Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


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.


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...


Jesse - Oct 07, 2017 2:49:02 pm PDT #17517 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I lured him out with treats and tried to show him the litter box and food/water, but he's still basically avoiding me so I'm not sure he got it. He'll figure it out, right?


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 07, 2017 3:00:05 pm PDT #17518 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Mine did immediately as half-grown kittens, so I think all that will come very naturally to most cats.