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I've never actually read a book but I'm eager to give it a try.

[ He's skimmed through tabloids as some really tedious game mechanic tho so maybe that counts. ]

I see. I think I understand.

In that case, I'm good too.

Edited 2018-09-23 23:16 (UTC)

Great. Then everything's good.

_{[Look at them, conversing in a totally not awkward and stilted way... Honestly, though, this exchange has offered up some insight into Connor she wasn't expecting--or really, asking for. Connor's not the only one who sometimes sucks ass at getting to know people, or being known. And if you don't try, you can't fail.]}

So. Why pick the library, then?

I thought it might be a pleasant change of pace from my previous work.

Do you like libraries?

[ Okay so we're getting back into Siri territory here but he's curious!!! He wants to know about people!!!!!! ]

Chasing overdues is probably less exciting than your usual fare. You should try Alice in Wonderland. It kind of fits our situation.

_{[But god forbid anyone try to steal it from the library--she's seen Connor in takedown mode and that wouldn't be a pretty sight.]}

I'm pretty neutral about libraries.

Lately I find I'd prefer less excitement. [ Deerington sucks, man. ] I'll read Alice in Wonderland first, thank you.

[ Then he can talk to her about it! :3

Anyway, "neutral" is better than "dislike", he supposes.]

I understand. I believe most people are. In 2038 most books are digitized so there isn't much need for brick-and-mortar libraries anymore.

Look at that, something in common.

_{[About hating Deerington, not sharing the same taste in literature. Please don't actually talk to her about literature.]}

Why go analog if you come from some futuristic sci-fi world? Can't you just download everything into your android brain like a super computer?

_{[North hadn't taken kindly to these kinds of "can't you just open a tin can with your teeth" questions, but maybe Connor's a more receptive audience.]}

Deerington is offline. I can't download what I can't access.

[ Yes, Connor will happily answer those sorts of questions for Henry. Anything is better than being called ~plastic prick~ and knocked around, after all. ]

I'm fascinated by paper books, too. I believe I find them "charming."

[ He'll use this word again, 20 threads later and without quotations, in a completely serious way to describe a house. This is the evolution of a developing personality. ]

Edited 2018-10-22 04:59 (UTC)

But there's internet, or the low-tech version of it. Not even anything about who sends out those creepy news posts? You know, the papers the dogs deliver.

_{[Charming. Next on Connor's evolutionary journey it's going to be sweater vests and visiting art exhibits. Look out, world.]}

Because they're so old in your time they're relics? Is that it?

[ While it may be true there's some weird version of the internet here... it doesn't change the fact that Connor has to use his Fluid to access stuff just like everyone else. :( ]

That's true. Maybe I simply need to request the WiFi password.

[ Is he joking? Is he serious? This will forever remain a mystery. ]

I wouldn't call them relics but... yes. That's essentially the appeal. I'm not sure I would otherwise have the opportunity to read a paper book if not for Deerington.

[ Sometimes this place is alright. ]

_{[Started out sassy, ended sad. Yikes.jpg]}

Can't have doughnuts, haven't read a book, haven't turned the world into the Matrix. You're really proving the movies wrong.

What's the Matrix?

[ He can ask what movies he's proving wrong later.

Also, the capitalization of the word is what gets him to ask. She's probably not talking about your average matrices. ]

Edited (i didnt want anyone to think i didnt realize that matrices are things lol) 2018-10-29 07:12 (UTC)

Clearly a relic that didn't stand the test of time.

Is it a pop culture reference? I was programmed with an unfortunate lack of such information.

Point for you. You catch on quick.

_{[Technically Connor is a walking, talking pop culture reference himself. She still has a hard time wrapping her head around his and North's existence sometimes, but the walking and talking and general existing makes them hard to deny.]}

Maybe they didn't want you getting any ideas.

They're movies about AI going psycho and trapping humans in some virtual reality dream world. We can't tell it's fake and you start growing us in test tubes.

_{[So. Like Deerington if Deerington had more kung fu dudes in sunglasses.]}

I don't think my creators expected to have me around long enough for pop culture to become relevant.

[ After all he's a prototype with questionable purpose. Cyberlife probably never intended him to be in any situations where Steve Urkel quotes might come in handy or anything. ]

Anyway, that's an absurd concept and promotes a negative stereotype against AI.

What's that supposed to mean?

To be fair, people _{[People, she's purposely using the North-ism.]} like you aren't a thing. Where I'm from. So there's nothing really to compare it to.

I'm a specialized prototype. I was assigned a mission and expected to complete it within a week. [ Because that time frame makes loads of sense. ] Whether I succeeded or failed, I would have outlived my usefulness to the company that designed me. I would have been taken apart and studied so whatever data I collected could be used to create the next android in the RK series.

[ Not a lot of time for hip pop culture references with that kinda life, unfortunately.

He a l m o s t sends a followup message saying he hoped that now that she had a frame of reference for AI she didn't think they would try taking over the world or enslaving humans or anything but decides against it. She'd seen him chasing people over highways, after all. She doesn't have the best impression of him. ]

_{[A load of sense, or a load of something that smells delightfully like manure?]}

You're the most expensive disposable camera I've ever heard of.

_[Jesus.]

That's essentially how most humans where I'm from would think of me.

[ and how he used to think of himself tbh ]

I feel differently.

_{[Confirmation this future timeline of North and Connor's is fucked up.]}

What changed?

_{[Everything this Connor's saying fails to match up with the Connor from the highway. That version, the version who had chased those other two androids, hadn't felt that way.]}

I woke up.

[ More like sauntered vaguely towards deviancy rather than went deviant in one fell swoop but, you know. Details. ]

I was supposed to apprehend an android named Markus, the leader of the deviant rebellion. But after he spoke to me something changed. I was able to break through my programming. I became a deviant too.

Deviants. Mutants. Let me ask you this as our new resident information expert: why do people love special snowflake labels so much?

_{["Deviant" is a stupid word. It's an especially stupid word for that mysterious evolution of consciousness Connor is describing, like realizing you can think and feel is somehow equivalent to mental illness or secret gay love affairs or something moronic like that.]}

You know what a rebellion makes me think of? The Matrix.

How does that work, breaking through programming? You didn't think about anything and then you did? Boom, alive?

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