

by **Acala** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:00 pm

The drone whirrs and makes quiet electronic noises for a couple seconds.

"I have now. I do not see the correlation."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:24 pm

"It's being able to have contrary and conflicting ideas at the same time.

Like....uh, geez, good metaphor for you, uh...

Like. If I'm...a printer, right? If I'm being a printer, I want to be a printer. But if my friends see me as their friend, they're hesitant to use me. Natalie, for example, saw me doing just that and ran to save me, essentailly. Something like that. Long and complicated and frankly boring story. But if my friends see me as the printer, they're not likely to talk to me about how my day's going, or bitch about the new headmaster, or hang out and watch TV. You don't do that with printers.

The ability to keep both concepts in one's head at one time is...rare. Like, I've never met someone who could hit that balance. Ever, and I've been around the block a few times. Everyone leans too hard in one way or the other. So I tend to err on the side of being human, because that alienates the people I care about less."

by **Acala** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:55 pm

"You want to be treated as a printer and a person at the same time, but not at the same time? You are right, that is confusing."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:59 pm

"Yeah, well, it doesn't fit neatly into the realm of zeros and ones, I know.

And I am, technically, clinically, and diagnosedly, insane, so, y'know. Weird shit is my forte."

by **Acala** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:49 pm

"That is generally considered a bad thing."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:55 pm

"Well, maybe I'm just a bad influence," she said, flipping finger guns.

by **Acala** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:08 pm

"A memetic virus. That is definitely a bad thing."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:11 pm

"Now, it was my wife who is the scientist, not me, but I do not believe I generally meet the requirements for being a virus. There's all kinds of rules and qualifications you need for that."

by **Acala** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:27 pm

"A memetic virus is a self-propagating harmful concept, idea or data. It is not necessarily a discrete unit."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:31 pm

"Oh, I'm mostly harmless. Most of the time. Nothing you need to worry about, I'm sure."

by **Acala** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:38 pm

"That's what a memetic virus would want me to think."

"I have my eye on you!"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:44 pm

Will sighed. "Yeah, I can see this is going to go just swimmingly," she said, walking back to her tub.

by **Acala** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:41 pm

"I'm sure sarcasm is going to help a lot."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:56 pm

Will turned around, put her thumb to her nose, waved her fingers in the air, and gave Acala a wet raspberry, before she fell backwards into the tub with a wet squelching sound.

by **Acala** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:18 am

"A defiant gesture of disrespect." Acala analyzes the gesture.

"Commonly used by children."

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:24 am

"And by folks old enough to not care," Will blurbled up from her tub.

She had sunk all the way in, not even keeping a humanoid head and shoulders up above as she often did when chillaxing.

by **Acala** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:32 am

"Whatever you say, grandpa."

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:35 am

"In my day, we didn't even have ones! We just had to our coding with nothing but zeroes, and weeeeee liked it!"

by **Acala** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:30 pm

"Are you... are you trying to insult yourself?"

"Because that's what you're doing. I should call you Empty Dataset Error."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:55 pm

"Oh, I've got more memories stored than you'll ever accumulate, so that wouldn't be accurate at all."

by **Acala** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:57 pm

"Could have fooled me." the machine... jokes?

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:00 pm

"Was that a sense of humor I'm discovering there? Today is just full of surprises."

by **Acala** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:20 pm

"Only because you are underestimating me!" it informs Will cheerfully.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:31 pm

"Maybe it's just because I"m tired. These long days are going to be the end of me."

by **Acala** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:39 pm

"Oh right. You require rest. How many minutes do you need to fully recuperate?"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:28 pm

"Heh, minutes.

Physically, I can keep going; I don't need food and sleep in that same sort of way that people do. I like food and sleep, but it's not strictly necessary.

My mind, however, is another story entirely. It's just...mental exhaustion. Like, uh, computer metaphor....like a buffer overflow? Too much information coming in all at one time?

Anyway, I usually try to rest for eight hours, as that synchs my schedule up with everyone else. As a rough guideline, at least."

by **Acala** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:18 pm

"Very inefficient. I'm sorry you have to deal with that."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:21 pm

"Eh, it is what it is. It's what the tub's for, after all. I'm sure you need to recharge from time to time."

by **Acala** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:14 pm

"Yes. For 28 point 4 minutes every 75 point 8 hours with this frame"

"Or I lay dormant absorbing ambient energy for eight-thousand, three-hundred forty-nine minutes."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:19 pm

"Yeah, the former seems more convenient. Doesn't work like that for me. Even if I turn into something and plug myself in, I generally take more time to charge than that."

by **Acala** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:45 am

"That makes no sense."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:54 am

"Sure it does. Batteries take a while to charge," Will said, as if that was the most logical thing in the world.

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