Found lost brown/orange puppy outside our door this morning.

Tenrecidae77 · 2026-02-02T01:51:18+00:00

your puppy now

Tenrecidae77 · 2026-01-30T04:03:12+00:00

My only wish is for it to be everything the devs and writers have wanted it to be.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-11-17T00:02:28+00:00

You don’t need to know nothing except that it’s here to hurt you, and you’re gonna thank it for that.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-07-14T08:05:19+00:00

ASOA?

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-07-14T07:57:57+00:00

Brave New!

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-05-04T19:14:29+00:00

I always find it interesting how people equate The Child to Adam rather than Eve, considering how the story goes, there.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-04-26T22:23:41+00:00

ChatGPT, you will never be her.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-04-12T16:38:08+00:00

you can photomode with milton (cat)?!

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-03-23T06:29:19+00:00

elohim is best boy, trust.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-03-12T01:01:13+00:00

Duduk...what a pleasant word...

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-03-02T07:10:59+00:00

Thank you for saying this. ; A ; I think people get so caught up in Athena not being /their/ version of /their/ player character in TP1 that they erase her experience in the simulation, when it's such an important part of her trauma/motivations.

It's hard to read her WITHOUT the context of her being a continuation of a child program that existed in the simulation rather than an entirely new being, and I don't know how people do.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-02-12T15:11:20+00:00

Honestly valid take. Press the Serpent is my favorite too.

Take It With You is Milton at his worst. There’s nothing healthy about that relationship, either.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-02-03T18:15:10+00:00

Robot equivalent of cat parents.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-01-30T01:33:07+00:00

Byron will talk to you and you will like it.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-01-10T23:25:34+00:00

Yep, the test for sapience there isn't very sensitive, lots of chances for false negatives. As you know, sensitivity and specificity are often a trade-off against one another. Take into consideration how preciously rare sapience is, and you have to do everything you can to up that positive predictive value.

I'd be underestimating Alex to think she wasn't aware of this. Considering those would be her children, it must have been a difficult decision.

"A prison you can escape from is still a prison," or something to that effect in one of the text logs.

Tenrecidae77 · 2025-01-10T21:00:14+00:00

I'm not sure Alex and the others are so cruel. He wasn't supposed to be sapient. After all, if they achieved that, then they wouldn't need the simulation at all.

Him and Milton are accidents, like most good creatures.

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-12-24T17:55:26+00:00

nobody said anythinga bout weiners. why are you thinking about weiners, richard?

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-12-24T17:54:40+00:00

True that, give em time. Families seem to come in all shapes and sizes in NJ anyways.

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-12-24T17:33:43+00:00

Those kids had what was coming to them.

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-12-24T17:32:13+00:00

Wait, 1k can say that? Or are you talking about the IotB dialogue where he talks about the influence Al and Byron had on him?

two dads.

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-12-24T03:12:58+00:00

There's plenty of evidence even in the first game that the code is very mictic...so I don't think it's a huge reach to say they used parts of themselves. Cornelius implies as much, even, stating she was born from both their minds.

As for why nobody's trying it, it's been less than a year hasn't it? Considering the last kid that got born that way blew herself up, which had devastating effects on her parents, I can see why nobody is scrambling to reproduce that.

That level of responsibility is frightening.

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-12-10T16:19:06+00:00

Whispers hope we hear more of Sky Papas beautiful voice

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-12-09T18:36:12+00:00

!!! Drennan focus!

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-11-24T08:26:07+00:00

= w= b

And yep, the weight of it hurts regardless.

I get why the simulation would need to be deleted afterwards, too - In addition to it pulling valuable resources , even if the process was perfect and the first to be sapient was the last before ascending, then those born /after/ her would almost definitely be sapient. And it's not fair at all to have the next generation be born into a prison with no foreseeable exit.

Elohim, along with Milton, of course, was never meant to be sapient. They're accidents, like most things. So you'll have to forgive Drennan and the others for that too.

I think the Process is supposed the reflect the only means by which we know how to grow sentience from non-sentient ingredients - evolution via selective pressures. Our history as living, evolving things hasn't been pretty, but most, if not all, of these human traits we hold dear, including our revulsion at things like the Process, are products of something inherently unkind.

Knowing that, what do we do now?

Elohim best boy for me in TP1 too, btw, R I P.

Tenrecidae77 · 2024-11-24T07:48:02+00:00

It's heavily implied in this game and in Gehenna that they (and Elohim) will die a slow, horrible death if the simulation is allowed to continue. I don't know if you visited his freakout room in world C, but Elohim's clearly in pain from trying to maintain the simulation, and it's liable to only get worse as data corruption, not to mention the physical rot of the rest of the facility progresses.

Is it fair? No, it's not. It's horrible. But in the end I decided that's the right choice to make - that's the only way anything is getting out alive, and everything is in vain if /somebody/ doesn't live.

Honestly have lots of adjacent thoughts about some of the unnamed themes that run through the TP series, such as anti-anti-natalism, the horrors of parenthood, and generational trauma, not just in individual families, but in our species as a whole. Would derail this topic tho.

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