text; un: firecracker

[cactusy]

1. How hard does this place go with simulating bodily functions? We have to eat and expel waste, but do we menstruate? Get colds? Get infections? Get cancer? Get pregnant?

2. If our robot overlord is all about crime and punishment, what happens if we kill someone here?

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text; un: ushiromiya

[entreats]

I don't think anyone is crazy enough to try and get pregnant in this place.

Though I've been here for a long time now, and I haven't seen anyone develop some serious illness in this place, so take that information however you wish.

[cactusy]

I'm thinking about people trying not to get pregnant, failing, and ending up with a little computer-coded bundle of joy

how long is a long time?

[entreats]

By my count it's been over a year and a half now for me. But I could be off. A whole lot of weird stuff has been happening that could have taken longer or less long depending on how time actually flowed during those moments.

Certainly enough time for someone to have gone through almost two pregnancies, let's say.

[cactusy]

any idea of who's been here the longest?

[entreats]

The longest?

That's hard to say. Most people who were already here when I first showed up are long gone at this point. I'm pretty sure Ragna was here when I first showed up, but I'm not fully sure if we just showed up at the same time or that he's been here longer. I know Claude and Ethlyn have been here for about as long as me too, if not longer.

From what I have gathered though, the first people that are part of our current cycle showed up here only a few months ahead of me. That seems to be when this cycle started.

[ It's quite an informative and extensive answer by Ange standards - but maybe she just appreciates it when people are asking actually serious and important questions. That's when she bothers to pull out the extensive serious answers, apparently. ]

[cactusy]

and from what I hear, people disappear all the time. that's your experience, too? one or two a week?

[entreats]

About that many.

Sometimes a whole lot of people seem to disappear at once. Sometimes it's slower. But if you'd pick an average, you would arrive at about that number.

It seems some of us may have been part of previous cycles as well. Or maybe alternate versions of us. I'm not sure about that part yet.

[cactusy]

but I'm guessing none of them remember that

[entreats]

That's a correct assumption. It seems that the only being I have been able to talk to with memories of previous cycles is the AI running this place. And, I imagine, whoever set that AI up in the first place.

All of us are otherwise in pretty much the same boat with knowing very little, whether it's because maybe our memories were wiped, or because we weren't here before this cycle to begin with.

[cactusy]

ok

I'm surprised more people aren't panicking or trying to break out, or throwing themselves against the metaphorical walls because they're trying to break out while panicking. there's a weird amount of placid acceptance going on

are you guys all on board with the AI's objectives?

[entreats]

I think part of it is the fact that it seems we've exhausted what we are able to do in a place like this until another opportunity appears to gather more information or try to break out.

Another part is.. Well, what you're describing. Some people either have no world to go back to and somehow don't seem to think this place is all that bad, while others just don't seem to care at all. I don't really understand that either.

For me it's mainly the former. I'm trying to keep my eyes out for any and all information I can find, but it just doesn't spawn out of nowhere in this place. I don't really trust the AI either, even though some others really seem to trust them.