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

[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?"

[thinkering]

"Like, 'excuse me, miss, you dropped your pen' and 'I'm going to miss my flight'. Whereas the syllable 'mix' appears in a bunch of words meaning, exclusively, 'combine'."

[mxglam]

"Oh. I think, in this case, it also means combine."

"Gendery wendery ball of stuff," copy supplies.

[thinkering]

"I mean, that makes sense as - I think - a false etymology - but if you say 'Mx. Exposition', you don't mean 'Combine Exposition'."

[mxglam]

"Oh, sure, but I'm not gonna present as Mx. Exposition, I was just referencing the fact that I'm going to be presenting stuff that wasn't in the main presentation and. Stuff."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, I know, I was going off on a tangent about how the title's confusing when it comes up and will probably continue to be so for decades if not longer."

[mxglam]

"Yeeeeah, it's not great," they admit.

"I wonder if the trans community's gonna come up with something to replace that. I mean, this one was invented in the seventies and hasn't been replaced yet, but..." copy muses.

[thinkering]

"Might not even help, part of the confusion just is that it's new and not well-popularized."

[mxglam]

"Well yes but it's also terrible," Glam points out, and copy nods, agreeing.

[thinkering]

"Not gonna argue there."

[mxglam]

"Go email Branding and tell them about the corona pollentia idea and what we'll do," they instruct copy, who nods and goes.

[thinkering]

"Bot says that when it's not doing anything in particular it just acts bored," Lorica mentions.

[mxglam]

"Huh. Bored as in, as if it didn't have anything to do?"

[thinkering]

"Yeah, pretty much, want to see?"

[mxglam]

"Sure."

[thinkering]

The bot projects a slightly accelerated video of Bored Glam Projection.

[mxglam]

"Huh. That's interesting. I'd somehow expected it to become like a motionless robot or some such."

[thinkering]

"Well, apparently you didn't expect it very hard."

[mxglam]

"Maybe that expectation conflicted with some more subconscious expectation that it behave like, well, me. Or something."

[thinkering]

"It does look a lot like you might if you were that devoid of things to do and the wherewithal to see something to do."