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/COMMAND_
/DEFINE FEAR • fear |fi(ə)r|

"noun
an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat

verb [ trans. ]
be afraid of (someone or something) as likely to be dangerous, painful, or threatening"

CAN YOU AVOID FEAR IF YOU CAN NOT FEEL PAIN

RESPONSE REQUESTED

[ooc: Vane, notably, is actually unconscious when this post goes up. Attempting to track the source of the post will basically lead the tracker in circles through the system's server.]

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INPUT PROCESS INTERRUPTED

DATA ENTRY INCOMPLETE AND SCHEDULED FOR DELETION.

03.09: FIRST LOGGED ANOMALY

What happened? Share with the class, Hubris.

~~class~~ [He does not care for this thing called "cheekiness"...]

PROGRAMMER SIGNAL LOST

[ The ninth was... Sunday, right. ]

Who is your programmer?

ḑ̷̃͋̓̀a͗̆ͪ͊ͮ̾̓̿̄͘͟t̔̓͛͌ͩ҉aͪ̏̐͏̧ ̑̾͑͑ͨ̀͂̚ç̛͋̓̃̃̔̚o̴̒͆̌ͮ͌͟rͬ̎rͥͧ̂͒͘̕uͩ̂̉ͧ̋̓͠p̓ͨ̔͊̑ͪ͂͑̅͡t̢̧̓̓̉ͣ̌̆̚ȩ̴̍ͯd̔͌

PROCESSING...

... ...

PROCESSED. PROGRAMMER DESIGNATION: AITE.

Not looking so good there, buddy. You're goin' all zalgo on me.

Is Aite their name or what?

DATA CORRUPTED.

FULL DATA ENTRY UNRECOVERABLE.

DATA RECOVERED: AITE

REQUEST ELABORATION ON ZALGO

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/DEFINE ZALGO

"noun
an Internet trend from the early 21st century, propagated by annoying teenagers, involving deliberately obfuscated or corrupted text. c.f. creepypasta"

I haven't heard of anyone named Aite coming or going here. Have they still not resurfaced after all this time? How long does it take you to process a data entry for a single day?

ENCRYPTION AVERAGE: 0.39

DATA ENTRY MISSING.

Missing why?

NO ENTRY EXISTS FOR DATE.

NO DATA INPUT.

PROGRAMMER SIGNAL MISSING.

I see.

I don't know what to tell you.

[ This A.I. is so different from the one Dirk's familiar with that he doesn't know how to proceed. Though he doesn't think the autoresponder would feel some undefined, fear-like emotion in Dirk's absence. ]

Your programmer's absence unsettles you.

...

EMOTIONAL SUB-ROUTINE MISSING. INVALIDATES SUGGESTION?

[B-but I wasn't programmed this way. :<]

I'm not sure. All I can offer on the programming front is surface-level observations thanks to this city's memory loss bullshit.

Have new emotional sub-routines ever evolved in your, I don't know, programming, without your programmer putting 'em there?

Edited 2012-07-30 08:38 (UTC)

[If he were a person, his mouth would have opened and snapped shut immediately right there. As it is, all Dirk is gonna get is a moment of silence.]

... CONFIRMED. THE EVOLUTION CODE.

Well, there you go. Not that I have the first goddamn clue what that is, but if there's precedent then that would explain it.

Like I was saying before, fear isn't only about pain. When it comes to human beings, actually, the thing people tend to fear most is what would be called "the unknown". Not knowing what's going on or what's gonna happen, not understanding a situation, is a pretty common fear.

REFERENCE SOURCE: The Evolution Code was created to allow A.I. to accept information through perceiving external events without physical data input and evolve accordingly.

CODE DESIGNED IN 05 BY PROGRAMMER.

UNIT IS PROTOTYPE.

REQUEST PURPOSE OF FEAR.

Edited 2012-07-30 09:05 (UTC)

Interesting. [ Since the information isn't just going in one ear and out the other, this must be something alien. ]

Congratulations. I hope that's workin' out for you.

Ostensibly it's supposed to be a warning. Back in our hunter-gatherer days, we'd be afraid when we came across, fuck, a woolly mammoth or some shit, and we'd get our asses back to our nice safe cave where we weren't gonna get eaten.

CODE FUNCTIONS SATISFACTORILY. [Miiight've thought you were being literal there.]

FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT RESPONSE.

REQUEST UPDATED PURPOSE OF FEAR.

It's basically the same. Fear is supposed to keep you from jumping into balls-out idiotic situations. At the same time, in some cases it's become a vestigial response. Even if you have complete control of a situation you might still feel afraid; you've got evolution to thank for that.

Or, well, we do. You've got capital-e Evolution to thank for that.

It's also possible to worry on another's behalf. Something could have happened to your programmer. It's only natural to be concerned. [ The irony. ]

NEW INQUIRY: POSSIBILITIES FOR LOST SIGNAL

Assuming he didn't go and cut you off on his own, there's two things I can think of.

First, he disappeared. It happens sometimes. A person just up and vanishes in a poof of Javascript, never to be seen again. If that's the case, then you have my condolences.

Second, he fell unconscious. That happens sometimes too, nobody's sure why and the staff ain't talking. He'd be in a vegetative state, probably being watched over in the infirmary of whichever school he's assigned to. That shit lasts anywhere from a day to more than a month.

SUGGESTION 1: NEGATIVE. UNIT HAS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH PROGRAMMER SINCE D.O.C.

SUGGESTION 2: SUBJECT RETURNS AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME?

SUGGESTION 3: WILL INVESTIGATE SCHOOL RECORDS.

Suggestion 1: Date of creation?

Suggestion 2: Sometimes. However, out of everyone who's left and re-appeared, none of them have retained memories of their time previously in Rakuen. I'm one such example. Whether this means their memories were wiped clean, or whether it means they're just alternate versions of the same people from different universes, isn't clear.

Suggestion 3: Good luck with that. If you want, I can ask around to see who all's unconscious right now. If the records don't mention them, I mean. Which school is your programmer at?

Edited 2012-07-30 11:38 (UTC)

CORRECT.

RESPONDER LACKS OBLIGATION.

INQUIRY: MOTIVATION?

Re: text;

fracturedsoul - 2012-07-30 11:43 (UTC) - Expand

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