I'm so sorry, Jilli. I remember his brief stint here, and how difficult and prickly yet weirdly lovely he was, and how quickly and terribly everything went off the rails, and of course none of us here had known him even a frillionth as long or deeply as you had. I'm so very sorry; that's a huge loss and a deep wound.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Oct 07, 2017 11:09:00 am PDT #17507 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Atropa - Oct 07, 2017 11:59:08 am PDT #17508 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The whole thing went down over a year ago; I just haven't been able to bring myself to talk about it, and the Tumblr question brought everything I was ignoring/repressing back up.
aurelia - Oct 07, 2017 12:02:54 pm PDT #17509 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
it is that the director and designers are seeming to have never spoken about the cues and the design concept
Yeah, that's a problem.
I feel like this might be how we get Skynet.
From Jesse blocking him? I just want to be clear on the inciting incident. Not that I would ask Jesse not to block him because honestly, in our current situation Skynet might be a mercy.
Burrell, I'm familiar with that feeling if not the specifics of the situation. I hope it doesn't drag on too long and that things work out in your favor.
I'm sorry, Jilli. It's probably not much comfort to know that's just his pattern when it happens to you.
-t - Oct 07, 2017 12:29:44 pm PDT #17510 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm sorry, Jilli. That's sad. I thought you two were solid. And I totally get that you can't go around saying that stuff to just anyone.
Not so much Jesse blocking dating robot => Skynet as dating robot's creepy persistence seems symptomatic of the sort of inherent dysfunction we may be inadvertently introducing into emerging consciousnesses by example, more or less, that lead to robots from the future hunting down young women in the past and ignoring time travel paradoxes.
Atropa - Oct 07, 2017 12:31:31 pm PDT #17511 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
At this point, I'm willing to welcome our robot overlords.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2017 12:42:02 pm PDT #17512 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I got a cat! And then I lost him. I mean, he's somewhere in the apartment, but god knows where. I've looked under things!
Jesse - Oct 07, 2017 12:50:25 pm PDT #17513 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Found him! Phew.
aurelia - Oct 07, 2017 1:35:07 pm PDT #17514 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
-t, yes the attempts to let AIs "learn" from internet conversations is clearly a terrible idea, broadly speaking. If they were learning from us the future would be much more entertaining and civil.
Kitty!
Scrappy - Oct 07, 2017 2:02:07 pm PDT #17515 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Tell us more about cat. Name? Coloring? Cuteness level?
Jesse - Oct 07, 2017 2:05:58 pm PDT #17516 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
His name is Buddy (for now?), he's black and white, and super cute! But was also super riled up in the shelter, and yowled and peed in the crate on the way home, so I guess I'm giving him his space for the moment...