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Therapy, a Wormfic

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frommerman said:
►KaiserDragon (Verified Neither of Those)
Replied On Feb 6th 2011:
So we have a vanishing city, tons of cell interference, something that just ate plants in a straight line.

I have no idea. None at all. Sounds kind of like a horrifying new parahuman, but what the hell kind of fucked up power just kills a city and leaves nothing alive?
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I giggled for a solid five minutes when I saw (Verified Neither of Those)
I can never write a Worm SI. The confusion would be ridiculous.
SI: Hi, I'm Kaiser.
PRT: The Nazi?
SI: No, no, no. Kaiser Dragon.
PRT: Like the Tinker?
SI: No. I'm a cape that is a dragon.
PRT: So... Lung?
 
girador said:
I'm not sure if i'm on that interlude
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Delve into the origins and possible meanings of your username, if you signed up in time. Might find it then. @frommerman seems to have made a few delightful jaunts into the world of etymology and then a dash of humour to get the PHO handles. For example, Pietersielie --> Parsley ~~> GratuitousGarnish. Left me giggling once I figured it out.
 
And I'm the guy who is too young to get drunk, whoo!
(Weird coincidence: I actually am of age, but I don't drink due to personal matters. Funny how those things work.)
 
I feel as though it should have been a bit longer, but it's still pretty good.
 
frommerman said:
►Heart_of_Iron
Replied On Feb 6th 2011:
Umm, because everyone dies and/or gets Simurgh'd if she doesn't? That's not too hard.

Besides, it's not like touching Sanity is a huge tragedy. Oh noooooo, I can live with myself now!

Also, FUCK YES BEHEMOTH DOWN WOOOOO!
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*Does happy dance*
I'm in a PHO interlude, and I've got a post that actually looks like something I'd write!
*continues the happy dance*
 
frommerman said:
►Sanity (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Jan 29th 2011:
'I do understand, Josephine. What I did to you is unforgivable. I didn't ask Sanity to do this for me to beg forgiveness, but to maybe give you some kind of closure. If it helps, just continue thinking that I'm dead. That you're talking to a ghost through the screen. You have your life. A life I'm happy to let you live. A life I stepped out of when I made a dumb decision that got the person I was warped into a monster.

I'm still ashamed of what I did, as part of the Teeth. Reflexively ashamed of what the Butchers I inhabited after my own body was killed did. I always will be. But I have distance from that now. I know that I shouldn't be judged by my actions while I was insane, and should be judged by what I do while sane.

And, Josephine, I think Sanity and I are going to do far, far more good for the world than I ever did while I was alive. Far more good than Butcher ever did bad. I think, with enough luck and hard work, I can balance my own scales.

Goodbye Josephine. I wish you good luck, and a better tomorrow.

I know that, with Sanity, I'm going to have one.'​
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Wow, straight out of the medium's playbook. Stay vague and within the bounds of publicly available information. Only say what the mark wants to hear: the ghost is at peace now, and sorry, and forgiving, and hopeful. She even snuck in some praise of the medium! Sanity could go into business with those skills ;).

(Super old, I know. I'm catching up with the fic.)​
 
... I slowly realize that I'm not good at noticing who I am. Even though my handle here is Dexterity. If I even am there anyways.

Anyways, great interlude(and chapters) as always!
 
I guess I'm probably Timelessness, since I can't see any other nickname there that is anything like mine at all.

Yeah... I'm enough of a geography nerd IOTL that I can easily imagine that the TTL version of me would be able to quickly figure out that the place immediately north of Boston is Hampton Harbor Brockton Bay - even if not actually being from anywhere nearby.
I'm rather unlikely to use the word "fuck", however - I hardly ever swear properly, preferring to substitute words like "jaguar" or "quaternion" (or, lately, "ch*rp", though that's a bit anachronistic for 2011). Okay, I suppose the situation in this particular case might have been enough for me to start swearing properly - but then I'd have probably pointed it out directly.
 
So .. Conflict Resolution is basically Friendly Artificial Intelligence, right? Like, shards aren't necessarily artificial, but its logic seems more equivalent to an AI than an evolved being - a utility maximizer, not an adaptation executer. And the "causes utility functions to converge" reminds me a lot of Coherent Extrapolated Volition ("the coherent parts of our utility functions, reflexively updated under presumption of full knowledge, sufficient intelligence and perfect sanity.")

Also personally speaking I'd just interpret sexual orientation as "disorder, not maladaptive" and show it as grayed out. (I've been waiting like 15 chapters to say that.) But I can see why you wouldn't want to go there. Though there's a lot of potential for story drama depending on whether CR considers societal opinions, and homosexuality in societies where that's aggressively shunned... probably not that kind of fic, but I keep imagining this as a darker story, sort of like that one Madoka quest on here where the power was "make people better" and we took like ten updates to turn it into semi-unrestricted mindcontrol.
 
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FeepingCreature said:
So .. Conflict Resolution is basically Friendly Artificial Intelligence, right? Like, shards aren't necessarily artificial, but its logic seems more equivalent to an AI than an evolved being - a utility maximizer, not an adaptation executer. And the "causes utility functions to converge" reminds me a lot of Coherent Extrapolated Volition ("the coherent parts of our utility functions, reflexively updated under presumption of full knowledge, sufficient intelligence and perfect sanity.")

Also personally speaking I'd just interpret sexual orientation as "disorder, not maladaptive" and show it as grayed out. (I've been waiting like 15 chapters to say that.) But I can see why you wouldn't want to go there. Though there's a lot of potential for story drama depending on whether CR considers societal opinions, and homosexuality in societies where that's aggressively shunned... probably not that kind of fic, but I keep imagining this as a darker story, sort of like that one Madoka quest on here where the power was "make people better" and we took like ten updates to turn it into semi-unrestricted mindcontrol.
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Sounds interesting. Link?
 
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