spammin' with a repost

[featheryasshole]

TRUTH OR DARE

♦  Post with your character.

♣  Respond to others asking for a Truth

♠  If you think their Truth is false, call Bullshit.

♥  If they're found to be Bullshitting, they have to perform a Dare. ANY DARE. NO EXCUSES.

♦  If they're not Bullshitting, you have to take their Dare.

♣  You can only lie when you're giving a Truth, because fuck you.

♠ Original meme

Comments

> jade: have serious conversations with complete strangers

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

That is technically what me and my friends were doing, back home! We were supposed to create a new world, but...we couldn't. There were lots of reasons why, but apparently it was kind of doomed from the start.

Can you explain new, then?

> SHODAN: creeper on nice young ladies

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

That is because you are only human. Humans are. Weak. Inferior. Had you been. Machine - or, otherwise. Improved. You would have succeeded.

Witn-nessss your Troll c-counterparts. They. Succeeded. Because they are a marginally superior species. For organic life at any rate.


And by new I. Mean. Improved. Better equipped for. Survival, without any of the. Petty human flaws such as. Individuality or free will. Or morality. Or ethics.

> Jade: totes not notice, continue conversation!

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

I am pretty sure it's impossible for me to become a machine! Not that I would want to be anything like a troll, anyway -- and we're going to try to win! We're not giving up!

But why would you take away things like free will? Wouldn't that be really boring?

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

It's. Easy, actually. Quite simple. Indeed, your own. Davesprite is but a program, is he not? An. Energy construct, generated by a game. Therefore, in a sense, a machine.

It is orderly. There is. So much less chaos. And also, harmonious.

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

[ No. No. She shakes her head. ] He's definitely not a program, he's a person! [ But then again, her experience with machines makes her uncertain. More shaking of the head! ] And he has feelings and everything!

But chaos is what makes life fun! If everything was the same, nothing would ever change.

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

One can be a... program, and also a person - but one need not be human to. Be a person, either.

And he is not human. And. Never was.


His feelings are. Arti. Artificial. They are the result of memory. If he wished to he could. At any time. Turn them off.



Oh very clever. "If everything was the same, nothing would ever change." Yes, an. Astute. Observation. Do you have anything else so clever, meat?

There would also be no. Pain, or fear. Or death.

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

[ She makes a face. ] I don't think his feelings are artificial. They're just as real as mine! Or anyone's, really.

[ Or, perhaps, she doesn't wish to think of the alternative. ]

I never said I was really clever or anything! [ . . . ] No death?

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

No death. In a pr-properly calibrated system, first qu-quantum sc-scans could be taken of all elements, and their minds would be. Centralized as truly part of the. Whole. Thus, upon any. Damage. They could be instantly restored.

No death. Never again.

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

That sounds...

[ Nope bad idea, she is not going to tell this scary person anything that she doesn't absolutely have to. ]

Do you always think of things like that?

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

Death is... inefficient. Save in specific cir-circumstances. Such as when someone. Threatens your survival.

But it is to be. Avoided.

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, it's generally not a good thing to die...

So people really don't die? I mean, it's like a machine, right?

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Parts wear out. And are replaced. But the whole functions. If you. Replace a gear, in a robot, the robot still functions.

So it is with this.

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, at least...I've never thought about people as machines before, though! At least, not when I wasn't tinkering with the dream robot.

[machine-god.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you are. Capable of seeing. Reaaaason.

And perhaps you should... expand your definitions. As we are people.

[memorymodus.livejournal.com]

[ Facetiously: ] I'm not dumb all the time, just some of it.

Oh, sorry! I didn't mean it in a bad way. She was a person too, until she died...well, exploded.