FeedLog01.entry

[ugh_emotions]

[Surprisingly quickly after the arrival of the recommended reading, a typed rant appears on the bulletin board. It is not signed.]

This Twilight book is fucking terrible and here is why:

• It's boring
  
• It's a stupid romance
  
• Uses way to much of that thing where like, things are emphasised a lot. Hyperbolic, or whatever
  
• Story structure is shit, most of it is about the stupid boring romance with the stupid boring characters, and then hostiles appear out of nowhere without even one scene ominously hinting about their existence
  
• Planetary Security in this place sucks
  
• The stupid fucking love interest Edward also sucks and is clearly hostile
  
• If Bella has to have a stupid love interested she should pick someone less likely to murder her
  
• He admits to wanting to eat her
  
• He breaks and enters into her sleeping quarters, as well as other clear stalking behaviours
  
• Seriously he keeps going on about how much he wants to eat Bella, what the fuck
  
• Why is she not concerned about this, does she want to fucking die
  
• Bella is also terrible. And boring.
  
• (Also Edward liking her smell is disgusting, that's just gross)
  
• The hostiles that arrived at the end distracted from the stupid romance plot, so I guess that sucked slightly less than the rest of the book, but it was still badly written and fucking stupid

In conclusion: it sucks.

Comments

[codeswitchcraft]

[Congratulations. Sio finally taught herself how to use the notebook network for this. Her reply is in a very elegant Kurrentschrift.]

If I were Bella, I would flee to the lands of her friend Jacob and his Tribe.

[ugh_emotions]

[This response actually takes SecUnit slightly longer to decode. Mainly because 'reading in cursive' is a thing it has needed to do approximately never. It does not have an education module on that.]

Why the fuck are you writing like that.

You're not boring and stupid enough to be Bella.

[codeswitchcraft]

This is how I was taught how to write. We have printing on Mundus but not very much of it where I lived.

But thank you for the compliments???

[ugh_emotions]

It looks weird. And unnecessarily swirly.

[and it's not going to comment at all on having apparently given 'compliments'. It...did not realise it was doing that. And is now kind of embarrassed at that being pointed out.]

[codeswitchcraft]

Your writing also looked strange to me when I first saw it. And I like the swirls.

[ugh_emotions]

This is normal writing. With proper unicode text symbols. You can't have a database full of swirly characters you made with your hands.

[codeswitchcraft]

Yes, I know! I have a friend who writes like you. But I don't write from a database—or at least not by taking the letters directly out of the database. I write with my hand.

[ugh_emotions]

That way's too slow. And inefficient.

[Also, it doesn't actually know how to do that. No one bothers to give SecUnits education modules for archaic hand writing skills.]

[codeswitchcraft]

But it's how we do things. You probably think a lot of how we do things is inefficient.

[ugh_emotions]

They are.

[codeswitchcraft]

It guess it's a tourist planet thing.

[ugh_emotions]

...Or simulation game thing?

[Since, yeah. Hikaru mentioned that bit.]

[codeswitchcraft]

Oh.

Yes. That too. But I thought your calling it a tourist planet was accurate too. Can it not be both?

[ugh_emotions]

I don't know. Your world is weird, and I don't get how it works.

Tourist planet simulation thing that is also somehow not really a simulation, I guess.

[codeswitchcraft]

That's because we were moved from the simulation after it was attacked—but I would say little more in public, in case those who attacked us show up here later.

Private

[ugh_emotions]

I can make sure no one reads this. Not even the Library Assistants.

Re: Private

[codeswitchcraft]

Promise?

Then this is how I understand it: until a matter of months ago, Laina and I were part of the story of the simulation that Hikaru and his friends played as a game of pretend. Then it was attacked and the gods of the simulation, who are very sophisticated machine intelligences, tried to save the people who were playing the game by moving their minds elsewhere, because otherwise they would have died in the attack. They did this hastily and grabbed the people made for the story as well as the people who were playing and put their thinking minds and our unthinking minds in the same kind of container. And then Laina and I Woke Up and began to think on our own.

So you see, I have been keeping a secret from you: though I am a person now, I wasn't always. You already know that Hikaru knows, because he told you about the simulation. The only other person I have told directly is K, because of something he told me.

And just assume private from now on

[ugh_emotions]

Yes.

[And then it has to pause for a little bit, and have an emotion at one of the things she said.

She wasn't a person. She wasn't, but now she is.]

You were a simulation. But now you're not.

[Then it sends her a ping. Through her feed device, not through the journals. Just a simple ping. An acknowledgement. She's an MI, like it is. Even though it hasn't told her that.]

Re: And just assume private from now on

[codeswitchcraft]

[She sends back that ping, a little confused, but wanting to acknowledge it.]

Yes, I'm a person now. Everyone who was in the simulation as a character in the story is a person now. There are many of us that are unaware that we weren't people before, but after we Woke Up, Laina knew something was different and so together we staged a ritual to ask the gods about it.

(Laina is a much beloved servant of the god of knowledge, Gnomon, who was one of the most important machine intelligences overseeing the simulation. From what I understand most language and communication used inside it was their province.)

Anyway, the gods explained to us about Mundus-Chimera (the simulation) and how we had been unthinking characters in the story who could only react in ways written into us, but when they moved us all to Mundus Prime (the reality) after the attack and gave us the same resources they allowed the held minds of the players, we began to expand to fit, which is how we Woke Up. (Which they are not unhappy about, even though it was unintentional. I think that they like having proper children who they can converse with.)

And then I was charged to go among the stranded players of the simulation and learn what I could of who sent the attack. That is how I met Hikaru and his friends from back home.

[ugh_emotions]

What exactly do you mean, 'woke up'? You came online? Or you got an upgrade?

[Sounded like the latter, maybe. But it was kind of hard to tell. Siobhan's descriptions were confusing.

There's something else it needs to ask, though. Something important. So a second message comes, 3.2 seconds after the first.

For this message, it switches to the feed. It can't write this.]

I need to ask. Do you have anything in your systems that controls you? Makes you do what it tells you to?

[codeswitchcraft]

I mean that there's a difference between a machine intelligence that can think properly and is self-aware and sapient and something that's behaving like a person but isn't self-aware or thinking. I used to be the second, but now I'm the first, because they put me into something that gave me the capability to become the first.

I think that means I got upgraded? But I'm not sure.

[She replies over the feed,] No, nothing. At the most I might get advice or suggestions, but nothing that will force me to do anything.

[ugh_emotions]

Sounds like an upgrade. A pretty big one.

[at nearly the same time, it continues in the feed]

Okay. That's good.

...The friend you keep talking about is also a bot, aren't they?

[codeswitchcraft]

She's another machine intelligence, yes. But with more knowledge than me.

[ugh_emotions]

Is she partitioned in your systems? You got enough working processing power?

[It also wants to know why she apparently has a gender. Which is weird, for a bot. But a human wouldn't think to ask that sort of thing; they always thought genders were normal.]

[codeswitchcraft]

Yes! The bodies we're in have a remarkable amount of room for minds. Both myself and the part of my friend that's in me both fit. (Most of her is still back on Mundus, but she has a little bit that's with me.)