blasto, meet official opinions on self-replicating minions

[peterxy]

The PRT catches wind of a strange increase in disappeared domestic animals in the downtown area. Given that the people who live there are the rich and powerful, this is clearly a problem that needs to be investigated and solved immediately. The PRT, of course, agrees that this is of utmost importance, and not just because of precedent about mass abductions of pets, of course not, why would you think that, they are so very worried about Fido, even Scion recognizes the merits of rescuing lost pets.

(Lorica's asked to maybe keep a few more eyes there than she has been.)

Comments

[mxglam]

"A presentation about trans issues."

[thinkering]

"Oh. There's advantages but I can see not wanting to be one-note? You haven't touched it in, say, your webseries though..."

[mxglam]

"Mmhm, but the webseries has the direct purpose of, you know, making people expect me to be generally awesome and invincible," original explains.

"Whereas this would only have that expectation happen as a side effect," copy adds.

"Not to mention that, again, it's sort of expected for capes to go to schools and talk about Social Stuff, and even if talking about trans stuff in particular might be novel, it's unlikely to be especially engaging in the way preternatural powers are."

"On the other hand, is that really true? It's not like there's a whole lot of visibility for trans issues the same way there is for cape stuff, and kids might be genuinely curious about this as something more mundane and accessible than capes."

[thinkering]

"My presentation is about how cool jobs in tech are," she says. "Teach yourselves to program, kids, I'm literally a software tinker and I use shareware all the time, make a difference, you know."

[mxglam]

"I mean, technically you didn't learn how to program..."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, but they'll have to and it's a good idea."

[mxglam]

"I wonder if I should..."

[thinkering]

"I'm telling the kids that it's smart to get engineering jobs; you're sorta elsewhere employed."

[mxglam]

"Well, yeah, but like, learning programming could be fun. I like math, it's sorta the same thing."

"Eeeeeh," says copy.

[thinkering]

"I can't comment on how similar they are for people who don't have a completely unfair boost at only one of those things..."

[mxglam]

"This whole tinker thing is really weird."

[thinkering]

"You're telling me."

[mxglam]

"I mean, I can't wrap my head around it! Like, is the knowledge there or isn't it? And where is it, if it's not there? And how can the same tiny brain part give someone conditional preternatural programming knowledge and someone else the ability to conjure arbitrary solid illusions?"

[thinkering]

"I hope you're not asking because you think I know."

[mxglam]

"No, I'm just whining about it. Maybe I should mention that in my presentation, but I don't know how to get people generally interested in science."

[thinkering]

Snort. "And if they become geologists it won't help at all."

[mxglam]

"Well, I meant mostly like talking about the state of the art in cape science and hoping the kids get excited about that science."

[thinkering]

"That's not very general."

[mxglam]

"Nope it's not!" original agrees.

"Lots of birds with one stone, there, with a power-oriented presentation," copy adds.

[thinkering]

"If you can cram it all in, yeah."

[mxglam]

"Triggers, corona pollentia, types of powers, it's more or less the same ballpark."

[thinkering]

"If you want it that complicated the bot will be better used as an editor, not a first drafter."

[mxglam]

"I don't think I'll actually even talk that much about the corona pollentia, I'll talk more about triggers, mention that they only happen to people with the corona pollentia which, how curious, is the same in everyone and yet people get different powers, no more than a throwaway line, then if anyone has questions it's Mx. Exposition time."

[thinkering]

"...'Mx' is really a terrible title. I mean, I guess 'Miss' is also a separate word but it has the advantage of being known in both forms reasonably well."

[mxglam]

"Both forms?"