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[steelandtemper]

[What has no thumbs and is sick to death of gods and sorcerers and magic spears and all the similar crap that keeps popping up? This AI.

Well, actually, her hologram has thumbs, but they're currently not visible behind the equally holographic folded arms.]

Poll: how many of you are from universes where the supernatural is real? Magic, gods, shoe-making elves that aren't just a parable about virtue, whatever.

[Why Grimm's Fairy Tales? Why not Grimm's Fairy Tales? It's all equally nonsense as far as thorough-going materialist Cortana is concerned.]

Comments

[thedreamisdead]

The Justice Department has an entire subdivision that handles magic, demonic infestations, and ghosts.

[steelandtemper]

[Don't tell her about Judge Death. She'll stop talking to you.]

Why is that a thing you need a department for?

[She knows why, obviously. She's just expressing her opinion in rhetorical question form, like when she objected to Tucker's kid's existence.]

[thedreamisdead]

You can only set so many things on fire. Some things you need to exorcise, pin down with a soul pike, and then set on fire.

[She's already mentioned Death and Friends elsewhere, but when Beeny hangs out with people named Dredd it's probably easy to assume it's a nickname.]

[steelandtemper]

There are so many other ways to destroy things than incendiaries.

[She likes massive kinetic overkill, personally.]

[thedreamisdead]

Yes, but nothing says 'Don't touch my citizens' like a load of white phosphorus.

[steelandtemper]

I think a cap-scale magnetic accelerator cannon says it better. WP won't ignite in space.

[itt: horrible people]

[thedreamisdead]

True, but I've only been in space twice before coming here and collateral damage is a concern.

[Can't just fire off a rail gun round when you're in a habitation block, after all.]

[steelandtemper]

They make vehicle-scale ones. And how is a chemical that's hypergolic with air not a source of collateral?

[You can't just set things on fire, America! You should blow them to smithereens instead.]

[thedreamisdead]

Oh, there's a lot of risk involved with those. But we don't spend fifteen years teaching people how to do the job without covering the whole "Don't use this in the wrong situation or people will die" speech.