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]

"This one's smaller scale, although I suppose I can't guarantee no one will decide to televise it."

[mxglam]

"Even if no one televises it, it'll end up on the PHO Forums eventually."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, which are also pretty low scale."

[mxglam]

"But as of right now basically the only source of information on me, so that when I'm a famous household name the media will get their stuff from there."

"Do you think I should do that instead of the powers thing?" copy wonders.

[thinkering]

"Do what instead of the powers thing?"

[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."