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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

[headinjuries]

Yeah! I mean, I thought he was cool.

[steelandtemper]

I'm not sure if reading up on Norse mythology would help or hurt.

[There's cross-dressing.]

[headinjuries]

All I know about Norse mythology is that there was something with Loki and a horse.

[ And he hasn't really wanted to hear more, after that, tbh. ]

[steelandtemper]

Trickster deities paint themselves into uncomfortable corners a lot, yeah.

[headinjuries]

That's such a...nice way of putting it.

[steelandtemper]

I think a lot faster than you do. I have plenty of time to phrase things.

[Look, she doesn't want to talk about transforming genderfluid horse sex with a minor. Or anyone, really.]

[headinjuries]

I want to take offense, and yet I can't.

[steelandtemper]

It's not an insult. I'm a computer from five hundred years into your future.

[If she's insulting you, you'll know.]

[headinjuries]

So, about the future.

Should I even consider hoping that people will someday learn to not be stupid?

[steelandtemper]

Nope.

[headinjuries]

Thought so.