[encrypted][video] Chasing my thoughts around and around

[credit_not_blame]

Guess who spent the night overthinking instead of sleeping? That's right, it's this bitch.

[Stacia usually looks sleep-deprived and annoyed in the mornings, but she definitely looks moreso today. She muffles a yawn behind her hand.]

I've got some new information, and some follow-up questions regarding it. I'm gonna summarize what I think is important too; if you disagree with my assessment 1) bite me, 2) add it in yourself.

Our problem is a murder-y redhead with tattoos and fetish gear and the ability to pull weapons out of her ass and know how many people you've killed. She's obviously some kind of supernatural nasty who may have been popping up on the Rig to do murders for a couple years. Her name might be Belle, and we got a weird story about how one brother killed the other over her because she was hot, but also invisible. She seems to be working her way up the org chart in finance, but she's not adverse to killing and torturing outside of it.

As for the new stuff: I received a series of texts from a mysterious and unknown source the night Robbie, Rogue, Saturday, and Data were attacked; which is how I knew shit was going down. This source told me where they were and that they were being attacked, and when I asked if they could give me anymore information, I got some...I don't know, Shakespeare?

I saw pale kings, and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cry'd—‘La Belle sans Pitie
Hath thee in thrall!’

So my follow up question is: has anyone else seen any weird writing anywhere? Because our mysterious and unknown source is not answering my texts.

Comments

[humandroid]

In many ways, yes. Social constructs like humor are something that I often struggle with in my efforts to become more human.

Although I cannot say that I have encountered a life form for whom limitations of some kind are not a concern, my shortcomings are often unique by comparison.

[xrater]

You really are a puzzle. Don't take offense to this, but robots, let alone Reploids, have been able to recognize and respond to humor for nearly 200 years in my world. It's curious to me why you'd be created without the ability to do such. You're advanced enough that it seems like you should.

Were you created as an experiment to see how such things might... naturally evolve in an artificial intelligence?

[humandroid]

[ People on the Rig are all about asking the Real Questions. Data has no offense to take. ]

That is possible. My construction and programming are the culmination of my creator's life's work in cybernetic achievement. If he had a purpose in creating me beyond that achievement, I do not know. My neural pathways are designed to evolve with my experiences, in a sense. I am able to learn, to adapt to new information. To grow. I do not believe that to be incidental.

Humor is something I have only recently attempted to begin pursuing. I find that while I am able to learn about the theory and composition of many forms of humor, I am still lacking in its other requirements.

[xrater]

Hm.

[There's a strong temptation to crack him open, see if there's improvements to be made, see if his creator made some mistake. It feels like he has, Data feels incomplete to her.

But that's not right. He's no robot, he's a person that, as awful as it seems, has been purposefully limited by his creator. And she's not about to interfere with an experiment like that.]

If I could make a suggestion? Don't try to understand humor. Catalogue it, remember it, even examine it. But so much of humor and its subtleties are cultural and, from what I've seen, you have no culture of your own.

You obviously lack a full understanding of human culture so far. Humor, for the most part, has its foundation so firmly in culture that, without fitting into at least one, it may well be impossible to grasp. There are some jokes that some cultures might find hilarious and outsiders just wouldn't understand.

Perhaps once you've more fully assimilated into a culture, you'll understand it more.

[humandroid]

I see.

It is not likely I will take your advice in the long term, but it is well-founded. For the time being, I have devoted more of my resources to creative pursuits than to this particular interest.