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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ I GOT YOU.

and yeah. That is also funny she is techy but no filter. He massages his temples, like he's fighting a migraine, before dragging his hand down his face.
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Because everything comes with a price and I thought... It was worth it.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-09 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
What was the payoff?
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Rapport and favor of the lower class.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-09 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
You no longer feel that it was worth it?
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
... I don't know. I'm not sure.

[ Because the voices are talking to him in his head. One is unrepentant, a proper lord, who cares about results. The other who is the better version of himself, admonishing him. ]

It doesn't matter. It led me here. Worthless to the very end.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-09 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ bro, your voices ]

I suppose it must be hard to judge if the outcome would have been worth it if you weren't even able to reach your goal.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ he wants to escape the voices but he's here ]

... Shouldn't you be abhorred? Results shouldn't cost the lives of people you cared for.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-09 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes hard decisions are necessary. I don't know enough about the circumstances.

[ because the thing is. she has also tried to get results at the expense of someone else's life? a memory plays out on the mirrors, from 33:52 to 35:25. ]
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ comes in here finally being able to watch this since i'm on the computer

every time he gets a techy memory, i find it so funny.
]

... This situation is... Complex. [ With the whole tech medium, but... ] Yet death hangs over the same.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-09 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this poor man stuck with our sci-fi bullshit. ]

It does. So long as you believe that those who upload still have consciousness. That people like myself have consciousness. Then... it's still possible to die.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ stuck with processed food and sci-fi ]

... I don't know if I'm the person for that kind of question since I'm not learned. [ To be a techy. ] But you feel all that people should, don't you? Nothing less.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-10 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ HELP ]

That's right. Even when I had neural algorithms for emotions that didn't quite match the world yet, I still felt those feelings. Just in a slightly different way.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
No one is born the same, so it would make sense that it would be different for you, even if I don't quite understand your circumstances.

[ Since like... His best friend is aromantic which he won't know that's the word for it, then he knew another girl who had the opposite of anhedonia (is this hedonia).

Sometimes you simply just are.
]

... Even if you had less, that wasn't your choice. I think.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-10 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[ this is such a nice way of thinking about it... he is so nice to her. ]

It was nostalgia. I had the... feeling of it. But there was no past for me to be nostalgic for. Not the same way embodied people have.

So I just missed the future instead. I missed people and places that didn't exist yet.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ he only understands the realm of the flesh... he is trying his best. ]

That didn't... Exist yet?

[ ??? ]
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-10 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
I was the first CI.

The world I came to live in didn't exist. No one else like me existed yet. But I also couldn't exist in the physical world the same way normal people could. So I couldn't really be nostalgic for it the right way. There was no way to even imagine interfacing with the past, because it was impossible.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hm... ]

I don't think that's strange, personally. Nostalgia is a feeling and people feel nostalgic when they listen to music or when they see art, even if they're pieces they've never heard or seen.

I suppose... They're remembering something similar, or simply the emotion is similar. [ He doesn't know. ] Either way, you came with it. It wouldn't be there if you weren't meant to know what it feels like.
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-10 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad that the world caught up with me. Now I can feel nostalgia for the past instead of the future. Properly.

I always felt it. [ he's right about that. ] But now I feel it for the right things. For time spent with family in the past, or days that are gone.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
... It's good that you've found peace.

[ That the discord was remedied, even though he doesn't quite see it that way. Life is about how you perceive things, after all. ]
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-10 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It comes in waves.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Better than no waves at all, right?
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-11 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. I like them.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-11 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
... I hope I can find my own some day.

[ Truthfully. Life is just full of turmoil. ]
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[personal profile] hotfixer 2025-03-11 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You can. With time.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-11 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
... Do you know what happens to souls over the course of time?

[ Only because he's curious since he thinks himself diseased that it'll take him forever. ]

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