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Cannongerbil said:
You do realise that evidence for an incubator hivemind is spotty at best, right? It doesn't make all of sense when you consider that they have insane individual within their society.
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I assumed that insane individuals were a biological error, and that they were considered insane because they weren't part of the hivemind. Still, the evidence for that is pretty shakey, now that I think about it.
 
Heck, we're arguably a hivemind for Sabrina, and we fight all the time! We all have the same goal, but that doesn't mean we disagree on how to accomplish it; one destination, many paths and whatnot.
 
The next time we try touching Kyubey with a ten-foot pole, let's ask him if he's an individual amongst his kind (with myriad spare bodies), or if he's part of some sort of hive mind.

Somehow this seems like a relatively safe question to ask him idly whilst he chugs Grief.
 
[x] Go help Mami with dinner
[x] Ask if the others are staying for dinner
-[x] If they aren't, get Homura to walk them home.
[x] Serve dinner, move on to less depressing topics. Keep things light.
[x] Watch the news. Check up on the aftermath of the Sendai Kerfluffle.
 
re:Incubators, my personal headcanon is that they're basically a hivemind keyed one to a planet, and that while the master race is also emotionless, the cute, evil bunnycats are basically AI's built for a specific task.

At the very least Kyubey is implied to have never talked with another Incubator, because he was very interested in talking to Jyubey for that reason alone.
 
IIRC, the incubators are assumed to be a hivemind on the basis of Kyuubey having multiple bodies.

There is no other evidence for it.
 
Gadjo said:
Eh... Being a hivemind, I suspect the incubators would never work against one another.
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Technically, the thread is a hivemind, and we're at cross purposes in certain situations...
*Ninja'd

Also, shout-out to @UberJJK - totally agree with you re: QB dumbing entropy down.
I'd always found it weird when people were like "QB's lying, entropy doesn't work like that because conservation of energy" and I'd be sitting there like "Pretty sure it was referring to 'usable energy' which is fine and makes sense- unless I completely missed the point of my thermo classes and the theory about how engines work." (Which, admittedly, is possible as I hated that subject.)

I always preferred the analogy of the engine to the analogy of a tree growing and being burnt. In an engine the chemical potential energy in fuel when converted to movement of the piston is also in part converted to heat and sound - which are not useful forms of energy in this context (they don't contribute anything to the movement of the piston) - thus some of the total 'usable energy' was 'lost' as waste heat/sound.

And THAT is what's got their knickers in a twist - not that the total energy in the universe is becoming less (which violates conservation of energy) but that energy is being converted into forms that are unusable (waste heat) thus eventually 'usable energy' will 'run out'.

Anyway, [x]Cannongerbil
since the whole sudden tangent to explain our own mental insecurities thing seems like it'd come out of absolutely nowhere.
 
AuraTwilight said:
At the very least Kyubey is implied to have never talked with another Incubator, because he was very interested in talking to Jyubey for that reason alone.
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Aranfan said:
IIRC, the incubators are assumed to be a hivemind on the basis of Kyuubey having multiple bodies.

There is no other evidence for it.
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Personally, the hive mind theory never made a whole lot of sense to me. It always make more sense to assume that the kyubey bodies that we see are disposable remote controlled drones then somehow individuals members of the species.
 
I'm gonna start figuring out ways to work Asunaro into as many future discussions as possible just to see how many reaction images CG can come up with. :p
 
Krecart said:
Leaving too much Grief in one place outside of our range is probaby bad considering we felt it trying to do something before disapating last time. Other than that we've got effectively absolute control of an Grief inside of 100m.
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Xexilf said:
And despite that almost at the start, we still haven't gotten around to investigating this rather obvious thing.
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Krecart said:
I guess that's something for our next visit with warehouse-kun.
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This is the type of thing that we want Oriko on hand to test to prevent catastrophic mistakes. And she needs to be physically present, just to be absolutely sure. We can destroy some of her rose-bushes with it or something.
 
boonerunner said:
This is the type of thing that we want Oriko on hand to test to prevent catastrophic mistakes. And she needs to be physically present, just to be absolutely sure. We can destroy some of her rose-bushes with it or something.
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Okay, so that'd make . . .

Sabrina V.: Adam Savage
Oriko M.: Jamie Hyneman
Sayaka M.: Tory Belleci
Kirika K.: Kari Byron
Homura A.: Grant Imahara

Griefbusters! Do not try anything we cook up in this thread at home.
 
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[X] Cannongerbil

But I gotta ask: Mami has a computer, right? If we really need to check on yesterday's aftermath, why can't we just check on the news online? I feel that watching the news in front of the others is just adding on the sadness buffet for tonight.

Edit: Yep, Mami has a computer with net access. We used it to look for Oriko and Yuma near the beginning of the quest.
 
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The news shouldn't be all bad. Some magical girls showed up on scene and magically assisted with the relief efforts, after all. And however bad the chaos was, we can rest assured that it almost certainly would have worse without our intervention (since we, at the very least, reduced the number of girls fighting and prevented any witchouts).
 
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